If You Love

Eps. 17. The only

In a quiet place on the beach...

"Om stay first yeah..."

Om Markus winks at Brill. Brill is nervous, Rilly is too...

Both then?

Rilly spread his gaze. There were many boats here, in the distance there were also some boats and people who had somehow done what around him, it also appears that there are a group of people sitting on a short cot of bamboo under a catapult tree.

This place is not a tourist location, is the back of the Lopana village, entering about three hundred meters from the main road. But this place looks very clean, which is visible in the sand is just falling leaves, in some trees there is a large mesh to accommodate plastic waste. There are many catapult trees that widen into shade making this beach very cool. Only this place is not good for swimming, because in the part of the beach that began to recede the water appears large brownish rocks slapping.

Neither Brill nor Rilly had ever been to this place.

"Where are you going?"

Brill, if you want to be honest, his feelings are mixed, it's nice to be left alone but still groggy what to be like and do what when just two Rilly.

"Om from here. who there are friends om. you are here, comfortable here, shady. if cape to the cottage there just sit there... or to the cots there. It can sleep there..."

It was morning hehe...

Mark continues in his heart.

"Gak ahh. it belongs to people..."

Brill immediately snatched the words of Markus.

"The lodge does not belong to anyone, it was built with the self-help community of this village. clean well maintained and free to use anyone, enter there..."

Om Markus looked amused at two children who soon let go of adolescence, standing stiff with a long distance. Om Markus so remember the teenage years used to like to bring his girlfriend in this place.

"Later in the afternoon bring food..."

A picnic on the beach... This is because Om Markus knows Brill will not want to eat at cafes or restaurants in the capital of this district.

After the death of Markus, several times Brill and Rilly just steal each other's eyes. Rilly was actually uncomfortable if anyone else saw the two of them, she was not confident walking with Brill who looked cool.

Time passed by so slowly and tensely for them, no one started a conversation.

Rilly exhaled, as if releasing his soul fatigue all along. Standing looking at the beach in silence, his eyes then followed a passing boat. As far as the eye could see that the sky of the horizon that the eye had recorded was only the blue color of the sea water, its eyes became free to wander, as free as its heart was now. Blowing beach breeze gives coolness in his skin, Rilly finally became more relaxed.

Brill began to be able to control his feelings, groggy feeling slowly disappeared, he then sat relaxed in the sand, even removing sneakers with famous brand logos from his feet.

"Ril..."

Rill immediately looked at Brill, quiet here there was only the sound of the waves breaking occasionally and the conversation of people far away. Brill's voice went straight into his eardrum.

Brill's hand pointed to his right side and motioned to sit with him. Rilly was slow, six steps were near Brill. Debaran came again in Rilly's chest.

Actually, in the sitting distance class they were not too far away, but Rilly never pounded like now because Brill was not a student who cared about the surroundings, while Rilly was used to not being noticed by the students around him.

But this time it was very different, they were just the two of them and had been aware of each other's existence. Rilly sat cautiously by taking some distance. It was fortunate that he used a navy-colored long toad, so it was convenient to sit on the sand. The side that Brill points to is the best position, on that side Brill will not often see a gap in the lip of his right side.

Before interacting with Brill he had pressed to the bottom of his heart his shame even though still his insecurities became part of his character. But now, there was a sense of insecure when Brill looked at his face, the reflex of his five fingers raised covering his lips or holding his nose hiding the gap that classmates often bully.

"Where are you going, Ril?"

Brill asked while looking down at his own feet, hands locked above the thighs.

"meaning?"

Rilly answered with a question.The feeling of calm had now begun to change shortly after sitting near Brill, his brain was not yet connected properly.

"I don't look at school..."

"Ehh... Ohhh... Rilly... Rilly's at home..."

Rilly's down. Yeah, he's not going anywhere.

"You missed the test..."

Now Brill glanced for a moment because Rilly did not answer anymore. Brill began to loose, everything he wanted to ask was already lined up neatly in the head waiting for the queue on his lips.

"Why?"

"Yes?"

"Why not take the exam?"

Now that Brill stared longer, Rilly still looked down.

"It's okay..."

Rilly replied very slowly, there was disappointment that was still stored because of it.

"So I was kicked out of the principal, out of five hundred students, one who didn't pass because he didn't take the exam..."

"That's... Rilly. must be Rilly..."

The girl answered softly still lowered her head, twisting her own finger. Brill's gaze had not switched, he was actually curious about this, was Rilly alone who had no desire or because of that aunt?

"Do you have no desire to graduate from High School? Aja darling..."

"Have it. but it's over..."

There was a helpless tone in that answer, at least Brill knew that circumstances were forcing Rilly to quit school.

"Don't have any goals?"

"Rilly? Don't know..."

The girl shrugged her shoulders and raised her head looking far away, her eyes glaring not knowing what was in the depths of the ocean she was looking at, just as she did not know what her life was like up ahead.

"Brill have?"

"Impathy?"

Rilly looked at Brill, looked at each other for a moment and then the two immediately looked away, both not strong enough to do that.

"Same. don't know..."

"Brill wants to go to college?"

"Don't know..."

Now that the atmosphere between them was changing even more, it started to be comfortable and not awkward anymore. Now Brill is sitting with two hands at the side supporting his body, legs crossed sideways forward.

"Have you ever wanted to go to college?"

"Udah can't..."

"But what's that wish?"

"Oh yeah, but Rilly's afraid to hope..."

"Why?"

"For what? It's no use to me..."

"Of course, for Brill's own life, no one knows the future..."

"If there's a chance you'll go to college, Ril?"

"Yes.want..."

A warm sea breeze blew around them. Warmth also pervades the feelings of two new human children now having intense conversations of long duration. And the longer the heart is free and the more it wants to express what is in the heart.

"Why miss the surgery schedule?"

"That's it. Sorry Brill..."

"But why, are you afraid of surgery?"

"No. But Rilly can't tell..."

Auntie was lying! Brill began to connect with Aunt Ine's attitude.

"Then what? Verify time, did you meet his team?"

"Yes..."

"So, you know the operation schedule..."

"Rilly knows, but she can't get there."

"So what, Ril... They're blocking?"

Rilly was silent, undeniable and did not expect Brill to be able to exactly conclude. And Brill did remember that aunt, so remember her strict attitude towards Rilly, she said the subordinate of the mother.

"I don't think they should be like that..."

Brill suddenly felt anger controlling his heart, his lips clenched with his jaws looking hardened. Rilly noticed that.

"It's not like that Brill.but I'm sorry Rilly can't tell..."

Rilly is forced to defend Aunt Ine and Manda, because Brill's words must refer to them, even though Brill does not know them but Brill has met them, Rilly is a little worried here.

"But really... Are they in the way? They're not out of money, why can't they behave like that?"

Brill's voice rising showed increasingly clear emotions.

"It's Rilly's own problem... Brill don't have to be mad..."

Rilly spoke softly while staring at Brill, a voice that suddenly drowned his anger straight to the bottom of the heart. They both remained silent at last. But Brill still did not accept what he tried to thwart others, because Rilly right then the mass operation of the cleft lip held his mother, precisely the girl who became the reason instead inoperated.

Suddenly Brill is still talking about Rilly's operation....

"OK... So... Look, so you know the operating schedule, right? But they purposely kept you from coming to the hospital?"

Brill's still chasing after wanting to find out the truth.

"Anything that... Rilly doesn't mind Rilly canceling the operation, although Rilly is hurt but Rilly thinks it's not time for Rilly to get surgery... "

"As easily as it accepts? They were on purpose?"

"What and who can be a hindrance if it's not time..."

"Ril... People treat you unfairly, depriving you of your rights? I'll tell the aunt she's wrong!"

"Don't Brill... Rilly lives in their house..."

"But he has to take responsibility, because he you can't operate, I'll ask the aunt who's paying for your operation.he'll have to do that."

Someone wants to force their will.

"Brill... Are we friends?"

Rilly's soft voice shifted the conversation. They looked at him for a moment, Brill frowned at the question mark.

"What... Brill thinks Rilly's Brill's friend?"

Rilly asked softly with concern flashed that she would get an answer beyond her wishes.

"Yes.you're my friend Ril..."

The straightforward answer with a convincing voice reached Rilly's eardrum. Rilly smiled, inwardly someone was about to overflow, proud to be a friend of a handsome regent's son.

"You are my friend, you are my only friend..."

Rilly's laughter rang out, Rilly closed his mouth because he realized the shape of his mouth must be strange, he did not like the laugh lines formed on his face. Quickly he mastered himself, suppressing his good emotions.

"Why laugh?"

"That's.. um ekhm..."

Rilly cleared his throat to finish off the lingering laughter.

"Brill is also Rilly's only friend..."

"Oh? Same..."

They threw warm gazes at each other, confessions that delighted both of them.

"Brill... Brill isn't shy about having friends like Rilly?"

This is the question that Rilly wanted to ask since they were both sitting side by side in the car earlier.

"Because of the state of your lips?"

"Yes..."

"If I were ashamed, I wouldn't let you walk today..."

The two exchanged looks for a long time. The distance that was now the closest between them all along, Rilly could see the details of Brill's face, brill's eyelids blinked once and it accentuated his rather long eyelashes, there was a small mole over the thin lips it looked sweet making Brill even more handsome. Her long hair makes Brill very cool.

Rilly averted her eyes, a sudden feeling of embarrassment bursting over having admired Brill's face, she felt unworthy and now began to be uncomfortable. His chest rustled strangely, and wanted to leave immediately if possible. But it was precisely the gravity of the earth felt like it was nailing itself to stay in place.

Brill had the same swish. When viewed from this side the shape of the chin, cheeks and nose, and eyes Rilly look sweet, sweet,

Ahh... What's the taste, why do you want to keep him?

Brill drew a faint line at the two corners of his lips.

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