The RoofTop Girl's

Regretting...

Regret never starts

Salu just present it lately

After it happened, I realized

I regret...

(Taken from the song Sorry-Deshy Ratnasari)

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Jakarta

At 07.00 WIB

Subterfuge

Slowly he opened the door and found Audrey who also just opened the door, his appearance was fresh even though he was still wearing the clothes he gave last night.

"Hmmm..."

"Drey, can we talk to you for a second?"

"Yes doc." Audrey followed her sitting on the living room couch.

Long he stared at the girl, disbelief bursting in his chest making him have to breathe a lot of oxygen to neutralize the tightness that began to hit.

"There's something you want to talk to me about, no, look, I mean can you tell me about last night."

"Doctor mean?" Audrey knitted her two eyebrows in confusion.

"Why did you run down the street in a torn shirt, what did you do last night?"

"I.. i..." Nervous Audrey squeezes the end of her shirt.

"Drey, can you come straight to me, tell me everything so I can help you."

"Doctor mean?" Audrey was confused.

"The man you were with last night was found dead in the hotel room." He said to the point.

Deggs...

Audrey's body stiffened with a face that suddenly paled, she shook her head slowly, not expecting Galih's doctor to know about it at all.

"How long have you been in that profession?" Slowly he spoke but successfully made Audrey jerked then shook her head strongly.

"No, no, I'm not a whore."

"I just need money, I just need money."He began to cry with a stifled cry.

"I didn't kill the man, believe me doc, I didn't kill him, I just ran to save myself, I didn't kill him!"

"Okay, I believe, I believe you didn't kill him, but you were the only one at the scene at the time and everything was recorded on the hotel's CCTV cameras."

"How many times have you done this, I mean serving such striped-nose men?" He stared intensely at the fragile girl before him.

"I, sa-I never huaaaa hiks, huaaaa never doc, trust me." Audrey's cries broke already, she sat on the floor with a trembling body, regretting her decision to go with Loony that night, deeply regretful.

"Is this the first?" He approached, holding onto Audrey's shoulders, inexplicably his heart was sliced by the girl's heartbreaking cries.

The feeling of wanting to protect, pity and love appeared suddenly out of nowhere, the same feeling he had seen Donna before. Is his heart that fragile when he sees a woman crying? I don't know.

"Believe me doc, I just need money, all urgent, I need money to pay for my internship, to pay for expenses, while my debt has accumulated here and there, and at the same time, I need money to pay for my internship, my mother told me to quit college." Audrey's eyes were puffed with tears that kept flowing.

"I'm happy, I want to get money quickly no matter how. But when I was there, I got scared, I changed my mind, I rejected the guy."

"What did you do to him, I mean the man?"

"Nothing, I said I'd return the money but he didn't take it, he just wanted to give me a hand."

He nodded slowly, Audrey said right, the girl's shirt was torn on the back, it means that it was the man who chased her first.

"Are there strange things about that guy?"

Audrey stopped from crying, seemed to think and shook her head slowly.

"Nothing, it's just that he took something, like a pill, before approaching me." Audrey tried to remember the incident.

"When I tried to run to the door, he pulled my shirt, but suddenly his grip slipped off on his own, I saw him holding his left chest, but because I was too scared at the time, I ran right out."

He nodded then looked deeply at Audrey's brownish bead, with his hands still clutching the little girl's shoulders.

"Whatever happens, speak the truth later." He was silent for a moment, inhaling a lot of oxygen, really his chest felt tight saying this.

"Police is here to pick you up soon, your status is only as a witness because there has been no autopsy results from the forensic team."

Audrey's body trembled violently at the police, Audrey crying loudly covering her face with both palms.

"I'm afraid, help me doc, I'm afraid of the police, I'm innocent hiks huaaaa." Audrey cried deeply, heartbreakingly at every ear she heard.

"Yes hello." Dimas' voice was heard at the end of the phone.

"Dim, don't have any members on board, just you pick up Audrey, I don't want any hoopla in the apartment."

"Okay, all right."

"Dim..."

"Yes..?"

"Please treat her well, she's not a whore." His heart was breaking saying that.

"He's just a witness, don't worry." There was a smile tinge held back from Dimas' words.

"After the autopsy results come out, and he's proven innocent then he'll be released soon." Follow the young policeman.

He nodded slowly, before long the phone connection was cut off.

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Bandung

At 07.30 WIB

Wilted

"Depart with Bayu?" Om Sarif, Oma's neighbor reprimanded her who had just pulled the motor out of the garage.

"Eh, yes, there's a morning lecture."

"Next." Said Sarif, followed by a respectful nod from him.

But just opening the gate, Oma was struggling to call her from the front door, making her run closer to Oma who seemed to be not okay.

"What's Oma?" Her panic stared intensely at the oma, the mother of her father.

"Yahyeah...Yahya, my God, Yahyaaa!!" Oma was talking about papa's name.

"Why why?"

"Your father died, yu."

He was squeezed, his body suddenly tidied.

Innalilahi wa Inna Lillahi...

No let his eyes dew and then let out clear tears that were held back, how bad his relationship with the papa, he remained his papa, a person who means.

"We're off to Jakarta now, your mama's waiting." Oma.

He nodded slowly, then pulled out the phone from his backpack, saw there were 5 missed calls from mama, maybe mama wanted to tell papa news earlier.

He called back, during the second call, my mother's hoarse voice came from the end of the phone.

"Hallo ma'am.."

"Bayuuu, papa died son, papa is gone." Mama's cry broke, making her heart also sliced.

"Papa was killed in the hotel room, papa you were killed!"

Deggs...

His heart seemed to be halted for a moment from the blood pumping activity, the world spinning violently, making his head suddenly dizzy.

"Bayu and Oma leave for Jakarta now, mama wait there." He decided to call.

Shortly before leaving, he took the time to contact the lover, but not active, he decided to send a short message.

[Drey, where?]

[I'm going back to Jakarta today]

[My father died Drey]

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