The Season of Reaching the Stars

Chapter 2's

The atmosphere of the school was still quiet, which sounded just Laura's footsteps in the hallway of the classroom. Today's the first day Laura will occupy her new class in 3rd grade. Like the previous year, his pace was stalled in front of the school mading. Again he saw a list of students on the wall.

His heart is beating fast. He saw the list of class 3 IPA 1 names. His name is on that list. No. 22, Laura Amalia. Slowly his finger lands looking at the list of names below. Lily... Leonels.... Lily... Margaret... Michael... Moira... Natalie's... Niko. No. 29 Niko Fareli's. Luara until must see it 2 times to be sure. He closed his eyes and opened them again. That name still exists. A big smile adorned his lips. Finally he can be in class with Niko. Laura jumped in excitement.

Laura ran to her new classroom. He saw the whole class was empty. For the next 1 year he will spend the rest of his High School in the same room as Niko.

~•••~

Two days later, Laura looked at Niko who was signing autographs for the 1st grade students. As Chairman of Osis, Niko was very busy during the school orientation period. But unlike his 2nd mate who pranks his underclassmen and gives his signature without asking them to do anything. This made Laura love him even more.

Suddenly Niko meets Laura, Laura's heart stops beating, her face turns red, and she turns her face away and returns to class. Drowning, he sat on his lap. ''I do suck'', he lamented inwardly.

Here he was, one year and a half after two words ''sorry'' and ''thanks'' he said to Niko. He still didn't have the courage to talk to her. Her gaze fell on Niko's seat, two benches in front of her.

Six steps, just six steps away now with Niko. But Laura still hasn't spoken to him. Her gaze fell on Niko's seat, two benches in front of her.

And in the end he concluded he did not have the courage to talk to people he liked, when the school orientation period was over, and the days had changed weeks, and days had changed, Laura still has no chance to talk to Niko. Niko is always in the crowd of her friends, especially her boyfriend, Erika dr 3rd class IPA 2.

~•••~

On her fourth week in class, looking at the grass from the window of the bus, Laura sighed. He benar2 hopes to be given a chance to talk to Niko, just once.

When the 2nd bus stopped, Laura opened the window and looked ahead of the road. It seems not far from there just happened a collision between a truck and a freight car. This makes the two-way road impassable. Laura glanced at the clock in her hand. It took a long time for the towing team to arrive at the location and make a smooth return.

Laura called her homeroom teacher and told her she most likely couldn't take half the morning lesson until the break. The first clock has a physics review. Mr. Bambang, the homeroom teacher and physics teacher, understood it. He asked Laura not to worry and could follow after-school.

Time showed at 10 when Laura finally arrived at school. After making a report to the picket teacher, Laura stepped into her class. Frankly, waiting 3 hours on the bus without moving at all really-2 bored him. Not to mention, he had to follow up after school. And from the words of classmates he heard, the matter of physics in the morning was very difficult. ''Especially after school later'', he lamented, ''certainly more difficult''.

At that time Laura realized, entering the IPA with the reason that class with people she liked was the wrong reason. When Mr. Bambang gave a retrial after school, Laura accepted it with a heavy heart. He saw a piece of paper back and forth containing 10 questions that would soon be able to make his head dizzy. This time it was an open book.

15 Minutes passed, but Laura had yet to find a solution to most of the problems in front of her. Mr. Bambang sat at the teacher's desk casually while reading the newspaper.

Suddenly 2 a boy came in and sat down at the table next to Laura. Laura looked at the guy and was surprised, Niko.

''Ah Niko'', greet Mr. Bambang while standing in front of Niko's table, you also can't come in the morning do you? It's about the repetition.''

Laura's hands didn't move for a while. He did not expect Niko to do the same replay with him. His heart beats again. He can't concentrate at all now. Niko was next to his desk. He saw the guy open his physics book, then started working on the matter.

How could Laura concentrate if she just wanted to look at the person she likes the most right now?

Mr. Bambang's words made Laura jerked from his view on Niko. ''OK, you go first. When you're done, leave your answers at the teacher's desk. You're not gonna cooperate, are you?''

Laura and Niko nodded together. Then Mr. Bambang came out of the classroom. Laura and Niko are there. Laura tried as hard as possible to do the problem in front of him, but the answer to the problem-2 was lost somewhere.

On the contrary, he sees Niko working on the matter without any problems. Twenty minutes later, Laura gave up. He is sure he will not get a good score for his repeat this time.

''What should I do?'' he asked in his heart while covering his face with two hands. ''I can't do physics-2 this time.''

When he opened his eyes again, Niko was not there. Laura nodded long. ''He must be done, he thought. His eyes looked back at the matter-2 in front of him. Suddenly 2 he realized that there was a folded piece of paper next to his physics book.

Laura opened the 4fold paper with heart-2, and read the 2 words listed there. DON'T SURRENDER.

Slowly Laura smiled. He believes Niko wrote it before leaving the classroom. Laura's smile grew wider. Now, he is full of new spirit. Slowly tp sure, Laura solved all the physics replay.

~•••~

When he had dinner with his mom at the dinner table, his face was still smiling.

''You look happy today, '' Mama commented. ''You tell Mom what makes you happy?''

Laura smiled thinly. ''Today the person I like is encouraging. Last afternoon when the physics replay followed, I gave up. But he gave me a piece of paper 2. It says ''DON'T GIVE UP'' .

''So,'' continued mama,'' finally you can do your repetition today.'' Laura nodded.

''Laura.'' said mama seriously, ''You really-2 like this guy, huh?''

Laura nodded again.

''You know, you believe in you.'' Mama looked at her daughter gently. ''Mama just wants you to be careful.”