7 Days of Time

Episode 8 Three June 30, 1998 Welcome to Fashion '88 (part 3)

Lunna. Diana's? Diana's? that's Mommy's name. Wait, wait.it's impossible! Lunna looked at the girl's face from her stool. *Oh, no! It really is Mami. Holy hooch!

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The girl named Diana looked at the motorcyclist and said, "Well," she said. "Let's go back to college pick me up again, yeah." Diana smiled and blinked her eyes.

The motorcyclist got back on his bike and left. Diana and her friends walked into the campus. A man passed in front of them, and Diana whistled loudly in a cry, "Hi, man!"

Lunna was shocked. Oh, geez! Mami kok really centil. Two years ago, when Lunna secretly wore cosmetics, Mami was furious. Now, it turns out that Mami even uses excessive cosmetics. It was really far from the image of Mami he knew.

Diana and her female friends were sitting not far from the bench that Lunna occupied. Until then, Lunna still could not overcome her shock. She looked at Mami with disbelief.

Suddenly Diana's eyes met Lunna's. Lunna tried to smile, but Diana laughed out loud. He said to his friends, "Yes, my goodness! The girl in front of us has strange clothing tastes. It really doesn't fit."

Being ridiculed like that, Lunna pouted in annoyance. Not not before now. Mami's comments about the way I dress remain unchanged. I had to get close to her and make Mami believe me.

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Ferry never got tired of looking at Diana. She had loved Diana since Elementary, and that feeling never changed. Today seeing Diana flocking with another man, her heart was a little jealous. However, he could do nothing because whenever he was near his shrine, he could not speak. Diana was wearing a new dress today. Ferry admitted that Diana was beautiful wearing any outfit.

The sound of a falling iron crossbar blew Ferry's gaze from Diana. Ferry saw a girl sitting right below him. He immediately ran towards the girl and hit her. He pulled the girl's hand to avoid being hit by an iron cross.

Lunna was just about to approach Mami, when someone bumped into her and pulled her hand down. Lunna saw an iron bar fall on the bench she was sitting on.

"You okay?" ask the young man who hit him.

Lunna swallowed her saliva and nodded. "Thank you" said Lunna. His gaze was fixed on the young man who had saved him. He was wearing jeans and a shirt rolled up to his elbow.

Diana walked towards them. "Hi, Ferry."

Ferry? lunna said in her heart. That means, this young man ... Papi's?

Lunna now looked at the young man closely. It's true, Papi.

Papi helps Lunna stand up. Papi's face bowed in shame, then replied with a stammer, "Ehmm... Hey.lo, In...At...Diana." - Diana."

Diana smiled sweetly. "You're really good at saving her."

Hearing Diana's praise, Ferry's face turned red. "Te. te. thank you, Diana."

"I went to class first" said Diana. "See you."

Ferry smiled nervously. "See you."

Lunna looked at Papi with half annoyance. Papi, how shy is that? Isn't Papi the best at arguing in court? Speaking of which, Mami's just like that?

"I'm glad you're okay" Ferry told Lunna. "I'm sorry, I have to go to college."

"Hey, wait! Papi!" shout Lunna. Papi had already run towards his lecture hall.

Lunna walked back to the bike park.

Lunna's stomach was rumbling again. He remembered Elios. God, I almost forgot, I'm gonna have to pick her up.

Lunna rushes on her bicycle, and goes to the place of les Elios.

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Elios had just exited the front door, as Lunna's bike entered the area where the tutoring was. The commute back and forth from the tutoring place to the campus and vice versa made Lunna exhausted.

"Elios," he said, panting. "We'll eat first, yuk!"

Elios looked at Lunna suspiciously. "Where are you going anyway?"

"I'll tell you after eating" said Lunna.

They ate meatball noodles at a stall near the restaurant.Lunna was surprised to learn how cheap the food was in 1988. Two bowls of meatball noodles is only five hundred rupiahs.

"It's really cheap" Lunna said. "In my time, Elios, five hundred wasn't enough to buy a bowl of meatball noodles. It's cheap, how about I add one more bowl!"

Elios only sighed at Lunna's gluttony.

After eating the meatball noodles, Lunna took Elios through her house.

"Where are we going?" ask Elios. "The way home isn't through here."

"I know," said Lunna. "I want to show you something."

They arrived in front of a house. Elios looked at Lunna full of question marks? Lunna's index finger pointed at the house. "You see that house with the green gate?" tanyakanya. "That's my home, my home in the future."

"If it's your house, why don't you just go home?" ask Elios.

"I, I told you," Grumbled Lunna. "That's my home in the future. At this time, no one knows me. The last time I was there, I was thought to have been driven by my grandfather. I think it's grandpa. Grandpa tried to chase me with a ball-puncher. You don't believe it, do you?"

Elios shakes. "I guess brother just made it up."

Lunna took a breath, "You know the new building that's about to open on that highway?"

"Albatross Building?" ask Elios.

Lunna nodded. "I think I'm here this year because of the painting inside that building. I find it hard to believe it myself. In the future while I was in the building, I saw a strange painting and approached it. It was written that the painting could grant a request. I unconsciously expressed my wish. I was there, the painting hasn't been installed. I'm sure the painting will be installed on July 6, the opening day of the building. That means I'll be home in six days."

The sound of a motorcycle approaching the house. Lunna smiled.

"You see that motorcyclist?" he said to Elios. "That's my dad. I just met him at college. I met my mother too. They are not what I expected, but I really miss them. Today Papi saved me. I was almost hit by an iron cross. I guess wherever I am, Papi's always protecting me. Let's go home!"

Lunna looked at her house once more, then pedaled her bicycle. Behind him, Elios watches the house and the motorcyclist who is entering the house. Elios did not know whether what Lunna said was true or not. However, Lunna's expression was really convincing..

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