The Girl, The Knight, and The Sleeping Princess

At Liam's House

"What's happening? It's so odd!" She muttered.

Giant cumulonimbus drifted in the sky, lightning flashed. Looked like there's going to be a storm. The weather was really strange in the middle of May, which should have entered the dry season. The wind blowed hard playing with Troya's long black hair. Her body shivered a little, so this girl started to zip up her jacket. There's no time to relax, she didn't know how much longer it would rain. But before that happened, it would be best if she's already under the warm shade of Liam's house. Troya thought, maybe if the rain was still falling until this afternoon, she would call uncle Dasep, her family driver, to pick her up. There's no way for her to ride the bike home under the heavy rain and storm.

A few minutes later, Troya finally arrived in front of a black iron fence that the paint had peeled of a little. Troya reached into her jacket pocket and took out the keys that Liam had previously given to her at school. While Liam had to wait for Mayang until she finished her club. 

Usually after school, Mayang does something before going home, such as basketball club meetings, copying notes belonging to her classmates, etcetera. Although Mayang is not good academically, she is smart enough to approach one of the smartest students in her class. Like what she did when she was in the same class with Troya and Liam at tenth grade.

After unlocking the fence, Troya parked her bicycle under a mango tree that's - maybe - older than she was. A few seconds later she's already inside the house. 

Lightning thundered deafening the ears. The sound of it still sounded quite loud and frightening even though she's already inside the house. Troya sat down on the guest chair. 

The living room of Liam's house is quite spacious. After his grandmother died, Liam made it smaller by sliding the divider one meter away, enlarging the room next to it. In fact, a house this big is too large for one person to live in. But Liam didn't want to move out from the house even though Mrs. Liliana promised to buy him a smaller apartment. For Liam, who loves computers and science, a house this big and quiet is a paradise for him, so that he could put anything he wants to anywhere freely.

The family room looked very normal, but not the room next to it which was actually only limited by a super large cupboard. The cupboard itself was a bookshelf which of course was filled with various kinds of books. The family room had become a private library. The back of the cupboard facing the living room was painted white and decorated with paintings, so it looked like an ordinary partition wall. 

Troya walked into the kitchen to get a drink from the fridge. Thank goodness, she found a snack. Liam was no different from boys in general, lazy to shop at the supermarket. Therefore, Troya and Mayang have the initiative to take turns filling it. This week was Mayang's turn. And because Mayang loves to cook, usually delicious cakes are available in the fridge. 

Troya opened the fridge. In there she would find a cheese cake that still looked intact and had not been touched at all. It's already Wednesday, so it had been three days in there. Troya took a small plate and cut the cake for herself. The fridge still looked very full. Only two eggs were reduced, while tofu, tempeh, and fruits didn't seem to be touched at all. But when Troya saw the top cupboard where the instant noodles were placed, they had decreased considerably. Boys! 

While enjoying a cheese cake, Troya walked around the house for an inspection. Everything did look neat until Troya entered Liam's bedroom and found dirty clothes in almost the entire room. The bed sheet was unkempt as if it had never been made up at all. Troya frowned in disgust. Spontaneously she almost grabbed the dirty shirt to put it in the washing machine. But then she remembered Mayang. Ah, let the girl played the role as a good housewife, but not with her.

Troya also canceled his intention and immediately closed the door to Liam's room. She shivered a little when she remembered the conditions in the room. Luckily there were no dirty dishes in the kitchen. Ah, she forgot, maybe because Liam only cooked instant noodles so there were no dirty dishes. Or maybe the boy only went out every time he wanted to eat. Well, none of it was her business either. It wasn't her hidden talent to be as caring as a mothers. 

And when Troya finally arriveed in front of a room with a sign that read “Don't enter”, somehow it made her wanted to kick in. But damn the door was locked. Out of curiosity, Troy knocked on the door, pushed it with her hands, pushed it with her feet, kicked it with her feet, until she crashed herself into the door. But of course the door did not budge at all.

Luckily Troya's memory was quite strong. She drew a map in her thought, the plan of this house. So that she could easily have the conclusion that this room has a window facing the front yard, right next to the living room. The room that used to be the room of his grandparents. 

Troya immediately walked out of the house. The sky was still very cloudy with the sound of thunder and lightning, completed by strong winds. 

Why the hell it doesn't just rain right away? But, if it does, I will definitely have a hard time sneaking into the room that has made me super curious. She cursed the weather.

The house was an old house with large windows. Unfortunately, the window were locked from the inside (of course). Troya peeked inside and saw rows of large monitors, an amplifier, and of course the CPU. 

Hmm, this must be Liam's secret room. Surely this young man often watched indecent films in this room, surrounded by such a large monitor screen in order to obtain maximum satisfaction. Troya grinned widely.

(Okay, Troya, you have to stop your false prejudice about your friend.) 

The window pane was quite wide, it seemed like her body would fit in through it. Troya searched under her feet and finally found what she needed, a rock. 

So without thinking, She grabbed the stone and broke the window. The window was broken at the same time with super strong lightning which could make the heart beat very fast and the ears buzzed for a few moments. Suddenly, she heaed the voices of several people muttering a series of long sentences that she could not understand.

Troya stood still to hear more clearly. But the murmuring was swept away by the sound of the wind. After hearing nothing, she immediately cleaned the broken glass with a wooden stick she found not far from there. Then, she sneaked in. 

It turned out that the air conditioner there was not turned off by Liam, even at the lowest degree. So with cloudy weather like this, it became super duper cold. 

Troya shook her both hands together to become warm. After that, she walked over to the table where there are three large 32-inch monitors, and one standard-sized screen. 

While she satisfied her curiosity, Liam and Mayang had just arrived in front of the house's fence. Liam opened the fence and parked his motorbike right next to Troya's bike. But suddenly Mayang pulled his shirt and pointed out to the broken window. Liam's very surprised and immediately ran to the edge of the window to find out what just happened.

He couldn't see clearly because the room was a little dark, but there's definitely someone in there. Liam got worried and ran into the house. He couldn't possibly get in there through the window, his body was too big. Therefore he would go straight in through the door - which was normal - and immediately caught the intruder. 

In the room, Troya found that Liam's computer was on standby. She touched any button and the computer screen immediately turned on. The four monitors put on a wallpaper depicting the silhouette of a woman's side face, entitled "The Princess". 

Troya's eyebrows furrowed for a moment. "I never thought that Liam was such pervert." 

And without thinking, after the words LOADING disappeared from the screen, Troya pressed the next button on the small screen. When the screen returned to the word LOADING, the door bursted open and Liam entered with a face so furious.[]