The Lovely One's

Chapter 3: The Deal

To perfect her plan, Starla ordered snacks and soda drinks through online ordering, not forgetting to tip the clerk who brought her order up to one large plastic bag.

Starla sits sweetly in the television room, flipping through television channels that can catch her eye. After arriving at the last channel, he gave up, and chose to play a novel game on his mobile phone, named Sweet Revenge. "Ah, Mr. Rainer." he murmured. "Why is a loyal man like you only in novels?" his weakness.

"You should stop playing, and find a guy then."

The sound of innuendo right in Starla's ears made her startled instead of playing, she immediately turned her body, and found Denis' face so close to her, she immediately stood up in shock again. "You like it so much, do you surprise people?" tanyakanya.

Denis who was originally chin-backed on the head of the sofa slowly stood up straight. "You have to be more sensitive around you, don't just play games."

Starla rolled her eyeballs. "Talk to yourself." he said.

"I'm doing fine. See it? I'm handsome, have a boyfriend, friends hang out and a cool bike." Denis defended confidently. "I was slang, 'Sister'." he continued while emphasizing the word 'Sister'.

Starla gives up arguing, when it comes to who is better at social problems, she always loses but, when it comes to lessons, don't ask who will swallow bitterly. He pointed at the plastic on the sofa. "That's for you."

Denis was a little surprised to hear it, he immediately checked the contents of the plastic and his eyes twinkled knowing the contents of his favorite food and drinks, before he looked suspiciously at Starla. "From you, brother?" tanyakanya.

Starla nodded innocently.

Denis put the plastic bag back in place. "Why?" starla doesn't usually give food for free.

Starla already thought Denis would ask her all sorts of questions, "I need your help."

Denis thought for a moment, a little interested in Starla's request, not usually his sister asked for his help until giving her favorite food, must be something important. "Depends on what my role used to be."

"That" Starla doesn't really like to depend on Denis, but it takes two people to complete her mission. "I want you to keep Arthur busy tomorrow so I can leak the tires of the car,"

Denis' black eyes widened hearing his brother's explanation. "What did you do that for?" tanyanya. "I wouldn't do it if your reasons were for something ridiculous." And he knew what the consequences would be if the plan failed, he could have his bike confiscated by his parents.

Starla patted her forehead; of course with food still could not stem Denis' curiosity. "Listen. I just want to take the bus tomorrow to school with my friends, you know Mama and Papa are so hard to prevent me from taking the bus or public transportation."

"Oh," Denis understands now. "So you can't do it alone, because the waiter here is so obedient to Papa and Mama, you bribed me who didn't comply to be able to launch your action... ?"

Why did when she heard Denis comment, Starla felt like a top-class criminal? He just pulled the tires. "Well, whatever you want to mean, I just need you to distract Arthur like trying to get your bike fixed... ?"

"Hm..." Denis is still considering carefully; his brother's plans for him are too detrimental to him, considering he only gets food and drink. However, it finally agreed after seeing Starla's pinched face. "Alright," he said with a heavy sigh. "I'm on your little mission."

Starla clapped her hands happily. "Thank you Denis. You are indeed my dear sister." he praised as he ruffled Denis's black hair.

"Hey!" Denis brushed aside Starla's hand on her head, confirming her messy hairstyle, "We can celebrate this mission without touching my beautiful hair" she said slightly exasperated.

"I'm sorry, I'm too excited." Starla regretted.

Denis rolled his eyeballs. "Seriously. Finally Brother did something for the sake of Brother too. I'm proud."

"You mean?"

"I can see Big Brother doesn't like to take a car, it cuts time to play with friends. I've felt it too" Denis explained. "And at this age still do not have a boyfriend who plays to the house while Kak Luna and Kak Gea already, you must be so tortured huh?"

Starla's brown eyes were rounded; from which Denis could deduce the problem was that accurate? He understands about riding a car, Denis also used to be picked up by Arthur but, because Denis was a grown man, his father gave a waiver, different from him; he did not understand the status of love his friends. "Where do you know about Luna and Gea?"

Starla patted him on the forehead; she forgot that Denis liked older women; more mature and understanding. And did Denis laugh instead of defending his suffering to his friends who laughed at him? "You should find another hobby, Denis."

"I'm fine like this" Denis said casually. "When we grow up, we can't do things with friends because I'm sure they will be busy pursuing their own goals" he explained. "So be content playing now to not regret later."

Starla smiles; although sometimes Denis likes to be ignorant to her to sometimes make her scream, among her family, Denis who understands her the most, is, maybe because they were only two years apart so they understood the situation a lot more. "You're right, Mr. Denis."

Denis was stunned for a moment before finally laughing which followed by Starla later.

After that they decided to play a game together then have dinner while discussing tomorrow's plans.

***

After dinner with Denis, Starla returned to her bedroom and continued to sketch her comics, this time he chose to draw on the balcony window of his room while looking at the sky decorated with stars tonight in addition to the beautiful maybe he could get the idea of drawing.

Starla exhaled, thinking whether she should buy a screen tone that was expensive? He exhaled while closing his sketchbook.

Even if he buys a screen tone, he will not submit the comic to the publisher.

Starla recalls that Gea created her fakebook account yesterday, and she hasn't been able to check it at all. "Yes, he did not like to see his old-fashioned friend himself" he told himself.

Starla still remembers Gea also made her a friendstar account but, not yet had she played, fakebook appeared and immediately took over the trend of children at school precisely all teenagers in Indonesia, he is a little sad because honestly he prefers friendstar because it can use cute themes on the homepage of the account in contrast to the fakebook that there is no theme selection, because there is no selection of themes, he hopes there will be a theme also in fakebook someday.

"Hm," Starla turned on the internet on her phone, opened the fakebook site, entered the address and password that Gea sent through the message, and then clicked in. "Huh!?" he was a little surprised to have had friendships reaching hundreds when he just opened this account. He believes Gea played his account. His hand moved down to look at the status of his 'friends' and his eyes were fixed on the image of a man reading something in his hand, next to him was the Headmaster Mother. "The new boy" the photo says.

Starla was unable to clearly see the new boy's face as the picture was only taken from the side plus his face was covered in a black— mask

"Wait a minute!" Starla felt familiar with the young man's body, she checked again carefully. "Is this my feeling or is he really similar to the man in the pharmacy just now?"

The only difference was the clothes, the man in the pharmacy was wearing a dark blue jacket while the young man was wearing his school uniform.

Starla brought the phone closer to her face, not forgetting she zoomed the picture to a point where her face looked for a mole mark and if lucky could get the color of the young man's eyes, she said, and exhaling a disappointed breath none of it got. "The photo was taken on her right side while the mole was under her left eye."

Starla is really unlucky when it comes to men's issues.

"Whatever," he said indifferently; right or not will affect, right? The new boy will tweet when he hears his surname. "The Princess' curse won't make my love smooth. Remember?"

The young man would not necessarily be as handsome as Rendy, Ferdian or any other man.

What was already the Iqbal who he said was rumored to be a handsome new boy who would rival Rendy and Ferdian, was not in accordance with his expedition.

"Maybe it's not the guy who runs off, but I'm the one who set the standard too high" Starla muttered to herself.

Although Iqbal is naughty, it deserves a thumbs up that his face is handsome but, somehow he is not interested at all, his eyes are wrong or—

"Maybe there's something wrong with me." Starla was second-guessing, before long she patted her forehead. "good. I'm talking to myself. Neighbors will think no." he doesn't want any more trouble. It's a small yawn.

Anything can be thought of later.

"I hope tomorrow goes well." Pinta Starla slowly.