FLOWER WARS

Chapters 30. Investigate.

"Why do you keep avoiding me, Bunga?" Jacob grabs Flower's hand and pulls the girl into a narrow alley between the library building and the classroom.

"Who is avoiding?" Flowers turned her face away. He did not dare to look at Jacob. His feelings from day to day grew even more strange when he was close to the young man.

"In class, you don't want to sit next to me anymore."

"Because ..you always disturb my learning concentration." Flowers reveal the reasons he deliberately made up. The truth is, Jacob made her feel awkward.

Jacob clucked. But, his heart was happy to see the face of the red-coloured Flower. That is, the girl did feel awkward dealing with him. Of course, it's only recently that it's happened.

He saw the face of the flower. While the girl did not dare to look at him.

"Do you know?" ask Jacob.

"Know what?"

"About how you feel about me."

"Still the same. I don't have any feelings for you."

Jacob chuckles. Flowers are clearly lying to themselves. His cheeks were getting red and his breathing was hunting a little.

The face of Bunga and the girl closed her eyes. A few moments later Jacob's lips touched the Flower's lips, and then softly caressed it.

The flower does not know what to do. This is how white people express feelings in people they like. Something very foreign to the flower.

"What are you doing!"

The cry made Flowers and Jacob let go of the link of their lips. Both of them looked towards the voice. Anna stood at the end of the alley with wide eyes.

"You ... are you kissing?" The girl looked shocked. Both hands clenched.

Jacob looked calm. He stood in front of the Flower to protect the girl. "Yes, we kissed. What do you want?" his challenge.

Anna rounded her pair of eyes. "Jij bent mijn vionie (You're my fiancee)!" yells.

"Nooit (Never)!" timpal Jacob's.

Anna's crying broke. "I'll report you to your parents!" threaten her. Then he ran away leaving Jacob and Bunga.

Jacob twisted his body and looked at the Flower who seemed to be in shock as well. It was not that they thought Anna was putting her lips together, but, shocked by what she had just done with Jacob.

"Je bent nu mijn vriendin (You are my lover now)" said Jacob.

"What?" sergeant Flowers. "Wait, Jacob. I haven't said anything."

Jacob chuckles. "I already know how you feel about me."

Flowers shake strongly. "Don't conclude too soon."

"Your lips, and mine, have touched" Jacob quipped.

The flower pushed Jacob's chest hard. "That doesn't mean anything!" he ran away leaving Jacob.

"Hey, Flowers! Wait!" call Jacob. But the girl had already disappeared at the end of the alley.

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"Stop here" Anna orders her driver. His car stopped across from a drugstore, where he saw a girl he knew stepping in.

Anna wanted to open her fiance's eyes that the adored girl was not as good as she thought. Although, Anna was also not convinced that her conjecture was correct.

"Wondo, do you know what that place is?" ask Anna to the driver. The native man is in his forties.

"Medicine shop, miss." The driver, Wondo, answered.

Anna clucking. "I know it's a drugstore, you idiot. I mean, what's in it?"

"Yes, there's drugs, miss."

Anna growling. "Basic stupid natives!" means slowly. "In addition to being used for drugstores, is there any other function of that store?"

"Well, I don't know, Miss."

Anna looked at the shop building full of probes. "Wondo, do you want more money?' tanyakanya.

"Yes, would, Miss. Who doesn't want a lot of money."

"I have a job for you." Anna pulled the corner of her lips.

"What task, Miss?" asked Wondo while frowning.

"Can you find out what's in there?"

Wondo scratched his head. "Examine how, Miss?"

"Yes, just investigate. Anyway I want you to bring me news of what the people inside the drugstore are doing!"

Wondo looked confused. He did not understand what his master meant. What he should investigate from a drugstore.

"You understand, don't you?" snapped Anna.

"What is Miss looking for?" ask Wondo who is still confused.

"I suspect there's a secret inside the drugstore. It's your job to find out what the secret is" Anna said.

It was a difficult task for Wondo. How he investigated the place. He has no experience in investigating anything. He was only a coachman, at first, then when his employer bought a car, he was trained to drive.

"You know that girl?" anna asked as she pointed towards the shop, where Flowers had just come out from there.

"Oh, yes, you know, Miss. That's his ex-regent son, to?"

"really. He often visited the store. I suspect the girl did something secret there."

"Maybe he's just buying medicine, miss."

Anna clucking. "I'm giving you a job to figure out, what the girl's doing there."

"So, I have to investigate the drugstore or the girl, Miss?"

"Both, Fool!" snarled Anna annoyed. "I'll give you a lot of money if you manage to get some good news. If you fail, I'll have Oom fire you!" threaten her.

Wondo shuddered. Being fired from a Dutch family means that he will find it very difficult to find work again. No Dutchman would hire him, nor any native. If he knew he had worked with the Dutch, they would not help him.

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