OPACAROPHILES

22. Gini yes, it feels like a second lead.

That afternoon Meta was sweeping the courtyard of the house quietly until someone dressed in all black came to him. Meta knew the person, so he immediately walked back slowly.

"Do you want to come here, Bram?," asked Meta in a voice trembling in fear.

"Hi, let's meet again!," said Bram with a heavy voice as he walked closer to Meta.

"Don't come any closer, Bram" Meta told Bram.

"I'm just here to take you to lunch together, right?" asked Bram.

"I wouldn't want to eat with a killer" Meta replied, leading Bram to look at her angrily.

"Who do you call a killer?" Bram replied with a smile.

"You, you killed my husband. Your own best friend, Bram!," Meta yelled in annoyance at Bram. He hated bram because Bram was suffering.

"It's all because of you, Meta. You made me kill your husband" Bram replied with a moving hand reaching for Meta's hand.

"Don't you dare hold me!," Meta stomped roughly at Bram's hand who wanted to grab his hand.

"You've got the same courage I am now, as I said last time. If your child is still trying to find evidence of Jess' death, you and your child will never be safe. But for real, he's still trying to find her. So now, I'm not going to play around anymore" Bram said, hugging Meta and injecting the anesthetic in his arm, causing Meta to groan in pain before fainting in Bram's arms.

"I'm not going to let you open your voice, Meta," Bram whispered to Meta's ear. After he writes a letter to Love with a liquid of blood, Bram takes Meta into his car and immediately passes away from there.

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Love is still standing restlessly because her mother disappeared, now Love is in the police station with Om Detective and Om Chandra. While his other friends, were asking neighbors around his house and also checking cctv around the house at the nearest police station.

"Love is calm, yes. Your mother will be fine" said Chandra who made Love speechless in her place. How could he believe that his mother would be all right, if in reality his mother was being kidnapped and no one could guarantee his mother would be all right.

"I got the cctv tape sent the same Gega," Om Detective suddenly got up from his seat and showed me the cctv footage that Gega got from the police station around his house.

In the recording, a male figure in black clothes came to the house of Love. It was clear when Mom was surprised and the two were seen arguing until finally the man took Mom in his sling and put her in the car. But before the man got into the car, his eyes were met with cctv cameras. The male's eyes are clearly visible after the cctv camera is zoomed in.

"Love's seen the man's eye Om" the words Love just made Chandra and Detective Om stare at him.

"Do you see where Love is?" asked Detective Ok.

"Near the house, three weeks ago. At night, Love's time is ushered home as Luka runs out of Gega's house. Love accidentally hits that person, and our eyes look at each other for a moment. Love remembers because the person has a wound near the right eye and the left eyebrow," Love replied, pointing to the right eye and left eyebrow of the person on the cctv.

"That means, this person has been targeting you and your family for a long time because he already knows that you will bring this case back," said Chandra who made Love and Om Detective nodded in agreement.

"This can reinforce that Mother Love holds an important secret where it could be the answer for us to find the culprit. But because the culprit knows, he immediately moves to kidnap Mother Love so as not to open his voice about this case," said Detective Om.

"What photos in the black box are Father Love, Mother Love, and the perpetrator or friend of Father Love?. This makes sense, doesn't it?" Chandra asked Detective Om.

"Yes. Love remind, the story of the soldiers who have worked with your father and also his best friend?," said Detective Om.

"Remember, Om. What does Om mean, the whole point of all this is jealousy?," Love's guess so aptly makes Detective Om smile.

"Truely, the first reason is because your father got a promotion, while your Dad's best friend dropped off and disappeared afterwards. The second reason, if from this photo, women one and two men. As with most stories we know in society, this could be a love triangle. Your dad got your mom, but your dad's best friend likes your mom, too. Because in the cctv earlier, they both look to argue. If they don't know each other, he won't make small talk like that" said Detective Om, who made things more clear.

"So his motive is jealousy?," asked Chandra to confirm that the retorted nod by Om Detective.

"Now, we have to figure out a way to save Mother Love so we can get a clue about the culprit. We need his physical features, because the photo is too blurry to see clearly what his face looks like" said Detective Om.

"We can ask the police for help as well so that more are looking for the existence of Mother Love. Love and others should be more careful from now on. Om, and Om Chandra will help you find the clue again" Detective Om told Cinta.

"Yes, Om," Reply Love soberly. Really, he was very worried about his mother's whereabouts now.

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It's been five days since Mom's disappearance, but they haven't found her yet. Love is almost mad because it cannot find the whereabouts of its mother. He was afraid that the culprit would do something to hurt his mother. Love is now in her class. There was Gega, Luka, and also Zemira there. The four of them are also silent because they do not want to disturb Love who is thinking a lot.

"Why can I eat if I just don't know Mom has eaten or not, I'm afraid Mother why-why Ge," replied Love.

"Where can we also find Mom lo, if she is sick?" asked Luka with her flat face. He also worried about the health of Love because the girl had not eaten since two days ago.

"Tell Luka, your health is most important" said Zemira while thrusting a box of food in front of Love.

Then without refuting again, Cinta immediately feed her food slowly. His mind was busy wondering, is his mother okay now? Did his mother eat? Did the perpetrator treat Mom properly?. His mother must be scared right now.

"It's been five days, but we haven't seen a clue where Cinta's mother is" Gega said in a low voice.

"And I have a story that from yesterday I want to tell you. So a few days ago, I was again at the lake where usually Love sees the sunset. As I parked there was a man dressed all in black standing between the cars. I suspected that the man was following me, until finally he wriggled me again to watch him and he ran away from me. I was chasing, but suddenly a car came and he went straight in. It really makes me sure that the culprit is not aware of each of us," continued Gega who made the three look at him.

"Because he knows, if we know about the case," said Luka.

"Zem, from now on you have to be delivered with the driver, yes. I'm afraid the culprit will also disturb you," Gega told Zemira.

"That's for sure, but don't forget that I can also defend myself. Take it easy," Zemira replied with an annoying face.

"But you also have to be careful, yes. I don't want you to do anything, Zem," Love replied in a worried tone.

"What you should worry about is yourself, Love. You are the most likely possibility for why-why," said Zemira while stroking the hand of Love.

"Love let me take care of you" replied Luka who made Love look towards her.

"You don't have to overdo it, Luka. You also have to take care of yourself" Love said.

"Gue won't be okay if you are okay," said Luka who makes Love smile.

"You are the most able to make me unable to resist it" replied Love with a genuine smile.

When the atmosphere is warmer, suddenly Love gets a video message from an unknown number.

"I got a video message from an unknown number" said Cinta who surprised the three.

"Video from an unknown number?" asked Gega.

"Mother..," Love said as she looked at her mother's figure on the mobile screen with a face full of wounds and a body tied to a chair. His hands and feet were tied with rope.

"Mother hiks..," the cry of Love broke when hearing the loud impact of an object coming from behind the screen of the video. It seems like a voice made by the perpetrator.

"Love...Mom is fine. You don't worry, yes." said Meta in a weak-sounding voice.

"Love take care of yourself, yeah. I'm not papa" continued Meta. After that, there appeared a male figure dressed all in black that only visible part of his eyes.

"Hi, sweet boy. Are you tired of having a beautiful mother? Otherwise, why would you just be quiet and not look for your mother's whereabouts?. Last night, I finished doing something really fun with your mother, because you didn't come to pick her up. If you are bored, I will not mind accepting your mother. Don't forget, too, that I won't be playing around anymore right now. You start it, let me end the game," said the man with an annoying laugh at the end.

After saying that, the man got up from his seat and hit Meta's body with a belt that made Love scream in fear.

"I'm not going to let you win, Love," The video ends quickly after the man says a line that makes Love cry.

"Wound, Mother how is Luka?!!! Mother must be in pain hiks..hiks...hiks....! Please Mother Luka..," Love looked at the Wound next to her with glassy eyes. Love is weakly bowed with a shoulder that shakes in tears. Luka embraces the girl's shoulder trying to strengthen her, as does Zemira who whispers the soothing word for Love.

"Sorry Love, Ma'am..hiks Mother." muttered Love with her cries.

"Send me the phone number, let me help you track. In modern day kayaking, we can also track the location of the video," said Luka who made Gega quickly grabbed Love's phone and sent the video and unknown phone number to Luka. Luka immediately tracked the location of the video with the advanced technology on her phone. While Gega suddenly became silent in his place.

There are things that make Gega feel jealous of Luka, on the phone Love contact name Luka saved with a very sweet name. Ice Man. He is just Gega. Short clear and solid. It makes Gega more self-conscious that he is not someone who Love likes, but only limited to friends. And that reality is really hard to accept with a chest of air. Before the war, he was declared defeated. He has not expressed his feelings to Love, but it seems Love has already stated first that Love likes Luka not him.

Can't I just try to express my feelings? But Love prefers the same Luka like, it turns out gini it feels like a second lead in Korean drama, Inner Gega said with jealousy.