Ava looked out the window from her office room.
On the table, paper sheet spread out everywhere.
She tried to focus on her work, but did not work.
The evening incident was disturbing her mind.
She never thought of meeting Jack again.
Jack.. Jacques...
A messy guy who smelled strong cigarettes.
That was first impression Jack give to her.
Nothing interesting about that guy.
There are many disadvantages of the kindness she feels for him.
Because of that, when Zoe introduced him. She never agrees with their relationship.
For her, Jack will only hurt Zoe's heart. His can't bring happiness to her friend's life.
"Hurry up! i'll want to introduced you to him..."
"He's always hanging out there..." said Zoe and pulled Ava hand.
Without willingness, Ava follows Zoe's steps.
Ava looked left and right.
She was really uncomfortable with the area they were passing through.
She looked at Zoe's face. Her best friend was smiling happily.
She seems familiar with this place.
After a few minutes walk, they finally got into a dilapidated studio.
"Hi guys!" greet Zoe.
" Zoe! Why you came here? You don't have class today?" The man who was holding the guitar came close to them.
"Josh, please... you ask me like i'm your kids" Zoe grumbled. Josh just laugh and give her guitar to someone he call Rex.
Ava just stand silent.
"What she doing here?" ask Josh with his smirk face.
"I'll brought her here. Where's Jack?" Zoe looking around look for someone.
"He went out briefly. Buy something, maybe..."
"Are you sure your friend comfortable in here?"
"She look's not..." said Josh.
Zoe looked at Ava's who silence from earlier.
She looked answers from the calm face of her best friend.
"I'm okay. Don't worry about me..." told Ava. Trying to throw anxiety on Zoe's face.
"Are you sure that?"
"This will be a hot story at school later if they know it, Avalyn Claire is here..." said Josh sarcastically.
"Excuse me. Do you know me?" Ava can't withstand her anger. It was her biggest weakness.
She looked at him with feeling resentful.
For her, Josh was very rude with his sarcasm.
The way Josh and Rex looked at her since then also made her very uncomfortable.
Her presence here, is like being ridiculed by them.
"Of course we know you..."
"Avalyn Claire, Queen of the school"
"Everyone in school knows who are you, Ava."
"But you don't know us, right?" Josh look Ava with his smile. Sarcastic.
"Who's said?"
"I know who you are..."
"Expelled student..."
"You're a boy whose fight with David that day, right?"
"I still remember your tears that day..." Ava's words make Josh stumble.
Ava smiled thinly.
Satisfied to see Josh's dark face.
"Ava!" Zoe patted Ava's arm.
"What!" Ava rubbed her arm.
"It's okay, Zoe."
"People like her don't know what are people like us going through"
"We're just their toys. When they get bored they will use us..."
"Otherwise, they will treat us like rubbish..." told Josh without looking anyone.
"This place is not suitable for you..."
"This place, people in here... all of them..."
"Abandoned, neglected..."
"Will only get you on trouble. We just a troublemakers..." Josh gaze at the Ava's face.
Josh was stunned, Ava was staring at him.
Without reaction, without words.
She just stand silents and stare hard in Josh face.
Ava's eye makes Josh feel like a guilty person.
Although he does not know where his fault is.
He just said about the truth!
About him!
About his life!
"Rex, it's time. Let's go..."
"Sorry Zoe, we have to go now" Slowly, Josh got up from his seat.
"Work's?" ask Zoe.
"Yups, part time job. That's only we can do right now..."
"You can stay here if you want..."
"He might be back soon..." told Josh but his eyes had a glimpse of Ava who was still angry .
"Thanks Josh..." said Zoe And waved towards Josh and Rex who had stepped away.
"Bye Zoe!" shout Rex. Zoe just smiled at Josh and Rex's behavior before looked toward Ava.
"Ava..." whining Zoe.
"What!"
"If i'm not suitable in here, you also don't fit in here..."
"We are in a different world than them"
"Can you see that?"
"They also can see the difference, why don't you?" Ava vent her anger.
Zoe sighed weakly.
She knew Ava was offended by Josh's words.
"Do you want a drink's?" Zoe looked around and realized something.
"I'll buy something for you. Just stay in here. Don't go anywhere..." told Zoe before gone.
Ava watching every space in there.
Old, dirty, scattered.
The air smell also disconcerting.
Ava pushes slowly the items on the seat before she sits there.
She pissed off when remembered Josh's words.
"Abandoned, neglected..." Ava mimicked Josh's sentence just now.
"The person who most understands the feeling of abandonment, is me."
"Don't think that only you undergoing a bad life..."
"Pathetic!" Ava grumbles alone.
Suddenly Ava heard the sound of someone's foot.
A man came in unaware of her presence.
The man is quite high and he was busy blowing cigarette smoke into the air.
Realizing Ava's presence there, he was choke because shocked.
"Who are you!" shout Jack.
"Me?" ask Ava while pointing to her face.
"Yes you! What are you doing in here?" ask Jack again.
"Are you Jacques?" ask Ava and watch Jack from top to bottom.
"Yeah it's me. Do i know you?" Ask Jack and look at Ava with weird feeling.
"Oh, so here is Jacques?"
"Hello, i'm Ava. Zoe's best friend" told Ava.
"Oh, she here?"
"Holla, Ava. Happy to see you..."
"By the way, please call me Jack."
"I'm pissed off when people call me Jacques..." told Jack.
Ava researched everything on Jack.
The way he talks, he walks and he sits.
The clothes and shoes he wore were rather shabby.
His hand was scratched and there was blackness on his fingernails.
As well as his unmanageable hair as though he just came back from gross work.
It was their first meeting.
There was nothing that pleased Ava at that moment.
Likewise on this day.
Their reunion, displeasing Ava at all.
Although her clothes are fine, her hair is neat.
But at Ava he remains the same Jack.
A person who is cowardly and unprincipled.
Ava's imagination stopped when heard someone knock in her door.
He turned to look at the door.
"May i come in?" Ryan smiled as he approached Ava.
"You're already in..." said Ava.
"I'm so sorry. You must be very exhausted."
"With this preparation, designer, stage... the contestant's..." Ryan hugs Ava to calm her.
"All that never make me tired in fact it make me happy"
"You know what disappoints me most?" ask Ava and look to Ryan face.
"When you try to hide something from me..." Ava sighed and pushed Ryan's arm.
"No, i'm not. When? I never hide anything" told Ryan and sit next to Ava.
"But why i don't know about Jack?"
"Why in this file don't have any information about Jack?"
"He's our special guest right?" ask Ava and put the file in front of Ryan.
"Ava, do you really check this file?" ask Ryan while his hand flips the sheet inside the file.
"Of course i have..." Ava insisted.
"I'll think you maybe forgot. We already discuss this thing in our meeting"
"And you also agree we took Ken as our special guest in our fashion show..."
"He's our main model..." Ryan explained.
"What's!"
"Don't tell me..." Ava look speechless.
"Here it is..."
"Look, everything is here..."
"His name, the details, all information. Everything is listed."
"But, not like what we know about him..." Ryan shows the file to Ava.
Ava took the file and read everything there.
"Violinists!" Ava looked at Ryan asked certainty.
"Yes, like we agreed..."
"Masked violinist, Ken. As a surprise for all the guests who come."
"That's your idea, Ava..." told Ryan.
"But he's a guitar player."
"He's play a nonsense music, harsher, shrieked..."
"Why... he.." Ava speaking without consciousness.
Ryan held her hand and calmed her.
They sit in that position until Ryan felt Ava calm again.
Ryan knows what actually happened between Zoe and Jack.
Ava has told him about their past story before they get married.
He was also surprised when they called Ken as Jack.
He knew how much Zoe's was suffering for him.
"I'll don't know how to solve this problem..."
"I'm sorry, i don't know who's actually is Ken?"
"According this information we get from his agency and his manager, Steve."
"He learned to play violin from childhood."
"And he's not from this town."
"This is the first time he came here..." told Ryan.
"Nonsense!" said Ava.
She recalled their discussions of the last months.
Yes, she was the one who suggested the violin player as their main model.
Although he was masked, but his body was appropriate to be their model.
Additionally, Ava enormously impressed with the way the player plays his violin.
Music arrangement his composed also so beautiful.
Yeah, because he's wearing a mask. Ava does not recognize him.
Besides that, since when Jack plays violin?
"Ava, how about Zoe?"
"Are she fine?" To be honest Ryan was worried about Zoe's condition.
Although Zoe was quite calm, but he was afraid that Zoe would just act in front of them.
"Yeah, she said that. But we don't know what exactly she thinks."
"We can only guess it..." said Ava.
"Indeed..." said Ryan.
"Do you think Lex know about this?" ask Ava.
"About Jack or about Ken?" Ryan's ask back while unbuttoning in his sleeve.
"His a same person, Ryan." Ava sighed.
"Yeah, i'll know that..."
"But Lex don't know about that."
"He's just know Ken as masked violinist not his former wife's lover"
"He's the one who introduced me to Steve..." told Ryan.
"Yeah, first time i'll know about Ken is through Lex..."
"That time, Lex showed Luke video about rising violinist and praising the violinist skill's"
"Without know anything about him..." said Ava frustrated.
"I'll really hope Zoe will tell Lex about Ken ..."
"It's better than Lex to find out from others..." told Ryan.
"I'll try talk to her tomorrow..." told Ava and leaned her head on Ryan's shoulders.
They were silent for a moment.
Both are busy with their feelings.
Ryan caresses soft Ava's head then play with her hair.
"It's a long journey today."
"It is very tiresome..." said Ryan.
"Yeah, i'm feel so tired today..."Ava agrees with Ryan.
"I hope tomorrow will be better than today." Ryan prayed.
Because of the tiredness without realising they both fell asleep.
On the table, paper sheet spread out everywhere.
She tried to focus on her work, but did not work.
The evening incident was disturbing her mind.
She never thought of meeting Jack again.
Jack.. Jacques...
A messy guy who smelled strong cigarettes.
That was first impression Jack give to her.
Nothing interesting about that guy.
There are many disadvantages of the kindness she feels for him.
Because of that, when Zoe introduced him. She never agrees with their relationship.
For her, Jack will only hurt Zoe's heart. His can't bring happiness to her friend's life.
"Hurry up! i'll want to introduced you to him..."
"He's always hanging out there..." said Zoe and pulled Ava hand.
Without willingness, Ava follows Zoe's steps.
Ava looked left and right.
She was really uncomfortable with the area they were passing through.
She looked at Zoe's face. Her best friend was smiling happily.
She seems familiar with this place.
After a few minutes walk, they finally got into a dilapidated studio.
"Hi guys!" greet Zoe.
" Zoe! Why you came here? You don't have class today?" The man who was holding the guitar came close to them.
"Josh, please... you ask me like i'm your kids" Zoe grumbled. Josh just laugh and give her guitar to someone he call Rex.
Ava just stand silent.
"What she doing here?" ask Josh with his smirk face.
"I'll brought her here. Where's Jack?" Zoe looking around look for someone.
"He went out briefly. Buy something, maybe..."
"Are you sure your friend comfortable in here?"
"She look's not..." said Josh.
Zoe looked at Ava's who silence from earlier.
She looked answers from the calm face of her best friend.
"I'm okay. Don't worry about me..." told Ava. Trying to throw anxiety on Zoe's face.
"Are you sure that?"
"This will be a hot story at school later if they know it, Avalyn Claire is here..." said Josh sarcastically.
"Excuse me. Do you know me?" Ava can't withstand her anger. It was her biggest weakness.
She looked at him with feeling resentful.
For her, Josh was very rude with his sarcasm.
The way Josh and Rex looked at her since then also made her very uncomfortable.
Her presence here, is like being ridiculed by them.
"Of course we know you..."
"Avalyn Claire, Queen of the school"
"Everyone in school knows who are you, Ava."
"But you don't know us, right?" Josh look Ava with his smile. Sarcastic.
"Who's said?"
"I know who you are..."
"Expelled student..."
"You're a boy whose fight with David that day, right?"
"I still remember your tears that day..." Ava's words make Josh stumble.
Ava smiled thinly.
Satisfied to see Josh's dark face.
"Ava!" Zoe patted Ava's arm.
"What!" Ava rubbed her arm.
"It's okay, Zoe."
"People like her don't know what are people like us going through"
"We're just their toys. When they get bored they will use us..."
"Otherwise, they will treat us like rubbish..." told Josh without looking anyone.
"This place is not suitable for you..."
"This place, people in here... all of them..."
"Abandoned, neglected..."
"Will only get you on trouble. We just a troublemakers..." Josh gaze at the Ava's face.
Josh was stunned, Ava was staring at him.
Without reaction, without words.
She just stand silents and stare hard in Josh face.
Ava's eye makes Josh feel like a guilty person.
Although he does not know where his fault is.
He just said about the truth!
About him!
About his life!
"Rex, it's time. Let's go..."
"Sorry Zoe, we have to go now" Slowly, Josh got up from his seat.
"Work's?" ask Zoe.
"Yups, part time job. That's only we can do right now..."
"You can stay here if you want..."
"He might be back soon..." told Josh but his eyes had a glimpse of Ava who was still angry .
"Thanks Josh..." said Zoe And waved towards Josh and Rex who had stepped away.
"Bye Zoe!" shout Rex. Zoe just smiled at Josh and Rex's behavior before looked toward Ava.
"Ava..." whining Zoe.
"What!"
"If i'm not suitable in here, you also don't fit in here..."
"We are in a different world than them"
"Can you see that?"
"They also can see the difference, why don't you?" Ava vent her anger.
Zoe sighed weakly.
She knew Ava was offended by Josh's words.
"Do you want a drink's?" Zoe looked around and realized something.
"I'll buy something for you. Just stay in here. Don't go anywhere..." told Zoe before gone.
Ava watching every space in there.
Old, dirty, scattered.
The air smell also disconcerting.
Ava pushes slowly the items on the seat before she sits there.
She pissed off when remembered Josh's words.
"Abandoned, neglected..." Ava mimicked Josh's sentence just now.
"The person who most understands the feeling of abandonment, is me."
"Don't think that only you undergoing a bad life..."
"Pathetic!" Ava grumbles alone.
Suddenly Ava heard the sound of someone's foot.
A man came in unaware of her presence.
The man is quite high and he was busy blowing cigarette smoke into the air.
Realizing Ava's presence there, he was choke because shocked.
"Who are you!" shout Jack.
"Me?" ask Ava while pointing to her face.
"Yes you! What are you doing in here?" ask Jack again.
"Are you Jacques?" ask Ava and watch Jack from top to bottom.
"Yeah it's me. Do i know you?" Ask Jack and look at Ava with weird feeling.
"Oh, so here is Jacques?"
"Hello, i'm Ava. Zoe's best friend" told Ava.
"Oh, she here?"
"Holla, Ava. Happy to see you..."
"By the way, please call me Jack."
"I'm pissed off when people call me Jacques..." told Jack.
Ava researched everything on Jack.
The way he talks, he walks and he sits.
The clothes and shoes he wore were rather shabby.
His hand was scratched and there was blackness on his fingernails.
As well as his unmanageable hair as though he just came back from gross work.
It was their first meeting.
There was nothing that pleased Ava at that moment.
Likewise on this day.
Their reunion, displeasing Ava at all.
Although her clothes are fine, her hair is neat.
But at Ava he remains the same Jack.
A person who is cowardly and unprincipled.
Ava's imagination stopped when heard someone knock in her door.
He turned to look at the door.
"May i come in?" Ryan smiled as he approached Ava.
"You're already in..." said Ava.
"I'm so sorry. You must be very exhausted."
"With this preparation, designer, stage... the contestant's..." Ryan hugs Ava to calm her.
"All that never make me tired in fact it make me happy"
"You know what disappoints me most?" ask Ava and look to Ryan face.
"When you try to hide something from me..." Ava sighed and pushed Ryan's arm.
"No, i'm not. When? I never hide anything" told Ryan and sit next to Ava.
"But why i don't know about Jack?"
"Why in this file don't have any information about Jack?"
"He's our special guest right?" ask Ava and put the file in front of Ryan.
"Ava, do you really check this file?" ask Ryan while his hand flips the sheet inside the file.
"Of course i have..." Ava insisted.
"I'll think you maybe forgot. We already discuss this thing in our meeting"
"And you also agree we took Ken as our special guest in our fashion show..."
"He's our main model..." Ryan explained.
"What's!"
"Don't tell me..." Ava look speechless.
"Here it is..."
"Look, everything is here..."
"His name, the details, all information. Everything is listed."
"But, not like what we know about him..." Ryan shows the file to Ava.
Ava took the file and read everything there.
"Violinists!" Ava looked at Ryan asked certainty.
"Yes, like we agreed..."
"Masked violinist, Ken. As a surprise for all the guests who come."
"That's your idea, Ava..." told Ryan.
"But he's a guitar player."
"He's play a nonsense music, harsher, shrieked..."
"Why... he.." Ava speaking without consciousness.
Ryan held her hand and calmed her.
They sit in that position until Ryan felt Ava calm again.
Ryan knows what actually happened between Zoe and Jack.
Ava has told him about their past story before they get married.
He was also surprised when they called Ken as Jack.
He knew how much Zoe's was suffering for him.
"I'll don't know how to solve this problem..."
"I'm sorry, i don't know who's actually is Ken?"
"According this information we get from his agency and his manager, Steve."
"He learned to play violin from childhood."
"And he's not from this town."
"This is the first time he came here..." told Ryan.
"Nonsense!" said Ava.
She recalled their discussions of the last months.
Yes, she was the one who suggested the violin player as their main model.
Although he was masked, but his body was appropriate to be their model.
Additionally, Ava enormously impressed with the way the player plays his violin.
Music arrangement his composed also so beautiful.
Besides that, since when Jack plays violin?
"Ava, how about Zoe?"
"Are she fine?" To be honest Ryan was worried about Zoe's condition.
Although Zoe was quite calm, but he was afraid that Zoe would just act in front of them.
"Yeah, she said that. But we don't know what exactly she thinks."
"We can only guess it..." said Ava.
"Indeed..." said Ryan.
"Do you think Lex know about this?" ask Ava.
"About Jack or about Ken?" Ryan's ask back while unbuttoning in his sleeve.
"His a same person, Ryan." Ava sighed.
"Yeah, i'll know that..."
"But Lex don't know about that."
"He's just know Ken as masked violinist not his former wife's lover"
"He's the one who introduced me to Steve..." told Ryan.
"Yeah, first time i'll know about Ken is through Lex..."
"That time, Lex showed Luke video about rising violinist and praising the violinist skill's"
"Without know anything about him..." said Ava frustrated.
"I'll really hope Zoe will tell Lex about Ken ..."
"It's better than Lex to find out from others..." told Ryan.
"I'll try talk to her tomorrow..." told Ava and leaned her head on Ryan's shoulders.
They were silent for a moment.
Both are busy with their feelings.
Ryan caresses soft Ava's head then play with her hair.
"It's a long journey today."
"It is very tiresome..." said Ryan.
"Yeah, i'm feel so tired today..."Ava agrees with Ryan.
"I hope tomorrow will be better than today." Ryan prayed.
Because of the tiredness without realising they both fell asleep.
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