
“Rit, tomorrow I have an outside assignment for three days so I can't pick you up” Daniel said as he drove Rita home
“Oh yes? out of town?”
“Iya, the company I'm heading to is located out of town so I might stay at a hotel there”
“Be careful, let me know when you get there!”
“Dong sure!” daniel smiled, not feeling like they had arrived at the big house
“Thank you huh? you didn't stop by first?”
“No need, it's night! I go first huh?”
“Daah!! Thank you!” Rita smiled, taking her car away from her home
“Yahh..aku single three days” murmured, he entered the mansion
“who is single?” ask Andi suddenly
“Eh Brother Andi, how come you're home? Said there was project assignment?”
“It's done dong! That's Daniel Rit?”
“Iya”
“Kok didn't stop by?”
“After night he said, after all tomorrow he has to task out of town”
“So right huh?”
“What's it?”
“Say Daniel is no longer his assistant om Radian, he has become agent”
“Agent what?”
“Yes, he is in charge of entering projects proposals. That's a big paycheck!”
“Oh yes? nice dong! If not an assistant again, in the office what position dong?”
“May enter marketing manager.”
“Kak Andi know from where?”
"Grandfather always talks about the condition of the company to me, it's one form of his teachings to me.”
“Oh so”
“Eh lo wear what?” Andi looked at the cloth bracelet Rita was wearing
“Oh this? It's a friendship bracelet, I made. I used to love my brother God, uh he lostin”
“Keep love again?”
“Neg dong. The friendship bracelet is for one person only. If it is lost means it can no longer be”
“Masa? There are rules?”
“no anyway, according to Rita, if the person appreciates friendship usually the bracelet will be maintained right? If lost means the person is not interested in being our friend”
“Indeed we watch our hands continue, know-how just disappear. Not that it does not appreciate friendship” Andi argued
“Ya can also so”
“Lo love Daniel that bracelet?”
“Now!”
“Hah? Why?”
“Because she is not a friend, she is a couple, hehehe..different dong!”
“oh so huh? I think you're the type of person who makes the couple friends”
“Rita to room first sister, tired!”
“he uh!” Andi returned to his cell phone
Rita climbed the stairs with shuntai steps, she saw a cloth bracelet that she just finished making last night.
After the Maghrib prayer, he fell on his bed. His mind floated thinking of Andi's words about partner and friendship. He took a picture of the bracelet and made it his WA status. Not long after the message notification entered his phone.
“That you made yourself?” ask Daniel
“Yes, good no?”
“Good, I kog not made?”
“You want?”
“Mau dong!”
“What color do you like?”
“Same color as yours!”
“Green and white?”
“Iya, can you?”
“Bby, later yes if it is so I love you”
“Siip..you again why?”
“Again lie wait time Isya”
“Oh so, sorry to interrupt.happy break!”
“Daniel!”
“Ya?”
“Tomorrow,...be careful huh?”
“Iya!”
“I will miss you” Rita ventured to express her feelings through messages
“I too,...later there I will tell you continue huh?”
“Iya? Promise?”
“Iya!”
“Heheheh...thank you!” Rita gives emoticons a smile and heart
“Happy break!” Daniel replies to Rita's message, he puts a cell phone on his chest, his heart thumping.
“While I just met earlier, he already said kangen!” Daniel smiled, then hugged the joy cushion.
While Rita ordered a special thread online, she wanted to make a couple bracelet for her and Daniel. Without feeling the night getting late, he locked the doors and windows, then slept
The next morning, the,
“I leave first huh?” Rita said goodbye to Andi who was still busy with her breakfast
“What's to school?”
“Bus” rail
“Hmm..” suddenly Andi got up and typed a message on her phone, Rita was busy wearing her shoes
“Oke is ready, leave first yes brother!”
“Ya!, it's Scott already waiting in front”
“Scott?”
“Iya driver, grandpa says you delivered driver!”
“eh, buti.”
“Already, mumpung si Scott is unemployed. Daniel didn't pick you up this morning?”
“iya sih”
“Then delivered Scott only, ask to stop where it is.”
“Oke sis, thank you yes?” Rita leaves the house and rides in a white SUV
“For Scott” greet Rita
“Again! To non school?” ask Scott
“Iya, later stop at the front stop, do not enter into school”
“ready non!”
The car glides at medium speed during the trip Rita put headphones on her ear, she listens to her favorite songs, on the way she sees some motorbikes and then tares. A few minutes later he arrived at the front of the school.
“thank you yes Scott!”
“sama-sama non!” answer Scott
Rita walks towards the school gate, she looks very engrossed with music in her ear, until not realizing someone riding a motor sport against her
“Hey Rita!” the biker said, he opened his helmet
“Eh?”
“You want me bonceng till inside?” ask Andre the biker
“No need!, it's close by!” Rita refused, she put her headphone back on and walked away from Andre. Andre pulled his hand
“Bogged very much!” ablaze
“Still morning Dre, do not fuss deh” said Rita firmly, Andre understood with the tone of Rita's voice, he also knew Rita's martial ability, Rita, then he whistled and returned to his bike and left Rita who returned engrossed with the headphone. Sisca hugged him from behind
“Again!” says Merrily
“Again!” rita answered, she opened the headphone
“Tadi Andre yes?”
“Heeh”
“Ngapain him?”
“Forced to joincengin!”
“Wahh...real turns!”
“What's really?”
“Si Andre really has a crush on you”
“If he doesn't, why does he mean that? He was squirming me on the street dicuekin”
“Yes, don't expect him, just find another guy!” said Rita
“You're good at saying that, it's easy to find a guy?”
“Tuh guys! That dude! Just hurry!”
“Enak only! I am cheap!” said Sisca while holding Rita's hand.
When the clock comes home, Rita waits for the bus at the front stop
“Why? Not picked up by Oppa?” ask Sisca who's waiting for an invitation
“She went duty out of town”
“How long?”
“Three days”
“So you three days ride the bus continue dong?”
“No, this morning ushered driver”
“Keep why didn't you ask to be picked up by a driver?”
“Males ah, take bus”
“Eh that's my invitation, first yes Rit?”
“Iyaa!!”
Sisca's car leaves Rita alone waiting for the bus.
Rita is busy replying to a message from Daniel, so as not to notice someone covering her nose with a handkerchief that makes her faint. He woke up in a room, his head a little dizzy.
“Aduuhh..where is this?” confused muttering. The bedroom is now quite spacious and nice. In front of him was food and drink. Rita, who had not eaten since late afternoon, felt thirsty and hungry. Without hesitation he devoured the food prepared for him. After eating, he began to think about how to escape from the room. He looked for his bag, and found his cell phone. He tried to contact someone through his cell phone but the cellphone signal was not obtained, so he put it again in his school bag. Rita remembers the chip under the skin that her mother had implanted. He opened the window of the room and stretched his right hand out, thinking that the signal of the chip would radiate and make someone look for it. But Rita doesn't know, someone calls her home to inform her of her departure for schoolwork. Because the one who received the call was not Andi but one of the house staff, so just record the information without checking Rita's whereabouts.
Rita holds her phone and sits by the window, hoping to get a signal, until someone enters her room. He immediately hid the phone in his pants.
“You're up?” said a half-old woman, who brought a change of clothes
“Sorry I am where ya?” ask Rita in English
“Tonight, you rest first, tomorrow morning you can meet your father” said the old woman with a thick Russian accent, then left Rita alone
“Eh! A minute!” call Rita, the old woman did not heed Rita's call, she just locked the room. Rita tried to open the door of the room, he kicked many times, but the door of his room was quite sturdy, so he felt exhausted. He fell asleep for a moment in front of the door
“ah shit, this must be a misunderstanding” murmured, after thinking for a moment. Rita opened the window, and wanted to get out of her room through the window, but unfortunately, the window was deliberately given iron trellises, the trees around her were also deliberately cut down so that she had difficulty finding a gap to escape. But Rita remembers when she was detained, she piled the chair up, and shook the ceiling hoping for an attic door on the ceiling of the room but she did not find it, without accidentally losing her balance, until he fell down, and the chair overstretched his left leg
“Aduuhhhh...” Erang Rita, her left leg is a bit swollen due to a wooden chair. With a limp he got up and cleaned the benches, then he went to the bathroom to clean himself. His left leg is now swollen and flushed.
“sakittt!” he complained, he changed his clothes with a nightgown that the old woman had brought, then lay down on his bed. He prayed Isya while sitting because his feet are difficult to stand upright, in his prayer he prayed that the people around him realize his absence.
In the big house..
Andi arrived at the big house at night, exhausted he went straight into his room and fell asleep. In the morning, he woke up and had breakfast alone
“Lee, Rita has left school?” asking the butler, he saw a wall clock that showed seven o'clock
“Mba Rita has schoolwork, since last night she did not come home” Lee replied
“School duty? She's staying at her friend's house?” ask Andi
“Maybe Mas”
“Hmm..” Andi continued her breakfast, after which she returned to her room and opened her phone. He got a message from Daniel
“For Andi, sorry to interrupt. Rita is?”
“Rita is on schoolwork, since last night she did not come home” replied Andi replied to a message from Daniel
“school duty? How come he didn't tell me?”
“Did he report all his activities to you?” ask Andi
“Not so, the last time I called him yesterday afternoon, he was waiting for the bus. And he didn't say anything about his schoolwork”
“Oh yes? maybe suddenly” said Andi
“what could it be?” Daniel was doubtful
“Absolutely you can't contact him directly?”
“She has not been able to be contacted since last night”
“Maybe he's busy, I'll try to contact him”
“Good, thank you Ndi!” Daniel ended the message
“Basic bucin!” ledek Andi, he felt lazy to contact Rita, he was again busy with his business.
Without feeling the day had arrived, Andi who had finished with his business was hungry and went to the kitchen, he passed his sister's room. Suddenly he remembered on his promise to contact Rita. He enters Rita's room, and searches for her other cell phone number.
“Connected”, he complained, then he looked for the phone number of his close friend
“If his name is not wrong Sisca” muttered Andi, he searched on the notes owned by Rita, and found several phone numbers. First he called Sisca
“Halo!”
“Ya?”
“This Sisca?”
“Betul, who is this?”
“I Andi her brother Rita”
“Oh?”
“What Rita there?”
“Rita? Didn't he go to school today?” sisca asked confusedly
“Gak school? Didn't he stay in school yesterday because of schoolwork?” andi asked confused
“No!, our school never gives PR” said Sisca
“Oh yes? but there was someone who reported that Rita had a school assignment that made her stay at school”
“To my knowledge Rita did not participate in school exculpation, last I met her yesterday afternoon at the front stop” said Sisca astonished
“Oh yes? all right, can you call this number if you meet him?”
“Well, who was it?”
“Andi”
“Oh Andi, alright!” they ended the conversation. Andi was more surprised, not usually Rita left without permission. He opens Rita's bookcase and searches for her passport and visa
“Still there, complete” murmur. Then he remembered about Rita's favorite place. Without a second thought, he drove his electric car, then drove into the mall. Rita loved the game at the mall. The last time he was upset, he played all day at the game. Andi looked in the game place, and he did not find it.
“Excuse me, you remember this girl?” Andi showed me a photo of Rita from her phone
“Oh, yes remember”
“What is today or yesterday he came here?” ask Andi
“I don't know, I briefly asked my friend who was on duty yesterday. But today I didn't see it” the man asked his friend who was on duty yesterday while showing a photo of Rita, not how long she was back
“ia not here”
“Oh so, well thank you!” Andi started to feel something strange. Then he called his mother
“Halo ma?”
“Ya Ndi? Where are you?”
“Auckland”
“Oh, are you healthy?”
“Sehat ma, alhamdulillah”
“Good, Rita how? Sorry huh? mama is launching a new fashion so has not had time to contact you”
“Iya ma, oh yes. Ma, do we still have chips under the skin?”
“Hmm...why?”
“Andi wants to know just”
“Entah, later mama asked grandpa first, the chip has long been whether it still works or not. Is there a problem?”
“itu ma, Rita”
“Why Rita?”
“From yesterday afternoon have not returned to home”
“Hah? Have you asked his friend? If not wrong name Sisca “
“Already ma, he said today he is also not in school”
“Did he return to Sukabumi?” ask her mother
“No way ma, his passport and visa are still in his room”
“What is he with Daniel?”
“No ma, Daniel's been on duty out of town since yesterday. Last time Andi contacted him, because he lost contact with him since yesterday”
“Don't panic first Ndi, mom will ask grandpa about that chip, hopefully not expired”
“Iya ma, call Andi ya?”
“Iya dear, you be careful huh?”
While Rita who is still confined in the room, woke up from her sleep. When he woke up he was shocked because his left leg which was swollen last night has now been bandaged neatly. In front of him there are food, drinks and change of clothes.
“What time is it?” he saw the day was light
‘’ya pardon I have not prayed dawn” by teased him to the bathroom for ablution, after that back to near his bed then pray dawn while sitting. After the prayer, he sat back down at the front desk and ate his breakfast.
“Yes at least, I do not starve” murmur while eating breakfast in the form of scrambled egg sandwich and fresh milk.
“Alhamdulillah..” he said, he hobbled open the window of his room, he hoped someone would see it. He made a small white flag out of the sheets he had torn he wrote the word HELP and then he tied it to the window, he hoped someone would carelessly see the writing on the small flag.
“Ah shit, who keeps me here?” he complained, he was bored. He went around the room and looked at the things that were there
“Even ghosts are not here” lamented, he opened his school bag and took his phone. He saw the photos with Sisca, Daniel. he unconsciously smiled to himself, then he began to cry. Fear began to haunt him, he felt that this time he could not escape like he used to.
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