Unexpected Friends
Chapters 16. I'm (Not) Okay

"Sir Jeffrey is so happy!" Eliz commented on Ayumi's story. So wise to listen he was also angry with Jeffrey's inappropriate attitude as a girlfriend. "I don't think humans exist either." Ayumi Timpal.

"Sister." Short but dense, Fumika remembers Ayumi to keep telling stories and not dissolve in personal pleasure. Ayumi understood then continued to tell stories. "Alright, after that Kaouri was really hurt. He refused to eat and his basketball game declined. Mr. Atsushi has spoken to him if Kaouri's performance remains poor, he must be a backup. But seeing his extraordinary talent, it was impossible for Mr. Atsushi to directly make him a backup."

"Later the date of its determination, March 6. Kaouri will face the tournament."

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Kaouri is still daydreaming in her audience. Otau-san and his Okaa-san deliberately took the time to look at their daughter's tournament. "Otau-san, I'm nervous." Kaouri said to her Otau-san. Of course these two warm old men hugged him tightly from both sides. "Kaouri can do it! Remember your goal of playing basketball." His father let go of his embrace and then gave him a bottle of mineral water that he had previously bought. Kaouri accepted it and then opened the lid.

"To win, right?" Kaouri hesitated. "Of course my beautiful daughter~" Her mother embraced her more tightly and Kauri returned her embrace. Then it stretched and Kaouri stood up. "I'll fight!" Kaouri smiled broadly to the two extraordinary parents. But the look in his eyes was like he was not sleeping.

His Okaa-san maternal instincts appeared. So he stood up and looked at Kaouri's face which turned out to be very shabby. "God what happened to you Kao-Chan?" He was very worried about Kaouri even suggesting he become a reserve player. But Kaouri refused. "No Okaa-san, I'm very reliable."

The loud speaker sounds again after the welcoming speech. "SMA Nagasaki 78 Vs Hokkaido High School 45, 10 minutes away. Be prepared." Mr. Tanaka's voice on the speaker reminded them.

So forcedly, Kaouri said goodbye to her parents and asked them not to worry. "All I have is enough." Not yet had his parents reply, Kaouri had gone to be accompanied by members of his basketball squad.

Otau-san Kaouri stared sadly at his sudden departure. But the shock of his wife's sudden embrace can distract him. A soft voice emerged from Mrs Maouri's lips, "I, have a bad feeling. I'm freaking out."

"Hush! Don't say that, what's going to happen to Kauri?"

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1 In 5 for Hokkaido High School 45 and Nagasaki High School 78 is a bad start for Hokkaido High School because throughout history playing basketball that number was the opposite.

"Kaouri! How the hell are you?" A friend of Kaouri's team, Cwang complains to her. "Ma.. Sorry." Kauri's focus was a little shuffled because she wished there was someone in the audience other than her parents. Where is Jeffrey?, Inner Kaouri.

Because of his chaotic feelings, for almost 1 hour his match performance decreased. Mr. Atsushi had already lost hope to him so Kaouri's position was changed to a reserve. Friends who used to be close to him now censor him indirectly.

"Ah, sterk achter, de originele beurt laf(Strength on the back, cowardly original turn!)! Haha!"

"Babo, Omani han. Majimak euro nuga baegeop ipnikka(Stupid, arrogant. Who is in support?)"

"Sucker(Loser)."

Some of Kaouri's language was unknown, but she felt they were mocking her.

"Well! Why the hell, not as usual." Cwang approached Kaouri who was sitting on the bench. At the moment they are with a break of 5 minutes before the last round. "Jeffrey didn't come." Cwang could hear a sad tone. But he's more upset because his friend is in love with a jerk who addresses him in public.

"i(You're blind because of love)"

Kaouri flinched, she did not understand the Thai Cwang spoke. Before he could ask, Cwang had already left because the match had restarted. "Good bye." Cwang said one last time.

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"Game Over!"

It didn't feel like 20 minutes of the match had taken place. Hokkaido was defeated by Nagasaki 13 to 27.

Many members were disappointed not least Pak Atsushi and Bu Ochari who nagged the members of basketball all-out is no exception Naoki and Akbar as Vice and the Secretary of OSIS also participated because they felt responsible.

"You're why Furugawa Naoki? Isn't it the father every day always telling you to keep an eye on his correct training or you're not watching at all?!" These two unrelated people felt extremely offended. Naoki defended, "Sir! Otherwise I'd rather watch in class than go out and face off with the set... Dumb son." Naoki almost got the wrong word.

And almost Mr. Atsushi lost control if Bu Ochari was not around. Mrs Ochari advises if this is not one and asks all the basketball members to come together. "Both men and women, meet. Mother today is very disappointed with you. Are you guys practicing or not? What are Naoki-kun and Akbar-kun doing to help you? Lose it?"

The basketball players were all down. No one dared to answer Bu Ochari's obvious question. "Where is Kaouri-Chan? I want to talk to her." Bu Ochari asked about Kaouri's whereabouts, but of course no one knew. They only realized that their members had lost one.

Bu Ochari gave a rude sigh, then had the 3 men he randomly selected to look for Kaouri. "Kaouri your members, why isn't anyone aware?" He was really patient to face the behavior no matter the students.

"This is all Kauri's fault! Actually he could have won the game but instead be a backup."

"I agree. Why is he so weak."

"Shame the school name!"

"What the hell do you want?!"

"Just shut it off!!"

Plaque, a loud slap landed on one of the gossipers' cheeks. Naoki doesn't care if he's female or not, but his attitude is really low. "Keep what? Benalu who can stick but can't help." The scheming Naoki uses the opportunity when Pak Atsushi and Bu Ochari are out so that he can let out his frustration.

"A... I'm stirring!"

Plaque, the second slap in the same place makes the girl's cheeks reddened hot. "Just try it." Threaten Naoki.

Regardless of the eyes crying over him, Naoki turned to Cwang. Akbar who saw this incident only gulped roughly. Naoki if his anger mounts can become even more sinister than a monster. "Cwang, I saw you with Kaouri earlier. Got any ideas where he's going?"

Cwang who was asked suddenly flinched, but since he had already seen Naoki's slap from the start, he had no choice but to comply. "Dorm Park." He said while shaking.

Satisfied with his reply, Naoki said, "You come with me. Akbar! Dormitory Garden." Shortly after, Akbar approached Naoki and they brought Cwang to visit his destination.

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"Jeffrey. Where are you?"

Kaouri ran behind the dim light of the garden light. Down the road to where Jeffrey used to be and he stopped.

Parks North, West, and East. The place they usually snack and place tongkrongan, but the result is nil. Let alone the nose, his voice alone is not heard.

"Geez, if I miss Jeffrey's call, none of this needs to happen." Kaouri was exhausted from running, so she squatted behind a large cherry tree.

Currently he is in the area of the Southeast Park which is used as a place to walk. The well-maintained trees and flower bushes make for a special attraction. All thanks to the plantation club that simultaneously makes a business of caring for school plants.

Behind the tree, Kaouri thought of sitting leaning on the tree for a while while balancing her breath back.

Tap...

"Well, I don't know if at night the Southeast Park is as pretty as this~." There's noise. Kaouri also closed her body behind the sakura tree.

"Yes, like you." Deg, Kaouri's heart is beating fast. He knows this voice. "Thank you, Jeffrey."

"Jeffrey, don't you have a boyfriend?"

"Who, Kaouri? We broke up."

NOT YET!!!

Kaouri's soul was shaken. It turns out that he was decided unilaterally by Jeffrey indirectly as an excuse to be able to approach a girl better than him.

"We had a fight, and then he cut me off." Want Kaouri to hit her hypocritical 'Ex-Boyfriend' face. It's been 2 years he knew Jeffrey but he didn't realize the rottenness of the man he once considered valuable.

"Gosh, I'm so sad." Kaouri took a little peek at their conversation to find out who Jeffrey was talking to. Then he saw the true figure of his ex-girlfriend with Suzy Lee. The most beautiful girl in the class, the friendliest as an image so that her oppressive nature hides well.

Kaouri knows him for having been together in 1st grade and often becomes a bully-an Suzy for liking Jeffrey. But see? Now that fate is completely mocking him, Kaouri is back to zero due to her nemesis along with her former boyfriend.

Jeffrey lowered his face toward Suzy. Suzy's hand touched her chest, and her eyes avoided eye contact. Typical pelakor¹.

"It's okay, Suzy won't be like that, right?"

"Jeffrey..."

A sight that burns the eyes, at least for Kaouri. Jeffrey kissed Suzy right on his lips. Cursed voices entered his ears, very dirty and lifeless. She knew Jeffrey was a little perverted and tried to kiss her, but this was a delay. Very late especially this at school!

"HEY! Where're you?! KA-OU-RI!!!!!" The sound of screaming managed to make this unofficial couple run away in a storm. Kauri died who was still silent in the sakura tree.

The figure who shouted earlier had seen the silhouette of Kaouri behind the tree, so he quickly approached her. "Kaouri, you're called Ms. Ochari." He said as he approached Kaouri. But his interlocutor was still silent and covered his face. The sobs of crying sounded because of the sunyinya of the garden.

"Kaouri?"

"Leave me alone!" Emotions overwhelmed him, unknowingly Kaouri shouted. "********.. ********. The devil seems to be better! Just die in hell." Kaouri's cries got out of control and almost hit the person who approached her. But the punch was right about the tree. "I want to die. That's what they want anyway, isn't it?"

Die off?

"So you want to die?" Kaouri origin gave the answer. But he nodded. "Are you a scholarship boy?" A strange question was asked, but Kaouri still replied, "What the hell?! If so why? I don't care if you're bragging to me!"

It feels enough, then with a careful step this figure back a few steps until it finds a large stone that is deliberately lined up to form a circle in each tree and then take one of them. His weight was not comparable to the strength of his arms.

So while Kaouri was still sobbing, the rock she was holding quickly hit her head until Kaouri could not scream. The clash was enough to bleed and splattered on the ground. But he hopes the park's minimal lighting can keep people on the street from realizing there is blood until he returns to clean it up.

He put the stone back and removed his fingerprints with a handkerchief that he happened to be carrying. Then carry Kaouri's body away to a quieter place.

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Second hand warehouse.

This figure that just killed is often referred to as Pureya'. His real name is unknown. It is like a shadow, unknown.

After the barn door he locked it back and looked around. Finally he was able to calmly lower Kaouri's body. "What should I do?" Mumbled slowly.

Make as sad as possible! Make it look like the psychopath killed her, the Pureya, not you....

The voice of the command he received with a heavy heart. Actually he hates to dirty his hands for the personal benefit of others. Very inconvenient! But because he had to, he had to do it.

Pureya' opened the suitcase she had not prepared in case this happened. He opened it with a handkerchief and saw another small box, a pair of gloves, and a folding knife. He put up his household sheath that was still clean and then took out a knife.

"You seem to be hurting." He said even though he knew his interlocutor would not respond. "It certainly doesn't feel like listening." Pureya' got rid of Kaouri's ear hair, then slowly cut off her earlobe. Blood poured out, but he continued the other and cut back.

The rest of the ear piece he put a clear plastic that was in his suitcase and then inserted. His hand touched the small black box and took it out. The lid he opened, displaying a thread and a needle.

"The eye is better closed than to see cruel reality." After inserting the thread into the pinhole, he punched the sharp tip of the needle in Kaouri's eyelid, or at least until fresh blood flowed out of her eye along with a small, weak scream. "Because of the eyes? Gomae."

Pureya' felt around this rope and sure enough there was a rope used last year's race. So he grabbed it and made a knot on Kauri's neck, hands, and feet and tied it firmly. Especially neck. After that he again sewed Kaouri's eyes until the second.

"The lips are better to be silent than to hurt a loved one." Finished with the eyes, Pureya' broke the rope and turned to the mouth.

About 20 minutes he spent cleaning up Kaouri who is now a corpse. The blood he cleaned and now Kaouri's body he's holding. Now Pureya' is thinking where she should dump Kauri's body.

He passed through several streets calmly. Kaouri's body was like a puppet to him. But he couldn't stay with her for long.

"Kaouri!!" Naoki's screams managed to resuscitate him from the reverie. And now he's in danger. "Damn!" For example, then running in no direction. What matters is that no one comes near them. But unfortunately he finds more voices calling Kauri, his victim.

Without a long thought he quickly entered the back door of the stadium building. It seems luck came to him. The stadium was empty, so he quickly entered it. He walked to the exit, but he heard footsteps. "Some one will pass!" In a panic he threw away the body of Kaouri he was supposed to be hiding.

Stupid fuck! I don't want to get caught first. He muttered and went through the door he had passed and disappeared.

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"Kaouri isn't in the dorm garden! We're just wasting time." Akbar is upset because it's 10 o'clock past now but they have to find Kaouri who is somewhere. "Araa!!!" He wanted to curse, but Naoki hit his back first. "His parents are worried to know! Basic heartless." Ejek Naoki cold.

"I..Yes, Stiff Prince." With a voice that was deliberately fluttered, Akbar scoffed at Naoki's reply. "Whispering!!! You are the Baka King."

Cwang who saw this scene snorted violently. "Why did I choose Naoki when Folling was chairman of OSIS? And who supports them to be candidates for KeTos other than Enji?!!" There's no hope.

At that sad moment, Cwang thought instead of seeing fellow OSIS fighting indistinctly, it was better he looked around circling these 2 boys. Cwang's eyes were glued to the body sleeping on the stadium floor from a distance. Intrigued, Cwang approached him and found that the body belonged to Kaouri from the name tag on the lock. "Hey buddy! You scared us to know. I thought you were going."

There's something weird about Kaouri's clothes. There were brown patches of soil and splashes of faded red. Kaouri's hair had previously been tied up, but now it was unraveling covering her face. And his hand, there's a rope rope. "What's this?" He murmured in his heart.

Naoki and Akbar who finished with their small fight approached Cwang. But on the way Cwang yelled hysterically, "KYAAAAA!!!!!" Panicked they ran and found Kaouri's lifeless pale-white body with a smashed face sewn together. "Te.. Ears hi..lost." Cwang shudderingly looked at the rough cut marks that removed Kaouri's earlobes.

They managed to find Kaouri, but without life.

"Hic.. Hicks." Cwang's cry was quite loud, but Naoki's tears flowed more profusely from his eyes. Make a lot of strays. Akbar goes running looking for people to help them die Cwang and Naoki alone.

"And we're faster. You must have survived." Naoki cried beside Cwang while rubbing his eyes with elbows. Letting his sleeves get wet with tears.

[To Be Continue!] ⁇ ️

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¹Husband wrestler, this has nothing to do with the status of Kauri and Jeffrey who are still dating. The alternative could be 'the third person'.