The Winter Promise
Chapter 98: I Know If There's Something Not Right.
The atmosphere is back as usual.
Because Riki had returned to school as usual, the conversation when we were at rest was back to flow like water in a river. But somehow I prefer this kind of atmosphere, no one talks to me and suspects me of anything. Talks always lead to other things that have nothing to do with me.
“Happy Riki for his success.”
Everyone who was there said as long to Riki.
“Thank you everyone, this is all thanks to you guys who have been encouraging me.”
Riki timidly accepted the remark.
“Rik, do you have any plans to go back up the mountain?”
Rian without further ado asked that, it seemed like he himself was already impatient to go up the mountain.
“I depend Amar, if Amar can I will plan it.”
Riki looked at me.
“Why should I?”
“When I've climbed a mountain without you Mar.”
“I don't know if this holiday can climb or not considering now he has a job. Scared when we were going hiking, Mr. Hari wanted to have a meeting with me.”
Especially from my previous experiences, Mr. Hari always held an impromptu meeting that was never reported from far away.
“Actually I have plans to climb the mountain during the holidays later.”
“Which mountain will you climb Rik?”
Miyuki was immediately excited when she heard that.
“Maybe Gunung Gede in Bogor.”
Miyuki's eyes that were still sparkling at the time immediately looked at me.
“Can't you go Mar?”
Right now Miyuki is looking at me like a cat in my house when they want to ask me for food.
“I told you earlier that I didn't know if I could go or not.”
“I'd love to go hiking to Mount Gede.”
“Do you have Miyuki? Mount Gede is much higher than Mount Prau loh.”
Riki said to Miyuki.
“No problem as long as the view that can be seen is quite good.”
Actually I also want to go on vacation for a while, because I think I already need a vacation to rest my brain for a moment. There is no way my brain is always forced to think about work, occasionally go on vacation I think not bad.”
“Oh yes, have you all known this?”
Our attention was on Yoshida with the conversation he wanted to talk about.
“What's up?”
“I heard from my classmates that today our school will return the students faster than before.”
“My friends in class also said the same thing.”
Natasha's words reinforce Yoshida's.
“Reason?”
I asked Natasha.
“I myself also don't know.”
“If I hear from my classmates, if we are given a quick home due to kidnapping cases that are currently on the rise again.”
Said Miyuki who apparently heard about it.
Rising? Did I not hear wrong?
“Not the case has dropped yesterday.”
“Entah.”
Miyuki also does not know why the case could increase again. It was only natural, I should have asked Maul that question to find out the truth that was going on. Surely Maul already knew about this and what was happening behind him.
I glanced at Maul and she fell silent, it seemed like there was something she did not want to talk about here. I'll ask this again when I'm alone with him.
“Then did you not go to Mar's office today?”
Riki has her own anxiety.
“Why?”
“I guess because we're going home fast and the kidnapping case is on the rise, you don't want to go to the office and want to go home as soon as possible.”
“No, we will still go to the office because the time is also still noon. Which kidnapper wants to kidnap someone during the day and also the road we take to get to the office is very crowded. So it's impossible if I don't go to the office just because of the kidnapping, if it's the night the story is different again.”
Actually, right now I'm very curious about the truth that's going on behind it. I want to quickly finish my meal and go talk to Maul alone. Maybe I'll ask him to talk at the library later.
“Are you not worried about this kidnapping case Ar?”
Lina looks very worried.
“What am I worried about? As long as we don't go out at night and go to lonely streets, I think I'll be fine.”
“Maybe you're right Ar.”
“Is there something you're worried about Rina?”
“I was just a little anxious when I heard this kidnapping case was increasing again.”
“You don't have to worry about Amar Rina, you better worry about yourself.”
Waitaminute!
“Hei! Rina never said that she was worried about me why are you talking like that?”
I objected to what Riki said.
“Although Rina did not say it, but I can tell clearly that she is worried about you at this time.”
When I looked at Rina, Rina was embarrassed because Riki had managed to figure out what she was thinking.
Rather than worrying about me, it's better for Rina to worry about herself. Compared to me, she is the one with far greater potential to be kidnapped. After all, what sells from me is that they want to kidnap me other than the organs in my body.
“I'll be more careful again.”
Hearing that, Rina became happy.
“This talk is too heavy and dizzying, we better talk about what we will do when the new year.”
It's not like the new year is three weeks away.
“That's right, it's too heavy for us to talk about it.”
Rian agreed with what Riki said.
“Are you all going to Japan for the new year?”
Maul asked everyone there, even though I knew that Maul only asked Kichida, Yoshida, Miyuki, and Takeshi.
“This year I did not go there.”
“I also.”
“My name is also.”
“If Miyuki doesn't go, it looks like I won't go either.”
Is your life in this world only spent following Miyuki Takeshi? I'm so concerned about you. Miyuki please, occasionally ask her out even if you don't want to be her boyfriend, I can't bear to see her feelings never reciprocated. Even though it was clearly visible but he still forced to get it.
This is why I hate this kind of love.
“How about this year we burn?”
Riki proposed the idea to the others.
“Where are we going to do it? If for this many people, my house will not be able to accommodate everything.”
Hmmmm... Usually we hold fires at Maul's house, but if at Maul's house can't have to where else do we hold it?
Riki's house is too small to hold a fire, if my house could have been but I don't want to suggest it, it's too much trouble to prepare all the necessary items. And also there are still my friends who do not know that my mother and Miyuki's mother have a relationship. That would make things complicated.
“Then my house? Coincidentally we will also hold the fires, so all of you.”
Miyuki suggested it to us.
“Truely too, Miyuki's home has a very spacious front page. That's enough to hold all of us.”
Riki.
“Alright, then I will tell this to my mother to prepare everything.”
Miyuki's already taken the phone out of her pants pocket.
“You don't have to do that, let me and Maul take care of everything.”
I stopped Miyuki from doing that, because I felt bad that Miyuki also had to prepare everything.
“Tumben once you say like that.”
“I also agree with you Mul, usually Amar will use anything so that the money remains intact.”
The basis of these two, should be that as my closest friend you two need not comment.
“I have no problem, it happens that my salary money from working at Comic Universe has gone down.”
Maul.
“Iya, buying the need for burning for this many people is not much.”
The money we get from our jobs is so much. I couldn't even believe we were going to get that much money.
If you ask how much money I got, I can send my parents on Hajj twice. You count yourself how much that is. Hahaahaha...
“Then I will donate chicken.”
Rina.
“What's not incriminating you Rina?”
“No, I have a handyman subscription to buy chicken at a low price.”
Really it? Maybe next time I'll get Rina to introduce the henchman to me.
“I'll bring sausage.”
Kichida.
“Don't forget to bring the sausage with its halal logo.”
Maul's chirps to Kichida.
“I know it.”
Because there was once an incident at rest.
***
I saw Maul who was confused.
“What's Mul?”
“My mom seems to bring too much rice compared to her side dish.”
I looked at the box Maul was carrying and there was still rice there.
If my side dish is still there maybe I'll give it to him.
“Do you want my sausage Mul? Coincidentally today I brought a lot of sausages.”
Kichida offers his food to Maul.
“Create that!? Thank you Kichida.”
Maul takes some sausages from Kichida and prepares to eat them.
I looked into Kichida's face and she was waiting for something.
“Wait, what sausage did you bring?”
Ask him.
“Sausage ****.”
Hearing that made Maul immediately get rid of the sausage from his stock and give it back to Kichida.
“Why didn't you tell me from the beginning!”
A little emotional for it.
“You yourself didn't ask me.”
“How about I ate it?”
“Just relax, I'll tell you before you put that sausage in your mouth. So don't worry.”
The conversation ends with Miyuki calming Maul down.
***
In light of the incident, I was always on the lookout for the food Kichida gave me.
“What should I bring for tomorrow?”
Yoshida asked me.
“You all do not need to be burdened to bring something. You guys come without bringing anything nor does it matter.”
I said to all of them.
“I'm not good if I don't bring something.”
“If I were to be you Yoshida, I would be very happy if there was someone who said that.”
Because then I don't have to spend any of my money.
“But my nature is not like you Mar.”
“As far as you want to bring anything, as long as we can eat later.”
“Good.”
“Then the new year later we will celebrate at his home Miyuki.”
Everyone agreed with that and we started to spend our supplies.
When we finished the break, we went straight to class to prepare for the next lesson. While in the hallway, we passed Akbar who had just come out of the classroom.
“Hi you two.”
Akbar greeted the four of us.
“Then we first ya.”
Kichida and Natasha go first into the classroom.
“Is there a teacher in the classroom?”
Ask him.
“The curve has not arrived.”
“Where are you Bar?”
“I want to go to the toilet. Oh yeah, did you two know that today we're going home fast?”
I think at first this is just a rumor, if Akbar to say so it means that later in the afternoon we will go home faster than usual.
“We just discussed it during the break earlier, is the news true?”
Riki said to Akbar.
“Everyone in the class talked about it even my friends who were in the other class talked about it."
Of course something like this would make all the disciples crowded. There can be no students who are not happy when they hear they will go home quickly.
“Then I want to go to the toilet first yes, already can not stand.”
Akbar left us both.
Arriving in class, I immediately prepared all the needs for the next lesson.
“Do you intend to investigate this case Mar?”
Ask Riki.
“I don't intend to do it, instead I've told you about this. I will do it if there are certain conditions that require me to do it.”
“I'm sick of hearing this case constantly there.”
I saw Riki was very upset.
Not only is Riki upset about this, maybe many people are also worried about this case. Moreover, it has been almost half a year this case continues to occur, unlike the usual crime cases will last a long time.
“What you expect of me, I am not a hero who gets this problem alone.”
“I believe that you can solve this problem.”
You can trust me like that Rik, but there are some things I can't do either. Anyway I haven't heard how it's progressing from Maul yet, I'm sure he would also like to talk to me about this.
“For the time being let the authorities handle this matter. Our duty as a good society follows the recommendations given by him alone.”
“It's true anyway, but aren't you afraid if your family members are exposed to this case.”
“I will act if someone close to me is exposed to this case.”
“I can't wait to do that.”
“But I don't know when to act.”
Because I think there's very little chance this case could befall my family. My mom and dad were always together and she never went anywhere after work, so she was safe. while Nadira is currently in pesantren and also he is outside Jakarta which is a case like this is very minimal heard.
“By the way what should I bring with me when the show burns later?”
Riki asked me.
“You take the body only, your strength is much more needed than others.”
“Alright then.”
When burning, the most troublesome thing is to make charcoal because we have to fan continuously until the charcoal is finished, and usually the one who does that is Riki. So let Riki do it even though he did not bring anything when the fires.
The teacher who taught came in and the lesson began.
the End Chapter 98
