(May) I Fall in Love

A Secret

The odd semester exam will be held at the end of November. This makes all students take extra lesson hours and set aside all their excursion activities. There are those who take additional tutoring schedules and there are also those who choose to form study groups consisting of several students.

Every corner of the school is used to gather to discuss subjects they do not understand. Even the material that they have mastered just to repeat the material.

Classrooms, school parks, libraries, excursion rooms and even canteens are where students discuss all learning materials.

For students at the International school, the semester exam is a place of self-evidence to be the best among students among the elite. Because they not only risked their personal names, but they also risked the good name of their families.

“Rhea where?” niko asked when she saw Bella entering the broadcast room alone. On that day Niko and her friends had made an appointment to study the group at the venue.

Bella simply flicked her shoulders, reluctant to answer. Although she knows where Rhea is, Bella does not want to bother answering. As usual when he says where Rhea is, then Niko or Gian will come to approach his best friend. Rhea was sure

refusing to join them.

Since the school cafeteria accident some time ago, where Rhea humiliated Haura to make Nevan so angry with her, Rhea seemed to close herself. The beautiful teenage girl clearly made the distance between herself and her best friends. Not just Nevan but everyone. Rhea also moved away from Bella.

If usually where Bella is there Rhea is also there and vice versa. But lately Rhea prefers to be alone and also does not talk much. That lovely teenager has changed a lot. No more arrogant and spicy words come out of his speech.

Rhea's distant attitude changed, of course, attracting the attention of all her best friends. They were all so curious as to what made Rhea behave as coldly as she was now.

“Bel, Actually Rhea why?” Bella again got a question from Gian about the attitude of Rhea lately.

“I feel I've answered dozens or even hundreds of times if I don't know why Rhea changed like now. Why are you still asking me.”

Bella looks so upset at Niko and Gian that every day never absent asks about Rhea to her. Not because he did not like it, but he only felt annoyed and sad because until now he did not know the cause of his best friend who silenced them all and also himself. If asked who the person who felt lost the figure of Rhea, of course, that person was Bella.

“Gue don't know why Rhea changed,” said Bella with a vibrating voice holding back tears. He could not cover up his sadness because he felt he lost the figure of Rhea who was always with him everywhere and everywhere.

“So you guys stopped asking me about Rhea. The more you ask, the more I feel like I failed to be Rhea's best friend because I have absolutely no idea what problems Rhea is experiencing to make Rhea change as now.”

Niko, Gian and Nevan speak a thousand languages. Niko and Gian feel guilty for Bella as well as Rhea. Although they have been friends since a dozen years ago, but the two of them are even very incomparable to the feelings of Bella and Rhea.

“We're sorry, Bel. Sorry for not being sensitive to your feelings and also Rhea,” said Niko sincerely.

Gian patted Bella on the shoulder, trying to calm her best friend who was still crying because of her and Niko.

Nevan still chooses silence. Stare at Bella who was wiping away the tears that began to fall on her cheeks. Nevan is well aware that losing someone who shares stories with us every day is the saddest thing.

“Lo where to go?” niko asked Nevan who had just stepped up from her seat.

“Gue no important affairs.” Nevan immediately left the place without telling her what important matters she meant.

After leaving the room, Nevan went somewhere. His steps continued to swing around the entire school. Also his sense of sight shimmered to every corner scanning every place he passed by. No place escaped his sight.

Now Nevan's footsteps enter a room that many students avoid the most. Only a few certain students were happily entering the place. For other students who in fact are lazy to learn must be very avoiding the place. The room is nothing but a school library.

Slender. That was the first impression Nevan felt when she first set foot in the room. Only

there were some students sitting quietly with a book in front of them. They read in silence. There really is no sound at all.

Nevan continues down every hallway of the library where there are many books with various titles neatly arranged on shelves that rise quite high. Nevan even thought how to take the book that was on the top shelf, it would be difficult. Ah, but what does it matter. The purpose of going to the library is not to find out, but to find someone.

After tracing several passages containing lines of books, Nevan netra caught someone who had been in his car since standing leaning his body on one of the bookshelves with his eyes closed, his hand held a book and a pair of earphones were attached to the person's ear. In one look, anyone knows that the person came to the library not to read but to get away from the crowd.

“Rhea,” call Nevan. Yeah, Nevan's been looking for Rhea in every corner of the school.

Feeling her name being called by a voice that was very familiar to her made Rhea immediately open her eyes and look for the source of the voice. Soon the netra of the beautiful teenage girl found the figure of the person who called her name. Nevan, was walking hastily towards him.

Seeing Nevan approaching him, Rhea immediately moved to leave the place. Avoiding Nevan, that's the goal.

But unfortunately, just now Rhea was about to step, her hand was first checked by Nevan.

“Gue wants to talk to you,” said Nevan full of intimidation sign do not want to get a rejection.

Rhea is not the name if you want to follow the will of others, even though the person is Nevan. Rhea tries to release Nevan's hand on her hand without looking directly at Nevan.

“Rhe, why? We need to talk. Do not be widest to avoid like this.” Nevan said again after his first words did not get a response from Rhea.

“Please my hand,” Rhea's word is no less cold than Nevan's.

Now the two teenagers are fighting with each other and still with their own egos. But there was something that Nevan caught from Rhea's eyes, there was a sadness there.

“Rhe, please. I'm...”

“Nothing we need to talk about.” Uncompleted Nevan spoke, Rhea immediately interrupted Nevan's remark.

“Please my hand. And don't act like you care about me,” continued Rhea again.

Not wanting to show his weak side before Nevan, Rhea immediately turned around and rubbed her tears rough.

“Gue does not want to be involved in anything else you. Now also you release my hand,” pinta Rhea without looking at Nevan.

Netra Nevan was still staring fixedly at Rhea who was reluctant to face him. "Gue knew all this was my fault. That's why we need to talk. I don't want us to misunderstand like this. And I also don't want you to shy away from me and the others."

"It's not you who asked me to stay away from your life." Rhea looked back at Nevan with tears welling up in both of her beautiful senses. "Don't you care about me since you had Haura?" Rhea's last words were accompanied by tears that re-wetted her beautiful face.

A split second later, Nevan unexpectedly brought Rhea's body into his arms. And without excuse, Rhea's tears broke in Nevan's arms. Rhea did not even care that they were currently in the library.

Meanwhile Nevan further tightens her embrace of Rhea. “Sorry.” Nevan muttered. The handsome teenager knew that the cause of Rhea to shy away from him and also his other friends was because of him.

“You are evil, Van,” said Rhea on the sidelines of her cries.

For a moment Nevan fell silent and let Rhea cry in her arms. Letting the beautiful girl let go of all the sadness she had been so long.

“Gue love you and I also love Haura. I just don't want to hurt Haura. You're both my best friends." Nevan gently rubbed the top of Rhea's head. Give peace to his friend.

"The Rhea I know isn't a bad girl." Nevan paused his words. Waving her embrace on Rhea's body because she felt that her beautiful friend had calmed down a little. Although still with a little bit of a headache occasionally.

Nevan held onto both of Rhea's shoulders and stared fixedly at the girl's face that looked swollen from having just cried. "The Rhea I know is a little arrogant, but she's not a bad girl. Especially to hurt someone else."

"But why are you being so cold to me? While you are very considerate of Haura. Your attitude is very different when you're the same as me compared to when you're with Haura." The real figure of Rhea is like that. Always wanted to be noticed and spoiled.

Nevan just smiled at Rhea's words. Her best friend always wanted to be first in anything. Nevan knows that.

"Lo know Van, I love you," continued Rhea again. The beautiful teenage girl looked at Nevan who was standing opposite to her.

Nevan was silent for a moment because of Rhea's words. This was Rhea's declaration of love the umpteenth time for her.

Nevan was heard breathing a long breath. "Lo know Rhe, why do I treat lo and Haura differently?" there's a pause there. While Rhea seems to give more attention to every word Nevan.

"Why don't I be cold to Haura, because Haura never loved me. Haura just thinks I'm her best friend. That's what makes me able to behave as I am to Haura. While lo...." Nevan did not continue his words. Scrutinizing Rhea's face that looked increasingly sad.

"Rhea, I can't repay your love. Sorry."

Nevan's speech again presents a puddle of tears in Rhea's eye pouches.

"Gue love you can only be friends. Just like I love Haura. I can't love you. And I hope you can forget your love for me. You deserve someone better than me."

Nevan realizes that her words are making Rhea even more hurt. But Nevan has to do that so as not to hurt Rhea further. Because whenever Nevan will never be able to love Rhea. Not because Rhea wasn't a good girl, but there was someone Nevan loved until now. A girl who still controls her heart perfectly.

"Stay be my friend. My most beautiful friend" Nevan asked sincerely and brought Rhea's body back into his arms.

For a while, Rhea seemed to be drifting in Nevan's arms. A hug from the man she loved for a long time. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt Haura. I'm just jealous. Is that wrong?" rhea said honestly.

"Lo is not wrong. Haura was not wrong either. It's all my fault."

Nevan looked back at Rhea's face. "Gue hope you come back again to be the old Rhea. Rhea is beautiful and annoying. It's not Rhea who's evil and hurts other people. Hmmm.."

Rhea nodded slowly. Smiling with his face still.

"If Haura is in love with you?" an unexpected question slides from Rhea's oral. The beautiful teenage girl took Nevan's embrace off her. Looking into the eyes of the interlocutor, "If Haura loves you, what will you do? Will you also make Haura cry like me?" ask Rhea again.

Silent for a moment. An unexpected question from Rhea froze the handsome teenager's speech. Nevan's eyes looked forward. Just a blank look at the neatly arranged rows of books on the bookshelves that were there.

"Haura wouldn't love me." Only that word is capable of Nevan as a answer to Rhea's question.

"Is Alesha's name still here?" rhea asked again and the girl's index finger pointed right at Nevan's chest.

"Hmmmm.." a mutter that answered everything. Nevan still loves a girl who is currently out of nowhere. Alesha's. Nevan's first love.

Rhea smiled pias. He realizes that there is no chance at all to get Nevan's love. The two girls present in Nevan's life, Alesha and Haura make him have to be satisfied enough to only be the best friend of his first love.

Alesha is the girl Nevan loved so much for a few years. And Haura, the simple girl who knows when to take Nevan's world. Although Nevan is unaware that Haura has mastered her heart. For Rhea, Haura has a special place in Nevan's heart. A place beyond just friends.

Without Nevan and Rhea in two different places since then there are two pairs of ears that hear their conversation. Haura and Gian.

Haura who was behind the bookshelf next to Nevan and Rhea could hear all the talk of the two teenagers. There was a sense of sadness and guilt that Haura felt at the same time.

Sad because all Nevan's attention to him is only the attention of friends. Although Haura was aware that expecting Nevan to love her was like a proverb Like a Hump Missing the Moon. Something impossible. Now Haura realized that Cinderella only exists in the fairy tale world. It will never be real. It seems like Haura quite keeps her love as a secret for herself alone. Secrets that will be well guarded and do not want to be revealed. Forever.

On the other hand Haura also felt guilty towards Rhea. Because his presence in Nevan's life makes the friendship between Nevan and Rhea becomes tenuous. And because he was also Rhea felt lost the figure of Nevan to make the beautiful girl really sad. One new thing Haura knows, the arrogant figure of Rhea turns out to be just a shield to hide her fragility. Rhea, a beautiful girl who also has a soft heart and easily cries.

Not far from where Nevan and Rhea were, Gian who was looking for the whereabouts of Rhea witnessed and heard all the talks of his two friends. I don't know why her heart ached so much to see Rhea cry. I want Gian to hold Rhea's body in his arms. Calms the beautiful girl from her heartbreak to the umpteenth time because of her unrequited love for Nevan. But all of that is impossible. Gian was only able to keep an eye on Rhea from afar.