LIGHT IN YOUR EYES (Light In Your Eyes)
A secret? (Revision)

"Eat first, Ta. You haven't eaten from yesterday, have you? " Switch Alex on Octa who is still at home on the sofa while looking at Rian with eyes that are difficult to interpret.

"Gue's not hungry. " Reply Octa flatly.

Alex breathed a heavy sigh the umpteenth time he got the same answer from his best friend. Spotlight Octa's eyes that have been dark since the beginning are now getting darker. Alex can clearly realize Octa's rather drastic change in attitude. Never had Alex found Octa so moody as he is today.

'There must be another reason stronger. It is not possible just because of the accident that Rian experienced, continues suddenly he changed like a gini. Do I need to find out why? '

Wrestling with his mind makes Alex unaware of Ran's arrival accompanied by his caregiver. Ran ran closer to his brother's bed. Octa who saw it swiftly restrained the 9-year-old boy before actually getting to Rian's bed.

"Again rest, don't bother, okay? "

"Why? My brother will not be disturbed. Ran is Rian's brother. "

Getting a rebuttal from Ran made Octa lead the boy to the sofa to sit with him. Before returning to talk to Ran, Octa first asked the nanny to return home.

"Abang lo said he did not want to be disturbed by anyone. Now you sit here just keep Abang lo with Bang Octa. Have you eaten? "

"No chance, Bang. "

"Okay, if so let me just buy you both eat. " Sahut Alex volunteered and then left after getting approval from Octa.

"Our parents are busy, right, Ran? " Task Octa kepo.

"No"

"Why never came to see your brother? " Task Octa in wonder.

"That brother's father doesn't matter. "

Octa was stunned to hear Ran's honesty to her. It made him even more curious.

"Why could that be? " Tanya Octa held back the pain in her heart.

"Ran doesn't know the truth. But, said the ngasuh aunt Ran the same mamah father does not like the same brother because the naughty brother makes the other brother Ran lost. " An Ran replied without burden.

Octa clenched his hand to hold back the pain that attacked his heart due to the unexpected answer from Ran.

'*Why don't you ever complain, deck? So your best friend was not enough. Lo cover up your pain from me, Alex and Rico. 5 years we are all together and you never once complained. "

"Sorry brother, you should be honest since we met. So I won't believe it. You should be happy now, dad equally mamah will not turn on you. Sorry, sister is not ready to be honest with you, same father, same mom*. '

...***...

Rico walks with Alex in the hospital hallway in a hurry. Today Rian will be discharged from the hospital after one week of intensive care. It's not really good but it's just stable. Rian only regained consciousness 2 days ago but had asked to go home with his whining that gave Octa a headache.

Eventually after much drama, Rian was allowed to go home for outpatient treatment. Rico who knew the news immediately stopped from the prestigious event that was being attended with the manager, Alex. With an expensive tuxedo still attached to his body, sunglasses perched on his nose and a successful black mask disguised his identity. Rico really didn't want to miss picking up his best friend.

Rian looks calm watching television broadcasting the news of the accident that happened to him when Rico enters his ward impatiently followed by Alex who walks casually. Rian turned his head when he heard the door open.

"Gee! My friend has finally come out of the medicine cage!! " She screamed Rico excitedly as she ran to hug Rian.

" A*j*r! My hands are clamped, b*bi! " Squeak Rian with an adorable lecherous face as Rico clings to him like a cat.

"Yeah!!! " Rengek Rian disgusted.

Alex was wide-eyed until his eyes glazed over. But the presence of Octa who had just returned from the toilet while laughing made an instant silence. The three of them gawked in shock without changing positions when they heard Octa's laughter.

"L-lo laugh, Ta? I'm not hallucinating anymore, am I? Or maybe you're possessed by a humorous demon? "

Octa had not been able to answer Rico's strange questions, suddenly his face was wet due to the wrath of his uncle's friend.

"Unsane! " Obbed Octa while drying her face using some sheets of tissue that she comot from the drawer table next to Rian's bed.

Rico breathed a sigh of relief. After keeping the empty glass in his hand to its original place. While Alex was back to look at the random behavior of his best friend when Rian was still gawking like a fool.

Octa who felt the most sane can only stare and then decided to leave the madness of his best friend. His hand painstakingly stuffed some kind of medicine into his backpack. After that sort out and thrust 5 pills of different shapes and sizes in his palm towards Rian.

His dark eyes looked at Rian who was casting a glaring glare at him. As if to disagree with the signal Octa gave, Rian whined with

he hopes Octa is affected.

"Don't dong, just once. You want to eat the medicine, huh? "

Octa sighed harshly.

"Promise but, yeah? "

Rian quickly nodded.

"You don't forget. " Rian murmured like a whisper.

But who would have thought Octa heard it. Octa stared intently at the innocent-looking Rian as he rubbed his nape. Rian quickly took the 5 pills in Octa's hand and swallowed them with a single gulp of water. Rico and Alex who had been holding back laughter finally chuckled when they saw how obedient Rian was when he got a sharp look from Octa.

"Gokil! Lo both really fit to be sister. " Chairman Rico who made his three best friends speechless while looking at him with a difficult look to interpret.

"Lawak lo! It can't be! Ngaco! " Rian refute with a clumsy smile.

"Gue's right because I'm a storm. " Rico replies to his narcissist.

While Alex's gaze was directed at Octa who was silent with an illegible look. Alex is sensitive enough to notice Octa's strange eyes when he hears Rico's curse.

'What is this?! Five years ago and we're all still playing secrets?! Can't! Can't be like this! I don't want to be a fool who knows nothing. '

...***...

"Well remember you came home? "

Octa, who had just entered the living room of Rian's house while pushing his best friend's wheelchair, seemed stunned to hear the sound of ketus welcoming their arrival. His heart was stunned to see Rian who was just silent as if he had heard nothing. Rian sighed and then smiled wryly.

"Ta, you hear no sound? I think someone talked. Go to my room, and I'm here. " Take Rian with a contrived look of horror.

Octa could only follow Rian's will without saying anything. The bespectacled man sitting on the living room couch reading the paper stacked on the table suddenly threw the file in his hand violently at the table.

"You dare ignore me, Rian?! " She shouted as Rian and Octa had already arrived in front of Rian's room.

"Gue people don't matter, what do you think? Sick of attention like gini. "

"Rian! "

Rian's eyes seemed closed when his head was bowed as if not allowing others to know his heart was hurt. Octa desperately held himself back from interfering. Suddenly a soft voice interrupted Rian and Octa's attention turned.

"Enough, Dad! "

A middle-aged woman who still looked ageless was suddenly standing on the stairs. His eyes widened when he saw Rian who was sitting weakly in a wheelchair with his legs and right hand attached to a cast. Rian turned his gaze when he met the mama.

And Octa pushed back on Rian's wheelchair as he was gestured to leave the middle-aged woman still glued. When the door to Rian's room was closed, the woman came down the stairs with a hasty intention to approach her son. But his steps were held back by the firm voice of the husband who was looking at him sharply.

"Follow that son of a bitch and please take your stuff out of this house, without Arran! "

"But, Rian needs us right now. "

"Yes, meet me! And get out of this house! I've been kind enough to take that damn kid all this time, take it away! "

Hearing the snapping of the husband made the woman stop to meet her son. The woman only sobbed before turning to Octa who had just come out of Rian's room. The woman's neutrality implied a very noticeable shock as their gazes clashed. Octa immediately cut off their eye contact and left without saying anything.

"W-what is he? Is that really him? Iris that dark... "