Time Turner

"You know?!" Frans asked as his eyes widened in surprise. He actually stood up as he can't wait for Alfizar to tell him. "What is it?!"

Aurina, Henry, and Zio also urge him to answer. Alfizar smiled wryly as he knew what kind of reactions awaited him if he told them.

"Spoon," as he expected, Henry and Zio burst out laughing and Aurina lost herself in giggles. Only Frans who had a dumbfounded expression as he fell back to the sofa.

"Brother," Aurina said as she lost in another round of giggles, "Please don't joke like that, I know you want to melt the heavy atmosphere. But that was too ridiculous! I don't know you are this funny!"

"Dear lord, I have been taking care of you for years! You are such a serious boy and now you are developing your humorous side?" Zio chuckled, Alfizar didn't appreciate the laughed. But he was glad to finally see Zio laughed. Now, the tired-burdened expression washed away with the laugh Alfizar wasn't happy about.

As for Henry, he kept laughing as if there was no tomorrow. He laughed so hard to the point he smacked his t.h.i.g.h then the sofa again and again.

"You know I didn't joke in a serious situation." Alfizar's voice was full of irritation.

The laughing trio stopped abruptly.

"You are kidding," Henry said dumbfounded.

"I'm not. Did you remember that spoon, Frans?" Alfizar decided to ignore them to questioned Frans. And Frans' newly discovered observant side didn't disappoint him.

"Make sense. After school time, we should have separate to go to our respective club. It was on the same day as the accident, so you are going to Rachzi's club, Dioz to CDC, and I with Vianzo should have to go to the Shooting Club. But before we go, Vianzo dropped a spoon. He told me to go first and he was going to return the spoon." Frans explained to them as Alfizar too lazy to explain after being laughed at. Looks like Frans noticed his mood.

"But why would he have a spoon with him?" Aurina wondered. But by now all of them know what the spoon was used for.

"We didn't ask him that because who cares about a spoon? But really, we ate at the cafeteria, it was prohibited to eat in the class. And I just noticed that now." Alfizar said his point and Frans nodded in agreement.

"Even I didn't notice the use. You are also sharp, Alfi." Frans's compliments for him, made Alfizar remember Vianzo's words when he said Alfizar sharp. And Vianzo's distracted expression that day. He slips so many times, but Alfizar never notices any of it. (Chapter 20)

"So that's how it is." Henry finally nodded in understanding.

"That's right," Alfizar said when a thought flash in his mind, he turned to Frans. "That time when we researching the Art Gallery, trying to match that threat message handwriting." (chapter 25)

"Yeah, what's with it?" Frans nodded as he still remembers.

"Vianzo was shorting out the time we took to look around by making it looks like he 'knew' that it was Harloz who were behind the whole things," Alfizar said as he keeps trying to remember.

"Ah, that's another sentence from Vianzo that almost makes me believe that Harloz was the one who did it." Frans nodded. Indeed, the way Vianzo talked that day was very carefully said. His words basically saying, that he was suspecting Harloz but I don't want to because he was my childhood friends. (chapter 26)

"But then he insisting that it was enough of a proof." Alfizar shook his head.

"Enough of a proof?" Aurina asked. Then Alfizar proceeded to tell them the event about that day in the Art Gallery.

"The way Vianzo insist that Harloz was the culprit was a bit too forceful. I think he was getting impatient." Henry said.

"But I still don't understand how he got Harloz's handwriting with such a threatening message." Aurina wondered out loud.

"Maybe we will find out later." Alfizar was sure of it. Especially if he could get in contact with Harloz and straightened out the mess.

"Now Alfi..." Alfizar turned to Zio when he heard his name was mentioned by his uncle. "Now you are looking for more proof to make sure that... this Vianzo boy is the real culprit. After you know what you want to know, after you get the proof, after you know the truth... What will you do then?"

Alfizar looked at that old eyes. The eyes of the man who have been taking care of him and Aurina since their parents have passed away. That eyes looking at him so deep that Alfizar feels as if he was standing n.a.k.e.d in front of him. That stare feels like it was piercing his body and see through his soul.

With that kind of penetrating stare, Alfizar didn't find the answer in his head. His uncle was right. So what if he knew the truth? What will he do to Vianzo?

95%... was the percentage of how sure Alfizar that Vianzo is the one behind everything. The 5% still waiting until tomorrow if Aurina finds the CCTV footage. The real one in the backup database.

So what if he knows? Alfizar knew that this is another attempt from his uncle to makes him agree to move. Zio's worry was not a groundless worry. Alfizar was not the only one who lost his dearest people.

Zio and Henry also have lost their dearests.

"Father, can we not talk about this now?" not because Alfizar has something to talk in private, but he has never thought about what he will do afterward. But looks like Frans thought that his presence was hindering the talk.

"I don't think we have anything to discuss now. If I noticed anything, I will tell you, Alfi." Frans said as he stood up, readying himself to leave the Leonores to themselves.

"I'll escort you out," Henry said as he also stood up.

[Next chapter's teaser:

"Something from the past?"

"I'm very sure that they are Harloz Sweinzrev and Vianzo."

"This is not a gambling game, Alfi." Zio frowned at his last sentence.

"Who was there!?" ]