EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 297's

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My hand was raised to take off his black hat so I could see his entire face. Her hair is shorter than the last time I remember. The skin is a bit brownish but the jaw looks harder and steady. Then my hands touched his shoulders and chest to justify my guess earlier when we hugged, that his chest muscles felt hard and his shoulders were a little bigger. This guy definitely exercises more often.

“I know you'll protect me. Thank you.” My whisper looked up at him, smiled smallly and both of my hands grabbed his hand for a tight grip.

His pale face had gradually disappeared, replaced with an affectionate look. She squeezed my hand back, then she got up and helped me to stand up as well.

Now I can focus on all around us. The burning buses and cars became an image that caught the attention of many people. No firefighters have arrived but people are busy looking for water, at least they do not want if the fire spread further due to the wind.

Vehicles at this crossroads trying to retreat or find another way to get away, the hordes of bus passengers were staring at the flames in front of them with a pushy gaze.

Then the sound of police sirens averted everyone's eyes. Three cars arrived and immediately secured the scene. Some of them were also busy making reports with walkie talkies, enlisting the help of firefighters and alerting the police station nearby to come soon.

I turned back when I heard Gia's sobbing voice. The girl was sitting on the asphalt with Jack and Justin on her left right side. The rope that had tied his body was cut and Jack tried to calm the girl.

“Gia, why are you here?” I asked, taking off our hands to face this girl.

Gia looked up, with puffy cheeks and red eyes she replied “a—I don't know sis. I just remember being with friends visiting the cafe and permission to go to the bathroom. After that I felt my vision blurry and I became very sleepy. I don't even know how long I've been unconscious. As soon as I realized it was in the pile of tires and accidentally saw the face of brother Icha who passed me. I thought it wasn't Kak Icha because sister's hair was different, but after I called it it turned out brother answered me.”

My head reflexively turned to Bayu. This man frowned hearing Gia's reply, his hands folded over his stomach and he shook his head slowly answering my gaze.

“Where is this?” Gia asked as if she had just realized that the surrounding environment was very different.

“Please yourself. Later we explain.” I patted his arm slowly and then stood up to Bayu.

“I think the police will definitely intrograte Gia and me too.”

“Not only you, but it looks like all bus passengers will be asked for information.” Bayu answered while glancing at the group of bus passengers who were now talking to two police officers. Before I could talk a lot with Bayu and Gia, suddenly two policemen came up to us, as I thought, they were going to interrogate us.

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Our individual interrogation was completed at one o'clock in the afternoon after being taken to the police station, Bayu accompanied me while two colleagues accompanied Gia, making sure the girl was safe.

Ten minutes later, five policemen were carrying all of our belongings, while we were cleaning each one, a policeman with the most badges among the other four started to speak out loud, saying, “maybe you are curious why we have to interview you one by one, it is because of the recognition of the pickup car driver.”

The noise instantly came to a halt, everyone stared at the middle-aged man near the podium, curious about what the driver said.

“The driver confessed, the cause of the accident today because he had a mission to bring back goods from one of the bus passengers. Illegal items that violate the law. The perpetrator was even willing to get injured to get the item again rather than the mission failed.” Everyone immediately guessed the item mentioned ambiguously by the police.

I thought it might be drugs.

Everyone suddenly looked at each other with an accusatory look. They all hope that the person they are referring to will soon be found out. Anyway, our trip was really delayed.

“Then, have the police found the perpetrator among the bus passengers?” One of the female passengers boldly asked a question.

“We want to ask everyone who is here to cooperate, try to remember again, is there a strange situation or incident when the accident happened? Whatever it is, we will be very grateful that this case ends soon.” This time a loud noise from the other police interrupted.

“Today is a week, we have to go home soon. I think people who often ride the bus majors it is impossible to do it.” Said a man's voice.

“Oh? Why is that?” Ask the others.

“Of course because people who often ride the bus majors know the situation in this city, especially during the day, in addition to the police, soldiers in our city are many who are on guard. Must be the culprit passenger from out of town.” Answer the man. Some people start to agree with each other.

“Try to raise your hand, who is here passenger from out of town?” The police next to the podium seemed to agree with the man's statement.

I glanced around, there were at least ten people who raised their hands, inevitably I also raised my hands.

“Oh? I remember! Didn't you just tell us all to get off the bus after the accident?” The man's voice this time was directed at me.

“Really! He's the one who told us to get out and he's the one who climbed on top of that pickup truck ‘ right? Could it be that you already knew his car was going to explode?”

“You pretended to help us, then helped the person in the pile of tires to not be suspected, but you ignored the car driver. Did you secretly expect the driver to die in the explosion? Destroying eyewitnesses?”

The voices of the accusation were addressed to me. They also whispered to deduce for themselves the perception of each other's minds. The police in this hall are also busy examining the file as it circles me.

“Nak, are you the culprit? The item was probably very materially profitable.” middle-aged female passengers looked at me full of probes, he said, his eyes glanced at my hair which was tied in a ponytail and ended up glancing at my left hand finger for wearing a white gold ring and a black ring and then the right hand finger wearing two white gold rings, the four rings are a gift from Bayu.2 of his proposal rings and 2 of our wedding rings, he said,

“But it's an illegal item that causes a lot of losses, one of which was an accident today. What if we all don't survive?? Can you be responsible?”

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