Lies
The Darkest Past

Karan could not say anything. He could not open his mouth even a little. Breathing's tight. Heart's rumbling. It had been a long time since he had heard that name. A name in his memory. If necessary the name he should have vanished from his head. Few people know that name. Maybe just a few people. One of them is Raya. The problem was, Raya did not remember who the owner of the name was. He forgot his memory. How did the aunt know about the name? Moreover the middle-aged woman called him and Raya.

Karan could only think of one possibility. It seems like Raya already remembered about their past. Because all the data about Farraz has been wiped out. The only thing that could not be destroyed was the memories stored in the memories of the villagers along the Asoka road. Including the memory of Raya even though the woman had lost her own memory. So, the possibility of Farraz's identity coming to the surface is enormous. If that really happened, Karan would not know what happened later on.

Asoka Street is always a conversation every time talking about Karan and Raya. The cause is only one. Because both of them have memories there. There is one high school there and also a very iconic orphanage there. Which symbolizes the area. Of course, besides being known as a slum with a high crime rate. Poverty will always go hand in hand with evil because people will do evil every time their stomachs are empty. That is what makes the area filled with people who often commit crimes. A path that holds many mysteries for Karan and Raya. The path that also makes them lose happiness.

There is a big secret that grows and develops in the village on Jalan Asoka. The secret of who Karan really is. Not without reason Karan helps the area and advances it. It is not because of his pity and concern for others. Karan is not that good. He does charity not to do good, but to get the attention of the community. To make his image very good in front of the community. To be a role model for some. That way, Karan can easily develop the company Reviano even to build his own company. In any case, Karan must prove himself useful in order to survive in the family. Because that's all Karan can do as a form of return.

The most precise reason why the area along Asoka Road was repaired by Karan was because that area was Karan's residence. For at least 16 years he grew up there. Passing through childhood to adulthood by passing through the slums. Living as a child living in an orphanage there. Since childhood, poverty and crime are commonplace Karan see everyday. The village where he lived was never quiet from the commotion. Either because of something criminal or even visited by the police who are looking for a criminal there.

Although it lasted a long time, there was no meaningful change in the village. People's lives are increasingly pinched and threatened, while local officials are simply turning a blind eye. Assume that the slums along Asoka Street never existed in their territory. Ah, wrong. The villages were once on their radar during elections. To get the votes of over a thousand adults living in the five slums. Maybe a thousand votes is not enough to win the vote, but it can be a decisive one between two people who are often candidates for regional leaders.

It was then that they flocked to Asoka Street. Only for the sake of power did they withstand the stench of river water that spread around the village, which was never cleaned up and became a community landfill. Then, put on a friendly look like an angel who will greet the villagers from difficulties. And of course ask the citizens to vote for them. It can be with a bribe or in a very frontal way.

The only thing the villagers were grateful for when the two candidates came was for a moment, their village became a peaceful village. No crime has happened. There was no sound of police or ambulance sirens that often raised their ears. Quite the contrary, for a few days the public will no longer suffer from holding their stomachs empty because they get help from both candidates. Two kilograms of rice, a few eggs and instant noodles were enough to buy one resident voice along Asoka Street. Because for society, whoever is elected will have no effect on their lives. Poverty will continue to ensnare and their lives will always be overshadowed by criminal acts.

So, why don't they just take advantage of the event called the people's party? If by selling one vote they could eat for three days, they would prefer to sell it. Let alone voting in elections, some people in the area have sold their bodies and lives several times to earn money.

So, what makes Karan willing to revitalize the area? Was it just because one of the villages on Asoka Street was his childhood home? No. gabe. Karan had no such sentimental feelings. He doesn't care about a house that's just a building. Aside from his promise to Raya, Karan does so because of some citizens who have saved him, helping him to get out of the terrible place he once occupied for two years. From a narrow room surrounded by walls and covered with strong iron. From prison.

No one believes that Karan Reviano who is a respected person, a successful businessman who has a noble image in front of the camera, who is, and an only child from the family of conglomerate Reviano spent two years in prison. Everyone wouldn't believe it if Karan was the real Karan Reviano. Because in reality, Karan is not the only son of the sickly Reviano family. Karan is now the man who replaced the original Karan ten years ago. He succeeded a young man who had died a year earlier, whose death was kept secret by his parents and unknown to any one, even by Reviano's extended family.

Karan's real name is Farraz. A young man who likes math and is very smart in school. A child who has lived in an orphanage since infancy because of abandonment by his parents. Her father is a small businessman in the capital who is a dick for having abandoned his mother after screwing her. Exactly one year after Farraz's birth, the irresponsible man was finally killed in a terrible accident on the highway. Her mother died after giving birth to Farraz. As a result, Farraz who was still a baby had to be cared for by his mother's friend who happened to be one of the caretakers at an orphanage on Asoka Street. That's what makes Farraz have to languish in the slums that understand it.

“My father is like what, Bi?” farraz asked an orphanage manager who took him to the place. A woman who is also a friend of her mother. It was only these women that Farraz considered to be the family that Farraz believed in.

Although it is said to be an orphanage, but the place is not like a mini jungle version. A lighter version for children to survive. Not only the managers who often take the money of donors that should be given to the children there, but also the children who often fight with each other. Just like the reason adults often commit crimes is because they are poor, those children can also go hungry. And they ended up being rude and attacked each other to grab food belonging to other children so that their stomachs filled with food. The scenery was not much different from outside the orphanage along Asoka Street.

“He's a dickhead. She left your mother when you were in the womb. Thank goodness he died,” the woman said.

Do not be surprised why his speech was so rude to a Farraz who was then six years old. That is how people around us communicate with each other. High school fees make the majority of people there only get a very minimal education. Still mending can read, write and count because there are still many who are completely illiterate. So, that was all that the orphanage manager could learn from the surrounding environment.

“What man never came here before he died?” Farraz simply repeated what the person who had taken care of him said. When the manager calls him a jerk, Farraz will do that. He will not call the man hated by the woman and the mother a father. He doesn't want to do that.

“No. After finding out your mother was pregnant, she ran away. You cowardly man! At least she left something for your mother. Not even a piece of money! How could he live comfortably for a year? He should have just died after escaping from your mother.”

After saying a harsh sentence wrapped in anger, He became aware of something. He had said something bad to the six-year-old. It was fortunate that he could quickly improve the atmosphere by saying, “but at least he lowered his intelligence on you. That's something you should be grateful for and develop, Farraz. Later, you must be richer than that man so that you can repay your mother's heartache.”

For the people there who always experience life suffering, money is everything, but the way to get money is more important. Money can be lost quickly, but the way will not be lost. That is what distinguishes the intelligent and the ordinary.

"Yes Bi" said Farraz at the time, when he was a child and did not understand anything.

Revenge was the first lesson Farraz learned from the orphanage in the slum. How to repay the pain and vent it in the right way. Education that it is not easy to forgive someone and everyone who makes a mistake must get their reward. With that education, Farraz grew up to be a young man so ambitious that he met a girl named Raya Drisana in High School.