Artificial Love's
Love Songs
Today feels so long. During the lesson hours, Hanna could not concentrate at all because, first, her stomach was rumbling because she did not eat breakfast in order to avoid Yuan, and secondly, her stomach was rumbling because she did not eat breakfast, he was busy thinking about all the events that felt so complex and there was no way out. What was clear now was that he could conclude that *love potion* was real. Its efficacy worked according to the words of the strange woman at the festival of that time. He placed the guava juice mixed with *love potion* it on Orion's table during sports hours, and the one who drank it was Yuan. That's why Yuan showed up at his house with a bouquet of flowers this morning. He concluded the solution to this problem was to figure out how he could eliminate the effects of the *love potion* he had purchased.
Hanna bit her finger and turned to the side. Beside him Mina was trying to resist drowsiness listening to the teacher's explanation in front. Mina never liked the lessons related to numbers. But he really likes language lessons. Hanna nudged her arm slowly and whispered, “Mina, you have a contact of the next school festival committee that we came to not?”
Mina covered her mouth as she yawned before turning to Hanna. He raised his eyebrows, looking at his countryman suspiciously like a detective gazes at a criminal. “Ngapain lo nanya about it? Kaya lo is not interested at all about the festival,” whispered Mina.
Hanna's spinning brains. He's not interested at all. *Who cares about the festival too*. But he should be able to give a clear reason to Mina. “Iya is not, but yesterday I ate at one of their *stand*, my stuff missed. I want to find out if the item is important,” reply Hanna.
Mina was silent for a moment while squinting her eyes at Hanna. He was still staring at the suspicious fellow, before he finally sighed, giving in. “There is, ntar I chat to lo number.”
“Hanna, Mina, why can't you guys stay quiet? Want me to get out of class?”
Hanna and Mina flinched at the words of the teacher from the front of the class. They immediately fixed their sitting position and folded their hands on the table, refocusing on the lesson that felt from earlier not also finished\-completed.
“Bu, my advice anyway do not exit Hanna from class bu. Hanna also needs to learn ma'am so she can.”
All eyes, without exception, turned to the corner of the classroom. There Yuan was grinning wide with his right hand raised into the air—a good habit that students do before speaking in class. Everyone whispered\-whispers rowdy hearing Yuan's words. Even the teacher blinked in disbelief at Yuan's words. Even for teachers, Yuan was a clumsy student and rarely spoke until the moment he opened his mouth without being told was an exclusive sight.
“Wah, what's the child? What I want to leave is the same as me. How does he care about it the same way? This morning he walked that way too, right? Don't\-don't you put a balloon on your desk too him?” tanya Mina bertubi\-tubi, utilizing the rowdy class situation to ask as freely as\-free as Hanna.
Hanna just grimaced and faced the front of the class, pretending\unconscious of the commotion in the class caused by Yuan. The teacher calmed the class and continued the lesson.
*I swear to keep this up, I could die suddenly*.
Hanna just wanted to cry. He felt like he had fallen, hit the stairs anyway. The school money's been floating, come the crazy ones anyway.
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That day High School Struggle went home earlier than usual, even before lunchtime. Hanna was sitting at the front bus stop of the school with her eyes glued to the screen. Mina had just sent a contact of a student from the school next door who became one of the organizers at the festival where she bought love potions. Hanna bit her finger for a moment before she started typing messages on the new contacts she got.
"Piang. I'm Hanna from Struggle High School
something about one of the stands
at Harapan Bangsa High School festival a few days
the past. If you can meet directly, it is
it's a little complicated in the chat. Sorry to interrupt the time."
Hanna pressed the send button. He let out a long sigh as he continued to pay attention to the screen of his phone. There, checklis two who had been colored in ash turned blue, then it was seen that the person he sent the message was typing a reply message. Hanna was nervous herself waiting for the person across to reply.
"*Herone. Okay, of course I can. But I
there's activity at school now, so
if you want, you come here
let's have a chat."
"OK, that's fine. If you know where you are? You see, I don't really care about High School
The Hope of the Nation."
"Oh, that. Yaudah at the front gate
how aja? You are far away? I wait at
just go there."
"Well, I'm not far away. Okay, I'm going there now*."
Hanna put her phone in her bag before getting out of her seat at the bus stop. He walked at a fast pace as if he could not wait to ask Doni, the new male\-chat by him, about the strange woman from the school festival of Doni. He must immediately find the woman to unplug the effect of *love potion* from Yuan or lama\-long he will go crazy looking at her behavior.
It didn't take long for Hanna to get in front of the gate of Harapan Bangsa High School, because the school was located right next to her school. Once there, his eyes wandered around staring at people\-people passing by until he found a man\-man in high school uniform who was also clingak\-clinguk looking for someone. As their eyes met, Hanna waved with a smile, as did Doni.
They walked closer to each other and said ‘hai’ which was a bit awkward because they had only met for the first time. “Doni yes?” ask Hanna about\-basics even though she is sure that the man\-man is indeed Doni.
“Iya. You're Hanna who was last\-chat?” doni asked, not much different from the\-basics of Hanna.
After their brief introduction, they sat in a five-foot meatball stall in front of Harapan Bangsa High School. Without further ado\-advice, Hanna also directly brought up the strange woman at the festival where she bought *love potion*.
“Actually I want to ask you about *stand* that was at your school festival a few days ago. The guard *stand*nya is mother\-mother about 40 years. *Stand*nya it nawarin the services of astrologers, psychics, or the like. I want to ask her mother for contact, because I have to do something with her,” explained Hanna.
Doni's face wrinkled to hear Hanna as if\as if he was listening to the person who was chanting. He seemed to think for a while before he replied, “emang not me ya who say about *stand\-stand* that is at the festival, the festival, but as far as I know we don't involve sellers from outside the school environment. So the automatic that keeps *stand\-stand* at that time is only students\-student from our school."
Hanna's feet immediately limp on hearing it. He looked at Doni's face as if forcing Doni to retract his words.
As if he could read Hanna's mind, Doni continued, "but I asked the other one. Any idea they brought a brother.”
Doni's words just now comforted him a little. Not much, because Hanna tends to be pessimistic. Instead of hoping for the young man's words, he was busy thinking about the worst and most absurd possibilities like, "how would I find a ghost??!" or "what if someone deliberately joked me and Yuan was just acting?" or even more absurdly, "how could this really be all a dream?!!" His head began to throb pain, as if it was about to explode right then and there. Imagining Yuan who would continue to chase him like crazy made Hanna want to scream and beat herself up. First, he was already a waste of money, second he was very unlucky, third he got a crazy bonus (read: Yuan).
Hanna smiled at Doni.
Just as Doni was about to get up, a hand landed on their table, making the two look up, at the owner of the hand. “It turns out you're here. I was looking for it from earlier. The road is now yuk,” said Yuan who came out of nowhere with a wide grin. His eyes then moved to look at Doni. He then raised an eyebrow. “Who is he?”
Doni immediately raised both of his hands like a cue of surrender as he got up from the chair. “Nobody. Don't get me wrong, I just want to help him. I just met you today,” replied Doni.
Yuan shrugged his shoulders unconcerned. Doni walks back into the school and Yuan sits in front of Hanna. Hands propping up her chin, she looked at Hanna cross-legged with a big smile. Hanna goosebumps herself looking at the gaze of Yuan who is like the male lead in a Korean drama. Without further ado, he left Yuan, followed by Yuan, who stood up as fast as lightning and followed Hanna.
“So where are you going first? Watching it? Eat?” yuan asked enthusiastically while walking hand in hand with Hanna. Yuan had to stare at the road as he walked but he kept staring at Hanna as if Hanna would disappear if he switched his gaze for a second.
“Gue wants to go home,” replied Hanna Ketus. His mind was upset because of the strange woman who sold the love potion to him. Anyone who saw Hanna's indifferent reaction to Yuan would have wanted to curse and snatch her because of her impression as if Hanna was pretentious. Though his head was completely mummified and he was very not in the mood to deal with Yuan because dealing with Yuan made his brain could not stop spinning trying to think of a solution to his problem.
“Judah. I anterin lo go home,” said Yuan enthusiastically, not at all concerned about the reason ketus Hanna just now. Hanna just went to hell in disbelief.
Hanna just sighed. He was lazy in responding to Yuan at the moment, so he just let the man drive him home. After all he was sure Yuan would be chuckling due to the effects of love potion curse which he somehow foolishly bought from an obscure woman.
They walked to the bus stop and sat side by side. Yuan did not babble anymore but as they sat at the bus stop, Yuan quietly brought his sitting position closer to Hanna. Initially sejengkal. Then two jengkal. Until suddenly the distance between Yuan and Hanna was only a short distance away. Hanna was silent until the bus they were waiting for came.
On the bus, Yuan followed where Hanna was sitting and sat next to her. Hanna stared out the bus window, while Yuan looked at Hanna. “Lo mute yes? 15 Minutes ago and you haven't spoken at all? Forgot that toothbrush this morning?” yuan fishing line finally.
Hanna immediately rebuked Yuan. “Enak. Who forgot their toothbrush?!”
“Oh turns out you can still talk,” Yuan replied with a big smile. “Lo's voice is more melodious than Taylor Swift. By the way dong Han.”
Hanna nodded once more. However he did not answer Yuan this time. He looked away, staring at the scene outside the bus window again.
Yuan himself took out his cell phone and earphones from his bag. He connected his white earphones to his smartphone and played a song. Next to the earphone he put it in his ear. Next to it he put it in Hanna's ear. Hanna flinched from her daydream heard the sound of a song suddenly ringing in her ear, but just as she wanted to take off the earphone, Yuan instantly stopped her hand and said, “udah, if you don't want to talk about music. I won't talk anymore. By the way, the lyrics of this song look a lot like a rich feeling cave to lo. Yeah just tell him. Who knows you're curious.”
Hanna looked at Yuan's face. The sunlight that hit the skin of her face full of smiles for a moment made Hanna stunned. For a moment he had a question about Yuan. Why had he never realized that his classmate with a young man whose smile and dimples could melt others?
As soon as it awoke from her slackness Hanna immediately withdrew her hand from Yuan's hand and turned her eyes away. He leaned his back on the bus seat and focused his mind on the song from the earphones.
*She's a whistle on the wind
A feather on the breeze
A ripple on the stream
She is sunlight on the sea
She's a soft summer rain
Falling gently through the trees
And I love her
She's cunning as a fox
Clever as a crow
Solid as a rock
She is stubborn as a stone
She’s a hardheaded woman
And the best one that I know
And I love her
Yeah well I love her
She's as new as the spring time
Strong as autumn blows
Warm as the summer
And soft as the snow
She's a thousand miles from here
But she's everywhere I go
Cuz I love her
She loves me like a woman
She looks like a lady
She laughs like a child
And cries like a baby
I think that might she's the one that's gonna save me*
