Ghost School
Special Episode 8: Asahi Family
"...."
Yurin was now sitting at her study table while daydreaming looking out the window.
"I'm bored..." Yurin Mumbles
Yurin decided to go downstairs. When he came down the stairs, Yurin saw his parents laughing with a photo album in front of them.
"Papa, Mama, what are you doing?" Tanya Yurin approached her parents.
"Oh, we're looking at an old album" replied Yurin's mother.
The album his parents saw was an album that contained Yurin's childhood. Yurin was tired of seeing it.
In the middle, Yurin sees a cardboard box containing many other albums that Yurin has never seen before.
While her parents were busy with her childhood album Yurin, Yurin secretly watched an album she had never seen.
How shocked Yurin was to see the photos of her parents' youth.
"Waaa!!"
Yurin's reflexes shouted in amazement at the photos of her parents.
Old man Yurin was startled and turned to look at Yurin.
"!!! Ririn, don't look at that!" Shouted his mother
Surely, Yurin's mother took the album in Yurin's hands. But before his mother captured, Yurin first hid it behind his body.
"Eeeyy, why? Mama and Papa are very beautiful and handsome when they were young~ Oh, of course it's still the same now"
"Haaahs... This kid..." Mumbled his mother was ashamed
"By the way, Pa, Ma, how did you guys meet? Tell Ririn~"
"No way!" Reject his mother
"'Today I met him again. After all this time, I finally dared to take her to take a picture together'. Does this mean Mama took Papa to take a picture? And the photos are the ones on this album?" Yurin asked with her eyes fixed on the writing on the album.
"Yyyamaakkkk! Don't read!!!" Shouted his mother
Yurin took a piece of paper from the album.
"Mama dan Papa ceritalah padaku~ Kalau tidak akan aku baca semua yang ada di kertas ini~" Ancam Yurin
"Alright, alright!! Don't read it again!!" Her mother screamed with a red face. On the sidelines, Yurin's father laughed silently.
"Why are you laughing?! Quickly tell me and solve this problem" whispered his mother to his father in annoyance
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Asahi Yuji's.
The only child of the Asahi family. Although the family is now ordinary, but several generations before the Asahi family is very influential and historic.
'One of the families that has an ancient royal bloodline', makes the family have high self-esteem.
As the son of the Asahi family, moreover he is an only child, Yuji's future has been set by his parents since he was born.
"A son was born in the Asahi family. It's a blessing!!"
"The future of this family is bright! We have to lead this kid down a straight path"
"If the Asahi family is not a direct descendant, but we still have royal blood. We have our pride!"
The family is very strict and wishes a lot to Yuji. Yuji was not allowed to do anything as he wished. Since childhood at the age of 4 years, he continues to be educated to learn and is not allowed to play like other children.
Of course, as a normal child Yuji can also rebel and run away from home avoiding all the rules in his family.
One day at the age of 7-year-old Yuji runs away from home for the first time, avoiding a lesson that would begin a few minutes later.
"Heah... I don't want to read a lot of that confusing writing. I don't write until my hands hurt. Not to count. I want to stay here until night" Yuji muttered as he walked and kicked a pebble in the street.
In the middle of Yuji who was walking, he saw a little girl who was smaller than him playing on a swing by himself. Along with Yuji who was staring at the little boy, he also looked back at Yuji.
The little boy instead of smiling, looked at Yuji intently and turned his face away.
"What a little boy. Strange" Yuji thought annoyed and turned his face away as well.
*
After he runs away, Yuji becomes addicted to continuing to run away from home.
Yuji ran away from home not once or twice. But 3 to 4 times a week he will run away.
And every time he ran away and came to that place as usual, he would cross paths with the girls playing the swing.
The girl seemed to have misunderstood Yuji.
"You came here on purpose because of me?!" Yells
"Where does your confidence come from?! Don't be stupid!" Yuji shouted back
"I'm sure you keep coming here!!"
"What's wrong with me here?! This isn't your house. I'm not here to see you either! Anyway, I'm just passing by, what part am I looking for because of you?!" Yuji shouted in annoyance
Since then, Yuji no longer walks through there, and searches for a new hiding place.
"Women are really troublesome! I have to find a new place" Yuji muttered
After a long time Yuji moved to a new place, now he has a group of fellow men of the same age in the area. They have 4 members if counted with them.
Yuji continued to play with them until they turned 12.
Then...
"Eh, he said there's a pretty girl"
"Really?! Where's?"
"Yes! I don't know, but he said next door. Let's try it there!"
"Come, come!!"
"next-door area? That was my hiding place before. I'm lazy there, I'll see you again with that weird girl" Yuji thought
"I'm not coming. You three go" Yuji said
"Eeyyy~ Where can. If we go, we all go. If not, we all don't go. But since the three of us want to leave, you have to come to~"
"Italynn...."
Finally Yuji was dragged away by his three friends.
"That'sit. That was also 5 years ago. It's possible that she's still swinging there" Yuji thought
Once at the destination...
"Maybe... It could have happened..." Thought Yuji denied his previous thought
Justright. The beautiful woman referred to her friends are 3 women who are relaxing. Some play swings, read books, also see flowers. One of the women (Who read the book) is the woman who had a problem with Yuji before.
He who reads books feels the presence of people who come. He glanced towards those people, and could instantly recognize Yuji.
"You still come here?!" Yells
"I thought from the beginning you were weird because you kept coming here. Did you also secretly stare at us from a distance?!" Further
"Yuji, you know each other?" Ask Yuji's friend
"No, I don't know him. It's enough, I want to go home" Yuji said and immediately left the place without responding to the woman.
*
Today Yuji came home sooner than usual. He planned to enter quietly and confine himself in the room.
While she was walking towards the room, Yuji overheard her parents talking in the living room.
"Darling, our Yuji is getting naughty. He ran away from home and did not want to learn. Look, today he ran away again. Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow again will definitely run away again. How could the successor of the Asahi family be like this?" His mother was worried
"This must be because his association is not right in school. Her friend must have invited her to play once she finished school. Yuji has to be transferred from his school, then we find a private tutor for him" replied his father
"You're right. Our good Yuji must not enter into unrighteous association"
Brak!
Yuji went straight into the room.
"I don't want to change schools!" Yuji Shouted
"It's for your own good, Yuji!" Jerk his father
"For my own good? Your work only rules my life! If you hadn't bothered me in the first place, I wouldn't have kept running away like this!" Shouted Yuji.
"Where did you learn to argue with your parents?! It must be from those lowly friends of yours!!"
"I was the one who took them with me! They have nothing to do with it. Don't be so smart!"
"You really are!!"
His father immediately raised his hand and prepared to slap Yuji.
Plaque!!
His father's slap shot out at Yuji's left cheek.
"I have to educate you well after this!"
Yuji glanced at his father and mother in sharp turns.
"If you're questioning how I speak, let's see how you treat me. I'm not a doll you can set up!"
"You are!!" Shouted his father and prepared to slap Yuji again.
But this time Yuji dodged.
"Durrect son!!"
"I'm just trying to protect myself. The first thing I let go was because I knew I was being disrespectful. But the second one won't exist"
Yuji walked out of the room. Before closing the door, he stopped at the door and looked back at his parents first.
"You are very proud of the Asahi clan. But to me it's no more the name of a curse"
His father was re-emotional, but his mother immediately calmed him down. Simultaneously, Yuji instantly closed the door and went back out of the house.
"I lost control of myself..." Thought Yuji
"I'm not in the mood to be home" he murmured.
*
After a few days since the incident, Yuji called his father to talk.
"What's up, Dad?"
"It's about you changing schools"
"I told you no ma---"
"You won't be transferred schools. Provided that..."
"Follow family rules"
"...."
"Dad threatened me?!" Yuji's words were a little stirred up by emotions?"
"The reason you were transferred from school is because you're becoming more rebellious now. If you don't want to move, be a good and obedient boy!"
"From next week there will be a private tutor for you. Learn it right"
"...."
"Just the same. If I insist it won't change my mind. It'll even make you put more pressure on me..."
"It's better now to follow what Dad said. If I act again, I'll be transferred out of that school and not be able to meet my friends"
"I'm just a child with no power. Now I need to duck first"
"Good, dad"
"Is there anything you need to say to me, Yuji?" Ask her father with a sharp look
"Sorry to have behaved so easily. In the future I will... Try hard..."
"And?" Ask his father
"following... What did you say..."
"Good boy"
"Know, Yuji. I will never take you down a bad path. I always try my best for you. So..."
"You just have to do what I tell you to do. It's for your own good"
"For in the past, it was father's fault for not strictly educating you. But from now on it won't happen again"
"Father will educate you properly if you break the rules that have been made"
"...."
"There's an invisible chain holding my neck..." Thought Yuji
"You understand, Yuji?"
"Yes, dad"
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Since that day, Yuji has never run away from home again. He followed the words of his parents. Go to school, after studying family history, take lessons, and more.
There is no more time for Yuji.
Since he was no longer playing, his friend wondered.
"Yuji, where have you been all this time? Since the last time we met the pretty girls in the next area, you've not played with us anymore"
"Is there a problem?"
"...."
Yuji was silent for a moment.
"I don't know, but from now on I can't play with you guys outside of school hours"
His three friends stared at each other.
"Why?"
"...."
Yuji just silently did not respond to her question and just smiled listlessly.
Yuji's friends don't know that the Yuji they know are descended from an ancient kingdom. They also did not know the lineage of the Asahi family belonged to his friend.
*
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Time keeps passing...
And now, Yuji and his friends have entered High School.
"Wow!! There's a cool underclassman coming here!!"
"I guess they've got a boyfriend yet, huh?"
"Looks like I've got to get ready to make a love letter~"
And... Soon they became popular among the female students of the school.
*
1 Month after they entered High School, now they are hanging out in a quiet place. Right behind the school building.
"Hey, aren't you worried about the women in the group?" Ask Jou while eating potato chips, Yuji's friend
"I have no problem~ I finally feel the taste of famous hahahaha!!" Answer Seki (yuji's second friend) and then take 1 potato chip belonging to Jou.
"Well... Thanks to that I had a fight with my girlfriend..." Gumam Rakki, Yuji's third friend
"How many times have I told you, be firm with those people! Tell me you already have a boyfriend, so don't come any closer. I if you're your boyfriend will also be angry" Lecture Jou to Rakki while pointing Rakki using potato chips that he held with annoyance.
"Pff!! Jou, you want to be Rakki's girlfriend?! You're normal, right?!" Shouted Seki and laughed out loud.
"That's a parable if I'm Rakki's boyfriend! You!!" Denied Jou
"Pig-by the way... Yuji, why are you quiet?" Ask Jou
"Aah!" Yuji flinched, waking up from his daydream
"What are you thinking?"
"No. It's nothing"
"What do you think of those people who approached you?" Tanya Jou continued the previous chat
"Emmm... I don't consider them, so I don't feel uncomfortable, happy, or anything like that" Yuji replied hesitantly as he scratched his non-itchy cheek
"Gee..." Saki murmured, and joined the others who were dumbfounded at Yuji's reply
"And I thought Jou was the most heartless among us..." Whisper Seki to Rakki
"I can hear!!" Shouted Jou
"By the way, you really don't think of them? You're not distracted?" Jou asked back to make sure
"Come on. My time has been filled with schoolwork, excursions and family matters. Wherever there is a time I think of them" Yuji replied casually
"How long have you been living your life, my friend?!" Shouted Seki and shook Yuji's body
"I wish I could be like you..." Rakki and Jou
Then...
Teng... Teng... Teng...
"Ah, it's time to enter the next hour"
That was how their absurd talk ended.
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It didn't feel like time had passed, and now it was time to go home.
Chequek...
"I'm home..." Yuji said
"Welcome" answered his mother who came out of the family room.
"Today you're home again this afternoon" said his father, who appeared after his mother.
"Many activities, Dad. SMA is not like SD or SMP" Yuji replied
"Hmmm!" His father snorted and walked away
"It's dinner time soon. You go into the room. I'll call you when the food is ready" said his mother
"Yes, Mommy"
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Once the time for dinner had come, and they had gathered at the dinner table...
"Yuji, there's something you want Mom and Dad to tell you" Yuji's mother said suddenly
"?"
"You know this isn't an ordinary family? Everything was planned from the beginning"
"Please get straight to the point" Yuji said and put the food in his mouth.
"...."
"Your grandfather had a friend who was also a descendant of a conglomerate. Just like us, although they are conglomerates, but the family is not very rich because of branch descendants, not core descendants"
"After mom and dad get married, your grandfather and his friend have agreed to marry you to his granddaughter" Yuji's mother continued
Sontak Yuji was shocked until he choked.
"What?!" Yuji thought in shock
"You okay, Yuji?" Ask her mother and bring water.
Yuji immediately raised his hand, hinting he was fine.
"So my birth, until my life has been planned and arranged?!" Yuji asked a little emotion
"...." - ".Yuji's mother fell silent
"That's a common thing in this family" replied his father
"Even my marriage to a woman I've never even seen?!" Ask Yuji
"Don't spoil it, Yuji. The marriage is done if it benefits the family. Only fools marry for love. Love is misleading. Many people are ruined by love"
"Women are women. What distinguishes him is only his special or lowly lineage"
"...."
Yuji fell silent with his emotions until the veins on his hands and neck sprung up.
"You relax. It's time to eat, so don't make a fuss" Mother Yuji said calming the situation down.
"Who... Who's that girl?" Ask Yuji
"It has nothing to do with you" answered his father
Surely Yuji's emotions are mounting. But he still held it.
"He's my partner's candidate. How can you say he has nothing to do with me?"
"It's parents' business. Wait until the time is right, we'll find you later"
Brak!!
Yuji placed his cutlery onto the table hard.
"I'm done eating, so I'm allowed to go back to my room"
Yuji directly left the dining room.
As soon as he entered the room, he immediately slammed his body into the mattress in annoyance.
"After... They just manage my life..." Yuji muttered annoyed
Then...
Geck... Geck... Geck...
"What else is this?!" Thought Yuji was upset
"I told you, I'm done eating. Mom and Dad please continue eating" Sahut Yuji tried to hold back emotions.
Chequek...
Yuji's bedroom door opened, and his mother appeared behind the door with a faint smile.
Yuji's mother walked over to Yuji, who was lying on his bed, and then sat on the edge of the bed.
"Yuji, are you angry?" Ask his mother
"...."
Yuji did not respond to her mother's question.
".... Mom and Dad are also actually married because of a family matchmaking. When you're told you're getting married to a stranger, you're doing the same thing with you"
"Mom understands you must be angry, upset and not accept"
"But Yuji, you can't do anything. It's become a tradition"
".... I don't care about tradition or anything...." Yuji muttered annoyed
Yuji's mother gently stroked Yuji's head.
"It's not as bad as you think. People from well-known families will certainly educate their children properly. The woman you've been betrothed to is so beautiful and smart. You're gonna get along"
"...."
Yuji did not respond to his mother's remarks.
".... You still need time to think. Anyway, it's also a long time. Let's talk about this again later" said his mother and walked out of Yuji's room.
After that, the conversation about matchmaking was never heard again as if it had never been discussed.
