FROM THE DARK TO THE LIGHT
TROUBLE COMES
AT 10:35, EDGE OF LAKE ZOZA
"Al!", call the Elions when you see Alora walking alone.
Alora heard him, but she walked quickly to avoid the Elions. Elions chased after him and caught his left arm. Alora immediately stomped her hand, but Elions did not let go.
"Take off me!", snapped Alora.
"No Al. I won't let you go before you explain what happened the day after. Why is Nathan angry and why is he bleeding?!", asked Elions with emphasis on each word.
"Don't pretend not to. Lo who neken wound me until more blood. Nathan was angry because he thought you were deliberately doing it because no one was looking after me at that time!", Alora said in a voice no less loud than Elions.
Elions released Alora's tangab with a confused and shocked face.
"What's?. I'm doing that to you?", asked Elions in disbelief.
"Yes!", Alora snapped in annoyance at Elions' innocent demeanor.
"But I don't even want and don't feel that lakanin to lo Al. I just want me to hold your hand for chek luka lo. I want to give plaster wound, but suddenly Nathan came to me. As I look at your hands, the blood is more and more. I just don't know why it happened. I was not aware of Al. I swear by anything" Elions said.
"It is impossible to be unconscious. Lo crazy huh?!. Where there are people who are not aware of what he is doing except because of mental illness!", said Alora with an angry face.
"But I'm honest Al. Oath to anything!", said Elions solemnly.
"Ck, if I could see both eyes. If I were not blind. Maybe I can tell you my cheats or not", Decak Alora while smiling cynically.
"Okay if you don't believe. We met together with your friends. Let them judge if I'm honest or lying" said Elions, who took Alora's right hand and took her to Rachel's tent.
People were whispering and gossiping as the two of them passed by. There are even those who video and upload it on campus gossip pages throughout Jakarta.
"Chel!", shouted Elions as they reached in front of Rachel's tent.
Rachel came out in a hurry after combing her hair and had not had time to tie it with a hair tie.
"What the fuck?!. El?. Al?. You why?. Lo why are you screaming here huh?!", asked Rachel curiously and threw a murderous look at Elions.
"Gue swore I wasn't aware of what was happening in front of the arch at that time. I'm honest Chel. If I realize, the question is not possible to come here to bother saying the same you let you can see the honesty in my face and eyes. Alora does not want to believe me" explained Elions with a slightly reddened face because it restrains emotions.
Rachel squinted both of her eyes and began to read the expression on Elions' face and the sharp and firm look in both of her eyes.
Rachel can only get 1 answer there. Elions doesn't lie, he tells the truth. Both of her eyes looked straight into Rachel's eyes without the slightest hesitation. His face was serious.
"OK I believe. Al,gue see he's honest Al. Can you please excuse her?", asked Rachel to Alora who was standing next to Elions because her hand was still in Elions' grasp.
"Lo sure she's not lying??" asked Alora to confirm.
"Yes. Sure", Rachel replied without hesitation.
"Jude yes I'm sorry. But you need to be checked out to a psychologist right away. There may be problems in your mental health. I don't call you crazy. But there's no harm in checking yourself" Alora said, pointing to the side.
Elions smiled faintly and let go of Alora's hand. Alora immediately wagged her hands that felt numb because they were grasped too tightly by conscious Elions.
"Judek. Thanks Chel, Al. I just came here to say that. I'll go first", Pamit Elions.
"Yodah there", ousted Alora ketus.
"Iye" answered Elions as she walked away from the place.
Rachel took Alora inside the tent and gave her some water to calm down.
By the way, today there are no activities, so all students are free to go anywhere and do anything as long as they return to the tent according to the arranged hours. That's 00:00.
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"Here's a picture of Boss", said a man in glasses and in a black jacket to an exotic-skinned man at the end of a table of beautifully polished real teak wood.
"Hm. I didn't expect a useless man to have a sister like this" said the exotic-skinned man who sat casually staring at the photo of a girl in his left hand.
The field-breasted and broad-shoulder man smiled obliquely then removed the sunglasses that framed his eyes. It looked like a pair of dazzling golden eyes and was able to sedate anyone who looked at it.
"Would we arrest him now Boss?", asked a black man standing behind him.
The man called 'Boss' raised his right hand.
"no need. He's under my watch now", said the Boss with a smirk on his flirting pink lips.
The two men who asked her to talk were just looking at each other.
"The boss doesn't have to bother taking care of this little thing" said the black man.
"I told you he's under my control, right?. Are you tired of being a listener and want to be deaf?", asked the Boss with sharp words and a cold gaze.
"No Boss. Forgiver. We won't interfere if not asked", said the first man to ask her to speak.
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THE LAKE ZOZA
AT 16:45
Rachel sits alone under one of the large oak trees around Lake Zoza. Alora was already sleeping before Rachel left the tent. The cold of the afternoon burst out and enveloped Rachel's tiny body sitting alone on the grass hugging her knees.
Today, exactly during the day. Rachel receives word that her brother got into trouble for losing a gamble. Both of Rachel's parents ask her to help pay off Rachel's older brother's debt as soon as possible.
But because of the money that Rachel had used to pay employees and apartments, Rachel could only send as much as 500 million money left in her savings. That was his work for 1 year. Rachel had been planning on going to school until she got a professor's degree in California, but it seemed like she had to ditch her hopes. All the money he had used to pay some of his brother's debt amounting to 5 billion.
Rachel asked her brother not to carelessly hang out, but what he said was in vain. 3 months her brother spent working in Bangkok, Bangkok,he ended up in deportation for having so much debt in one of Pattaya's most famous bars.
Rachel who has a bad memory of Thailand has tried to ban her brother from going there alone, considering her older brother is someone who is rash and easily tempted and influenced by the environment.
Shock to hear the news, Rachel did everything she could to protect her family from the mafia who harassed her brother upon arrival in Indonesia. Rachel asks for help from all the men she has a friend relationship with. They have enough wealth and power to help Rachel protect her family.
Some of the men she loved for help actually uttered words that harassed Rachel. Even so, Rachel did not want to add to the problem and chose to ask for help to others. Rachel managed to raise money from her male friends of 800 million without having to be returned. It was because they felt Rachel was very good to them.
1.3 Billion has been sent to the account number of the person who won gambling against her brother last month. Previously, his brother had already paid the interest of 500 million. Another 3.7 billion are unpaid. The deadline given by that person was only 1 month away.
Rachel's tired of asking for help here and there. He doesn't want to bother Nathan or Julian with his problems, because they're with their 2 girlfriends now. Rachel didn't give up, she was just tired. Rachel could only cry alone under the tree while covering her face with her arms folded over her knees.
Her tears were flowing for 30 minutes even though Rachel was crying. Rachel was afraid and worried about the safety of her parents and older brother who were now in Medan. Rachel understood who her brother was dealing with. Rachel painstakingly breaks out of the mafia world that once ensnared her a few years ago and again enters this damned black world again.
The scarred memory made Rachel even worse. His mother's crying voice on the phone, his operating schedule, the installment of his apartment, and the fate of his employees are now like a pile of messy papers. Rachel's brain feels so full, her chest feels claustrophobic. Only tears came out because Rachel was no longer able to make her voice.
"*Allah to You is the servant of surrender. I ask you to give me the strength and patience to complete all the trials you give me. Truly I will not give up, but be honest, O Allah. Slave tired. Tired of inner birth. May I complain like this to you. Don't be angry, God. Servant just wants to confide. Yak's whiny servant?. Hehe sorry yes. The end of the exam this time is like Mathematics, difficult.
Btw Oh Allah. You are the All-Rich, the All-Giver of Life and Salvation. Can I ask for help, right?. I beg you, O Allah. Give the servant enough sustenance to pay all the debt of the servant brother, pay all the servant employees, pay the operational costs of the servant business, pay the slave apartment installment, pay the servant college and the needs of the servant family, pay the,pay for operating expenses and other.
You know better if the servant is confused who to ask. I beg you, O Allah, to help you. Please protect both parents and elder brothers and dear servant friends from all dangers. Only You are the All-Powerful, the All-Protectionary, the All-Mighty, yet the All-Wise, and all-Mustful, to You is the surrender of every man.
I am ashamed to ask so many things from You but still commit so many sins. Servant never forgets You O God, but I am ashamed to ask many things from You*", Rachel in her heart felt a little calm.
Tired of crying, Rachel's head was throbbing. Rachel had not been able to stand up, she fell unconscious. Shortly thereafter, the rain came down very hard. But the leaves, body, branches, and tree trunks above Rachel protect the girl from raindrops that could wet Rachel's clothes and body. Nature never let Rachel really get hurt. Whether what prayer Rachel asked, so the sinner seems to still be protected by the Almighty. Because of this, Rachel was often ashamed to ask her God for personal things.
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