The Choice of Old Man
Pickets

The table and chairs have been clean without any dust attached, the white floor also looks cool after being dipel. Ilona and Alexa are still in the classroom, working on their schedule every Wednesday, cleaning up the class before school. Ilona exits first, Alexa presses the light switch located next to the door. Ilona and Alexa walk quietly in the darkness of the night, in the corridor leading out of the school building.

Alexa and Ilona had to turn on the flashlights on their phones to light up their steps. Both of them reached the stairs. As fast as lightning, a figure of a black shadow of a tall stature, ran before them. However, Alexa and Ilona did not notice it because they were too focused on the road.

Ilona holds Alexa's arm while stopping her steps. "Gue forget something. Do you want me to go back to class again?"

"What stuff is missing? Why not tomorrow?" ask Alexa.

"Cannot. That is between my life and death. Anyway ... Yes, there is!"

Alexa took a breath. "okkey. Come on."

Both of them turned around, forced to return to class. Ilona is her diary, a book that has never been shown to anyone but herself. Ilona tells Alexa to wait outside the classroom, she asks the girl to accompany her only until there.

Meanwhile, Alexa stood up while leaning against the wall. The girl is smiling herself staring at the phone screen, she and Kenan send each other funny stickers. From the direction of the corridor, a student with slightly shaggy hair ran towards Alexa.

"Lo who?" ask Alexa.

The student took a long breath. "Gue asked Ilona here. We have an appointment to go home with us."

Alexa scratched her non-itchy head, her forehead frowning in wonder. "Feelings ... Ilona didn't say that, either."

"Gue's girlfriend."

For a moment, the girl fell silent while thinking, Ilona never told me about her romance. Alexa also knows Ilona is more concerned with learning than love. Alexa wouldn't believe it, her gut feeling said, she should get into class.

"But after me, Ilona was single. Gebetan doesn't have a girlfriend." Alexa is so anxious not to look panicked. He pretended to play his phone. Alexa is calling Keenan's number.

The student shows her conversation with Ilona, the time of the conversation shows at half-five in the afternoon, which means that Alexa and Ilona are on picket duty. Throughout the picket, Ilona was busy mopping the floor, while their phones were turned off.

It's a fix, it's not really, inner Alexa.

"B-let g-gue ask the guy first, huh?" said Alexa stammered. One hand holding the doorknob, was about to enter following Ilona. Meanwhile, Keenan focused on listening to the chat between Alexa and the suspicious student.

Suddenly, the student's hand held him open the door. "Don't. Let me tell you."

"liks. If you let him in, your best friend will die at his hands. On the contrary, if you go in, it will not happen. Make a decision that you think is right" Keenan said.

"Stop the con!" Alexa kicked the student's genitals. Next, Alexa enters the classroom and locks the door. The student banged on the door from the outside. Ilona flinched when she heard that voice, she had not even picked up her diary book.

That student is Nathan, Gavin's men. The man orders him to kill a girl named Ilona Tamara. Before launching the action, Nathan arranged his conversation with Ilona just in case no one believed him.

"Blogo ... You know that guy?" ask Alexa.

"Huh? Which guy?" Ilona asked back. He looked at Nathan from the glass window, then turned to Alexa. "Where do you know me as a guy."

"What don't-don't ... She was the one who watched me this afternoon?"

"It could be, Na." Alexa remembered a photo sent by Nathan this afternoon. "Wilda! I'm sure that guy also ninched him."

"How come?"

Alexa unzipped her bag, pulled out Keenan's handgun. The girl filled the shotgun with her bullet. Some of these techniques he learned from YouTube. Ilona was only astonished to see Alexa's hand movements, like someone who was already adept at using that firearm.

Alexa opened the door slowly, looking to the left right. Lonely and silent nobody, Nathan was nowhere to be seen. Ilona walks first, while Alexa follows her behind. A moment later, the two looked at each other and nodded.

"Run!" Alexa and Ilona run down the stairs to the exit.

The sound of iron concrete knocking on the wall, boomed all over the room. Nathan's shadow is seen following Alexa and Ilona. The two girls had reached the first floor, Ilona opened two doors of the school building.

"Akh!"

Nathan hits Alexa on the head until her body sits on the floor. Ilona's steps stopped, then turned towards her best friend. The girl moved her mouth, hinting to Ilona to leave immediately. Ilona steps out of the school building, just like Alexa said.

Nathan gripped Alexa tightly around the neck, pulling her to his feet. The man raised his hand, about to hit Alexa again. However, a man in a gray hoodie breaks in and seizes the iron concrete in Nathan's grasp.

Nathan reflexively turned around, locking the girl's neck with his arms. Nathan points the gun in Alexa's grip, at the girl's temple. "Kalo you hit me. This chick's head is broken."

The man slowly stepped forward, Nathan retreated while pressing the trigger on the gun. But not a single bullet came out. Alexa had been expecting it ever since she set foot outside the classroom. Therefore, he took out his bullet and kept it in a bag.

"Basic girls ******!"

Alexa stomped on Nathan's foot. The hoodie man immediately pulled Alexa's wrist, hiding the girl behind him. As fast as lightning, the man grabbed Nathan's shirt collar, and punched Gavin's men in the face repeatedly until his body fell on the floor.

Police sirens could be heard outside the building, as police officers rushed out of cars, approaching Nathan. The man clasped Alexa's hand, stepped away from the school building.

"Where are you taking me?"

Alexa's question stopped the man's move. However, the man did not answer a word, he only looked at the pair of eyes before him. Unknowingly, Alexa's hand stretched out to open the black cloth that blocked the man's face.

"Just one question, who is it? Why are you always there when I'm in danger?" Alexa asked again. His index finger had already touched the covering cloth, slowly he pulled it under Hoodie—man's nose.

Hoodie covered Alexa's eyes with her hands, then opened the cloth that had covered her face and put her lips on the girl's lips. Blindfolded, Alexa widened her eyes, her heart beating faster. Surprisingly, Alexa felt comfortable every time she was near Hoodie. Although, it had never known the identity of the man.

"Grand ... ."

Ilona's sentence stopped instantly. He just got back from Wilda's house, to make sure his best friend is okay. Upon returning to school, she sees Alexa kissing a man. Ilona did not want to miss this opportunity, the girl pulled out her phone and photographed the rare moment.

TBC.