Prison of Love

Returnees

#41

This morning when Hengky picked me up at the Campus, his face looked flushed with embarrassment. He laughed as soon as he saw me get in the car.

“I swear I was shocked yesterday, darling. Most startled, I became unconscious when I was saying words. Really Akward ya Tuhaaan..!”.

Hengky ruffled her hair in annoyance, she turned to me and laughed again,

“You remember yesterday when I told you to miss the door of a boarding person? That's the biggest excuse I've ever made!”

“But you remain normal. Stay like the Hengky I know.”

“What's normal, dear?

I thought I was caught in someone's house yesterday! My first meeting with the would-be-in-law ended tragically.”

Hengky lowered his head, he shook his head weakly while making a voice pretending to cry.

I laughed while confirming the position of her hair back, “Where is Abah me? Far beyond your expectations, right?”

Hengky raised his face,

“Neg. I knew and was perfect like my shadow. I also knew Abah was an Ustadz. Just did not expect if you will meet suddenly like yesterday.”

“You know? How do you know that? I never told you.”

Hengky laughs again, “What I don't know about you, dear.”

“Many things you don't know about me.”

Hengky shrugged his shoulders, “I don't care about anything else as long as you stay by my side.”

“Oh yes, what about my account? Can you come back?”

I switched the conversation, it felt uncomfortable talking about our relationship more seriously.

Hengky caressed my head, “Pity you must be very stressed because of this person huh? Sampe was malem aja he still update status story not really on your account.”

I nodded, “In fact there are still those who continue to terrorize me with different numbers.

But I'm starting to doubt that this is Shinta. Shinta can't possibly send a message, ‘You always look beautiful, Naya. The more I see, the more I hate you’.”

“Yes, you are right. It's not Shinta.

We'll wait until your account is restored by the app, honey. After that we will soon find out who is the mastermind behind all this.”

“It's been three days huh? Usually have to wait how long?”

Hengky started the car engine and then stepped on the gas pedal,

“Around a week at most. We'll let it go. Think of it while waiting, we can be more concerned for the midterms. After the exam later, we take care of him.”

“Who do you think it is? Are they the same person?”

”If I've suspected some people but you don't need to know, honey. You should focus for the exam.”

I'm speechless. If Hengky already said ‘no’, it means that even if I force or coax him as hard as possible, he still will not flinch.

My mind started to second-guess, is that person really Shinta? Or someone else?

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Are the people who terrorize and hack my social media accounts the same people?

Most curious, I tried to seduce by pretending to be more romantic than usual. If I usually still call him by name, this time I always say,

“Honey, where do we want to eat later?”

“Honey, I borrowed a note during Mr Darwin's course yesterday, can you?”

“Duh, you why the heck lately look so handsome, dear?”

"Honey.. love you.. I feel so good about you.”.

If I'm honest, I'm amused to hear those words coming out of my mouth. To say that sentence, it took more mental and suppressed the strong feeling of prestige from my heart.

But do you want to know what the answer is?

“Hmm...”.

“Iyaa.. later.”

"Yes, same..”.

God, I think I want to eat it all round. He knew very well that I was seducing him, that I was pretending.

And when I sulked, he pretended not to know. He kept acting as usual to me even though I kept it quiet, even though I said tight to him, he still did not care until I finally gave up on my own and missed a week of midterms while holding back curiosity.

One thing that surprised me, this past week Hengky attitude began to change to every man who tried to approach me. Not in the sense of approaching because you like me, but just approaching just talking lightly, saying hello or just smiling.

He would immediately turn his head towards the man and stare into his sharp eyes for a few seconds. Until the man immediately took his eyes off and pretended not to see us.

One example was when Gilang passed in front of me, he smiled while calling my name in a friendly manner. Yeah, just making small talk.

After all, that man is very unlikely to be on the list of dangerous men. With a very neat appearance, the tip of the shirt shirt that is always put in his pants, always trembling and clumsy when talking to women, and also thick glasses that he never let go, he said, everyone will know that it is impossible to hurt even an ant.

Fierce until bowed when Hengky did not take his eyes off for a few seconds. After one minute, he returned to class by taking a different path. No longer passing by my side.

Worse yet, Alfian did not escape his sharp gaze. Unlike Gilang or the others, maybe because Alfian felt close to us, he immediately approached Hengky and pretended to be angry while shaking his waist,

“Why? You wanna fight? Ayook! Here forward!”

Like he was not, Hengky immediately stood up and drew closer towards Alfian, so close that their foreheads almost touched.

He did not say anything but the sharp glare of his eyes was already very representative that he was not messing around at the moment.

Alfian backed off while laughing awkwardly, “Oke-okay... I give up, Oppa Hengky.”

When I asked him why his attitude had become like this, he only answered briefly,

“Don't trust any other man besides me, Naya. Anyone can be a suspect.”

I who at that time did not understand the meaning of his words just patted him on the shoulder while saying that he was being excessive.

One week later, my social media account returned. At first I was just idly trying to open the application, when asked to login to the email address and create a new password at that time I was sure the account had returned.

And sure enough, while shouting happily, I pulled Hengky's hand and told her that my account had returned.

He hurriedly invited me to sit in the corner of the class and asked for my phone,

“We find out, who is the bastard who has made you trouble these few days.”