Late to CCTV Room

"Travel to Bogor,"

"Yes, continue!"

"I don't mean to rhyme, idiot."

Reza looked at Mario with annoyance, the male voice seemed to want him to be a rhyme. But when he answered, he even spoke like that, it was annoying.

Mario smirked, he put his hands in his pants pockets while raising and lowering his eyebrows. "If you pay attention to me, my style never fails," he said as he assessed himself when in front of him was a mirror reflecting his whole body there.

Hearing that, Reza rolled his eyes. "No one cares about that. You want to be cute, cool, or whatever it's no one notices you. After all, we all have the same clothes and school uniforms. You just added a hoodie as an outer, what's so special about it?" he answered with a look assessing Mario from top to bottom, then finally looked at his friend's face again.

"Huh, just say you're jealous, have a grudge against me because I'm more handsome and superior than you? Isn't that right, Za?"

"Excuse me? sorry, if we compare, it's obvious I still won over you."

They were in the school toilet, waiting for El who said he wanted to change clothes because his uniform was dirty from fighting with Bian. Yeah, let's just say their plans were a bit delayed by a few minutes.

Mario looked at Reza fiercely, like someone who wants to pounce on his enemy. "You won over me just because you have a girl you're after, different from me, but I'm looking for my best girl for you to envy me," he said in a voice full of pride.

Attracting the hearts of various types of girls, that's Mario's ability. There is no denying that this man is the king of captivating girls' hearts.

"Take out all the mistresses you have, I'm still fighting for what I think is worth fighting for. What if you make one of them your girlfriend? even though your intention is only to compete with me tsk tsk."

"Sounds annoying what you're saying, Reza. If you're always annoying like this, it's better later at El's house, we have a ludo match. The loser, in one week, must have a partner, agree?"

After saying that…

"Ouch, it hurts!" Mario screeched.

Unexpectedly, El pulled Mario's ear tightly but not with much force --according to him--. Making his best friend groan in pain, even though his hand is no longer on the man's ear.

"Don't be the trigger so that Reza makes Alvira a bet," said El with a straight face.

Reza just smiled while giving a mocking look that was visible on the surface of his face, watching Mario who was stuttering, luckily he didn't say anything.

"Gosh, I swear, I was just kidding, El. How could Alvira be the victim of our bet," said Mario? Yes, indeed there is no direction of the discussion, after all, he only said 'in one week must have a partner'. Ah yes, surely Reza will immediately bring Alvira as redemption if he loses.

El snorted, then adjusted the straps of his backpack. "Come on," he said as he walked ahead, leaving Reza and Mario, who seemed somehow busy in the mirror, taking a few seconds to finally catch up with him and now walking hand in hand.

The three of them started down the corridor that would lead them to the CCTV room. They walked confidently, the reason being that no students were allowed to set foot there. But wait, this is an exception because El is the grandson of the school owner, in the sense that he can do anything including the CCTV room which is usually 'employee only'.

"Who went in there? The three of us?" Reza asked when his steps stopped in front of the elegant white door in front of him, he looked at Mario and El asking for an answer to his question.

Mario looked back at Reza, then cleared his throat. "Yeah, yeah, the four of us? Just the three of us, sounds horrible," he replied with a small chuckle, all of them answered jokingly, yes it seems it depends on the situation and conditions.

"Yeah, that's not what I meant, idiot," Reza said while rolling his eyes. "I think El is the only one who came inside, we'll take care of it upfront." he continued while looking at El, the boy was the only answer he had.

El shook his head. "You two come in too," he replied. "You guys are noisy." he continued, what is certain is that the merger of Reza and Mario is true in carrying out the mission, but their mouths also speak nonsense.

Mario nodded his head, agreeing with what El said. "El's right, it's better if we go in together," he said while looking at Reza. "After that, you keep asking me to talk, it will be noisy." he continued, blaming his other friend.

Reza could only sigh in resignation, Mario was already used to blaming him. Though, if you remember, all the time, Mario was the source of their conversation, right?

"It's up to you, just follow the same one."

Finally, El went first. Unlocked? For some reason, one eyebrow rose, and was somewhat surprised by this. Because usually this CCTV room is always locked, both during school hours and outside school hours such as when going home.

"Why isn't it locked?" he muttered.

Reza and Mario were silent, they both also felt that something was odd. For some reason, they felt they were missing something.

"Could anyone be here?" asked Reza who always connects reality with guessing according to his way of thinking which always makes sense.

El is getting more and more restless, how can someone else get in here and breach the security? Nothing like this has happened since the Nusa incident.

Those who were already inside, immediately saw a large screen showing the entire corner of the school with CCTV.

"That's very strange, how come the CCTV corridor that leads here is dead?" said Mario so attentively.

El found it increasingly clear that they were too late and had lost badly to someone who might have gotten in here first.

"Let's go first," he said breathlessly.

For some reason, footsteps seemed to follow him. Whether it's purely on purpose from someone who already has a plan that is 100% likely to take CCTV files, or indeed someone else accidentally like a school security officer.

Reza nodded his head. "It must be someone not far from here, let's go find it quickly. Check everyone, but ask permission first," he said excitedly.

Of course, they were excited, but they didn't have much time. And it's also possible that the person who took the file is not far from here.

Finally, one by one they came out of the CCTV room and ran in one direction in hopes of chasing the suspect.

All of this was a difficult mystery because the opponent was a quick-thinking person.

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