Shhhh... It's my secret
04. Glass Eye Girl

Lucas walked down a small path to the beach. After breakfast, he decided to take a walk outside.

There were several couples running early in the morning along the coastline. There was also a group of small children playing in the sand, parents watching from a small coffee shop not far from the beach. Maybe because it's a weekend so it's pretty crowded on the beach.

Lucas doesn't really like to be in crowded places, he always avoids places that make him feel uncomfortable. He prefers to sit in front of his computer playing games or struggling with his motor sport.

But the warm feeling he felt after hearing Rosie's words made it seem like he had found a new glimmer of hope and passion. Unknowingly his feet had led him among the other beachgoers.

After realizing it, Lucas became confused as to what to do. He wanted to run like the others but his feet were only sandals, uncomfortable when used to run.

Shortly after looking to the right and left thinking there might be something he could do here, from a distance he saw, there were several hammocks set among the trees lined up on the shore.

Without thinking twice Lucas walked closer to the place while whistling softly. Lying on a hammock enjoying a warm beach atmosphere is not a bad idea he thought.

Lucas arrived at one of the hammocks. He was preparing to climb it. He had been standing under the hammock with the surface of the hammock cloth covered the back of his body and his hands were preparing to hold both edges of the cloth tightly.

Lucas raised his right leg back against one end of the hammock and prepared to rotate his body so that all parts of his body went into the hammock.

But when both of his legs had been lifted into the hammock, the round of the cloth did not stop as he wanted. As if someone deliberately twisted the hammock he was riding, the cloth continued to twist until his body was squeezed inside the cloth.

"What'sthis? Why does it keep turning?'' lucas thought with wide eyes, he was astonished.

After the cloth could no longer spin because both ends of the cloth had narrowed wrapped around Lucas' body, the round stopped. For a moment Lucas was relieved.

But all of a sudden, the hammock turned again in the opposite direction so that for a long time the cloth opened wide and stopped with Lucas' body at the bottom of the cloth. Lucas' body fell into the sand.

Bruuk!

Lucas fell to the sand. If he did not hold back with his hands, his face would smell the sand perfectly. His head still feels spinning, now his body feels pain from falling, he groaned.

"Arghhh...."

Lucas immediately turned his body until his position was stretched. Sunlight poured right into his eyeballs until he closed his eyes. He was still thinking about the reason why he did not manage to climb on the hammock.

"really shit... Embarrassing," he said in his heart.

"Itahhhh...." Suddenly there was a very shrill scream, making Lucas open his eyes suddenly. He was shocked and embarrassed to think that there were eyes that saw him fall from the top of the hammock.

Someone was standing next to him. Lucas flushed out the sunlight in his eyes with his hands. He wanted to see clearly who had let out a scream just now.

His brain quickly analyzed a girl who was staring in shock at him. "From the look on this girl's face must be about the same age as me. But his appearance was strange, yellow hair, two pigtails? glasses, braces, thick training, What is fake hair? Or is he crazy? Why is the makeup so tacky?" Lucas even forgot that he was still lying on the sand

"Son, are you okay? Can you stand up?" the girl sounded worried about him.

The girl's voice made her realize and immediately stood up. Lucas quickly cleaned up the sand stuck to his clothes while thinking of a decent reason to explain the situation earlier.

But embarrassed, he answered coldly to the girl, leaving her "You can see with both eyes, right."

"Sorry, brother, but my hand really slipped" the girl screamed at Lucas who walked behind her.

"Tossed?" Lucas also stopped his steps trying to digest the meaning of the words just now. His eyes grew bigger after realizing that this was not his fault.

Lucas turned his body around. He approached the girl again.

Looking at Lucas who turned around, the girl bowed in fear. He didn't dare look at Lucas.

"Lipsaying? So you mean... That was... ? Lucas pointed at the hammock where it had fallen.

As if he understood, the girl moved her head up and down the sign confirming that she was the cause of Lucas' fall earlier.

"Haaa.. Are you kidding me? What is this bullshit? Are you playing me?" snapped Lucas. His eyes stiffened, his teeth were grinding, his hands were clenched. If only in front of him was a man, his fist must have been floating since.

The girl knew Lucas was furious, and he bowed many times to feel guilty. "A-a-I'm really apologizing sis," her voice trembled. "Ta-ta-so that's. oh. that's." The girl seemed to see someone behind Lucas and pointed at him.

Lucas turned his back to follow the girl's hand to make sure. "Who's the...." He stopped his words because there was no one behind him. Just a breeze blowing through the leaves.

Lucas was getting annoyed, he really felt being played with the girl.

"You're playing games...." He said that once again, the girl standing before him had disappeared from his sight. From a distance the girl was running as fast as lightning away from Lucas.

"Sialannnn..," he cried. "Crazy girl, come here." Lucas went after the girl.

The girl ran towards a group of children who were playing making sand castles. He stopped and whispered something to one of the children while pointing at Lucas.

After whispering to the boy, he realized that Lucas was about to approach him and ran away again.

Lucas could have caught the girl easily, but the sandals he wore made it difficult for his feet to run on the sand.

When Lucas arrived in front of the group of children, his steps stopped. Five children who had been playing in the sand, making a posse trying to prevent Lucas chasing the girl.

"Stop," said a girl with narrow eyes, although her body was small but she stood at the front facing Lucas. Lucas felt the words were directed at him and stopped his steps.

"Ckk what the fuck? Move aside, you boy," Lucas raised his voice and tried to run over the posse haughtily.

Suddenly, "huwaaaa... Ibuuuuuuuuu". Another girl with a mature brown skin screamed and screamed at her mother, crying. Lucas, who was about to run, turned around and stopped his steps.

"Hey boy, why are you crying haa? Did I hit you?" lucas approached the crying boy with a cold look. The other children close themselves together out of fear.

"Who? Who are you gonna hit?" shouting a woman who was running towards Lucas, Lucas turned quickly because he was shocked by the appearance of the voice.

The woman passed Lucas and approached the children and put her hand on them. "Darling are you okay, did this guy hurt you?" he glanced at Lucas who just looked up not understanding the intention of the woman just now.

"Sani are you okay? Don't cry Sani" said the other children asking the crying child. Before long they all cried because the boy named Sani did not stop crying.

Lucas who was confused by their attitude so wanted to get angry "Hey boy, say!! did I hit you?" his eyes looked at them one.

Plaque!!! Someone hit Lucas' head from behind with a spade-shaped toy belonging to the children.

"God...." Lucas was surprised, he turned back to find out who dared to hit his head. Several young and middle-aged women began to approach him. Seeing the women, Lucas rewinded his legs a few steps. He felt like he was going to be attacked.

"What the fuck?" lucas asked, holding his head in pain.

"Young man how can you be so rude to a little boy?" the woman who hit her head.

"Are the kids okay?" the question then on the woman who was still busy calming the crying children. The woman asked just nodded.

"Well if someone else hears I can guess I really hit them" said Lucas, who began to feel cornered. "Hey boy... Tell me if I hit you?" ask him again to the group of children while raising his voice.

"It's impolite to talk so in front of parents."

"Ergh kids today are really terrible."

"It's rude."

"I what? Not polite? Rude? You kidding? It's not that you're playing hitting people recklessly" Lucas asked emphasizing his words.

The woman who hit him felt very angry with Lucas's rude attitude just now, he tried to hit him again if Sani did not start talking and stopped his intentions.

"Sa-Sani is fine Auntie. That brother...." He looked scared of Lucas. "Not hit Sani. Sani was just scared. The sister said this uncle was following her."

"You hear?I didn't even touch her one bit" Lucas quickly told the group of women.

He looked at Sani again. "What did you say? Uncle?? And again what do you mean meng.i.ku.ti.nya?" lucas growled at the children after realizing what Sani had just said. He felt he had been accused of a crime.

"Hiiiss. You really can't be allowed to, yeah," said the hitter, staring resentfully at Lucas. "Sani, who do you mean, who's the right talk, baby, which brother?"

"That's sister's aunt...." Sani cuddled around looking for the figure of the girl who was running. However the figure had disappeared without a trace at all.

"Damn it, he's gone" said Lucas, who only realized that his prey had disappeared from his sight. He also cursed a few times.

He quickly turned around wanting to trace the girl's trail to the last time he was seen, but the women did not seem to let Lucas escape.

They pulled his clothes until he fell down. Lucas opened his eyes. He wanted to be rude to them, but he held them back. He clenched his hand in annoyance.

"Where are you young."

"Ah young man today, can't even see a street girl alone."

"When his face was handsome, but his nature was terrible."

"Don't he be a stalker?"

"Do we report it to the police?"

The whispers of those women. They stood upright holding hands as if judging Lucas who could not move because he was caught stalking someone.

"Hey what are you doing, I will report your actions. I never followed the girl" Lucas explained in annoyance. But the women don't care what comes out of Lucas' mouth.

"Sani pulled over" said the woman who had hugged her. "And you." He turned to Lucas. "You're a stalker, aren't you, the one people talk about lately?"

"No. no. Let go of me... I'm not a stalker...." Lucas continued shouting but his voice sank into the fury of the women.

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From a distance, from a roof of a house not so far from the beach. A girl with glasses, with two-pointed hair, dressed conspicuously was standing with binoculars in her hands.

He casually watched the commotion on the beach through his binoculars. After feeling quite satisfied, he went to the lounge chair beside him. She spread her body there with a triumphant smile.

The girl opened her phone, dialed an emergency number. It was on his phone the emergency number he was calling : POLICE.

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Ten minutes later.

"I'm sorry for all the commotion." Rosie bowed apologizing to the two police officers who were about to leave for her car parked in the yard of Rosie's house.

"Ah no mistress, it is precisely us who apologized for this misunderstanding," said one of the officers. "Then we'll excuse you."

The police car left Rosie's house. Rosie went into her house. Rosie approached Lucas, who was sitting stiffly on a sofa in the middle of the room. Lucas's appearance was a mess. His hair was tangled, his clothes had stretched out at the neck.

Around him was already crowded with neighbors who were none other than the women who had quarreled with him. They stared at Lucas as if staring at a rare piece of art in a museum.

Rosie is closing in on Lucas. "Ah, I'm really sorry for this incident," Rosie said.

"Grandmother why the grandmother...." Lucas cut Rosie's words. But Rosie, who knew what Lucas was going to say, immediately cut off his words, gently touching Lucas' shoulder.

"I really wanted to introduce him to you guys, I didn't expect that I would do it like this. My grandson is named Lucas, he's the son of a close acquaintance of Mr. Thomas, from today he will stay at my house. My granddaughter does not know this place well, I ask for your understanding of this har event," explained Rosie.

"Oowwh."

"That Thomas sir."

"So his name is Lucas."

"Are we being too hard on him?"

"I feel guilty."

"He's really handsome."

"Is he hurt?"

Whisper the neighbors of Rosie.

"No mistress" said one of the women who had a fight with Lucas representing the others. "Emmmmm... We should have apologized, we didn't ask Lu correctly...Lucas," he explained shyly.

"Haah didn't you guys just want to eat me, how can you now act like a gentle rabbit" said Lucas.

And finally after talking for an hour, the misunderstanding was over thanks to Rosie. Lucas feels more guilt and shame on Rosie. The first day here he had done a lot of trouble for the old woman.

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Lucas and Rosie sat down at the table eating their lunch. This morning made them both tired.

Lucas ate the dish slowly, still feeling guilty for Rosie. Rosie ate quietly without a sound. Lucas was so confused as to how to apologize for his attitude today even though he was still a little unacceptable.

"But grandma" he said suddenly. "Are there really no girls like that around here?" maybe apologizing is hard for him but his curiosity is even harder to control.

Although Rosie and the neighbors had convinced Lucas that there was no girl like Lucas, he asked about her even when lunch was over.

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If only Lucas had known that the girl he was looking for was currently eating his lunch voraciously in the rooftop room above Rosie's house.