13. Hiccup
"Hikk hikk hikk.."
Kenzo froze, still not moving with a body that instantly stiffened. That voice.. The voice started to haunt him, the ghost voice that became legend suddenly followed him.
"Yo.." Kenzo called.
Aryo looked at Kenzo in surprise, his tone sounded like someone was scared. "What?" Arya said.
"Did you hear something? Like... The sound of someone hiccuping," Kenzo asked in a half-whispered voice.
"Hiccup sound?" Kenzo nodded.
Aryo was silent for a moment trying to look around and strain his ears, there was a lot of noise from the cafeteria kids gossiping to the sound of a spatula and a clinking kettle.
"Nothing," said Aryo, then shrugged.
"Hey heck heck.."
"Really?" Kenzo asked again when the hiccups sounded again.
Aryo shook his head as a sign of not hearing. Kenzo himself closed his eyes for a moment, he had expected that there would be new problems he had to face in the future.
"Heol shit! Do my life challenges now have to be accompanied by an astral figure?" Kenzo muttered in annoyance.
"Astral figure?" Asked Aryo who overheard.
Kenzo looked at his best friend then nodded weakly. "Earlier.. Just now when I was leaving for school, I accidentally almost hit a girl who went to the same school as us. The difference is that the girl's uniform was stained with blood and.. You know Yo? my direction while introducing his name. Ihh .. I remember it immediately made my hair stand up again, "explained Kenzo.
Aryo heard him get goosebumps. "Are you serious?" And Kenzo nodded quickly.
"What's his name?" Ask Aryo.
"Hiki-"
"Hikiko?" Aryo cut in quickly interrupting his friend's sentence.
"How do you know?" Kenzo asked suspiciously.
Aryo rolled his eyes lazily, this man is quite cute for someone who knows folk legends.
"Of course I know because that name is very famous in Japanese folklore. My little friend from Japan also often tells ghosts there and one of the stories he told me was that." Arya replied.
"Is that true?" Arya nodded.
"And you should know, people who meet him will immediately be followed even haunted by strange voices." Connect Aryo.
"Right, I also just heard hiccups like shrieks hickeys like that." Kenzo's reply turned frightened.
"Calm down Ken, hic hic hic that you're talking about it's not a hiccup but that ratty tape on the table behind you." Aryo said calming his friend.
"Hah?"
"Just look behind you!" Tell Aryo.
Kenzo looked back and sure enough, he found a shabby radio there. There was also a tattered cassette that was intentionally half-loaded into an ancient monitor, Kenzo frowned in confusion.
"Why are radio and monitor legends in the cafeteria?" Kenzo asked.
"The radio belongs to Mrs. Mina's husband. Every day the radio and cassette must be stored there until her husband picks up. She said the radio was deliberately brought because it was for her child's toys when Mrs. Mina was busy serving students buying fried foods." Arya replied.
"Ouh.." Kenzo understood.
"By the way have you seen Jeya?" Ask Arya.
Kenzo shook his head. "No, I'm not even close to him. I should be the one saying, where is your girlfriend?" Obviously Kenzo.
"Your eye boyfriend huh?" Decih Aryo.
"Then?"
"Jeya and I don't have any relationship, we're clearly friends. Besides, the three of us made a promise since we were little, neither of us should like each other. You'll say you don't know about this because you don't remember," explained Aryo.
"That was before, are you sure your feelings for that girl are just friends?" Little Kenzo.
"Of course, I'm not the one you used to like your own friends with." Aryo's pout.
"You mean?" Kenzo asked not understanding.
Aryo glared. He just realized his own words, Aryo smiled stiffly at Kenzo. "Yes.. You and Febee used to be friends, yes they were." Nervous Arya.
"Are you sure?" Kenzo squinted suspiciously.
Arya nodded quickly.
"But.. Wait, do you know the story of my first love? When I woke up from a coma, everyone looked at me as a disgusting man for loving the same sex. Now I ask, do you know who I loved first?" Press Kenzo demanding an answer.
Aryo stutters, this is all because of his bucket mouth. "Euu.." Aryo was confused.
"Answer Yo!" Kenzo snapped.
The whole cafeteria looked at them strangely, the noise of the two of them seemed to invite one of the popular students from Extracurricular Basketball.
"What's all this fuss about?" he asked and sat down in the middle seat between them.
Kenzo looked at the foreign student, he felt familiar with his face, but where is it?
"Who are you?" Kenzo asked in a snapping voice.
"I?" asked the handsome student while pointing to himself.
"Introduce me, I'm Arsha. I'm Arhaka Raja. You don't remember me, sweetie?" He said introducing himself then shamelessly poked Kenzo's chin.
The cafeteria people were surprised to see him, the Basketball Prince had just teased a junior level. Yes, he is Arshaka Raja. high school student who is about to graduate, the head of basketball at their school.
While on the other hand, Febee saw it was about to approach them but was prevented by her friends.
"No Bee!" said his friend.
On Arya's side. He looked even more flustered, glancing at the two between Kenzo and the Basketball Leader.
'Gawatt, don't let Kenzo find out who he is.' Arya thought.
"Tch!" Kenzo spat on the ground to his left. "I don't care who you are, why are you sitting there? You look around you, there are still many empty places. You don't have to sit here with your men, just annoying!" Kenzo snapped then got up to immediately go invite Aryo.
"Hey where are you going?" Ask Arsha.
"None of your business," Kenzo said.
"Don't you miss me?" Arsha whispered. He grabbed Kenzo's wrist preventing him from leaving.
Kenzo leaned his face closer to Arsha. "I really miss you," Hearing that made Arsha smile.
"But to kill." Kenzo continued with a crooked smile and then roughly brushed off Arsha's grip.
Aryo, who didn't know what to do, was suddenly pulled by Kenzo from the cafeteria. Arsha replied with a faint smile, her hands immediately clenched into fists seeing Kenzo ignoring her.
"Ignored?"
Arsha and your men turned to the other side, where they saw many students who had just watched the free drama in front of their eyes. But that's not what Arsha saw, but a girl in a typical senior high uniform wearing a free cardi.
She is Jeya. I don't know since when he had been there, seeing the girl's satisfied smile made Arsha turn her face away with disgust. Jeya approached Arsha.
"I told you from the start Arsha. You should know something, he is no longer your slave. Kenzo has become someone else after forgetting you, the proof is now he ignores you and prefers to date a girl. How sad isn't your life?" Jeya giggled with his chest crossed, looking at Arsha.
"You think I care?" Ask Arsha.
"How do I know, you haven't seen her lover looking at you fiercely?" Jeya said, glancing at Febee and her friends.
Arsha followed the direction of Jeya's glance. A beautiful girl in the same uniform, looking at him with a look that was about to tear her apart, she was Febee.
"Listen to this," Jeya suddenly was close to him, as he was about to whisper something.
"Something that is the same does not mean original, and something interesting is sometimes very difficult to achieve. You should just go, because you know me and the others will never let anyone get close to Kenzo .." Jeya whispered then chuckled lightly. After that he passed without saying anything else with a straight face.