ALPENIA (The Cruel Small Town)

Exams

A sunny morning in the city implies to be excited. Contrary to the mood of most students attending Alpine High School, which contains a series of materials that roll like a tangled thread.

There's no other way! For the exam this time, it's time to use the mainstay style that is often used. First, do not forget to pray. And second, let the luck of the perfunctory answer, or of the result of rolling a dice made from a rubber eraser determine the result later.

In contrast to Naya, who has studied very hard in between the busyness of her world. He does the available problems casually, trying not to make the slightest mistake. Although his mind is in turmoil with yesterday's problems, he does not want to create new problems by jeopardizing his status at this school as a scholarship recipient who will be revoked if his grades decline.

With thirty minutes remaining, Naya gathered her test results, after reading them a second time, and was already steady with her answer. Hopefully the results will not disappoint.

The girl went out of class and waited on a long wooden bench in the school garden. He took a break while reading the material that will be tested in the next hour.

"If the sun shines this morning, it is inversely proportional to my heart which is now extinguished and withered."

The dramatic loud voice of the young man behind her caused Naya to be distracted. He turned to Faisal, the young man who made a mess.

"It turns out, because you who filled in it are sad, my angel," Faisal continued, sitting without asking Naya for permission.

"What the hell?"

"What is what? I read the poem on Instagram." The young man showed the phone screen in his hand right in front of Naya's face.

Naya gulped, she was too geeer just now. He thought, Faisal wants to overhaul her again, "the poem is not clear!" he tried to hide his shame.

Faisal let out a faint laugh, "hehe, yes too. It's a poetic pretentious account but it can't make a true, ugly post all. The Work Scaffold!" He cursed the author of the post he had just read.

"Eh, you don't do that, he's trying his best. Can you not be poetical?" sergeant Naya disagrees with Faisal. However, he realized that he had just made the mistake of talking to Faisal. If it had been given bait, Faisal would have continued to speak. Moreover, Faisal jagasnya membombal, even not infrequently use poetic words.

"could. Nih ya-," Faisal was about to speak but was stopped by Naya who did not want to hear the young man babble.

"Udah. Don't have. Entar of entanglement," ketus Naya. "And, why are you sitting here?"

"You said you want to deketin lo, afraid of anger. So, I'd say, this is a school facility, not your own," said Faisal, who always makes Naya upset herself.

Naya rolled her eyeballs. True to his guess, Faisal must always be ready to issue his deadly seduction. He tried to ignore it, and chose to refocus on his book.

"Hi Nay!" Sapa Annisa who just finished her exam.

Hearing Annisa's voice, Naya's mood was getting messy. If only Faisal was bothering him, he wouldn't mind. But Annisa, it seems like it's something else she can't accept. He left without saying anything to the two who were watching him.

Faisal began to look at Annisa not understanding. Then the girl he was looking at went from nearby with a gloomy face.

Finally, Faisal confused himself.

Naya headed somewhere else, the canteen became her destination. He tried to drown himself in the crowd, there was even Renaldi who was teasing Intan incessantly, after being rejected outright by the rich girl hundreds of times.

Naya's hope has not been granted, it still feels the same, her heart still feels sore to see the two of them making out. Especially this time, when he was sad.

"Hey," Iswanti greeted as she sat before Naya by dropping a stack of books on the table.

Naya returned the greeting of her friend with a bland smile.

"See. I've minjem this all from the bus just now. These books smell of fantasy or mystery. Although most are just novels or other fictional stories," explained Iswanti without making small talk.

"Gue know, you're curious about what happened to us in the woods and trying to find a bright spot. But, you sure you can read this many books?" naya asked the pessimist, moreover they were all being preoccupied by the midterms.

"Gue likes to read. After all, if the thing we are looking for is not in one of these books, it is still good enough, as much as I can get entertainment," replied Iswanti casually. Often he seeks wisdom or lessons that can be taken from everything.

"Not wrong?" the voice of the young man who happened to pass in front of their table, immediately took a sitting position next to Iswanti. He scrambled the book, guiltlessly making the book fall apart.

"Okay, Salman! What the hell? How's it even being ruffled?" iswanti's protests are upset.

"Hmmm... Could be. I really like all kinds of reading" Iswanti explained.

"No, if you want other references, in my house there are also many books of this kind," continued Salman while hitting the books that have been cleared it.

"really? Want dong!" replied Iswanti excited, making Naya who noticed more astonished.

"This is a lot. Seriously want to add more?" sergeant Naya counted the number of books that Iswanti had borrowed from the library. There are ten books with different titles.

"hey are. As much as possible!"

"OKAY. I'll bring the book tomorrow, yeah!" Salman concluded.

***

The exam for today is over. All the students scattered out the gate with a feeling of relief not relieved. Relieved for making it through today even though by answering the question only rely on from a sudden whisper in the head, and not relieved to think about the dizziness of the test that will still be faced tomorrow.

With a slow step, Naya was surprised by the arrival of a man she hated so much. Annisa's father seems ready to pick up the child near the school gate.

"The spoiled child has already been picked up," Naya told Annisa, whom she had neglected despite walking side by side. He sped up the steps, leaving the girl pecking and gulping.

Annisa suddenly becomes the center of attention, when her father comes to approach her. How not, the father who had been famous with a corrupt title in this school, now came casually to enter the gate. Even though he was declared innocent, but the students of this school are not stupid. They assume Aji has bought and cheated justice with money.

Annisa looked around at the people looking down on her. He felt, as if he were the guilty one here.

The father, who was trying to grab her hand, lost his chance after Annisa quickly ran out of the gate. The girl was not strong with a look of disdain and contempt that she could clearly hear in her ears.

He even hit Naya, making the situation even more hostile.

However, this time Naya was able to hold her back. Her heart could not bear to look at Annisa with teary eyes.

"Am I wrong? Did I have my attitude yesterday?" naya asked herself when she saw Annisa running away.

"Come, Nay!"

Naya's daydream came to a halt in surprise with a heavy sound and claps on her shoulders from behind.

The girl clenched her head and raised her hand, about to hit the young man who often irritated her right in the face, but did not. It would be too barbaric if he did so.

"Where to?" sahut Naya was upset as she stepped forward.

"Come home" Faisal replied.

Naya rolled her eyes, "what the hell, our house doesn't line up. Besides, where's your bike?"

"Gue lives in the parking lot. That night, you yourself who do not want to be as dirty as me, must keep your distance," Faisal explained.

"Lo bego what, anyway? If you nganterin me, later you have to come back here again to take the bike, is it not cape? I'm tired, wasting time. After all, it wasn't midnight like that, '" Naya grumbled.

"Gue didn't waste time. I try to make my time more valuable. I'm not tired, later run out nganterin lo, I'll run here to take a motorcycle, quite counting sports. In addition to determination, it takes great physical strength to get lo!" Kekeh Faisal by launching an action using his flagship weapon.

There was something strange about Naya on this occasion. Faisal's words just now did not make him nauseous at all as usual. In fact, he felt ambiguous.

One side Naya thought, why is it that often he is rude to the young man who clearly wants it so badly?

On the other hand, the girl thought of her feelings that seemed impossible to anchor to Faisal, as Renaldi had always been his number one.

And let's not think he forgot that Faisal was the son of one of the people who made his family fall.