Yes, Lu belongs to me.

Section 5

"May you be at home in this school."

Sherly nodded with a smile. The school principal's room which is dominated by black and white makes the girl feel at home for a long time. What else do these antiques belong to the bald man who introduced himself as the principal of Bakti High School. From aesthetic to bizarre, neatly lined up in glass vents.

"Titip Sherly yes Mr. Agus."

Agus smiled authoritatively, his bald head shiny exposed to the reflection of light. "Please calm Ella."

Voices convinced the former headmaster, making Ella also develop a smile. "Thank you sir."

"Not to be confused. You're one of those former students that I've considered to be my own son."Agus turned to look at Sherly. "Your mother is besides being beautiful and polite, she also often carries the good name of the school making me proud as its director."

Sherly smelled a smile. The girl was proud of her parents. Sherly is grateful to be born from the womb of a woman like Ella. Living in a business family, doesn't keep Ella and Daniel busy, forgetting Sherly's presence.

"Mother can. Ella was embarrassed when she said that. Memories of the woman's past are still etched vividly on every inch of the school walls.

Daniel touched Ella's hand sitting next to him.

"I remember once. You and your two friends who always win the general champion often visit me in the old vice room." Agus laughed and remembered.

Ella laughed too. The woman glanced at Daniel who was smiling towards Agus.

"Come on! It's half nine." Daniel reminded. The man showed a clock that was coiled around his wrist.

Ella nodded. "Sorry Sir. My husband wants to fly to Bali at ten. So we can't linger."

The headmaster smiled understandingly. "There is so much I want to ask."

"Later next time I can visit the father's house," Ella offered, immediately got a nod of the spirit of the old man in front of her.

"I'll wait."

Daniel stands up, followed by Ella and Sherly. "We'll say goodbye, sir."

Agus nodded. The old man's eyes stared at Sherly. "Have you memorized the school route yet?"

Sherly nodded. "It's been a little."

"If the class has memorized it?"

Sherly nodded back.

"Greater hours of rest. Later accompanied by Bu Noor around huh?"

"Yes sir."

"Yes, I've been looking for Mrs Noor for a while." Agus walked out of the room with the help of a stick in his right hand.

Ella looked at the closed door. The woman's hand outstretched caressing the head of her dear daughter. "Momy same Dady left first huh. Sherly wants what's nitip?"

Daniel chuckled at the spoiled voice of the princess. "Not yet to leave, I've been told to come home."

Sherly let go of the hug. The girl's lips pursed slightly, causing Ella and Daniel to burst into laughter.

"Sherley!" Agus called from outside, pushing the door.

Ella and Daniel stop their laughter that had echoed in the minimalist room of the headmaster.

Agus walked over with the young lady in his sanping. "This is Ms. Noor, as a tenth grade English teacher."

Ella and Daniel take turns shaking the hands of Bakti High School's language teacher.

Sherly who was not used to it, scratched her head looking clumsy.

"Sherley! Let's kiss Miss Noor's hand!" Ella pulled her daughter's right arm.

"Oh, yes."

Noor nodded. The facial lines of the young lady were so firm, signifying discipline. "Whose name, pretty?"

"Sherily."

"My son moved from Landen" Ella told me. "So Sherly's not used to Indonesian culture yet."

Noor smiled. "There are also many students from abroad. We're used to handling it."

Agus interrupted the conversation. "Let's take Sherly around Noor!"

"Ready." Noor nodded obediently.

"Dady with Momy working first." Daniel patted Sherly's head. "Titip Sherly Bu Noor."

The language teacher nodded back.

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Noor and Sherly were walking in a long, branching tunnel with long chairs on each side of the door. In each wall there are paintings from great Indonesian painters, not infrequently the work of selected Bakti High School students appear to decorate. Made-mading that contains the latest news is seen at each end of the wall. Stairs and intersections are not difficult to find, making Gemerlang High School look accessible with emergency lifts at every important point of the school.

"Sherly going anywhere first?" Noor looked at the compassionate girl beside him.

Sherly speechless. The girl's eyes swept around watching the students who were secretly photographing her. Sherly knows, but chooses silence. Is being a celebrity that easy? Sherly sighed. Almost all of the schoolgirls who were with him gave off an aura of hostility. Where's one of those babes? What has a new student like Sherly done to make Bakti High School girls hostile to her?

"We went around the first floor, right? Later Sherly can ask for anther to see the other floor."

Sherly nodded.

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