Chương 33: Revealed?
"Father, Neil sure you must be very ashamed to have a son like Neil. So Neil doesn't want to go home. Father you can forget about Neil from now on."
"Father, can Neil cry? One last time?"
"Father, can Neil die?"
***
Skylar finally came home in the morning even though Raihan had told him not to stay there anymore. He couldn't just walk away from his mother, even though Renjana had lied to him for years.
Skylar knocked softly on the door, but no answer came from inside. And so, he reached into the spare key from the back pocket of his pants that he borrowed from Neil and opened it.
When Skylar entered the house he was greeted with darkness and immediately turned on the light. Renjana isn't home after Skylar goes around looking for her until he finds a note taped to the refrigerator door.
'Mother is gone for a few days. Do not forget to eat.'
Only that?
Emotion even did not say she wanted to go anywhere for a few days. the next. However, it wasn't his mother's fault either. Skylar also left without saying where he was going.
***
As Skylar enters the school gates, he is surprised when Michelia grabs his hand and leads him to a place out of reach of people.
Skylar raised an eyebrow and asked, "What's wrong?"
Michelia's eyes were still wandering around looking around until her vision returned to Skylar, she started to speak, "Skylar, I have no reflection in the mirror."
Skylar froze when he heard Michelia's sudden confession. He also got the same thing that happened to Neil. "How could that be?"
Michelia tossed her hair back, she pointed Skylar at a black window pane on the building that reflected her reflection. Skylar's eyes rolled and gasped when he found nothing similar in Michelia. Skylar glanced back and forth between Michelia and the glass. "So what happened?"
"I don't know," she said weakly.
"There must be something going on with the other you in there," Skylar said, his shoulders drooping suddenly at the sudden thought of Neil's words yesterday. "I'm going to class."
Skylar turned around leaving Michelia behind him. He felt his stomach churning, his passion for carrying Neil had disappeared with Neil's breakdown.
Skylar looked back when his hand was grabbed by Michelia.
"What are you doing? Did something happen?" she asked.
"It's nothing," Skylar replied immediately releasing Michelia's grip from her hand.
"Did something happen to Neil?" asked Michelia carefully, her eyes harboring hope that what Skylar was going to say next was that nothing had happened and that all was well.
Skylar wants to keep quiet, but what for?
Michelia already knew it, she also cared about Neil. Michelia waited for Skylar to speak. In the end, Skylar sighed and spoke. "After school at Neil's."
Michelia didn't protest anything she nodded and they parted with a heavy burden on each other's shoulders.
When Michelia was out of sight of Skylar, he heard someone calling out to him from behind so he turned around and his jaw clenched as soon as he knew who she was dealing with now.
"Planning something, eh?" The mocking voice that came out of Davi's mouth made Neil immediately sick of hearing it.
Skylar gritted his teeth and stuck his hands in his pockets and looked at Davi casually. Skylar couldn't reciprocate with emotion to someone like Davi, which instead gave the man pleasure.
Skylar didn't say anything he wanted to see what this guy wanted to do next.
"There's a problem with that weak dear brother of yours?"
Skylar didn't let a laugh escape Davi's mouth, he immediately shot his fist into the jaw which made a loud banging sound there. Skylar chuckled when he saw Ravi who was hunched over wincing in pain.
"Better be quiet."
Skylar left him, there was no need for him to waste his precious time on that obscure man with his mouth like trash.
There is no point. However, he vented all the disappointment and anger he had been holding in since yesterday on the well-deserved Davi.
At least Davi is a little useful here with his bullshit.
***
Skylar glanced at the chair next to him and sighed. The empty chair that was previously occupied by Faiz there seemed odd without him being occupied.
Leaflets about Faiz's disappearance have been distributed by his family. Skylar has even been asked several times about Faiz's disappearance, but what can Skylar do? He couldn't tell Faiz's parents the truth. Even at this moment, Skylar was sure they were still looking.
At that time, several police officers were combing all over the school looking for Faiz, until Faiz's face was plastered on one of the sheets of the morning newspaper. Until everyone finally mentions the disappearance of Neil who is no longer seen at school and also the disappearance of Sain one year ago, which to this day has not been found by them.
Recalling the name, Skylar jerked the table so hard that several pairs of eyes turned to him. Skylar looked back at them defiantly and looked out of the glass window with the muscles in his jaw twitching.
'Someone said Neil was a toy. He says Riksa fucked Neil many times, but Neil doesn't remember. He also killed the people who raped Neil. Should we thank Riksa, Father?'
Still fresh in Skylar's mind when he recalled how Neil had told her about how bad Sain was. Skylar's head was boiling hearing that then and now if he could reach Sain right now Skylar would break his arm and beat him to death.
"I'm here. Nothing bad will ever happen to him again, and I promise if I find the person who did that disgusting thing to Neil, I'll make them pay for it until they beg to die."
'They have destroyed Neil, how can I be silent.'
Skylar always believed Sain's words at that time. All his words were lies, it was he who hurt Neil until Neil himself said that he wanted to die. This time Skylar told himself that he would make Sain pay for all of this and suffer the consequences.
Unknowingly Neil had broken the pen in his hand. Anger had enveloped him so tightly that Skylar felt suffocated by it.
Skylar glanced at his teacher who had come, he didn't take the textbook. He instead took the book Mirror And Blood and opened it and read the quality.
"... My father bought an old cupboard at an antique shop this afternoon for a cheap price. It's a brown cupboard and it's quite large, for one look I know it's not cheap.
"However, maybe this is our lucky day. Mom looks very happy with this and Father chest lifts high because he's proud to have made mom compliment him. I was curious about the inside of the cupboard, so I quietly opened it. I was flabbergasted by my amazement, seeing a cupboard with a large mirror on one side.
"I wanted to tell George about this after I had a better look. I closed the cupboard first, to start from scratch. Noting the round shiny cupboard doorknob, then I chuckled and quietly took the small knife I always carried with me. under my shirt. I scratched the surface of the wood thinking Father wouldn't know. I wrote my name there. Renjana."
Skylar had stopped reading his book when his mother's name was written on it. Then like someone doused him with ice when he remembered the cupboard in his mother's room there was also a scratch on Renjana's name. However, Skylar shook his head in disbelief. He turned his eyes back to the line of writing printed there.
"Renjana is the name Father gave me. Not bad, but very strange to be with George. Then mom said jokingly if I have kids later. My mom will give me a name, Neil. Isn't that ridiculous? If I had kids with that name, I will definitely
hate it."
Skylar reached into his trouser pocket to get his cell phone from there, his eyes wandered around first and then put his focus on the phone.
Skylar's hands danced across the flat, glowing screen. Typed a message which he finally sent to the contact named Michelia.
'Changed. after school at my house. I found something.'
Skylar tapped the table with his fingertips, waiting impatiently. He glanced occasionally at his phone screen which was still dark. Until a notification pops up making Skylar's phone blink. He quickly opened it.
'Well.'
***
"Where's your mother?" asked Michelia as Skylar led her into her house.
Skylar shook his head slowly and answered. "Mom's gone for a few days."
Michelia just nodded in response. Skylar told Michelia to sit on the sofa in the living room and handed the girl a glass of water on the table. Skylar also sat opposite Michelia.
He didn't want to mince words again, Neil immediately took the Mirror And Blood book which was in his bag, and then immediately handed it to the girl who had been watching Skylar.
"Why did you even give me a book?"
"It's a book that Neil and I used to read when we were little. So open the page I folded and read it."
Michelia didn't go straight to the page Skylar was referring to. However, she stopped first on the first page to look at the image Neil had left there. A house without doors and windows. Michelia's head shot up to stare at Skylar with his eyes wide and watery. Michelia seemed to lose color as her face paled that second after seeing that.
The same reaction Skylar received from his father. Michelia's nose wrinkled as she returned the book. Michelia finally raised her voice. "Is this Neil drawing?"
Skylar nodded quickly. "Yeah, Neil drew it. What's wrong?"
Michelia didn't answer, she took a deep breath and blinked a few times.
The silence of Michelia and his father brought Skylar's confusion and curiosity about the image that Neil had inscribed there. There were no words that spoke of it to him and told him the truth. After all, it's about Neil. His brother and twin.
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