The Lovely One's

Chapter 5: Free

Starla stopped running for a moment to take her breath. "This mission is so exhausting.." he muttered in his breath; still can't believe he and Denis managed to trick Arthur that easily or rather use Arthur's kindness to smooth out their plans.

Starla certainly feels a little guilty because if this incident to sound his parents must be Arthur who was first called is not himself; looks like he will still ask to be picked up when he comes home so he can talk to clear up the matter with Arthur.

"But of all that, I succeeded!" starla exclaimed cheerfully, she even jumped up excitedly four-five; it was a pity that Denis was not here.

At that moment, a car stopped beside him.

Starla turned her head, looking at who was inside. "Denis!?" the excitement was shocked when the glass was lowered showing the figure of his sister smirking innocence. "You have a double mission" he said.

Of course food and drink were not enough for Denis.

"It's boring that you're the only one having fun, brother" Denis said.

Starla rolled her eyeballs. "Whatever. But thanks for helping me."

"No-no," Denis refused. "Thank you, Brother."

Starla raised her eyebrows confused, not understanding the meaning of Denis' words, she only understood when her sister patted the steering wheel. "You're gonna get into Denis' big trouble." he warned.

"I'm not worried, because there's a big brother defending me later" Denis said casually. "So it's yes, I'm first, brother."

"Wait," Starla feels something is wrong only she doesn't remember what it is.

What's...

"Yes, Brother!"

What's...

Starla finally remembered it. "Denis wait—" unfortunately he's too late, Denis has gone. "The car tire valve was removed." he lamented. He believes after returning to school, Denis will protest all-out to him.

'Solar.'

Starla takes her phone to send a message to Luna whether the bus has passed at a stop near her home, and at that moment he realized that his phone was in silent mode which ended his curiosity why his phone alarm did not sound.

Starla does like to change the mode of her phone to silent when drawing, she needs high concentration when drawing, the phone is her main enemy because it can interfere with her concentration, which initially only checks messages or phones, the phone, often ends up opening social media for hours so he decides to switch silent mode until he finishes drawing.

After Starla sent a message to Luna, she continued her footsteps to the school bus stop, a little accelerated fearfully already getting there.

"Hm, hm, hm.." Starla's lips hummed with joy enjoying this first freedom, even the buildings and houses she passed by looked so beautiful, as if glittering in her eyes; how long had he wanted to feel this kind of spirit again? The feeling of his spirit gathering in his chest seemed to want to explode. "Oh," was so happy that he didn't realize he had reached the bus stop, there were two girls in uniform like him who indicated that the bus had not yet arrived.

Starla was lucky this time.

"Oh," his phone rang, he checked, which turned out to be from Luna, containing a school bus that had not arrived because it was stuck in traffic for a while, he decided not to reply because the bus finally arrived at its place, he could also see Luna inside waving at him; he waved back as well, then entered after the two girls who had come first.

"Finally you did it too" said Luna.

Starla wags her black hair full of pride. "Starla Annora is fighting."

Luna laughed a little. "What floor do we want to sit on?" tanyakanya.

Starla glanced around the bus, and she realized that the bus was not as crowded as she thought it was the last stop on her school bus. "Is the condition always this way?"

"No" said Luna. "It's usually full but there was an addition of one more bus yesterday so it's a little bit reduced" he explained. "Isn't nice? We can choose a chair, all this time I always crammed here even if it's bad, I can stand up to school." he said, considering there are men who do not want to exchange with him.

Did they not know that elderly people, people with disabilities, pregnant women are preferred to sit in public transportation? Luna is not pregnant but she is definitely more needy.

Starla did not dare to laugh or comment, she did not want to provoke Luna's anger, let her be a place to complain, she was in a good mood as well. "Hm" his eyes looked for an empty chair and there was only one back if there was only one empty for one person. "How about we check upstairs?"

Luna nodded, and walked towards the top floor followed by Starla from behind.

"Hm..." Luna thought. "We can sit close together, you in front, me in the back, or vice versa... ?" his suggestion.

It wasn't a bad idea just an empty chair next to an all-male.

"How do we get downstairs?" ask Starla. "There's only boys here."

"What?" Luna looked at Starla in disbelief. "Just sit down, the bus's been running" he ordered.

Starla wants to protest again just to be undone, indeed other intentions also want to see handsome men, although that does not mean having to sit with them. He walked over to a young man sitting alone in the front, unable to guess whether he was asleep or not because he was blocked by the school hat.

'He was diligent in disposable school hats.' Starla said in her heart.

"Excuse me," said Starla politely. "Can you slide for a second? I'm gonna sit down." the door was smooth.

The young man confirmed the location of his hat in order to see clearly who woke up his sleep, knowing a girl, he immediately responded quickly. "May," he said briefly, he rose to his feet so that Starla could sit in the corner.

Starla herself was a little shocked; her feelings alone or did the young man have gray eyes like the man she met yesterday? He was not too sure because he had only caught a glimpse of it; he was sitting with a curious feeling whether his eyes were right, unfortunately the young man lowered his hat again to make it difficult to analyze further.

Starla wanted to ask Luna but the one she was talking about was right beside her, surely the young man would hear it might even be offended to be gossiped about.

'Why is it that men who interest me always wear masks?' starla lamented in her heart.

Remembering the mask, Starla realized that she was not wearing it as well, her cough was not as bad as yesterday just had to be on guard.

Gea's advice was firmly planted in his head. Where is his friend too? Gea also takes the bus when she goes to school.

Starla took the rest of the mask inside her bag, then put it on, while doing so the entire contents of her bag fell because she had not closed it. "Aah, man,"

Again and again.

Self-careless.

Not wanting to make the young man beside her distracted, Starla immediately started picking up her fallen possessions, she managed to collect all of them just one of her lip gloss, which was hers, because it was light so it rolled in front of the young man's feet.

Starla hesitates a little to pick it up, should she wait for the bus to stop or not, if waiting there is a chance her lip gloss will be trampled given the close distance however, he also could not take it without coming into contact with the young man.

"I think I'll take it out she's gone." muttered Starla resigned to the circumstances.

Lip gloss is indeed not expensive only he bought it using his own money, as his own pride.

"Need help?"

"Eh?" Starla was stunned the young man let out his voice, and again she felt that the voice of the young man was also unfamiliar, his voice was almost the same as the man yesterday. Before he could respond, the young man took a lip gloss between his legs and handed it to him. He did not rush to take it, he allowed himself to take the opportunity to see the young man's eyes, and his guess was correct if it was indeed the young man he met yesterday, moles on the left eye as well as the gray eye confirmed his conjecture. With a knotty smile, he took out a lip gloss in the young man's hand. "Thank you."

The young man nodded, this time not continuing his sleep instead gazing forward, looking at the scenery outside.

Starla's cheeks heated up, not expecting to see the man again yesterday and also them one school, she thought about which class the young man was from, she said, he had never heard of any of the European students at his school.

'Is he the new boy being talked about?'

Isn't the new kid from Japan not Europe?

Maybe the young man was her underclassman considering Starla didn't find out much about them.

Whatever it was, the young man managed to get some attention from him.

This mission didn't end too badly either...