The Love I Don't Miss
Part 118 (Cock On Cheek )

Days have passed since the day Clarice first interacted with Vino on the basketball court. The male student Clarice had been dreaming of since she first entered X-3 class.

The days to go to school are now the most awaited moment - wait by the girl. He hopes that starting from that afternoon will make the relationship between Cla and Vino closer.

Not necessarily dating, because Clarice also doesn't want that to happen, at least for now. He still cannot if he has to betray the advice of the Mommy. But at least he can be friendly and good friends with Vino. Or maybe like his relationship with Naufal.

He was originally interested in Naufal. But so he held the advice of the Mommy, then his admiration ended with a complementary and loyal friendship. And lucky both of them were in one class for the fourth time.

But what Clarice expects is very different from what she has been getting for almost a week. Since that day, Vino is still the same as always. Never say hello friendly and familiar or invite Clarice like Arsen who still continues to disturb him.

Though Vino looks familiar with Carren and also some other girls. But why with himself Vino seems to keep his distance. Especially in public places. Or in front of friends - ten one class.

His familiarity with Vino really only intertwined in the afternoon that day. And it didn't happen again until this morning. Where the sports clock comes back for its class.

' It's impossible, right? what if I were hallucinating that day? '

' It's impossible, right? if I was just dreaming then? '

' It is also impossible if at that time it was a genie disguised as Vino? '

Clarice murmured in the heart. Staring at Vino who was currently walking in front there along with several other boys. His heart continued to fret, because it always hoped to be familiar with the man.

Sports hours that he thought would produce the results of chat with Vino also ended with ordinary - ordinary. Not even a word came out of their lips.

Precisely Arsen who is now a jerk, approached Clarice who was resting in the cafeteria after changing her clothes with school uniforms. As before, Clarice was always considered a bully.

But if Arsen doesn't seem to bother her, Clarice always looks for him. As if something was missing. And he'll feel bad.

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Time - time passes. Sports hours repeatedly came. But Clarice's relationship with Vino is still the same. There is absolutely no change.

Until one day, where this time the late Papa picked him up home from school. Because you have to finish the meeting, when the CEO aka Daddy Kenzo is going out of the country. More precisely to Australia to settle important affairs dealing with two giant companies owned by Mr. Adhitama.

And tonight Clarice wants to stay at Papa Zio's house. Missing the Father with his birth. While the Papa does not allow him to go home with Beni. In addition there is no preparation to bring a helmet, also because the Papa wants to feel deliver and pick up the girl more often. While not too busy.

This time Clarice chose to wait for Papa in the waiting room, or the lobby of the school building. He sat down while reading an old novel, but not as famous as When Love Tastabih.

The novel whose film exploded, and was very much in interest by various ages of residents in Indonesia was titled DILAN. A novel by Pidi Baiq, published in 2014. It was later adapted into a feature film titled Dilan 1990 in 2016.

The novel, which tells the background of a high school boy in 1990, makes Clarice feel included in that year. In that year, no school children brought cell phones. Moreover, a phone with three eyes like the one he has today.

And where in 1990 there is still an angkot. While in his era who take pick up to school alone must be those who have been registered as pickers for the student. Because there are no students there who commute using public transportation. Online taxis can only deliver, if you pick up, you must get confirmation from the parents of the student guardians.

The rule was more precise for Alexander International School, and possibly other International-class schools. Or also private schools that have advanced and implemented such a tight system.

In addition to the question of angkot, which makes Clarice drifted by her storyline is how cool and gentle her character Dilan, for the female lead is very indifferent at the beginning of the introduction. While Dilan continues to pursue in a very unique and unusual way.

But who would have thought in the end the female protagonist dared to say if he was his girlfriend Dilan, at a time when they had not even officially dated. Until the boy from another school who was about to tease him was instantly silent and did not dare to say anything more, in addition to letting the main character of the woman into the canteen to meet Dilan who was organizing a combat strategy in the style of school children in his time.

Clarice had to smile - her own smile reading a novel that tells the love story of a teenage boy in a year that even she has not been born. Even when Papa and Mommy have not been found.

When he was busy reading the novel he bought when he entered the largest bookstore in one of the malls, suddenly the sound of several shoes hitting the floor of the stairs sounded loud when the building had begun to quiet. Added to the sound of chatter that sounded soft, and not at all clear.

Clarice turned to look at the stairs to see who was coming down the stairs. Recognize it? or didn't? Whoever Clarice wants to know, who's the new student down when all the kids have left school.

But what came down turned out to be Vino with a girl who was known as Clarice as his upperclassman, as well as bustling Vino. Who often went home and went to school with Vino. Where it means that the girl's parents already know Vino.

There was something that made Clarice uncomfortable, tickling in her stomach but I don't know if it was. And what made Cla choose to bow was....

because when the look in his eyes met with Vino's eyes, the man was smiling but not smiling for Clarice, but for the girl beside him.

Which is where they are chatting casually but looks very exciting. Until the two were seen smiling repeatedly and the girl repeatedly hit the young man's arm slowly. And Vino also occasionally tease the girl by rubbing rough hair on the top of the girl's head.

The same attitude - equally sweet, and the same - makes Clarice die of lice because it has seen such a romantic scene.

Cla, who was sitting while staring at his novel, is now not reading a line of letters lined up to form a beautiful sentence. But it was his ears that were working hard to hear what two young people were talking about who were walking across him.

"Will it be tomorrow afternoon or not?" vino asked in a soft voice, but it could still be heard by Clarice. "Mumped up Sunday night." said Vino in a seductive tone.

"Where are we really going?" ask the girl. "Why should it be afternoon?"

Clarice said in her heart, apparently they were arranging a date schedule that was out of nowhere. What is clear is that they will play the role of young people who spend Sunday nights together.

"I'll take you to see my friend who's racing!"

"Where?"

"In one of the wild racecourses!" vino replied lightly saying the word wild.

"No will! the race has been done often, but every watch I never get caught in the police raid. Just don't get any accidents or other dangerous things!" answer Vino. "Because an accident is what can be a big deal."

"Why?"

"Because if the wretched is a minor driver, it can be ascertained that the law will continue to bring in parents and so on." replied Vino. "Because actually the SIM will go down for those who have been 17 years. Nor is it for racing. But the reality is that there are already many children who are less than 17 years old playing there. That's what makes the place called a wild racecourse."

"Police don't know if there's a minor coming?"

"Everything can be done, Neha." replied Vino calling the girl's name. "So you want to, huh?" bargain Vino again when the two had reached the entrance of the spacious building.

"Tomorrow morning I'll call, okay?" the girl replied, which Clarice could hear again.

Although Clarice had no right to be jealous, nor was she entitled to interfere, there was still a distinct feeling running through her heart.

As much as possible, he is indifferent to the affairs of others. But there is always something that makes Clarice feel wrong has chosen to sit in that chair.

The waiting chair, which Clarice sat on, was bordered by a glass wall. Where you can see the outside clearly. And as the two students walked out of the 2-meter-wide main door, Clarice chose to keep looking at their backs.

As a normal teenage girl, Clarice wanted to feel in the girl's position. Living a monkey love that people say is very impressive. Without thinking about the future, where the age is getting older and the problems faced are getting bigger.

But fate kept him a spectator, until the 1st semester was almost over. And until now, Clarice did not expect if the girl who became the demon Vino turned out her status had not changed until now. Stay as a bully, not a lover.

The girl beside Vino pointed at a car that had just come. Although Clarice can't hear their conversation anymore, Cla can estimate if it's the girl's pickup car.

And when the girl was about to leave Vino, the girl had time without hesitation and embarrassment to kiss Vino's cheek briefly. But the effect of the kiss was like an electric shock for Vino who in reality could only be stunned when getting such treatment.

Without fear of the school's CCTV, the girl did what Clarice found very strange and embarrassing. What if a teacher replays CCTV? Or even what if now there is a teacher who is monitoring CCTV?

Isn't that a problem?

All attitudes of students in schools that are wrong or misleading, can always be proven through CCTV footage.

Although kissing the cheek of a lover is very commonplace in this day and age, it is still very dangerous and embarrassing for Cla. He even immediately glared and glared when the scene arrived - just walking in front of his eyes.

Instantly the cold air in the room becomes hot due to the hot scene outside the effect that goes into the room.

' Cih! why isn't the girl shy about kissing men in public? '

' Didn't you feel sorry for the driver who picked her up? '

Clarice murmured that the one in the car must be a driver, or even have Papa the girl.

But with confidence the girl waved at Vino and immediately ran into the car whose door had been opened by someone in a driver's uniform.

Clarice took a deep breath, and avoided him slowly.

' Basically, all men like that kind of treatment. It was only fitting that Vino chose to approach the upperclassmen who seemed to have been used to kissing the opposite sex wherever they were. '

' End your youth, Cla! No man would want to be with a little girl like you! '

Inner Clarice deduced herself. Because I never dared to do that kind of thing.

clarice grumbled at Vino with a feeling that was hard to understand. Feeling disappointed because someone could kiss the young man's cheeks very easily, without a fight, and without being given distance. The man seemed very happy with what the girl was doing.

Disappointment must be there when seeing the cheek of the young man has been kissed by a girl who has not even been declared or announced by Vino as a lover. And all this happened before his eyes.

"Truely said Daddy, you should not fall in love while still in school. I like it - it may be. But if you fall in love, how? Love can make a person stupid!" lirih Clarice looked down, looking at the novel Dilan had read until page 254.

And he chose to go back to reading it, without intending to see what the man he idolized was now doing. Where on the page that he was reading now there was a crush on Dilan when in the market, after they shop for vegetables.

And again Clarice smiled as she read Dilan's very unusual, but very romantic, conversation. And of course managed to make the female lead misbehave with reddened cheeks.

"Is it, in the real world, a young man like Dilan?" murmured Clarice dreamed of finding a handsome and special figure like Dilan.

"There!" voice someone from the entrance.

Feeling familiar with the voice, Clarice looked up and looked at the owner of the voice who was none other than Vino. Feeling still disappointed by what he saw earlier, the girl let out a heavy and long sigh.

"Who?" her question is flat.

He did not understand why the Vino approached him at low hours. When no other student was watching. And after a long time, this is the second time Vino approached him, when the school was quiet.

"Me!" sahut Vino while sitting on the waiting chair made of iron.

Clarice squinted her eyes, "You?" cry Clarice.

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