THE NIGHTMARE'S
4. TROUBLE MAKER

Tumben so much the Azure has not come at this hour? His misery? Or the cave that came in part because of not having breakfast earlier? Yes ... the end of mamak– uh, mama cave early in the morning already ngomel mulu, so the ears of the hot cave hear it. Keep it now hungry cave, my God! Very lazy to the canteen, but the cave is also hungry all day! Go to the canteen, then!

After pondering the conflicting decision inside his brain, Rega took off the earphones and put them in his pants pocket along with his phone as well. He left the seat and walked with all his laziness, to buy something that could be made into breakfast. As far as the distance to the cafeteria was concerned, he walked with his head lowered, such was his walking habit long ago. Arriving at the cafeteria, he was shocked to see Azure sitting with Bagas and his other companions.

Lah, Azure here turned out? Not usually he went to the cafeteria early in the morning, because it had not been breakfast? If you pay attention, really fun to talk with Bagas CS, what are they talking about? Rega sharpens his hearing to know the Azure and Bagas talk from afar.

"The cave's still astonished at you, Az. Why do you want to meet Rega, anyway? You're not afraid of no life as a child?"

"No." Azure casually replied while stirring up a glass of cappucino.

"Eh, the cave you know, Rega was often in trouble, you could say he was the source of the problem or the troublemaker, confused cave call it how. The point is, there are always problems related to him. In Junior High he often had problems with upperclassmen, especially classmates. Just like the teacher he likes to make problems, because his attitude is too antisocial. You're not afraid to get into trouble, are you?"

"No."

"Lu Mah dikarau also remain stubborn, Az. Gua tau tau gini for your good. Mending you all the way from Rega."

"Thank you for bothering to tell the cave, then the cave will think again."

What Azure means will you think again? He doubts the same cave?

Rega felt sorry for putting a good ear to listen to their conversation. As a result, he felt disappointed again now. Without a second thought, he walked away from the cafeteria. Even the hunger did not bother him in the least.

They're right, really. Azure will only get in trouble if the cave is the same. Mending the cave far away from him.

Rega didn't go to class, because he was intending to skip the lesson. Walking with a bad mood, because it was the first time he got a friend who could understand him, but many did not like their friendship. In addition, he also had to admit that he was afraid that he would bring trouble for him. Looking for a fairly quiet place, he went near the school shed, hoping to find some tranquility there. However, unexpectedly, he even found a group of older brothers who each clamped a cigarette with their two fingers. In front of them, there were several wooden beams, baseball bats, and iron rods that would likely be used for brawls. They almost threw away their cigarettes in shock, thinking Rega was the fierce teacher BK. The words came out of all their mouths.

"Well, just ngagetin' you, kid!"

"Gapain come here, huh?!"

"You want to run because of you?!" One of them stood up and approached Rega. His large hands pulled out the collar of Rega's shirt and lifted it, leaving the smaller man suffocating.

"Getaway cave!" Rega rebelled.

"Why? Didn't you come here for nyari? Or do we want to mess with us?"

"Well, if so, we'll play now, brother. He said he had to get to know a new classmate, right?" The other upperclassmen stood up and began to surround themselves.

"Here, you know Brother!"

The upperclassman who gripped onto Rega's collar, became the first to punch him in the face. Blood immediately came out of Rega's gums, making the sidelines of his teeth red. All the upperclassmen laughed loudly, then Rega was thrown until his body hit the wall.

"Well, kirain you're strong, boss. Uh, once a tonjok instantly dying!"

"Well wake up, dong! Not very exciting, anyway!"

"Cowok what the hell are you? Very soft!"

The sound of booming laughter made Rega's ears and chest even hotter. He tried to raise his body, slowly stood up, and threw a sharp glare at the people laughing at him. The one being stared at was somewhat dumbfounded, not expecting to get such a gaze from the underclassmen they were currently bullying.

Gua doesn't want to be a weak guy!

Rega clenched his hands tightly, then threw a punch at the upperclassman who had hit him. However, quickly and easily the blow can be held.

"Lu dare to volunteer, huh? Whoa, look for dead child!"

Another blow struck Rega's stomach, followed by a second, third, and fourth. Luckily the fifth blow did not hit him, because it was held by someone. While his breathing was wheezing, he still had a chance to look up, realizing that someone was standing in front of him to protect him. The boy's back was no stranger, he clearly knew who dared to hold the big brother's hand before him.

The azure? Why is he here?

Rega bent his eyes, looking at the back that looked very sturdy, at a glance like having a pair of wings that were able to grab freedom, but could not get it yet.

"Well, someone wants to be a hotshot!"

"Oh, you're that bule boy, right?"

"Bule's son? Which he says is the highlight of those girls?"

"Yes, belagu is very much his style!"

"Just for your information, cave native Indonesian, sister." Azure twisted the hand he had been holding back from now on, until a loud shout sounded.

"Waiy! You're being insolent!"

Now the anger of all the upperclassmen turned to Azure. Together they came forward and ganged on him. Although basically Azure has a fairly strong physique and martial skills that are quite high, but against dozens of upperclassmen certainly makes it overwhelmed, especially some of them use weapons to attack it.

"Waiy! Stopit! Your problems are the same cave! Don't bring Azure!" Rega wanted to stop the fight between Azure and the upperclassmen, unfortunately he barely had the manpower to stand up. "Az, no!"

"Rasain now!"

One of the upperclassmen hit Azure from behind using a baseball bat. Azure grimaced with the pain while holding his nape, before falling down and becoming unconscious. The atmosphere that had been violent, suddenly became quiet. Rega was troubled, while the upperclassmen were tense, afraid that Azure was seriously injured.

"Waiy! Why did you hit him with a stick?! What if he dies?!"

"That's just the nape, isn't it?!"

"Ng–no, really! In–he will not die!" The upperclassman who hit Azure, instantly became the most nervous out of fear.

"That's according to you! If it turns out that the effect of the blow is severe how?!"

While the upperclassmen were arguing, Rega walked up to Azure, frantically shaking the body of the friend, hoping that Azure would come to her senses. "Azurei! Up, Az! Azure, up!"

"What is this?!"

A heavy and high-pitched voice suddenly sounded, startling all the students who had been involved in the fight, until they gasped, then turned their heads. There is Indra, a famous BK teacher who has come together with two school guards. The fear of directly crawling the bodies of the upperclassmen, because that one teacher really could not be underestimated. Indra is a BK teacher who is firmly supported by martial arts skills, so as to be able to make dozens of naughty students at Cahaya Bangsa High School submissive before him. He was only 23 years old and had only been a teacher there for half a year, but had become a mainstay of the school if he had to face naughty children who dared to fight teachers.

"Good, sir." The two school guards carried Azure and Rega, taking them to the UKS.

"Make all of you, come with me to BK's room!"

Indra snapped at the upperclassmen with a thunderous voice. No one dared to answer or just look at the young teacher's eyes, all of them immediately ran towards the BK room.

Foolish with the upperclassmen being tried by Indra, Rega is more focused on worrying about the current state of Azure. They have both been escorted to the UKS and directly handled by two male upperclassmen who are UKS officers. However, almost 30 minutes have passed and Azure has not come to his senses as well, which makes him unable to stop worrying and feeling guilty, because he considers everything that happened is his fault. He who had made Azure get into a fight with the upperclassmen had to end up like this.

It's true said Bagas CS, the cave is only a problem carrier. He collapsed like this because of the cave, all so chaotic because of the cave. Why such a stupid cave, anyway?! It should not have been the same from the beginning of the cave. Cave should be aware, if the cave will only make him get a lot of trouble doang!

"The brother? Dik Rega?"

"D-yes, Sis?" Rega gasps.

"Why daydream, brother?"

The upperclassman with the name label that read Yoni Aldiarta, who was now compressing bruises on Rega's cheeks, questioned his underclassman in a smooth voice. Indeed, the average UKS manager is students who have good temperament, with a soft, patient, and painstaking nature as one of the things they should have.

"No, Brother. I'm not dreaming."

"Oh, kirain daydreams, because it looks like I think of something like that. Or do you feel dizzy?"

"Yes, I feel dizzy, but it's just a little."

"If you don't have to think about anything first, don't think about the heavy, deh. It even makes you dizzy and makes your energy drained too."

"Thank you for the advice, brother. I'm not gonna think of anything heavy, anyway."

"Well, good." Yoni turned to ask fellow UKS managers, as well as his old friend who was trying to resuscitate Azure earlier. "Sister Miko, what's the situation in Azure?" 

"The same breathing his heart rate is starting to normal, Brother Yon. I hope he'll be around soon."

"Thankful, huh. There's really nothing serious about the wound, is there?"

"I guess not, because it's just bruised and not until it bleeds, but it's good to be examined further just to know for sure. I'm afraid I'm misdiagnosed."

"Yes, later if he is aware, you ask him to check further. About him want or don't, let him be cut off with himself and his family later."

"Okay, I'll try to explain it to him. If the injury is serious, the school also wants to take responsibility, really."

Rega chose silence. His mind is really fucked up right now. Perhaps many consider it excessive, but not everyone can understand, let alone feel what he is feeling. Feel how much guilt that attacked him, because it has made his friend hurt. Indeed, he did not injure Azure directly with his own hands, but he felt that Azure had suffered such injuries because of him.

Meanwhile, in his dreamland, Azure was entering a place that seemed to have no end. A large, dark, quiet place. The atmosphere was extremely uncomfortable, as if suffocating the neck and making the respiratory tract feel like it was being blocked by something. Whether it's dust or what's suffocating the respiratory tract, he doesn't know. Yet in that empty place, there seemed to be no one or anything other than him and the air, not even a speck of dust seemed to exist.

In front there, there was a shadow of someone whose hands were shackled. The shackles were cold chains wrapped around his entire body. Amongst the darkness, his eyes faintly saw a mysterious figure that was so blurry. Whether the figure was just a mirage or what, he did not know for sure, but his aura could be clearly felt. The black aura that******, as well as the piercing cold. Azure felt even more claustrophobic when faced with it. It was as if a pair of hands had strangled his neck strongly.

Now, it seems like oxygen really can't be captured by the Azure nose anymore. He wanted to thrash, wanted to shout, because he felt dozens of shackles begin to crawl his body, binding him to the point of being unable to wiggle. However, his brain commands were not at all carried out by a single member of his body. His body was frozen, restrained, weak, unable to control, like a puppet whose power was not in his own brain. His vocal cords seemed to be pulled forcefully into the esophagus, making his voice unable to come out. The figure before him smiled grinningly, looking to enjoy the scene he was witnessing.

"Consider this hell, Azure!"

Azure opened her eyes quickly, making Miko who was beside her startled. His breathing went back to chaos, the tightness and suffocation he was experiencing right now felt exactly like what he had felt in a dream.

"Sister Yon, stay here!" Miko called Yoni in panic.

"What's up, Mik?" Yoni hurriedly approached Miko, beside the Azure bed next to Rega's bed.

Rega panicked to see the tense faces of his two upperclassmen. He inched his seat and turned his head to look at Azure.

"Dik Azure, what's wrong with you? The nightmare? Try to regulate your breathing slowly so you are calmer." Miko kept trying to calm Azure, even though she herself was feeling unsettled and confused.

"Let me get a drink first." Yoni immediately took the drinking water on the nightstand and brought it back to Miko's side. "Try on Azure to sit down first."

"Start."

Miko helps Azure sit leaning against the pillow as well as the bed rest. He then took a glass of water from Yoni's hand and helped Azure drink it slowly. A few drops of water fell on the Azure school shirt, while sweat had drenched almost all parts of his body. In just a few seconds, the nightmare had managed to mess it up.

"Dik Azure, how? It calm?" Yoni patted Azure on the shoulder, ascertaining whether Azure had calmed down and had completely regained his consciousness.

Azure simply replied with a slow nod. It was still hard to open my mouth and say words.

"If it's just any more, brother. You still need a lot of rest." Miko helps Azure to lie back down. "Later if you've come home and reached home, you try to talk to your parents to check the scar wound of the punch earlier, huh? There was something serious about that wound. We here can not be sure, because it is less expert and minimal tools as well, so we hope your parents want to be invited to work together. Later if they object, we will help talk to the school to check you. Usually the school is willing to help as much as possible, so that students who are injured in the school environment can be the best handling. You understand, Dik?"

"Master, Brother." Azure's voice sounded soft.

"If you already understand, I'm the same brother Yoni would like to leave first to go back to class. You're here sleeping just fine, your homeroom teacher gave permission, really."

"I don't want to sleep anymore."

"Loh, why?"

"I'm afraid of nightmares again." The two Azure netras seemed unfocused, like they were staring at something pseudo.

Miko and Yoni looked at each other. They had no idea how terrifying Azure's nightmares were and also could not understand how scared Azure would be if his nightmares were to repeat themselves. Rega did not understand, he only felt anxious since then, afraid that Azure would experience even worse things.

"Yes, if you don't want to sleep. Anyway, you don't have to get up first, just rest until it's time to go home from school." Miko pulls the blanket, slipping it from the tip of her foot to Azure's belly.

"Dik Rega, you also rest, huh? Don't wake up first, you will get sick all your body" Yoni told Rega. "Please excuse me, so you can rest more calmly."

"Yes, Brother. Thanks" said Rega.

"Together." Miko and Yoni replied together, then stepped away from the UKS.