Disappointment

When I came to, I found my body in a place that I already knew, this was the school's infirmary room.

"Anka, are you awake?"

"Is something sick?"

"My head is very dizzy," I answered.

"You just rest first, we will look after you," said Clara.

"No, I don't want to rest. I want to meet Bryan," I asked.

"But Anka, you're sick, don't force yourself."

"I'm okay, I want to go... please let me go, I want to meet Bryan. I don't want to lose him...!" I said begging, my tears flowing freely. My heart really hurts.

"Okay, we will accompany you!" said Clara.

Weakly I still go, my friends look after me. Throughout the journey, my tears never stopped flowing. They also felt sad. When I arrived at the police station, I immediately looked for where Bryan was.

"Anka, wait! Let's ask the police guard first."

But my heart is much more able to feel where my brother is at the moment and what he is feeling.

"Bryan...!" I said trembling when I found him alone in the cell.

"Anka?"

"Bryan... why are you here?" I shouted while crying loudly.
My friends were already behind me, they didn't dare come closer and interfere. I tried to reach it even though it was blocked by iron bars.

"Never mind Anka, I'm fine. Don't cry, okay?" he said softly while holding my face.

"Why are you doing all this?"

"It's okay, I just don't like him."

"Liar... you didn't reply because of me, right? I was the one who was mean to you because I chose him over you who have always loved me. I was the stupid one... you don't deserve to experience all this...," I shouted while crying uncontrollably. -it happened.

Our friends cried too seeing the sadness we felt.

"Anka, please don't waste your tears on me? Don't mind me, I'm fine, okay?"

I saw Bryan's eyes start to fill with tears. I knew he wanted to cry but he was trying to hold it in because of me.

"I don't want you here. I don't want you to get sick...!" I said while sobbing.

"Don't think about me. You have to think about yourself," said Bryan.

"I don't want to... I hate all of this... I hate Jack...!" I shouted.

"Anka, it's time for us to go!" Sully said.

"I don't want to. I will stay here to accompany Bryan."

"No Anka, you have to go home and rest. I'll be fine. Go home, poor friends are waiting for you," said Bryan while wiping my tears through the iron bars.

"I don't want to, basically I don't want to!"

"Don't be stubborn Anka, you have to go home. This place is not good for you!"

"Bu...but...you...!"

"Don't think about me. I'll be fine. Go home!" Bryan asked, looking at me hopefully.

"Okay ...!"

I walked away, continuing to look behind me. I really can't look at it. He must have been lonely and cold in that place alone. A person as good as him didn't deserve any of this.

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"What? Drop the charges? That's impossible Anka, your brother's behavior has violated the law, it's impossible for him to just be released," said Mr. James Carter, owner of this school and father of Jack Carter.

"But sir, he did all that for me? I beg you, sir. I will do anything as long as you free Bryan," I begged.
"Sorry Anka, you can't, unless Jack wants you to."

"Where is Jack now?"

"He's in the hospital, maybe he'll be able to go home tomorrow. Try meeting him tomorrow and telling him your hopes. You'll leave everything to Jack. Whatever his decision is, it's the best," said Mr. James Carter as he walked away.

"Jack... I have to see him!" I said to myself.

After school I went straight to the hospital where Jack was being treated. However, the nurse at the hospital said Jack had gone home this morning.

Why is Jack always so hard to find? On the way I met one of Jack's friends who he had introduced to me.

"Huh? Jack? All I know is he's in the hospital," answered the black man as he continued to drive a racing car.

"Don't you know where he is now?"

"I don't know, but as far as I remember, almost every week he threw a party at his luxury house in the Manchester area."

"Luxury home ?"

"Yeah, that's what I know."

"Do you know what that house looks like?"

"I forgot, but what I know is that the house was very big, the paint was yellow and blue. In front of it there was a big fountain and a statue of a half-horse man holding an arrow."

"Is that so? OK, thank you for the information. I'll excuse myself," I said as I rushed to the place where Jack was currently and I would do anything as long as he was willing to give up his demands.

I went to Manchester by train, throughout the journey my chest was always filled with fear and anxiety. Right now what I'm afraid of is if I don't get to meet Jack. Whatever happens I have to meet him.

Some time later I arrived in Manchester. I looked around for where the house was. The only sign I know of that house is a large statue in the form of a half-horse and a man holding a crossbow in the yard of the house. After searching for a long time until night fell, I finally found the house. A very luxurious house.

"Sorry, excuse me...!" I said. Suddenly a guard came over to me.

"Yes, how can I help you?"

"Is this really the residence of the James Carter family?"

"Yes, but this is just a halfway house. Do they rarely live in this house?"

"Is Jack there?" I asked doubtfully.

"Who are you, Miss? Are you Mr. Jack's friend?"


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