Forever Young's
CHAPTER VIII Phone Call from School

Nuna walks into the school and sees Rigel approaching her. The teenager gave her bag into Nuna's arms before twisting her body and leading the way to class.

Nuna put Rigel's bag on her seat and she immediately put on earphones. Rigel observed from the side without disturbing. He was still thinking of his next plan to make Nuna regret.

"Hey, Rigel," said Bimo while patting Rigel on the shoulder. "How high are you?"

"189 cm."

Joshua excited. "Wow. You can basketball?"

Rigel nodded. "But I'm not a good guy."

"Look off, bro, after you recover, we can try the exercise together. Our team is still lacking people." Bimo as Captain of the Basketball Team attempts to recruit members.

"Yes. With your face, you can also increase the popularity of our basketball team" Joshua added.

Bimo hits Joshua on the shoulder.

"Why did you hit me anyway, Bim? I'm talking about the fact, the kids here almost no one is interested in the extracurricular field!"

"Oh?" Rigel's interested. "Couldn't you? Shouldn't they be chasing the idol-rich basketball kid?"

Bimo breathed. "That could happen in another school. But there's no way here."

"Why?"

Bimo avoids answering and opens the file on his ipad then puts his ipad in front of Rigel. "Ehem ahem's. So, classmate. We will present our PPT titled 'Why should choose basketball as extracurricular'."

Bimo shifts the screen and explains, "In addition to learning, our school life should be balanced. Basketball is a sport that trains our muscles so that we remain physically and spiritually healthy."

Rigel listened seriously.

"In addition, extracurricular activities that sit too long have a higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome characterized by obesity. When classmates follow basketball, classmates will be able to form six to eight boxes in the stomach. Here's an example." Bimo lifts Joshua's uniform to the chest. Featuring Joshua's sixpack belly.

Rigel scanned Joshua's stomach and nodded. "There's evidence. Very credible explanation." Rigel suddenly regained his senses and immediately turned to look towards Nuna.

He looked at Nuna who was focusing on reading with earphones attached to her ears. Goody! The little boy cannot see.

"Next" said Rigel.

Bimo nodded. "Done. Thank you for listening. We hope classmates join."

"Eh? That all?" ask Rigel wonder.

Bimo smiled, "Yes. Welcome to our basketball team."

"Gue hasn't decided to join."

"It's a shame." Bimo breathed a disappointed breath.

"What are the most popular abstracts here?"

"The top three are IT, Digital Marketing and Journalists who manage school magazines."

"Okay, I joined basketball." Rigel. There was nothing he was interested in from those three exculi.

"Waa welcome aboard, bro!" Joshua hugged Rigel's neck. "Lo is the tenth member. But calm down, we compete fairly in the division of the core and reserve teams."

"Three of you." Eagles break their happy atmosphere. He extended a hand. "Where is your English assignment? Collected now."

Bimo, Joshua, Rigel, "!!!"

Joshua rubbed his nose, "Half another hour yeah, bro." He immediately ran and did the task followed by Bimo.

Rigel also writes in his book very slowly. He was not satisfied with his ugly writing! Rigel then glanced at Nuna and caught Nuna working on the task with her left hand. How dare he trick her, hmph!

"Lo can write with his left hand!" Rigel pointed to Nuna's left hand holding the pen.

"Yes." Yeah."

"Lo lied to me yesterday, huh?"

"I don't."

"That's proof you wrote with your left hand and your writing is still good!"

Nuna defended herself, "I'm not saying that I can't use my left hand, not like you."

"Lo mock me?!"

"I'm just talking facts."

"Gue doesn't want to know, now you have to help me finish the job!"

"I'll share the answer, but it won't help you write it." Nuna immediately opened her book in front of Rigel.

"Lo wants to run away from responsibility, huh?"

"Bim, I'm really hearing hallucinations, huh."

Rigel stares resentfully at Nuna's book and intending to tear her apart, let her be punished with him for not doing the job. Oho! What a great idea!

Nuna catches Rigel's intention and immediately retrieves his book, causing the unprepared Rigel, to experience pain in his casted right hand. Rigel reflex screams in pain, causing the classmate to panic.

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Suherman hummed watering plants in the garden. A servant arrived - suddenly running towards him in panic.

"Master, sir. There's a phone call from school, miss."

Suherman stared in disbelief. Shakingly he grabbed the phone. After a little chat, the phone was switched off. He still felt amazed and excited. His granddaughter ended up behaving a little like a friend her age! Is it necessary to invite Tanio to dinner later?

Since two years ago when he was bored, Tanio recommended a thriller that tells the story of a genius man who is anti-social personality as a lone suspect of serial murder. When she saw the man, she remembered her dear granddaughter. They both have very similar temperaments so Suherman is afraid that Nuna will grow up like the main character in the film.

He also finally understood that today's children are different from his time, Nuna needs an education in ordinary schools to help her socialize to develop her EQ. So he decided to put her in school.

While sitting in the counseling room, Suherman looked at Nuna who was standing quietly beside him. They were waiting for the parents of the students who were involved with Nuna.

Then Jasmine's figure appeared which shocked Suherman.

"Mrs Anderson?"

"Good day, Mr. Pangestu." Jasmine greeted and sat down beside Suherman.

Teacher BK finally recounted the conflict in class XI MIA I that occurred between Nuna and Rigel.

"So that's it." Suherman looked at his grandson worried. "Are you hurt, baby?"

Jasmine who heard him just said inwardly, Excuse me, my son's arm is broken again.

Nuna shook her head. "Sorry, grandpa. I misbehaved and caused grandfather shame."

Suherman stood up and rubbed Nuna's hair, "It's fine, this time it's the teenager's fault of smell. How dare he bother Grandpa's favorite granddaughter, huh."

Jasmine looked at the two and said, "My beloved son is in the hospital now. What are you gonna do?"

"Your son started first. You also heard from the teacher, that she bullied my granddaughter."

"But your grandson broke my son's arm, again. What if my son is disabled? Are you capable of being responsible?"

The two argue and no one wants to give up.

"Your grandson has to change schools so that my son will be assured of his safety." Jasmine persisted.

Suherman refused. "I said, the one who should have moved was your son. On the first day of truancy, on the second day of bothering my grandson. Obviously your son is in trouble."

"What"

Ding. Ding. Rigel called..

"Ma.."

"Yes, honey. Mama's here."

"Let Nuna take care of Rigel here."

Jasmine stunned. He turned to Nuna. This girl was indeed beautiful even though her face was expressionless. Is his son in love with this girl??

"Ma.. " Rigel urges.

"OK, okay. Mama make sure she's there after school."

"Good."

Phone's closed.

Jasmine looked at the pair of grandfathers and grandchildren in a daze.

Suherman who heard their conversation, silently concluded inwardly, hmm this smelly teenager wants to rob his granddaughter!

Before Suherman could resist, Nuna clasped her arm gently. He looked at Jasmine and agreed to Rigel's request. "Well, I'll go to the hospital after school."

Jasmine sighed in relief, "Good, good."

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Side story

Haykal: (looking at his son who ate voraciously using his right hand) Is it fun to lie and make a furore like this?

Rigel: Good (twist his casted hand comfortably)

Haykal (sighs helplessly) Don't make your mama worry

Rigel: Yeah, I know..