The Love I Don't Miss
Part 163 (Bottling! )
Cla was quite shocked, when there was someone who offered money to pay for the lunch he ordered. He opened his small wallet.
Cla turned his head to the left side, the girl was quite stunned because she recognized the voice so well. The voice of a young man who was 1.5 years older was seen deliberately keeping a distance with him. Because of one thing.
"Why did you pay for my lunch?" tanyanya looked at the young man who was now walking on his left side towards the table where Cla used to eat his lunch with each lunch.
"It seems like we haven't talked to each other for a long time." replied the young man without turning to Clarice who was still stunned looking at his face.
Taking a position by sitting face to face, the two teenagers were both facing the lunch menu they ordered. And immediately prepare to move the contents of the bowl to his stomach.
"Thanks, yeah!" clarice sounds ordinary. Even almost flat. I don't know, it seems like the enthusiasm for the figure in front of him has gradually faded.
"No need to thank me." replied the young man.
"You didn't lose much, did you, by buying me lunch?" clarice said in a joking tone.
"No! My pocket money has increased since Papa took office to replace your Papa.." he replied.
"Oh..." Clarice nodded in understanding. "Good! Daddy also said Om Beni's performance is not much different from Papa."
"Yes... And when Papa's ascension I didn't treat you, to keep Neha feeling. So just think of this as a treat for my gratitude." said the young man who was none other than Vino.
Athletics Basketball is no longer a class with Clarice. Even with other male friends. Like Arsen and Naufal.
Clarice nodded, with a bland smile. I don't know what the girl is feeling right now. About two years ago, he really wanted this kind of atmosphere. Sit down and eat with Vino alone. Or even just chatting in the toilet when Vino first met himself in the toilet.
But right now, everything feels different. It was as if he never wanted this to happen for now, and not until when. Because what is in the mind of the girl already exists.
"Where's Hanna?" ask Vino. "Tumben alone?"
"Hanna in the teacher's room..."
"Why?"
"Consider the student duty!" answer Cla. "You didn't?"
"Oh, I've already!" answer Vino.
Clarice nodded back. "Where's Neha going to college?" clarice asked in stale fashion.
"In Germany!" vino answered with a face that was beginning to change.
"Huh? So you guys are now LDRs?" clarice dug deeper.
"Yes... That's how it is." replied Vino with a lethargic look on his face. As if I am not sure of my own answer.
Clarice narrowed her eyes in disbelief at Vino's complicated and bizarre love story.
"So you dare to talk to me now because Neha has already gone to Germany?" clarice asked a little.
"Neha is not yet in college. Now he's going to Germany just to solve administrative problems."
Clarice observed Vino's unusual facial features. "You've been looking sad ever since we talked about your girlfriend..."
Not wanting to answer, Vino only raised both shoulders as an ambiguous answer to Cla's art.
Eventually Clarice chose to just nod. Pretending to understand the position of the young man. But there is something in him that cannot be lied to.
These positions, situations and circumstances are not what they used to be. Faced with Vino, eating both like today is like a vegetable without salt.
Tasteless!
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The following days repeated like yesterday, the moon material was already passed. Vino is seen seeing Clarice more often in class and in the cafeteria, and even accompanies Clarice to study in the library with Hanna.
Laughter is often thrown by the three. Talking to each other and telling a lot of things. And also what happened as long as the three were no longer close since Vino was in a relationship with Neha.
"Neha didn't come home at all, Vin?" hanna asked who was curious about Vino and Neha's relationship. Given that there was Neha at school, Vino was never close to Clarice or herself. And another girl too.
"No.." replied Vino staring at the bowl of meatballs that he had just spent.
"Why?" clarice looked intently and curiously at the Atlit.
Smiling wryly, Vino looked at Hanna and Clarice with a glittering look. "We broke up after prom night at school!" vino replied with a rumbling chest, recalling one moment that had never been imagined by her would happen.
"WHAT!!!" clarice and Hanna both stared in disbelief at Vino staring blankly at the school garden.
"Yes..." Vino nodded seriously. Convince the two girls sitting in front of him.
Clarice and Hanna face each other. As if not believing, the relationship that was considered too bucolic at that time turned out to run aground along with the end of the school period of the girl.
"Why break up?" ask Clarice.
"Before prom night that night, we had a lot of fights. Because I don't like him studying abroad. But it turns out he insisted on staying in college there. Besides that there are also mistakes that are given to me." replied Vino.
"I eventually relented to avoid further fighting. But on prom night that day, I found something that made me sick and I will never forget." she continued with a face that held back emotions. Seen with his teeth tightening and hands grasping the air firmly on the table.
Back Clarice and Hanna glanced at each other briefly. "What?" ask both at the same time.
"When he donated songs to sing on the prom stage, his phone was left at the table where we were sitting. There was one number that sent a message with a very strange name" he continued.
"Who?" ask Hanna.
"cloud!" answer Vino.
"Cloud?" sahut Hanna squinted her eyes.
"Yes! Out of curiosity I opened the phone. And see what message the Cloud sent!"
"What message?"
"Babe, is it over?" vino replied, imitating the message Neha had received.
"So you mean Neha's cheating?"
"I was still thinking... Maybe yes." replied Vino. "Then I went after the owner of this phone number. I plowed Neha's chat app, because I didn't have much time to be able to read everything through Neha's phone. And it was finally revealed when I accidentally left the prom and read it outside." Vino replied.
Hanna and Clarice took a deep breath as the two glanced at each other for a glance.
There was a thumping chest hearing Vino's story. It was as if he had the chance to be Neha's replacement for the young man.
But there is also a chest that rumbles and is disappointed when you hear a woman becomes a traitor in a love story that is intertwined.
Oh, it turns out that not only men can be traitors on this Earth, his inner being.
"Saturday tomorrow how about we go to Dufan!" invite Vino suddenly with a face that has changed more cheerful and sparkling.
"I can only go with you guys." replied Clarice.
"Why?" ask Hanna.
"There must be a minimum of Naufal!" answer Clarice. "Only he trusted Daddy and Papa to take me away from home!" answer Clarice.
"Why is it just him?" ask Vino.
"Because her parents are so close to Daddy and Papa!" answer Clarice.
"Yes, take her, you take Arsen!" sahut Hanna's.
Clarice and Vino's faces turned to pias. It was as if there was something they could not reveal to each other.
If Clarice, of course because it would feel awkward. Given that he and Arsen have not been mutually reprimanded.
But Vino?
Why should he talk to Arsen? Though he knew Arsen liked Clarice. But he also knows that Arsen and Clarice are not as close as they were a year and a half ago.
"Pale in love, ulam arrived!" hanna looked down at the path that led to the canteen where they were. All reflexes turned his head in the direction that became the end point Hanna saw.
There, the young man known as the best racer of the year is walking with a girl who is known by all, if the girl is an X class student. Only two months later I was in this school.
evidently with a red bet attached to his left arm.
Both look very familiar. Like throwing jokes at each other. And the young girl seemed to occasionally smile shyly with a face that met red.
In view from a distance of a few meters can be seen, if the girl who is with Arsen is currently very beautiful and sweet natural.
And it makes a girl's heart shrink her guts. Staring pushyly and poignantly at what is currently the center of attention.
"Arsen is dating that girl?" hanna asked Vino and Cla.
"I don't know." replied Clarice harboring something she couldn't carelessly reveal. Even with Hanna.
"I don't know either." said Vino did not want to interfere further.
Not far behind Arsen, there is Naufal Mahardhika, a young man who never had the desire to be in a relationship with the girl who one school with him.
Naufal was with two other friends who seemed to be from class XIII-IPS 2. And the four disciples were now entering the canteen area.
"Cla!" napa Naufal saw Clarice sitting blankly staring at him and his entourage entering.
Clarice replied to Naufal's greeting with a sweet and bright smile, accompanied by a wave of her right hand. Covering up all the gloomy feelings that gnawed at his inner near collapse.
For a glimpse of Clarice's eyes were fixed on Arsen who seemed still busy chatting, so as not to look at him at all. And Cla has been used to this attitude since a year and a half ago.
"Fuck!" hanna called her best friend. "Here!" call Hanna and ask Naufal to come to their table.
This is where Cla and Vino's heart is pumped. Without deliberating in advance, Hanna would have asked Naufal to take Arsen to Dufan.
"What?" asked Naufal who immediately took a position to sit next to Vino.
"Saturday tomorrow to Dufan, yuk!" take Hanna.
"Who are you?" naufal asked who would immediately agree with this idea.
"Yes-us. Bring Arsen too!"
"I'll take my girlfriend, will you?" ask the young man.
"Have!" answer Hanna who has known Naufal's girlfriend since a few months ago.
"The more the more exciting!" clarice.
"If Arsen must've taken him!" naufal turned to Arsen who was sitting next to class X.
"They're dating?" ask Clarice.
"I don't know..just ask yourself!"
"It's impossible if you don't know!" sahut Hanna's.
"Arsen didn't tell me anything about his relationship with the girl. He just said that there was a younger sibling close to him."
"Near as what?" ask Clarice.
"I don't know, Cla... Why don't you ask yourself?" ask Naufal.
Clarice could only take a deep breath. "Arsen is now icy cold!" clarice replied while sipping her favorite avocado juice.
Naufal and Hanna have each other's lyrics. It was as if there was something that they really loved in this friendship.
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Once in the morning after breakfast together, Clarice was in front of her dresser mirror to see the perfect appearance this morning to hang out with friends?
He used a white Hoodie that looked very oversized on his tiny body, even to the point of covering his butt.
Combined with a black mini skirt or commonly called a pleated skirt in double with tight black shorts covering his thighs up to 10 cm above the knee.
White canvas shoes have also wrapped his legs that are level and smooth white. While the black hair is wavy left unraveled, then closed using a white hat that reads NY.
"Cla... Naufal has come!" she said, knocking on Clarice's bedroom door.
"Yes, Mom!" answer Clarice.
***
"Hi!" greet Clarice to Naufal, Vino and Hanna standing near a white Mercedes Benz C-Class owned by Naufal.. It is said to be the young man's 17th birthday present.
"Hi!" reply Naufal, Vino and Hanna simultaneously, welcome Clarice.
Clarice glanced at Naufal's car, a girl sitting in the front seat with open glass. As Cla looked, the girl moved and waved her hand greeting Clarice warmly.
"Hi, Cla!" sapana.
"Hi, Gwen!" greet Clarice to Naufal's lover who has been dating for almost a year.
Behind Naufal's car is a BMW 4 Series Coupe with the same color. And this is the 17th birthday present for Arsenio Wilson from her father who is a coal businessman.
It's just that the one in the car somehow didn't get out. From the blurry looking glass, there was only someone behind the wheel, and someone with long hair beside him.
Wh who?
Just a faint look had made Clarice linu's heart and pained to guess who was invited by the racer
Then as Cla stared longer at the car, the left-hand door glass came down, and a girl pulled out her head. And with a charming sweet smile, the beautiful girl waved at Clarice. And Cla only replied with a stiff smile accompanied by a small wave from his left hand.
"Cla, you got in Arsen's car, huh?" naufal.
"Well!" cry Clarice. "Why didn't I get in your car?" clarice asked with a puzzled facial expression.
"Where to load, Cla!" sahut Naufal's. "Vino and Hanna are back!"
"Yes, Vino's with Arsen's car." suggested Clarice.
"I'm..." Vino glanced at the Arsen car, rather looking at Arsen's cold eyes looking forward. "I can't hitch a ride on Arsen, not good with the girl. What if Arsen doesn't like a man close to a girl who might have been Arsen's lover." - said Vino. "What if Hanna's with Arsen." hoping that Hanna's in Arsen's car, so she can sit with Clarice.
"Eh! can't!" sahut Hanna's. "Since I was in X class, Arsen wasn't very familiar with me, so I didn't feel good about hitching a ride on him. Not to mention if I become a mosquito repellent how?" answer Hanna. "Again if hitchhiking on Naufal, our way home will also be in the same direction!" he continued smiling brightly.
"I'll just bring my own car!" clarice said she was going back inside the house to get her car keys.
"You drive yourself?" ask Hanna.
"There's a Vino!" clarice.
"Cla! not too many cars!" sahut Naufal made Clarice quit her steps.
Clarice turned back to face back, and looked at the longest friend she had for now.
"But I'll be a mosquito repellent if I go with Arsen's car" Clarice replied with a rumbling chest.
Arsen and the girl who was with Arsen certainly heard the debate of the five people in front. If Arsen was just silent, suddenly the girl who came with Arsen called Clarice from her current position.
"Sister Clarice! Clarice's sister's in Arsen's car!" she smiled sweetly.
Clarice tried to smile sweetly, though all her best friends could see if this smile was fake and insincere.
"I'll just bring my own car, it's not good to bother you." replied Clarice again about to turn into the house.
But suddenly the girl who was with Arsen got out of the car and walked quickly to Clarice. And gently and gently the girl pulled Clarice's hand, and took her to approach Arsen's car.
"Already, Brother! Ayoh!"
"Eh, i..." Clarice could not continue her sentence.
"That's it..."
Both girls are now on the left side of Arsen's car.
"Sister Clarice would like to sit in the front or in the back? Eh wait! we should both be behind" said the girl who has not been well known by Clarice.
"Eh, no!" sahut Cla's. "Later Arsen will be like a driver!" answer Clarice.
"So how?" ask the little girl. "So much in front!"
"No need! I'm just behind!" clarice approached the back door and opened it.
"But, Brother!"
"Easy, come! lunchtime!" clarice.
All got into the car, except Vino who was still standing next to Naufal's car. His eyes stared coldly at the steering wheel of Arsen's car. Where in the greeting there the racer also stared at Vino with no less cold and even deadly.
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