In a dark forest, Naim and Fakhri were having a glaring contest for a few minutes, they were bound to kill each other no matter what happens. Their bodies were fully covered in mud as they fought really hard on the dirty ground.

Naim: You took everything from me Fakhri!! My family! My dad! My mom! My everything to be with me!!! I want to kill you so badly!!!!

Fakhri: Do it if you dare, pondan!!!!

Naim shouted in anger and charged toward Fakhri, he jumped into the air and gave a hard paining punch on his face, that he choked out with blood. And then suddenly, everything vanished into the dark for a second.

Lily: NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Lily shouted in fear and woke up from the bed, she was breathing heavily and started to sweat hardly. Her heartbeat can be heard through the whole room. She tried to calm herself down after what she dreamed of that traumatizing incident, her inner feelings were telling her something was going wrong.

Lily: No no, this can't be.....I can't let two brothers to fight against each other. They should be caring instead of being enemies all the times. Haiihh.....what on earth should I have to do now?

As Lily tried to think of a way to reunite Naim and Fakhri, she spotted the small speaker device which she prepared last night for Ariz. That's when she was reminded she had to keep an eye on that Ariz, his activities were becoming more and more suspicious than ever to her eyes.

Lily looked at the time, it's just 5 in the morning. She thought everyone were still be sleeping by now. She yawned loudly and got off from the bed, she went out from her room to take some fresh air outside.

While Lily was walking down the corridor, her footsteps suddenly sounded double, she stopped her track and looked around‌, rubbed her eyes in confusion.

Lily: Is it just me or am I too exhausted that I started to hallucinate things?

Lily shook her head and continued her walk, she thought it might be her imagination, but that's where she's wrong. She can felt somebody was following her behind, she didn't urge to look back but she can really felt it.

Lily didn't budge to look back but to just walk away, but no matter how far she went, the figure behind her won't stop following her. She suddenly stopped walking again, don't have the energy to hold it back anymore.

The figure started to get closed to Lily, ready to touch her in any minute, she clenched her fist and closed her eyes, prepared to fight back with all she got.

After a moment, the figure placed his hand on Lily's shoulder, she opened her eyes in a second and turned around in a fast pace, shouting in a rage and punched the figure hardly on his left chest. The figure shouted in pain and fell on the ground, wincing in pain. She proudly smiled at her own bravery and blew on her hand.

Lily: Now you might have remember who you are dealing with next time.

???: Ahhhhhhhhh, sakitnya.....Ya Allah.........

Lily heard the figure's groaning from his unstoppable pain, she felt familiar with the voice as she heard it before. She felt doubt and looked at the figure closely, the figure's face shown in her naked eyes, she widened her eyes in shock as she witnessed the true person.

Lily: FAKHRI!!!!!!!!

Yes, it was Fakhri who followed Lily behind, that's what she thought in the first place. She immediately went to him and helped him to get up.

Lily: Fakhri!! Fakhri!! Are you all right?

Fakhri: Do you think I'm ok to you? You almost killed me instantly!!

Lily: I'm sorry Fakhri, I thought some sort of criminal or thief tried to do something against me, that's why I defended myself, sorry Fakhri.......

Lily pleaded an apology to Fakhri, he held his chest in pain, but the way she asked sorry to him made his heart melted into liquid, he can't felt any pain at that moment. He smiled and forced himself to hide his pain from her.

Fakhri: It's ok Lily, I'm fine. No need to apologize.

Lily: But I have punched you hard, there might be some bruises over there.

Fakhri: Hahahaha, relax dear. I'm strong to take these attacks, you don't have to worry about it.

Lily: Wait, let me check.

Lily suddenly placed her hand on Fakhri's chest, to check if there's any bruises or pain there. Yet the moment her hand landed on his hard chest, he felt his heartbeat beating rapidly, he closed his eyes and felt her touch. Her slightest touch was giving an insane reaction throughout his whole body. He can really tell, his heart was beating only for Lily, his cheeks suddenly flushed with redness.

On the other hand, Lily was observing Fakhri's chest when she realized what was she doing. She immediately retreated her hand and looked around, avoiding the eye contact from him. He was a bit disappointed that she took her hand from him but he felt glad it stopped, as his body was not cooperating with him from her touch. Both of them were now in the mess of blushing.

Lily: Uh...uh...Fakhri........

Fakhri Uh....yes.....Lily.........

Lily: ( coughs ) What are you doing here? I thought you went back home.

Lily observed Fakhri's outfit, he was wearing a cap along with grey t-shirt and pants, and a bag on his left shoulder.

Fakhri: I......I came back here again.....

Lily: Now? But it's still weekend, and did you come here all alone?

Fakhri: I know, but.........the thing is.....

Lily: What?

Fakhri: I went to my mom's home.

Lily: Your mom?! Wait a minute, so you went back home with Naim, right?

Fakhri: Yeah, my mom insisted me to come to her home along with Naim, so I didn't have any choice but to go there.

Lily: What about your father? Is he aware any of this?

Fakhri: I did tell him, but he didn't bother about this so much, which is a bit surprising to me.

Lily: O....k...then why did you come back?

Fakhri gulped and blinked his eyes for a numerous time, whether or not to tell the truth to Lily or just lie easily.

Fakhri: I felt bored.... that's why I came back......hehehehe

Fakhri chuckled nervously, but his small laugh disappeared as he looked at Lily's different facial expression.

Fakhri: What?

Lily: Come on Fakhri, do you think I will believe easily for what you said?

Fakhri: What....what....what do you mean?

Lily went closer to Fakhri's face and whispered softly.

Lily: You had a fight with Naim, didn't you?

Fakhri widened his eyes and started to breathe rapidly, he closed his eyes in shame as he was regretting for lying to Lily. She smirked widely and shook her head, before straighten herself.

Lily: You should have come up with a better excuse, Mr. Fakhri. Your muscles are doing fine, but not your tiny dump brain.

Fakhri looked at Lily with widen eyes and rolled his sleeves, triggering his inner rage.

Fakhri: Hey, don't compare your intelligence to mine, I'm better than you anyway!!!

Lily: Really? Then do you know why WW2 happened?

Fakhri: Because.....because........Britain wanted to take over the whole world, am I right?

Fakhri smiled sarcastically and wiggled his eyebrows, feeling proud of his answer. Lily sighed heavily and facepalmed himself, wasting her time to test his intelligence.

Fakhri: Hey, don't hurt yourself. You will get hurt, sayang.

Lily: Sayang?!! My foot! Haiiisggg, anyway, where was I....yeah Naim, care to explain why you argued with Naim?

Fakhri looked down slowly, started to think of what happened during that night with him and Naim.

Fakhri: Well..........Naim and I were getting along a bit, even after the fights and arguments we had. Everything was going great........until he said he forgived me, when it's clearly know that he's wrong!!!!!!

Fakhri shouted in rage and punched the side wall, stunning Lily from his sudden aggressive act.

Lily: Fakhri..........

Fakhri: Sorry Lily, I just got carried away a bit.........

Lily: ( sighs ) Fakhri, I know it's totally not related to me, but......don't try to get more angry on Naim..........

Fakhri looked at Lily in disbelief and went closer to her.

Fakhri: Seriously?! How can I not angry on him after all he had done for me?!

Lily: Fakhri!! Just stop blaming your brother for everything, as if you were the only one who was right for the whole time.

Fakhri: What do you mean?

Lily: Do you really think he left your father purposely? No, he just left you and him with your mother because that's what your father wanted after they got divorced. Naim was a bit hesitating but he got used to it, but you on the other hand, ran away from home and got back to your dad. And, does everything come back to normal after you ran away from there? No, you made the situation even worse!!

Fakhri: I don't get you, Lily.

Lily started to have the fear, she was still reminded about the horrible dream she had when she's asleep. She didn't want the dream to become reality.

Lily: Fakhri, you are now a teenager, or almost like a young adult, you have to start thinking for the problems you are facing by yourself, you can't just wait someone to fix it. And, stop trying to running away from it, you and your father were doing these for years, but look, they found you after all the run you both had.

Lily turned back to Fakhri's face, his face soften as he kept listening to her words.

Lily: I know life can be unfair sometimes, but you need to know how to maintain it well, so you won't face any complications for now or the future.

Fakhri: I don't know anymore, I just wanted to run away from this problem.

Lily: ( sighs ) Ok, let's not talk about this for now, just go back to your room, we'll meet later.

Fakhri: Ok, see you later Lily.

Fakhri gave a small smile to Lily, which she smiled back for response, as he turned around to leave, Kahar was standing behind them with his sleeveless outfit. She immediately looked away from him to avoid his eye contact.

Fakhri started to get boiled up just by the presence of Kahar, they started to glare at each other intentionally, before Lily broke it with her stern words.

Lily: Fakhri, tell him to leave!!!

Kahar: But Lily, I want to talk to you.....

Lily: There's nothing to talk anymore, just go away from here.

Kahar: But Lily, I......

Fakhri: She told you to leave, so get the hell out of here!

Kahar: Stay out of this you little kid, this is none of your business.....

Lily noticed the tension between Fakhri and Kahar, she thought that they might get involved into another fight, she stopped them midway before anything could get worse.

Lily: Stop it, you both!! Enough of your fight!! Fakhri, go back to your room. And you........

Lily was about to call Kahar's name, but her anger shut her up from calling his name. That was enough to hurt his feelings as he can't held back his sadness.

Fakhri: Lily, I'm going now only for you, but if this guy tried to do something against you, I'm just a few blocks away, I'll crush this guy over here.

Fakhri warned sternly to Kahar, before he glanced at him one more time and left quickly. Kahar glared deadly at Fakhri who's leaving them alone. Lily crossed her arms on her chest and looked at somewhere else other than Kahar's face.

Lily: What do you want to talk about?

Kahar: Lily, listen, I know I did wrong, and I'm really sorry for it. But please, don't try to ignore me for the whole time.

Lily immediately turned back and faced Kahar fully as she couldn't help herself anymore.

Lily: You should have known the consequences for your action, you do really know that these kind of acts will never be something to be forgiven that easily, right?

Kahar: I know Lily, but I just want to......make that camp night more interesting.....

Lily: Interesting? Is that the only way you can do to make it interesting? Where is the logic? Your explanation does not making any sense. Look, I have told you before, if you think there is a problem beneath you, you could have just tell me about it.

Kahar: Lily, just forget about that. I'm really sorry for what I have done, please forgive me, I'm begging you.

Lily: No, I will not forget this in my entire life.

Lily was looking at somewhere when Kahar was begging her to apologize him, his eyes started to flow with tears as she was not trying to look at his face, he went closer to her and asked a question with a broken tone.

Kahar: Won't you look at my face once Lily? Am I that horrible?.......

Kahar's sad voice made Lily to start getting emotional, she tried to hold back her tears but she couldn't. Even though she's ignoring him completely, but a part of her just wanted to comfort him for the pain he's been dealing with.

Kahar: Lily.........please don't ignore me forever.........you are everything to me for now.........

Lily: Just........please.....leave from here........

Lily wipes her teary eyes before it could flow onto her cheeks, Kahar cupped his mouth and nodded his head slightly, he understood that she just wanted to be alone for now.

Kahar: Ok, just take your time........and you know that I'm leaving next week, you might be like you don't care about it.

Kahar went closer to Lily who's showing her back to him.

Kahar: But deep down, I know you care about that, you're still thinking about me. You wanted to tell me to stay here but you can't, I know you care about me a lot Lily!!! I know my cinta hati!!!!

Lily closed her eyes in guilt, she couldn't deny the fact that everything that Kahar said was right, she really wanted to tell him to stay, but she was tongue-tied for no reason.

Kahar: But one thing Lily, you won't stay still if you don't meet me even just for one day, but let's see if you can keep showing you anger to me after I return.

Kahar turned to leave, before he said one last thing to Lily.

Kahar: And one more thing you need to remember Lily, no matter how much you ignore me, no matter how far you are going away from me, across the world or the universe, I will always find a way to come back to you. I will never let you get away from me forever Lily.

Kahar said it clearly with empathy in each word, before he left while wiping his flowing tears. Lily started to cry and covered her face as she couldn't held back anymore from the words she was hearing, she couldn't believe how much affection and care Kahar had for Lily even after she showed her anger and hate to him .

Lily: Kahar..........I'm sorry.............I just don't have the heart to talk to you right now.............

Time went as quickly as a lightning, it's the starting of the week again. The students were getting ready for the new day ahead, but Naim and Amir on the other hand were having a serious conversation.

Amir: Did he run away from your house like he did when he was a kid?

Naim: Fakhri was pissed off when I brought up our family conflicts, he was still on the verge of killing me like he usual do. He just can't move on from the horrible incidents took place in my family life.

Amir: Naim, I think you might have rush things a little bit, you know he's not a person who would take such sensitive topic easily.

Naim: But, I just tried to make things sense.

Amir: Naim, maybe it's better to be patient and wait for some time, let's just go with the flow.

Naim closed his eyes and nodded his eyes, he didn't want to take the blame for something he didn't do, but he had no other choice to accept. Cause, that's what his habit were since he was a kid, to protect Fakhri from any hard situation.

Amir: All right, I think you need some time alone, I'll be in the class.

Naim: Ok.

Amir patted Naim's shoulder to comfort him, before he left him in the room to give him some time off. He slowly went in front of his locker, opened and took out his family photo when he was a kid. Deep down, he really wanted his family to be united like how they were in the past, but now the future was in his hand. He needed to stand up and take actions to give an end for this lifetime problem.

Yet, one thing he didn't know that, Fakhri also kept a spare of his family photo when he got it from his mother's house. On the other side, Fakhri was looking at the photo for a long time when he was ready to go to class.

Ayam: Woi Fakhri, what are you looking at? Let's go now.

Fakhri: Ah.....coming........

Fakhri kept the photo on his wallet safely and went out from the room as quickly as possible.

Lily fetched her mother Faniza to go to her class from her parking lot.

Faniza: Lily, you don't have to be so sweet to me, I might get sick.

Lily: Mom, I'm just trying to keep you company.

Faniza: You don't have to Lily, cause now you are taking the responsibility of looking after this school, despite you have this ill condition......

Lily stopped Faniza midway from saying anything further.

Lily: Mom, don't even talk about it. I don't want anyone in this school to find out about this.

Faniza: But Lily.........it might get worse if you don't look after yourself.

Lily: Mom, nothing will happen to me, I'm doing perfectly fine.

Faniza hugged Lily from side as she was concerned about her health and safety.

Faniza: I'm forcing myself to be ok, but I can't literally. I'm scared something bad will happen to you.

Lily: Get rid of that fear firstly mom, that's what making you worry about everything all the time.

Faniza: I'll try, sweetheart. ( smiles )

Lily and Faniza just walked by the entrance of the school, when they saw Kahar talking to his friends.

Faniza: What are those boys doing there?

Lily: Don't you remember Mom? The suspension.......

Faniza: Oh ya, Kahar is suspended for a week, how can I forgot about that?

Lily: But, they looked so happy for that.

Faniza: Well, maybe because they're happy that he's not getting expelled from this school.

When Lily was observing the group, she spotted Fakhri and Ayam staring at them deeply. She started to believe to the fact that there were more than just hate between Fakhri and Kahar.

Faniza: All right, it's about time now, I'll meet you after the class.

Lily: Ok mom, take care.

Faniza: You too dear, and don't put too much pressure on yourself.

Lily: ( smiles ) I won't mom.

Faniza smiled at her daughter before going her way to the classroom, Lily observed the group once again before she noticed something weird, and it was Ariz.

Lily: What is a Form 4 student doing with Form 5 students?

Lily can't help but to think about the night she saw Ariz came out from the store room, she even witnessed a student who looked younger than him leaving the room quickly at that time. She immediately took out the small speaker device she had to keep an eye on Ariz.

Lily: I need to find out what this guy has up to, so I need to set this device up onto him, but I need to put it without his knowledge. What should I do?

Lily was thinking of a way to put the device on Ariz, when she saw a flock of birds on the ground. That's when she got an idea to execute her plan, she immediately took out a piece of bread from her bag. She carefully looked at the direction and identified the location.

Lily: Ok, this will do.

Fakhri suddenly spotted Lily's behaviour towards Kahar and the group, he nudged Ayam's shoulder and pointed his finger to her.

Fakhri: What is Lily doing there?

Ayam: I don't know, maybe investigating something.

Fakhri: Really Ayam?

Ayam: That's what she would do here, right?

Back to the group, Kahar gave the High Council book to Hakeem as he had to take the position of Kapla.

Kahar: While I'm gone, you are going to take this responsibility. Interim Kapla.

Hakeem: ( gulps ) Me?

Kahar: Just don't let anyone to die.

On the other hand, Lily signalled the birds to look at the bread, they did notice it and started to walk toward her.

Lily: You want this bread, fellas?

Lily looked back at the boys again, she took a deep breath and decided to take the risk.

Lily: Ok, 3.......2......1........GO!!!

With that said, Lily threw the bread towards the group, Ariz catched it unexpectedly and he was stunned.

Ariz: What is this?

Lily: LOOK OUT!!!

When Ariz was observing the bread, he looked up for the sudden scream and saw a flock of birds were flying towards him. The birds started to attack the whole group to get that bread from Ariz, the group tried to shush them away but they couldn't, everything was blind in front of them.

As it was the right time, Lily ran toward the group and made her way to execute her plan. She went inside the mess and dodged the attacks, immediately placing the speaker inside Ariz's tie, she even placed something else on Kahar's bag pocket and got out from there immediately.

Lily ran away from the spot and hid herself from the group, taking each and every breath slowly. Fakhri and Ayam were amazed by her move and started to laugh at the group. After a while, they managed to get rid of those birds from them completely.

Zahrin: Stupid birds!!! How dare they tried to attack us?!!!

Ariz: Dang it, my whole uniform is a mess now.

Kahar: Leave it lah, leave it. Ok, I'm going now, and Hakeem, remember.

Hakeem: All right, all right, I remember Kahar.

Kahar nodded his head when he saw Fakhri and Ayam laughing their hearts out, he smirked intentionally and got inside the car.

Kahar sighed heavily when the car started to move, he finally exited the school and led his way to his home, he placed his bag on his side when he saw a white folded paper inside the pocket.

Kahar took out the paper and unfold it, curiously reading out the words on it.

Come back soon, Kahar.

Lily........

That one letter was enough to make Kahar's heart melted, he started to cry with a small smile and placed the paper close to his heart. He slowly relaxed himself on his seat and closed his eyes.

Kahar: I will come back for you, cinta hati. Wait for me.

To be continued.........

Hi guys. Thank for reading. I know this is a bit draggy and cringe at the same time, but I hope I gave justification for this story, sorry. Anyway, what do you think about this chapter? Leave your thoughts in the comment section down below. Stay in touch to find out more about the story. Until then, I will see you guys in the next chapter. Bye, guys! Terima kasih!! 🇲🇾💛

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Mithran