Chap 1 - Rian in rain

About 7 people are lying in UKS. Two of them just woke up. They are both handled by the teacher. They did not get a bed, sitting on the mat. Enjoy the drinks and bread provided others by UKS every Monday ceremony.

Their faces were pale let alone their lips. The two PMR-red youth officers on duty at UKS were quite exhausted in handling them.

PMRs suffering ended after the ceremony was over. Those who were lying in the UKS returned to their respective classes except for one person earlier.

One of the teachers told several PMRs to stay to look after the person. For one week starting from Monday, it's class meeting day—aka the bulletin board days showing who has to remedial school exams.

"Please take care for a while, when you wake up, buy soto, just say Mas Harri, UKS pays for it." ordered Mrs. Sari.

"Yes ma'am," they both said.

Mrs.Sari left UKS. At the same time the phone rang, the girl opened a message from her friend. She read while taking her bag in the corner of the room and then put her cell phone in bag.

She was standing in the doorway. She looked back at her friend.

"English is out, my friend said, I get remedial,"

"Yeah, it's okay,"

"Thank you, Rian," and the person left.

Rian. 162cm, thin body, pale face, black hair tied up. Because of her characteristics, especially her thin body, people often doubted that she was a member of the PMR. But Rian doesn't care. Until finally Rian became a senior and served in UKS.

Every day, Rian is on standby at UKS. Caring for people who are knocked out, stung by the sun. Burden for Rian, only this time, meeting class, so Rian's mind is all over the place. Guessing how many subjects she had to remedial.

She stuck in the UKS unable to see the bulletin board.

Rian hopes that math remedial are not today. If she is late, then she doesn't get to cheat together. Because Rian is weak in math.

Rian has been sitting for almost an hour waiting for Victor to wake up. Rian also quite surprised why Victor could faint during the ceremony. Even though from any angle, Victor's body is not the body of someone who faints easily. In fact, the opposite of Rian.

Time keeps running. From the UKS door, Rian could see people pacing in the corridor carrying paper test questions.

Rian panicked. Rian was sure that she had missed one subject. And deep down hoping, it's not math that's missed.

Then Rian massaged the muscles between Victor's thumb and index finger.

Victor's eyes blinked- opened slowly, his brows furrowed together.

"Ehm.." moaned Victor.

"Victor, are you okay?" Rian asked in a weak voice.

"Dizzy,"

Rian also took a glass of mineral water for Victor. Rian stabbed the straw and handed it to Victor. Victor slowly sit down with Rian help.

A few sips Victor stopped drinking it.

"Spend it," said Rian. Victor spent all.

"Let me take something for you,” Rian walked to the cafeteria to buy soup for Victor. According to Mrs. Sari's message, Rian said that UKS paid for the soup.

Slowly, Rian brought the hot soup to the UKS. Several times her hand had been licked by the soto water, Rian was only able to be patient and groaned when she was hit by the hot soto water.

"Hot... Hot..."

When she entered the UKS, there a guest accompanied Victor. His name is Nahar, Rian's classmate.

Rian put the soup on table near Victor's bed. They were both busy talking.

"How can you got knock out by sun?” asked the Nahar who was sitting on the edge bed.

Victor answered in a weak voice, "Yesterday I stayed up late watching football, so I woke up late, didn't have breakfast, drank coffee."

"Well, no wonder," said Nahar.

"What were you doing?" ask Rian.

“New English came out,” Nahar showed his paper.

"How about mine?"

Nahar shrugged his shoulders indicating Nahar doesn't know. Rian sighed, it was certain that other people only cared about himself. Without thinking, Rian carried her bag out to the bulletin board.

The bulletin board was like Rian's nightmare. Once there, Rian saw her name. Indonesian language lessons and physical education. Rian hurried upstairs to find Indonesian remedials.

Only the seats in the front are empty. There is no supervising teacher. Then Rian took the test questions and answer papers. In a flash she copied the answers written on the board.

Everyone else is done. Rian desperately catches up. One of them shouted, about to erase the answer on the board before the teacher came. Rian also took photos of the answers on the board.

Then someone delete the answer. Finished working on the Indonesian remedial, Rian went down to the IPS-2 room, working on the physical and physical education remedial.

“I can't believe it's 12 noon.”

Only 4 people have remedial physical education. Working on health and safety issues takes a long time. Once completed, their work is immediately matched. Unfortunately, Rian got a score of 6. The teacher also gave Rian an assignment to write an article about gymnastics.

Rian went back upstairs to the library. Her face turned pale, sweating exhausted from pacing around, only rest for a moment in the library. Sit down looking for a ten page article.

After she finished printing, Rian had to leave school to bind her paper. Her pocket money as much as 2000 rupiah was eroded to bind papers.

Unexpectedly heavy rain. Even though it was hot this morning, now suddenly it rained heavily. Rian had to wait for it to subside. Sitting on the edge, her body is often exposed to rain, Rian's body becomes cold.

"This morning was hot, you know, it was suddenly raining," said the guard.

"Yeah, hehe," said Rian weakly.

It would take more than an hour for the rain to subside a bit, but not as fiercely as it was in the beginning. Rian was desperate to hug her paper, ran to her school. In front of the school several students and teachers seemed to take shelter.

Luckily, when she arrived at school, she survived from heavy rain. Even though Rian's hair was wet, the skirt and the shoulders of Rian's uniform were wet, at least the body part was safe from the rain.

Rian headed to the office. There were only 3 teachers left. The physical education teacher's desk is empty, there are only piles of questions and question papers but the master is not there. Rian put her paper on the teacher's desk. When she was about to leave, Mrs. Rani called.

"Rian, where have you been?"

Rian put on a weak smile, "I was caught in the rain, ma'am,"

Rian knew for whatever reason the teacher would not pay attention. Rain drops on the uniform and on the head are trivial things, even Rian's struggle and her miserable fate.

Who cares. Everyone experiences it too.

"Is that so, okay, you take question paper on my desk, finish those and give it to me before 12pm, tomorrow,"

"Okay ma'am, thank you," then Rian took the question paper and the answer paper.

Rian is still grateful even though Mrs. Rani's class is late, at least Mrs. Rani allows Rian to work at home.

After the problems he faced, Rian could breathe a sigh of relief in front of the school while waiting for her pick-up.

It's been quiet for a long time. Now Rian is alone in front of the school until 5 pm. So many things are not in line with Rian's want.

The middle grade, a difficult time for Rian at this time. She gets too many repetitions compared to last year. Rian skips home more than school.

That's why Rian got so many bad grades and when taking report cards , Rian's ranking dropped. Rian was in the second lowest rank. The report cards are all average, because students who repeat, no matter how good their scores are, the report cards are get the average value.

Rian sighed.

"Oh my God, please, I don't feel like going to school."