Unfinished story made by me and Marsha..

Okei, gue sekarang berniat untuk post sesuatu yang gue dan Marsha tulis. Well, kalau ditanya gue dapat ide nulis ginian dari mana, jawabannya keren banget. Jauh lebih keren dari yang nulis. Jadinya, di suatu malam gue mendapat mimpi, dan pas bangun baru sadar kalau mimpi nya seru dan keren, dan coba gue express dalam bentuk novel (yang unfinished), gue belum ada niat untuk nyelesain tapi kalau response nya bagus, akan gue usahakan walaupun tentu akan tidak sama dengan plot yang sebenarnya. Dan ini saat gue masih sangat obsessed dengan Hayley Williams jadi harap maklum jika gue being too imaginative

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At first, i was planning to go for a homestay program in somewhere really far, England. The person i was paired with was apparently a serial killer.... He is only my age, but he is kind of into killing little children.. I think that’s an abnormality. While i hadn’t figured out who he really is, we got along well. It was happening from almost months. Until.. Until my friend who went for a homestay program too and was placed near to mine, and also knew Mark, my roommate through my bestfriend, Hayley, told me what he saw. ‘I saw mark, hiding behind a big tree. And he was carrying a real sniper. He was kind of ready and in the position to.... shoot someone. And he was aiming it straight at a bunch of children playing. One time a police officer showed up to just tell the children not to play around cause a lot of cars were passing by them. And he got shot! It was supposed to be the children who were targeted. But the police officer showed up in a wrong place and wrong time. And Mark himself, ran away without getting caught. People were damn shocked and surrounded the cop to help. But i was too late..’ Explained him. I took him jokingly, eventhough he looked real serious. I didn’t believe him right away. But when i was sitting on my couch watching TV. A shocking news came up. It says “ A police officer found dead, shot from nowhere”... And that was clearly the same story as my friend told me. I was shocked, and mark suddenly opened the door and stepped into the room. I reflexly changed the channel right away. He said ‘What’s happening man?’.. , I replied with still my body shaking ‘Not.. NOTHING. How’s your day been?’ He said “ URGH.., Not a good one mate. I failed again to make all the parents sure about hiring me to babysit their children. I’ve been looking for that kind of job since quite a long time.’ He finished his words. I was saying in my mind, “Now i got convinced. There’s something wrong about him”. And he walked towards his bed, gazing at me with a weird expression. I could do nothing but smile. That evening, was my worst times ever cause it was winter and i couldn’t go out cause the snow was really thick. Besides, he asked me to take a look at some “masterpieces” of children picture he took a few days ago whom he told me, the children he was going to babysit. I was in my mind wondering ‘Why is this guy making it so obvious now? I mean why not show it to me earlier?’. As the sky turned dark. We went to bed. I personally couldn’t stop thinking whether this whole craziness is actually happening or not. I just couldn’t stand on thinking that big possibility, Mark really is a serial killer like the ones i saw on those famous TV series. But this is real. He didn’t look that way, he looked everything like a totally nice guy. He even washed the dishes for Mrs.Wiliams, that night, i only slept for a very little time. The darkest night of my life, that was.

At the next day, Mark had woke up earlier. I woke up really late. When i walked downstairs. I saw Mark playing video games of that typical.. Counter Strike game with a real passion. I asked, ‘Where are the others, Mark?’, and he replied this way, ‘Going somewhere, setting up something for our activity’. He was more focused on his video games. I didn’t want to bother him any longer so i went out to have something to eat for breakfast. Yeah, i hadn’t had my breakfast, Mrs.Williams didn’t prepare it for me. I was heading to a cafe i visited daily, but it had a lot of people coming. I thought it was just another busy day for them. But those weren’t customers. As i approached the cafe a bit closer. I could clearly hear people shouting around, and a cop was also in the crowd. What was happening? Oh my gawsh i just remembered, could Mark possibly have anything to do with this? I walked closer to the crowd and saw 2 children, all girls, around 5 or 6 years old, with almost all their clothes ripped off, it looked like somebody tore it up so badly, with many bullets on their chests. Died... i nearly fainted. This fits with what i saw on TV and with what my friend told me. ’Wha..what happened, sir?’ asked me to a random old man there, ‘I witnessed the procession, right in front of my eyes.. it was still 7 in the morning, a young couple brought their two children. They were playing around.. while the couple were going back to their car to get something. They didn’t pay attention on their children. Suddenly a boy your age walked up to them and kind of talked to them about something, took them inside the the cafe. And there was another boy, kind of stroking their hands when they came up. Tore their clothes up. But the girls screamed out, the boys gagged their mouth out. Took them to the toilet, and shot them off the chest. Probably they didn’t want to take the risk that they could just get caught, after that they ran away. The waitress found their bodies and called 911 straight away’. Oh my flippin gawsh. WHO ARE WE DEALING WITH? PEDOPHILES? And could that possibly be mark? I wasn’t so sure about that, but if it was him. Who was the other guy? That thing drove me crazy. Some more cops were coming, they told us to back off. They were surrounding the bodies with a police line. I was really really stoked-still, not believing what just happened. Then a married couple stepped in, cried hard. Well, that must be the couple that old man was talking about. I went up to them and gave them my biggest condolence. After that, i never wanted to go back to the house. I went to the place where my friend, Jersey was staying during his homestay program. He’s the one who first told me about Mark’s abnormality. He was there with nobody, the home owners were away to do some business in London, we were placed in Manchester. He let me in. I was coming with my body still trembling with fear. I told him everything about that “madness”. I started the conversation, ‘Man, diid..yo..you know what happened thi..this morning?’, ‘Hey, what is it with you man? Calm down. Yeah it was all over today’s TV news.’ He shocked me with that. ALL OVER TODAY’S TV NEWS?? If it was really Mark, i bet he must’ve thought that there’s no possible way, the news wasn’t heard by me. I’d be finished. ‘Do you..do you have a clue who did it? Was it possibly..Mark?’, ‘Oww.. not only possibly i guess, i don’t mean to scare you or anything. But i think there is a clear 50:50 chance for him to be the one who did it. I mean, look at the pattern. It suits his style so much. I’m not being an expert or anything. But the evidence clearly relates him to the crimescene and he left his typical mark there.. fresh blood all over victims’ bodies. I personally don’t know why he never wanted to clean up the bloods.’, ‘That made sense, but.. how could a 5 foot 9 guy, going out that morning, carrying a big weapon, not making any noise that can wake me up. I mean, i was at the room all the time. I must’ve heard something, or the homeowners must have. He couldn’t just leave the house because the front door was always locked an he didn’t have the key.’ I explained, ‘Really? I thought of that too. But, how are you so sure he went out through the front door, i mean, no other way?’, ‘Gawsh, no other way. And the room is too stuffed with our things, so there’s not too much space left because the beds theirselves are quite huge.’, ‘One conclusion, there is no way he can go outside the room with that big gun, and managed to keep quiet. It wasn’t him. That simple.’ Jersey concluded all things that way, ‘Yeah, if we think about it logically. But i have a big hunch that keeps telling me not to go back to my place. I hope i’m wrong.’, ‘Well, i can’t just say ‘don’t you worry about it, it’s just a hunch’. Even a hunch can mean real serious. If you’re not sure, you’re more than welcome to stay here.’, ‘It’s not like that, it’s more like.. i know there’s something wrong about Mark. I really do, and i am now more convinced after hearing that story you told me and the TV headline. This can’t be wrong and i am busting him a.s.a.p.’, ‘if you got anything really important to say, tell me man. I’m here for you mate. You alwa... HEY WHAT IS IT WITH HAYLEY??’. Jersey was shouting really hard, seemed really shocked. Hayley was running towards the house real quick, she looked like she had seen a huge monster.. ‘HIM HIM, IT WAS HIM, I SAW HIM THERE, AND HE SAW ME TOO.’ Screamed her, ‘Hey. Calm down. Chill. Chill. What was happening?’ i asked her, ‘It was..it was Mark, he was in the cafe. I think he was pretending not to know about what was happening, asking people. And he saw me staring at him. And he showed me a very strange expression like he was telling me to go back to him. I didn’t know what he meant by doing that. But i was running my best to your place. Then here i am. I was really afraid he may come after me.’ She replied, ‘Is he still possibly there?’, ‘I DON’T know but he may be coming here cause he saw me busting him.’, ‘Busting him for what? He didn’t do something suspicious did he? You said he was only going there to..’, ‘Asking people about what happened. Yeah right. And i was aware that he was sort of, distracting their attentions, the cops were getting distracted too. He was doing it so he could take the evidence with him, in other words, he cleared up the evidence. Fibers from clothes, blood drops, and the rope he used to strangle them. And he also...’, ‘A STRANGULATION? I was asking an old guy there and he told me they shot the children,’ I got shocked, ‘What? That’s strange. Have you seen the bodies? There were no signs of shooting.’, ‘Yes i did. I clearly saw the bullets on their chests. And didn’t you see the holes those bullets caused on their chests?’, ‘Well, something must have made it invisible. Otherwise i could see that too, the point is i busted Mark for taking away the evidences and i might be in a so much big trouble now.’ She finished her words. Jersey found it strange, and a bit odd. And he turned out to have stalked Mark since the very first time he saw him doing something suspicious. And through that times, Mark never ever cleared up blood drops of victims he killed or he wounded. He is kind of... too hygienic he wouldn’t even want to make contact with blood or things that can disgust you, moreover cleaning them up. ‘I’m not so sure Mark would do the cleaning-up all by himself, he’s like that kind of.. clean-freak.’ Said Jersey. I asked Hayley further about whether she saw someone else or not, She apparently wasn’t noticing that. In fact, she was just passing by the cafe. She didn’t stop there to buy food. All of a sudden, when i thought things had been handled well, Jersey bellowed out something we feared the most. He saw Mark walking on the street that leads us to the house. And yes, he knew Jersey. I introduced him to Mark earlier this year. He knew where Jersey was staying, ‘Quick! Out of the house! Through the back door!’ Bellowed him. I realized that if i didn’t do something, well.. something terrible would happen. ‘C’mon Hayl, we’re going out to somewhere, hurry up.’ I personally didn’t know what to do, where to go. All i knew is i had to get Hayley, whose life was endangered out to somewhere. She was really really shocked her body kept on shaking. Well, Jersey was only taking such fast action to anticipate the possibility of Mark coming over there. And probably not necessarily Mark would come over. But just in case he would. And Hayley herself, she was powerlessly dragged by me. We walked down the main street without seeing anybody. My mind was so stuffed about what might happen if Mark really thought that Hayley realized that what he was doing is actually clearing up evidences, which she did. ‘Man, he didn’t look like how he usually does, he seemed.. like he just got beaten up by someone. I still got a clear vision inside my head about how he looked like. and...’, ‘I think it’s better for you to no longer think about that anymore. You’re stressing yourself out.’ I suggested her. Instead of stop talking, she gave me a clear specific description about what she suspected he might have done, and why she was that terrified. It made me...feel really shocked...well not shocked, more than that. Especially i knew that she was in a grave danger. She shouldn’t have got involved in this thing. It’s jsut unfair how she could get dragged into this kind of thing and be the one whose life is threatened the worse. And if Mark suspected someone from all of us to have known about what he was doing. He would surely list her on top. It’s just...i couldn’t think that far and i know this was bringing her bad effects. Well at that time, all i thought about is just to ease down the stresses we got as much as possible. So i took her to our favorite restaurant we usually hung out together. She said there’s no time for coffee or food. But i didn’t care. She always brought some of her friends there we did many stuff together. But that day was only us. It was like everything had been set up for us. I supposed to like it. I know it was NOT a good timing but that was probably the moments i’ve been waiting for, and enjoyed it so much. It was like something i’ve never ever gotten to do before. And yes i had a crush on her, i wasn’t trying to deny that. But with her sad face, sipping her cappuccino, trying to make herself calmed down. It hurt. Hayley was in a yellow shirt which also had an orange sweater over it, she also put a grey beanie on her head, matching with her orange-reddish dyed hair. As we stepped into the restaurant, we took the seats that were near the door, and started having a conversation, ‘Hayl?’ I asked her slowly, ‘Yes?’ She replied with her shocked face. ‘Listen, i know it’s hard for you. But please calm down. Take that look off your face. You don’t look good with that.’ I tried to be wise, and i was sort of trying to amuse her a bit, it might be helpful to cool things down. She forced a smile, than began sniffling again, ‘But i can’t. I saw Mark doing all that stuff, acting like he was a professional criminal. I could imagine him slaughtering those little girls, he was an animal.’ She started sobbing, then bursted out crying. She put her head on my shoulder, i couldn’t resist her face when she was crying. Tears fell down from her eyes wetting her dyed-red hair. ‘Listen Hayl. I’d try to make things better like... umm... i’d do anything that can make you feel better. Anything the best for you.’ I said. She calmed down a bit then gazing into my eyes. She gave me an expression like she felt so comfortable being around me at that time. Then we kissed. All of a sudden we kissed. She got pretty nervous after that and remained quiet for maybe 10 minutes. And then she braved herself to speak out, ‘You’re a nice guy.’ Well, that flattered me.

After that, we really really kept ourselves silenced. I don’t know why. But i felt a lot better after hearing what came out of her mouth. As the waiter gave us the food we’d ordered. We began taking our first bites, it was a grilled chicken breast with potato chips added we’d ordered. Light meal that was! In fact we really didn’t mean to stop by there to eat much. We finished our meals quite in a time. And we really really had no clue on where to go next. I wasn’t sure if it was already safe for to head back Jersey’s place. Hayley called, ‘I was having quite a moment thanks to you. Now what we’re up to?’ It didn’t take me long to think that i better phoned Jersey for asking. First try, he didn’t pick up, second try, he still didn’t pick up. I’d tried to call him for perhaps, 4 times but he didn’t answer the call. Well, at that time i wasn’t worried about him ignoring the call. Nor was Hayley. We just stayed there in the restaurant, and i also managed to make Hayley chat with me about everything but Mark. Then suddenly i got a phone call, it was apparently from Jersey. He told me the reason why he didn’t pick up my calls. He left his phone downstairs and he was in the attic, hiding. Mark happened to visit his place. He knocked the door a few times, but Jersey said, he didn’t go bellowing, shouting or stuff. He acted normally. And Jersey let him go in. They talked about general stuff, something that did not have anything to do with my suspicion on him. And he DID ask Jersey where Hayley went, he simply answered, ‘I haven’t met her today, didn’t know where she went’. I was quite terrified knowing that all my fears really happened, Mark coming over Jersey’s place, asking about Hayley, meaning: He DID have a suspicion on Hayley that she might be aware what he did wasn’t just sightseeing. If anybody knew what he did, which was clearing up evidences. He had plenty reasons to worry about it. The bad thing= Mark knows that I know Hayley, the good thing= He doesn’t know that we get along so well these days, so he wouldn’t think i’d met her this morning. So, i continued my conversation with Jersey, i asked him, if Mark didn’t go crazy on him or do mean stuff. What did he hide for? He said, after Mark left the place, he heard a BANG! sound as if somebody’d thrown rocks right into the window and broke it, coming from the backyard. He went to the attic straight away to hide, and as he felt safe enough to go back downstairs. He did see a broken window, but there was no sign of somebody breaking into the house or anything stolen. But he found a torn piece of paper stuck in the broken window, and discovered 4 simple but threatening words: MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS! ‘I didn’t know where that came from, it was just a piece of small paper, and it wasn’t signed either. But i have a strong feeling it was aimed at us..nonono...... well, you and Hayley to be precise.’ He snapped, ‘Me? What bad things had i done until somebody threatened me? I mean all that Mark stuff. Well, it was clearly aimed at Hayley, no doubts.’ I said, which i hoped i hadn’t. I just made things worse for her, ‘Sorry.’ I apologized. ‘No, we three need to be extra cautious. He knew we all got along, well.. at least we knew each other well.’, ‘Great. We three. All of us.’, ‘What?’, ‘Nothing, i’m just still so curious about, how Mark managed to keep quiet while getting out.’, ‘Yeah.. i mean, i still am too. Are you going back to your place, anyway?’, ‘I normally would say after all this, i’d be a complete nuts if I was still willing to go back, even if someone makes me to. But in this case, well, i can’t stand being haunted by this curiosity. So i plan to stay up late tonight if possible, i’ll be pretending to be asleep. In fact i’m gonna be awake all night. Or anything it takes to bust Mark.’ I chided. I tried to make myself sound cool and not to look, um, worried? No. That’s not the word. Probably, Anxious. Yeah, that’s it. (Don’t blame me if they’re synonyms). These Mark stuff have gone so fast and crazy… yeah, it’s been… only a week since I was first told by Jersey and since I accidently watched the shocking TV news. I’ve lived in England for about 3 months. I know it’s pretty long when you are in a homestay program but I’ve planned to stay longer to see how people here live daily. The habits, and all that stuff. Because I think I’m gonna have my college here. And yeah, this has been surreal…. I mean something like this has never happened to me before.

After that, I headed back home… I left home early this morning at 7 and hadn’t gone back there… well for a “young adult” like me, that’s not sinning… I mean when I was a kid and I was away for more than 10 hours without informing my mom where I went, i simply thought I’d just committed a sin. My mum would ask lots of questions about that. But now I live far away from my parents and my landlord barely talked to me. I had no fear about going back home after all those things. Not a single fear, even my biggest fear I’d just had a few minutes ago had been gone.. and what I feared of is Mark bursting out asking lots of questions why I hadn’t been home all noon and I end up not being able to hide my nerve and finally get caught for being aware of who he is. If that scenario happened, I would end up getting killed. For sure. But on my way home I was really angry of him, I’m not trying to act like I have no fears of Mark. But I really wanted to protect Hayley from being captured by Mark. Okay I’m acting like she is a prisoner on loose… I really didn’t want bad things happen to her… After what happened in the café… yeah it’s pretty obvious… (unfinished)

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Jika ada part yang terlalu imaginative, itu Marsha yang nulis (scapegoat abis). Anyway, sebulan lalu gue benar-benar homestay di UK, dan untung banget gak end up kayak di ceritanya. More posts await!