SUDDEN INDIGO

34. WHAT'S WRONG WITH DANIAL?

...WHAT'S WRONG WITH DANIAL?...

...(.(.WHAT HAPPENED TO DANIAL?)...

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“BARENG ME AJA!” Leana offers her best friend a favor. “Maybe Nakula's sister is busy again so can't pick up lo,” he continued scaring.

“Nakula definitely dateng kok.” Aurel answered confidently.

“Dilangin don't believe. Now it's five o'clock on the Rail, and then Maghrib. You are not afraid of ghosts,” Leana still scares her best friend with ulterior intentions so that Aurel accepts her offer to go home together.

“Dih, you wrong person times An. Not arrogant, but if the affairs of ghosts have become my daily food mah.”

Leana felt stupid. “Gue forgot, you are indihome.”

“Indigo, Leana.” Aurel Correction.

“Iya, yes, joking doang it mah.”

“There!” evict Aurel.

“Plis to Rail. Come with my car! I promise deh fit on the road later I will tell you the next-class ghibahan material that I was horrified this morning,” Leana is still trying to persuade, this time with the lure of gossip material.

Sweet smile first printed on Aurel's face, “No need An. Brother Nakula picked me up. Besides our house is not in the same direction,” reject Aurel.

“Four more Rail. Yuk!” Leana clenched her best friend's arm.

“Not to An. Go home, kasian bokap you wait outside!”

“Ya already, bye...” Leana waved her hand before it passed.

“Gue to talk to lo!” someone just opened the topic with Aurel.

“Speaking aja!” aurel replied indifferently. His eyes had not checked but the voice had convinced him that the owner of the voice was Danial Wirawan.

Significant changes occurred in Aurel's attitude. It made Danial feel a little strange and at the same time wondering. Aurel continued to ignore him. Time in class Aurel deliberately ditched face when Danial opened the topic with him.

“Rel lo why the hell did I?” Danial held Aurel's arm quite firmly as the girl began to raise her legs trying to dodge.

“Gue no longer want to deal with lo!” Aurel clucked as he was about to pull his hand out of Danial's hand cage, “Please me!” the rest sounds demanding.

“Gue will not release your hand before there is a reason that you reveal!” Danial insisted. His hands even tighter around Aurel's wrists. He did not care about the pain that the girl would feel as a result of her super strong grip.

“Gue disappointed with lo!” aurel is unmitigated.

“Just because I lied about the ghostly cause to follow me? Or because I've told my friends the exact incident in the warehouse?” ask Danial.

“Iya,” short Aurel but able to drop a powerful jaw belonging to the man before him.

“Sorry.” Danial cupped his hands pleading for Aurel's mercy.

“And, I know the word sorry is not in your dictionary. I also want to say thank you because at that time you ever said sorry to me. But, Dan. You also can not continue to take refuge with the word sorry.”

“Wait a moment!” danial's expression seemed to think critically when both his hands were raised, hinting that the girl in front of him stopped talking, “Entah why I feel if you just find a gap in order to avoid me.”

Aurel had a gulp of his saliva. He didn't expect Danial to think that far.

“Yakin?” Danial then smiled disdainfully.

A faint frown was being painted on Aurel's forehead. One word that Danial said was too big a question mark.

“Means lo?”

“Lo sure won't help me again?”

Doubts were running through Aurel's head. But the girl still nodded in response to the question of the man with thick eyebrows.

“We will see later, I hold the words lo.” Danial rushed to the parking lot. Leaving Aurel who was still staring at his back further away.

“Actually what the hell does it mean?” Aurel silently thought about Danial's words.

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It's still eight o'clock. Aurel is going to bed early. Besides having no schoolwork, Aurel was also thinking a lot. You could say his mind is currently branching out. On the one hand he thinks of his best friend and on the other he thinks of Danial. And yes, Aurel has not been able to accept the fact that he is starting to like Danial. It's too hard to admit it, considering himself and Danial more worthy of being called cats and rats who fight every time they meet.

Right after tying her long hair with a rubber band, Aurel got up to take his footsteps to the bed.

He had not even closed his eyes after he fell on a soft mattress, but the ringing of his cell phone required him to stretch out his hand to pick up the flat object he had placed on the nightstand.

Danial's name is on there. That made Aurel cringe. Has Danial forgotten his agreement to act like a stranger?

Aurel long enough to weigh in with his wits. Whether he should take his call or just the opposite.

And in the end he was defeated by the assumptions his head made. After pressing the green button, the phone is positioned in front of his ear.

“Halo...” Aurel dimmed his eyes when he realized there was no response from the man across there. “Dan...” call him once again sounds full of caution.

“Rel please me!” danial said, his voice hoarse while his tone sounded pleading.

Eyes that had dimmed suddenly glared. His heart pump started beating unequally. Aurel panic. He got up and sat his tiny body on the edge of the bed. “Lo is where?” ask Aurel.

“T-please Ggu-e Rail!” said Danial stammered.

“Iya I will nolongin lo. But answer first, now where are you?”

Panic is currently hitting Aurel's head. He was definitely worried about Danial's condition. What if something happens to that guy? The girl was still even uneasy after avoiding Danial for unreasonable reasons.

The phone connection that was cut off unilaterally made Aurel even more upset. He doesn't know how to act. Moreover, he did not know the existence of Danial at this time. Tried to call back, but was inactive.

“Yes God, I have to ask who please?” aurel murmured on the sidelines of his panic.

Aurel rushed down from her room to visit Nakula's room. Shit, this time the universe won't side with him. Nakula's room was empty when Aurel got there. Disappointed, he closed the door to Nakula's room while thinking about his next move.

“Oh yes I have to call Haris,” fortunately Aurel's mind is not as dead end despite being hit by panic. As fast as lightning he released his hand from the doorknob. He took the phone out of his pocket, called Haris.

“Ah shit,” again the universe will not side with him. Haris number is off, “Gue should be how again?” the only close friend of Danial whose number is the same Aurel is only Haris, and that's because they are classmates. Aurel doesn't have Irgi and Vernon's phone numbers.

In her silence the girl was startled by the vibrations on her phone, a sign of a message coming in.

Help me! Now I'm around the corner before your house! I'm in the car again, you're the only one who can help me!

Cold sweat began to flood his body as soon as his lips moved reading the message sent by Danial. Without a second thought Aurel put his phone in his pajama pocket.

Half-run the girl left her house towards the bend meant by Danial. “God I beg, protect Danial!” aurel's focus right now was only on Danial.

...~To be Continued~...