Beautiful In Dark
22. Threats Cannot Be Together
I'll use my life for your happiness
I wasn't taught by parents to be selfish, just calm down
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“Lit, how much do you have?”
Anna–who realized Lita's condition before Lita herself–meneggurnya. Lita's face was almost as white as a corpse, her lips were no longer red, and it seemed that Lita was sweating coldly.
“Eh yes?” Lita touched her own face, she barely noticed any change.
“Tuh, you are sick!” Anna pointed at Lita's sweaty hands and checked the heat on her forehead at a glance. “Izin how is it today? Half a day now, kok.”
Lita shook her head hard. “No, Ann. I gak–” Lita's body began to look, the girl immediately leaned on the wall of the dressing room. Her waist throbbed slowly, making Lita grimace while gripping her costume. Anna swiftly took the bench.
“Well, you are maksa! I called Mia first!” Anna helps Lita sit down and immediately calls Mia to get permission to return Lita. Anna knew the girl had been looking unwell since she first came today.
Before long, Mia came along with Anna. “Lita is okay? Go home, yeah?”
“Eh this just hurts regular–”
“Who can anter?” Mia did not listen and look around. “What's the call for Darka? let him anter you.”
Lita shook her head quickly, wanting to protest again. But Anna, who knows the code of Lita's phone, calls Darka while Lita is just resigned to her seat, no longer has the energy.
“Halo? Darka woy Lita passed out!”
Lita. “Anna! I didn't faint!”
Anna gestured for Lita to be quiet. “ADUH WOY ANJIR HOW TO DO IT? WHERE'S A REAL PUCK! FETCH DONG!”
Lita can hear the voice of Darka yelling over there through a mobile phone in Anna's grasp. “SUURRR!”
Lita sighed.
***
Darka gaping when he met was sitting drinking tea in the dressing room. The young man's legs seemed to turn into jelly, limp and fell to the floor just like that.
“Lo pack light speed here?” Lita's amazed. The distance from his workplace to Lita's house is only 1 kilometer, it takes 30-40 minutes, while Darka which is further away even up to 15 minutes.
“GILA! I THOUGHT YOU WERE SO JELLY! YOU DON'T KNOW I ALMOST GOT CHASED BY THE POLICE FOR SPEEDING, HUH?!”
Lita was surprised by Darka's stern spray. While Siska, Anna, and Gio who were the masterminds of the stove giggled. Darka held back his almost overflowing emotions, as if his worry was being played with.
“Yes sorry, Anna told you I fainted, but I'm fine.” Lita looked down with pursed lips that even made Darka anxious and not angry.
“Long tuh, Ka. Last time Lita was nauseous,” chirped Bagas.
Darka sighed and took the thermometer Mia used to check Lita's heat before she came.
“Hm but really hot. Your clothes are also wet due to cold dry.” Darka was now staring worriedly. “Come home, Jel.”
Accompanied by the cheers of the singles and the jump-and-goers of the haunted house, Darka leads Lita out and makes sure the girl is holding on to her motorcycle. They immediately drove towards Lita's house.
Without realizing that there was a ghost of a girl was watching them from afar. Watching every step through Darka's motor with blazing eyes, as if he were a living human being. Eyes that are very similar to Darka's eyes.
***
Lita decided to visit the doctor a few days later. With Darka's persuasion of course. But Lita kept her arrival to the hospital a secret today from Darka.
Also, Father.
His reason? The girl began to fear the results she would receive. Pain in the waist, easily tired, and vomiting began to continue in natural Lita lately did make Lita so a little afraid.
Lita never liked hospitals. The smell of medicine, the noise of the administrative table, until the long corridor of the place passed by, in each corner he could see ‘they.’ Ever since Lita set foot in the hospital, her feelings have been bad.
The process Lita went through to get results was also not as easy as she thought. He even had to undergo a urine test.
Eventually, his doctor gave him an envelope with a verdict letter. Lita's world almost collapsed when reading the sentence listed there.
“You're young, Jelita. Although it is unlikely, it is only the beginning. And you can still recover.” Doctor Lita cheers. There was no response from Lita. The girl just muttered the word ‘thank you, excuse me and just left.
Lita stepped faster down the hospital corridor. All he wanted now was to go home and reflect on it. No, maybe she'll cry, Lita won't know what to do. Her world had just been colored after Darka expressed his feelings.
Why should it be now?
Why did he have to when he found Darka?
“Kak, I want help!"
Lita was startled and immediately stopped stepping when suddenly a spirit appeared in front of her.
***
"Why are you lying to me? You doubt my love?" asked the man with a deeply disappointed face.
The woman who became his co-star was crying small, but full of heart-wrenching pain. "No, so! I love you, but you shouldn't love me! I'm disabled!"
"Bodo, I won't give you my love!"
The two people who were cast on stage were hugging, crying and loving each other. Presents a happy ending, showing the true love that is intertwined between them.
The sound of applause immediately echoed in the theater's stage room. Lita and Darka with Anwar, Sandi and Putra became one of the audience.
Darka joined a theater community and today there are theater performances. Of course he will not waste the opportunity to invite Lita to watch.
But what he saw the woman actually put on a blank look with a paled face. Darka tries to show Lita what she likes.
Theatre and acting.
"Je, you're okay, right?" ask Darka worried. "Btw, I'll be performing next week. You want to watch, right? Original, I'll make you watch."
The click!
“Eh?”
Lita blinked as Darka plucked her finger in front of her eyes. The young man looked at her with pursed lips in annoyance. “Jeli, denger no heck from the cave talking what?”
“I-iya. So you join the theater community lately and another week the first stage right?” Lita soon returns to notice Darka.
“Iya!” Darka smiled like a child. “My ambition since long ago was to be an actor, continue to have my own theater. But my father never agreed I was an actor. This is all I can do so I can continue in the world of acting.” Darka sighed and leaned against the sofa in Anwar's house.
Yes, Sandi, Putra, and Anwar have been away since then to avoid this lovebirds rather than having to eat the heart because they accept the bitter reality is still alone.
“Dateng ya Lita to my drama stage? The please? You do not want to see me again handsome using prince costume?”
Lita is smiling thinly. “Iya, I must have come. You have to know that I will continue to support you, okay?” now the girl looked at him deeply, giving Darka all her support at one time.
Lita gives Darka the courage to keep going even though it means having to argue against what her parents want. During the bodo, Darka wants to pursue his dream. Lita has to be there, seeing Darka succeed with his dreams.
While Lita must realize that the time is not much. He only has one month until Darka's birthday.
Yes, this will be Lita's last step to do something that might change Darka's world.
Lita recalled what the ghost said the other day in the hospital. Oh, naw. Darka's sister's spirit. More precisely twin sister.
“One month song. Just when Darka's birthday, you want to help out, right, Kak?”
“What help?”
“Let me ... borrow Brother's body. I want Brother Darka no longer lives haunted by guilt. This makes me not calm down! Please, brother, it's for Darka!”
“So Darka–?”
“Kak Darka never killed anyone. He's just fucking himself. Help me explain once again everything to Brother Darka, only Brother can.”
Lita bit her lips. It's hazardous. Lita's body was never as strong as other children. His body is much weaker. Then the verdict of the disease he suffered .. Lita will be increasingly weakened every day. This is the warning that his mother once told him.
But if this can change Darka's life then …
“OK. I'll help you. For Darka.”
***
“Jeli! Jellies! Okki jelly drink!”
“Ih Darka is so good!”
Lita is upset by herself while Darka runs from Lita's pursuit while laughing with satisfaction. Tonight the two enjoy the night air at the amusement park after Lita is done with her work. Though it was too late, but Darka still wanted to play there.
There was indeed no one who could stop the young man if he had difficulty whistling loudly.
Lita's body is getting tired more often. Running for a while already made Lita out of breath. The girl gave up chasing after Darka and chose to sit on a park bench.
“Yah! Jelinya tired! Huuu is very weak,” ledek Darka who is not cared for by Lita. He snorted as Darka sat beside him.
“Darka Samudra, it makes people emotional.”
“But baby right?”
Lita immediately pretended to vomit hearing Darka's sentence, making the young man glare. Is he a stinking pest? It's nice, if Lita knew how many girls would line up for Darka. Uh, if a girl is like Lita, she cares.
Within five minutes, Darka was back with two chocolate and vanilla ice cream cones. Darka gives a vanilla taste to Lita.
“Kok you know I like vanilla ice cream?” Lita frowned while receiving ice cream from Darka.
“What the hell does Darka Samudra not know?” ask her arrogantly. Though Darka was all because Darka had asked Lita's favorite of his coworkers in a haunted house.
Lita chooses not to respond and starts enjoying her ice cream. Until Darka brought her face closer to Lita's.
“Potan tuh, rich little boy deh.”
“Hm?”
Lita was silent for a moment. After waking up, he immediately rubbed his lips rough so that there was no ice cream. Darka smiled slanted with satisfaction when getting Lita's face flushed like a boiled crab.
They did not realize, someone was standing not far from them, with an upright mobile phone pointed at Darka and Lita.
-
The school bell hasn't even rang, but Lita has gotten a cynical look and whispers along the corridor that are more severe than ever. A bad feeling enveloped Lita.
The phone notifications kept on. Many unidentified numbers sent Lita photos that the girl had not seen. But the top notification on her phone right now is Darka's number.
Darka: do not open any social media today.
Wh why? What the hell's going on? Lita wondered when suddenly the notification from Tia appeared. Lita swallowed her saliva and opened the photo of Tia.
Tia: Lit ... Is this serious about Darka?
Tia sent a picture.
Lita's heart almost slipped into the stomach looking at the photo Tia sent. Since when did he and Darka kiss?!
Who's the guy who sent this? Besides, what kind of edit is this? Why does everyone believe? A feeling of panic rumbled in his chest until Lita did not know what to do.
Tia: Lit, you're okay, right?
Tia: if not strong do not open any social media today
While behind the messages and whispers of the widespread rumors, a person smiled satisfied with the results he received. The girl behind him clapped her hands softly.
“Crazy, you mean shit. But this is brilliant.”
“Yes, let's see how Darka solved this problem. Let her know how it feels to be humiliated.”
-
Once there is news of the bird that is not clear, other news will be carried away. People prefer it even more if the news is exaggerated until it deviates greatly from the reality.
Darka and Lita felt it now. From the only edited photos of kisses he and Darka that he believes were taken when they went to the amusement park last night, the rumors become increasingly distorted.
What did they say? Body-related?
Darka clenched his hands. Do they think Lita's so easy? Lita is not a girl who will throw herself at just anyone.
BRACKET! Darka kicked his desk when he heard the sound of whispers getting louder and distorted about him and Lita.
“Quiet Dar, don't in dengerin.” Sandi stroked Darka's shoulders.
Anwar and the still loyal Son by Darka's side nodded. “Lo be calm, you still have us,” said Putra dramatically.
“Darka, smiling aja ambyar same Lita, this again ahem-ehem,” chirps Anwar that makes Putra and Sandi glare because the time is very inappropriate.
The serious atmosphere just melted away, suddenly the Darka class leader entered and whispered something to Darka. The young man sighed violently and got up from his chair.
“Ehh, uh where are you going, Ka?” Anwar asked but Darka did not answer and ran down the stairs. His steps stopped when he found Lita standing in front of the student hall.
They stared at each other. Lita smiled soothingly and exalted. They have to face up to the student's call together to get it done. Darka moved in first as if he wanted to protect Lita behind his back, then the door of the student hall was closed.
-
THE PLAQUE!
“I never taught you to act indecently, Darka!”
“Udah, stop!” Darka's mother immediately hugged Darka while stroking her head to avoid being slapped for the third time. Darka's lips had been torn, the blood that poured out made Mother Darka's heart hurt.
“You bought him?! Your son is already shy of a family!”
“Darka has said that he does not do that, why the hell do you not believe?! He's my son, and I know when Darka's honest or lying!”
“Where there is a badger!”
“School even said that they will investigate the case for one week, why don't you wait anyway?!”
“Then Darka was locked in his room for one week!”
Darka who previously could only quietly listen instantly turned his back. He immediately broke free from his mother's protection and stared intently at his father. Can't do. Lita will definitely be bullied, the girl just yesterday had avoided her constantly, not letting Darka talk or at least calm her down.
What would happen if Lita was in the bully and Darka wasn't there?
“Darka must enter the reward! I can't–”
THE PLAQUE! The next slap comes after. Her mother cried seeing Darka become messed up.
“Have acted shamefully, still dare ya you refute me Darka? LOGIN YOU TO ROOM NOW!”
The sound of such a loud clap was as if stepping on Darka's determination like a dead little ant. The young man threw a fierce gaze that was countered with a ruthless gaze and dragged his steps towards the room.
But Darka immediately picked up the phone and dialed Sandi's number.
-
Morning Lita was greeted with banana peel, plastic waste that still has a drink, until the moldy food marks in her locker.
“The smell is really rotten, according to the person haha.”
“For him Darka so lost his fans who turned into haters.”
“What the heck still dare to show face?”
“No shame huh?”
“Darka pay how much?”
“Hah? There is one who loves for free!”
“Haha! Sam–”
“TRASH.”
Lita who kept her head down suddenly raised her head. Sandi, Anwar, and Putra were looking at him with a smile. The son blinked one eye as a gesture.
The atmosphere was suddenly silent when the three of them came. Even people from other classes took a curious peek.
“People who usually just lower others it's garbage.” Anwar spoke even louder, continuing his words that cut through all the whispers earlier.
“Ouch! That's a lot of rubbish!” The son screamed dramatically. Instead of looking at Lita's trash-filled locker, her gaze was fixed on the swarm of people who had previously insinuated Lita blatantly. They immediately shut up.
“Why diem?” challenge Anwar.
“You don't need gini–” Lita who wants to pull the tip of Anwar's shirt held by Sandi. The young man smiled faintly.
“Darka won't be in school for a week, you're pretty diem and you take care of us, okay? It's request Darka.”
Lita bit her lips. Her chest was getting claustrophobic due to the guilt that Lita should not have felt. It's not her fault, it's not Darka.
“Ka-you guys why remember that girl? Because he's got his reputation ruined?” Grace, the one who started the stove first flicked her hair and stepped forward despite the actual trepidation.
“Oh, not wrong lo?”
Anwar's sentence made things go back rowdy. Grace has now shown a red face because it restrains emotions.
“Udah-already, do not fuss gini dong is school.”
“Yeah, this is again a lipstickist,” scorn Son slowly.
Tia appears out of nowhere and pulls Grace backwards. “We don't know yet Darka Lita's photos are real or not, so I hope nothing else makes the rumors bad. The school also has already decided that this will be investigated until the next week, I–”
“Lo diem.”
Tia automatically silenced because she was surprised when Sandi cut off her sentence and looked at Tia sharply. His angry-sounding voice seized the attention of many people in the corridor. The situation grew increasingly tense with Tia's gaze turning dark and lips being pulled down.
“Eh what's up! Hey-hey get into each class don't gather in the corridor!” the supervising teacher came before Lita had time to wonder what was really going on.
Everything was out of the corridor. Anwar, Putra and Sandi help Lita clean her locker full of garbage.
“Lo relax aja Lita, we believe in the same lo.” Anwar smiled faintly, giving Lita a bit of calm and happiness as there were still people who believed in him and Darka.
Although his heart was troubled when he thought of Darka who had to receive punishment from his father and was locked up for one week.
“Darka, sorry.”
