Don't Consider Us Weak

Episode Nineteen: Meet Eric

The sound of footsteps rang out throughout the corridor, he looked around which was still quiet and only a few students had reached the school. Today Lidya deliberately woke up at dawn for Lina so that the girl could confide in her. After putting down her bag, she hurried to walk to the cafeteria because there Lina would pour out all her heart that happened yesterday with Jay.

Lidya sat on the bench while looking right and left waiting for Lina to come occasionally to see the circular watch on the left wrist. Lidya's mouth clenched and her index finger tapped on the table slowly. He closed his eyes, breathing, trying to be patient. After a long wait the girl he was waiting for finally came with a sinless smile.

"Hi Lidya!"his reply was met with a faint smile from Lidya.

"Hi Lina."the sauce came back. "And, you want to say something about yesterday's incident with Jay. Why why anyway?it feels like you want to express all your heart to me." asked Lidya without further ado. Lina who was the first to put on a happy face was now moody but her cheeks were red. Every time Lina heard the name 'Jay' both her cheeks were always red blushing like they were finished in a slap by someone.

Lina let out a heavy sigh, staring at Lidya who she now became serious about. "Jay? Jay doesn't believe in love, Lid. How am I supposed to?every time I look at Jay, my heart feels happy and feels half my soul is in Jay's soul" Lina said with a peppered pearl.

Lidya put on a flat face when she heard all that from Lina's mouth, she wanted to vomit when Lina said half her soul was inside Jay. "Why doesn't Jay believe in love?"ask Lidya.

Lina remained silent. "I don't know about that. But help me Lid." said Lina holding Lidya's hand, begging her to be close to Jay despite the pain and joy there.

Lidya smiled and sighed. He thought of finding the easiest solution to be close to the dream youth. "Ah, you shouldn't have said that you're in love with Jay" Lidya said to Lina Mayun. "I didn't say it. Jay knew for himself that I was in love with him."

"You're pointing hard code at him!"

"Why am I being wronged anyway, Lid?"lina's protest did not accept, Lidya accused arbitrarily.

"If no. Why would Jay tell you all that?"ask Lidya seriously. Lina lowered her head,"because I asked her. Why was he mobbed yesterday by so many girls as if Jay was their idol."

"Then he told me it was because of the effect of himself and his eyes. Lid, I hope you didn't tell the others this story. Just me, you and Jay. I've unlocked one of Jay's secrets to you." said Lina staring at Lidya with tears ready to slide down her red cheeks.

"If it were Jay.." said Lina silently then she sobbed in tears this sunny morning. Lidya changed positions sitting next to Lina trying to calm Lina down in tears. Love is blind, thought Lidya.

"Pacify yourself, Lin. And I remember one solution that would make Jay aware that you actually love Jay so much." - Lidya. Lina turned her head and wiped away her tears, "what?"

"You're considered Jay, my friend. You've been Jay's friend for a while" said Lidya.

"What if he tries to avoid me?"

"That won't be possible, Lin. You be Jay's friend and you love him something. I'm sure Jay will slowly realize it. No need to be in a hurry." said Lidya again with a sweet smile. Lina looked at Lidya smiling and hugged the flat girl, "thank you very much, Lid. I was so happy and immediately I did that." said Lina tightly hugged Lidya until the girl could not breathe.

"L-lin, I-I can't breathe!"

Lina regained her senses and immediately let go of a tight hug. Lidya took a lot of breath. Lina if very strong until Lidya wants her life lifted by the angel of death.

Looks Lina's face again beamed as before. "Thank you Lid. Now I'm leaving. Thanks for the solution." said Lina then darted away back to class. Lidya could only shake her head to see one of her friends in love. He is now curious about Jay.

Is it true that Jay does not believe in love? That's pretty much impossible. Jay is a handsome young man in SMK Cemerlang and almost all students here idolize Jay.

Lidya walks around the school in the morning. The air in the morning is very cold. Seen not far from the sight of Lidya's brown eyes, there a mediocre-faced young man, arguably handsome and arguably ugly. But not very ugly. The young man looked very upset and the brown jacket he was wearing had a lot of stains. I don't know where that stain came from.

Lidya continued her morning walk in the school yard and passed the young man. He grabbed the young man's arm slowly. The young man fell, grimacing in pain and Lidya was surprised that his slow grasp made the young man fall like he was finished being nudged by two people.

Lidya felt very guilty and took out her hand to help the young man stand up. Eric looked at the beautiful girl whose hair was left unglued and a few strands of her hair were slightly cut down by the wind. All this time he never get a helping hand like this, lest this is Eric's lucky day after being hit by many misfortunes in this world.

"Are you all right" said Lidya making Eric's daydreams crumble. He nodded and smiled and Eric welcomed Lidya's hand and stood up. Smile,"oh I'm fine I don't have to worry." he said.

"I'm sorry I nudged you on purpose. I thought I was nudging you slowly but it made you fall." said Lidya lowered her head and apologized to Eric.

Eric chuckled at the girl in front of him. "It's okay. It was a slow move, but it was also my fault. Daydream while walking."Lidya looked at the young man's face. His smile was not forced, he smiled as if Lidya-the girl who had nudged a faceless young man had fallen down.

Lidya was surprised and immediately turned to face the young man she had helped. Not helping, rather, making him hurt.

"We haven't met" said the young man, chuckling softly. Lidya began to fear this young man, he was forced to reply with a faint smile. Don't know what to answer?

"My name is Muhammad Eric Sentosa. Just call my name Eric from Accounting two. What's your name?"eric introduced himself. And it makes Lidya think twice if he wants to class Lina because the class is next to each other.

But lately when Lidya went to Lina's class, she had never seen this young man named Eric. But if you look around again, you've met. The video that was in Lidya's mind was replayed and he only realized that Eric had hit him at that time.

"Don't you ever hit me?"tanya Lidya pointed at Eric. The young man was silent, trying to remember the incident of bumping into a girl and he remembered. Eric smiled and nodded in agreement, "yes, I once bumped into a girl. I was in such a hurry" said Eric.

"Once again I'm sorry." he said apologizing. I don't know how many times Eric apologized to Lidya and he also did not have time to count the word 'sorry' from Eric.

"Oh that's okay, you're not accidentally and in a hurry.  Introduce my name Maulidya Wahyu Fatmawati from Multimedia one" said Lidya introduced himself to Eric. After introducing themselves, the two of them headed to class occasionally chatting a lot about the daily life that could be said to be 'dull'.

  From the east there is a volleyball that bounces up into the air and the direction of the ball leads to Eric. There was someone who warned him about the arrival of the ball, "AWAS!THE BALL'S GONNA HIT YOUR HEAD!"

Lidya who heard the warning screams turned to the east, looking up at the volleyball heading right at Eric. Both eyes bulged and Lidya pushed Eric not to be hit by the ball.

"Eric Watch out!"lidya's yelling pushed Eric. The young man fell, Eric saw a volleyball falling towards him. Lidya wanted to catch the ball, but it was too late. The volleyball hit Eric's forehead red. Lidya who saw that was surprised to close her mouth with her hand.

"Eric, are you okay?"ask Lidya with the same sentence as before. He helped Eric wake up. Eric was confused it felt like the world became two parts and the girl he just knew followed in two. His forehead was hit by a volleyball that was out of nowhere.

Then two young men came and one of them took the volleyball. Lidya got up with an angry face. "Hey you two. If you play it carefully. Don't just hit, look at you hurting people with your volleyball!"lidya's protest was unacceptable.

The two men apologized. "Sorry, madam. We were playing volleyball was careful but exposed to the wind what until the ball soared high and hit brother's friend" said the young man put a face melas.

Eric stood up holding his red forehead. "Lid, it's okay this has become my destiny." he said with a clueless look from Lidya. Eric looked at the two young men who looked down at the guilty. "You two play volleyball with passion. And about that, consider it a little accident. A bump like this is just a small matter to me. You guys continue to play volleyball mumpung still morning." said Eric gave encouragement for both of them. The two young men went to bring their volleyballs to practice.

Eric smiled at Lidya who was still confused. They continued on their way to class as soon as the entrance bell would ring. The young man decided to go to class first but was prevented quickly by Lidya.

"Wait a minute, Ric."

"What?"

"The word about 'Destiny' means what? What is clear is that you were hit by a disaster even your answer is destiny." said Lidya so curious.

"That was my destiny even though you were trying to save me like that. The ball will hit me." he answered briefly and then went to his class above to let Lidya, who was still silent, try to digest Eric's words just now.

He squinted his eyes. "I mean I don't understand at all." he muttered and stepped into the classroom that was in the building behind the second floor. When her two thin legs climbed up the stairs, she accidentally bumped into Jay. Lidya glanced at Jay looking at his eyes, for some reason his heartbeat was pounding like never before.

  His gaze still led to Jay who was going down the stairs. Lidya paid no attention to his path and he hit someone.

Bugh.

"IF THE ROAD IS FACING FORWARD DO NOT LOOK BACK. MUTE GIRL!"the protest of a young man whose voice was very distinctive and Lidya turned to find Ferdi staring hatefully at Lidya.

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