If I Could Dream
CHAPTER 10 - Where is He?
Sandra occasionally glanced at the girl beside her, Agnes, who still did not open her voice.
Since following her and Karin to the Canteen, they had not spoken anything until someone had surprised them.
“DOR!”
“ANNN–” Karin held back the word she was about to spit out on Chandra when El inexplicably pulled her wrist elsewhere.
Czechoslovakia! The sound of Valerian's camera again made Sandra's heart jump.
The girl took a deep breath before her eyes smiled forcefully.
“Autort ya?” sandra asked with patience. The pinching of Chandra's waist was reflexively screaming in pain.
Before the deadly pinch landed on Valerian's waist, he quickly stopped the girl by showing her the portrait.
The fire blazing in both eyes of Sandra instantly glittered. “IIHH very funny they bothaa! Send to my whatsapp today?”
“Sippp.” Valerian gave a thumbs up. Secretly grateful that Sandra did not pinch him.
Vale subconsciously turned to the girl in pink glasses beside Sandra. Next to his eyebrows rose, not expecting that the school's parallel champion was in the cafeteria. Not bowing his head to the reading book as usual.
The tumben?
“Agnes has come out goa huh?” Chronicle Chandra while tapping on the thick book that the girl was carrying. Agnes immediately brushed it off. “Wuiss relax-relax. It won't break.”
“Not clean.”
Agnes' sharp eyes seemed to slice Chandra up into the bones. After a long time of deciding, he finally chose a farewell.
“San, I'm back yes.”
"Huh?" Sandra jerks. As if this is more surprising than Vale's camera shots. “No to eat bar–”
“Ngak.” Cut Agnes fast.
"Tap—"
"I don't want to bother you guys."
Sandra speechless. While the pink mask that covered Agnes' mouth, the girl secretly smiled thinly.
He stared at Sandra, Chandra, then Vale long before leaving in front of them.
Valerian stared at Agnes's increasingly smaller back as she moved away from the canteen. Why his departure left an implied message that was too difficult to explain in words.
Or is this just Vale's feeling?
"I don't feel disturbed..." Sandra muttered badly.
Chandra. "You don't need to invite people who don't want to be invited."
"No, ndra."
"Part of not reading a book a day also does not affect her level, San."
“Iya anyway.” Sandra nodded in agreement.
By the way, his stomach is undermining like a dog right now. Sandra grimacing. If you wait for Karin, she might starve to death.
"You want to eat?” ask her to Chandra and Vale.
The camouflaged guy shook his head, while the other guy combed his hair back shyly.
“If you treat the hell I eat.” said Chandra before a second later pitted Sandra.
“Yeeeuu tract-tractors.that rich people never practice!”
“If the word asuk, San, only his father is rich.” Valerian bersosan with Chandra who was moved to feel defended.
"Now my new friend! You're the only one who understands me, Val!"
“Means ask Papa you!” sandra said he was taking Chandra once again.
He passed first so as not to hear his half-spoken ringing.
“Yes if 'he' remembers having a child!”
Sandra rolled her eyeballs. Rather than chatting with the jumping fleas and the cocoon caterpillar, he better order food now.
About what is good eating? Chicken noodles? Never been. Fried rice? Bored. Hadeh.
By the way, the girl just realized. If there's Vale, Chandra, and El. Where is his beloved then?
THE OSIS? Sandra's lips were pursed uncertainly. Vale and El, the son of OSIS, have no business. They're kind of like lawyers (unemployed a lot of events), and then where's Timo? Ngabarin does not exist.
Sandra sniffed her shoulders. Maybe he's busy with other business, who knows? Enough to think of the unimportant, now he was very hungry!
Both of Sandra's eyes circulated to the canteen, looking for which booth she would come to buy her cooking. Should Sandra capcipcup not waste her time?
Finally Sandra's attention stopped at the booth soto kak Wenwen.
Not to buy such matchless soto, but because Timothius was seen there.
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Gabriel takes Karin up the stairs next to the UKS room. Although the distance is not far from the Canteen, at least this ladder is rarely passed by Panjalu High School children.
"Why the hell? What the hell are you talking about?!” Karin let go of her hand forcibly.
His fierce face shrieked as El stepped closer. The aura of darkness that was emanating from the body of the man seemed to want to subdue the fierce-looking street cat who was now an uncomfortable whimper in front of him.
“El?” Karin secretly vertical saliva. All his life knowing Gabriel Yudhistira, never once did he see the vexation that was so marked on his flat face.
"El... not hungry?”
“Ngak.”
“Oohh is not hungry..” Karin's feet are finally cornered on the wall. Pestilent. El's big body was getting closer. “But I'm hungry–”
“Katarina.”
"Yes?"
"Sarin."
“What cuy?"
El finally stopped, exactly two feet from Karin's body.
His sharp eyes also turned soft. Karin felt suffocated, afraid to see the big change.
"I'm sorry." El really made him not breathe.
“Di-dimaafin.”
“Serious.” El is approaching a step. Karin prepared to go to the Almighty. “Don't mess with me..."
El looked down with his ears flushed red. Yesterday he did not focus on the meeting thinking about the embarrassing incident. Even though he spent the night overthinking, afraid if Karin avoids or does not forgive him.
El did not want if their already distant distance became even more distant. Moreover, he sat next to Karin for one semester, or what if they were one group later? It was very wearing.
Feeling not hearing any words coming out of Karin's mouth, El thought the girl really did not want to forgive him.
"Rin, I don't know why I'm doing it either."
"Oohh that's..." Karin's sweat begins to pour from the temple. He has to take a breath.
Karin stepped one time to the side.
El follow.
“I swear, it's reflex. Then what do you do about nail-nails like that?"
"Where do I know! You anyway!"
Karin stepped to the side again.
El follow.
"I why? Don't avoid!"
"You're making guts!"
Karin stepped again to the side, El followed again.
What's this guy doing anyway? "Don't follow! You're sorry I am!"
"What if I promise not to run away again?"
Not yet Karin stepped to the side, El first locked his movement until the sound of the check door UKS almost dropped Karin.
Nimblely El pulled the girl to the point of falling into her arms.
Karin.
“KALI NGAPAIN?”
Brother Adele, a UKS guard who strongly refused to be called ‘ibu’ shouted hysterically, making Karin reflex to push the body of El who stumbled onto the opposite wall.
With a flaming red lipstick and bulging eyes, Adele walked out of the UKS room like a lion was about to go berserk.
“You want what this girl is? HUH?”
“Sorry brother.” El looked down apologetically as he did to Mr. Budi yesterday afternoon. “I don't mean ‘odd-odd’.”
“No means ‘weird-odd’? Admitting you yes?”
“I say goodbye kak.” El looked at Karin who was immediately confronted by the creepy face of Adele. “Karin, later we talk again.”
“Omongin what?! Don't mess with your sister or sister report to the homeroom!” Brother Adele pointed at the face no matter Gabriel who instantly flipped over.
While the UKS keeper teased Karin with various questions about her condition, Karin smiled as she shook her head slowly, telling mom– she meant the older brother that she was really okay.
Quietly, Karin stared at El's departure with an uneasy feeling. Sorry, El.
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