Agreement With My Two Friends

Episode 7's

Lake Linow in the afternoon is not so crowded, what else on Monday. Just then, there was a feeling of fear in Edo's heart, seen he squeezed the rope of the backpack that was on his chest, his breathing was irregular and his hands were trembling, he

trying to control himself to stay calm by regulating

his breathing.

The woman he saw outside the library, the same woman he saw in the multipurpose field this afternoon, was so foreign to him. Somehow, something told him to leave and not meet the woman.

“Why are you running, is there someone chasing you?” Devi asked with a worried face.

“Ah.... it's okay” replied Edo with his head bowed limp and both hands that don't stop vibrating.

Seeing Edo like that made his two best friends anxious, he thought it would be better if Edo came home soon.

“Let's go home, it looks like you're going to get sick, seeing you like that is really unpleasant, what else the dark circles in your eyes look scary” said Devi who immediately held Edo's hand.

“Did I mess up today?” ask Edo who still looks anxious.

“No, from the first time I saw you today, you looked sick” explained Devi

“I'm sorry” replied Edo with his head bowed.

“No need to apologize, does being your best friend have to be this formal?” devi asked a little annoyed.

“...” Edo was silent, there was nothing he could say that afternoon.

This time, their journey to Edo's house was not accompanied by laughter as usual, even in front of Edo's house, not a single word came out of his lips.

“I ask you to rest, do not let you get sick” said Devi who had earlier held Edo's hand.

“Thank you for your care” Edo replied briefly and soon passed leaving his two best friends behind.

“have I told you not to be too formal to me” angry Devi.

“I'm sorry” well then, I entered first he said as he left his two best friends.

In a very quiet house without anyone, Edo looked at his right hand, cold sweat soaked his body, he felt like the inside of him was missing, he wiped his cheeks that began to get wet, he felt like he was missing, his mind began to drift in grief, the school friend who was away from him and the father who did not come home, the feeling was very heartbreaking for him.

“Dad, why did you do this to me, I was always alone waiting for you” Edo's tears broke back then, no one could comfort him or just give him a shoulder to lean on, it wasn't there, well… there won't be.

That night a girl easily walked in a hospital corridor, her pace was so fast, she wore so many accessories on her wrist. Upon the arrival of the girl in front of the ICU room, he found a middle-aged woman sitting on a long chair in the waiting room.

“Tante how are they doing?” ask the girl worried.

“It's okay Mira, you take it easy” replied the woman while stroking the shoulder of the girl named Mira in front of her.

Mira, a beautiful girl who is a little tomboyish. Mira attended Binsus High School, a school famous for its daughter's basketball, which is held almost every year an inter-school basketball championship covering all schools from North Sulawesi province, Indonesia, and the name of Binsus High School has always been number one in these three years.

“No way..” murmured the girl with her eyes staring hard and a helmet mounted on her head.

Mira is a newcomer, she comes from Jakarta and studied at Binsus High School, she prefers Binsus High School because the High School is full of achievements in the field of basketball. One more thing, there was a very personal reason that Mira had to come to Tomohon.

The next morning, a wet and cold cloth was pressed against Edo's forehead, a woman who was about 31 years old sitting next to Edo, her face looking anxious, she was so busy squeezing and putting a wet cloth on Edo's forehead, she was the woman Edo knew very well, the only woman to take care of her after her mother died ten years ago.

Aunt Stefani, her voice was so distinctive to speak to Edo who was lying weakly in his bedroom.

“Why don't you call auntie anyway?” he said with a face full of worry.

“I'm sorry aunty, Edo has been a hassle aunt” replied Edo.

“You are a aunt's niece who is very dear aunt, already aunty said many times aunty phone if you need something” babble aunt Stefani who at that time squeezed wet cloth.

“Edo is afraid of troublesome aunt” replied Edo who was still lying limp.

“Tante can not forgive himself aunt if anything happens to you, at least you want to cooperate with aunt” said aunt Stefani.

“Good aunt, Edo will try not to make aunty anxious like this” said Edo with a pale face.

Aunt Stefani is the sister of the late mother Edo, until now she has not been blessed with a child, her busy keeping shops and restaurants in the middle of the city makes her unable to keep looking after Edo, so that sometimes he feels very guilty if something happens to Edo who is considered to be like his own son.

Edo was found lying on the floor of the living room, when Aunt Stefani brought dinner, Edo's hot body with cold sweat soaked his entire body making Aunt Stefani have to stay at Edo's house.

On that night, Stefani's aunt wanted to escape Edo in the hospital, but at that time Edo woke up and asked Stefani's aunt to take care of him at home.

Not a matter of cost, for Edo the hospital was a very scary place for him, the smell of drugs, syringes and infusion bottles, making the hospital very creepy in his eyes, what else is Edo still traumatized by the events three years ago.

Three years ago, an oxygen device stuck in Edo's nose, looks so anxious aunt Stefani running after Edo who was lying at that time in an ER gurney, the, the nurses took her in a room and prevented Aunt Stefani from entering it.

"Mom please calm down, I'm waiting here" prevented a nurse at the time.

There was a faint cry from Aunt Stefani, after which a needle pierced through Edo's skin and at once Edo was unconscious.

Edo woke up in an A grade hospital room, a very neat and clean room, the walls of the room were brown and white. Even though it looks clean, the smell of drugs still touches Edo's nose.

On the left side of Edo's bed, asleep a woman he knew was Aunt Stefani, Edo tried to move his left hand, he tried to touch his aunt who seemed to be asleep at the time.

"Akh.. You are aware of Edo" said Aunt Stefani who suddenly woke up with a face that looks very tired, but she still smiled to see her favorite nephew was conscious.

"..." There was nothing Edo could say, he just stared at the tant without a word, he wanted to say something but couldn't.

Edo suffered serious injuries to his head, at the time of the accident, the SAR team found Edo stuck in a branch of a tree that stuck in the middle of the ravine.

To heal the trauma experienced by Edo took a long time, in contrast to the wound on the head of Edo, Edo, his injuries got better and it took only three months for Edo to return to school.