
Lia walked alone after getting off the bus. The day was getting darker and the sky cloudy in the occasional rumbling noise.
The girl was still worried about her best friend Andi who was taken to the hospital back home from school earlier. On the other hand, he also thought of something else. I don't know why he felt sad but also happy when he met Andi.
On the road as he walked slowly, a hand touched his shoulder, so he shouted loudly in surprise. His steps came to a halt but he did not dare to turn around as if his feet were already frozen in place.
With a furrowed forehead, he glanced at the foreign hand on his shoulder and looked as if someone's shadow was getting closer to him.
"Lia!" Call a man with a voice that sounds terrible in the ears of the timid girl.
"Loe why?" The man lowered his hand from Lia's shoulder and examined the face that had been covered with both hands.
Slowly his finger opened his vision and found Andre in his casual suit with a plastic bag containing snacks.
"Loe is so fad? Nakutin gua huhuuu" Lia arrived crying while lapping Andre softly because she was upset.
"Sorry! The cave doesn't mean!" Andre tried to stop the crying by patting the girl's back gently.
But the girl was not satisfied crying, she was still crying while covering her face with her hands.
"Loe what other people's children?" Andi asked who came from behind them. While coding by raising a little chin towards Andre to ask who.
"Lia" motioned Andre's mouth without making a sound.
Andi who came from behind immediately embraced Lia with her right hand.
"Loe's okay?" Andi asked as she tilted her head to look at Lia's face.
The girl lowered her hands from her face while shaking her head. Her cute face made Andi smile.
"Loe, don't worry, there's a cave here!" Said Andi while carrying Lia walking in her embrace.
Andre who was left behind immediately followed then walked on the other side of Lia.
"Lia's coming home this night to Lora?" Ask Andi.
"No, Lia can't stay there tonight, Lia's mom is sick"
"So Alora was alone?"
"Why again" Lia looked mused as she wiped her tears.
Andre looks worried and Andi too.
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The next day, as soon as the bell rang as usual all the students immediately left the class except those who brought provisions or those who were sick like Alora.
"Loe wait here!" Said Lia to Alora and then out of class following Andre who went straight out.
While likening her steps to Andre, Lia asked "Loe why? Lately like a person who. mm. not as happy as before"
"Loe too, right?" Andre asked back.
The two teenagers ended up sitting opposite each other at the cafeteria table.
"Tumben loe, isn't nemenin Alora?" Ask Andre.
"He doesn't need a cave, he's very, very independent!" Lia then forced her smile. But after 3 seconds passed, the girl became annoyed.
"Loe doesn't know, does she? Yesterday he fell because of being bullied by Mila with his two friends, but Lora just shut up and said 'what's wrong!' Though the cave saw itself they ran away like it's a big kid" Lia really couldn't stop her chatty mouth.
"How's crus?" Ask Andre again.
"He has difficulty walking and has to cave papah, but the most upset he does not tell anything about the same cave, actually this cave is his best friend is not it?"
"He also did not say anything about the cave, actually his girlfriend's cave is not it?" Andre was heavy.
"But is your relationship just a business? Ah cave intent.." said Lia halted for a bit to change the topic.
"The cave just wants to be considered!" Andre Sahut.
"Lora is that, she won't tell me the problem before she feels there is no way out and we've just told her and asked for help. It's all because he's too often alone and on the road in his own world"
"Loe knows, if Alora actually does not want to go to college. He purposely lured Beni just so he could return the same favor of Herman"
"How do you mean?" Asked Andre who looked serious.
"So om Herman nawarin full scholarship and job guarantee after graduation for Alora but the condition is that she must make Beni must attend college. But he was wasting it all, even after Beni passed the entrance exam later, he still wouldn't go to college"
"But in the hospital he said.."
"Why do you want to help him? Didn't you think that loe kelen was?" Ask Andre again.
"Loe may not know, Lora's the cave's first love!" Lia smiled back.
"Loe ...?" Andre started thinking strange things.
"No! He's the first person to accept the cave for what it is".
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5 Years ago
Alora is a cold girl who every time she goes to class just shut up. Never talk or no one asks you to talk.
During the 8th grade of Junior High, the class was overhauled so that they would meet different people. It was there that the beginning of the meeting of the two girls who have been friends until now.
Lia was an innocent-looking girl with both glasses adorning her face, not because of her minus eyes, but Lia was the most insecure girl back then, there was not the slightest bit of confidence for her.
A girl with a smart brain, but her appearance is always wearing glasses then her hair covers her whole face, besides every walk past someone she always very lowered her head. The girl is always bullied until her weight is greatly decreased. Every hour of rest, his food was deprived of bullies and no one dared to report them to the teacher.
In that class, there was only a bench left at the back table on Alora's side, the girl with short hair was known to always not care about the surrounding environment, besides that she would also be rude if disturbed.
The two girls sat down at a table and for the first month did not talk to each other.
One day, Alora was fed up with the behavior of the bullies in the class until finally intervened. Lia was once again their target.
Alora who had not entered the classroom had witnessed their bad attitude from the classroom door. Finally the girl decided to go to the teacher's office, then brought some teachers to the class so that the teacher witnessed for himself what happened.
After the group of bullies were called to the teacher's office, Alora approached Lia and hugged the crying girl.
The next day, Alora who usually never spoke first asked Lia.
"I don't think you care about me!" Said Lia from behind the thick hair that almost covered her entire face.
Alora brushed Lia's hair behind her ears, until a beautiful face that had been hidden.
"You don't have to cover yourself up so much, you're beautiful! Ignore all the words of people who have nothing to do with your life, remember! This is your life not theirs! And you live for yourself not for them!" Said Alora who somehow managed to hypnotize Lia into believing in herself more.
More and more days, Alora continues to be with Lia even though she is silent and Lia who continues to tell her by her side. It all starts with how someone treats others and makes them better.
Since childhood, the neighborhood where Lia lived used to be filled with envious children. So that Little Lia is always scorned every show of her cleverness coupled with that beautiful face, complete already their reasons.
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Present-day
Lia was still sitting in front of Andre and said, "we're even ghibahin Alora anyway?"
"Trus loe's destination actually suddenly appeared here what?" Andre asked and sipped his drink.
"Gua want to help you cave to make Lora want to go to college? Yea? Wanna?"
"No ah! The cave has no interest!"
"Loe why the hell? Angry with Lora? Loe's cave loe's always been away from him lately"
"Gua just doesn't know what's really going on"
"So you're jealous of Beni?" Lia said her sentence on a whim.
"What the hell?" Andre looked a bit blushed but still cool.
"I am aja ahahahah" Lia laughed as she banged on the table, making Andre cover her face with his hands in shame with the girl's behavior.
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Tbc