Reaching the Moon
Chapter 48

In the dark night, accompanied by the reflection of the moon and stars, two men in uniform were talking seriously in front of the police station. They just caught some young people caught on the highway.

"Lately the boys of the biker gang are really unsettling. Wild racing, recklessness on the road, and still a lot of things they do without obeying the rules, it's very dangerous."

"Truely, I've interrogated those who had been caught being careless on the highway. It turns out that 80% of them are former street children, the rest are broken home children who want to vent their hurt and loneliness."

"really? How can a street kid who doesn't have a motorcycle get into a biker gang?"

"Well, this is unique. He said their boss is not a random person. He is the CEO of a company that deliberately gives facilities to street children for fun. The wild races they do are purely for fun, not for betting."

"Geez, is their boss crazy rich to be confused about what the money is for? Then, was that person also the one who taught his members to err on the road? I really don't think it out."

"No-no, the teenager said that their boss was sick, so they were free. Usually their boss will ban them delinquents if many other riders. Anyway they don't want the boss to be blamed for all his mischief."

"Yes, but still someone has to take responsibility for their mischief. They're minors, you know!"

"Sir Diki, let's accompany me to Alfamedika hospital, we're ordered to interrogate the boss of the biker gang earlier," call a police officer named Tono from the room to make Diki who had been telling stories with his colleagues outside immediately stand up.

"Ready!"

They left that night for Alfamedika hospital, where the boss of the motorcycle gang they spoke of was being treated.

"This is his room" said Tono and knocked on the door. Soon a voice was heard allowing them to enter.

Tony opened the door and started to step in. However, only half his body entered the man came out again.

"Hey, it looks like we got it wrong," Tono said a little hesitantly.

"Loh, why? The room number is correct, really," said Diki with furrowed eyebrows.

"You said the guy was old, the guy in this room was young, you're your age, where's the handsome again."

"Ish, what the hell, you're this! Just go in to ask, embarrassed to ask, we don't go home. It's already night." Diki shifted his partner's body and went first to the room.

"Yes, what's wrong, sir?" asked the man in the room who was accompanied by two teenage boys.

"Is that right, you Mr Ryan Ardiansyah?" ask Diki.

"Yes, right, it's me" the man replied calmly.

Diki and Tono directly walked towards the man. Meanwhile, Ryan immediately took a sprig of carnation flowers and gave them to the two teenagers beside him.

"Hey, please give this flower to my pretty doctor, tell him that it's from jasmine room 02.

"Good, Boss." The two teenagers immediately came out leaving the boss with Diki and his partner.

"Are you really the boss of this biker boy?" Diki showed me the photos of the teenagers they captured a few hours ago.

"Well, are they doing it again?" ryan asked calmly.

"What is your mode of forming that motorcycle gang? If they do damage, you will certainly have consequences," asked Diki.

"No other reason, I've been lonely all this time, I need a family. You saw for yourself, the one who accompanied me here was not my mother, father, or any other family. Only my motorcycle gang's kids will take turns taking care of me here" Ryan smiled.

Diki and Tono looked at each other. Instantly all the questions they were about to ask simply disappeared after hearing the man's answer before them.

"If you want to ask, where is my family? The answer is both my parents are gone and I don't have any family anymore."

"Again Diki and Tono looked at each other without speaking again. Want to rebuke because of the actions of his motorcycle gang, but also feel sorry. However, the task is still a task, they should be professional.

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A few days later, the Moon sat pensively in the garden bench alone while enjoying the fresh morning air. His gaze was straight ahead, but his mind was wandering somewhere. What is clear is that whatever he thinks, it will all end in one name, Nizam.

Still still pensive, the woman's gaze now caught a husband and wife who suddenly passed in front of him while running. Sometimes they hold hands, and sometimes joke. The moon smiled faintly as they felt the happiness they were emitting. However, there was a piercing envy in the heart, as if wanting to also feel that harmony, but fate no longer blessed.

Not wanting to dissolve in his mind, the Moon immediately grabbed the phone he kept in his pocket. His intention this time wanted to ask for Nizwa's whereabouts because the pregnant woman made an appointment at the park this morning to accompany him on foot. However, he had waited long enough, the sister-in-law still did not come.

However, the Moon urung sent a message to Nizwa when she saw the tick of the message she always sent to her husband's number had now turned blue, meaning that the message had been read. Instantly a despair that began to dim again exuded a spirit. Could Nizam still be alive and reading his message?

The moon did not remain silent, she tried to dial the husband's number with a racing heart, and an excited face. However, after several tries, the spirit on the woman's face dimmed again as her call was not connected.

"Is it possible for the checkmark to be an error?" the word Moon guessed with a soft and disappointed voice.

The woman looked up at the sky, holding back the glare of the sun in order to hold back the tears that began to gather in her eyes so as not to spill. He closed his eyes for a moment and set his heart to not cry again this time.

Suddenly, the moon felt something strange. The sun that had been dazzling behind the eyelids, now felt shady as if someone was covering it. Slowly the woman opened her eyes out of curiosity and she was quite surprised when someone with a panda doll mascot was already standing before her while waving his hands silently.

The moon only smiled faintly while replying to the hand of the panda. Not to lose his surprise, the panda slightly bowed and gave him a rose.

The confused moon did not immediately receive the flower. He pointed to himself to make sure that the flower did not address wrong and the panda nodded its head. Inevitably, he received the flower and said, "Thank you."

Instead of standing back up, the panda now reached out toward the Moon. The woman had wanted to dodge, but her body froze when she realized the doll's index finger was directed to the middle of her forehead, then down slowly through the nose, lips, to the chin.

Soon the Moon's memories revolve back to the last moment of her friendship with Nizam before she is kidnapped. He clearly remembered the new habit of the husband who often did the same thing with the panda.

Deghs

The Moon's heart began to beat violently while staring fixedly at the puppet that was still bowing before him. He now pulled the panda's hand to his knees and their bodies aligned.

Somehow, from where he got the courage, Moon held the doll's head with two hands, in her lift slowly with her heart pounding more and more. There was a strong hope and premonition that accompanied his actions until the head of the panda was completely detached.

The sight of the Moon's eyes immediately blurred by tears, both ends of his lips were now interested in forming a thin arch. Slowly, clear circles began to flow down both of his cheeks when he saw who was behind the panda mascot.

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