FULL-FLEDGED
Between Dreams or Memories?
The same pine forest. Dusk light. White rose cover. And the same mysterious shadow. Slowly the eyes showed the light. Red eyes that are as thick as blood. Closer and deeper into those eyes. There's a lot of pain stored there. There are hurt, sadness, worry, and waiting. Behind it all, there was a very dark darkness. As if swallowing her figure slowly, Ralin felt a deep cringe. Fear attacked Ralin in his mind.
“ Kyaaa.. ” pekik Ralin was shocked to see the mother glaring with her manyun lips beside Ralin who was awake from her sleep. “ Mother!!. ” Ralin hugged tightly the figure of the mother who looked at her son in wonder.
Not sure if he was happy because he woke up from his nightmare. Or was she feeling scared because of her dream, Ralin felt her feelings were so mixed this morning. There is something that seems to tickle and squeeze the inside of his stomach simultaneously.
“ What? ” respond mom relax. “ This child! Built from earlier even want to pull the blanket again.” chirped the mother. “Emang want to get punished again from the brother? Wake up gih. ”
“ Ngg... ” Reply Ralin feeling lazy. “ No akh! Cape got the law of the brother and his friend, bu.” added Ralin.
Her memory goes back to Andra, the vice-chairman of the ex-OSIS - the driver-car-the black Mercedes-Bens - who gave her the penalty of cleaning the teacher's room toilet because she was late for school the other day. Having to tidy up the books in the library after school for a week just because it was too late to deposit the student questionnaire to the school administration, and even more annoying for Ralin is when the last day of his sentence tidied up the library book, which is the first day of his sentence, he had to deal with a library guard who was notoriously fierce for accidentally tearing up one of the school's book collections after he was bullied by Andra who visited on that day.
Ralin hurriedly buried his face in the void pile before him. “ Alin does not want school!! ” his whine is upset considering all his misfortune dealing with the figure of Andra.
“ If so the pocket money of the mother cut a week. ” said the mother with a face that was so happy because she could punish her favorite child and save money for her daughter.
“ Ibuuuuu... ” looks Ralin quite clear to see the expression of the mother who was so happy. " Where's the money? Ralin get ready now! "
Ralin rush to get up and enter the corner bathroom without making sure the bathroom is empty or inhabited. Once silent, Ralin again shouted hysterically to see the brother standing bare-chested while shaving a little thin feathers that had grown around his chin and top of his lips. Scratched and spitting out a little blood due to the actions of Ralin that shocked him, Rassya rushed out and rubbed the fresh blood that flowed slowly towards his neck.
“ What the hell lo, Lin? ” reprimands Rassya after successfully cleaning up the flowing blood and covering part of his scratch wound with toilet tissue.
“ Who told you not to lock the door! ” let Ralin try to take his eyes off.
Whether seeing the flowing red tap water mixed with Rassya's blood in the sink or because of the blood red color of the tissue that Rassya used to cover his wound, Ralin felt an instant thirst. A thirst that really made him want to drink a lot of water immediately. Or maybe something else.
Holding her thirst in her throat, Ralin immediately entered the bathroom without excuse. Doused it directly all over the body with the air shower. Still in her sleeping pajamas, Ralin let her whole body get soaked with the clothes she was wearing. Every water that soaked his face and entered his mouth, increasingly making Ralin feel the strange things that have always happened in the last few months.
Prolonged thirst and thirst.
His mind is getting late. The dream is always the same. Eve strange in the corner of the school parking lot and other oddities. Ralin looked at himself at the mirror inside his bathroom. Stared
her shadow is fixed. Those eyes are shining. And there was another smile implied behind the cheerful face of Ralin.
“ Next time be careful, Sya? ” reprimand mom. At the end of the hallway which is only a few meters from where Ralin stands now. It seemed that the mother was talking about something serious with Rassya. His father was patting his brother on the shoulder.
“ Tomorrow-tomorrow not to repeat again huh? ”
Trying to steal a listen, Ralin could only smile stiffly as soon as mother turned that strange look on him. There was fear along with an understanding look from the mother for her.
“ You are also Alin. ” tegus the mother with a slightly taut tone. “ Tomorrow-tomorrow be more careful again well?! ”
Ralin smiled knots then nodded in understanding. Rassya also looked at him sourly after successfully sticking the wound with the wound plaster given to him by his mother.
" My handsome can be reduced because of your actions, Lin! " the grunts passed through Ralin to prepare for school. Looking at her dumb-ass sister with her mother's reprimand and the father's gaze that seemed different from usual, Rassya stopped her steps at the end of the hallway. " Want to go to school with me isn't Lin? "
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“ Brother. ” call Ralin from behind Rassya's back.
“ Hmm.. ”
“ Pain, Lin! ” snapped Rassya stopped the speed of his motor suddenly. It made Ralin quite surprised and slightly butted the back of the brother. “ Get off lo!! ” added rada exasperated.
“ Get off here?! Tega very lo get off me in the middle of the road gini! ” Ralin swerved while patting Rassya's shoulder rough for not accepting the way his brother vented his anger.
“ Yes, get off Lin. This has arrived at school. ” replied Rassya a little furious with his sister's behavior. “ Do you want me to deliver to the class using the motor? ” grunts again.
“ Hehe... have you arrived? ”
Wrong behavior, Ralin finally got off the motorcycle with a little awkward with the excitement he just did.
The new Rassya will enter the parking area and from the rear, the speed of the Rassya motorbike is followed by the black car of the other OSIS administrators.
Again they. Inner Ralin was irritated.
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Ralin's steps must be towards the main building of the school when he saw the black Mercedes Bens car owned by the Osis administrators passing beside him. Getting closer to the end of the driveway, Ralin accelerated because Andra, the vice chairman of OSIS, was lowering his car glass and staring strangely at Ralin. A look that ensures something. Or want something.
Irritated.
Just at the end of the road, Ralin stopped his steps. He turned his head and looked back at Andra, the vice chairman of OSIS. “ Weird! ” ralin's curse when the umpteenth time the same gaze given Andra the vice chairman of OSIS to him.
“ Who's weird? ” Atlas just know how to say hello with his trademark smile that somehow came from which direction. Things like this have happened for the umpteenth time in the last few weeks.
Ralin turned back casually. “ Yes elo! ” replied Ralin sekenannya. His gaze was getting irritated. He remembers the day when Ralin realized that Atlas was hiding something from him. The day they should be late and get punished together.
*still about two hundred meters from the main gate of the school, Ralin who was escorted by his father saw Atlas still walking leisurely far behind him. The entrance bell rang from earlier. Realizing that he did not want to be punished alone, Ralin chose to wait for Atlas in front of the school gate. He looked and waited for Atlas who was walking leisurely. In his ear was a white headset that he always seemed to carry with him wherever he went.*Just a blink of an eye, the figure of Atlas who should still be away from the school environment disappeared from Ralin's sight. The figure of Atlas is no longer in the only main road to the school yard. But Ralin only turned his gaze to Andra the vice chairman of Osis who called him to prepare to give punishment, he said,
Ralin was stunned by what he experienced that morning.
Once awakened while serving his sentence, Ralin saw Atlas sitting casually in the corner of the balcony of class IPA 1 on the second floor which is his class. At that time, Atlas just stared and gave his trademark smile to Ralin who was sweeping the main courtyard of the school alone as punishment for his delay.
Returning from his memory of yesterday, Ralin found a serious gaze from Atlas who did not also leave his presence after Ralin said that “ Herself was strange.”
“ Weird why? ” ask Atlas enthusiastically.
Ralin looked back. And immediately a strange feeling appeared and whack Ralin's feelings. Very close and deep. Stared as seriously as that by Atlas, Ralin's heart pounded fiercely. Ralin also felt that there was a swish that flowed so fast in each pulse. Another shadow appeared in his mind. A piece of memory or a dream shadow that he had dreamed several times.
“ Atlas! ” call the figure of Ralin who in the shadow of himself is wearing a knee-length black dress with a basket of white roses. From a terrace of the house that looks so shady, the figure of Atlas called Ralin only showed a face with a mysterious smile. The face that always appears in his dreams.
Ralin called out to Atlas. The person who should be standing in front of him right now. But the figure of a person who passed by in his mind was not the same person as Atlas who was now staring fixedly at him. Ralin turned his gaze to the other Osis administrators. Especially to Andra the vice chairman of Osis.
What's wrong with me? And what about the two people who have been bothering me lately?
Ralin shifted his gaze from Andra to Atlas, who smiled meaningfully before him.
" We have arrived" said Atlas amid the daydreams of Ralin who continued to step in the residence towards his classroom.
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