The Poison: Stories Of The Number 27
Poison

"You want to come along Ta? To headquarters." Take Xennora who is cleaning her books to the bag.

"Pengen anyway, but I was told to go home with Mother." Antha answered who was also still cleaning up her book. Xennora nodded and carried her bag.

"Yes, I'm first! Bye singles!" Pamit Xennora gets a shot from Antha. Being chased is a waste of time. Just now he was baper because Xennora's words, uh now it's back to shit.

"Mirror please!" Shouted Antha, Xennora who heard him smiled then accelerated his pace towards the Civil Lab.

There, Xennora found no one. He closed the door and turned on the lights. Xennora approached a medium-sized mading with a four-story school map attached to it. Xennora began to notice him one by one until his gaze fell on the map of the first floor.

The back of the school. Xennora was a little concerned about why the hall was closed since the conversion of the theater room into a new hall in the middle of the school building. Though the old hall is also no less spacious and magnificent. It was also where Xennora first met Antha. It was the first time he met Julian and his friends. Xennora recalled, even the first day of their meeting had not gotten along. And remembering that, made Xennora chuckle softly. But after that he baper himself when he remembered Julian who wrote a signature beside him.

The incident in the hall was the main trigger for him and Julian always fought every time they passed each other. Xennora doesn't even know the obvious reason why they never get along. What is clear, Julian is the one who always ignites his emotions, Xennora also just realized that he is a person who is easily ignited.

After five minutes, Xennora decided to go see the back hall of the school. After Xennora began to descend the stairs, Herina, Edwin, Julian, Leo and Ervin came from the front steps behind Xennora so that Xennora did not know of their whereabouts. The 12th graders entered the lab with resigned and lethargic expressions.

Leo and Ervin immediately threw their bodies on the sofa. Herina took the time to bring a stack of school journals about students in SAN high school and then sat on the sofa in front of Leo and Ervin. Edwin fell down and Julian sat on the carpet.

"Gue's not sure my try out value is good." Said Leo while daydreaming, Julian nodded confirming Leo's words.

"Lo's value is small? Zoom is just that." Said Ervin crisp who got a flat look from Herina.

"Our slowest feeling here. But how come there's no one?" Edwin said while confirming his uniform alma mater.

"Yes too. Maybe go to the cafeteria first." Julian replied indifferently.

Julian turned his attention towards the door where the footsteps of people ran. And sure enough, before long the door opened and Eireen, Sofia and Vinca entered in a hurry.

"The head of the school knows who did it!" Vinca said that made Herina, Julian, Leo, Edwin and Ervin cry in shock.

"What?!" Scream them together.

"But we don't know who did it yet!" Continue Herina.

"Who's first? Devan right? Definitely Devan I'm sure." Said Leo.

"Do the school know?" Ask Julian.

Eireen, Sofia and Vinca whose breathing was still irregular were confused at their senior's question. Eireen and Sofia sit next to Julian and Edwin. Vinca was next to Herina because she was going to explain.

"So gini..."

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Xennora approached the hall, it turned out that her situation was completely unmanageable. But also arguably still good and worth occupying. Before long, there was the sound of someone approaching him from behind, slightly running.

"This is the key. Code B09X right?" Vina said after being right behind Xennora while thrusting a key in her right hand. Xennora turned around and took the key.

"Yes, thank you." Xennora said then opened the lock on the door of the hall using the key that Vina had brought. That made Vina flabbergasted. He brought the key from the OSIS room, and he was himself a member of OSIS. But it never occurred to me to look for the hall key.

"I've been here once. But the key, want to see through the window also can not." Curse Vina while looking around. Xennora smiled faintly still trying to open the padlock.

"Kok brother knows the key code for the hall?" Ask Vina suddenly.

"Last year I was told to take a seat here. And I'm looking at the key code. That's it." Clearly Xennora made Vina nod. After that Xennora opened the door and entered followed by Vina.

They were a little drugged by the view inside the room. It was a little dark but there was still a dim light from the window. Chairs and tables were scattered on the sides of the room and graffiti that if Vina was careful was a signature. Hundreds of signatures lining the walls of the hall.

"Same brother Julian... Have you always fought before?" Vina said in the corner of the room. Xennora who was looking around turned to look at Vina. Their distance was quite far, so Vina slightly shouted earlier. The parallel side in the room also has a large area. Of course, since it could fit around five hundred people.

Xennora thought for a while before answering Vina's question, "yes... Arguably?" Xennora said in a questioning tone but made Vina chuckle. Curious as to why Vina suddenly asked that, Xennora approached him. And it turns out that Vina saw his signature, next to Xennora's signature, Julian's signature.

The reason might be because of seeing Xennora's unfriendly gaze, when introducing herself Xennora did not smile at all. And when writing the signature, suddenly someone stood behind him and wrote his signature next to Xennora's signature. And that's Julian.

The man did not open his voice at all. When he finished, he left without saying anything or just getting acquainted. After a few seconds, two students approached him. Then write their signatures.

'Hi, my name is Antha. Antha Ayslyn's.' Say it when you're done with your signature. The man beside the recently finished Antha turned to face Xennora.

'Gue Fadhil Auliansyah's. Greetings to know. "His word.

After that, Xennora introduced herself and until now she was friendly with Antha. Antha once said, if he and Fadhil had been friends since childhood because they were neighbors.

Actually the wall will be painted on the birthday of the new school year and the acceptance of new students. But since Xennora was the last force to use the hall, all the signatures were still there.

"But I think there's something... There shouldn't be." Vina recalled her conversation with Julian and Ervin in the cafeteria.

Xennora chuckled a little cluelessly at Vina's words, and went back through the sizable hall.

"meaning?" Finally Xennora asked.

Vina turned her head towards Xennora, "according to sister, what shouldn't be in two people who never get along?" Instead of answering Xennora's question, Vina asked back.

"In category? Something or something?" Xennora.

"Or something." Vina replied still staring at Xennora who was turning her back.

"Emmm... Maybe taste?" Xennora asked half-and-half making Vina's gaze flat.

"What flavor? Sweetie? Salted? Hm?" Vina's words in a annoying tone made Xennora chuckle.

"Caring maybe? A pity? Likey? Or even... Love?" Asked Xennora who was staring at Vina who was smiling with satisfaction.

"Exactly." Praise Vina.

"So... Meanin?" Xennora asked curiously as she did not understand what Vina meant.

"Yes... There shouldn't be anything between Julian's brother. One of them is what you mentioned earlier." Vina answered while walking past the suddenly dreamy Xennora.

Xennora snorted, "can't it be if I like Julian?" Ask Xennora.

Vina shrugged her shoulders indifferently, "can it be otherwise right?" Vina's words made Xennora completely speechless, recalling Julian's words yesterday. But before long he snorted softly. 'Yes, otherwise... Maybe?'

"Sister, look. "Vina's interruption made Xennora aware and immediately approached her. There was a poster that Vina was looking at, containing types of toxins with molecular images and other explanations.

"Tetrodotoxin, Neurotoxin, arsenal, cyanide, VX... Wowh, there are a lot of them too. How do I know cyanide?" Ask while chuckling. Xennora silently watched the slightly dusty poster. But what he was looking for wasn't in the poster.

Vina was intending to take the poster. He could not read because of the dust that covered him. As the posters were taken down with great difficulty, they heard the sound of objects falling near them right next to Xennora's shoes. He also took the thing that turned out to be the key. It looks like it's hanging behind a poster.

"key? What keys?" Ask Vina. Xennora shook her head not knowing, but then she remembered something. He also approached a nightstand in the corner of the room followed by Vina who put the poster on the broken table.

Xennora's right, that key is the nightstand key. When he opened it, there were dozens of small bottles commonly used for vaccines. Xennora took one, the liquid was colorless and slightly viscous. The moment Xennora opened the lid, a fishy smell instantly greeted their sense of smell. Soon, Xennora closed the bottle tightly and then closed and re-locked the nightstand without returning the bottle she had taken. Xennora kept the bottle in her alma mater's pocket and stood up and invited Vina out.

Vina said without asking any further and then followed Xennora. After locking the hall, they went to the Civil Lab on the second floor. But when in the front corridor of musholla, they cross paths with Bu Raya. Immediately they lowered their heads to pay their respects which was met with a smile.

"Oh yes Xennora, coincidentally. Your Try Out value is perfect. The test score is also above the average. So then... You can continue through the next Try Out until the National Examination. Oh, and you'll also do an equivalence test. The spirit! I'm proud of you." Obviously, Bu Raya left after patting Xennora on the shoulder.

Xennora was silent, before long she smiled. 'Mother is proud of you.' a simple but precious phrase for Xennora. How not? His parents never said that long sentence to him if not to scold him, let alone say if they were proud of him.

Vina looked down respectfully as the departure of Bu Raya who also had a smile on her. You can admit, Mama Raya is an amazing teacher. Friendly but can also make students disciplined. But before long, Vina understood what Raya said to Xennora. He also glared in disbelief at his upperclassman.

"Sister jump class?!"