THE PERFECT TIME TO DIE

(CHAPTER 17) MYSTERIOUS WOMAN

MYSTERIOUS WOMAN

After 10 laps, my legs were not strong and I was sprawled in the middle of the basketball court with sweat flooding my body. Looking out into the blue sky, the intense sun made me close my eyes.

When I opened my eyes, I was shocked by a student standing looking at me. In the middle of the basketball court, our eyes meet. And I was really disturbed by his gaze. If I define that gaze, the right word is the pity that binds that gaze.

He gave her a bottle of mineral water in his hand. Although I was astonished and hesitant to receive a bottle of mineral water from him, but the thirst that kept trying to kill me, made me take the mineral water.

Without a word, he left me. I just looked at him in wonder, before long his steps stopped when he saw a poster of one of the prospective OSIS chairmen. The woman then looked at me.

“He is the chairman of our next school sausage.” Said.

I grew confused and just looked at her strangely, I had thought that she was just my imagination because I had never seen her before. I then saw who the person on the poster was and I saw he was Teddy, a 2D kid, Teddy was the vice chairman of our school's OSIS, in fact, Keira is a heavy rival in the OSIS chairman election exchange.

“Because of my cousin, he was elected chairman of osis.” Said the woman while pointing at the person beside Teddy.

I then saw the person next to Teddy, and the face of Romi I saw on the poster. Romi is the 1B kid, the most popular student at our school. He was a player on our school basketball team.

Not only did she like the students in our school, she also liked the other school students. In addition to his basketball skills, Romi's face was also handsome. That is what makes him liked, and Romi is the vice chairman of OSIS who will accompany Teddy in the election market chairman of OSIS.

And the woman, left after saying that word. And I just assumed those words were just the wind. But I'm thankful enough for the mineral water he gave me. I then went back to preparing, completing my sentence which was only five rounds of basketball court.

Time passed and I continued to curse Mr. Amir's name on the head, my legs felt like breaking, while helplessly I continued down the rectangular basketball court measuring 26.5 by 13 meters. After five rounds of exhaustion, I returned to class.

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The class is boisterous and bustling, celebrating the absence of Melly's mother. Melly's mother was an art teacher at my school. Unknowingly, I was going through the euphoria, and I tiredly walked towards my seat. After I sat down, I looked for a position to relax my body. While beside me, Keira was still busy with her books.

“When do you want to move? Selection is soon.” Keira said without seeing me.

Besides I was afraid to see Keira's future, it felt a bit uncomfortable if I had to look her in the eye, after all the things that happened.

Somehow I remembered the words of the woman I met on the basketball court earlier, the woman who gave me a bottle of mineral water. If I think back, I haven't thanked him yet, maybe that's why I keep remembering him.

And the woman's talk is also quite reasonable, about Teddy who will be the winner in the OSIS chairman election market. Because Teddy is also arguably a popular student in school, not inferior to Keira.

I decided to look into Teddy's future. I then looked for Teddy in his class, boisterous and crowded classroom atmosphere just like in my class. It seemed that this class also had no teachers, for some reason many teachers were absent today.

My eyes concentrated and began to stare at every corner of the classroom, but I could not find Teddy in this class.

I decided to find Teddy somewhere else, and the OSIS room, was my goal. I started walking to the OSIS room next to the UKS room on the 2nd floor. Knowing that I was going down the stairs, made my leg muscles tense up.

Slowly, I made a slow rhythm of my footsteps to go down the stairs. Once I got to the OSIS room and looked for Teddy, I couldn't find Teddy anymore. Tiredness has melted with my annoyance, because I never found Teddy

I then went into the UKS room located next to the OSIS room, to briefly rest my body. And when I got there, I accidentally witnessed something I wasn't supposed to see.

When the door of the UKS room opened and I stepped in. In the middle of a quiet UKS room, from behind the curtains I saw Romi kissing a schoolgirl. When I looked back at the student, I saw Arum my classmate.

Arum is my classmate, he is a close friend of Keira. And when they saw me, the shocked ones stopped the romance. I didn't know I had to do anything, because to me this was very ordinary.

Romi then moved away, and when Romi passed me who was staring at the door. And I saw Romi's future, when our eyes met. And the words that I believed were just nonsense and the wind before, turned out to be a reality, the first thing that came to my mind was who the girl was.

When our eyes met and I saw a fragment of Romi's future, it was just like the strange woman I met on the basketball court. Romi will be the vice chairman of OSIS and Teddy will win the OSIS chairman election market and beat Keira.

And when I woke up, I only saw Arum in front of me. I felt really bad for Arum, and before long Arum ran and passed me. I was still silent in question, on the sidelines of my confusion. I checked my vision was a fact, and I closed the case.

I then headed for class, with question mark verses that kept me playing. Who was that girl, and why did she know. Whether he's just guessing or he's the same as me, he can see the future. I kept that thought, and was ready to tell Keira about what I saw.