THE MYSTERY of Alas Hamlet
#15

Ebot's keyboard typing sound is so distracting. He looked so excited that it bothered Tania who was thinking about something else.

"Bot, you write what the hell is not finished?" Tania asked in annoyance.

"Consecret! Don't take it with you." He answered without feeling guilty at all.

Tania snorted as she stared cynically at Ebot. Instead of her being on a blackboard and even fighting with her mouth, Tania also stepped aside to the front porch.

Tonight, the moonlight seemed so bright that it illuminated the universe because the full moon was in the sky right now. Decorated with thousands of stars in the sky without black clouds around it, making the view above the sky so beautiful.

"I made coffee." Suddenly, Nathan came out with two cups of coffee in his hand. Proposed to Tania and accepted by Tania.

"Thank you, Nath." Tania said with a sweet smile, then took a sip of her coffee while looking back at the stars in the sky.

Tania smiled as if this was a pleasant moment for the past few days.

"Then..."

"Yes?"

"Mm, sorry. If I may know, who's Beno?" Nathan asked doubtfully.

And Nathan's question made him fall silent and turn away from the beautiful sky, then look at him.

Tania let out a long sigh because what she was about to tell Nathan was the most painful thing for her.

"Beno it's me. Temen childhood me and Riswanto because we are neighbors. Although he was older than us, but all the children in the complex near my house often played together. From the time we were kids to the time we grew up." Tania again inhaled the aroma of coffee in her hands and drank it a bit more.

Nathan was still silent and kept looking at her, noticing Tania's slightly changed face even though Tania was as calm as possible. Due to the trauma of events in his past it appeared in the memory of his brain. Of course it makes his heart hurt. But, Tania held it as much as possible so that her tears did not come out.

"That incident happened when I was in the second grade of High School. In the afternoon before Maghrib, I really want to buy java fried noodles that are not afternoon. The place of sale was also a bit away from home and I walked there alone. But, on the way I met Beno, he volunteered for me because he said he had business there too. And finally, I went with Beno. Just as we were walking there through a deserted and somewhat horror plantation, suddenly..." Tania paused for a moment and took a deep breath. Because he found it hard to go on the story of the hardest part of his life experience he had with Beno.

Nathan clasped his hands while looking at her, trying to strengthen Tania.

"Suddenly, Beno smothered my mouth. He pulled me all the way to a dark hut." Tania then looked at Nathan. "No need for me to explain, right, Nath? What would Beno do to me? In fact, he hit me with the knife he was carrying. But, I was still in revolt and I attacked him back, even I. I stabbed him in the neck to get a lot of blood." Tania's eyes started to glaze over. He let out a long sigh while looking up so that his tears would not fall.

"Udah, Tan! No more need to be put out." Nathan further tightened his grip while rubbing the back of Tania's hand to calm her down.

Tania shook her head, then smiled. "But, fortunately Riswanto was the same Zufar passing by and horrified my cry. They're the ones who broke me, Nath. Just try if they don't come, maybe I'm in jail."

"I don't know if your past happened like that. Sorry, Tan." Nathan said with a guilty face.

"It's okay, Nath." Tania smiled back.

"What about you after that? You're all right, aren't you?" Nathan asked attentively.

"I'm fine, Nath. Beno hasn't done much further. Just taste.entahlah. It was the first time I had experienced such a terrible incident and almost killed someone. If only Riswanto did not come at that time..." Until here Tania is no longer able to continue it.

Tania held back as much as possible the tears that had bathed her eyes.

"Udah, Tan! Don't be sad, yeah. I'm sorry. I've been telling you about your bad things in the past." Nathan said as he rubbed Tania's back. "I'm just curious because since yesterday, you've always cried hysterically while calling Beno's name."

"It's okay, Nath. I also don't know, why so keep keeping the same people. Moreover, yesterday Riswanto said that he also studied at our campus." Tania's words made Nathan look surprised.

"Seriously? What semester is he? You've met her yet?" Nathan asked worriedly.

Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps approaching towards them. And the person who had just been talked about appeared from the door. "Sorry if you bother."

Riswanto appeared with a cup of tea in his hand and sat down near them.

"Just relax, Ris. Talk to me." Nathan Said.

"Dating's okay too, Nath. Ntar I moved to sit in the coffee kebon while smoking." Riswanto said with a smile.

"Ngaco, lo!" Sahut Tania while wiping her tears that have fallen.

"Eh, you cry, Tan?" Riswanto asked with a serious look at Tania, then turned to look at Nathan. "You're fighting again, huh?" Further. "Duh! I just want to go in again. You guys were done with your problems." Her baby while standing was about to enter the house.

"Whose fight is it?!" Tania exclaimed in annoyance. "I just finished the story about Beno to Nathan."

Riswanto sat back down and put on a serious face. "Lo really told Nathan?"

"Udah." Answer Tania.

"Lo said that Beno went to your college?" Nathan asked seriously.

"Yes. According to the information I heard, Nath. Just don't know either. Because until now, I haven't met anyone. Did I forget that same perverted face? But, I'm sure that there's people studying at our college."

They were silent with their own thoughts.

"Lo, don't you have a picture, Ris?" Ask Nathan.

"Mm.ada." Riswanto. "Try me to find it in my hape gallery."

Riswanto then pulled out his phone from his pants pocket and opened a gallery on his phone. Looking for Beno's photo.

Maybe because it's been a long time and a lot of it is stored in the gallery of Riswanto's cell phone, so a little while he was looking for photos of Beno.

"Well, here we go!" Riswanto then turned his phone to face Nathan and showed Beno's photo.

Nathan looked at him for a moment, then furrowed his brows. "No stranger, yes." He still stared at the photo.

"Have you met, Nath?"

"don't know. But I don't feel foreign to this face. You send it to my phone, yeah. How do you know I want ntar."

Riswanto nodded and immediately sent the photo to Nathan's phone via bluetooth.

The wind was strong enough to hit Tania's face.

Tania spread her gaze around the house. His gaze was on someone who was standing behind a tree not far from this house.

Tania squinted her eyes in order to see him more clearly.

That guy doesn't seem foreign.

"Wulan?!" Pekik Tania while standing up.

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