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14

Nova can see a high fence of black color from where he is at this time. The sound of a horn rang out, right after that a man who was no longer young pushed the iron fence. His small body was seen in contrast to the size of the iron fence he was pushing.

Nova opened the window of the car, then gave a sweet smile to the security guard who had opened the heavy fence.

The security guard smiled to return the greeting Nova gave him.

Nova got out of the car after Mr. Mulyo—sopir Nova family opened the car door for him. Can Nova hear the creaking sound of the fence being closed again. Nova walked towards the white door, when it had been opened slowly the door that was quite large in size.

Nova's arrival was warmly welcomed by Elis—a long-serving helper to the Nova family.

"Welcome" said Elis, smiling gently at Nova.

Nova stopped his steps, then nodded, giving a wide smile to the middle-aged woman before him.

"Miss shower first, the food's not yet. I have prepared all the needs of Miss." Elis said softly with a polite impression.

"Thank you, Bi. Nova go to the room first if so," said Nova. He waved his right hand at Elis as his legs slowly walked away.

Elis looked at his master's son. A smile still faithfully perched on his lips. Elis turned towards the kitchen as the woman in the high school uniform had already climbed the stairs.

Nova walked slowly, his legs painstakingly climbing one by one the stairs. When he reached the second floor, he opened the door to his room. Nova runs small towards her queen size mattress. Dumped the origin of the purple backpack on the mattress. Without changing clothes Nova dropped herself on the long energy object, her small body slightly bounced because of the soft mattress. Nova spread her arms wide, then closed her eyes. If asked where his parents are, then Nova will answer to work.

Like the rich in general, or maybe not?

Both parents are diligent in working, but that does not mean they forget their children. So far Nova has never lacked anything in terms of matter. Everything Nova asks, as long as it makes sense then both parents will obey him with pleasure.

The value of togetherness between Nova and her parents is lacking. Nova has often asked for it, in fact things like this it feels difficult for his parents to grant. The more time his parents spent working, as if not working one day, they would fall into poverty. Little Nova had thought that way, even until now, when she was a teenager. How not, both parents left for work right after Nova left school and came home when Nova had closed his eyes. Eating together may happen only in the morning, at night he will eat alone, although Elis will be near him until Nova finishes his meal, but still it tastes different. Elis could not at once replace the figure of his parents. It can be counted on one hand how many times the Nova family had dinner together.

Now that he's used to it, Nova has tried to accept it, but Nova still hopes for more time to get together. Nova is fine. Nova has reduced to demanding that her parents spend more time with her. After all his parents did all this for his sake, for his future. When that time comes, Nova will continue and take good care of him, because it is time for him to work hard for both parents. By then, his parents would have stayed at home more often and the time Nova spent with his parents became more. Nova hope so.

Thats enough. Stop talking about his family.

Nova opened her eyes slowly, then blinked them a few times. Nova grabbed a backpack that was not far from him. He opened the front of his bag. Nova reached into that part, then took out the thing he wanted from there.

Nova turns on her phone, then presses one of the chat apps, she intends to send a message to Fara. Only a single gray tick was obtained, which meant that Fara did not turn on her phone data.

"Ah, Fara said that the quota was over" Nova told herself.

The shadow of Fara's face flashed through his mind. During Nova's schooling from elementary school to the present day, only Fara is really good friends with him. Nova had a lot of unpleasant times in school, at least until meeting Fara.

Nova has many friends. Many people want to get to know and establish a relationship with him, be it a regular friendship or other relationships that are more than friends. Fun indeed, when having people accompany him everywhere. However, all of that did not go as what Nova wanted. His friends or rather the people who pretend to be his friends are only taking advantage of the status of Nova who is the son of a rich person. They think if they are friends with Nova, then his social status will be lifted or something simpler, they want to drain the Nova pocket money for their pleasure.

One day Nova caught one of her SMP‐ friends talking about her behind, about how arrogant Nova is when all the wealth she feels belongs to her parents instead of Nova. They also call themselves pretentious and love to find attention to men. Even though they also enjoy the money owned by Nova, all the gifts of Nova they always receive with pleasure until they are not left, their popularity is also lifted with the Nova in the group. Immediately after the incident, Nova told Elis while crying hysterically. The next day Nova had not attended school there, because it turned out that Elis told the incident that Nova experienced to both parents. Nova stopped making friends and texted them. Nova also changed her phone number because she could not stand the messages containing their nonsense. Nova does not know how and does not care about their fate.

If many women use their wealth alone, another is the case with men.

Since she was still in elementary school many asked her to be a boyfriend, when asked why, they would answer that Nova was beautiful. Nova who knows their reasons, will gladly reject them. If Nova's ugly then they don't want to make her a lover do they? Nova doesn't like men who only look at his physique, as if the good thing about Nova is just his face. Nova is also human, he has advantages and disadvantages. And if Nova had rejected it, they would have exclaimed that Nova was an expensive sell-off, or other words such as: mentang-matang have a beautiful face so arrogantly reject them or even say that his face alone is beautiful, but his behavior is bad. Nova never thought, what's wrong with those men? Nova also does not want to accept someone Nova does not like.

Because of these events, Nova became a little traumatized to make friends with others. Until one day Fara comes along and proves the true meaning of friendship for Nova. Fara sincerely befriends him, not because of Nova's many possessions, not also because of Nova's beautiful face. For Nova, having Fara as a friend is enough, Nova does not want the others, if Nova can hope his relationship with Fara can be intertwined forever.

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