SURREPTITIOUS
The Part 35

Xaga sleeping on the couch. He was looking at his phone screen reading a chat message from Amadhea.

Dhea: Thanks in advance.

Xaga: Tomorrow I will come to your house with Arnold and Alinda, because I am not happy when I come alone.

Dhea : Okay.

Next morning.

Xaga is neat in her school uniform. He went down the stairs and saw his family having breakfast together.

Bu Bachtiar turned to his son. "Xaga, breakfast first, son."

Xaga did not respond. He continued his steps.

"Hey, you don't want breakfast first?" ask Starla.

Xaga did not answer.

"Let it go" said Mr. Bachtiar.

Bu Bachtiar looked sad. He looked at the back of his son who was away and disappeared behind the door.

Arriving at school, Xaga parked her bike. He climbed the stairs to his class. While climbing the stairs to the 3rd floor, Xaga passed Amadhea. The girl looked pale.

"Xaga." Unexpectedly the girl hugged him. His body feels very cold.

Both of Xaga's cheeks flushed as Amadhea's embrace tightened. Both of the men's hands were raised. However, the man immediately shook his head and touched Amadhea's shoulder then released the girl's embrace from her.

Amadhea looked at Xaga. "I miss you."

Xaga looked at Amadhea's fickle eyes. Sometimes normal, sometimes the color of his eyes is all black.

"You are not Amadhea" said Xaga.

Amadhea smiled faintly, and for a long time her smile grew wider and more terrifying. He laughed gigglingly as the color of his eyes turned all black.

"Don't interfere, blue eyes!" snapped the figure that resembled Amadhea then suddenly disappeared from before Xaga.

Xaga shook his head then continued his steps.

The break bell rings. Xaga, Zayn, and Elan are seen eating together in the cafeteria.

"This afternoon I'm going to Dhea's house with Arnold and Alinda. You guys wanna come?" ask Xaga.

"Yes, if invited, we'll come along. Yeah, right?" Elan elbowed Zayn's arm.

Zayn nodded. "Yes, all of you go see him. Zahra said, Dhea is sick."

In the afternoon.

Alinda was driving her car. Next to him was Arnold. In the back seat are Xaga, Zayn, and Elan.

"We're up." Alinda stopped her car in front of the gate of Amadhea's house.

"Have you arrived?" Elan and Arnold looked ahead.

"Why doesn't security open the gates?" ask Elan.

"Because Amadhea lived alone in this house" replied Alinda.

"A house this big?" ask Elan not to believe it.

Arnold and Xaga get out of the car. They opened the gate. Alinda's car came in.

"Although I was in a class with Amadhea, but I just came to his house for the first time" said Arnold.

"Me too" lied Xaga. He was following Amadhea at the time.

Alinda knocked on the door. Xaga, Zayn, Elan, and Arnold were standing behind him.

"Excuse me? Dhea?"

There's no answer.

Shortly after, the door was opened by Irma. "You're Dhea's friend, huh?"

"Yes, Auntie, we came to visit" said Elan.

"Oh, please come in." Irma told them to come in.

"Who is he living alone, who is he?" arnold whispered to Alinda.

"That's the neighbor" replied Alinda.

Amadhea was sitting on the couch eating porridge and boiled eggs. He looked at his friends who came. Amadhea invited her friend to sit on the sofa. He allowed his hair to cover his bulging left forehead.

Xaga's eyes were on Amadhea. The two girls eyes also looked normal.

Xaga made up her mind, the last time I met her, her left eye was pitch-black with no white part. Now he looks normal. Did the black-eyed ghost not bother Dhea anymore?

"Aunty's staying, yeah." Irma passed into the kitchen after getting answers from Amadhea's friends.

"Have your condition improved?" ask Arnold.

Amadhea nodded. "Yes, I think it's gone. The doctor said, I'm just a mild typhus."

"Thank God" said Elan and Alinda.

"We brought a little fresh fruits and vegetables." Zayn put two baskets of vegetables and fruit on the table.

"Thank you for the trouble" said Amadhea.

The sound of the door being knocked. Alinda got off the couch. Irma came out of the kitchen.

"I'm the one who opened it, Auntie," said Alinda.

"Oh, yes." After Alinda left to open the door, Irma returned to the kitchen.

Zahra and Greeta are coming.

"So I went to the house you wanted to go to Dhea's house together" said Zahra.

"Sorry, I didn't have time to say, because Arnold suddenly made me come here" said Alinda.

"I saw your car in front, who else came but Arnold?" ask Greeta curious.

"Come in first" said Alinda.

Greeta is shocked to see Elan. "Oh? Elan, you didn't say you wanted to come here."

"I was invited by Xaga" said Elan, pointing at Xaga.

"You're here too, Zayn?" ask Zahra.

"Yes, I was also invited by Xaga" Zayn said.

They also sit.

"I am so moved that you all came to see me" said Amadhea.

"Said Alinda, you live alone, so we came to see you. In addition, Xaga also forced us to come with him" Arnold said.

Xaga gives Arnold the code to stop telling the truth.

"Oh?" Amadhea glanced at Xaga.

"That's because it doesn't feel good to come alone" Xaga explained.

Greeta elbowed Zahra's arm. The two smiled at Xaga's alibi.

"There's no harm, really," Alinda said.

Xaga nods to Alinda's help for her.

Irma served snacks and drinks to the table. After a little talk, they started to get busy themselves.

Elan and Zayn play online games, Zahra and Irma are busy looking through hijab magazines, Arnold and Elan are driving around behind the house after getting permission from Amadhea, Greeta is definitely busy snacking, same with Alinda. They both snacked while watching TV.

While Xaga and Amadhea sat next to each other a little distance away. They are both silent.

Xaga glanced at Amadhea. "Aren't you going to ask for help because of them?"

Amadhea turned to Xaga and shook her head. "No, I don't feel disturbed at all. I was glad to see my friends coming. This old house doesn't feel lonely when you come."

Xaga smile. "So, what can I do for you?"

"I just wanted to ask you something. It's about my dream last night. Not only last night, I also often dream and my dream is not an empty dream. Everything is real" Amadhea explained. He told Xaga everything.

Xaga listened seriously.

"I've always been scared. I'm already tired. I don't know who to tell this to. Only you understand my condition" Amadhea said after the story was finished.

"It looks like your inner eye is open, rather your left eye."

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^^^21.42 | 1 September 2021^^^

^^By Ucu Irna Marhamah ^^^