Emotion Taster
Arc 1 Organic Waste: Chapter 16 - Bribery
“Ima .. I still can't," I replied while shaking my head. "Leave them and let them do cruel things again? Make you feel the torment of them? Sorry, I'm still going to jump in and stop all that.”
“... You don't understand, I .. I really have to like that.”
“Well, I don't know. Until now I was just a wise stranger,”, I said to Imarine who was still sobbing. “But, I will still not understand if you do not tell.”
“...”
The girl in front of me was silent again. It seemed like it had occurred to him to want to tell a story, but something that tied him back held his mouth open. In the end he just looked down and hid his face from me.
“Ima, I asked, what is really going on between you?”
“...”
For the second time, he still did not tell stories. Instead of responding to my question, the girl instead walked away and started to come out of this toilet hallway.
Really troublesome people. How can anyone help if he doesn't tell you the problem.
Imarine's footsteps were quite slow, compared to walking, he looked more like he was displacing his legs. With a face that had not dried up, the girl left me.
“...”
I didn't chase after him, enough of my stubbornness bothered him today. Although I didn't know the correct answer, but I chose to stop again and leave him alone. Too hard chasing him will also not give good results.
The waves of emotions of Imarine disappeared over time. The surrounding air that has since smelled of organic waste has now been clean again.
Ck.
But this time I felt another wave of emotion. The feeling of pain in the head, none other than that person was Amalia. Unlike in the previous days, this time the burning sensation in the eye has subsided, I think the menstrual symptoms have improved, although they still remain.
“Amalia .. You are there, ‘kan?”
It's true that I felt the waves of his emotions. However, he did not bring himself before me. Hiding behind the turn of the hallway around the canteen area.
“...”
Amalia appeared, slowly bringing up her appearance. Holding the phone with both hands, he looked at me from a distance.
Doubt, duut ....
Amalia: What was the result? I was going there, just like I was going to disturb you and make you sick.
“I don't know if it's good or bad, but at least today Imarine is not bullied,” I replied with a little scream reaching the distance Amalia. “You yourself heard Imarine say, right? Should you also be here from earlier?”
It's a little weird when I talk to the girl in person, but wait for an answer by looking at the phone.
Amalia: I heard, but not very clear.
Oh ....
I didn't feel Amalia's emotional waves before. It meant that the distance he and I were over twenty meters, it was enough to make the sound become indistinctly audible, let alone my position in the hallway.
“Amalia, I'll tell you the rest via mobile. Make it later, you try to take care of Imarine. He likes to be alone, so try to wear a strange magic robe so as not to be caught.”
After telling that, Amalia and I went home. It was quite exhausting especially for me after experiencing all this.
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Huh ....
Lately, day after day I have been going through a wave of intense negative emotions. When I got home, my head felt limp and floated. If I describe it, it's like feeling dizzy after the body and the head have been rotated around a few times. The balance and concentration of my body's movements were reduced, like my brain was out of strength.
“You okay, Van? The food is not good?” ask my brother who is eating food together at the table.
Now I'm at the dinner table, having dinner with my brother. However, my position today is reversed. I who usually spend food faster than sister Dina even fell silent gawking with half a portion of food on the plate.
“I no longer have appetite. A little nauseous as dizzy,” I replied while slightly moving back the hand.
“So I want to finish the table, if you eat it long, when you help it.”
“If so, brother help me eat first, later I help settle the kitchen.”
“Bantu eat? Is my brother full? That's your allotment, yes you finish yourself.”
That's not.
“Suapin means.”
That way I don't have to bother moving my hand. Even when exhausted like this, it feels exhausting.
“... You serious?”
I'm actually half-joking.
“Serious. I'm really not feeling well.”
But, I answered him like that to ask for indulgence from him. After all, he would normally refuse that request. So, the result will be the same.
*grid.
Hn?
Brother Dina pulled the chair beside me. Delaying all the cleaning work and choosing to sit at the dinner table. He took the plate in front of me, arranged his food for him to spoon and give it to me.
“There, quickly open his mouth.”
He's?
“What is this?”
“She asked to be bribed?" he said with a tone of wonder. "If you want speed, big brother's hand pegel.”
“Why would you want to? Should I refuse to use the answer, ‘halah do not need to spoiled’ or ‘just say do not want to help settle-beres’”
Of the many possibilities. He who feeds me only happens when I'm about six years old. The development of my body that turned out to be not cute was one of the causes.
“Yeah, let's just say sister again is good.”
“...”
I hesitated a little at the beginning, but finally complied and let myself be fed by him. It's a little weird because my big body receives this kind of treatment. It's strange to see a woman who didn't even feel pity when I had a fever first, so it's good to follow the spoiled request just now. When I was sick, I had no treatment at all from him.
This time I finished my meal quickly. The movement of Kak Dina's hand scooping the food quickly made a little pressure so that I could chew faster. As a result, it wasn't until five minutes that I could spend it all.
Next, as promised, I helped clean up the kitchen today. From here I was given the task of cleaning the dishes.
“Kak, can I ask?”
“Why? Just ask.”
“Did you ever see anyone in-bully?”
I do this while I keep working. Sister Dina who answered sometimes walked to and fro to arrange the room.
“Even so, why? You're being bullied again?”
“Not me, but someone else, and she's a girl. What makes people bully?”
“You can find yourself using your HP, ‘kan?”
“Logs I was looking for, but now I'm asking for the experience of a sister who lives one year older.”
My brother's expression slightly changed hearing the sentence just now.
“You said old it was muji or mocking?”
“I told you of the world facts.”
“Hah ...,” sigh lamented my brother. “In that case, brother asked earlier. That's the pretty girl?”
“If you choose between yes and no. I can guarantee he gets into yes.”
“Hehe ...,” boos from sister Dina. “It turns out you can also different where beautiful and not.”
Of course, that's general knowledge. I'm the one who's been in puberty can tell the difference. But, it was different when compared to the attraction to make her a lover. I have no intention of dating Imarine.
“So?” ask me to urge Dina to answer.
“There's a chance she's bullied for being beautiful. Some jealous girls will think he is arrogant or pansos. Especially if it is caught that person has many male fans.”
I know she's a beautiful girl. But, her beauty was normal and would not cause a stir. The most common thing is just him that people will talk about in class, not going to one school.
“Come, Brother. I don't think it is. If it was true that he was bullied out of envy, the way those people were too rude.”
I don't know the standard, but I think the physical torture for that reason feels very excessive. Not to mention his intention to record disgrace smelling naked. I can say it's insanity. If only envious of physical looks, perhaps the most frequent is social bully by ostracizing it.
“Too rough or not, it was just the perpetrator who set,” replied my brother there, he who was finished in cleaning also finally took a seat to focus on talking to me. “But, if you say so, you will agree. Maybe there is another reason, because the kayak case is also a variety of reasons.”
“There are others?”
“Still, kayak is bullied because it is smart, because it is liked by the teacher, because it is liked by the same guy who likes the perpetrator, disability, or maybe ..” said Dina continued to look at my face. “Because ugly.”
“...”
The last reaction was very annoying.
“Say bad don't look here,” I said a little annoyed at him.
“I ‘kan again talk to you, see it to the wall.”
I think looking at the wall is also still natural for conversations in the house between two people who are a little far apart. Okay, alright. I don't give a shit about that. After all I also don't need to be praised handsome by my brother.
“If ugly as disability is not possible, any bully like that might just be in SD or SMP.”
More mature thinking in a high school kid may allow him to tolerate such things more. So, I don't think that's gonna happen.
“That's your word that's male, Van. A lot of girls like to talk in the back. But, if you say she is beautiful means it is impossible.”
“...”
Why did he refute but at the same time also agreed to my words. Especially when she cut off the possibility just because I thought Imarine was beautiful. It feels a little bit shitty.
“In that case, any other leads, Van? Did he ever win the race? Or have you ever been a school representative?”
“Entah.”
“Oh, so this girl is not from your class? If that's what you can do. Hmn ...”
“...”
Yes, it is true. I don't have class with him. That information will be thinly absorbed by me who is not interested. Especially her position that was far from my class.
“There was a possibility that he was bullied because he was smart or liked by teachers. But, since you don't know, so go through first. Perhaps the reason is also something else simple. Like a guy, do you know if he has a girlfriend or not? Or maybe the bully himself how?”
“Now, I don't know either.”
I haven't been teasing about it all this time either.
“Hah ... asked this do not know, ask it also do not know. What the hell, Van.”
“Yes, yes .. I don't know that. But that doesn't mean I don't know anything. You see, I have one strange clue about this case,”, I said with a little pressure and a pretext for self-defense that was underestimated. “Do you know the reason why people keep quiet time in-bully?”
Because this is the underlying cause of Imarine's actions.
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