
Two hours earlier, Karen took the grab to one of the famous nightclubs in South Jakarta. It took about forty minutes to reach the place. As soon as he arrived and entered the club, the sound of music immediately touched his ears, followed by a dim atmosphere combined with flickering disco lights that hurt his eyes. The strong aroma of cigarette smoke began to fill the circulation of his lungs.
Karen looked at the view. The place was filled with predatory-eyed humans, slang teenagers, and also drunkards and napsus worshippers seeking one night's gratification. Beautiful women dressed in less material clothes were busy squirming their bodies on the dance floor. No matter if some crocodile men come closer to be able to collide with their twin mountains. All that frenzy can not be separated from the glittering nightlife. Honestly, this is the first time he's been to a nightclub alone.
Standing dumb like a confused person, he picked up a cell phone and tried to contact Nadya. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on calling, his body turned here and there like a topsy-turvy when drunk people who came from the front-back accidentally hit his body.
"Where is Nadya, anyway?"
Karen frowned. How could he find Nadya in the sea of people enjoying the paradise of the world?
Outraged at being run over by strangers, Karen sits at the bartender's desk. He tried to contact Nadya. Unfortunately, somehow his best friend did not answer his phone call. For a moment, Karen's attention was drawn to the right-hand corner table occupied by a drunk woman with five men surrounding her. In a dimly lit atmosphere, he could see the five cursed humans roaming the drunken woman. Just looking at him, it made him shudder like watching a horror movie. Especially if you imagine it happening to him.
"Hi, girl, alone again, right?"
Two men came closer, then made small talk to get her acquainted.
Karen ignored them and tried to shift her eyes while looking for Nadya. However, one of the men changes positions thus blocking Karen's view.
"Drink, yuk, cave treat!" bargain the man while pouring one type of alcohol with a famous brand. He then handed a small glass to Karen.
"No, thanks. I don't drink alcohol" Karen refused.
"Try me first. I've been here without a drink," woo the man while a little pushy.
"No, no," Karen again refused and tried to get away from there.
However, the other man even held his arm. "Where are you going? Talk to us, yuk! Let's pay for the table, huh!"
"Sorry, I made a pact with a friend." Karen is increasingly concerned with the behavior of these uninvited creatures.
Apparently, they still insist on inviting Karen to chat and drink together. There was an act of refusing between them so as to make a drink in a glass held by the man spill over Karen's chest.
"Well, sorry, accidentally" said the man while deliberately holding onto Karen's wet chest.
That indecent action certainly got a shocked response from Karen. Suddenly, his five tapered fingers floated directly on the man's cheeks.
"Don't be insolent, yeah!" Karen Air.
Unable to get a slap from her, the man slapped her back.
"Sok selling expensive anyway, you! Tell me you came here to find a rich om-om prey, right?" The man pushed Karen until her back hit the corner of the table. As if dissatisfied, they lifted the woman up, then laid her down on an empty table while blocking her hands.
Karen tried to rebel and asked for help. Unfortunately, his voice was drowned with the sound of music and people were stupid with the circumstances around. Not to mention, the strength he possessed was incomparable to the strength of those two savage men. Even the T-shirt he was wearing had been lifted so that it revealed his smooth flat stomach. When they were about to perform a s3xual assault on him, suddenly a man pulled on the shoulder of one of the men and then hit him. It turns out that the man is Feril who came as a hero of the night.
(N: s3xual assault is sexual assault)
Apart from the two men, Karen took advantage of the moment by directly escaping through the crowd. Meanwhile, Feril who was fighting with the two men then stopped immediately when one of them shouted.
"No, girl's running away!"
Feril. Sure enough, Karen had already disappeared from his sight. Suddenly, he directly hit their heads in annoyance.
"Well, why are we wronged? It's your own fault why use a pretentious fight with us. The cave again. Where was slapped from a girl. Sick knows!" ringis the man while holding his cheek.
"Let's look cool cake in the movies! The cave wants to chase him first" said Feril while running after Karen.
Usut had a stretcher, it turns out this is all a scenario Feril failed miserably. The real storyline is that the two men are tasked with disturbing Karen so she can appear as a hero and continue with her next plan. Unfortunately, as the saying goes "If the squirrel jumps eventually tired too", the initial plan did not go smoothly. Evidently, the target fled instead.
Karen walked with a trembling body through the corridor to find the exit of the club. The sound of music enslaving people on the dance floor, plus the incident he had experienced, made him not realize if his phone continued to ring from earlier.
He managed to find the exit and rushed away from the place with a sense of trauma. So afraid, he walked a few meters away from the entertainment building that night. When he was about to order the grab, he was jolted at the phone call coming from Darren. When he was about to call back, the woman's hand suddenly stiffened instantly. He was afraid to say he had just come home from a nightclub, especially if he had to tell about the abuse he had just experienced.
Suddenly his phone screen raised Nadya's name as a caller. Karen answered her friend's phone.
"Kar, why call these gini nights? Sorry my phone was again charged," said Nadya who called back when she found out Karen had called her many times.
"Where are you? I was at the club you were playing at, but I was ...." Karen's speech came to a standstill as she recalled the violence and abuse she had just experienced.
"Huh? Who told you to the club. My man is the mascerine at home!"
Karen flinched for a moment. "Aren't you DM me?"
(N: DM stands for direct message: direct message)
"DM? No, no!"
"Don't anyone steal your account! You see, the DM I used to use your account kept telling me to meet at the club." Karen spoke in a hasty tone and almost cried.
"Times, anyway?" Nadya was shocked to mix in disbelief.
Inside the club, Feril returns to his friends after failing to catch up with Karen.
"Anjeeerr! A girl's saying!" screech Feril while removing the headband from his head.
"You're not lucky, Ngab!" said friends.
Farel came closer while showing something on his phone screen. "Take it easy, that cave was already a photo, really. This we can use let him break up with his girlfriend!"
Feril smiled obliquely looking at the photo of Karen who was flanked by two men while being offered alcohol. There is also a picture of him lying on the table, with a man on it. Those poses will certainly make people misunderstand if they see it.
Karen finally arrived at the apartment. When he turned around after closing the main door, he was stunned to see Darren standing not far from him with a sharp look. The smell of alcohol stuck to his shirt, as well as the slightly disheveled hair made Darren think the woman he married was drunk.
"Good, yeah! After filming instead of going straight home, even fun ngedugem!" darren said sarcastically with an expression of anger clearly imprinted on his face.
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