Beautiful In Dark
05. Balanced
Humans are social creatures, they help each other and are helped
That's what I did to you
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Lita stepped hesitantly into the still-dark school gate. It's too early for any student going to school. Who is going to come at 5 a.m? If it wasn't for her gym clothes left on the 2nd floor women's toilet, Lita wouldn't have wanted to.
The girl took a breath and exhaled loudly, gathering courage while clutching the rope of her backpack. Lita stepped in.
His school was not the most sinister school of the district, but of course the creatures were everywhere. Some of them are not so creepy and just follow for a moment, some of them are very creepy. Rumors that strengthen their existence.
The food that he ate at the minimarket last night was almost stirred up and made his stomach heartburn now.
Lita climbed the stairs to the second floor. The woman's toilet is in the corner of the corridor. Usually the toilet is only crowded when all female students change clothes during the day, the rest of them no one ever dared to go there alone and choose the toilet on the first floor. Lita tries to remember what the girls in her class said while whispering about the bird's death.
The girl was a victim of bullying and was found dead in the third room. Although he sometimes did not show himself, Lita knew the toilet girl had never left her place. ‘Their more evil’ surrounded by a darker aura accompanied by a foul odor, Lita did not want to have to see it for too long.
From the front door of the dark toilet alone, the gripping cold had already greeted Lita, sending her fine feathers standing. The girl lowered her gaze, unwilling to see anything in front of her except her sports clothes that were left on the sink.
Lita grabbed her shirt and immediately turned around.
BLAM!
The female toilet door was closed. Lita clutched her sports shirt, her heart almost slipping into her stomach. The toilet lamp that was previously lit began to dim. Lita could hear the third toilet door open slowly.
Kreeet ….
The toilet girl was dressed in a shabby uniform. His face was pale. His neck purplish, a self-hanging scar that he did. His nails are black and rotting. His steps are getting closer and closer.
This was not the first time he had seen another creature in school, but really, he was the most monstrous-looking one. It almost made him forget to breathe.
“Jelita, you can see me huh?”
Lita closed her eyes. His hand continued to pull the hinge of the toilet door that would not open as if it was locked from the outside.
A DUG! A DUG! A DUG!
“Please! Anyone open the door!” Lita screamed in frustration, banged on the toilet door and almost cried. Her hands were trembling, the cold air seemed to suffocate her just like the toilet girl was laughing with the voice of a little child that made Lita limp.
“Quiet Lita! He's just a ghost! He's just a ghost!”
“Jelita, you can see me right?”
“GO! Don't bother me!” Lita shouted with all her might, gathering all her courage in a single pull of voice. The toilet girl stopped laughing.
BAM! The third toilet door closed.
The toilet lights came back on brightly and the noises stopped. Lita breathed a sigh of relief. The girl reminded herself not to look back.
“Ngak, Lita. Lo have to get out, don't look anything behind.”
But Lita kept looking. And there's no one there. The third toilet door is still closed. Lita hugged her gym shirt and intended to go back to the front, out of the women's toilet.
And that toilet girl in the blink of an eye was in front of him.
“Please help me, Jelita!”
“AAAHHHH!”

Darka kicked the canned drink marks blocking his way when he heard a familiar scorching sound. He thought he would hear unwanted noises and scare him, but apparently came early to remember from his parents not so bad when he heard the sound of the Red Jacket.
But this actually made him a little worried.
He looked around, trying to find the origin of the sound. Darka ran down the stairs while continuing to call out Lita's name.
“Jelita? Where's your jelly?!” Darka turned his head at the end of the dimly lit second-floor corridor. The feeling is bad. “Jelita?”
The young man decided it was following his premonition and ran towards the female toilet. Darka tried to open it, but it was locked. He is unlikely to find a school janitor now who usually holds the toilet key.
Darka growled as he did not hear any answer. He immediately broke down the toilet door by throwing his body against the toilet door.
BLAM! The toilet door is open. Darka widens when he finds Lita lying half-conscious on the floor of the female toilet.

“Nih drink first.” Darka offered a glass of warm tea. Lita nodded and took it from Darka's hands.
The girl looked at Darka who was now sitting at the side of her bed. Lita had experienced something similar and she was unconscious for a whole day because no one helped her. But this morning Darka saved her. Lita doesn't know how to thank me.
“Darka.”
“What, dear?”
Lita glares. “Serious first.”
“Finally you want to be serious too I Lita!” Darka had already put up a mupeng face while Lita took a breath of patience.
The young man chuckled. "Okay, okay, seriously."
Darka really looked at Lita with seriousness in his eyes. He knew something was different with Lita, and now Darka was getting curious.
“Thank you for helping me today."
Darka gave his thumbs up while smiling faintly. "What's in the toilet until you tepar gini?"
"In this world, there's something you don't have to know. There's a limit." Lita looked at Darka flatly.
"Oh, okay. I got it." Darka*** her lips, holding back the anxiety. It felt like he wanted to pinch Lita's cheeks all out. Why did the girl make him even more curious?
“Nih eat first, I can eat later,” Darka thrust bread in front of Lita.
“But, you haven't eaten from semalem?”
Darka frowned. “Lo know where?”
Lita immediately closed her mouth. He wanted to slap her cheek now. How could he possibly be this careless to tell Darka that he knew that Darka had a fight with his parents last night?
“Um, I saw you in minimarket semalem.”
Darka gawking. “Terus?”
Lita stroked his nape. “Lo .. I guess I fought with someone and played out to calm myself.”
Lita looked at Darka, thinking that the young man might be angry at her, but Darka remained silent and instead chuckled. Makes Lita so remember clearly what the ghost said to her.
“Iya, Jelita. She's fragile. Very fragile.”
Darka was very different from what Lita now sees. Darka who seemed to be without burden and endowed all sorts of happy.
The young man sighed and instead gave his little finger. Lita did not understand Darka's sudden movements.
“Gue forgot to say. We have to make a deal. You could say this is a reply because I helped." Darka said seriously, making Lita's forehead shrivel. "Lo should be able to keep the card. About me at the minimarket and my favorite jacket, don't tell anyone. Pinky sweat?”
Lita held a smile on the corner of her lips which made Darka stupefied. Inner screaming. Lita can smile! That girl can smile too!
Darka noticed a change in Lita's countenance that seemed hesitant to touch her.
“Why? My hands don't smell terasi, Jelita Geannesa.”
“Not that–” Lita sighed, could not explain in words.
“Okay, if so kissed aja.” Darka peed his pinky.
Lita rolled her eyeballs, sullen also annoyed. “But you can't tell anyone. If everything is leaked, I do not hesitate to take revenge.”
"So we're even." Lita got up, leaving Darka speechless again. Make the men pull a big smile then a small laugh.
Damn, why is Darka getting curious?
