The Unusual Highschool Days
Tokin (1)

“Hello, Eric? are you squirming Alfian?” ask for a voice across the phone. It was Nathanael sir who called from Alfian's cell phone number.

“When I left my father's room, Alfian was still there. He said he wanted to fend first because his AC was cold” replied Eric.

“His habits are also so.. if not with Julia, she usually comes home with me. But he is not in the room and in the Student log list there is also no information that he has returned home”

“Okay sir, I am there now ya”

Connection interrupted.

“Who?” ask Gio curiously.

“Pak Nathanael.. his word Alfian arrived ngilang” replied Eric briefly.

“Hah? Say how?”

“Gue also does not know. Obviously, I want to go back to school now. My feeling is not good” said Eric while packing his goods and preparing to leave.

“Kalo so I follow” said Gio.

Both of them left the cafe and went back to school.

***

            Eric and Gio knocked on Nathanael's door several times before the art teacher opened the door for them.

“Where sir, has Alfian met?” eric asked as soon as he met Nathanael.

“I've been coming to the library, classroom, canteen..he's not where.” Nathanael said, inviting Eric in.

“Excuse me sir, I'm from The hive. Maybe I can help find Alfian” Gio asking permission to enter Nathanael's room.

“Ya, please enter” said Nathanael later.

            Not much has changed from the room, the situation is still the same as two hours ago when he left Alfian here.

“He even left his phone here. That's a kid where the hell” said Nathanael half frustrated.

“Don't nobody kidnap?” Eric speculated.

“No one may kidnap him. If there is, that person must have been KO first” replied Gio sure.

“Emang his brother Alfian can fight?” Eric doubted.

“Loh, don't you know? He was the former chairman of The Hive before me.”.

            If those words hadn't come out of Gio's own mouth, Eric probably wouldn't have believed them.

“Indeed his Alfian sick sir?” this time it was Gio who asked the question. Although he had been in the same organization and became classmates for a year, it turns out there are still many things that Gio does not know about Alfian.

Nathanael shakes his head.

“You ever heard of istlah Library’s of life?”

***

Alfian woke up in a ruin. He looked around. The building looks like a medieval building. The sky had already collapsed, the surrounding walls were filled with vines. Strangely enough, there were many bookshelves lined up there, as well as a black wooden coffin. The young man released his gaze into the sky.

He knows this place, a world without day and night. His own subconscious.

“What am I fainting?” alfian asked himself.

“No, worse than that. You are in critical time.”

A small child approached her, a small child who resembled her form when she was a child.

“You are at the bottom of the pool two meters deep. Out of breath, a figure of a supernatural being inhabiting the water takes over your body to stay there. If someone does not quickly save you, you will soon die.” The little boy explained.

“Se... serious?” said Alfian did not believe. “fucking, I should not come to that place alone... I do not know that the pool is really there its inhabitants” said Alfian annoyed. “terus how dong? I have to accept that I die?”

“There is one way to make sure that your body is safe until someone saves you” said the little boy.

The black coffin that was in that place suddenly moved and opened with its own in front of Alfian.

“By entering this coffin, you will enter the pseudo-death phase. Until someone saves you, your body will be fine.”.

“But, there is no guarantee that I will get out of the box right?”

The little boy nodded his head, honestly.

Alfian let out a long breath.

Does Nathanael's voice reach this coffin? and if yes...what sound is enough to wake Alfian?

Is someone gonna pick her up here?

No one knows. But if there is a way to defend his life, even though at risk Alfian has no choice but to take the opportunity.

Alfian stepped on his legs and slowly laid his body in the coffin. The overcast sky that hung over there let down its rain.soaked Alfian's coffin in his own imaginary realm.

***