A Thousand Flowers
Chapters 1. Flashback

Mentari was still peeking coyly from behind the hill. Its golden spray warms the clear crystals perched on the foliage. Slowly the clear crystal began to float with the soft caress of the east wind. The song of the birds adds to the cheerful atmosphere of the morning. Ready to welcome the routine of dreamers who have been awake from the sound. Which favor of your Lord do you deny?

A girl stretched out both her hands, taking a deep breath with a slight look up while closing her eyes. Struggling to fill his chest cavity with clean morning air. I don't know how many times he enjoyed the process of pulling and exhaling before finally opening his eyes and smiling knots

he lowered both his hands.

“Welcome to beautiful morning,” murmured to yourself.

In the left corner of the yard, a man noticed all the activities of the girl with an unblinking look. His back rests on a shady rambutan tree. Next to his feet lifted with the soles of his feet resting on the trunk where he hung. Both hands are folded in front of the chest. Either against the remaining cold or just looking for a comfortable position in order to enjoy the scenery in the distance that makes him fascinated.

“Ah, if only I could see that smile every day .…” He saturate without finishing his sentence. Slowly he began to step closer to the girl, his best friend since they were in junior high school.

"Hi, Can!” greet the boy startled as soon as the girl stood up after tying her shoelaces.

“Astagfirullah!” The girl almost jumped so shocked by the sudden appearance of the guy.

"The ugly habit is still preserved!” continued the girl with a cold tone and an irritated feeling.

He did not understand why the guy still called him “Macan”. Although she was indeed the same girl he had known for a long time, now he had already changed. That guy should have changed his calling, too.

"Huh, sebel! Can't call Izzah like other friends?"

Izzah continued to grumble as he walked towards the porch of the house, then threw his butt in the rattan chair, as if channeling his annoyance. While the boy tailed behind Izzah and sat down in the chair next to him.

Izzah was silent. He leaned his head on the chair, put his hands together on his lap and closed his eyes. His mind glared back to the past, when he first met the man.

The break bell just rang. All students leave the class. Izzah hurried to tidy up his textbooks and pulled out a collection of poems from his school bag.

As usual, Izzah always chose to be the last one out of class because he did not want to jostle in the middle of the door. Izzah will always wait for a deserted canteen if you want to go there.

But today Izzah did not want to go to the cafeteria. He prefers to stand and lean on a pole in front of his class. A moment noticed a group of students who were busy playing basketball and cheered by flirtatious girls from the edge of the field. Attention of basketball players. Izzah smiled sinisterly as he shook his head.

“Lack of work with girls,” he said barely audible.

Immediately played the school hat perched on his head until the front is now behind. His hand immediately opened the book sheet he had been holding. In an instant, he too dissolved in his reading and no longer cared about the surroundings.

Suddenly, his concentration was disturbed. He immediately turned around and saw that his hat had moved into the hands of a man who was looking at him with a seductive smile.

Izzah squinted his eyes at the guy. Trying to control his emotions. He knew the man was his senior who was famous as a kasanova. If it's not wrong, it's Rendy.

"Please take it if you can!” challenge Rendy while lifting the hat up high.

Rendy is often nosy to the girls who are the target. It seems like the boy was always obsessed with conquering the girl he considered beautiful and attractive. Unfortunately, today Izzah is the victim.

Izzah was silent. His round eyes stared at Rendy sharply.

“Restore my hat!” izzah said in a flat and expressionless tone.

Rendy just shook her hand. His lips still showed a mischievous smile and seemed to challenge Izzah even more. Izzah took a deep breath.

“Wow! You are fierce as well as it turns out,” reply Rendy while laughing.

“Take it yourself!” he continued, the more challenging Izzah.

“OK. I count to three. If you still don't return it. Don't blame me if something happens afterwards,” replies Izzah as he rolls up the book he read and puts it in his skirt pocket.

He's moving closer to Rendy. His right hand was stretched out in a asking position. His eyes stared intently unblinkingly at the hat in Rendy's hands.

“One ... two .…” Izzah started counting, but Rendy was still shaking the hat with her hands raised.

He felt he had the upper hand because it was higher than Izzah. Along with the count of three, Izzah's right hand slid a fist into Rendy's stomach.

Getting a surprise attack, Rendy ducked while grimacing in pain. At the same time, Izzah's left hand grabbed his hat from Rendy's hand, then walked casually away from Rendy as if nothing had happened. Rendy just stared at Izzah's back.

“Basic of weird girls!” he murmured while stroking his stomach which was still painful.

He can't believe there's a girl like Izzah. How could a girl as cute and sweet as that have such a ferocious temperament? In fact, equaling the ferocity of a female tiger.

Rendy's eyes are getting shiny. He seemed challenged to be able to conquer Izzah.

“Awas only, Izzah! I'll make you fall in love with me!” Rendy again stroked her stomach which still left pain.

“Hey, Bro ... are you okay?” ask one of Rendy's two close friends. The two of them suddenly approached with throbbing lips, smiling slightly mockingly.

“It looks like it's time for you to go, Bro! After all, still SMP also wants to be a kasanova. It's a rock now. Hahaha ...” other timpal while laughing out loud.

The two of them leave Rendy, who is still staring at Izzah's back until the girl disappears at the end of the corridor to the cafeteria.

Right in front of a class across the basketball court, a smiling man was satisfied to see the ending of the spectacle that had upset him a little. He's Ihsan. The member of OSIS who became the coordinator of the sports field was tired of the lunge of his classmates.

“Finally tuh kasanova got her karma,” she said, breathing a sigh of relief.

“Who is a girl?” ask yourself.

His heart began to tingle until he unconsciously stepped foot in the direction where Izzah had disappeared.

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