If You Love

Eps. 12. Losing Friends?

"Rilly... When was your cleft lip operated on?"

"Huh?"

"Your cleft lip was operated on... When? Budek huh? Your ears are also in surgery!"

Rilly threw out his chest through a powerful gust of breath in his mouth.

"Heh... in addition to the cleft of the budek it turns out, asked even dumb!"

A scream-like voice now echoed on the wall of Rilly's ear. Rilly whines, she is not afraid of Manda or feels compelled to submit to him, but Rilly chooses not to care too much. Manda was always pretentious to rule himself, used to like heartache but for a long time he got rid of the pain in his heart because of his status, fighting will not change his condition.

"Udah. don't need to be answered, it does matter whether you operated or not, but I think yes operated on you are still ugly, anyways it will not change your current destiny, which is now, once a jongos yes still jongos aja..."

Then Manda continued his insults with a stinging voice.

"Rilly is beautiful? No way I'm not..."

Rilly was mopping the floor when Manda spoke to him. Accepting Manda's rude attitude makes Rilly reluctant to answer anything or react anything. Is his heart already immune now with all sorts of insults? Might as well.

Rilly moves to the other room, Manda follows him, Rilly is so astonished but just so careless.

"You talk to Brill a lot in class?"

Rilly lifted her body that momentarily bowed as it mopped under the chair. In her gaze she thought of something...

"Why?"

"Don't Brill admit you were his friend? If you like to talk, you like to talk... Brill likes what stories? Though with other people he never wanted to talk to. but still he was cool, cool so..."

Rilly grinned a little. This is apparently why suddenly Manda wanted to talk to Rilly at home. Apparently he was curious some time ago Brill introduced Rilly as a friend, even asking the regent's mother to finance Rilly's cleft surgery, even as a reason for the social activities of the regent's mother.

In the heart of Rilly can be proud, never walk with Brill, ever chat for a while, he turned out to have a little privilege this time. Rilly wants to show off at last...

"We are friends..."

With pede Rilly loudly said the sentence, although in his heart still doubtful, it is true that he did not confess like this. Manda looked at it with a very clear envious look.

"Don't believe the truth, Brill's time with girls like you, not level know no..."

"No horror, Brill also said like that, you also said the same thing yourself."

"What proof are you guys, if you just like to chat it everyone can talk to Brill, I can also..."

Manda looked down at Rilly, but the curious look was still evident.

"Oh, you said Brill doesn't like talking to people?"

"Heh. don't like to go back and forth, answer me..."

Rilly chuckles cynically in response to Manda's shock in her ambiguous sentences, and Rilly is up in the sky right now, feeling like she has something to offer up against her schoolmates.

"Mmm curious yeah..."

"Heh, I'm very doubtful..What is the evidence?"

Rilly is somewhat reluctant to answer, afraid this story is heard by Brill and found out he revealed it. but his ego is controlling him now, he said, she just wants to feel how if she is more special than other people, compared to other girls who have a beautiful face and perfect.

"The end of the day we both took the next exam, UTS. I. I don't speak English, Brill..."

"What time?"

"Well, if you don't believe..."

Rilly leaves Manda, continues her work.

"What else do you know about Brill? What have you guys ever done together?"

Manda is still chasing, wow, she feels like an important person now.

"She loves kites, she also likes to come back hidden by shortcuts, we often go home together, so if the driver waited a long time at the front gate it means Brill already jumped the fence..."

Rilly told me proudly something she knew about Brill. But a moment later after finishing saying that his conscience revolted, that was all he knew, what could it be called a friend? Rilly grimaced while looking down again concentrating on the work he was doing.

I'm so know and sober... Rilly.

"Yeso often..." And only once...

Rilly replied with annoyance, annoyance not because of Manda, but because he started lying. Afraid to lie again if you continue to answer Manda's curiosity, Rilly immediately passed to the bathroom. Seeing Manda still following, Rilly went into the bathroom and closed the door.

"Heh... Rilly, open the door..."

Manda banged on the door hard. Since Rilly did not reply, Manda kicked the door while yelling in annoyance.

"Compense! Just so arrogant already.Look at me later, I can also menemenan the same Brill, my mama direct subordinate to the regent, I have a channel kali, make a mulusin my intentions..."

"Please, what's in it and what's the harm to me?"

Rilly's mumble was covered in the sound of water pouring out of Rilly's tap.

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Rilly must give up her dream to finish her High School. These few weeks Rilly didn't go to school at all, the semester exam was over, he didn't take the exam. The homeroom teacher who took the time to come to visit, only faced with Aunt Ineke, no matter what the content of their conversation, Rilly was not told.

Today is the first day of the National Examination.

Rilly could only stare with a sad face at Manda's departure in a white-gray uniform to school. Realizing she is not someone who is given the right to want more for herself, so Rilly never has grandiose dreams, just finishing high school is more than enough for her.

The fact that he kept living on a planet called earth, that the reality of his life with the status of a child, his life was under the power of others. His life is not to soar in the sky with dreams of a better tomorrow. Aunt Ine always said that she was lucky to have eaten and lived for free in people's homes, raised by people who had no blood line.

So Rilly resigned finally did not continue school. Though there is little time left, already at the end of graduation, but once again, his life is under the power of others.

"Rilly.. oma heard from Ine, you do not want to continue school anymore? It's almost over, right?"

Rilly was bathing Betsy's oma, feeling a momentary pain in her chest.

"If Rilly goes to school, no one takes care of oma. It's okay Rilly doesn't go to school anymore oma..."

"Why is it like that, dear Rilly. actually I want Rilly not only finished High School but continued college as well, oma's money is held by Ine all, which makes the more sad Rilly so like this must stop school, must be a maid in this house... Ineke is outrageous..."

Oma complained about the same thing almost every day...

With many reasons aunty Ine managed to take back ATM oma Betsy, with many theatrics also aunty Isye and aunt Irma managed to be made to believe about Rilly who likes to pussy the oma, about Rilly who is lazy school, Rilly, about their mothers who are too fussy because of dementia. All reports of Betsy's oma were countered by Aunt Ine.

"Udah... Rilly's okay as long as I'm a happy oma Rilly like this, if you don't worry yes. later Rilly took the C package exam only..."

A pinch of hope flashed when he realized that Betsy wanted him to have a good education.

"Call Isye yes..oma wants to talk to Isye..."

"I'm sure oma. we won't miss it. but oma must be beautiful and fragrant first..."

"Indeed Isye can know the smell or not?"

"Hehe, yes, too..."

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The State One High School in the district capital...

Brill slid his face last time between the glass windows of the school boy, still hoping that Rilly would cross next to the window and enter the room. Brill continues to wonder why Rilly never again appears at school, when today is a national exam.

The girl was the only student this school had ever spoken to all this time, the rest she only replied to if there were students greeting her, even she tended to not care. Sometimes like to say the regent's son is arrogant, arrogant, disrespectful, and so on, it has no effect on Brill, in his mind there is nothing he should take care of if about him, about him, even about the good name of the regent has nothing to do with him.

But with such a cold nature it becomes a kind of aura that is increasingly attractive and charming a Brill Timothy Ratulangi in this school. Many girls are curious and crazy about him. Wanting to get closer of course, but Brill had some kind of shield through his cold gaze, so no one dared to continue pdkt when a friendly greeting was returned Brill with a hostile look.

Brill stared at Rilly's bench which was one row with him at the back of this classroom. Rilly is the only girl who never tries to attract her attention, who never tries to spread charm. Of course Rilly couldn't do that, that's probably why she was the one who greeted Rilly long before and was willing to share an English answer when she saw Rilly's blank answer paper. That's why he admitted that Rilly is his friend.maybe it can be said that even though their interaction is still relatively minimal, but his heart is looking for the figure of Rilly all this time and I don't know... there may be a sense of loss.

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