WHYS
Affection
“You look beautiful tonight.”
“What it means I look bad in the previous nights.”
Desta rounded his eyes and shook in panic. “B-not so I mean. You're always beautiful every day, it's just that tonight you look.
Kanaya smiled so much that her teeth were visible. “So I look prettier than the night before?”
“Ya... like that,” said Desta with a smile on his face.
Kanaya replied with a small laugh. He and Desta now walk around the housing complex again and look at the stars that appear in the night sky. Their hands were intertwined and wide smiles adorned their faces, it was enough to tell the people around that they were happy.
They've just officially dated.
Kanaya stopped walking with her face glued to the stars in the sky. “Waah, beautiful once.”
“Iya.. beautiful,” reply Desta. But not the star he meant, but Kanaya.
Kanaya really looks charming. His straight brown hair was smoothed, his eyes were twinkling, and his lips were carving out a wide smile. Desta could not hold it until the man cupped Kanaya's face with his hand.
“Nay..”
Kanaya looked at Desta. “What's up?”
“Can I kiss you?”
Kanaya. And Desta felt his soul crashing as soon as Kanaya retreated until the fist of her hand on the girl's face came off.
“It's too late, Desta.”
Desta looked at him with an incomprehensible look. “Why, Nay? Don't you love me?”
“Of course I love you, Desta. I really do love you.”
“Then why didn't you let me kiss you?”
Kanaya's eyes glazed over until a drop of tears slid right on the girl's cheek. “See your hand, Des.”
Desta did not understand but still obeyed Taehyung's words to see his hand. At once Desta's eyes widened as soon as he saw his hands full of blood, even his clothes worn now were splattered with blood. And as Desta looked up, he saw battered and bloodied Kanaya staring at him with tears streaming down her eyes.
“How can I kiss someone who has killed myself?”
...…...
Desta woke up with a body that was sweating. His face was pale and his gaze circled in all directions in panic. It was just a nightmare, but why did Desta feel that this was a real event.
He... never killed Kanaya ‘kan?
He doesn't even know where Kanaya is right now.
“Darling, are you awake?”
Desta turned his head and found Sania, her mother standing in the doorway. “I'm up, Ma.”
“You look pale, Desta. Are you sick?”
“No, I'm fine.” Desta rubbed his face. “I just had a nightmare.”
“It's okay, it's just a dream. Take a quick shower and get downstairs for breakfast, okay?”
“Ya.”
Sania smiled and closed the door to Desta's room, but stopped because her son called her first.
“Ma..”
“Ya?”
“Did I ever kill someone?”
Sania fell silent. If Desta did not see wrong, his mother's hand squeezed the door knob of his room earlier. Was there something her mother had hidden from her?
“What are you talking about, baby. How could you ever kill a man, hum?”
Desta. “Tadi in a dream, I—”
“It was just a nightmare, Desta. The dream is a sleeping flower and appears when you are exhausted.” Sania smile. “Come down or you'll be late for school.”
“... alright.”
...…...
Arriving at school, Desta did not go straight to his class. The teenage boy first stops by Olivia's class, her friend Kanaya. He had listened to the tape yesterday and he had a lot of questions.
And the plan, Desta wanted to ask Olivia those questions.
Olivia who realized there was Desta in front of her class immediately rushed to the teenage boy. “What's up?”
Desta handed him the tape recorder. “This, I've listened to it yesterday.”
“Do you have nightmares?” olivia asked as she received the tape recorder from Desta.
“How did you know I had nightmares?”
It's good that Desta's having a nightmare, which means his brain is responding to Kanaya's voice. “I don't know, I just guessed. Your face looks pale because of.”
Desta just nodded. “I want to ask you.”
“I don't want to answer any of those questions.” Olivia is now again handed a different tape recorder than before. “Total this thing there are seven and this is the second recording. If you've listened to it, tell me.”
And Olivia went back as soon as she did before. The girl did not want to talk to Desta for long.
Desta blinked and left from there.
But before Desta actually left, the eyes of the teenage boy had met the eyes of men who were the same age as him.
She. Farel Sanjaya.
...…...
“Farel Sanjaya, he's my first friend. We became friends because I helped him when Mr. Benny was sentenced to clean the school toilet. She smiled at me and welcomed me well, Desta. Farel really looks like a good person and I trust him to be my friend.”
“Since then me and Farel often hangout together. Going to the cafe to drink hot chocolate together has even become a routine. He and I are close, but I don't like him more than a friend. My experience with Ardhika used to teach me not to open my heart too easily.”
“Ah yes about Ardhika, I had time to tell that to Farel. And guess what? He was very angry and wanted to beat up Ardhika, I often laughed because Farel's face was very funny when he was angry.”
...…...
“I want to beat up that Ardhika, Nay. Why do you always hold me back anyway? He's the kind of jerk that will break a lot of women's hearts later. Then I better kick it now so that there are no more victims ‘kan?”
Kanaya chuckled and sipped her hot chocolate. “Already, Rail. Just let karma run its course.”
Farel clucking. “You're too good.”
“Hm, I am indeed a very good person ‘kan?” kanaya asked with a nosy face.
But Kanaya instantly normalized her face once Farel looked at her straight.
“What's up?”
“How about we just date, Nay?”
“... huh?!”
“Begini..” Farel rests his hands on the elbows. “The bully you've been getting lately is indirectly due to Ardhika. Those students scolded you for daring to date their cassanova when you were just an ordinary student.”.
“... and also the child of a ******,” Kanaya continued with a relaxed expression. Farel glares. “Shut up and listen to me first.”
Kanaya nodded.
“If we are dating, it is possible that the bullying you receive can be reduced or even lost. I ‘kan also ordinary students although a little famous anyway.”
Kanaya smacked Farel's hand until he laughed.
“If there is me, I will protect you from them. I'll be your shield at school. No one will dare to disturb the girlfriend of the headmaster's son ‘kan?”
Kanaya stunned. It could be too. Farel is the principal's son, so it's likely that students will be afraid of him. And the bullying Kanaya received could stop.
Therefore, Kanaya immediately agreed to Farel's offer.
...…...
“I and Farel are getting closer, Des. Farel hugged me a lot and acted like a good-natured lover at school. At first, all the students seemed confused and clearly showed their dislike towards me. Just because Farel was always beside me, they couldn't bully me.”
“My school life is starting to calm down. No more sharp glances followed me along the way, no rubbish filled my locker until my equipment smelled, no more bullying I received.”
“I thought my nightmare was over, I thought my life would be fine. Until finally that night came. The night Farel visited my house when my mother was not home.
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To be continue...
