Back at the school, Mia finished working at the canteen and went back to her usual place, where she would smoke cigarettes when she was bored or tensed. She didn't catch a glimpse of Lily since the morning, she started to get a bit worried.

Naim: Hey, Mia!

Mia: Lily!! 

Mia looked back immediately as she thought it was Lily, but instead she saw Naim in his prefect outfit.

Mia: Oh, it's you, I thought it was Lily for a second.

Naim walked toward Mia and stood next to her.

Naim: You look a bit tensed, is something wrong?

Mia: Nah, it's just.........I haven't seen Lily from morning. She didn't even reply to my messages.

Naim: Well, I'm sure she is busy by now.

Mia: Don't try to shut me down, I'm pretty sure that Lily would always meet me if it's the break time. I'm not sure if she's alright.

Naim: Hey, don't worry, Lily's kinda busy girl, but I'm sure she must be around here somewhere.

Mia: Anyway, what are you doing here? You are supposed to be in the class by now.

Naim: Well, I just want to talk about something serious.

Mia: Serious? What do you mean?

Naim: Well.....it was about last night......

Mia: Why? What happened last night?

Yesterday night, 11:30 pm

Naim was walking back to his dorm after getting some fresh air outside, when he saw someone walking out from the store room, he couldn't identity the person's face but he can clearly tell it's an upper student, followed by a boy who looked more like a lower student.

Naim sensed something was not right about the store room, hence he rushed to the upstairs to catch the two figures but they were mysteriously gone out of sight. He walked slowly towards the store room, he found a hanger hanging on the door handle, then he found the old store room was being messy which hardly ever used it.

Naim started to get doubts about the suspicious activity around the store room, he was wondering who the boys were and what they were doing here late at night.......

End of the scene.......

Naim: This is what I saw......

Mia: Wait, that store room had been unused for so long, why would students want to use that all of a sudden?

Naim: I have no idea, but something is telling me that it's not right. I want to find that out.

Mia: ( sighs )  I don't know about you Naim, but this school has been driving me crazy since the start, I can't wait to get out of here as fast as I can.

Naim looked helplessly at Mia who's tensed of the incident happening around the school, she had no idea that this was the start of a true traumatic event.

3.00 pm

After completing the paperworks, Lily, Faniza, Prakash and Fakhri went back to the school without any doubts on the others. The two boys went back to their dorm while Faniza helped Lily to go back to her, she's still feeling a bit weak after her treatments.

Lily: Mom, I can go by myself.

Faniza: Shut up, Lily. You have given me enough concerns of mine, now let me do my task for this time.

Lily can't argue back with her mom anymore thus she shut herself up. They finally made it to the room, Faniza helped her to sit down on the bed slowly.

Faniza: You need to take some rest, Lily. You have been giving yourself a lot of stress in the name of looking after the school, please take good care of yourself as well.

Lily: All right, all right. I will I will, you can go now, I'll take some rest.

Faniza: Ok, but if you need anything, I'm just a phone call away.

Lily: ( smiles ) Ok mom.

Faniza smiled and gave a small kiss on Lily's forehead, before leaving her alone in her room. She stretched herself on the bed and lay down slowly, unable to recall of what happened a few hours ago.

Lily: I really hope Fakhri and Prakash can keep my secret from anyone, I just don't want anyone to find out about my condition, especially.....Kahar.....

Lily was reminded of the time she spent with Kahar, her anger on him had been slowly fading away when her heart condition got worse. She just wanted to see him but she needed to wait for few days before he came back to the school.

As Lily looked around the room, she spotted the speaker she set it up to look after Ariz's activity, the speaker's still activated.

Lily: The speaker must have recorded Ariz's activity while I'm away. I should play it back.

Lily picked up the speaker from the table and checked on the file, she found a single audio that was recorded in the morning after she left the school. She played the audio and put the volume up.

The Starting of The Audio.....

Ariz: Why didn't you come last night?

???: I......I......I was doing.....I was doing my homework.........

Ariz: Homework can be done anytime, but when I call you out, you should come to me. Do you understand?

???: Un...un....understand....... understand......

Ariz: Do YOU understand or not?!!!!

???: I understand!!! I understand!!! Please leave me!!!! It hurts!!!!

Ariz chuckled slightly before he started talking again.

Ariz: You know I like to hear you crying out loud......... it's so soothing.....

The Ending of The Audio...

The audio suddenly stopped for no reason, Lily tried to see if there were any other recordings left behind but unfortunately that's the only audio she could find.

Lily: I was right about Ariz, he was blackmailing a boy, but who could that be? That boy sounded like someone who's younger than him, and the way he talked as if he was terrified of Ariz.

Lily put back the speaker on the table and she started thinking about Ariz and the boy. She was reminded back by the time when she saw them getting out of the store room late at night.

Lily: What were they both doing in a store room in the middle of the night? I heard that the store room is hardly ever used by anyone, even the teachers and staff.

Lily stood up from her bed and went out from her room, looking around if anyone was outside. The classes were over hence the students might have gone back to their dormitory.

Lily: Should I go and look at the store room? I can find some clues there to find out what Ariz has been up to lately.

Without a second thought, Lily quickly walked at a fast pace to see the store room in front of her by herself. She needed to do something before Ariz would do something unimaginable......

And as you might have guessed, he did something unimaginable...........

In the dormitory, Fakhri's eyes dried up so badly due to a long period of crying, he still couldn't believe that Lily was a heart patient. The thought that she had a little chance or survival made him wonder if he did anything wrong in the past.

Fakhri: Why does she have to go through this unbearable pain?

As Fakhri was thinking about Lily deeply, Ayam entered the room and glanced at him as he realized Fakhri was there.

Ayam: You're back? I thought you ran away from our school, since you can't tolerate that High Council.

Fakhri quickly wiped his tears and composed himself in front of Ayam.

Fakhri: Hey....I was not doing well at school, so I came back here.......

Ayam: You did? You didn't tell me before you left, I was searching for you in the whole school.

Fakhri was hesitating, whether or not to tell Ayam where he really went during school time.

Fakhri MV: Should I tell him? I mean, he's the only friend I can rely on.

Ayam: But seriously, since this High Council thing had started, each and every person in this school are keeping their own secret from anyone outside. They hardly ever try to solve it, rather than just trying so hard to hide it from anyone. Do you know something? Nothing escapes from me if it was about secrets.

Fakhri: ( murmures )  Oh great, he exposed himself, I guess it's better not to tell him......now.....

Ayam: Did you say something?

Fakhri: Nothing, good for you, buddy.....

Ayam nodded his head and sat down on his bed, completely facing Fakhri next to him.

Ayam: I thought that we could get rid of this High Council if Kahar was expelled from this school, but he was saved apparently, thanks to Lily.

Fakhri's mind went back to Lily when Ayam mentioned her name, his thoughts was to protect Lily at any cost before any worse could happen.

Ayam: But, did you know that Hakeem is now the Intern Kapla?

Fakhri slowly turned his attention towards Ayam when he told a weird news.

Fakhri: What do you mean? Does that mean Kahar is not the Kapla anymore?

Ayam: No, Hakeem is taking that role for a temporary time. Until Kahar is back to school, he would take his positions.

Fakhri: Hakeem? The Kapla? Haah, he can't even stand as Kapla's right hand, or fight anyone with his thin body, he even could defeated by you, Ayam.

Ayam: ( chuckles ) I know, but whatever it is, the decision is from Kapla himself. So, if you managed to win this manifesto and become the next Kapla, you will have the power to end this High Council.

Fakhri nodded his head and kept silent, Ayam quickly pulled out a thick paper from a drawer and unfolded it.

Fakhri: So, how many more manifestos should I win?

Ayam suddenly unfolded a huge paper in front of Fakhri, he curiously peeked at it and realized it was a chart for the manifesto.

Fakhri: Bapak sial, ada carta.......

Ayam: I'm the gossip machine in this school, so I probably gathered all of the information and saved it to myself.

Ayam showed the chart to Fakhri and explained everything in detail.

Ayam: So, you have defeated Kahar, so you are obviously going to the next round, and Prakash defeated Zahrin, where he will go to the next round as well. And if you remember correctly, Naim defeated Fahmi in the first round too, and now it's Ariz and Hakeem left to decide the opponents for the next round.

Fakhri: So........does that mean I will have a match with Ariz or Hakeem?

Ayam: No, because whether it's Ariz or Hakeem wins the round, he will then compete with Naim. So, your only opponent for the next round is.......

Fakhri: Prakash.

Ayam: Exactly!

Fakhri started to get worried when he realized he had to fight with his new friend, Prakash. They just started to develop a good friendship which no one was aware of.

Fakhri: But Prakash is too strong, I might get defeated if I fight him.

Ayam: Oh, so you have decided on who to win in the next round? That's so lame.

Fakhri really wanted to win this manifesto so he could put an end to the High Council, but he didn't expect to fight with his own friend. He had to do something before his manifesto started.

Fakhri: I have to meet Prakash fast.

7.00 pm

It's about night time, and the teachers and staff went back to their home as it was getting late. Lily decided to meet Mia since they didn't meet in the morning. She decided to keep this secret from her to make her worried unnecessarily.

Lily: Mia! Mia!

Mia was working in the canteen when she heard Lily's voice, making her stop doing her work.

Mia: Lily! ( Smiles )

Mia quickly left everything behind and got out of the canteen, to see Lily standing in front of her. She ran towards her and hugged her tightly.

Lily: Woah, woah, easy there, girl.

Mia broke the hug and smiled widely at Lily, she was happy and relieved to meet her after a long time of worry and thoughts about her.

Mia: Where have you been? I have been looking for you since morning.

Lily: Sorry Mia, I have to go out with Mom for a personal issue.

Mia: Is everything ok now?

Lily: Yup, everything is just fine.

Mia: Glad to hear that.

Mia smiled and held both of Lily's hands in happiness, Lily on the other hand felt guilty as she was hiding an untold secret about her health condition from her best friend.

Lily MV: I'm sorry Mia, but I have to do this. I don't want you to get hurt because of me.

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

Hi guys. Thanks for reading. Well, what do you know? Projek High Council is now available on Netflix, you can watch all of the episodes there without any interruption or disturbance. Anyway, what do you guys 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! 💛🇲🇾

Ps: And sorry for the delay, I really don't have some free time to update this story nowadays.

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