Student Agents
Chapter 7's
Anna sat down on the garden chair. Under a shade tree that protects it from the sun that has been as high as possible.
Maybe because it was early summer, it felt like Anna was sweating more than the previous days. The temperature has been higher lately. Although the sun had slipped slightly to the west, the heat was still very much felt.
Luckily the number of trees and plants around makes the air feel a little cooler. That is why he prefers to go to a quiet park rather than staying crowded in the canteen.
In order to get rid of the bad taste she had felt since the incident in the cafeteria earlier, Anna closed her eyes.
For a few minutes Anna enjoyed the calmness, accompanied by the sound of the wind occasionally swiping the leaves. Until a typical male bass voice calls from behind him.
"Anna!"
Anna looked towards the source of the sound. A man of his age was walking over. Unknowingly, clear circles began to fall in the corners of his eyes. The man quickly sped up when he saw the person he was crying. Although Anna's countenance remained expressionless, her tears did not stop flowing.
"Why? Something's bugging you at school, hm? If you want, you can tell me", bargain the man.
However, it was not answered by Anna. He remained silent with tears flowing more and more–though his facial expression was too flat.
In his heart raged various feelings. Sad, angry, haru mixed up making him not know how to express it.
A face that had long been yearned for, suddenly appeared before him. It was something that he thought could not even be described with words. Not because it was too big of a feeling of longing. However, more because he did not understand with the strange feelings that plagued him.
"Cry as much as you. I'm not gonna ask you again if you don't want to."
The man in front of him again opened his voice while stroking the back of Anna's hand carefully. His mind floated up to what the beautiful girl in front of him had in mind. It's not a matter of what is faced. More precisely he was at a loss as to how one could shed tears with such a face. At the same time, the fall of tears is always with sadness or happiness(?)
After thousands of tears, Anna rubbed the corner of her eyes swiftly. Over time he noticed every cent of the man's face that made him cry.
What a perfect sculpture of God's creation. The pupils of the eyes were shaded with colors that made Anna imagine the dense blood that had been allowed to coagulate. Beautiful and interesting according to him. Do not forget the two eyebrows are not too thick but also not thin separated before the base of the nose is pointed like a towering Eiffel tower.
Anyone who sees will probably fall in love with his face. Not with Starla a.k.a Anna. He did not admire that beauty. But his adult attitude which at that time often filled every day the weight that sometimes traversed Starla.
Not as a solution provider. Not with words of motivation. Instead of just sitting near him and receiving every whisper of mockery that was thrown from his mouth without even touching.
"Jack..."
Anna muttered softly without taking her eyes off who was now staring at the grass beneath her feet. Although he was very happy, he still tried to control his emotions. For that he lowered his head, propping his forehead on both hands with his elbows resting on top of his thighs.
The man in front of her got up to sit next to Anna. New questions kept coming to his brain. Among them is a form of curiosity about the name mentioned Anna.
Even so, he stopped asking again after not getting an answer to his first question at all. He remains in the attitude of 'I am ready to accept your complaint. But it won't force you if you don't.'
After successfully neutralizing his mind, Anna spoke up again.
"This is you, Jack?"
The deg!
The person in question was somewhat surprised upon hearing Anna guess Jack as her name. He did not show his surprise. Even so, Anna had caught a change in her expression that was only a fraction of a second before returning neutral.
"Anna, I'm Dae-Ho. What's wrong with you?", he replied with a slightly wrinkled forehead.
"Ah, sorry. I forgot you didn't know about my amnesia." Anna denied telling him about the results of the examination presented by the doctor at that time. Improvise so as not to arouse suspicions that could harm him in the future. Not funny, if someone is rumored to enter the soul of another body that is very beyond reason.
Even if it was true that the man next to him was Jack, there must be a reason why he was evasive. In the spy education he lived while being Starla taught him that if you put excessive curiosity in the wrong place will cause bad things. Didn't the butterfly's wings burn out of curiosity for the fire that was swaying at the end of the room's candle?
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Not much happened. Just silence each other. Each one dissolved in his mind with no one intending to start the conversation. It's not an awkward mood. It is more correctly referred to as the silence desired by both parties.
Such was the state of the two of them until the time he installed with the stopwatch ran out. Anna was leaving when she felt her skirt pocket vibrate by the alarm of her phone that sounded.
After school, Dae-Ho takes Anna home. I don't know what kind of push got Anna into the car. His hand closed the car door without any objection.
"Have you contacted your driver?", asked Dae-Ho, breaking the silence.
"No", replied Anna briefly.
"Call. Later your driver can't find you", Dae-Ho advises.
"No need. Let him pick up the wind", said Anna.
"Haha." Dae-Ho's laughter comes off hearing Anna's words.
Dae-Ho's car has arrived at the mansion. The black sports car entered the parking lot after the gate was opened by security guards. Soon Dae-Ho parked his car at the closest spot to the mansion's main door.
Anna removed the seatbelt that crossed her chest. So does Dae-Ho who rushes down first. While wearing her backpack, Anna grabbed the doorknob of the car. However, Dae-Ho does not open the door for him.
"Thank you" Anna said as a formality.
After Anna leaves Dae-Ho a few steps, the man shuts the car door. Pressing the red button that hangs with the car key held by him. The sound of 'tin-tin', a sign that the car is locked safely.
With a little run, Dae-Ho approaches Anna. The man followed him into the mansion.
Some of the servants who passed by them greeted respectfully. When I met Bi Emile—, the nanny of Anna—, Dae-Ho's turnaround greeted the middle-aged woman first.
"Bi", greet Dae-Ho kindly.
"Eh, Dae-Ho. Add handsome you ya~", reply Bi Emile no less friendly.
They chatted lightly as Anna picked up some snacks that were in the fridge. They met while passing through the kitchen. Bi Emile talks to Dae-Ho like a grandmother and granddaughter. It was as if they were two people who were indeed close like Anna and Bi Emile's relationship.
"Oh yes Bi. Aunty hasn't come home yet?", asked Dae-Ho.
"Yes. Madam usually comes home late at night. Dae-Ho boy is there a need?" Bi Emile asks Dae-Ho.
"Oh, give me this invitation. Then please tell Auntie yes, Bi", sign Dae-Ho. His hand reached into his hoodie pocket, taking out a fancy piece of invitation paper.
Dae-Ho tells Bi Emile after handing over the invitation. Not to forget he gently damaged the hair of Anna who passed by to go to the stairs.
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Anna glanced at the clock sitting on the nightstand near her bed. The number 20.44 changes color every 4 seconds. The room lamp has been extinguished. Instead, a dim light flashed from behind the transparent blue glass shaped muffin mould upside down with the masts— as high as 10 cm—elegan typical ancient Europe.
Anna was coiling behind her thick white broken blanket. His body was lying to the right with his back bent back against the bolster.
"Jack's. Know it? I feel tightness every time I see a face similar to yours."
Anna started babbling on her own. He voiced his heart in a very slow voice. He was so soft that he just moved his lips.
"Have you gone five years without telling me? Not even a trace of yours can I find at all."
His groaning was cut off with a light sigh. A few minutes passed making the room crawled in silence for a moment.
"Just you, Jack. You're the only one who makes me feel this weird feeling. I'm not forbidding you to leave. But why did you leave me feeling confused. What is this feeling?"
His mouth closed tightly again afterwards. Nothing changed with Anna's expression. Only his eyes changed a little. It implies a foreign feeling that he does not understand.
Anna glanced at the clock for the umpteenth time. It turns out that it's been quite a night. Anna confirmed her lying position to go to sleep. After pulling the blanket and turning off the sleeping lights, his eyes closed ending the day to welcome tomorrow.
So big was the impact of the unexpected meeting this afternoon. Until in sleep was again twisted second by second events that made him dazed for a moment.
...TBC....
