Chapter 19
"Friendship is like a cocoon, turning a caterpillar into a butterfly..."
Friends since elementary school (SD), the two met at the same school. They are friends without a doubt.
Gluing makes friendship status into friendship. Living in an environment that is not far apart makes Rio, Lay and Laras meet every day.
After graduating from elementary school (SD), they continued their friendship until they reached junior high school (SMP). Although separated due to different schools, it does not necessarily make the friendship between them break up.
They still play and joke together, and are always spent together.
Until finally, when they were in high school, they were reunited. As seen today.
Holding hands and embracing each other tightly, as if they were inseparable.
Walking, while joking. The three of them will return to the classroom, but before that in the middle of the road they run into other students.
There were three girls who passed Lay, Rio and Laras. They are Raeni, Rara, and Ruhi. The three of them are still under the same roof in the same building, only Raeni, Rara and Ruhi are in different classes.
They passed each other like strangers. They never greeted each other let alone looked at each other, this was the first meeting and Rio already felt something.
Right in the middle, Rio could feel a huge aura emanating from within his body. But Rio didn't realize that, he still joked with Lay and Laras.
And so is Raeni, she is busy chatting with Rara and Ruhi. Yes, like friends in general.
After passing each other, Rio who was flanked by his two friends just realized something.
This is very felt, Rio can't hold his curious aura.
He turned around, and looked behind him at the girls who had just passed.
"Rio, what's wrong?" Laras asked so curiously.
He asked why Rio stopped suddenly, and plus he immediately turned around as if someone was calling him there.
Laras didn't feel what Rio was feeling, so he asked.
"What's wrong Rio? What do you see?" asked Lay for something similar.
Rio couldn't explain it yet. This strange feeling that arises cannot be expressed verbally, because it is probably just a hallucination.
"It's all right, guys. Maybe it was just my hallucination."
Rio just said casually as if there was nothing to worry about, and he turned around again. What he saw and felt earlier was probably just a gust of wind, there was nothing to worry about.
"Come on! Let's go again."
Bring back everything. And others do not immediately question it. It doesn't need to be expanded, it's better to get back into the classroom right away. The three of them thought.
Rio has gone back, now it's Raeni's turn to feel this strange thing.
The gust of wind is now attacking the feelings of the young girl. He turned around the same as Rio did earlier.
He looked behind him, and there was nothing for him to see there were only the three students he had passed by.
Raeni is quite confused by this feeling. His heart suddenly pounded which made him uncomfortable.
"Raeni, what's wrong?" ask Ruhi first.
"Yes Raeni. What's wrong? Is there something?" Rara continued asking the same thing.
Raeni couldn't answer it, because she also didn't know why she had to turn around, even though there was nothing behind her.
What drives have made him like this? What is the feeling in his heart? Raeni was lost in her daydream.
"Raeni!"
His friends rebuked him, and made him realize that he was daydreaming.
"Yes. What is it? What are you guys doing here?" He turned around to ask.
His mind was suddenly confused. His focus is lost, I don't know what his brain is thinking right now? It was clear that he had confused his two friends.
"What do you mean? That question is really weird? Haven't we been together all this time? Why do you ask like that?"
Ruhi is amazed, and doesn't know why Raeni is changing so fast?
"Are you possessed? We are….," continued Rara, who was also surprised.
He pointed in the direction of the way to their class, because they had been going to class a long time ago, weren't they? But why is Raeni's question as if she didn't realize her goal earlier?
Raeni blinked her eyes, she realized that this was an oddity, "I'm sorry guys. My mind suddenly wasn't focused…."
He said so. He tried to apologize for what he just said.
"...Come on, let's go back to the classroom. The teacher must be waiting for us!" asked him who threw away all the strange feelings earlier.
"Come on."
The others agreed. Let's just say that what just happened was the act of interference by supernatural beings, which is actually common among the people.
Forgetting what had happened, and walking back to class because it was certain that the lesson had already started.
Raeni forgot about it and thought it was just her imagination. Because that really didn't happen.
*****
Forget what happened in the howl now go to Rio's class. There was already something that stirred the whole class.
All the students became noisy because of the presence of Ludra Angga Wijaya in their class.
"Good morning to noon everyone. Introducing my name is Ludra Angga Wijaya. I am a new student at this school and a new student in this class as well… Please guide me, friends, nice to meet you all."
He introduced himself in front of the whole class, from women to men all hysterical. Those who are mostly Ludra fans feel happy because Idols will study in this class.
The others were busy taking pictures and taking photos of Ludra, this is a rare opportunity because they can capture Ludra's face up close like this.
"Alright everyone. Ludra has introduced himself, and now he will be our new friend in this class."
The teacher put his arm around Ludra's shoulder. And Ludra was happy because his new friends were well received.
"Thank you, sir," he smiled as he said happy words to his new teacher.
While Rio's class was busy, Laras and Lay finally arrived in front of their class.
The three of them were surprised while still standing on the lips of their classroom door. Laras was hysterical when he found out that Ludra was in his class.
"Ludra!"
His feelings suddenly screamed, he couldn't contain his emotions when he could see Ludra at this close distance.
Feeling called, Ludra looked towards the door and greeted Laras who was there.
"Hello."
His hand waved and instantly made Laras melt because he could be greeted by his idol.
Unable to hold it anymore, Laras wanted to immediately run towards Ludra but before that.
Bruk….
Rio fell unconscious again. He lay limp again on the floor with no one to refute him.
Laya who was beside him also didn't know if Rio would fall unconscious again.
"Rio!"
Lay immediately fell on the edge. He patted Rio's cheek, aiming for Rio to come to his senses.
"Rio! Rio! Wake up! Rio."
Rio ignored it. No matter how hard Lay tries, Rio won't realize it.
"Rio."
Laras came to see his condition. The others were also curious as to what really happened.
The teacher there came closer, "What happened to Rio? Why did he faint? Take him to the infirmary immediately for examination!" asked the Master, while looking at Rio's condition.
"He fainted earlier, sir. And we took him to the UKS earlier. The doctor said he was tired, sir," Laras explained.
"Sure. You should take Rio back to his house. Looks like he has to rest a lot so he doesn't faint like that again, in the future," the teacher ordered again.
"Okay sir."
The two of them answered in unison. They should not have allowed Rio to be absent from class, if it really happened like this.
"Careful."
The teacher is worried about the condition of his students. He knew exactly what kind of child Rio was in class, so he really regretted that Rio had to be sick from exhaustion.
"Okay sir."
Lay carefully lifted Rio to move over his shoulder. Lay, assisted by Laras, immediately took Rio to go home.
"Excuse us first, sir," said both of them greeting.
Together Lay and Laras brought Rio home, so that the very stubborn student could rest properly at his house.
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Meanwhile Rio was escorted home, on a different side. Raeni who was already in her class was still thinking about what happened in the hallway earlier.
"What did I feel earlier? Why do I feel like I'm connected to someone far away? But who? There was no one there? Then what happened to me actually?"
His heart kept saying that. His mind kept wondering. This time he couldn't focus on his studies. Raeni didn't even care about the teacher who was explaining the material.
He seemed very clearly unable to forget the incident. When he crosses paths with three students who are actually in the same school as him.
*****
There was Rio when they passed each other earlier. Perhaps?