Moon & Stars (Revised)
Section 54. A Monotonous Story
Renata had not finished eating the chicken noodles she ordered a few minutes ago, but the Moon had already moved from her seat. In fact, if Renata noticed the girl's chicken noodles were not half touched. Of course it invites questions in Renata's mind, also confused in the look of the face.
“Why, Lan?” asked Renata, continue to feed the chicken noodles into the mouth and chew it.
“Gue first, yes. Go to toilet bentar.” Month permit pamit.
Renata seemed to weigh in, until he finally nodded. Months passed, leaving Renata in a hurry to finish her chicken noodles. Also sipping out the sweet iced tea in the cup that was only half. Then, the girl went up and rushed over to the friend, who in a blink of an eye had already disappeared from view as soon as she raised her face. Renata was just waiting for him in class.
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The school corridor was already quite quiet when the Moon passed by it. There were only a few students passing by and out of the teacher's room. Usually they are told to take a package book of related subjects in.
The girl just came out of the toilet. Faintly heard the bell sign of the break time sounded while paying debts in the room earlier.
The gripping atmosphere is enough to make the hair goosebumps. I don't know why this should feel a little different than usual. The sunlight seemed to have no effect on the Moon. Not make it a little tinder. Across the street, Moon saw some male students in the corridor flicking their lapels. Sweat clearly drenched the face of the student.
At the junction of the corridor, the Moon's steps suddenly came to a halt. A scene quite caught his attention in the corridor to the left.
The girl squinted her eyes, sharpening her vision. That's .. Is it not Mr Andre? Ask in the heart.
Who is the two-pronged girl that was with him? Why could they be that close for status between a teacher and a disciple? Do they have family relationships? And, why would you have to chat in such a deserted place? What was the topic of their discussion on that team?
The questions flashed on Moon's head when he saw Andre, the young teacher who smiled sweetly at him yesterday on his first day as a freshman, was chatting coolly with a schoolgirl on the porch of the barn. Undeniably, some bad prejudices began to appear in the heart.
“Get rid of all your bad thoughts about my uncle. He's a fine man.” The back breeze like the wind whispering in the ear made the girl's daydream crumble.
The moon jumped in shock and reflexes looked back. The flat roar of the Star that first entered his sense of sight was right in front of his face. The stack of books in the man's hands managed to attract his attention.
The star stepped forward and stopped right beside the girl. He turned his head to the side just as the Moon was still flabbergasted by its existence. The star guessed in the heart of the girl wondered since when she was here.
A sneery smile and snort as the boy's voice opener.
“Don't like kepo same other people's business. That's no benefit for you, even added sin,” ketus Bintang before passing away.
The moon is in place. The star had already left, but his words were still imprinted on his head. Those words were too to the point to insinuate. Stabbed and managed to silence him like a statue.
Until when he looked again at the terrace of the building, the two people were no longer there. Everything came back to the way it was. Silent.
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“You're aware, no, anyway? The storyline of the novel published last year was too monotonous.”
The bespectacled man with a contemptuous face shape seemed to stop his hand dancing on a laptop keyboard. The prologue to the new story he was working on had just been written.
The girl in two braids and the cute baby-like face could see the reflection of the monitor screen on the male glasses beside her as she turned her head. A bright light in the room that makes it visible.
Long time just staring at each other and silence that took over, until the man opened his voice. In fact, the girl had already turned her face away because it was uncomfortable looking too long. Even though the man beside her was her own twin brother. However, his intimidating gaze had always mastered and shrunk the girl's guts.
“Novel Month & Stars?” the man asked back. Mentioning the title of the teenfiction genre novel by the two of them is popular among teenagers.
A nod from the girl made him shut up for a while. The hand went back to dancing agilely on the keyboard. Focus back on the monitor screen. He seemed to be fondling what kind of narrative was good as the opening scene in the first chapter of his new story.
“So?” The man's voice was heard again. In between typing activities. Unkempt, his activities again stopped when the girl made a sound.
“We need revision. Our groove is overhauled, but the core of the story remains the same.” The girl answered steadily. Once again he read carefully the disheveled writing last night on the HVS-paper before it was handed over to his older brother, the man beside him. Seen, some words or even sentences are crossed out, then replaced with new ones when felt less sreg.
“So, what kind of groove do you want? Have ideas?” The narrow-eyed man watched his sister's activities with a dubious look.
The girl did not answer. He was just focusing on correcting.
The chindo man's words came to a halt as a paper stuck toward him. Doubtfully take over the paper and read it. His first expression when reading the first sentence was a frown. Until the look slowly fades on its own. At the end of the sentence, he looked choked. His last question that was truncated felt very difficult to swallow raw.
“How?” The girl raised an eyebrow in response when the sister finished her reading and raised her face and looked at her flat. His heart was racing, afraid that his brother did not agree or less sreg with the new groove he made.
“Keren. I like.”
Three words, but it means a lot to the girl. A faint smile instantly rose on the lips. The flat face of the brother now no longer affects his heartbeat.
“OK, the story we remodel.”
The conversation between the two brothers ended. His second attention now turns to the chindo man's mobile phone that rings on the table. The Caller id on the phone screen made the two throw a glance at each other, before the man finally raised the call.
“Iya? Hello, Mister. What's up?” When the silence that sounded as soon as the call was connected, the man took the initiative to start the conversation.
“Halo, Roy. Good night.” A heavy male voice sounded from across.
Intentionally the man called Roy by the caller was silent and did not answer the greeting-just wanted to hear the follow-up sentence of the caller. He's the kind of person who doesn't like to talk.
“How's the new script, Roy? It's done, huh?”
A thin smile seemed to decorate the lips. “Not yet, Sir. This is still in the process of writing,” replied Roy further chuckled.
“Oh, okay-okay. I wait until the script is completed.” Response from across.
“Ready, Sir.”
Tut!
And the call was cut off.
The chindo man known as Roy was keeping the phone away from the ear and put it back where it came from.
Plaque!
A loud clap on the shoulder made him complain and stare at the perpetrator sharply.
“What?!” his tanyanya held back furiously.
Rani, her sister really likes to upset her.
”Why not ask about the storyline of the Moon & Star novel that we want to remodel?!” reply Rani with stifled screeches.
“Lupa,” said Roy lightly.
Rani twists her puffed-up eyes.
“Before, I chat.”
Roy grabbed the phone back and chatted the publishing team who contacted him earlier. Before long, a smile appeared to decorate his face making Rani guessed the publishing team with their decision to change the storyline of the novel that has been published.
Roy and Rani, two high school teens who are very inspiring to other teens their age. A year ago, the writing world was shocked when the two brothers published their first novel and managed to steal the public attention.
Rani is good at making storylines, while Roy who is good at expressing Rani's ideas becomes beautiful writing that is easy to read. From them, a work was created.
They are twin brothers who complement each other.
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