The Choice of Old Man
Panda Dolls

Back to the present.

BRACKET!

The sound of the book dings on the table managed to make Nathan aghast from his sleep, it had been two days, the man was in the interrogation room. A black-painted room with a table and two chairs facing each other. Keenan and Regan repeatedly ask the same thing, as does Nathan. Unwilling to admit the motive behind the assassination attempt, when the reality is clear, Gavin tells him to kill Ilona.

"Gue must be clear how many times, anyway?! It was all my will." Nathan said to Keenan and Regan.

"Oh, so that's your will?" keenan asked, looking at Nathan's face. He looked at Regan who was standing next to him. "How do you think?"

Regan shakes. "I'm not sure. I think really, someone told him to."

"So he won't tell me, let me find out." Keenan pulled the doorknob, about to step out.

"Mafia Boss. He told me to."

Hearing Nathan open his mouth, Keenan slammed the door hard. He pulled out a chair and sat in front of the man. "Who's the mafia boss?"

"Gue can only tell you that. The rest, you search for yourself." replied Nathan.

The dog!

Instantly Keenan cursed without a sound. He rubbed his face, in vain just asked. It is better to find out for yourself than to ask Nathan, at the end of the day the man will still complicate Keenan's work in investigating.

Keenan glanced at Regan, then nodded giving instructions to his friend to put Nathan into the holding cell. They only get a little information about the mastermind behind all this.

Later, the man re-watched CCTV footage taken from Pradita Dirgantara High School. He has copied some videos on his flash. In the top left corner of the laptop screen, it displays the time and place where it was before the incident occurred. Keenan notices Alexa and Ilona who are busy cleaning the class. In the next instant, Gavin emerged from the corridor, the man stopped when he realized there were still two students in the classroom.

"Don't let anyone have anything to do again" Keenan thought.

Keenan enlarged the video. Gavin is seen pulling out his phone, after which photographing Alexa and Ilona through a glass window. Although the resolution is a bit blurry. However, Keenan's sense of sight is never wrong.

Then suddenly, the door opened. A man approached Keenan to give a report on a child search case several years ago, namely Dimas Alaskar—, a coworker and friend of Keenan in the office. Dimas propped the book board on the table.

"The Chief asks us to make a complete investigation of this case. The name of the child ... Alexander Wijaya." said Dimas.

Keenan gasped at the name. He immediately read it carefully and turned the sheet of paper. At first glance, he remembered the student he had seen some time ago when driving Alexa to school.

The man muttered. "Gue's sure, it's him."

"Huh? Who?" Dimas knitted his two eyebrows.

"But ... ."

Not yet Dimas continued his sentence, Keenan ran out of the interrogation room while carrying the report he gave.

Dimas let out a rough breath. "That's the job of the three of us."

******

Hoodie walked over to Alexa and Keenan's house, staring at the window of the room on the second floor. He placed a large panda at the door. After giving it away, Hoodie stepped away. The man crossed paths with the man in a dark blue jacket, carrying a large cardboard box containing the exact same doll.

Alex watched Hoodie's back run further away from the pastor's house. He took the doll and exchanged it for the doll he was carrying. Gavin gives him orders to approach Alexa, finding out the ins and outs of the girl. Regardless of the order, Alex feels comfortable while being near Alexa.

"Sorry" those words spontaneously came out of Alex's mouth.

The man glanced at the CCTV located in the corner of the outer wall of the house, then lowered his head while tightening his black hat. Alex quickly ran before he was caught off guard by the other occupants.

While inside, Alexa is stretching muscles while going down the stairs. The distinctive aroma of fried rice seasoning enters the nasal cavity, making anyone who smells it feel hungry. It approached the dinner table, there was a plate of fried rice served with eggplant and additional sweetened vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers.

"This is the cooked Keenan?"

Keenan is willing to wake up early in the morning to cook fried rice for himself and Alexa. Unfortunately, the man immediately left for his office after preparing breakfast.

"Oh my gosh, yummy!" alexa comments after bribing a spoonful of fried rice into her mouth. He shook his head, enjoying his morning breakfast.

Alexa was silent for a moment. This is his first time feeling the empty atmosphere at the dining table. Alone, without her father and mother, even her husband was too busy to have free time to accompany her to breakfast. It is true, the relationship of the two only looks fine in front of Sofyan and Athifa, but not for them.

"There I am."

"Yes, try lo. I might not be so lonely." Alexa sips a warm sweet tea located next to the plate. He finished his last mouthful of fried rice.

A torrent of sunlight began to appear in the sky. Before cleaning up, Alexa will remove the garbage that has been piled up in its place. As soon as the door opened, he was surprised to see a large cardboard box on the porch of his house.

"I don't feel like I'm messing with the package, huh."

Alexa was curious about the contents, then opened the large box in front of her. Both of his eyes were perfectly rounded, the contents of the cardboard made him dumbfounded. "Those pandas!"

Without Alexa knowing, in both eyes the doll has been paired with a surveillance camera. At this time Gavin could see for himself the look on the girl's happy face, it was very easy to guess the woman's pleasure.

Alexa smiled happily. "It turns out Keenan can be this romantic, isn't he shy?"