Flavor Anomaly

10. friends

"Lunatic man, Ben. Why didn't you say you were going to kill someone? That's why I ran away first!" oceh Panji when they just got out of the police station.

It's almost morning, Ian's beating has to be completed by legal means. But Ben wasn't afraid of it at all. He just needed to call the family lawyer and all was instantly finished without any hitch.

"Ben? You this ... Ckckck. What do you have to say to your Papa?" ask a man who is Ben's own uncle. He is a lawyer, and often advises Ben's entire family.

"You don't have to say anything to Papa. So Papa doesn't know" said Ben casually. They walked to the car park. Last night made everyone tired. Moreover, Ben who also finished beating Ian out - exhausted.

"Hm. Om wonder, why the hell, your father does not allow you to be a soldier. You're better suited to being a hit man than the CEO of a company."

"Hm? Want to go after my CEO?" asked Ben deliberately joking so that the Uncle softened and did not continue his tirade.

Iskandar stared at his nephew, while Ben rushed into the car while waving his hand. "Thank you, Om! Tomorrow I'll buy lunch" he screamed after opening the windshield.

Iskandar just shook his head while staring at his nephew who started his car.

"Om, sorry. We go home first" said Panji who entered Ben's side seat. Iskandar just nodded and told them to go home immediately.

The streets seem to be long. It's no longer midnight, or past midnight, but it's almost dawn. Several times Ben yawned because it held back sleepiness. While driving Ben just silent so Panji began to pester.

"Heh, I want to ask," Panji said and managed to get Ben's attention turned to him.

"What?"

"What's the same problem with that guy? Brother Lo is pregnant with him? Or Susan huh, your acquaintance?"

"Not."

"So?"

"Repo."

"Jeez, Ben, this lo has never changed in the past. I'm sure this isn't a trivial matter. If you hit people to almost death like that, it means there is a big problem. Who this time? Who else is lo bela?"

Ben turned to Panji, he was actually about to tell him what really happened. What was the reason that made him tell Panji to find out Ian's whereabouts and all the things about that son of a bitch. It's just that he still hesitates.

"What's not. Yesterday I met him at the cafe, he was really nyolot, so I sprained," replied Ben lying.

"Don't lie to me, lo. you think I was a kid yesterday afternoon? I'm looking for a story, what's really going on. Or I aduin lo to bokap lo nih," threatened Panji, and made Ben glare while hitting his friend's arm.

"Ck. Threat lo, like a kid. Talk to me all!"

"Lo is also like a child. That's why the game story!"

Ben took a deep breath, he glanced cynically at Panji who just kept looking at him. "Yes, I told you. But ... I promise I won't tell anyone about this, especially Daniel."

"Daniel? What does this have to do with him?"

"Promise first, Goat! Most of them lo!"

"Lah lo himself is mostly a puzzle. There is no explanation about Ian now spread again to Daniel. The feelings from yesterday we have not talked about him. Why did he get involved?"

"Is related. You also see, Ian's video in your cape?"

"Watch."

"What does she argue about with a girl named Susan?"

"Ian wants to stay with Susan because of another girl."

"Who's the other girl?"

"dm ... Just hang on." Panji frowned, thought and remembered Ian's words in the video. "Oh, Jes ... Jesi?"

"Jeslin, Kunyuk!"

"Oh Jeslin, huh? I know Jesi. Continues to? Why?"

"Jeslin it ... Daniel's brother."

"What's? Seriously lo? Did Daniel have a sister? How did I just know?"

"Yes. It used to be in High School, we more often stay at my house with Andre's house. Let's not know the genealogy of Daniel's family, we just don't know who the maid in his house!"

"Yes too. Uh, so Daniel doesn't know, if his brother's dating that crazy guy?"

"Who's dating, Nji?"

"Huh? Uh. Not emangnya? Not in the video ... Ian's been sleeping on Jesi?"

"Jeslin, Chubby!" nagel Ben again.

"Oh yes, Jeslin. It's just angry," Panji said with an innocent expression.

"Lo don't listen, what is the video! Try watching it again. Gini nih, if the school used to be just a gate doang. His brain did not think ginian," Ben quipped.

"Yes yes. The general champion in school, pinter deh anyway," said Panji low self-esteem.

"God! The hunt is watched!" Ben was getting upset, even though Panji had shown a sad face. But he knew that his friend was good at acting.

"okay." The pennant picked up the mobile phone he had put in his shirt pocket. The banner hummed while looking for the video in question. He immediately watched her with a frown. While Ben faithfully waited. He looked up at the sidewalk while stroking his stomach. Before long there was a rumbling sound from inside Ben's stomach. "Where fried rice, huh?" ask him to yourself.

"At the end of the road there was a fried rice man. The one we used to go there," point Panji while still watching the video.

"Oh, okay."

Eventually Ben finds a tent selling fried rice. His car stopped in front of a parking lot on the side of the road. Car engine shut off.

"Eh, Ben ... Undeterred. This means ... Was that Jeslin raped by Ian? That, huh?" ask Panji while patting Ben on the shoulder many times.

"Finally I know you too!" Ben got out of the car followed by Panji. They plan to eat at dawn before they get home. The showdown with Ian certainly drains Ben a lot of energy. He needs food to move again.

"No, I don't know." The pennant keeps tailing Ben until they find an empty seat. It turned out that even though it was dawn, there were still buyers. A few young pairs moved in, and there was also a group of young people stopping by for the night like the two of them.

"What else you don't understand, Nji," said Ben, caught off guard.

"Why did you send that to Ian? We don't know Jeslin. Not even Daniel knows what happened to his brother."

"Gue knows Jeslin."

"Masa? Since when?"

"A few weeks ago. I met him at Daniel's office."

Pennon silence. Ben stared at the menu book before he finally ordered goat fried rice and warm oranges. While Panji ordered seafood fried rice and warm tea.

"That's all?" ask Panji with a probing look. He continued to stare at the look on Ben's face sitting at the side and as if deliberately avoiding the gaze of Panji who was interrogating him.

"Why the hell?"

"No! No! There must be something. Don't don't ...."

"Don't do what?"

"Lo likes Jeslin?" The question made Ben directly look at Panji while rounding his eyes wide.

Their drinks are on the table. This becomes Ben's way of escaping from the Panji question attack earlier. Ben immediately gulped down the warm drink, while staring in the other direction.

"God! The goat! Don't avoid you!" panji said he hit Ben's arm.

Ben automatically turned his head while stroking his arm that felt a little pain. "Who's avoiding him anyway? My guy's still here" elak Ben.

"Udah, ngaku. Do you like Jeslin? I promise I won't tell Daniel, either" Panji said, trying to find a way to figure out what's on Ben's mind. Panji knows how Ben's character has been. Ben is the type of person who does not really like to interfere with someone's life problems, unless that person is someone special and meaningful to his life.

Ben took a deep breath, remained silent for a moment then turned to Panji who was sitting beside him. "Yes." Yeah."

"Well! Kan's! What do I say! There's a shrimp behind the bakwan!"

Ben who had been caught, just kept silent without expression. He doesn't know what to do to explain his feelings. He wanted to tell someone about his feelings. Well, he's in love. Ben fell in love with Jeslin, from first sight. No matter what happened to her in the past, even if Jeslin was proven to have been raped by Ian as he thought he was now. Ben likes Jeslin. Even now his feelings are getting stronger. After learning how dark Jeslin's life is.

"Daniel definitely doesn't know about her brother" Ben murmured. He stared at the deserted highway. Only one or two vehicles have passed since.

"Yes." Yeah."

"How can you be sure?"

"That is ... Holy jeez!" Ben remembered something. That incident now made him understand the meaning of Jeslin's attitude some time ago. "Border!"

"What message?"

"Gue met Jeslin at the obstetrician."

"Huh? Jeslin's pregnant?"

"Where do I know. I asked Daniel if Jeslin had a girlfriend and was now pregnant. But Daniel said, Jeslin was never dating. He's always cold as a guy. So I was confused, if you do not have a boyfriend, why did he go to the obstetrician at that time. So this is."

"So she wants to make sure she's pregnant or not?"

"Well." Yeah."

"So she's pregnant, right? It's a pity that she got really pregnant. Having a son of a jerk like Ian, it's hell. I'm sure Ian doesn't want responsibility."

"Gue doesn't know what she's pregnant."

"Bbn ...."

"Hm?"

"If she gets pregnant ... How's it?"

"What's the matter?"

"Yes ... You know for yourself, don't you, how Ian is. For example, the state of gini. Jeslin raped Ian, kept her pregnant, uh Ian didn't want responsibility. How you gonna do?"

Ben remained silent for a long time before finally answering Panji's question. He looked at Panji with a serious look. "City ... Married him."

"Seriously lo? Don't joke, Ben. Marriage is not playing. You willingly marry a girl who is pregnant because of the result of rape. Bokap nyokap you will not agree, I guarantee!"

"Gue doesn't care. I'm going to marry Jeslin. Either she's pregnant, or she's not."

"Lo got a pellet, huh, Ben? Just this time I saw Ben this way to the girl," Panji said while shaking his head.

"About!"

"Finally, you can say that. I was wondering, like, what the hell, this Jeslin?" ask Panji.

"She's beautiful, gentle, every time I see her eyes, my heart seems to be dropping. I've never done this before, Nji."

"Huh, maybe just groggy meet a pretty girl!" timpal Panji's.

"No! Wasn't it! I met a pretty girl not just Jeslin doang, Nji. Previously much. But it's only Jeslin that I feel different. I can't turn away from him. Every time I see him, I always want to look him in the eye. His eyes were ... Spoons. Sayu. But ..shedden. I feel calm every time I look him in the eye. I don't know if this is really love. But there's only one thing I know. I always want to see him again and again. A day I didn't see him, I felt like my body was lemes, Nji."

"The ant! That's for."

"Seriously!"

"Yes yes. I trust. I am really in love this again. Yes, I give you advice. You already know, right, what Ian has done to Jeslin. If you want to continue to approach him, you have to accept all the consequences."

"...." - ".Ben fell silent. Fried rice on the table.

"First, your family will definitely not agree, unless this problem is never revealed. Just ... We do not know what will happen in the future, if until the news about Ian spread after you married, I'm sure, you both will be in the same curse as your parents. I hope he wasn't told to divorce. Perhaps most lightly, you don't get any more inheritance rations."

"Damn it! I don't think about inheritance, and I don't expect Papa's treasure! I don't care what people say. Precisely, after I know what has happened with Jeslin, my desire to continue to be near him, even stronger, Nji. I want to always be there for him. I don't want anyone else hurting him, like what Ian did. I want to make him smile every day."

"Yourjug! Ben is so fucking bucin!" Panji directly ate his fried rice without caring about Ben's chatter that never ended.

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Jeslin was at the airport. Wearing sunglasses, he stared one by one the passengers who had started to get off. He kept looking for the figure he had been waiting for.

Sampa finally, Jeslin looked at the female figure who was walking alone while pulling the suitcase in her right hand. His long hair unravels, making Jeslin convinced that he is Astrid, his old best friend.

The two women immediately hugged. Asking each news also about Astrid's trip on the plane earlier. Astrid and Jeslin leave the airport in Jeslin's car. He decides to get permission from the office just to pick up Astrid.

Astrid has no relatives in the capital. Both of his parents have divorced and choose to live away from the capital. Astrid has also been living alone. He prefers freedom over having to live with his father or mother. That's why Jeslin insisted on picking up Astrid and taking her to the apartment. For a while Astrid would stay with him, and Jeslin was not too bothered about it.

"Why are you, Lin?" astrid asked as soon as they reached the apartment. Jeslin, who was taking Astrid a drink from the refrigerator, noticed her body.

"Then anyway? Does it look like much?" asked Jeslin who could not see the changes of his own body.

"Yes, Lin. Do you rarely eat? Why try?"

"Busy, Trid. Much work. Sometimes when I'm here, I like mager for food."

"Can you order some food!"

"Nothing I like. The price is much the same if we come to his place directly."

"That's just your excuse. The time of a Jeslin calculation about out of the money to eat. Not likely. There must be something else. Aye, right?"

Jeslin was silent for a moment. He who was already holding his cold drink, just stared at the already dewy ygang bottle.

"Scholarship, Lin. What's the matter? Your face is different. You're moody even though we've been laughing ever since. What's up, Lin?" ask Astrid who started terrorizing him with many questions. Apparently what happened to Jeslin, the thing he wanted to cover up and managed to do to everyone, could not work on Astrid. Because only Astrid understands there are things that Jeslin is hiding.

Sobs began to sound and made Astrid even more confused.

"Trus ... I ... I'm."

"Why you?"

"I ... Raped."

"Huh? Whahuh? Don't joke, Lin. You serious? Same who? When's? Daniel know? Did you report it to the police?"

"Trus, dangerrin first. I haven't told anyone anything. You just told me about this matter."

"Good, Lin! Okay. The story of how it was at first, who the depraved man was and ... All of them! Tell me everything!"

"He ... Ian's."

"Who's god? I just heard that name? So you know him?"

"Know, but not familiar. Ian it ... Susan's boyfriend."

"Susan? Susan ... Your brother's that? Is she divorced from her husband?"

"Not yet."

"Not yet, but ... Have girlfriends? Oh, gosh, understand. She cheated? Okay continue?"

"Yes. Susan is here a lot, Trid. She ran away from home, from her husband's house. I want to help him find a job. So I let him here. But I knew for a long time that Susan was happy to run away from home. He's got a new girlfriend. That's Ian. And ... Everything happened very quickly. I ... I don't want to remember that anymore, Trid!" Jeslin cried bitterly.

Now Astrid pulled Jeslin's body into his arms. He gently stroked Jeslin's ridge, while continuing to calm his friend who was crying more and more. Astrid knows that Jeslin is tired of keeping all this trouble alone. It is only natural that he continues to cry. Moreover, what happened was something very fatal. Rape. It shouldn't even happen to women as good as Jeslin.

"I don't want to tell Daniel, because ... Poor him. Daniel's company is growing again, if this issue comes out to the public, I'm sure he'll be affected. But ... Ian ..."

"Why else is he?"

"He's starting to find me again, Trid."

"Huh? Meanin?"

"I don't know what he wants. But he kept looking for me, even to the office. I'm scared, Trid!" Jeslin was crying hysterically.

"Good God, Lin Lin. Okay-okay. We'll figure out a way to solve this, yeah."