RR (RaffaRea) So Long Is It Love?
CHAPTER 2: Raffa's Advice

The atmosphere when the clock comes home from school must be very noisy. The students/i will usually race home first. Not much different from the atmosphere at SMA Bakti Nusantara, Yogyakarta. The students/i jostled wanting to get out of the gate. The sound of deafening cheers also colored the atmosphere of the High School.

A shoulder-haired girl came out with a smelly face. He hated the crowds he had to face almost every day. Not to mention today the figure of his best friend went ditching again without his knowledge.

Irritatedly the girl walked away from her school area which was still very crowded. When the girl was about to turn into an alley towards her home, a bicycle and its owner stopped right in front of her blocking her path.

The girl looked resentfully at the owner of the bike who turned out to be a guy she knew. The girl got annoyed many times because of it. The man smiled at him so much that his eyes seemed to be smiling. If only the situation were different, that smile would definitely look so sweet to the girl.

"Come, up." Take the guy to the back of his bike.

Instead of answering, the girl continued to leave the boy without a sound. It is very obvious that he is angry right now.

The man shook his bike again to accompany the step of the girl who acted unwilling to look at him.

"Re, let's go up." Persuade the man once more.

Unfortunately, the girl named Rea did not bother him at all. He kept walking with a straight forward view as if there was no one on the road but himself.

"Re, don't be mad, dong." The gentleman wooed in a pitiful tone still accompanied the girl's steps patiently.

'Don't be angry, your ass!' Bump the girl in the heart. Because, I don't know how many times he advised and even asked politely to the guy so as not to be rude. They will soon graduate, should the guy start thinking about his future.

With a stern look, Rea finally looked at the guy who still looked calm.

"You're truant again, aren't you?"

The guy smirked, assuring Rea to get even more anxious.

Rea sighed softly.

"I went home alone today." He said again ending. If it continued, he would definitely not be able to resist hitting or clawing at the guy venting his anger. But, honestly somehow Rea did not want the man to leave her as usual.

Unfortunately, without saying again the guy actually poked his bike away and lost in a corner that was not too far away.

Rea bit her lip. That fella....

Damnit damnit! Rea wiped away her tears that suddenly dripped just like that.

The girl continued her steps with a slight bow. Honestly, he felt sad for something that could be said to be trivial. However, it was precisely because that trivial matter had already become a big thing for him. That guy was the only closest person he had other than his father.

The guy always understands and agrees with him. But, I don't know why the guy never listens to it when it comes to the problem of studying hard. Though compared to him, he believes the guy is more likely to succeed from him. And Rea hopes a lot for that, one of them should really be successful someday.

'Fucking raffa!'

Rea wiped her tears back with anxiety. Why is he so sweet?

"She wanted to be alone, but she was crying. You crybaby." The hoarse voice of someone he was thinking greeted him when he turned to the corner that the guy passed first.

Rea stood stiffly staring at the guy with a slightly puffy face. The guy was shaking his bike right in front of the girl.

"There was no rejection. Come on up, or really I'll stay." Said that guy who was obeyed by Rea.

The girl moved up the bonbar and held onto the boy's shoulder. Raffa also launched his bike at medium speed. The wind on the day that began that afternoon hit the bodies of both soft and cool.

"Re."

"Hm." Rea still closed his eyes.

"You still have no intention of going out?" Ask the guy who immediately got a response from the girl behind his body.

Rea sounds weird.

"Why? Are you tired of me continuing?" That girl's bad. Raffa really knows how to change his mood.

The man's back seemed to shake. Rea could tell that the guy was laughing. Or laugh?

"You got me?" Tanya Rea did not accept.

The guy sighed.

"You're a real sensi, anyway. Yeah, not really, anyway. It's just not good for people to think we're dating. I like it the same way. Good thing Laras can understand." It was obviously that guy who made Rea grow even more upset.

So, he had always been a bully for the guy. But the guy's words have a point, too. Rea shouldn't always be around Raffa and so rely on him.

"Re, you don't keep it closed. You need to be more open. Many people want to be friends with you. You do not feel satisfied if the reality is you are just the same as me."

"I think that's enough, Raff."

The man breathed again.

"But look at yourself, Re. You are not like girls in general. Yes, you only have me and your father. You should hang out with girls your age. There are many in school." Said the guy who, despite his heavy heart, Rea admitted the guy was right.

Rea is selfish in assuming that the friend should always be there. In fact, everyone has their own space that should not be disturbed. Like him who never wanted to even get angry if Raffa talked about his family. Just like it seems, Raffa also has a world that should not always be in it.

One thing he knows, Raffa remains a friend who understands how to behave and cope with his feelings.

Silence ruled the two for quite a while. The two were immersed in their own thoughts until their home had started to appear from a distance.

"Raff, you're right." Rea opened his voice as the bike stopped right in front of his house. The girl jumped down and patted her skirt slowly.

The girl smiled looking at Raffa.

"But look at ya. You'd be surprised if I had a lot of friends or even a cool guy." He still said with a sweet smile.

"That's a good thing." Raffa replies with a smile and gently shuffles the girl's hair.

"I'm going in first." Pamit Rea who was taken by that guy.

As soon as Rea walked to open the gate of his house, Raffa took his bicycle into the yard of his house next to Rea's.

Rea was still observing the man who parked his bike and exclaimed that he had gone home while entering the purple-painted house where he lived.

The girl smiled faintly and then moved into the house where she grew up until her 17th age.

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