Other World Friendship
Empty Bench

Today to be precise our graduation, the school held graduation and 12th grade parting events held in the school grounds the event itself was lively and there was a lot of entertainment such as dancing, grub band, grub band, speeches from underclassmen, drama shows, singing and others.

Here I sat in front of the class to enjoy the event accompanied by my friends as well, I overheard a conversation between the class and my friend Andre.

"You're going to go to class, if you go to our class, order kaka only one that in the rear row corner near the right wall there is an empty bench please do not move or use yes" said kaka class.

"Why did you?" said Andre.

"It's okay to follow the rules" said the class who did not want to explain.

"Okay ka message will be remembered" said Toni who happened to be there.

After the graduation ceremony was over we were all released for 3 days, during the holidays sometimes I miss with friends occasionally I call them to let go of kangen to them. In High School I just felt the name of friendship compared to when I was Junior High, although many friends but I prefer myself somehow I also do not know the reason.

But still I did not forget my loyal friends Dion and Sanjaya who always accompanied me in times of trouble and pleasure.

It didn't feel like my 3 days off school today was the time to re-enter school leaving my old class, and taking a new class. In my own school IPA class there is only one class, another case with IPS class that there are two classes and divided into two, IPS 1 and IPS 2.

Three days had passed, today I was back in school with a new class, the first time I entered the IPA class, I felt a rather strange thing, I felt, but I don't care maybe it's because I just entered that class for the first time, that's what I was thinking.

But I was curious about the message of the third-grade kaka the other day.

I chose a seat in the back right near the empty bench, because the position of the bench is in the corner of the right wall and it seems like the bench has been very long no one occupied it visible from the amount of dust attached to the bench.

The bell also reads a sign that the lesson will begin, the teacher has entered the room and began to explain the lesson. When the middle of the lesson was going on suddenly the empty bench moved and made a sound, all the students were silent until my teacher who was explaining the lesson fell silent, too, just then I turned to the bench I started to feel the presence of someone on the bench with a uniform of unraveled hair covering his face but, her face was still faintly looking at her real pretty but pale look was vague, after I saw her I tried to ignore her I tried to refocus my studies, every now and then my friend Tari who was sitting next to me felt goosebumps.

"And do you feel the creeps?? say Dance.

"Gak ah usual" I said while writing on the blackboard written by the teacher.

"Ah time Lan, you don't fret" he said a little tangent.

"It's true, it doesn't have to be too bioavailable, it's better to continue reading" I said while believing it.

A few days into that class I had started to see his presence and experienced strange things but not with my friends. once upon a time when I entered too early and no friends entered just me alone.

Then I opened the classroom door I saw the student sitting on the bench with his head down and the hair that almost covered his face but still I could see his face, then I headed to my stool and greeted him.

"Good morning" I said.

The student did not make the slightest sound just fell silent and turned to me with a smile, a terrible smile in my opinion. Once again the oddity reappeared on the bell rang indicating the lesson time would start and we all began to focus on learning the fragrance of jasmine flowers appeared fragrant once the smell filled the whole class not only me friends others also smell it there are friends who had voiced the smell of the fragrance.

"Kok this class so the smell of jasmine flowers yah" said Toni.

"I kissed her too" said Eka.

"It's me too" said Andre.

The class was almost rowdy and the teacher tried to calm us down.

"Yes no longer need to ignore, let you focus your father on the task of doing the chemical task pages 1 to 2 about the oxidation number.

"Yes father" said Eka and Tari.

"And get together today, I love time until these subjects are over" said the teacher as he stood leaving the classroom and headed to the teacher's office.

"No more work" I told Tari.

"I saw your answer about what I can't answer" I told dance coincidence Dance students who are good at chemistry.

"It's easy" he said.

After all my friends focused on doing the matter including me, suddenly Dance behaved strangely.

"Apaan the Lan" said Tari.

"Why is it" said I who tangent.

"You poke me" said Tari

"No ah" I said, trying to convince him.

"the time is Lan continues to be ready that was poking my arm" said Tari who began to fear.

"Maybe your hallucination Tiara" I said trying to calm him down.

"Ah time anyway Lan" said Tari who was still a little confused.

"Yes, he has done his duty, and his time is up" I said, urging him.

"Yes,,, she's Lan, let's go back and forth."

"You're jahilin Dance" I said in my heart.

"No Lan, I'm no fool with Dance" Dion said, reassuring me.

"Keep ready yah" said I who tangent.

Then I turned to the empty bench and saw the student looking down with a smile. Seeing her like that makes me sure she's the one who fucked up Tari. Actually the student was not disturbing like the other evil jinn who made a trance to show his terrible face and others, only he was more ignorant to my friends.

One day we were all taking pictures in class, at that time our homeroom teacher to actually bring a photo camera and we were told to line up in front of the blackboard to capture the moment there was only me who did not come because it was long ago I don't like the photos. After all the friends in the photo and have not printed the results of his photos

Almost a week of photos so we were all curious to see the results not with me because in the photo I thought there was no picture of me, suddenly Tari brought two photos from the class guardians of the whole class in a scramble to see the photo after they looked carefully there were strange photos of the two photos were just one photo strangely, when you see there is one student who took pictures behind his face is not too vague. All the noble friends are panicking and I haven't seen the photo either. Lusy finally brought the photo to me.

"And you didn't see the picture" said Lusy.

"No, there are no pictures of me either" I told Lusy.

"Let's see if there's something weird about all the total students there are 23 why so there are 24, this trus face is faint Lan, this is not the face of our friend Lan" said Lusy while explaining.

Hearing Lusy's words made me curious and wanted to see him, after seeing him I was shocked by him.

It turns out that it was true that said by Lusy and I saw the face of the student in the photo turned out to be the same face as the student who was sitting on the empty bench.

"Oooo,,,, he's really what you say, but no papa maybe he also wants to take pictures" I said with a laugh.

"You're Lan joking" Lusy said in annoyance.

After the photo incident, friends began to know the figure sitting on an empty bench and add to the classroom atmosphere to be gripping when alone.

Until one day I was asleep in class at break time somehow at that time my eyes were very sleepy.

"Ka, Tar I want to sleep first well drowsy neh, later wake up if the rest is over" I told friends.

"You're not going to Lan's cafeteria" Eka said.

"No, I'm sleepy" I said, yawning.

Finally I fell asleep and had a strange dream as if I was flash back to someone I was in my class and then I saw the student sitting on the empty bench in my dream the empty bench was on sit by a student and have his desk.

I saw the teacher giving the subjects but I did not recognize the teacher and the students who were sitting in the class, and suddenly the girl always rubbed her stomach after how many minutes the girl took a lot of medicine, her colleague did not know what she was doing after that she asked permission to go to the bathroom, but somehow he had been in the bathroom for a long time, the teacher told his friend to tell him, upon arrival in the bathroom it turns out that the bathroom door in the key inside his friend began to panic and went back to class to tell the teacher and his friends then all went to the bathroom, teacher and friend the man petrified the teacher to break down the bathroom it turned out after berasil in the door was seen the student was unconscious with a mouth full of foam.

Eventually the student was taken to the hospital but unfortunately she was not helped.

I was surprised and woke up from my sleep, I touched on the dream I started asking Dion if the dream was an explanation or just a sleeping flower. After I told Dion everything.

"What you just dreamed of did happen Lan" Dion said

"But I alluded to why he did all this" I said curiously.

The bell rang when the break was over but his father's physics subjects did not enter and another teacher told us to record the writing on the blackboard because the writing dance was good so he was on duty writing on the board. I started writing but once in a while I thought about my dream I started talking to Dion again in my heart.

"I still think of Dion's dream" I said in my heart while writing.

"Try you ask Lan to that student" Dion said.

"Kok I'm the one who asked you to be."

"You've been in this class from the beginning, but he won't say just shut up" Dion said.

"Yes, if so I ask him, hopefully there is an answer" I said hesitantly.

I started to ventured into talking through my heart with the student but he was unwilling to answer what was happening but strangely I was given a picture in my mind.

As if I saw about her life it turned out that the student was the smartest student in the class she was blinded by love and gave it all to the man and it turned out that the boy was her own classmate her life was ruined after she found out that she was pregnant she was jolly like to gather with friends joking along with her friends when only silent and always alone. He tried to explain what he experienced to his lover but his lover did not want to know he finally decided to end his life.

Suddenly Eka surprised my daydream.

"Eh daydreaming is not nulis" said Eka.

"Duh ngagetin neh" I said

"This one wants to write" I said.

I turned to the empty bench and saw the student he looked down with a smile, maybe in this class there are many mementos of him with friends when he was alive and I feel like a very deep sadness at heart maybe it was from him and speech in my heart that touched me.

"If only I hadn't done this with him maybe I could have boasted about my parents" she said in my heart.

After that incident I did not feel afraid anymore and friends also began to get used to seeing oddities in class.

Note: this story is inspired from 2 different events in my school and my friend's campus all names are pseudonymous scene I did not write clearly 🙏

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