ELENA: The Quiet Girl
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Sunlight entered through the cracks of the window, shining on a girl who was still lying face down in her thick blanket.

A bang on the door sounded loud, Elena covered her ears with a pillow, she knew it must be the demon child who did it.

"Elena! Elena! Elena!"

As usual she called out her name like a policeman, Elena slammed her pillow of origin and walked towards the exit.

Cklekk...

A nine-year-old boy stood with a sinless face, smiling as if nothing had happened.

"Goodmorning! I'm here to return the bracelet I picked up a week ago" he said, showing a round, white bead in his hand.

Elena scrunched her forehead. "Does that look like a bracelet?"

The boy scratched his head while chuckling. "This is all that's left, thank me for taking care of her even if she's not whole now."

Brakkk....

Elena closed the door loudly, she no longer cared about the demon boy.

"Wait on! I can tell you, I'm actually not here just to return an incomplete bracelet!" he shouted as he continued banging on the door.

"Whisper! I'm gonna go to sleep, once you're pounded again I'm gonna cut your hand off!" press Elena to threaten. After that there was no sound anymore, Elena smiled in relief, she was finally able to continue her sleep.

"I DON'T CARE!"

This time his sputum was not messing around, Elena rubbed her temples. His head was already sick plus a child who had never done good to him made his head ache.

this time Elena stood with both hands still clenched, eager to punch the demon boy who was currently sitting sweetly in her Sofanya. "Say, is there anything else besides bothering me? When did you grow up, Leo?"

Leonal Frensio, Sia Fransiska's younger brother and next door neighbor, never did anything nice to Elena, the point of the good thing is that he always bullies girls who do not like it.

"Sorry."

Elena said it was unusual for the boy to take the initiative to apologize first. "What's? I didn't hear."

"Stupid!" leonal is upset.

"Get out, I don't need a brat!" Press Elena while pointing towards the exit.

"Sorry! I'm really sorry!" Leonal apologized. Elena saw something unusual in the eyes of the boy.

"Say, what do you want?"

Leonal is still hesitant to answer, because he does not like to ask for help especially in people who are always the target of his mischief.

"Please teach me math" Pinta Leonal said in a soft voice. Elena barely heard it.

"What lesson?" Ask Elena. He wanted to ascertain whether his ears had not been misheard by Leonal's unusual request.

"Teach me the math!" Shouted Leonal annoyed.

Elena closed her mouth, she almost burst out upon hearing Leonal's request. "Did I not hear wrong? Where's the rancid boy who always showed off his cleverness yesterday?"

Leonal was silent, she was really embarrassed by her smart-ass attitude in front of Elena, now when she wanted to ask Elena for help she mocked him.

"That was," said Leonal again. Again Elena had to put her ears up in order to catch Leonal's very small voice.

"Huh, why don't you just ask your sister? isn't he smart, too?" Elena walked up to get a glass of water, and then sat down on the same sofa.

Leonal who guessed the water was for her was upset that Elena drank it when she was completely thirsty.

"Who said he was smart? when I asked her whole numbers she didn't even know" Honestly Leonal made Elena laugh again. "You're smart, what's wrong with helping a troubled child? itung-itung charity to get the reward."

"Now, when you need new help praising me? Don't expect me to help a bad boy like you, Never!" press Elena while shaking the remaining glass a bit of water.

"You're so mean to a child!" leonal did not accept. Having taken the trouble to bear the embarrassment of talking about her problem, Elena scoffed and refused to help her.

"His body alone is small but the heart of the devil," Elena replied casually.

"Hiks, you're so mean, if I can't fix my grades, I'll probably stay in class."

Elena played her hair, she was really enjoying the atmosphere at the moment. "What do I care?"

"What if I promise not to be naughty forever? can you help me?" leonal Tawal did not give up. Elena stopped playing with her hair.

"No!"

"What if I buy you a chocolate milkshake every day?"

"Ti--, maybe it's tolerable."

"really? Well from tomorrow teach me math!" Leonal moved from her seat.

"Two milkshakes, and one spicy potato chip!" Pinta Elena again. Leonal gawking.

"Isn't that overkill? even more than my pocket money!" leonal. Elena doesn't care.

"Am I not a private teacher? everywhere you have to pay if you want to be taught, if you mind looking for someone else," explained Elena made Leonal speechless again. Maybe Elena was trying to get revenge for her acquaintance first.

"Wait for me to be smart, I'll fuck you again!" inner Leonal was upset. He came out with mixed feelings, since long ago there had never been anything to upset him other than Elena.

"We see how resistant you are, boy," Elena muttered in small chuckles. He was very satisfied with today's incident. From now on the name of the devil moved to him.

Leonal was already in his apartment, he saw the figure of his sister who was still relaxed watching TV with popcorn in her hand.

The little guy passed through it.

"Where have you been?" sia's question made Leonal stop her steps.

"It's none of your business!" cetus Leonal continued his steps.

Sia's gaze no longer focused on the TV, she saw the back of her younger brother who moved away and into the room, her face changed, she was no longer interested in the food or the TV in front of her.

Sia walked towards Leonal's room, her hand knocking on the door of the room many times but there was no reply. "Leon, are you okay?"

Silent, Sia always felt useless as a sister, she did not even know anything about her sister.

"Are you hungry? I bought a grilled chicken." again her sister did not respond, Sia knocked on the door again. "Leon?"

"Whisper!"

Sia leaned her head against the door, many times she tried to get close to Leonal but always failed.

"When are you going to forgive me?"

In the room, Leonal took a box from the top of the closet, opened it to see how much money he had collected during the year.

He had set his heart to not always ask for money on his brother, his hands took one by one paper money as he counted.

After counting all of Leonal's faces looked sad, it turned out that the combination was only enough to buy Elena's snacks for twelve days.

"How's this? fera's birthday is in a week."