For You Little Girl's

CHAPTER 35 THE SMILE BEHIND THE WOUND

Birds chirp again – again greet my morning. I open the curtains so that the morning sunlight can more freely fill every corner of my room. Walk up to the balcony of the room while stretching out my hands with the two blinds closed. The cold wind started touching every inch of my face. I fly the clothes and the hijab I wear.

The bright morning sky filled my sense of sight with a smile painted from my lips. The sweep of sunlight also greeted my morning which made me feel like I was in a fairyland. Act like a princess whose life is filled with pleasure without distress.

“Day off with a beautiful morning”, I muttered with a smile that did not escape my lips.

Arrived – arrived, I remembered with the masked man –. There was the same sense of loss when I asked Rauf to stay away from me. Moreover, he has helped me twice. “Why do I even feel lost? You are weird, Ra”, I said, laughing at myself.

Kasak – kusuk also entered my eardrum with still discussing the incident yesterday. Cyra's death brought many questions to many. Various rumors began to spread among teachers and students.

“I still can't believe that Cyra killed herself”, said someone on the balcony of her room, right next to mine.

“Yes, make sure he's not as bad as Naya. Even I hope, Naya who died so that no one interferes with the peace of this school”, said her roommate.

“Cyra's death, I'm less sure if it was a suicide attempt”, I,

“Perhaps not if he was killed”.

That's the rumor going around right now. I just kept quiet without any intention of explaining anything. Regarding Naya, they were right that she always made a rowdy scene in this school, but all those perceptions changed when I found out the other side of Naya.

They're hilarious. Only rumors had already directly judged even expecting one's death.

When I was still focused on paying attention to my room neighbor, – arrived a notification message entered my phone. Immediately my finger – shifted the screen of the flat object which made my forehead wrinkle.

A message from a foreign number showing a photo of the person looking behind. Then, the next message managed to surprise me so much that a drop of tears managed to fall from my eyes.

Do you know what the next message I get is? A message that managed to tear down my defenses. My legs were limp as if they were no longer able to support my body's weight. A photo of someone I know very well. Doni, the cousin I was later told about for over a week, now looks heartbreaking.

Then, the next message again filled my phone screen. Come to the hallway you came to yesterday, if you still want him alive. That was the short message that made me move immediately without thinking about the risks I would receive.

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In the laboratory room, a man – men who always disturb my focus can be seen clenching both hands. His jaw hardened with reddened eyes holding back the anger that was beginning to fill him. A few minutes ago, Ghaly who got a report from – people who were ordered to look after me from a distance told me about my departure towards the hallway.

Rauf immediately grabbed the clothes and mask he always wore when facing the enemy – his enemy. Covering up his identity to protect himself and myself. His steps quickly caught up with me who was almost in the hallway. When my hand was about to reach the old doorknob that would lead me inside, arrived – arrived my hand was pulled by someone.

His hand closed my mouth with an eye gesture asking me to be quiet. His face was covered by a cloth that only revealed his two eyes. I fell silent while trying to remember – remember the shape of the eyes that were staring alertly around. Instantly, my body stiffened with a perfectly rounded net.

A yira? I murmured in my heart by continuing to confirm what I saw.

Not long after, came a group of people dressed in black with one of the people I knew. She's she? Isn't he Uncle Regal's assistant? Could it be that old man who sent me a message?

“Where is the girl?”, said Uncle Regal's assistant who made me understand the situation immediately.

“It looks like the girl is gone, Pak”, heard an answer from one of her subordinates. “It just so happens that the CCTV camera was successfully tapped so that no clue was successfully obtained”, he continued.

Since it was me that they did not manage to find, they finally chose to leave the place. Once it was safe, that person immediately took off his hand from smothering my mouth. His hand turned to hold my hand to take me away from that place. I just kept quiet without a fight, because I was more and more convinced that the person I was with right now was the friend I missed so much.

After my departure with someone I believed to be Yira, someone stared worriedly at me. His hands were still clenched with breath going up and down. Another – again, I came late. Who is the one who is with Sara?

“Relax, Rauf. I'm sure, someone who was with Sara was not a dangerous person The proof, I saw a smile coming out of Sara's lips. That is, Sara knew that person. If not, surely Sara has beaten the person”, said Ghaly who chuckled amusedly at the expression of her best friend who was filled with cold sweat because of worry.

While Rauf only grunts annoyed, because it is always the material of his best friend's plunge. He also chose to follow me with Ghaly who always displayed his mocked face. A few minutes later, I arrived at a park I had visited and was still at the school.

The man took his grip off my hand and sat down on a garden chair with only one there. I also sat next to him, still staring intensely at his face. The gaze of a person was straight forward with a look of eyes that I found difficult to define. I turned my gaze to the bluish morning sky.

“Observe – hatilah”, the caring greeting that comes out of the lips of someone I miss makes me paint a smile.

“Finally you come back”, I replied which made him immediately turn to me.

The breeze was – sepoi that morning, managed to fly a hat that lay beautifully on his head. My smile grew even more as the girl's face became clearer, although part of her face was still covered with a piece of cloth. A beautiful face that was soaked with neatly bound hair that I was very familiar with.

“I miss you, my roommate”.

I can see, his body stiffened with the glare of sharp eyes that were intimidating me. Suddenly, it made me laugh. “Hahaha, I know you very well, Ra. So, even if your face is covered by this cloth, just by looking at your eyes, I can recognize you”, I said while pointing at the cloth that became the barrier.

There was a heavy sigh coming from his lips that immediately turned his gaze away from me. Now, he stared at the morning sky as his hands began to open the cloth. I couldn't help but smile, because my guess was very precise.

“Yira, if I am not mistaken, you are the one standing in front of the hall when the first day of the festival takes place?”, I asked while blinking one of my eyes.

Again – again, Yira sighed resignedly. “Keep, why don't you pursue?”, the question that makes me cry.

“I'm still not sure, Ra. But, when I saw the sharp eyes full of intimidation earlier made me remember the incident in front of the hall it”.

A gust of wind managed to blow away the fallen leaves right on Yira's lap. My hand reached out to grab the leaf and stared at the leaf. Yira caught the look on my face that made her forehead wrinkle.

“The leaves are adhering beautifully to a sturdy twig in place, eventually swept away by the wind with a single blow unwinding it. Something that is branded as own chooses to be separated by a fate that is difficult to guess. Like a bird that lost control flying when its wings broke”, said me with a netra that began to look – glass staring at the clear sky.

“Morning growth that makes the body reluctant to rise, in the end forcing themselves to move for the sake of the stomach that began to protest. The cold morning air greeting the skin makes it wrinkle to hold the body back shivering. The desired warm decapitation remains limited. A depressing picture”, said Yira who replied to my words.

We also smiled behind the wounds that were hitting us. Without needing to say a word, I could feel that Yira and I were in the same position. Smile while enjoying the warm morning air.

Quite far away from my existence, someone stood up with a sigh of relief coming out of his lips. As much as possible, I will be your shadow protector, the Diamond Maisara.

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