03. Suspicion
I walked on the humus-covered ground and dried leaves, after walking along the sidewalk on the edge of the empty paved road. I was going to take a shortcut to the place the old man had told me about, but there wasn't a single vehicle passing by, and it was quite normal in a remote area like this. I skipped school today, asking permission to visit my sick cousin, but of course, it was all a lie. Besides, my father's younger brother Surya isn't married yet, and it's a good thing that the teachers at my school didn't really know my family. Furthermore, I had never been absent from school, so it was easy for me to convince the teachers without being plagued with annoying questions. Where I was now was ten kilometers away from the city center, there was no public transportation that passed through this area, as this route was only used as an alternative route when the streets were crowded due to public holidays. Without public transportation, I was nothing. Without a driver's license o
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