ENDLESS HALLWAY
CHAPTER 79: HI, DARLING HONEY

Irfan's coming! He's back!

Cevin froze on his bench. In a class emptied by hours of rest, he felt the world around him blurring. There are other worlds joining. The world where Irfan now lives. His clutter is now a real fear.

Suddenly Cevin flinched. He looked around, then out the window. Balqis is invisible, meaning it is still in the canteen. Cevin quickly stood up and left the classroom. In the cafeteria, Balqis was sitting among the other female classmates, chatting boisterously while chewing tofu. Cevin rushed over.

"Qis, just a minute." The left hand of Balqis.

The girl looked surprised.

"What?" Balqis Reply.

"I'm afraid." Cevin. Cevin forcefully pulled Balqis up to his feet and took her outside the canteen, accompanied by the girls' confused gazes. Balqis ran around a little, offsetting Cevin's quick pace. As soon as he got outside, Cevin let go of his grasp and went straight to the problem that had suddenly appeared in his head.

"Qis, you know Irfan?" Ask Cevin.

"Irfan who?" Balqis asked confusedly.

"Irfan who is. It's important you know him. Isn't there?" Continue Cevin again.

"Mmm.." Balqis. "There's no." Balqis.

Cevin's face immediately turned pale. "Ada?" tense hissing.

"There was. It was also me who knew him. He certainly does not know me at all,” Balqis replied kalem. Then he giggled amusedly.

Cevin hissed again. This time out of annoyance. His heart was almost gone, but it turned out that Balqis was just joking.

"Gue is serious, Qis." Celvin.

Balqis would continue the chandelier, but it was void when she saw Cevin's murky face.

"No." Balqis.

"Relatedly? Try lo inget-inget again" said Cevin.

"No." Balqis shook her head again. "My friends at First High School are no Irfan. From the Elementary School.." Balqis thought for a moment.

"It doesn't take long, though," Cevin immediately cut in. "Temen-temen you know when SMP only." Cevin.

"Yes that was. Nothing." for the third time Balqis shook his head.

"Related?" Ask Cevin.

"Knew!" Balqis replied firmly.

Cevin looks relieved. Balqis so couldn't bear to not ask. "What the hell is it?"

"It's okay." Cevin immediately shook his head.

"Yep, back to class. I want to buy it," he asked.

Balqis. He waved at his friends who were still chatting. "Gue dulan yaaa!" yells.

They turned their heads and exclaimed at the same time, "Yaelaaah! To the canteen you are invited!"

Balqis grimacing wide. Once again he waved his hand and followed Cevin.

***

He may no longer be visible. She is maya. Abstract. Not visible. Not palpable. But he is Irfan! His only brother. The only brother. A mortal enemy within the house, but a legitimate ally for fighting in their yard. A second they jotos, five minutes later Irfan can beat the neighbor's child for Cevin. And throughout Cevin's memory, they've never been roommates.

So Cevin knows the invisible better than anyone!

But that belief did not last long. Knowing Irfan's invisible figure does not mean knowing how to deal with it. Cevin was well aware that he had no way. And that made him desperate. Besides, Cevin knew he couldn't share his immortality with anyone. It was only on one person, but he was unsure of the person's response.

***

Sigit was shocked when he opened the front door and found Cevin standing before him with a pale face.

"What's wrong?" ask Sigit worriedly.

Cevin's mouth was already open, but it took quite a while before Sigit finally heard a hoarse voice coming out from there.

"Irfan home...!!!"

Sigit's face seemed shocked, confused, and other shock reactions. The pile of reactions that left him speechless, only able to stare at Cevin with his mouth open and eyes wide. The boy forgot to tell Cevin to come in so the guest told him everything by standing in the doorway.

The story Cevin told was no surprise. His hoarse voice sometimes stammered, and sometimes just slid like that. When Cevin finished, Sigit was a little relieved. He had thought Irfan "Rome" in the form of an apparition, in a mystical or horror aura, such as in a movie or soap opera in Korean Drama. He could not imagine his best friend being a ghost, just because of the love that had not begun.

Still standing in the doorway, Cevin looked at Sigit. His gaze seemed to say "Gue should how?" it was clearly read in both of his eyes.

"Go in first." Sigit widens the door. "Have you eaten?" Sigit asked Cevin.

"No idea. Forgot." Cevin.

"Eat first. Abis is just us talking. If the stomach is full, the brain also works better." Sigit then walked inside. He deliberately stalled time because he could not bear to say that the cause of Cevin's immortality was actually only two things.

Guilt and memories...!!!

***

Although Sigit considered the source of Cevin's immortality to be from Cevin himself, it made him unsettled as well. Forced to continue at his monitor the condition of his late best friend's sister, who has increasingly been considered his own sister since Irfan's death. The first step Cevin took to overcome his fear was enough to make Sigit shocked.

"I'm just protecting doang." Cevin.

"In the way you said it, it's called a cage." Reply Sigit.

"Belom found another way." Cevin was lazy to argue.

He realized his efforts might be in vain. But he doesn't know any other way. For now, just this. Making sure Balqis stays in the focus of her gaze, and continues to make sure she is in phone contact once the girl has to be removed.

It was not only Sigit who was confused to see Cevin's attitude towards Balqis. Their classmates also wondered. Wherever Balqis went, Cevin would follow, if he could not, Balqis would have to report in advance. Go where, with whom, for how long.

If Balqis had broken it, Cevin would have gone looking for Balqis. If you don't find Balqis anywhere, Cevin can panic, fuss, and at the end of the day the guy gets angry because Balqis disappeared without his permission.

The sight of Balqis protesting was then a sight that was often witnessed by their classmates.

"Gue said, if you want to go anywhere, dong said. Don't say that!" cevin said one day.

"My guy just went to the toilet. Time to talk too? The toilet looks like this. Oh, wow!" Balqis pointed at the toilet at the end of the corridor in annoyance. Cevin doesn't care.

"The toilet looks good. But if you've gone in there, where's the look, again? How do I know you're in there?" Cevin.

"Yes, you just come in, Vin," said Vishnu with a bored look. "Lo's missing too. Enter the area of people just report to Pak RT his 1 x 24 hours. Once doang. Well if you do, every five minutes Balqis kudu report anyway?" Vishnu.

Cevin turned his head and looked at Ian with a dislike expression. "You don't know the problem, you don't have to talk." Cevin's reply was upset.

Another time, during the break, their classmates found Balqis sitting languidly on her stool, holding her stomach. Beside him, Cevin was busy writing something quickly.

"Why are you, Qis?" ask Grace, who has just entered the class.

"Banget laper!" Balqis immediately replied with a loud shrill voice.

Grace glanced at Cevin in annoyance, but her face remained towards Balqis.

"Too laper ya to the canteen there. Chivy. I want to buy it." Say Grace.

"Can't go alone" Balqis said, chirping.

"Yes aampuun! Yes, it's the same here as me." Grace walked over to Balqis while shaking her head. The girl's arm. "Vin, Balqis I'm going to the cafeteria. Lo what the hell? Don't you see that chick wants to be that cute, what?" Continue Grace.

"Ngerapiin catetan bio. Children 1-3 are checked suddenly. Uh, Qis, didn't I give you that cake?" Cevin stopped his busy life and looked at Balqis. "While making a stomach wedge is enough? Ntar break second, I treat." Cevin.

"That little cake, where is it full? Divided by two elo, again. Only in the throat, the same tooth-motor. No stomach chilling!" Balqis grumbled as she stood up, and followed Grace.

Cevin exclaimed as the two men reached the doorstep, "I'm so sorry…"

"Bodo!" without looking, Balqis immediately refused. Grace laughed and stopped her steps.

"Titip what lo?" tanyakanya.

"What aja. The important thing is to make my stomach filled. Lemper cake, know the contents of the cake. Bakwan can too." Reply Cevin.

"okay." Grace nodded, while Balqis immediately grumbled.

"Him alone was sparse, but I was told to wait until the second break!" Omel Balqis's.

"Don't protest, Qis. I don't give my permission to the canteen!" threaten Cevin.

Grace hurriedly invited him away, "Hunting, Qis. I'm gonna turn the bell." The guy walked out of the classroom in quick steps. Balqis hurriedly followed.

The classmates who witnessed the scene again looked puzzled. Because too often they witnessed it, then spread some conjectural versions of why Cevin so overprotective. They interrogated Balqis when the girl returned from the canteen.

"Lo must have helped, Qis, when he played at Cevin's house. That's why you keep watching him. Afraid to help somewhere else" Didik said.

"Don't you have a cheating chick? Unbelievable. So everywhere is followed." This is Agus.

"Lo's got ayan's disease, huh, Qis? That's why Cevin doesn't have to be alone. Afraid of you crashing down the road, and no one will." If this is Toni talking.

Accompanied by the laughter of the whole class, Balqis then stood up and went to the waist. "Yeah, call it ugly. I'm a handyman, a cheater, ayan. What else is it?" Balqis was angry.

"Abis, why is dong Cevin like that?" ask Didik.

Cevin, who was sitting on his stool, was just about to answer, but the balqis were already faster.

"Because she loves me!" balqis. The whole class was whistling and clapping loudly.

"Cieeeh! Cool!" exclamation Agus.

"Romantic, bo!" kiki Timpal.

"Groan!" reply Balqis, with a tone increasingly louder but the face more bete. "Eat him lo-lo not on the noise! Disturbing our intimacy, tau!" Further.

Back in class so laugh.

Balqis walked towards her stool, while continuing to stare at Cevin. The guy looked back at Balqis with a confused look.

"Hi, darling honey!" shouted Balqis, with a tone made cheerful. "They're on ngiri tuh. He said we were so friendly!" Further.

When Balqis was sitting by Cevin's side, the man grabbed Balqis with one hand and kissed the top of his head. Hysterical screams filled their classrooms.

"CHUCKLE! BETH! DORK! THE VILLAGE! HICKEY!"