Azaleas
Mosaic 19: The Truth
‘As long as it's others, you think it's okay?’
One year ago.
The three students who had just finished semester 1 were laughing and talking about their vacation later. With enthusiasm and relief, they talked about many plans, from starting picnics, walks and others. The novel even invites them to his family's studio, karaoke and dancing together, with the spirit of Tiara as well as Irma nodding in agreement.
Wearing black jeans and a checkered shirt that blends black with dark blue, and ponytail hair Novel has just performed an energetic dance.
“How good?”
“Wuah great! You can be a famous dancer!” praise Tiara, and Novel rushed to him, they were engrossed in talking about dance and also discussed dance cover trends of K-Pop music that is being loved by teenagers now, while Irma just sat watching.
Tiara and Novel's score was only a small difference, but Tiara became the first champion, upset Novel pretended to be angry with her. Until finally Tiara persuaded him with ice cream and Novel's favorite waffle, ignoring Irma who slowly squeezed the paper with her 19th rank and a small smile joined in pretending to seduce Novel, accompanying the two of them who felt far away despite being so close.
“Why the hell, I want to visit your house once in a while? Did your parents forbid?” novel asked, trying to persuade Tiara to allow them to play at her house.
“We'll just go to your house, I'd like to meet Brother Novan, hehe.” Pinta and Tiara joked, again, Irma was only deep in her heart, she could not offer them to her house because of the long distance. He lives here with his aunt who works in Jakarta while his family lives in Solo. Because the aunt graduated from this school, Irma became interested and wanted to enter the same school. He began to feel regret and wanted to go home, he missed his father, mother, brother and sister.
“How dare you say he died because of me!” amuk's sister Irma turned Novel's body in one fell swoop and pushed her all the way to the edge of the roof.
While behind the door, Fauzi held Novan in. It was as if he was hinting that he should wait and not be rash, but Novan, he was so pale and anxious, his fear was so obvious, what if something bad happened to Novel.
“Irma misses you, she chose to go home first after hearing you came here. He didn't see the street and crossed, he wanted to see you, but he got hit. Aaah, she really misses you!” sobbing, Novel begins to cry, regretting that he was late to save Irma, sad because he did not fulfill Irma's wishes.
Quietly, the man looks beaten, but he is not easily influenced.
“This is your fault! If only you treated him well he wouldn't be like this! You are guilty!”
“Aaah!! Please don't be like this!” Novel was already gasping for pain, her voice was really raucous almost inaudible, “She would be sad to see her brother like this, please!” his bow is full of hope. Honestly, he was not afraid of getting hurt, falling off the roof with a stranglehold on his neck, but he was afraid, if he made someone a murderer. The one who loved his friend.
“Be quiet!”
“Stop!” tiara exclaimed, opening the door hard and half running towards them, Novel saw it a little blurry with tears, while Irma's sister turned her eyes to Tiara and smiled grinningly.
“The other one came as well.” his sarcasm was pleased, but Novel was sure he heard the voice of the man who slowly loosened his chirp it quivered. His confidence was a little shaky. The novel looked at Tiara expectantly, pleading for her to explain the truth.
“It's my fault! He died because of me!” shout Tiara. Behind him Fauzi, Novan and Niska try to give him a chance.
“I left him there and took my lost things, if I had accompanied him, I could have helped. I was with him back then, and just watching him from a distance, I didn't even approach him and fell silent. It's my fault!” bright Tiara with a reddened face held back tears.
“No want, I hate him.” Seriously Novel rejected Tiara's idea to come to her house on the grounds of wanting to meet Novan.
Forgetting that there is something between the family, Tiara is a little confused what to say, “Ah, we go to Irma's house, it's been a long time I want to go to Solo, it seems interesting. You said you had an adorable and joking sister,” in an instant the mood of Novel turned carefree, staring expectantly at Irma.
Irma did not immediately answer, was silent for a while, and then smiled slightly, responding, “But she is not as handsome and as cute as Novan,”
“Hey you're comparing your own brother to that shitty guy!” embrace the carefree Novel, Irma chuckles, “Your sister just entered SD is not, ah funny. Come on, let's go to your village.” cheer Novel.
“No ah, my father would be angry if the three of us traveled alone. What if I call my sister first and we leave with her.” suggested Irma, her face looks radiant. Yes, that's their friendship, sometimes dim as well as bright. Sometimes a person will feel alienated, offended and lonely despite being together. They're just high school kids still learning to understand friendship, who sometimes laugh together, cry together and fight with each other.
Irma admits that Novel and Tiara have an attractive charm, exciting, smart and like to share, beautiful also accept him as he is. They also do not hesitate to visit his home far away.
But apparently, the plan was just a word.
More quarrels than fights usually occur, Novel gets angry when he learns of the relationship between Tiara and Robby, his best friend since childhood. The two hide the relationship and act as if they do not know, more than anything Novel feels betrayed. His heart that only opened a few milliseconds for the sake of his friendship with Tiara and Irma is now closing, and even completely erasing Robby's trust.
There is a secret in his life full of grievances and sadness, which Novel always shares with Robby, and only with the man. But Robby lies to him and worse Tiara takes his best friend without telling him.
“As if we go to the mall, I heard there's a new game, danbaze, isn't that good for you Novel. You love dancing!” invite Irma expectantly, she is eager to reconcile Novel and Tiara, or give them time to chat together to solve the problem.
“No, you just go with this traitor!” reflecting the novel in a still normal tone, Tiara stiffened and offended.
“Here we go. He is just a selfish human being who knows nothing!” annoyed Tiara and turning away, Irma was obviously going awry. Tiara and Novel.
“Sorry, I can't go with him!” cool the novel and go.
Nothing works, as hard as Irma tries to seduce Novel and persuades Tiara to apologize Irma only gets a cold response from them. Clearly this hurt her heart, her role as a friend between two hostile friends was so displeasing, especially when they should have gone to visit her home. They had to meet their brother who was coming.
Irma waited in front of the mall when Tiara permission to return to the karaoke place because she left her package book there, earlier she had taken it out to take the wallet and forgot to put it again.
Long enough, Irma got a call, her brother had reached her aunt's house, waiting for her to come home. Sad because he had to cancel a visit of friends after almost a year, his emotions soon changed to a sense of pleasure, at least he would go home and meet family, since entering school he had not come home.
Thinking at a glance that he must immediately meet his brother and will give a message to Tiara later, Irma still with a connected phone began to cross, without her noticing a car driving towards him.
Novel's hands clenched, frozen momentarily in place, and then ran frantically toward Irma who had bounced far enough away, with blood flooding her head. Novel's body trembled, she tried to wake Irma up, touched the face and said everything was fine, she had to endure, but Irma, with her very slow lips just whispered something. “Kakku, waiting for me.” he said before exhaling last breath.
“Aaaaah, Irmaaaa! Aah!” novel screams sobbing. Hugging his best friend without caring for blood stains his clothes. In a blurry view he saw Tiara, holding onto the package book and other books, just standing by. As their eyes skimmed, Tiara turned around.
A little rushed Niska to meet Fauzi.
“Fauzi, what happened? Why do I see dead birds and threatening letters in Novel's locker?” niska asked as Fauzi was walking alone in the corridor of the school which immediately panicked and pulled her twin sister to a quiet place.
“Do not talk in any place!” get Fauzi.
“Explain!” tugut Niska's.
“Listen, Novel is being terrorized at the moment. And we thought it had something to do with Irma's accident one year ago, maybe the culprit thought Novel was the cause of her death.” Fauzi said seriously.
UKS.
“I don't know anything, it's his business. Why did you ask me to accompany him! The truth is.” rejects and lies Tiara when Azalea insists on asking for her help to accompany Novel.
“Sorry if I am disrespectful, but I cannot help the person who pushed me to get hurt.” afterwards Tiara turned her face away from Azalea, who was still held back in her position.
“You know he was unintentional, and I also know you're worried about him. It's just a form of your pride to hold on to, but this time Novel can get hurt more than any wound. And I hope that you, who had been his best friend, will accompany him no matter what.”
“Why should I?” cold Tiara looked back at Azalea.
“Because you were there, you saw the accident. You are the one who was with Irma before she died.” said Azalea who was just a guess, but it was able to make Tiara's face stiffen pale. The school never knew if he was there.
It was not that Tiara did not want to refute her worried feelings for Novel, but she still felt unworthy as a human, even to apologize.
Other place.
Novan has been trying to follow Novel wherever she goes, making sure she can protect him if there's anything. But for now he wants to see what he will do, until the time he follows Novel into the student information room.
In the car, Fauzi was tampering with his unique item, which had a strange surface like a tangled cable but turned out to have an accurate and sophisticated function, a wiretap, and a, the materials were taken from his father's company. The tool now connects them to hear the conversation Novel and the terror on a public phone.
Right after Novan got into the car, the phone connected. The two of them heard the time the terrorist wanted to meet. Novan was so upset. Fauzi patted his back quite hard.
“Nothing will happen, strong girl novel!”
Another insanity is now being felt by Niska from the girl he had been hostile to all this time, Azalea kept asking him to accompany her and persuade Tiara to go to the school roof, so that she could go, explain what happened to the terror who allegedly hurt Novel.
“This is not my problem, I don't care.” Niska Lumbar.
“Ah, I forgot that you don't have a sense of caring for others. It seems I was wrong to meet people, who are just a robot.”, Azalea scoffed.
“You!” sentak Niska offended.
“You've changed, greatly changed. Do you want to share your hatred with everyone, share your poor life story with each of your cold sayings, and think as long as it's not you, everything's fine. Me, disappointed in you.” Then Azalea left. And Niska only admitted her speech in silence, complaining about Azalea's involvement in the terror case experienced by Novel.
“If it wasn't for Fauzi, I would have completely ignored you guys!” his his hiss and decided to help Novel, heading to the UKS room to persuade Tiara.
