
"Mae."
"Don't call me Mae."
"Lo's name is it, it's Mae."
Zurra heated the man before her in annoyance. Somehow he had to tell his classmate from the tenth grade to stop calling him Mae.
The king laughed every time he saw the annoyance on Zurra's face. It was so nice to tease Zurra that Zurra was always so upset.
Two years, exactly when they had just entered the tenth grade. Raka never tired of provoking Zurra's annoyance by calling her Mae.
Sometimes Zurra protested to Papa and Mama, why there should be Mae in her name.
"Well, Papa knows that you're finally called that, honey. Anyway, right, your friend must be joking, too" replied Belva when Zurra protested about the name.
Sometimes Zurra just kept quiet. Sometimes Zurra protested against Raka. But Zurra's annoyance did not make Raka stop calling her by that name.
"Mae, for PR, dong!"
"Ih, no. It's good there's no effort."
"It's also another effort."
"Usaha ask for a cheat?"
Raka laughed out loud. The more annoyed Zurra was, the happier Raka was to see her.
His friends often tell Zurra that Raka actually likes Zurra.
But Zurra doesn't want to know about it. For him, dating is not important. Dating will only upset her every time because of her dating experience a year ago.
According to Zurra, dating is complicated.
Every time his girlfriend asks to be notified. Every go wherever Zurra has to say it. With whom, what time do you go home. And Zurra was angry and upset about it.
Therefore, the courtship style of High School children he lived only lasted for two months.
It's natural that her boyfriend is possessive. Zurra is amazingly beautiful. Like her mother who used to be an idol, Zurra was the same.
She became a school idol. There are even some college kids who used to go to school in Zurra also like Zurra.
Aware of where the Zurra family came from, they slowly withdrew due to self-consciousness.
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For days Gina had silenced Zurra. Zurra never knew what was wrong until Gina silenced herself like this.
Every time Zurra tried to open her voice, Gina just left. When Zurra tried to get close, Gina avoided.
"Ma, Sister Gina has been taking me two days" he told Belva.
Belva looked at Zurra questioningly. "Why really? Are you wrong with Gina?"
Zurra shook her head. "I don't know what, Ma, my fault is. All of a sudden he brought me."
"Try to his room, speak from heart to heart. Later if it can't be good then Mama help."
Zurra nodded in agreement. He immediately walked towards Gina's room which was next to his.
"Sister, can I come in?" zurra asked after Zurra knocked on Gina's bedroom door.
There is no answer from within. Zurra tried to turn the door handle, but it was locked from the inside.
"Sister," call Zurra again.
Shortly after, Gina opened the door violently. "What the hell, Lo, is so noisy? Disturbingly know? Don't you know I'm doing a job anymore?"
Zurra blinked her eyes at Gina's words, which she thought were very rude.
As Zurra remembered, this was the first time Gina had said something rude like this. Even my Lo language that Gina uses.
"I-I, I just want to ask you, sister Gina."
Zurra's heart was pounding. Still shocked by Gina's extremely rude way of talking even jerked at her like this.
"I was wrong with Gina? Brother got me two days."
Gina folded her hands over her chest. His eyes looked the other way, reluctant to look at Zurra. His face looked annoyed at Zurra every time.
"Yes. I'm so scared of Lo!"
"Why, Brother?"
"Lo nanya why? You know what? Every guy who is close to me, the edges just want to get closer to Lo! They all have a girlfriend yet. There's even someone I've liked the most since I first went to college, he asked me to help him get close to Lo. Do you know what it feels like? I really hate Lo, Zurra. Why is everyone more choosy than me? I'm tired of just being Lo doang's shadow!"
Zurra rubbed her tears from hearing Gina's explanation. So because of this Gina silenced herself for days.
"I know about that, brother. I know them not."
"But they know about Lo. And they know that Lo's my sister. That's what made them find out about Lo through me. And I'm tired. I'm tired, Zurra!"
Belva who heard the commotion that occurred in the room of her two children was immediately approaching.
He saw Zurra who was crying as much as he could and Gina who was looking at Zurra with her sharp gaze.
"What's this about? Why are you shouting her words? Should I scream like that?"
Not only annoyed when he saw Zurra, Gina was also upset to see Belva. There was one thing that stuck in Gina's heart that she was so annoyed with every memory of it. Especially when you see Belva.
"Zurra is wrong with brother? Can it, right, be resolved okay?"
"I'm upset with Mama's favorite son."
"Why say Mama's favorite child? You don't think Mama loves you?" Belva is getting hooked.
"I was upset with Zurra because every man who approached me, at the end of the day, only wanted Zurra's name. The guy I like does the same thing, Ma."
"Did your sister know your friends were doing that?"
"May they have DM Zurra first, Ma."
"Is that so, Zurra?" ask Belva to Zurra.
Zurra shook her head. "I don't know, Ma. I haven't opened my Instagram for a long time."
"Listen to yourself, right, Gina? Zurra doesn't know about it."
"So keep going, Ma. A biological child is no different from a stepchild like me."
"Why even talk about biological children and stepchildren? Did Mom mention that? I just want to find out who's wrong and who's right."
"And it's still me who's considered wrong, right?" Gina interrupted Belva's words.
"Then you think who's wrong, Gina? Zurra is wrong? He didn't know, he never even met your friends. Where's her fault from?"
Gina sighed in annoyance. "Tell me Mama Belain Zurra. Mama's been secretly unfair, right, between me and Zurra?"
"What do you mean? What did Mama give Zurra and Mama not give you? What Zurra has you have too. Even Mama never differentiates the affection that Mama gave you and Zurra, Gina. You think_"
Belva almost said that it was not easy for her to love the child of her husband as much as she loved her own child.
Gilang did not have an affair with Belva. But if you remember, sometimes the annoyance is still there.
"Mom don't think I know that Mama and Papa are having a sweet seventeen party for Zurra? But where is the party for me, Ma? Just eating with family. It is just a laptop. While Zurra, Mama and papa ask, right, Zurra wants what? That's what you don't mean to differentiate between me and Zurra?"
"Mom remind me again, Gina. You ask for holiday gifts with your friends on your seventeenth birthday. Mama offered a party but you refused. You'd forgotten? Don't get into trouble, Gina! What do you want, baby? Why is it like this?"
Gina wiped her tears. She misses her real mother. He wants his late mother to be next to him now.
Gina admitted, Gilang and Belva's affection was so perfect for her. But the biological mother remains the only person who occupies most of her heart.
Feeling that there was no point in Gina talking anymore, Gina chose to go into the room and closed the door of her room by slamming it violently.
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