THE FLO!

Bag. 24

I don't know what's going on around me. All I can remember is the passerby in front of me. They talk, ask questions, interrogate and many other things. And as long as they interrogate me, I don't open my mouth. They asked me how I could falsify all my documents and who helped me. I just put my shoulders up and over time they were frustrated with my silence. All this time I've been used to being interrogated like this. And I'm used to keeping my mouth shut no matter what. It turns out that for almost five months spent my life as a High School student, my true nature has not changed that easily.

I just found out from the police who interrogated me that Rose was being interrogated in another room. It seemed that interrogating Rose was easier than interrogating me because the policeman who came to my room had a satisfied face that was different from the policeman who was in front of me. And maybe it was because the police were getting more frustrated interrogating me because they finally gave up and got out of my interrogation room.

My attention was shifted when I heard the door open in front of me. I was not surprised to see my parents emerge from behind that door and my mother looked at me with pus. I could only smile faintly at my mother as she held my hand. I thought Mama would be angry but it turned out she was crying when she saw me.

"Why did you go stupid posing as a high school boy? Why lie to Mama?" isak mommy. I can't answer anything. I was afraid that if I said something, people in other rooms would record this conversation and my parents would be dragged away.

I looked at my father while smiling at him. I made him promise not to open his mouth if anything happened to me, like this arrest for example. It seems that Papa tried his best to hide his feelings when he saw me and I could only look at my father with a plea.

In the end, I didn't say anything to my mother. I let my mother keep crying while my father just hugged me, as if giving me strength. My mother and father were forced to leave because the police who were interrogating me asked them to leave me.

"Mama will definitely accompany you, no matter what," my mother promised me. I just nodded with a smile to calm my mother. "Sorry Mama, honey, because Mama failed to take care of you."

"Mama didn't fail to do anything. I failed to be Mama's child" I said. My mother hugged me, very gently.

"You didn't fail. Mama is proud of you, daring to do stupid things to find the truth. If there's Freya, she'd say she's proud of you."

I smiled at my mother's words. And before leaving, my father hugged me and promised that he would always be there for me. I just nodded at him and they had to leave immediately because the policeman was already cleared his throat.

"There are guests who want to see you" the policeman said as his parents walked out of the room. He opened the door and Azka, with her hands gnashed, walked into the room. His face looked pale, but he smiled at me.

"Hi," said Azka. He looks clumsy. I smiled at him.

"Hi," I replied. "Where are you?"

"In addition to the heartache of being shot by my own mother, I'm fine" Azka replied. He nodded at the policeman behind him and the policeman walked out of the room. "How was Lo?"

"Lied answer? I'm doing fine. The reality? I'm hungry! The cops didn't give me any food!"

Azka chuckled at my answer. "That's new Flo," he said. I'm just smiling. But his laughter disappeared when he remembered something. "Gue's sorry, Flo."

"For what?"

"Everything! Whatever my mom and I do. Especially with Freya..."

When I said Freya's name, I could see her eyes glazed over.

"Lo know she's pregnant?" my many. Azka shakes.

"Gue only found out when I got back from Singapore. I should have prevented all of this from happening. If I hadn't let him follow me, he would be alive today."

I frowned at me. "What connection?"

Azka smiled, but smiled sadly. "I'm not emotionally stable, and it gets worse when I break up and take me away. He told me that Papa kidnapped me and became a DPO. When my father died and I finally found me, he promised that no one would take me away from him, including the girls who were close to me."

"Including Freya?"

"More Freya."

"Why?"

"Because Freya's the only girl I love."

I'm shocked. Yeah, I'm really surprised.

"Shock, huh? You must think I'm a big-time playboy."

I can't answer anything but nod.

"Gue loves Freya because she's different. He approached me without any motive except combating me with Stella. He doesn't even care when I seduce him. At first I wanted to make him fall awake like me, but the opposite happened."

"Lo who's falling in love with her?"

Azka nodded. "He didn't wear a mask when he approached me, arguably a bit judes instead. But when I got to know him further, he was the most sincere person I had ever been close to. No one can match him."

"Why did you break up?"

"Gue told you he's the most sincere person, right? It is better to lose a man than to lose his best friend. Because of me, he lost Stella and Caesar at about the same time."

"You broke up because of Stella?"

Azka nodded. "Therefore I broke up to accept student exchanges to Singapore. You could say this is the first time I have been hurt. I just found out that it wasn't just because of Stella that Freya asked me to break up."

"Lo nyokap?"

Azka nodded back. "He's the one who's warming up to Stella by saying that Freya stabbed him in the back. I only found out when he fled to Singapore and explained to me everything because he knew there was no mistaking me there. Then when he said something, it finally happened naturally."

"She must have said she loved you too."

Azka smiled and nodded slowly.

"What happened after that?"

"Gue promised him that we would be together again when I got back, including asking me to accept Freya. After that, I heard that he killed himself by bringing along a fetus that I knew was my son."

I was silent when I saw her eyes glazed over but she immediately wiped away the tears before falling onto her face.

"Gue was angry, disappointed, heartbroken. Especially if I say that Freya mutusin committed suicide because I know I will not want responsibility. That's why I'm back to my old nature. Just when you showed up, I felt something was weird."

"Any? Why?"

"That's exactly what I want to ask. Why do you have to bother disguising yourself as a high school boy? There must be something wrong. I remember that Freya wasn't the one who wanted to hurt herself because she was the one who valued a life. Moreover, by bringing with him one more life in his stomach, it was even more impossible."

"That's why you deketin me? Looking tofu?"

"Yes. I'm looking for what could prove that my guess is true. And it turns out, the bad guy in my life turned out to be me."

"Why did you send that e-mail?"

Azka shrugged both of her shoulders, though with a slight grimace. "Protect elo."

I scrunched my forehead in confusion.

"The longer you stay, the more dangerous it is. I'm afraid I know your identity and Freya's events will repeat. Moreover, I see you often spend time on that roof. I didn't expect you to go and do something even more stupid."

"Do you have no intention of reporting to the police?"

"Anything as bad as me, he keeps knocking at me. Point."

"And you're waiting for someone else to do that?" tanyaku and Azka nodded. "I'm glad I didn't get on that plane."

"Because of that, I'd like to say thank you."

"For?"

"Preventing me from jailing my own nyokap. Thanks to you, I know the truth. All the truth."

"If Freya loves you the same? She will still be pregnant with your child even though her child will be considered an illegitimate child?"

Azka nodded slowly. "And I also know that there will be no girl like her again appearing in my life. Just one Freya. The only girl who loves me for who I am."

...***...

My head was raised when I heard the door open. The police who interrogated me earlier, who were frustrated with my silence, appeared.

"All right," said the policeman, sitting on the bench in front of me. "We started again from the beginning. I know falsifying documents like this is not an easy thing, especially with this complete data. Who's helping you?"

I kept quiet and did not answer.

"Well, then I ask, Brenda and Braxton Ferdinand?"

I went back to silence and tried not to let any emotion out of my face.

"According to witnesses, they are both 'mother' and 'uncle' raise you. They involved?"

I kept quiet hearing that question. I smiled faintly as I looked at her frustrated face before me.

"alright... According to witnesses, you've been hacking into the school system for almost five months without permission, you know that's a violation of the law, right?"

I lifted both my shoulders.

"I heard your conversation on the roof heard by almost one hundred percent of Insani High School students and your conversation with our witness, Freya Abdi Kusuma, she's your sister?" ask the policeman and I nod. "According to the data, he died by suicide. But according to another suspect, he pushed Freya. Are you looking for information by becoming a high school student and committing another scam?"

Damn, I knew there was one look of relief coming out of my face and the policeman in front of me could read it. He looks satisfied. I felt that if he knew, every topic Freya came out on, I would definitely not be able to keep my expression. He asked further about Freya and I felt like I was getting pinched. He even hit the table because I didn't want to answer a single question even though my expression could be read by him.

The question stopped when a man entered the room. Men have glasses and wear full formal suits. I don't know him. Who her?

The man extended his hand to the policeman. "I'm Bram, I'm Florentia's lawyer Abdi Kusuma appointed by Profotech." The man named Bram took out his business card and gave it to the policeman and looked at me. "Flo, you don't have to say a word. We're done here."

I immediately got up from my seat and looked at the foreign man who claimed to be my lawyer. "Wait a minute! Who—"

The man cut me off immediately. "Florentia Abdi Kusuma was officially appointed by Pioneer Techonosoft and Profotech from America to review several programs at High School Insani. Florentia is not alone, there are still many others who do the same. You could say, the two IT companies were interested in the Indonesian market. I have some evidence supporting my speech." The man took something out of his bag and placed it on the table.

"What about Freya Abdi Kusuma?" ask the cop. His expression looked shocked as well as in disbelief.

"This disguise plan was made two years ago and the death of Freya Abdi Kusuma is not our plan. Florentia did perform the task given to her even so she deliberately asked her boss to go undercover at Insani High School. He did his job as well as finding out the death of his sister. We have all the full data on the plan here." Bram pointed to the collection of papers that were on the table. He smiled when he heard the door being knocked.

I still stared at this bespectacled man in front of me in disbelief. I don't understand what's going on. I just don't know him! My body was hypnotized as she gestured me to follow her and I did.

"Okay, so who are you?" I asked when Bram and I were outside the police station.

"Don't be here, Flo, we'll talk somewhere else" said Bram and he immediately pushed me into a black sedan that stopped right in front of us.

My eyes widened when I realized I wasn't alone in the car. I was even more surprised to see who was next to me. He was smiling at me while tilting his head.

"Hello, Flo," she said softly.

I could only stare while looking at him. "Om Phillip?" I just don't believe it. He just smiled.

Phillip clucked while shaking his head. "Two women I love most beg me to release you from this. Do you know that's not what I usually do?"

I looked at him, still unceremoniously. "Two? Brenda's? But who's one more?"

"Who else would it be if it wasn't my daughter? He even promised to be much more diligent if I helped you out of this case. I wanted to help you from the beginning."

"But why doesn't Om look surprised?"

Phillip smiled at me. "A few weeks ago, Brenda told me everything, both about herself and about you. Honestly, I was shocked at first. But I can't be angry even if you bring Stella in on this. But Brenda said that you gave up on all your plans. He also said that you encouraged him to speak truthfully to me. That's why I want to help you. You could say, at first I did not believe when I heard someone was back undercover to become a High School student for finding out the death of his sister. And I believe after seeing for myself what you're doing now."

"I mean Om, I almost went to jail for going undercover?"

"You can say that."

I looked at him, still trying to digest his every word. "So, um who stopped this investigation at the request of Stella and Brenda? Make all those documents?" ask me confused.

"If you stop the investigation, yes. But if you make that document, it's not me. I don't have the skills or resources that help me create such a document."

"Then...who?"

Phillip did not answer me and shrugged both of his shoulders. He stared at the street through the window next to him. I knew I wouldn't get an answer, either from Phillip or from Bram sitting in front of me. My attention was shifted as I entered the area I was familiar with. What else if not my apartment? As I recall, I sold this apartment. Waita minute...

"Ah, I bought this apartment for Brenda. She said she didn't want to stay with me before I married her" Phillip said calmly as I asked her.

I could only look at him in disbelief. I don't understand why he's this calm. He just smiled at me while pushing me out of the car. Behind me, Bram walked after me. I want to talk or just ask who he really is but he's busy calling someone. I don't know who spoke to him on that phone but I do know that person must have been respected by Bram, heard from his polite tone. Phillip didn't follow me because he said he still had a lot of work so it was just me and Bram who broke into my apartment.

"So, who are you really? As I recall, my boss is not from Profotech and I know all the legal parts of my company" I asked as we were being shifted to my apartment.

Bram looked surprised but he smiled. "Don't worry. Someone who sent me here" he replied, which made me even more confused.

"Who? I don't remember I had any acquaintances from Profotech!" I said it out loud. He did not care and instead took something out of his bag. My phone!

"Consideration from someone. Fortunately, your friend took the phone first before it was found by the police. Could be bad if the cell phone containing all the student data was found by the police, right? Your punishment could be much more severe."

I received the phone confused. As I recall, I left my phone on my back that I left to Caesar. "Your client must not be Caesar, right?"

Bram looks to be frowning. "Who?" tanyanya and I repeat my words. I know that Caesar or Collin are his clients because I trust his expression. And suddenly I remembered what Davin said about Profotech.

"Davinius Skandar?" I said suddenly, hoping for a change in Bram's face. But his expression was the same as before. Like I first heard that name.

Then who? Braxton's? It's impossible because Scott doesn't know Braxton and especially because Braxton doesn't want to deal with law enforcement. Although creating such data is easy for Braxton but definitely not him. My daydream was blown away when the elevator door in front of me opened. Bram walked ahead of me first and I followed him. I'm still thinking about who sent Bram when the door to my apartment opened and Brenda's tear-filled face came up from behind that door.

"Fuck!" screeched at Brenda and hugged me tightly. I couldn't breathe it made. "You're all right? Geez, you're so skinny!"

I frowned at my forehead hearing Brenda's words. I was only held for twenty-four hours, from where could my weight drop? It was only two days ago that I met Brenda. She deserves to be called an exaggerated mistress.

"Let's go in first. Aunt Mariska made you tea."

Hearing my mother's name, I immediately raised my head and realized that it wasn't just Brenda in the room. There's my parents, Stella, Daisy and Caesar. They all looked at me and only Caesar and Daisy smiled at me.

"Hi, Stella," I said clumsily. Stella silence. "Gue ask—"

My words were cut off as Stella hugged me, replacing Brenda. " ****. I should be the one apologizing for taking you out of there too long" he said, which confused me.

"Wait... You're not mad at me?" I just don't believe it.

Stella broke our arms but she didn't stay away from me. "For what?"

"Gue lied to you!" I said, remembering what I've been doing all this time. Suddenly his face turned cloudy.

"Is all your words to me a lie?" tanyanya and I shook their heads.

"Other than my identity, I swear, nothing else!" I answered and Stella and grinned wide. He hugged me back.

"That means there's nothing more to forgive." Stella let go of her embrace and looked at me. "Since the beginning I knew you must have a relationship with Freya because your attitude and speech are always the same. I didn't think you were actually Freya's foster sister. Strange, even though Freya has shown you a photo of you to me but why don't I love ya?"

"That's because you're senile" Caesar said.

"You yourself also just found out that Flo was Freya's brother at home. Don't be so smart!" timpal Daisy made me smile. "I think I dong who immediately knew that Flo was Freya's brother when we were in Bali!"

"You are Caesar, when you hit me in Bali!" added me who made Caesar's face more wry. But I smiled at them.

"Let's sit down first. You must be tired," asked my mother gently who made me realize that I was still standing while chatting with my friends. I nodded and walked towards the sofa but these two friends refused to let go of their embrace.

"Can dong freelin Flo first? He needs a break!" hiss Caesar. It seems that they realized that my exhausted face was because in the end Stella and Daisy let go of their embrace.

"Papa explained the outline to Mama before you came" my mother said, looking at me. I just smiled when I saw him shake his head. "Mama doesn't know to say you're stupid or desperate. You could get hurt!"

"Almost got shot to be more precise, Auntie," Daisy timps in annoyance.

"You don't have to worry, I have a backup plan. I asked Caesar to call the police when I got to the roof, "I answered while looking at Caesar and immediately all eyes were on Caesar.

"Wait.wait. Why would Caesar know?" stella asked confusedly.

"Gue called him. I need her help to activate the school speaker system," I replied as I threw my best smile at Caesar.

I looked at those who seemed confused by my explanation. Looks like I'll have to tell you everything from the beginning. I grabbed my phone and turned on the recording when Azka walked into Davin's room and sat in Davin's seat.

"Okay, so, since I saw that Azka sent the video, I know something's wrong. I found out Azka's background and saw that Miss Roses was nyokapnya. I bet that Azka deliberately protected Miss Rose and I devised a plan. I also bet if I approach Azka, Miss Rose will definitely follow me. You know my job, hacking the school system so that all the CCTV can lead to the roof is an easy job. Mrs Mawar thought that she could turn off the CCTV when from the beginning the CCTV never died because I was controlling from afar.

"Before I get to school, I call Caesar. I need her help to get into the system room and activate the school's speaker system. After that, I just activate the speaker in the Rose phone and the job is done. I didn't think my guess about the rose was right. What I didn't know was that he was going to try to kill himself. Fortunately, I asked Caesar to call the police. Then the police came and the story was over."

They all look at me. Daisy and Stella gaped at my story.

"You know what? I heard your story and thought hacking a system sounds really easy" Daisy said. I smiled as I saw Stella nod in agreement.

"Gue didn't expect it when Miss Roses said she pushed Freya off the roof. Though all this time I thought he was a good person because he wanted to hear my curses. I didn't expect it at all. Because of him, I did the dumbest thing I did. It's all because of him..." Stella sobbed but she immediately wiped away her tears. Stella smiled at me and my parents. "I'm sorry, Om, Auntie, Flo. for all the things I did to Freya. I should have stayed by her side at the time. If I hadn't stayed away from Freya, Freya might be alive today."

This is the first time I've heard Stella's apology for my parents. When I saw that, I somehow felt very relieved. I felt, Freya must have seen all this and said the one thing she had told me.

"The past cannot be changed, let it pass" I whispered softly. My mother looked at me as I said that and then smiled at me.

"Freya always said that," he told me. I just nodded. "Stella, after all you're Freya's best friend. Auntie's happy that Freya once had a best friend like you..." Mother's speechless. His hand looks like it's squeezing my father's hand. "Freya will definitely be angry at Auntie if she doesn't want to forgive you."

Stella remained silent. His eyes looked like they were hoping for something.

"You're given the chance to be friends with Freya's sister, you want to be Flo's friend?" ask mom.

Stella's eyes looked teary and she immediately nodded. I smiled at them both. My family and friends were talking and occasionally laughing.

Suddenly, I felt someone pat me on the shoulder.

When I hit my head, there was no one there. Daisy and Stella were beside me, Caesar was sitting next to Brenda while my father and mother were sitting next to me. When I looked back at my mother, I felt something warm running down my shoulder. I know, this is Freya's custom. She would definitely hug me from behind, trying to surprise me if I just got home from work. I always turned my head and saw Freya chuckling happily when I saw her.

I don't know if I'm dreaming or not. But it was like seeing Freya's shadow when I turned my head a second time. He smiled at me while peeping at my cheek.

"False, Brother. Freya dear sister."

I may have gone crazy when I heard that. Especially when Freya's shadow disappeared from my sight. Without knowing it, I cried. Not a sad cry. I happy.

"Flo, what's wrong with you? How crying?" ask Daisy. I looked at her with a smile, even though I was still crying.

"It's nothing. I'm just happy because my mission was successful" I replied, wiping away my tears. I frowned when I saw Brenda shake her head.

"Yet. Your mission is not over yet" Brenda said. "Scott gave you sixty hours to get back to America. If you do not return, your special visa will be cancelled. Bye bye US."

I immediately got up from my seat and realized Brenda's words. I looked at Brenda in surprise and panic. "Why did you just say it now?" ask me with annoyance.

"I just met you now" replied Brenda. His tone sounded completely innocent. "Not to worry. Your suitcase has arrived in America. I've bought a ticket back to America that leaves in three hours."

"Law process?" my many.

"Phillip took care of everything. You're free to go" said Brenda.

I'm speechless. I don't know what I'm supposed to say. Actually I don't want to part with my friends. There's still a lot to do with them. But I still have a life as a Florentia Abdi Kusuma.

"Now it's different. We'll all take you to the airport. If it's a vacation, I will definitely ngunjungin lo there," said Stella who made my head raised.

"Stella's right. Do you want to break up our friendship?" caesar asked and I shook my head. "Are we eight years different from you so you don't want to win with us?" I'm back to shaking. "Yes already. Then what's the problem? Relax, Flo, there's still Skype, surely we can get in touch."

I don't know what to say.

"Although you came back as Florentia Abdi Kusuma, for us you are Florence Ferdinand" said Daisy, who managed to make my eyes teary. Unknowingly, I hugged Daisy and Stella together while repeatedly thanking her.