The Ball Behind the Love of the Court
88. Night Club Photos

He just keeps misunderstanding me. Me and Doni are just friends. She and Adel are already in a relationship as fiancees.

"You why? How to fight anyway like dating people" said Doni who suddenly came to us both who were busy arguing. Maybe Doni's uncomfortable watching me and David fight.

"Shut up" I snapped at David simultaneously making Doni silent for a moment.

David and I were both emotional. I was quiet with him too. Our faces turned each other in any direction. Not looking at each other.

"Better you don't come here" I snapped David's gaze back at me in annoyance.

" Let me not see you hugging Doni right" Back to the point of being unimportant.

"I've made it clear that Doni and I are just celebrating the victory, then why are you jealous"

"But there's no need to hug the key either" he said.

Maybe he was jealous of me and said so. Though we have no bond just harboring a feeling in each other's hearts.

"Are you guys dating? " Tanya Doni was curious

"No" Again David and I answered him simultaneously making Doni even more confused.

"Why fight like a courtship? "

"Shut up" Looks like Doni went awry.

"I left David and hurried to get Doni to pick up the bike and leave the game. Actually very strange, me and David are not dating but as if like a possessive courtship with his partner.

It is very funny because in our hearts we have the same taste but it is very difficult to express everything. Choose silence in each taste in the heart.

"Key, I'm sorry about me you guys fighting" Doni felt guilty about my and David's fight.

"No, just calm down. Oh yeah Don we go to the hospital"

"Why there? "

"My father's sick again" I explained that he was in the hospital. So I have to go there to take care of my father.

Not long after that we got to the hospital. Go in my father's room and there's a mother alone. He said that Yeni came home because there was a sudden lecture from his lecturer. So only mom takes care.

"Assalamu'alaikum"

"Waalaikumsalam, you've come home son" Mother moved from her seat and greeted me who had just come in with a hug.

"Yes ma'am"

"Where's the match? " The same question will be asked if I go home during a match.

"Thank God, ma'am, sir, Key won" I told my father and mother about the victory so briefly that I forgot to introduce Doni to both of them.

"This is your friend key" said mother as she looked at Doni standing behind me.

"Good, I forgot mom. This is Doni and this is my mom and dad"

"I'm Doni ma'am, Mr. Keyla's schoolmate" Doni shakes hands with his mom and dad as a courtesy. Mom and dad smiled at Doni's behavior.

Looks like Doni feels comfortable with my family. Because ever since he came, you've been smiling listening to my story and Doni's about the game. Actually there is nothing funny but I made the story funny to see the smile of mother and father.

After that, Doni and I came out because there was a doctor who would check the health of the father. We were both walking around and she skit the garden that was in this hospital while enjoying the beautiful flower plants.

"Key, your family's very warm huh. I'm so excited to interact with this family" It turns out that not only am I feeling the warmth between the mother's family, but Doni also feels the same warmth.

"Yes don, you have to play here often to get to know my family. Ari and Yuri are just so happy to play at home" I said enthusiastically, as if I was inviting Doni to play with my own family. They were a foster family that I loved like my own biological parents.

I know Doni feels a deep sense of loneliness. Because his life is almost similar to my life journey. So in his heart must want wholeness in his family. And also the warmth that hugged him.

"Next time I'll visit your house key"

"May, I'm so happy to play with Ari and Yuri" My relationship won't go away with those two people. They were the best friends I had at school.

"Gosh, I forgot the key" Doni picked up the phone and turned on the message. He brushed his head off like he was forgetting something.

"Why Don? " I told him because Doni looks so confused.

"I have to go home, because my mother will come from abroad. I had to clean up the house that was a bit messy" Her face looked anxious and frightened.

"Yes don, be careful not to speed. Thank you for your help too".

"Yes both key" Doni immediately headed to the parking lot and took his motorbike and rushed home.

I was confused if there was no maid in Doni's house so she had to clean the house herself. He is a rich man, not a simple man like me.

"Ahh, stop. I'd better get in" I'm back inside the hospital.

The doctor finished examining my father. He said the father had become better and had to obey the rules that the doctor gave to quickly go home.

I am grateful to hear my mother's explanation. Because my dad is a little better than yesterday. Thousands of thanks I said, it turns out that God granted my prayers.

"O Allah, Thank you very much for your blessings and gifts that grant you. You are the owner of life and can change everything." My mind cries out to the Almighty.

Prayers from the sinner who often needs his Lord in the crucial time only. I'm just a sinner man who's a lot wrong. Just want to be better even though sometimes there are still bad things that come.

As usual, the one who was guarding until morning was me and Mbak Yeni. While the mother came home with Nike mbak to rest. Yeni and I took care of you in the hospital when you came home.

Morning

On this sunny morning I went to school. Because there's no way I should be absent. Yesterday I missed my dad and played ball. So mom told me not to miss anymore because the ball game was over.

And later in the afternoon I'll take the money at the ATM. That money was my first salary for a season of games yesterday. And also we get bonuses from the team as well as bonus rewards from the team yesterday.

"That money I'm going to give to mom. Count in return for their kindness to me" I muttered on my way to school.

I plan to give the money to my mother to help pay for my medical expenses. The rest I will save as replacement money that I will later return to my real mother I want to live independently without their compassion that already does not care about me.

When I came down from the sky, my heart was very happy. Yesterday I told Ari and Yuri about my memories. But this time I'll tell them everything. So that they are both happy with what I achieved.

"Where is it? How crowded" In front of the mading looks some students who are in a group.

I don't know what they saw there but it looks cool. There may be new poems or short stories published as usual. But it's very crowded like never before.

"Excuse me, excuse me" I went inside their horde and looked in front of them for what they saw.

"Well this is the guy" yelled wrongly at the students. Just now I wanted to look in the mading but they were already screaming.

"Yes this, basic huuu"

"It looks plain it turns out to like nightclubs" shouted one of them who pissed me off.

"Surge, step aside, step aside" I pulled out all the photos and grabbed them.

Lots of photos on the mading. While walking I also saw something taped to the wall. Yuri and Ari who just came also helped me to revoke all the photos.

"Key why your photo like this is key" said Ari while cleaning all the photos attached.

"Don't know ri, I don't understand" said my voice who was also confused by all this.

"Yes key, who's doing this" asked Yuri and her hands were also busy cleaning the photo.

"Here you go, let's just burn it" I rushed to borrow a match to the gardener and set it on fire in the landfill behind the school. I don't know who else spread this slander.

"Key you are calm, I will find out about all this" said Ari who was concerned about the slander that spread.

Indecent writing that says that I am a night woman who likes to hold om-om. I don't know when the photo was taken and who did this bad thing.

"Let's go in" Take me to Ari and Yuri. We all three walked to class. The atmosphere is very complicated, all call me woman of the night because of the photo. I can't say anything, because all the gossip has spread throughout the school.

On the way to class, I remembered that the photo was really me. While looking for the mother to the haram place and met the bad guy on that night.

Without a second thought I invited Yuri and Ari to talk to the three of them. I told him everything that it was my picture when I was looking for my mother. I also could have sworn that I wasn't the woman of the night they were talking about.

"Then who spread the photo the key? " Tanya Yuri who is curious about the culprit.

"I don't know, when I came the photo was already stuck on the wall and caused a commotion" said my friend who did not know who was behind all this.

"I'm sure that the person who spread all this is the student here and he also has your secret key" Ari said.

"That's obvious ri" Sahut Yuri agreed with him

"But the thing is I have no proof that I'm just looking for my mom instead of selling myself" I was confused to explain the truth and erase my good name at this school.

"Key, that's right you" Doni suddenly came over to me. He asked about the rumors that had spread.

"That's right I'm Don, but I'm not a night woman" I said languidly thinking things through. Then my steps rushed away leaving them.

It felt like running as far away as possible and leaving all the engineering-filled world behind. Happiness comes for a moment and then disappears and so on.

"Where are you going to Key? " Task Yuri to me.

"Please, I want to be alone right now. You guys just wait in class" I said to the three of them.

It seems my mood is in chaos. My lips are silenced in slander for not being able to provide any important evidence that could clear my name. I want to keep silent to remove the crumbs that go around madly.

"Great ball player but a night butterfly"

"Yes, how does it like om-om again"

"Ihhh, cheap"

"No shame" I can't repay them one by one.

Can only listen to the nonsense along this hallway. I rushed up to the top of the school balcony and was alone there.

It seems that looking up at the sky here is more heart-wrenching than walking downstairs that breaks my heart, it's hateful to hear the insults from along the road that I walk around every corner. They all said dirty things to me.

"Lord, it's been a complicated journey. Why are so many people still scolding me. What was my fault that they did this" I complained to the God who created all nature. He's where I complain about everything in this life.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa" The account shouted loudly up here as it spread its hands and looked up at the sky. Screaming for the rain to make me smile. But the sky was silent because it was silenced by the blazing morning sun.

I sat back on the edge of the building. See a very beautiful view of the city. It turns out that the world is small, the big ones are only human ego and arrogance. They always feel great until they forget where they all came from.

"Key, key, key down" a shout sounded from below. Looks like someone's yelling at me.

"They were gathering downstairs. Like a demo. Are they still not content to bother me with dirty talk downstairs so they go back to saying that when I'm up here"

The rant on my loneliness right now. I chose to dudi here so as not to involve Yuri and Ari in the grief I felt. Let me endure this pain by pretending to be strong.

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