Mentari in the Night Sky

The Past: Approach

"When did Alvin love the piano?"

"Since I was born?"

"I'm serious, Brother."

"My mother was a pianist when she was a child but my grandfather never agreed with what my mother liked because of that my mother closed her desire to become a pianist. And recently I raised a new hope for my mother. I guess you can guess since when I liked the piano."

Alvin fell silent as he said all those things. He sat back on the piano bench and returned to play Fur Elise for the second time. Every time he played Fur Elise, he would leave a different impression because the emotions he poured out were also different every time he played the piano. The same scorer but left a different impression, I have to admit he is more than just a professional and hear what he just said, I think he also wants to be a pianist.

I put my foot on the piano bench and I didn't realize I was sitting next to Alvin. Slowly my little fingers played the piano keys. It made Alvin flinch and stop playing the piano, letting my little fingers take over the game. I didn't know what I was doing right now, I felt like I wanted to play these notes just after Alvin started touching the piano keys, as if the piano in front of me was calling me to play with him.

Is this how he feels every time he plays the piano?

"Hey, since when can you play the piano?" ask him as soon as I finish playing.

"Since I was born?" reply me with a smile.

My answer made a gentle punch land on my forehead. For the first time in my life, I let someone into my life this fast. Maybe many think I did it as a form of impingement or escape after everything Ken did to me but to me what I am doing right now is something I should do because I know in the future I will be very sorry to have missed this opportunity. I don't know what's gotten into me knowing that I'll regret it in the future. I don't know, I just feel it.

Alvin pulled my hands together and placed them on the piano keys. He also placed both hands on my hands and began to lead my fingers dancing on the piano. She played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a song I had long forgotten and never thought of if I was going to play her piano version.

"Do you want to come with me on Saturday?"

I pulled my hand out of his hand, making him fall silent.

"Didn't I ever say not to talk while playing the piano? Brother's voice was not heard at all," I replied to his confused gaze.

"Ah.basic little boy. Will you come with me on Saturday?"

"Where?"

"Something somewhere."

"Hmm?"

"I'll send you more information. Now that the bell of the break mark is over is heard, we better get back to class. I don't want to be the reason you scolded teacher anymore."

I just replied to Alvin with a smile. I helped Alvin tidy up the messy music room again because of the two of us. It's been a week I've always spent my break time with Alvin in the music room. Alvin kept his mind to play all the songs in his music book because he managed to score 20 points during basketball practice. He always plays the songs in his music book in order and always forbids me to see the next song. He said he wanted to play the songs without knowing when he should have played them. More like he wants a surprise and he always ends his game with Fur Elise or Moonlight Sonata.

"They're here" Alvin said as he opened the door to the music room.

Stephanie and Caroline were already standing at the door of the music room. They stared intently at me, as if they had known where I was going for a week. If it wasn't William who told them, then it would have been Arthur who told them. My fault also instantly disappeared every hour of rest and made the two of them spend hours of rest just alone or with their gossip mates but seeing their sharp gazes, it seems like they always spend their rest time both looking for me. I put my feet up to them and just before I wanted to hug Stephanie, Alvin pushed me slowly and replaced me with a punch of Caroline's book.

"Wow, it's quite painful. I think Zeta would be in pain if she took this hit" Alvin said, looking at me and taking the stack of books in my hand.

Regardless of Caroline's apology, Alvin had already walked towards the classroom with a pile of my books in his hands. That was enough for me and the two twins immediately followed him. Every now and then Stephanie and Caroline nudged my arm, and now they moved their mouths asking if Alvin was angry at those I answered with a headband with a small smile.

I always wanted to ask Alvin the reason he always ignored other people. She always ignores Stephanie, Caroline and Arthur. It was only William and I that he never ignored. I assumed he was the same as William who had a trust issue but how could someone who had a trust issue seem to instantly act familiar to me who was someone he had never met before. And I ended up with the hypothesis that he was in energy-saving mode so heed others and only a few he responded to.

"Learn diligently and do not think negatively when I do not reply to your message" said Alvin so the same in front of my class

"Huh?"

"William told me."

"...."

"Bye," he said as he rubbed my hair.

William really had a big mouth.

It wasn't enough to watch me and report everything about me to Arthur, now he's also sharing it with Alvin. I still remember three days ago when Alvin hadn't replied to the message I sent him. I acted like the world was going to be destroyed and made the whole house confused by my attitude. Actually I was just asking him why he gave me the ring and he didn't return my message for three hours.

During that time, I repeatedly went up and down the stairs, ruffled William and Arthur's room, and certainly tore through the kitchen which eventually overwhelmed all the servants in my house. All of these things didn't even get me an answer to my question. Alvin just replied with a smile emoticon and made me think I had made a mistake because my long message was only answered with an emoticon. Surely I told this to my two brothers because only they were men who might know the contents of Alvin's mind. Who would have thought, William told this to Alvin.

"Zeta, are you really in love with Alvin?" stephanie asked as soon as we sat down.

"What do you mean?" reply me while putting the stack of books in my hand into the drawer.

Things have changed since Ken made the public announcement about our relationship. I originally thought friends would look pity on me or even try to pretend to comfort me, it turned out that I was wrong because the other friends were acting as usual as if the announcement had never happened. Like they do know there's nothing going on between me and Ken so the announcement isn't surprising.

Ken and Natasha's relationship is also increasingly recognized. Some people who often looked at Natasha's eyes, including the teachers, now they treated her very well. I think the title 'boyfriend of the Parker Family' has had a big impact on his life.

Ken himself, I don't know how he's doing after that. He did not go to school for 2 days and when he returned to school, I saw many forget bruises filling his body. It's certain he did some sparing with his father. Every time he wanted something or every time he did trouble for sure he would always do sparing with his father which ended up only his father who gave a punch and Ken just became a samsak of life. But now everything is back to normal and he is also getting more and more brave to show his relationship with Natasha. I should also be thankful that I am free from the nickname 'the faithful woman waiting' because in reality I do not like waiting at all.

Actually I can't call everything back to normal because William and Arthur are now Ken's number 1 haters. The two of them even nearly took Ken out of the basketball club if I hadn't taken action. I know how upset they are to Ken but inevitably all this remains my problem with Ken and I don't want my two brothers to interfere. I don't want to get a new nickname as the sister her brother has always protected. Although at all times I was always protected by both of them to the point that all my brother's friends contacted me to ask my whereabouts because it was certain that there was me there were also my brothers.

"Good day, kids. Looks like you're still lacking hours of rest" said Ms. Katie opened counseling lessons.

Ms. Katie's statement was only met with laughter by classmates. Ms. Katie is much different from other teachers who seem killer, besides being young enough she also always listens to what students complain about and of course gives a response to the complaint. This made him well-liked by almost all students in this school.

"Mother will share a piece of paper with your future ideals and desires. I'll wait until next week. Please look within yourself, what you want to do, what makes you happy, and what your expectations are in the future."

The hopes?

What hopes did I write last year?

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