THE ABOVE THE CLOUD(ABC)

31. First Debut

At two o'clock in the evening, Reksa finished recording the documents for the day.

He then went to the kitchen to get a drink and went to the living room to watch television. Tomorrow, Sunday– is one of the holidays that Mutual rarely get. During these two-three months he continued to work without pause.

Previously, she had left to accompany Sera; mutual had forgotten when the last time she had time for herself.

Although in fact he only had half a day off, before he started to take care of the documents again.

The mutual presses the remote, moving from one station to another before stopping at the ball broadcast.

Even when one of the teams scored an opponent and the atmosphere started to tense up, Muta watched flatly. He rarely watches it. He is not very familiar with sports.

So busy working.

In the midst of the first half break, the broadcast went into the news quickly that night.

[...A gold-theft inmate managed to escape while being moved from a prison to a hospital. Layers that are placed are low class where public facilities such as health rooms are not available. The thief and the victim of the stabbing with a fork in this washcloth managed to escape in an injured state.].

Mutual thought there were many loopholes in the news broadcast that time. The mutual saw the portrait that was shown on the screen for a few seconds before the broadcast moved to a long advertisement. Then the ball broadcast again began ten minutes later.

He didn't think long. To him, the news was only a wind past.

Half an hour tired of watching tv, Reksa decided to sleep. He went to check Sera's room first.

His little daughter slept soundly, safely, without anything less. Reksa stroked Sera's head before turning off the lights that Sera used to forget.

That night was the same as the night before. Tomorrow may not be so different from any other day.

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Two years later.

New month, new school year.

Today is the first day Sera entered SD. Mutual choose private private schools that are still one complex with Kindergarten Sera before.

Sera is escorted to school with Shain, as usual. Since it's Monday, the day's uniform wears a red white; with a checkered red vest. Complete with hat and tie.

Sera goes to class. His eyes were counting fast the disciples inside. There were thirteen children in total, including her. Before he arrived, two homeroom teachers were already present for the first day of school to appeal to the students.

Sera directly in between to seat–actually she chose herself.

The front seat is definitely filled. Sera sat in the third row, finally.

Beside him, a boy with glasses, sitting in an orderly manner still with the scent of powder enveloping.

The boy and the other boy looked ordinary. The one who was concerned was the child sitting in front of Sera. Sera was curious since then.

The boy was blond with reddish white skin, a pointed nose and honey-brown eyes. His uniform was the same as the others, but his face was too cheerful and his head did not stop looking back and forth. From the features of his face, this child is similar to the child that Sera often sees in western films.

Noticing Sera's gaze, the boy turned around and waved his hand.

"Hi."

Sera had heard this kind of greeting. He waved his hand back.

"My name David. What's yours?" (My name is David. What's your name?)

"David?" Sera repeated in her heart. Uh, his face and his name

it was a bit different from what Sera thought.

"Sera." Sera understood a few words, but personally she was not able to string English sentences. And by the way, Sera is no longer slurred. He's been able to pronounce the letter R since a year ago.

David turned to the boy in glasses. He is not very interested in talking to girls.

"Hey, what's your name?"

Sera thought the boy beside her would not answer. Unexpectedly, the boy replied.

"I'm Irfan."

"Hi Irfan's. Do you think I can be your friend?" (Hi Irfan, can I be your friend?)

"Sure." To his surprise, the child beside Sera answered steadily.

Sera thought the child beside her was quiet. But he was wrong. As soon as David began to actively ask, Irfan became active in talking.

To be honest, Sera did not understand most of the conversation of the two. He only knew 'name', as well as short vocabulary like 'sure', 'yes', 'no'. The rest of Sera had no ideas.

David, Sera understands. Looking at his figure, this child might be growing up abroad. But Irfan, Sera was amazed by the shrewdness of his language. He also does not see any characteristics of strangers in Irfan.

David's interest was broad and brief. After chatting with Irfan, he immediately jumped onto the others.

Irfan, who lost his first chatter in class, returns as a quiet boy. The curious Sera finally opened her voice.

"Why do you speak English?"

Irfan was silent for a while looking ahead before realizing Sera was talking to him. She's looking.

"Are you talking to me?" (You talking to me?) Irfan asked while pointing at himself.

Sera doesn't understand. Just understanding his hand movements. Sera blinked, then asked again.

"Where did you learn the language?"

Irfan was silent for a moment before opening his mouth.

"Sorry, I can't speak the language. I'm still learning." (I'm sorry I don't speak Indonesian. I'm still learning). Irfan replied while shaking slowly.

Sera was getting dizzy hearing that answer. He doesn't understand. Why did Sera ask, she replied in a foreign language? Their conversation was not connected at all.

Sera glanced at the cool David jumping around and over chatting in English.

Sera frowned and shifted to sit staring at the blackboard in front.

He listened to the voices around him, he only heard English. Only he himself does not understand.

Not likely.

Sera did not give up. He wanted to find someone else who agreed with him. Sera turned around and found the seat behind her already filled up. A girl in a hood sits there.

"Hi, what's your name? I'm Khalia." The girl smiled sweetly as she extended a hand.

Sera understood the meaning of the sentence and its gesture. He welcomed while replying 'Sera.'

"You are the very first person I know in this class. I hope we can be friends. by the way. Me and my Mom bake a cookies yesterday night…"

Sera received a packet of pastries while listening to Khalia blabbering long.

Sera thought, could it be that she would be forever alone in this class?

Sera suddenly misses Akmal. It's a shame that their classes are different.

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