THE ABOVE THE CLOUD(ABC)

30. Chicks among chicks..

Akmal always thought that he was a genius. Different from the others. Anyway, he's a great kid. The other chicks.

When a new kid comes to school boring him, Akmal thinks he's an ordinary kid.

At first he and the others played each other. Over time, the children began to play in groups. Then one time the children played in a group with the new child as the main focus.

Akmal grinned. Huh, little boy.

Then one time he was asked to answer Master's question, Akmal refused to answer and chose to play his puzzle. He thought, just spend time answering that trivial question. There was no sense of accomplishment at all competing with these chicks.

But the new boy took over and answered boldly.

Akmal started to notice afterwards. He also realized that the child was different from other children.

At least, the boy understood Akmal's words without needing to be explained. This kid is smart, right?

One day, the boy was–his name was Sera. He approached Akmal and asked what he was doing.

Akmal plays a puzzle of twelve squares. One box is empty, so that the other boxes can arrange and shift to produce images.

Akmal is compiling the third row. He's been training for three days. Akmal predicted he would make it today. If he's not busy, of course.

"What are you playing?"

"Puzzle." Akmal generously replied, thinking this child deserves an answer to his intelligence. Although the intelligence is still somewhat below the level of Akmal.

"Oh puzzle. That's easy, huh."

"What?" Akmal would not lift his face.

Sera with a flat face that looked bored blinked her eyes.

"That's look. When are you finished?" Although the pronunciation is slow, but every word is pronounced eloquently. Unless the lisp can't be removed. Akmal looked down on this.

"Oh? Yeudah you're trying to settle this." Unlike him who is slurred, Akmal can call the letter R fluently.

"Catsauce. Let's try." Akmal deliberately emphasized the letter R.

Sera looked at Akmal for a few seconds before agreeing.

Akmal scrambled back the boxes he had already stacked. The picture on the board returns irregular. Sera sat across from him and began to move one by one the box.

Up, down, left, right, and then spin so repeatedly.

Akmal scoffs. As one line composes, he thought it was easy. All children can. The difficult thing is to determine the right steps so that the image below can be arranged without having to lose the finished image in the top row.

But the second line then compiles. Akmal started to frown.

As the fourth row moves, Akmal sees Sera sliding back all the boxes.

Akmal felt confident that Sera was in trouble. But a second later, the last image shifted into place. Puzzle complete.

"Have you played this before?" Akmal growled towards Sera.

"It's me playing the bitch." It means Sera's just playing now. Firwst time.

Akmal doesn't believe it.

Akmal did not accept himself losing. He eventually chose to mock his opponent's weakness despite having nothing to do with it.

"She.ka.rang."

"Secondary."

"'Now', not 'Sekalang'!"

Sera was still winking. The boy opened his mouth as if he were saying something. But when Ma Guru came in and called the children to gather, the little girl in front of Akmal shut her mouth. When Akmal winked, Sera's eyes were red and welled. Akmal blinked again, he suddenly heard a strong cry breaking from Sera.

Akmal who witnessed it instantly froze on the spot.

'what happened? Where's she? How did this happen?'

Questions swirled in his head. Akmal did not understand how the child who was still ignorant and smiling suddenly cried.

At that time the other children immediately gathered around Sera. The Mother Teacher.

Everyone asked what was the matter, worried about Sera's grief.

His guard, Shain–if it's not wrong it's his name. He looked agitated and wanted to go inside. But stopped because he saw Mother Teacher who tried to calm Sera.

Akmal saw that Sera's bodyguard was contacting someone. Akmal panic. He glanced at Roger, his bodyguard. He knew Roger was paying attention to himself, and definitely knew what was going on.

Akmal always put a jutek face on Roger. How about Roger report Akmal to Shain for revenge for his shock? What if his father finds out?

The people around Sera were still worried. Behind the crack, Akmal saw Sera opening her eyes and glancing at her.

Akmal, who was panicking, finally cried.

But he didn't want to.

How could she cry like a child!!

That night Akmal's parents spoiled Akmal like there was no tomorrow. How not? Their youngest son is usually stiff and cold, like everyone owes him.

He thought his cousins were stupid and mocked them. Akmal's brothers were also considered low–at least the eyes were so expressive. It is hard for people to feel unsettled.

Still small, people can understand. Some even thought it was sweet. But if it is big, this trait will only make people stay away.

When they heard reports that Akmal was crying at school, his parents did not believe him.

Roger told me everything he saw. Although he only guessed based on the movements from outside the window.

Akmal, who had guessed that Roger would report, was embarrassed to learn that people knew at last that he was crying.

But Akmal was surprised to see his parents asking warmly. Even his older brother lent him his favorite toy car.

When Akmal accidentally bumped him into the wall, his older brother just rubbed his head. He said he could buy again.

Akmal did not understand what was wrong that day. She was crying, and everyone was nice to her. Sera also did not report about him mocking Sera to Madam Guru.

Akmal thinks everyone's good to him. He was the only one who did evil, but everyone didn't know.

He's a bad boy.

Akmal then cried again, making the whole house panic.

The next day, assisted by eye compresses by his mother at night, Akmal returned to school. Although his eyes were a bit red, there was no swelling at all.

He just looked a little sleepy than usual.

Akmal sat in his usual spot, this time with a new puzzle. He got this after his dad asked him what he wanted. Akmal obviously asked this not to draw Sera's attention so she could apologize. Nope.

Akmal tried to play but he was not focused. As Sera reached that morning, Akmal became increasingly unable to concentrate. He pretended to be playing a puzzle.

"You bought balu?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"Oh. Are you crying again at home?"

Akmal raised his head in surprise and exclaimed, trying to hide his embarrassment. "No!!"

"...." - ".Sera just stared straight at Akmal. The tip of the little girl's mouth was pulled slightly upwards.

"...You!!" This kid is playing himself! Akmal didn't take a wrong look, the girl in front of him was really mocking him!

"Can I play this?" Sera pointed at the puzzle in front of Akmal.

"No!!" At first, not anymore.

"I can do this."

Akmal knows that if Sera manages to solve this puzzle, inevitably he has to admit that Sera is better than him. Because this puzzle is not made by anyone but by his father!! Directly printed 3D printer overnight!

"Can't!!"

"Hehe." Sera's light laughter gave Akmal goosebumps.

When Madam Guru appeared on the front door of the class that morning, Akmal's hand instinctively pushed the puzzle towards Sera.

"Oh, you're so good." Sera said and accepted the puzzle happily.

Akmals:...

No! I'm not lending it!! Not at all!!

Akmal was sure that only he was aware of how evil Sera was.

Akmal refuses to talk to the child in front of him!!

Fifteen minutes later after prayer and singing, Akmal was busy arguing with Sera about which was stronger between the Tiger and the Lion.

"The face is stronger. He's a big and a splint. The lion is killed by an elephant." Sera said at last.

Akmal thinks this is between the Tiger and the Lion. Cannivores with forest ruler criteria. It has nothing to do with elephants.

But in retrospect the word Sera was right too. Tiger and Lion are smaller than Elephant. He's seen right into the zoo. So Akmal can vouch for this fact.

"So the rhino is also stronger than the lion and tiger." Akmal finally expressed his opinion.

The topic revolved around here and there before jumping into water animals that were as large as Elephants. Before jumping into the topic 'today at home I want to do something'.

Akmal was not aware that he no longer thought the school was boring.

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