Junior High School Part2

The boy with glasses handed Mesya a medium-sized chocolate package.

"This is for you," said the boy.

Mesya still looked at the boy's face.

"Why daydream, you don't like this chocolate?" asked the boy again.

"Are you, Romi?" asked Mesya.

The bespectacled boy smiled sweetly.

"Thank God, you still remember me," he said.

"Huh?! So you're Romi?!" Mesya looks shocked with a smile because she didn't expect that she could meet one of her friends from her orphanages.

"Romi, you look different, your body? Glasses?" Mesya was surprised by Romi's appearance change.

Romi used to be a chubby boy who liked to eat and was very cheerful, and now Romi has changed drastically.

His body looks thinner.

"Why did you turn out like this?" Mesya asked again, still in disbelief.

"Ah, yes. My adoptive parents told me to go on a strict diet, they said that eating too much and being overweight is not healthy," explained Romi.

"Glasses?" asked Mesya.

"Oh, glasses? Haha, if this is my fault. Since I was adopted, my adoptive parents gave me many facilities that were not available in the orphanage, especially video games, I played games almost every day, even though they forbade me, and gave me a time limit. But instead, I played secretly, via cellphone. Day and night I played games until I lost track of time, and finally, my eyes became damaged, so I had to use these glasses, "explained Romi.

"Wow, I'm so happy to meet you, Romi!" Mesya said while hugging her little friend.

"Me too, but why don't you want to see us? Even though since you left, we miss you?" asked Romi.

"About that... many times, I begged my parents, but they didn't grant it, they even said that you had moved," explained Mesya.

"Move?"

"Yes, is it true that you moved to a place far from the city of Jakarta?" asked Mesya.

"No!" replied Romi.

"Continue?"

"Well, we did move places, but we still live around the city of Jakarta," explained Romi.

"Why did you move? Is it true that the orphanage was evicted?"

"No, Mesya! We moved not because we were evicted, but because our orphanage experienced a big fire," explained Romi.

"What?! Fire ?!" Mesya was very shocked to hear.

"Why can there be a fire, Romi?!" Mesya asked again.

The girl who had just turned 13 years old looked very shocked, and couldn't hold back her tears anymore.

"You don't know, Mesya?"

Mesya shook her head. "No, I didn't even know you were in that accident! My parents said you moved because they were evicted!"

"Why did the kind Mr. Charles and Mrs. Arumi lie to you, huh?"

"I don't know, Romi, why they can lie to me, hik ... hik...." Mesya crying.

"Well, Mesya, just think positively, maybe they don't want to see you sad," said Romi, who tried to calm Mesya.

But even so, of course, Mesya's heart still feels uneasy.

"Then, how are things, Mother Lia and the others?"

"I don't know, when I left because were adopted, I heard that Mother Lia was taken to the hospital,"

"In the hospital! What's with her?!"

"Mother Lia, suffered severe burns because she helped the children of the orphanage that were on fire," said Romi.

"Oh my God! Then where was she treated?! And now where is she living?!"

"I don't know," Romi shook his head. "My parents forbade me to see her, they even said, Mother Lia, was taken for treatment abroad by a donor who eventually married her."

"Married? Huff... thank goodness,"

"Yes, but I don't know anymore the next,"

Didn't feel like they had a long conversation, and shared their lives while living with their respective adoptive parents.

Until the recess bell began to ring, and the atmosphere in the cafeteria had now become very crowded.

They looked at Romi and Mesya.

They look very jealous, because Romi, who looks ordinary but can be close to Mesya, is a very beautiful student and of course from a very rich family.

"Why do they always look at me like this?" asked Mesya.

"They didn't see you, they saw me," Romi replied.

"Why?"

"Because I look familiar with you, they find it strange I ugly one can be close to you who are so beautiful"

"But, Rom—"

"It's Mesya, don't think about it, I'm used to being bullied, even when I was fat," explained Romi.

Mesya just stared at Romi in silence.

"Eat the chocolate, please," said Romi.

Then Mesya glanced at the chocolate in her hand.

"Oh, yes, I forgot Mesya. Since you were little you didn't like chocolate and meat!" Romi said with a crisp laugh.

"Ah, no, I love chocolate!" Mesya said firmly, as she opened the chocolate package.

"If I had to avoid sweets, my parents said I had to maintain a healthy diet, and apart from being healthy, they also wanted me to look more attractive, and not be bullied anymore," explained Romi.

"Poor to you, Rom."

"Well, that's how it is, the fate of ugly people haha!"

"Don't be like that, you're not ugly."

"Yeah, just not handsome enough, right?! haha!"

And Mesya also laughs seeing Romi laugh.

Finally, Mesya can laugh again, because she has met Romi.

If Zahra studied here, Mesya would introduce Romi to her, but unfortunately, Zahra moved to another school because here Zahra's parents couldn't afford it, even though Davies' family had helped her, Zahra's parents' condition had not improved. because Zahra's parents already had a lot of debt, and their house and some assets were confiscated by the bank, then they moved somewhere.

Actually, Mesya had been looking for her best friend for a long time and had met her, but for some reason, Zahra was afraid to see Mesya and ran away. It's like seeing a ghost.

And until now she did not know any more news about her friend.

Looking at Mesya who looks busy chatting with Romi, Arthur looks normal, he just glances from a distance with a disdainful look. He returned to having fun with his friends.

Unlike David, he just sat alone, looking at Mesya's face which was getting more beautiful with a smile.

Not felt from David's lips, also etched a smile.

"David, what are you looking at?" asked Salsa who suddenly appeared behind him.

Immediately David stopped his smile and came back with a cold face.

But Salsa had seen David's smile earlier.

A smile she had never seen before.

'David smiled because he saw the girl? Isn't that girl his sister?' thought Salsa.

Of course, it made Salsa wonder how an older brother sees her sister

while smiling with a look like someone in love.

To be continued