Letter to Atlanta
44. I don't need pity

"You feel sick, call brother, huh? Don't maksain. Don't make you panic rich yesterday. Later if you why Brother also made samsak with Papa."

Elisha again nodded his head when Joni again gave him a message. The girl was busy drinking a box of chocolate milk while scrolling through her phone screen.

"You didn't tell me what? Don't nod." The man repeatedly turned to the side, looking at his sister who seemed to be his own preoccupation.

"Dangry, Bang. Elisha still had ears, Elisha's hearing was still normal, and he was very well."

Joni breathed heavily for the first time, without shifting her focus towards the street she was walking on.

"El, you are the responsibility of brother. Brother doesn't want you to do anything. Brother Bawel is also because Brother cares about you, brother loves you."

Elisha turned his gaze, looking at Joni with a look of tears in his eyes. The girl hurriedly hugged Joni's arm that was driving.

"Uh, Elisha is more and more affectionate with Brother. Elisha promised, Elisha will not make you worry," he said in a soft tone, practically making the man grunt amusedly.

"Well, yes, once again you make Abang worried, you will not want you again," he said sounding threatening.

Elisha immediately straightened his body again, his pupils dilated instantly. "Bang, buy Elisa piano dong."

Joni frowned, then she replied, "Make what? You are, strangely, asking for something. Yesterday wanted a sign language course, now I want to buy a piano."

"Why, my money is a lot. The purchase of a piano is not possible," said the girl. Not intended to underestimate the contents of the wallet or account owned by the brother, if only he asked to buy a helicopter though, Joni would definitely support it, he said, it's just that at that time Elisha was looking to attract Joni's anger so that his will was quickly granted.

"The problem is not that. Lately your will has been strange, Elisha." Joni paused her speech, turning her head towards Elisha who was still poking at her lips. "Don't tell me because of your friend, Atlanta?"

Practically make Elisha round the eyeball. He immediately shook his head, hinting that what Joni said was wrong, even though the reality was true.

"That's good, good." He turned to stare straight at the street ahead, then folded his hands. "Elisa has just entered the music scene, Bang. Then Elisa again wants to learn the piano more easily, so Elisa wants to buy a piano."

"It's important because the man is in the music scene too, right?"

Elisha was defeated, Joni always managed to guess what was in his heart. It seems, next time the girl has to learn how to lie properly.

"Aah, Bang. Don't divert the conversation. So what, you want to buy Elisa a piano? If not, Elisha won't talk to you again."

"Yes, yes, I'll buy it."

The girl immediately gave a finger heart, but Joni was only indifferent, the man returned to focus on the road that almost reached Elisha's school.

"Oh yeah, Bang. About the scholarship, how?"

"Calm down, everything's in order. You called the school."

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Just as the girl set foot in the school, an unusual sight was already presented before her eyes. Dozens of students had lined up neatly around the main door of the school building. Not only that, many of them carried banners, and a large banner spread between the two pillars managed to make the girl wonder.

And to make him even more surprised is, a photo of the man he knows is clearly displayed on the banner, as well as the banner, with the inscription Spirit and success of Jay Valendra to follow the national Olympics.

Ah, even Jay never said that he would take part in the Olympics.

"ELISA!"

The girl turned to the source of the voice, right behind her. A man was waving at her, plus a smile as well as a sweet dimple bonus printed on her handsome face.

"Jay, why didn't you tell me you wanted to go to the Olympics?" he said after Jay appeared to stand looming in front of the girl.

The man only chuckles, again he shows off dimples that can make women fascinated.

"Don't smile. I'm just Jay."

"Yes, yes, sorry. I didn't tell you on purpose, let it be a surprise."

Elisha only snorted, even when the man broke his hair he just stared intently at Jay. Maybe the guy didn't tell her something this important.

Oh, and don't forget the status of those who have spread as lovers. The girl's eardrum was quite sensitive to the whistling of other students who witnessed the closeness of the two.

The next second, Elisha's iris was fixed at the corner of Jay's bluish lips. Oh, my God, why is he just realizing it now.

"Jay? You're a fight brother?"

The male's index finger immediately touched the wound called Elisha. Ah, he was even aware of yesterday's incident, where Atlanta punched him.

"Oh, here. Engga, it's tuh—"

"Atlanta?" Jay's words were immediately anointed when the girl in front of him uttered a name that could make him furious. He looked at where Elisha had turned his eyes.

Unexpectedly, with her panicked face, Elisa immediately approached Atlanta. The girl cupped Atlanta's cheeks after both her eyeballs noticed bruises on her cheekbones and the corners of her Atlanta lips.

"Atlanta?! You why? Why battered gini? You're abis fighting? Who hit you, huh?"

The series of questions that were thrown from Elisha's mouth managed to make Jay squeak, he put his lips annoyed. How Elisha's worry and concern for her and Atlanta is so different. It seems obvious, right? Even he himself never saw Elisha so attentive to him, for example when he saw a bruise on his face a moment ago.

Atlanta threw out Elisha's hand which unintentionally gave pain when it came into contact with his wound. He stared at Elisha.

"Standard off. Why are you two getting battered?" He stared one by one at the men in front, folding his hands like an interrogator. How Elisha was not suspicious, the two men had wounds at the same time.

Both Atlanta and Jay were silent, not knowing what to answer Elisha's question for both.

"E—engga. Who said."

"Keep why you're rich in gini." Elisha was getting close to both. Fill Jay's head around thinking of a logical reason for the girl. There's no way he's answering the real thing, is he?

"Yesterday I was doing boxing training. My opponent accidentally hit me, El," Jay said confidently, hoping Elisa wasn't so suspicious of him.

There was a sigh from Elisha, at least Jay was a little relieved by his alibi at that time. This time, Elisha looked at Atlanta as if asking for the man's explanation. But Atlanta reluctant, at a glance he turned to Jay who was pulling next to his eyebrows.

"My answer, Atlanta. Why are you battered?"

"He fought at the other end. He doesn't have parents, so his style is just as delinquent. Keep the wound was a raw mark hit the enemy" Jay said as he folded his hands, looking down at Atlanta.

"Atlanta, what did Jay say?"

Atlanta was still silent, and further added a frown to Elisa's forehead. Why that guy? Even the cold gaze from Atlanta the girl had never seen before.

"My answer, Atlanta."

Not that he didn't want to explain what really happened, he really didn't want to fight Jay. Atlanta chose to move her legs, leaving Elisha still waiting for his explanation.

"Atlanta! Atlanta, where are you going?"

Like there was a magnetic pull, Elisa ran after Atlanta who had moved away from her reach. As a result, he did not hear the call of Jay who kept shouting his name.

"Damn."

Elisha was relentlessly chasing Atlanta, and the man's wide strides were able to make the girl behind him stir.

"Atlanta! Wait!"

He successfully blocked Atlanta's arm, coinciding with the two who were already in front of the class. The man will not turn his body.

"You why the hell? You mad?"

Atlanta just stared at the obsidian Elisa without any intention of giving an answer to her question. Not intending to make the girl confused by his indifferent attitude, just that his mood was indeed being unfriendly.

As it turned out, Jay's words yesterday still stuck in his heart. Until he had trouble sleeping at night. All that was in his mind until that second was only Mother, Mother, and Mother.

"Why are you, hmm?"

Unexpectedly, Atlanta chose to ignore Elisha, the man waltzed into the classroom without caring about Elisha's surprised look when he accidentally nudged the girl's arm.

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The longer, the more he wondered, what was really going on with Atlanta. Throughout the lesson, when the girl deliberately stole time just to ask about the man, Atlanta again just looked at him.

And during that time, Elisha was only able to do everything alone. Where he had to go to the cafeteria by himself, although it ended in a fight with Theo, the man he had recently met everywhere. Maybe he thought, Atlanta was wanting to be alone, or maybe the man was having problems, of course he did not want to add to the burden of Atlanta's mind with many questions from him.

"Atlanta, wait for dong. You promised to teach me to learn piano again today. Why are you rushing home? If you have a problem telling me the same. Don't worry about me, Atlanta."

Still with the chase action, Elisa still trying to ask for an explanation why Atlanta is acting strange all day. Even when the bell came home rang, the man looked very hastily tidied up all his stationery and left just like that.

"Atlanta. If I've got it wrong, I'm sorry. But you don't get rich."

The two were already in the back parking lot of the school, he halted his steps, with Atlanta already standing in front of his parked bike.

Elisha caught his breath chasing Atlanta. The man turned his gaze, looking intently at the girl who was looking at him confused. Oh, my God, even that guy's jaw is clenched. It was clear that he was holding back the anger that was inside his chest.

"Your K—, angry with me?" Her great-grandchild. Suddenly the girl's guts shrieked instantly after seeing the glare of Atlanta's sharp eyes.

"Am I that low in your eyes, Elisha?"

Immediately, the frown on Elisa's forehead was imprinted just like that after understanding Atlanta's hand movements.

"You mean?"

"Last noon, when I went to the TU room to pay the SPP arrears, Ms. Rina said that all the fees had been paid by Mr. Joni until I graduated from school."

Elisa tight-lipped. And it's true, he was the one who asked Joni to pay the Atlanta tuition fee until the man graduated. But that doesn't mean the girl looked down on Atlanta, not at all.

"I know, Elisa. I often pay for SPP. But that doesn't mean I can't afford to pay. Why do you think I work part-time? It was all for my own living expenses. With you gini-rich, you don't appreciate every hard work I do, Elisha."

"Atlanta, but I didn't mean to lower you. I just want to help you. I also don't want you to be called constantly by Miss Rina. We're gonna, um, I should've helped you."

"But I'm still capable, Elisha. I don't want anyone to feel sorry for my situation. I know, for all of you, school fees are nothing, but here I have to work first. I don't want anyone else's mercy while I still can."

Elisa only looked at the two Atlanta eyeballs which exuded a feeling of disappointment. Was he wrong to just help Atlanta?

The man turns to ride his bike, when Elisha falls out of the fog when he finds out Atlanta is about to leave, he blocks Atlanta's arm.

"Attlanta ... Atlanta, wait a minute, with my explanation. I—"

Atlanta threw out the hand of Elisha who was trying to hold him.

"I'll pay it all back."