My Beautiful Lawyer
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Hasna got to the front of the box. His eyes stared at the running field officers. Some are out and some are busy calling.

Fajri who came after was astonished to look at those who seemed to have a commotion. Fajri approaches Hasna.

"What's wrong? " he whispered to Hasna's side.

Hasna turned her head and looked at Fajri then shook her head.

Fajri pulled the hand of an officer who ran towards the car close to them.

"What's going on? Why are you panicking? " ask Fajri.

"A woman's man set himself on fire in the kitchen. Everyone was panicking" he replied.

Fajri looked straight at Hasna. They ran to the front office.

An officer who usually receives a visitation request, detains them before entering. Fajri and Hasna were silent, they knew, they couldn't just go in there.

"Who? Who burned themselves? " ask Hasna with a gasp.

The officer looked at Hasna and was silent for a moment.

"No idea, we can't say what happened yet" he said.

"Nunik and Wulan are fine right? " ask Hasna.

The officer turned back silent and then shifted his eyes.

"I can't say anything right now. You better go. There are no visiting hours until the next stage is lowered"

The officer pointed towards the exit. They walked slowly and stopped in front, looking inward.

"You're not as bad-minded as I am, are you? " ask Fajri.

Hasna turned to him then swallowed her saliva.

"I try not to think" Hasna replied, turning her eyes away.

"But I'm still afraid the woman they mean is Nunik"

"Enough, I really can't think right now" Hasna interrupted her remark.

Before long, a blangkar walked up to some officers who pushed him. The body of the woman who burned herself came out and was wrapped in leaves.

"GIRST! " shouted one officer.

Hasna, still silent, was pulled by Fajri's arm. Hasna's eyes remained focused on seeing the woman.

"Who is he? Tell me! WHO-IS-SHE? "

Hasna was hysterical, she saw that the unburned part of the pants that the woman was wearing were the pants that she gave Wulan.

Fajri pulls Hasna's hand, trying to open the leaf that covers the victim's face.

"Calm down! " fajri said.

"I gave the pants to Wulan, please ask them. Please, tell me that it's not Wulan" Hasna cried.

"All right, I'll ask. But you stay here" Pinta Fajri.

Hasna waited. But his eyes were fixed on a woman crying at the end of the inner room.

"Wulans! " said Hasna.

It was not Wulan who burned herself. Hasna was relieved then smiled. But Wulan's mouth movements made Hasna's smile crumble.

Hasna turned towards the ambulance, she ran after realizing the meaning of Wulan's lip movements. The one who burned himself was Nunik. Hasna lost control and stopped the cage from entering.

Fajri couldn't stop him. Hasna's hand instantly opened the leaf that covered Nunik's charred face. Hasna was sitting limp, she had already confirmed that the woman was Nunik.

The officers put the cage in the ambulance and left. While Hasna was still sitting quietly accompanied by Fajri who was silent to see her.

***

In office.

Hadi walked into their room and was about to sit down after he returned from buying hot coffee. But he didn't sit down and drop a plastic cup of hot coffee in his hand.

His eyes stared at Bayu's body which was sprawled inside the holding room.

Hadi tried to calm himself by assuming Bayu deliberately did it. He slowly stepped closer to the door and noticed Bayu's body.

"God! Is he dead? "

Hadi was getting panicked, he saw foam coming out of Bayu's mouth.

"SOMEONE HELP ME, CALL AN AMBULANCE! " cried Hadi.

Shakingly he opened the holding room. And always fail. Not long after another officer helped him. They checked Bayu's situation.

"I think he's dead" said his friend.

Hadi looked at his friend restlessly.

"Fajri will definitely strangle me" he murmured.

They stared at each other in silence. Before long, another officer came in and checked.

Hadi came out of the detention room to contact Fajri, but he did not answer. He looked back at Bayu's body which was still sprawled. His breathing grew louder considering he had left Bayu alone earlier.

"I'm really fucking shit! " rumbling.

***

In a quiet hallway flanked by shops.

Nina retreated slowly while looking at the approaching man with a squeeze as well as at him.

"What do you want? " asked Nina with a raucous voice about to cry.

"You know, you can't do what the society asks" said the man in a neat suit.

"I'm calling you so I can go back and do the gathering request" Nina said tremblingly.

"No, it's not necessary" the man replied with a flat expression.

"I beg you, just take me to the society now. I'll do anything, as long as you can let go of my parents" Nina pleaded.

"The wood said the same thing. But the society is asking that you all die today"

Nina's eyes rounded hearing the man had come to her father.

"What did you do to my father?" Nina angry.

"I asked him to drink poison. And he drank it after asking for your safety which is his guarantee" the man replied.

Nina fell down, she fell down, drowning to hear her father was gone.

"I think your mother also burned herself" said the man.

Nina was crying hysterically.

"No, it's impossible! " Nina can't control herself.

He approached and grabbed the man's suit and pulled it many times. Hit his chest and arms with all his might.

"You killed both my parents! " snouted Nina.

But the man didn't budge. He was silent with a flat expression on his face.

"Now drink this, you'll catch up with them as soon as possible" the man said.

Nina retreated, she stared fearfully at the small bottle filled with poison she showed.

"No. ..!" nina refused.

"All of you must die" said the man as he approached slowly.

Nina was getting so low that she could no longer move due to a dead end.

The man grabbed her hand, Nina resisted. But unfortunately Nina lost strongly. The man pressed his hands back until he sat down with his face up because his hair was pulled.

Another man came and helped her put poison in Nina's mouth. Nina swallowed it. The man let her go and let her crawl with his hands holding her neck.

Nina felt a heat in her throat, she crawled away from those who also left her. Her tears fell as she could not feel the poison leaking into her blood.

Nina's eyes opened with one hand holding her neck, and the other hand as if reaching for the two men's departure.