The Love I Don't Miss
Part 127 (Attacking Each Other)
If in the car there is Daddy Kenzo who is jealous, but finally collapsed and is now eating lunch together in one of the restaurants on the side of the road.
So that morning at the Alexander International School there was Clarice who was lazy to see one child who had always been seen secretly.
Admiring since he first entered Senior High School, and now must be disappointed because he idolized not as beautiful as seen when in school.
The young man who he considered loyal, because from the beginning of school only seen chasing Neha the upperclassman, apparently chasing another girl, or maybe even already have another girl out there.
No matter what kind of disappointment he felt, though, in fact, when the young man is now standing in front of the class to do the physics problem given by the teacher on the board and must be done in front, Clarice still sees the young man. Although it always ends up wasting face, when remembering what happened that Saturday.
Sighing, Clarice felt very bored looking at the man in front. He finally stood up and raised his right hand.
"Miss, go to the toilet!" clarice said, still standing on her bench.
"Yes, please." replied the Physics teacher who was teaching.
And Clarice came out of her stool to go straight to the exit without looking Vino who was still working on the matter in front of the writing.
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"Oh!" Clarice let out a heavy sigh, while standing in the sink that was inside the special toilet for female disciples.
Cla stared at the reflection in a large mirror with three sinks on the marble table.
' Be like Mommy who chooses not to deal with the opposite sex when it comes to feelings, Cla! Because it will all be in vain. '
' Papa and Mommy who get married at a mature age can get divorced. Especially just the relationship of school children in the midst of the onslaught of this era. '
Satisfied by the reflection of the toilet mirror, Clarice washed her hands to prepare to return to class, which was about 50 meters away
Stepping out, Clarice did not notice around. Because he has felt alone since. The hallway sounded very quiet.
"Have you?"
Cla jumped up in shock when he had just opened the main door of the toilet, and a voice appeared that seemed to be waiting for him to come out of the toilet on the right side of the door.
"What are you doing!" clarice asked a little stomping because she was so shocked.
"Waiting for you." she answered casually while leaning against the wall of the toilet.
"You're still sane, aren't you?" ask Cla. "Why wait for me in the toilet?"
Smiling faintly, "Of course I'm still sane, and actually very healthy!" the answer.
"Then...why are you waiting for me here?" Cla squinted his eyes.
Then Cla's wry eyes scanned around. The hallway of the second floor currently looked very quiet. There was only him and the young man standing at the corner of the hall. Where the main doors of the male and female toilets face each other. Between them are now both.
"I want to know." he said but not continued.
"Want to know what?"
"What is your relationship with Arsen?"
"Arsen?" peekik Clarice who does not believe in the question of the young man who is none other than the Vino.
"Yes!" answer Vino. "I see you and Arsen very close!"
"What reason do you think me and Arsen are so close!"
"Every day at school, you have a moment for both of you. And what I'm most curious about is...why were you able to accompany Arsen in the wild race yesterday?"
DEG!
Cla really did not expect if actually Vino knew that he was also in the race with Arsen.
"In company of Arsen in the racecourse?" cla asked confused. "You see me?" clarice asked with a thumping chest. Because at that time, Vino did not see the direction of himself at all.
"First, I know you came with Naufal! and secondly, I saw a post from Arsen showing him a picture with you on his Instagram account. Even two photos in his WA story." replied Vino. "And as a fellow man, I understood what Arsen was like. He's the kind of guy who won't be that easy to share his picture with a girl in cyberspace! Moreover, thousands of Arsen followers. And all are original followers, not fictitious followers."
Vino chases Clarice with questions and statements that make Clarice squint her eyes with a frown. After feeling Vino completely silent, then Cla took a deep breath before speaking.
"Actually, Arsen and I have nothing to do with it" Clarice replied as she was. "But if you look at me and Arsen like there's an unusual relationship, what's your problem?" ask Cla with a slightly tinge. "What does this have to do with you?"
It seems that the effects of what he saw on Saturday are still impacting to this day. All are just unclear relationships. But why is it all so complicated and as if what happened was a love triangle.
Vino chuckled silently, "I just want to know..."
"What do you want to know?" cla asked deliberately to corner Vino who he thought was very strange for now.
"Let's know. I just want to know what your relationship is with Arsen. Because I'm sure soon you'll be in Arsen's fans!"
Clarice squinted her eyes not understanding. What about Arsen fans? wh why? Just because of a photo?
Oh my God! that's crazy Arsen fans!
"What do you mean?" cla asked curiously.
"Wait for later!" vino answered, raising his shoulders and preparing to return to class.
Clarice grew increasingly upset with Vino's strange demeanor. And it was also in his mind to discuss about the girl who was with Vino that afternoon.
Hearing Clarice's strange sentence, Vino immediately stopped her footsteps. He thought, why should Neha and her friends sit?
And two seconds later Vino looked back, looking back at Clarice with a surprised look. If he had made Cla squint and frown, then now he who squinted and squinted his forehead looked at Clarice.
"Why should I be afraid of Neha and her friends?" ask Vino from a position that has not changed. "What connection?"
Clarice smiled obliquely, revealing the ugliness of a person as well as skinning chicken skin to see if the meat was real or not. Then Clarice will soon reveal what she knows about Vino here. Before he saw a third world war that might just happen.
"I also saw you with a girl at the racecourse that afternoon" Cla said. "And the girl wasn't Neha. Who her? which other girl are you approaching besides Neha?" cla asked with a mocking smile. As if to tell Vino, to get ready if Neha knows everything.
"If Neha knew, it wasn't just Neha who would chop a land crocodile like you! But also the genk that he was scaring at!"
But instead of getting what made him smile mockingly, the young man in front of him laughed silently at Clarice's explanation. Because if the laughter was accompanied by sound, it was certain that the hallway would be filled with the sound of Vino laughter that exploded violently.
It could be that all the residents on the second floor will come out of their respective classes and stare in wonder at Vino and Clarice. Then I asked, what is it?
And of course that amazes Clarice. The smile on his lips instantly disappeared slowly. And changed by staring at Vino with question marks.
"Why are you laughing?" wonder Cla.
The chuckling Vino walked up to Clarice, so that the chatter would not be too loud from the class closest to the toilet. Because he also had to hold back his laughter which was still difficult to bear.
"So you saw me yesterday too?" ask Vino.
"Yes, of course!" ketus Cla sneered.
"What are you looking at?" ask Vino who is now standing face to face and is only one step away. The smile on his lips was still faintly visible.
"You feed the girl food, and also share a drink from the same glass!" clarice stared intently at Vino's pair of eyes.
"Then what do you deduce from all that?"
"You're dating!" clarice answered in accordance with the conclusion she saw yesterday.
"Haha!" Vino laughed at a glance and instantly stopped his laughing voice. And he held the voice in the middle of his laughter until his stomach ached.
"Just by feeding and sharing a drink, then with my position sitting opposite each other, then you think we're dating?" asked Vino in the middle of his laughter. "Where's that thought, Miss Clarice...?"
"If not dating, then what?" ask Cla.
No longer answering, Vino chose to suppress his curiosity. Then took the phone out of his pants pocket. Crack at a glance, and directly facing the screen of the iPhone 11 phone on Clarice.
"See this!" said Vino.
And Clarice looked at Vino's phone screen with a frown, then her eyes darted after understanding what Vino meant.
If Cla has understood the first photo he showed, Vino re-facing his phone screen on himself. Then compartmentalize again, after that he faced back to Clarice who was still curious about the truth that he had not found the evidence.
"understand?" ask Vino again after two seconds.
"Are you cousins, or brothers?" clarice asked as if she could not believe the two photos that Vino had shown.
"If we were, why? can't believe me and he's a sibling?" ask Vino.
"Yes!" clarice answered who was actually hesitant with her own answer.
Because the first photo shows a picture of Vino with the girl he saw yesterday and also there Neha was sitting three in one of the cafes. Which means Neha already knew the girl who was with Vino yesterday. Moreover, they look familiar. And when the photo together also Vino seemed to embrace the shoulder of the girl.
The second photo shows a picture of her and the girl when she was about 10 years old. Their faces are not much different, so it is still very easy to recognize.
"Try some other evidence!" pinta Clarice slightly stomped. He did not want to take for granted what he saw.
Looks like the two teenagers forgot, if time goes on, and the hours of Physics lessons in class X-3 are not over. There are still teachers that he must pay attention to when giving material. And maybe the teacher has now realized if there are two students who disappeared somewhere.
"Oh my God.." said Vino, shaking his head slowly. He was still amazed by Clarice who was not that easy to believe in herself.
Finally, the young man returned to his cell phone. To be able to find a photo that is much more real and easier for the girl friend to understand, if she and the girl who was with him yesterday were siblings.
"this!" Vino again showed a photo, when he photographed the three with his older brother who was also an athlete once, and is now serving the country as an Air Force TNI. Then the girl whom Clarice considers to be Vino's lover, sits next to Vino.
"His name is Mariana Lubis! our age is only one year different, and now he is still class IX Junior High School Bhakti Mulya. That's what makes us look the same age" Vino said. "She's so spoiled for me, she's so jealous if me or my sister have a boyfriend, so she always acts like she's our lover when she's out of the house" Vino explained.
"Although he never forbade us to date, as long as they were introduced to him" said Vino again. "And Neha knew Mariana a little, because we used to be in school!"
Clarice fell silent at Vino's reasonable explanation. Because if traced further then the only girl is mostly always spoiled, like her who is always spoiled for the Daddy, and the Papa.
"Still not believing? I'll show you a picture of our family!" said Vino again swiped the screen repeatedly, until a photo again appeared on the screen. And he immediately showed Clarice the frozen one.
This time a photo with a complete family formation. Vino's parents, her older brother, herself and Mariana.
"Now believe, right?" ask Vino.
Clarice was still observing one by one the faces of the people in the family photo. And when he saw one of the people in the photo, Clarice's eyes rounded wide to cover her mouth using both palms.
"You're Beni's son?" clarice looked in disbelief at Vino.
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