Thank you, Samuel

eight

Olive looked at the group of children who were cheerfully playing with each other, Olive looked at them with a small smile. Both of Olive's hands held onto the swing rope she was sitting on. Seeing the children playing makes him remember when he was their age.

The flashback

*little Olive was sitting pensively alone on the swing, she stared sadly at her other friends. The other friends look very cheerful playing together without inviting Olive to join.

When Olive looked down sad, suddenly there was a shadow of someone standing in front of her. Olive then looked up to see who the person was, Olive frowned at the figure of a boy who seemed to be the same age as herself.

"Who are you?" ask Olive on the boy.

"Know, my name is Mark" said the boy, sticking out his hand to ask for a handshake. "Whose name are you?" ask Mark then.

"I-I'm Olivia, my name is Olivia, but you can call me Olive!" replied Olive, replying to Mark's hand. Mark then smiled in response and sat down on the swing next to Olive.

"Greetings yes, if you know you just moved here huh?" mark asked, Olive nodded.

"Yes, I just moved yesterday" Olive replied with a smile.

"That's why we're neighbors!" Mark suddenly became cheerful upon hearing that. "So yesterday I saw the transport car to the house next door, it must be your house, right??" mark said still with his cheerful face.

"Yes." replied Olive, Mark smiled broadly again.

"So we can play with dong every day, asikk!!" mark said happily, Olive smiled broadly in response. I don't know why now Olive is so happy to make new friends.

"So come on come with me! I'll get to know you to my other friends!" invite Mark with enthusiasm while pulling Olive's hand, Olive just nodded her ass and returned a big smile when Mark introduced her to his friends.

After getting acquainted with everything, his new friends including Mark immediately invited Olive to join. Olive was invited to play hide-and-seek and it happened that Olive was part of the guard.

"One.. two.. three..... nine... ten!!" exclaimed Olive when she said the number ten, "I'm looking for you guys!!" exclaim Olive again and start looking for her friends.

Olive saw the silhouette of a friend hiding behind a mango tree. Olive immediately approached him with a spirit run.

"Meet!!" olive exclaimed to surprise her friend who was really hiding behind a mango tree.

"Yaahhh. met dehh.." lamented the boy named Roses.

"Hehee.." Olive just chuckled then continued looking for the others with the Rose following her from behind. Olive walked with her gaze looking for her other friend who was hiding.

But Olive's gaze was even distracted by a kitten who was silent in the middle of the road. Olive immediately approached the kitten with enthusiasm. But because he was too excited to approach the kitten, Olive's legs so stumbled over the stone that made Olive fall.

"AWW!!" screams Olive in pain then sobbed, The rose that was behind Olive instantly helped Olive to stand up.

"Olive you gapapa?" ask the worried Rose while helping Olive to sit down.

"Hikks.a knee-I'm sick.." replied Olive while sobbing. Rose then looked at Olive's knee and sure enough, it turned out Olive's knee was bleeding. Suddenly the others came straight to Olive.

"Olive you why??" mark asked worried and panicked.

"My knee hurts." said Olive, pointing at her knee. Mark's eyes immediately widened when he saw the blood pouring on Olive's knee. With a swift Mark directly bent his body back to Olive. Olive just looked at him confused.

"Let's get on my back! I'll take your wounds at home." tell Mark to pat himself on the back. Olive stared hesitantly for a while, but eventually Olive climbed onto Mark's back. Mark stood up and walked home.

"Temen-temen, I'm ahead!" mark shouted as he walked a few steps.

"Your friend!! This is why I've got a bloodbath!!" mark shouted as he sat Olive on the sofa in the tv room.

"Who dear?!" aini asked frantically as she approached, Aini is Mark's mother.

"This is mah, Mark's new friend and our new neighbor." replied Mark while Aini swiftly took the p3k box.

"Mark help you get some water in that little basin! Take some cotton too!" tell Aini, Mark immediately nodded obediently and began to take the item his mother mentioned earlier.

"It's mah." said Mark shortly afterwards with a small basin filled with water and cotton. Aini then began to clean Olive's wound and treated it with red medicine and covered it with a bandage.

Mark was only focused on watching his mother who looked painstakingly treating. "Nahh. has finished." said Aini while smiling at Olive.

"Thank you aunt." said Olive with a small smile.

"Yes dear, equally." said Aini while wiping the tears of Olive who was still perched. "You must be Yasmine's son, huh?" ask Aini later.

"Yes aunty, I know my name is Olive." said Olive introduced herself.

"Aunty name, Aini. Your name is really pretty, like your own." praise Aini with a warm smile, Olive just smiled shyly.

"Don't you like brownies?" tanya Aini who makes the look of Olive's face immediately cheerful.

"Like it!" exclaimed Olive was happy which made Aini laugh happily.

"Nahh. if once you join the aunt to the dining room yuk, it happens that aunt abis made brownies." invite Aini, Olive then nodded her assent. Because Olive's leg was still sore, Aini carried Olive into the dining room. Mark just followed from behind, somehow Mark was happy to see Olive was no longer crying.

**flashback off***

Olive smiled remembering everything, she smiled remembering the times she first befriended Mark. At that time he was very small, maybe at that time still sitting on the bench TK. Olive always remembered from that moment they were getting more familiar and often playing together.

Even sometimes Olive always stay at Mark's house because he is too comfortable to play. To the extent that his sister Kara always scolded him every time he whined asking to stay at Mark's house.

Olive looked at the shoes she was wearing, she remembered when she bought them. The shoes were the ones he bought with Mark a few months ago, when they were both exploring a new market and they decided to buy whatever they were going to match. Starting from clothes, shoes, hats etc.

And Olive remembered when they were going home, heavy rain instead fell and made them both have to take shelter. The two of them decided to take shelter at the chicken porridge sale, and maybe because the rain did not subside. They were both determined to break through the rain and even rain towards the parking lot.

The next day they both fell ill and did not go to school. Olive remembers that Aini's mother was overwhelmed by the two who fell ill at the same time. And in the end still they both remain recalcitrant and even all day playing ps which makes both scolded.

Olive was still smiling little considering everything, Olive sighed when she realized that everything was no longer what it used to be or yesterday.

Because the figure of Mark now has changed drastically, in contrast to the Mark that Olive knows. Olive's gaze was then diverted when she saw a girl sitting on the swing beside her. The boy looked gloomy with his gaze staring at the group of children who were busy playing.

Olive then gasped a little, she felt like she could see her figure as a child. When he still had no friends. Olive wants to say hello to the girl. But his intention immediately stopped when he saw a boy who seemed to be the same age as the girl, standing in front of the girl.

"Why don't you play? Come play with me!" take the boy with you while extending his hand. The girl was silent for a while, and then grabbed the boy's hand which made the boy smile.

The girl smiled and joined the other child. Olive was just staring at the spot, she was still frozen to see the incident earlier. Something that reminds him of his childhood.

An incident that reminded him of the figure who was ignoring him right now.

Marks