The River House

51. The right and obligation to be happy

Ellie felt her body being dragged, her head hitting hard objects several times. Ellie's starting to wake up. He could open his eyes, but his body could not be moved.

The sunlight began to appear dim. Day is up in the afternoon. Ellie looked around. It turned out that his body was wrapped in a parasitic cloth and dragged violently by someone in front of him.

"Hendra?" Call Ellie Iirih. 

The figure dragging Ellie suddenly stopped. He looked over, and rightly guessed Ellie. That person is Hendra. He watched Ellie with a cold face.

"Thank God you're awake" Hendra sighed. 

"What have you done?" Ellie asked as she tried to move her body. But all the joints of his body felt stiff, unable to move.

"I just injected you with some kind of anesthetic. So you're gonna realize Ellie. But you can't do anything for a while" Hendra crouched down in front of Ellie.

"Duh, your forehead is bleeding. Probably got Ellie's pebble. I'm sorry if my treatment of you was a little harsh" Hendra wiped the blood on Ellie's forehead.

Ellie's not picking. He could only glare at Hendra. His heart is beating very fast. Fear and worry raged. But, Ellie was trying to control herself. Ellie strives to be tough and not show her weakness and frailty.

"What's your goal, Hendra? Why are you doing all this?" Ellie asked trying to pry information at the same time buy time.

"You must know Ellie, in this life, there's such a thing as the concept of rights and duties" Hendra sprawled his body in the grass next to Ellie's.

"But now I'm asking you Ellie. Is getting happiness in life a right or an obligation?" Hendra asked while looking up at the sky.

Ellie just kept quiet. He still had a hard time guessing the thought path of the man next to him.

"Humans deserve to be happy or to be happy? Whatever the answer, happiness is essentially a goal in life. And what if someone else took away our happiness, Ellie? What do we do?" Hendra looked up, looking at Ellie. A look that felt strange, and foreign.

"I. .I don't understand at all what you mean by Hendra's question," Ellie replied, more like a whisper.

"We have to fight for happiness, right? But what if we don't have the ability to fight?" Hendra scratched his head.

"Zainul deserves to be happy Ellie. Zainul must be happy. But what have you done?" Hendra this time looks so emotional. He shed tears.

"I'm just rejecting her declaration of love" Sela Ellie.

"just? You can say just reject it, if only you hadn't publicly humiliated Ellie. You told all your rejection to the drama club's friends. Then what happened? People who previously did not like Zainul increasingly feel they have to bully him. The story of Zainul expressing his feelings for you is the beginning. Your rejection is a catalyst. Until the bullying happens and dissolves. And you know that Zainul was mentally destroyed by your friend, what are you doing? You let it wang***!" Hendra stood up. His teeth sounded clashing.

"Truly Hendra, I regret it too. I came here to apologize to her, too" Ellie said in a trembling voice. His chest felt tight and hurt to hear Hendra's words.

"It's too late for Ellie. I told you before, in human life has the concept of rights and obligations. If we make a mistake, it is our duty to apologize. But for the person being apologized, it becomes his right to forgive or not. And Zainul, never forgive you," Hendra wiped his tears.

"Where do you know Zainul doesn't forgive me? I have never even met him again!" Denied Ellie.

"Let me meet Hendra" Ellie asked.

"Yes, I will send everyone to meet Zainul and apologize to him in the realm of death" replied Hendra.

"What do you mean?" Ellie slips.

"Zainul is gone Ellie. He ended his life in an old cabin in this forest. Without anyone knowing, without anyone reaching out to her," Hendra covered her face with a palm.

"You don't lie to Hendra. Didn't he send an invitation for all of us to come to his house? Didn't according to friends, Zainul welcomed everyone from the second floor of his house?" Ellie doesn't believe Hendra's words.

"Ha ha ha ha . . I don't want to answer. Not everything in this world has an explanation. So, get out of this world with your brain full of questions!" Hendra laughed loudly.

"What do you want Hendra to do? And why are you doing all this? What is your relationship with Zainul, to do something like this?" Ellie kept asking for an explanation.

"Ha ha ha. .You know Ellie, what made Zainul afflicted? Why Zainul?" Hendra asked back. Ellie was about to shake her head, but her head could not be moved. The nerves and joints are severed.

"The answer is because Zainul is different. Our school used to be, most of the students were from the same Junior High School. You, Yodi, Mella and the others have been schoolmates since Junior High. At that time in our class there were only 3 students who came from other Junior High School. It's just me, Bayu and Zainul. Then, among these 3 students Zainul is the most prominent. He does look krok, geeky and unique. But he's pretty good at academia, also very good at literature and drama" Hendra seemed to daydream, given the past.

"In the end, the students from the minority who seemed to be about to shine made Yodi and her fellow brengs*k friends began to be unhappy. Moreover, it turns out that geeky student likes you Ellie. The most famous student since Junior High. Even I know, Yodi and Dipta, are silent about liking you, but they are not as brave as Zainul to express his feelings for you," Hendra looked at Ellie with her eyes that looked savage.

"Ah, I think that's enough that you need to know," Hendra smiled cunningly.

"What do you want to do?" Screeched Ellie.

Hendra suddenly just took out a small folding knife from his pants pocket. Deftly, he tore and tore Ellie's clothes off. The ill-fated woman could only scream stifled, unable to move let alone fight back.

Hendra took Ellie's HP, touched the woman's thumb on the screen, so the HP screen lock was open. Hendra was then engrossed in photographing the situation of Ellie who was lying on her back with torn clothes and random shuffling. 

"I'm going to post this photo on your social media account Ellie. You put shame on Zainul, now feel it. At the end of your life, you were humiliated, too" Hendra smiled in satisfaction.

Ellie could only cry. His life has collapsed. He tried hard, but the treatment received this time shattered his mental strength and heart.

"Kill me Hendra!" Ellie screaming.

"Without you asking, I will, '" Hendra laughed. 

The afternoon finally came. Along with the sun sinking, among the darkness of the forest, the female writer breathed her last.

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