Just a Story
Chapter 78 ~ Confused and Afraid

...Want to ask dong, what is the secret of staying up late? In addition to drinking coffee, yes, because if I drink coffee sometimes like to be surprised by his stomach, like suddenly sick, so scared. You see, these few days I always sleepy when the clock shows at 21:00, unfortunately at that hour until 00:00 tuh I write the second project. I want to be done quickly, so I can go to the third project....

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"Ava, where are you going?" asked Agnes who was watching tv in the living room. Of course he was confused, because Ava was wearing casual clothes and very neat than usual, these nights too.

The girl called to look. "You go with Aras." Outside the gate Aras has already laxed his car several times. "Yes, Brother Aras is waiting outside, bye."

After Ava came out, Ana and Agnes threw meaningful gazes and smiles at each other.

"Reverse!" both at the same time.

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"Sorry Kak, lama," Ava said as she got into Aras' car.

"Yes, not papa." Aras runs his car to the place he has determined.

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Car Aras fell silent neatly in the parking lot of one of the usual restaurants in Jakarta.

Both of them sit in the restaurant room that Aras ordered a few hours ago.

"Is this not nerepotin, brother? Until you have to mesan private room like gini?" ava asked a bit of a sense of obstruction in her chest.

Not to mention this is the first time Aras invited him to a restaurant as late as a few months ago he decided to choose Alan, who even the guy also left him and Aras came again in Ava's life.

"Kan, he said you don't want anyone to know about this, if in an open room .. could be anyone squirming or even the person is here. Part ... This room there are only three small windows and lo it is not at all memgerepotin me."

"Yes .. and yes."

"This ... try to see." Aras turned his laptop on Ava. "Gue has traced the number of the intruder, from morning until now, the location of the number is in school and does not move at all."

Ava observes while explaining what Aras explained to her.

"So .. I think, the thief left something behind at school, or else he hid it in school. What do you think?"

"If you hide in school anyway like not Kak, yes time every day is it stay at school? But, do not know also if the two obsi is likely one of them is true."

Aras nodded slowly. "Yes .. yes too. Moreover, our school is very strict guard."

Ava snapped her fingers. "What if we search all over the corner of the school?"

"Eum ..?. I think it will be difficult and take a long time deh?" Seeing Ava's moody face again makes Aras not bear. "Yes, I do, but .. I can't work alone."

The smile of the girl beside him instantly infused perfectly. "Sip, Brother! I'll help you!"

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Tok

Tok

Tok

"Who are these nights coming?" Agnes placed a jar containing snacks on the table.

"Maybe, Ava's gone home?"

"If Ava had stayed in and wouldn't have knocked on the door. Does the time go by just a few minutes? That's really fast."

Agnes stepped her foot open the door, there was no one outside, but as the direction of Agnes's gaze dropped down.

"Loooooooooo!!"

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Ting

Ting

Ava's phone rang, and the girl immediately opened the message.

+62 8966 ×××× ××××

You hide too I can find you. Find it!

Ava's eyes were perfectly rounded, her eyeballs looking and scrutinizing the entire room and stopping towards the door.

"Why, Va? How do you feel scared?"

The girl beside this Aras gulped with great difficulty. "He's here" Ava said in a whispering volume.

Cold air suddenly filled the entire room, turned off the AC-nya was turned off, and was warm, but, why did it suddenly become cold and creepy like this?

Gradually Aras begins to know and understand what Ava is feeling.

How goosebumps anyway? Is this what Ava has been feeling all along? Very cute girl harbors a very extraordinary fear. I have to help him, he said in his heart while looking to the left right and rubbing both arms due to the cold that hit the whole body.

As Ava further sharpened her gaze, the girl's eyeball accidentally caught something passing from the window that was right behind Aras.

A person in all-black clothes waved his hand which was also wrapped in black gloves.

"Ava, where are you going?!" aras shouted as he looked at Ava who suddenly ran out of the room.

Aras hurriedly tidied up his things and followed Ava from behind.

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"Woi stop lo, jabingan!" ava shouted as she began to get close to the person.

Unfortunately the terrorer ran faster, making it difficult for Ava to chase.

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"Where are you fucking?!" when he was outside the restaurant. The girl widened her gaze from the direction of the parking lot, park, fountain, and trees around. But, shit! There's nothing there except a passerby.

He also could not confirm whether the intruder was female or male because the man was wearing all-black clothing ranging from hats, glasses, masks, gloves, hoodies, shoes, and pants.

"What's the matter, Va?" asked Aras when he managed to stand next to the girl.

"I'm sorry I left you, brother. But that terror was here! I'm after it but it's gone!"

Ting

Ting

+62 8966 ×××× ××××

Failed

A few seconds later the girl's phone screen was marked Agnes' name, Ava immediately shifted the green button.

Regulate his breathing so as not to sound dull. "Yes, what's up, Nes?"

"A-Ava help us."

Tut

Tut

Tut

"Ha-hello, Agnes?" Ava looked up at him with a super frightened face. "My eyes are home now!"

"What's up, Va?"

"Later on the road I clear, but anterin I go home first!"

Aras nodded. "Yes! Let's get in the car."

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This time Ava was really scared to death, she was afraid if anything happened to her two friends. "Wind a little bit can't you, brother?!"

"Yes! Aye! I'm speeding, you tight grip." Aras really adds to his speed, the guy is also scared because Ava is scared, the feeling is contagious.

Ava is not even afraid at all when Aras is speeding on the streets, which he feels right now is the fear of his two best friends. Ava is also afraid that this will spread to everyone she loves.

Seconds later Ava was only aware of the message sent by the terrorist this afternoon when she returned home from school.

Then he already knew that I asked Kak Aras for help and he also knew that Kak Aras was tracking him?

That certainly makes Ava's fear even more so.

This successor has enough skills to fool people without being discovered, is good at hiding, and is also good at raising someone.

Yes, it is, if you do not have the skill, you will be immediately found out.

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When he got to Ava's house and Aras went straight down from the car to the house, the fishy smell immediately hit their sense of smell. The first thing they saw was a blood splattered on the floor, there was also a sharp knife of considerable size covered in blood.

Ava left Aras who was still standing outside observing the slightly viscous liquid object. The girl checks every room, and eventually finds her two best friends hiding in Ana's room.

"You're not papa, are you?"

His two best friends shook their heads slowly, but they were still very shocked by it. The scars of both tears are still visible and occasionally drip.

"You know who came here and sent it?"

Both of them still nodded without answering.

"Yes, you guys just calm down just don't be afraid, because it's just a prankster and a jailer. I guarantee you guys won't do anything and tonight we'll sleep in the bedroom."

The girl's feelings are no longer fear, no longer feeling stubborn, and no longer feeling anxious. His anger that he had been craving all this time instantly exploded, Ava was getting furious, the grudge in her chest was getting stronger, and she also felt challenged.

The girl's hands clenched very tightly, even her muscles and veins until they were visible.

If I manage to find you, insyaallah I will party seven days and seven nights without pause for my money, and I will also give the same punishment that you do to me and the people closest to me.

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Aras had gone home an hour ago, the guy had offered to take care but Ava refused, after all, Aras has been very helpful. Ava had cleaned without any blood on the front floor of the house, while Aras brought the knife to find out if there were fingerprints or not.

Ava has not been able to sleep at all, fortunately tomorrow is a holiday, so she and her two best friends can calm the chaotic mind.

The Flashback

"After I had observed and nyium, the blood on the floor and on the knife turned out to be animal blood, because human blood did not smell as dynamic as that. I also think that the neror is more than one person, the proof is there who sent it to the house and the other you said to squirm the person at the restaurant. Something happened at about the same time. Not to mention the distance between the house and the restaurant half an hour, at full speed it also can not be done simultaneously."

*Ava is looking straight ahead. "Gue was afraid that the people around me were wretched. Agnes and Ana are also that sessyok." Staring at Aras with tears that have been shed. "Who is this? Sapphira? Revan? A dino? Justin? Goody good? Or even, Aras' own sister?"

The girl looked down. "Perhaps, Kak Aras should not have to help me again, rather than later Kak Aras why-not. I am afraid that if Sis Aras goes deeper, everything will get worse. I started the game since my arrival to this school, so, I should also be able to beat this toy maker*."

Aras touches Ava's chin and directs her to look at him. "Gue will still help you lo, Ava, and you just calm down, because I will not be okay. As long as you, your friends, and your friends are in my custody, you're all okay."

Aras wiped Ava's tears with both fingers of her thumb. He also hopes that under these circumstances Aras can get closer to Ava and get a second chance from the girl.

Aras does not intend to take over Alan's place, but the guy just wants to make Ava feel comfortable and safe when together with him.

"Bo-can?" tanya Aras made sure as she was going to hug Ava. From now on, Aras will ask Ava for permission if she will do something or touch the girl.

"Could-be," replied Ava hesitated but willing.

Slowly Aras directs Ava's body into her arms, stroking and patting her back and head slowly. Actually it's a mode but it calms Ava down too.

Ava reciprocated to hug Aras, only the girl only held a hoodie in Aras. "Gue's also afraid of why, Alan."

When Aras finds out Ava's beating up like that, will that guy get angry? No, Aras will not be angry, but maybe the guy is just upset, disappointed, and sad. But, thankfully Aras could not hear what Ava said in his heart.

Ava, I want us both to continue without Alan's shadow being a hindrance. I can't go far and leave you when me and my heart are tied and choose you. If this mission is completed, what relationship and atmosphere like now will also be completed and only become memories? batin Aras, further strengthen his embrace.

Flashback Off

The girl rubbed her face rough. "Aarrrggghhh! Why in a situation like this I even so tingling the same treatment Kak Aras to me?"

The girl looked at her two best friends who were asleep. "I'm sorry, because I've dragged you into my troubles. But I promise I'll solve this problem soon. There will be no more fear, trauma, or goosebumps that you will feel. I promise."

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...This chapter is full of puzzles, huh? And this chapter is also more focused on the same level Ava who is trying and struggling to find the terror....

...Your previous guess about the terror changed, no, after you read this chapter?...

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...Written on 08 November 2020...

...Posted on 05 May 2021...

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