If I Could Dream
CHAPTER 8 - New Friends
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Sandra was shuffled to hear Karin's story of El's miraculous behavior. It's a pity for Samsung's refrigerator. The intention to help ended up embarrassed.
Where his ex is not sensitive anymore. “He cares about you, rin!”
“Peduli? This you said you cared?!”
Karin did not accept it. He stared at the thumbs that had been washed many times with a nauseous face.
Oh... Is this what trauma is?
“If the El doesn't care, why would he bother to open the mask to help you?" Sandra's pretty reasonable. "By knowing now is a pandemic, if he is infected with the virus–”
“Internally!”
Karin wants to hit her friend who avoids while giggling. Goody. Because of that girl, now she's thinking.
Although Karin is not positive for Covid-19, how is it that El is infected?
What if El isolation is self-contained? What if El goes to the hospital? What if the oxygen tube is up and El is short of breath? What if the sister is fooled by her handsome face and then does the no-no— thing
“Ayaaang!”
Sandra turned around for a while to tidy up her hair before turning her pretty head to Timothius. The guy greeted him from the corridor of the teacher room. With a flutter of hands asking the girl to approach, Sandra waved like a royal princess before (again) leaving Karin.
Whoaah the monkey! Yesterday, Chandra said, it is time to leave the earth because the world belongs to them alone!
Down the stairs alone, Karin steps faster to find El know-how appeared near Timo.
Furry-haze! “Hai Timo, El, Vale! Hi, too, Agnes! Hiii!”
Karin waved her hand at whoever she saw in the corridor of the main floor, making El whose name was called reflex looking for his whereabouts then raised a greeting hand.
Honestly, he did not know if Karin was okay or was secretly hostile towards him right now. “Kar–”
“Sandra, I'm ahead yaaa! Bye-bye!"
His intention to know the news of Karin was immediately canceled. El clucked in annoyance at himself. Karin's back grew smaller as the girl moved away from them.
Timo frowned in wonder. What's up? Not before he helped Mr Budi save electronic tools to the teacher's desk, they are still adem-adem only?
On the other hand, Sandra who knew the awkwardness between El and Karin hit the chest of the OSIS vice-chairman.
"Haish you are! Basic non-romantic!”
“You must learn from me, El." Timothius patted his best friend. "By the way why Karin? You why? How far away is this?"
Valerian who was checking the camera also eavesdropped.
El does not know how to explain and is too prestige to tell the events some time ago.
What would people say if they knew he was worried about Karin's habit of still hurting his own thumb? Then unreasonably, El helped her in hopes of alleviating the pain of– without thinking whether her skin was clean or not?
Unknowingly both of El's ears were heating up. He's sure. Sure enough, if Chandra was here, that person would have ridiculed him all out.
“There go!”
“Huuu no exclamation!” Timo thumbs down like an SD boy playing hot in the complex.
When Miss Jinny came out of the teacher's room, the bullying stopped. “Hello, Miss.”
“Agnes, Sandra?”
Miss Jinny searched for the two without caring about Timo's greeting.
“You can eat first, later around one hour we start training in class 10 MIPA-2 yes.”
“OK, Miss.” Answer Agnes politely.
“Means an hour's rest right?” Ask the guy while reaching into his pocket. “Udah tell your parents not yet?”
“But.”
“Ck, How the hell, San? Tell me first so you don't get tired. If the training is not finished, what? Want to be late to les?”
“If I tell you later can not join the race, Iaaang.” Sandra gasped as Timo gave her fifty thousand dollars. “Create what? Pay cash?”
“Not cash, it's for you snack.”
“HAH?!”
Mr. Ares, a history teacher and the Head of OSIS Panjalu High School finally came out of the teacher's room.
“Why wait here?”
Valerian raised his hand. “Kata Bang Ahmad, his OSIS room key is the same Mr.”
“Hah? Same as your father, Val?”
Seeing Vale speechless processing the words of Mr. Ares, the OSIS builder smiled grinningly as he mengincing the keys in his hand.
“The meeting comes with me, the courtship please part."
“Huuuu.” El exclaimed with his thumb down, turning back Timo's scornful words to the OSIS children before glaring at him.
He looked at Sandra. “Go first yes. If you're done, say.”
“You also update.” Sandra looked up to Timothius, who ran after his friends upstairs.
At that moment, a message came in from Sandra's phone. He also checked the notification, found the name ‘Ibu’ written on the screen.
His tongue grimaced. Without wanting to know the contents of the message, Sandra just turned off her phone.
“San.”
“Hm?”
Feeling called, Sandra looked back. Seeing Agnes, the parallel champion in each semester, was frozen before her gaze circulated.
The girl seemed to have no idea why she suddenly called out her name.
“Ngg... not so.”
“O... to?” Sandra chuckled awkwardly. He didn't know what he could do with Agnes.
Other than Agnes' enmity with Quin, she knew nothing more about the girl.
“You laper don't?” Suddenly Agnes stood up, carrying a large backpack that Sandra believed contained thick books.
Sandra nodded. “Laper anyway.”
“You need a snack?”
“You are! That's Agnes? Want some snacks too?”
Sandra is probably just a pleasant talk asking ‘mau snack too?’ to the loner the first parallel book-champion Agnesius Septiani, without knowing that his bases will bear the sweet smile of Agnes who says,
“Iya.”
And also,
“You want to snack together?”
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