Part 7

Tonight raka comes (back) to alyssa's house, not to play or chat like we did a while ago.

But raka came to study with alyssa, remembering that a few days later class 3 will be performing the exam.

Raka has been studying in alyssa's house for weeks now, and he hasn't even missed class or had a fight.

Alyssa was pleased to learn that raka had changed somewhat, although his temper remained the same, but at least raka's school was progressing.

"Let's stop studying and eat first "take alyssa's mother to alyssa and raka

"Thank you aunt, raka wait here" decline raka.

Actually raka hungry, considering dinner's past

"It's ok, let's eat together"

"It's ok, let's eat too"

Raka nodded in agreement with alyssa.

Tonight, alyssa's dining room is packed, although only alyssa's family plus raka. The warmth raka felt in this family is as opposed to his family in reverse.

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Farras has come with a happy face, since arriving at school, she has greeted everyone who passes her by.

"Good morning everybody"

She said when she got to her class, rizky who had seen her, quickly dragged farras into the classroom

"Why rizky?"

"So true?"

"You can see for yourself, who was I with?"

"Woow"

"How long?"

"I was going for a month, but dafa didn't show me much at first"

Rizky only understood

Just about to ask farras another question, his eyes were on raka and alyssa who had just walked through class.

"What are you two doing?"

Ask alyssa of rizky and farras

"Raka?" asked rizky

"Into him classroom, no way he came in here"

"You know that farras and dafa have become a couple?" asked rizky

"Know" alyssa answers briefly as she opens her book to resume her study

"You've been going on for three months with raka, farras is going on for a month, what if you two do?"

"Shut the fuck up" shilla says, who sits right in her chair

"Why?" he asked icha, while icha only shook his shoulders

"Shilla, are you okay?" icha asked shilla with a nod back, she looked at her two best friends

"Shilla let you go home, you're not well enough"

"Well, it's the last day of the exam, but I can't permit it"

The school bell had gone off the alarm and was about to begin.

Each worked through the problems carefully.

***

The rest bell rang, and the students poured out of the classroom

"Come to the canteen"

"I'll go to the toilet for a while" she says, and then she left the classroom and went opposite to her three friends.

After arriving at the bathroom, shilla went to the sink and washed his face

'ataxia, symptoms can come at any time, like a sudden loss of balance or suddenly one of your limbs can't be moved'

I heard a ringing in her head, so why did she have to be the one to get the disease, and she realized that his grandmother had the same disease.

Tears just fell, and she could not imagine if she had relapsed during the final test, shilla would have wanted to pass the test until the end at least.

"Shilla?" called gabriel when shilla came out of the toilet

"Gabriel? Hi" shilla's impressed smile, gabriel was too conscious of it

"What's wrong? It hurts?" this time dafa asked

"I'm good."

"Face down, are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm good."

"I take you to the doctor after school" dafa says, he'd be lying if dafa wasn't worried about your current condition

"Don't, farras will get angry"

"I'll do it, I'll take you to the hospital"

Shilla seemed to think for a moment, then he looked at gabriel

"Okay."

Shilla left the two on the way to the canteen, no doubt her friends had been waiting for her. Looking back from the distance, alyssa, farras and icha had already eaten their own dishes

"Sorry"

Again alyssa looked at shilla worried, shilla looked different than usual, now she looked quieter than usual

"Haiii....."

The woman's voice greeted the ears of farras, alyssa, icha and shilla. It's a good thing they've been in such a good mood since morning

"Why tyas?" alyssa asked

"Just say hello, can't you?"

"If it doesn't matter, I'm sorry you'd better go"

"By the way, I heard farras is dating with dafa?"

"Yes, why?"

"Congratulations, but shilla for what dafa and farras are dating?"

Shilla's activities that would bribe his food had come to a halt at the mere mention of tyas

"You mean what?"

"Yesterday raka, now dafa who's tomorrow?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh my god, just keep your face cold with raka and his friends, and keep your attention close behind your friends, and dafa is so close to you" said and left the four of them behind. Shut up, shilla can only shut up about the tyas talking

"Ashilla"

"I don't have anything to do with dafa"

***

Shilla has been staring at the road since she's with gabriel.

No one starts talking, even gabriel will focus on driving.

"Where are we going to the hospital?"

"Let's go to the hospital harapan"

Gabriel only nodded in recognition, and there was no more conversation after that until they reached the hospital.

"What do you want?" stopped shilla when gabriel tried to open the car door

"Get off the car."

"You wait here, I won't be long"

"Well then"

Shilla smiled at gabriel and left.

Shilla's footsteps stop at the reception desk

"Excuse me, can I see Dr. Min yoongi?"

"Dr. Min yoongi is in his room, on the second floor, you can go straight there."

"Fine, thank you."

Shilla quickened his pace. Actually shilla came here just to check on her illness, hoping that the doctor she met earlier was wrong

"Uncle yoongi" she called, her eyes sparkled when he met someone he was looking for. There's a lot of happiness in meeting that person

"Ashilla?"

Shilla wavered over to yoongi and immediately embraced him

"I miss you" said he was ten years old

"Seriously? If you miss me, why don't you go see me?"

"Usual, busy ehehe"

***

Icha broke her heels, and after an hour of gabriel stayed out of the way, unable to reply.

Alvin who had just finished basketball practice, saw icha at the school gate. Alvin went to the girl

"Icha, what are you doing?"

"Gabriel?"

As if he knew icha's question, alvin laughed

"Why laugh?"

"You really don't know?"

"Meaning?"

"Gabriel came back long ago"

Icha was shocked, she was so upset that gabriel could leave without saying anything

"Where? Did you know?"

"No, he just said he'd accompany shilla"

"Wait, what?"

Suddenly the expression of icha changed, which had been upset and turned into a smile of whatever it was meant to be alvin didn't know

"Really?"

"Yes, come back with me"

"Emmm...."

"No need to think, come on."

She didn't get to agree with alvin's call, and icha had to follow alvin because the kid yanked his hand

***

Shilla looked straight ahead, whatever she saw, since coming out of doctor yoongi's office, she didn't go to see gabriel right away. Even now she was sitting in a hospital garden, accompanied by a cool afternoon breeze against the skin of his face.

"Aishh" murmured when suddenly someone pressed a cold bottle against her cheek

"Said it was short, but it wasn't coming for hours." complained gabriel. Shilla's only holding back with a smile, which gabriel values, now, that's a good smile

"If you smile, you're cute"

"What the fuck"

"How did you end up here? You weren't spying on me?"

"Hahahaha no, I was thirsty, after the canteen, I forgot my way, and I ended up here"

Gabriel's smile convinced shilla. Of course it was reassuring, since gabriel had been following shilla in secret

***

"Sorry, doctor min yoongi?" asked gabriel carefully, fearing he was wrong."

"That's right, who is it?"

"I'm shilla's friend"

"Oh, but shilla just left"

"Yes, I know, I see."

"Well, what's the matter?"

"May I ask, does yeri have a problem? Since this morning, he has been very pale, has he been sick

"You're his girlfriend?" asked yoongi

"Amen, but I am still his friend"

"Hahahaha, you're so cute"

"So shilla why?"

Yoongi looked like he was breathing deep, then patting gabriel's shoulder slowly

"You promise not to talk to anyone about this?"

To hear it gabriel joined his eyebrows

"Okay."

"I believe you, and I entrust yeri to you" he said, and then yoongi closed his eyes and breathed his breath back

"Shilla was sick "short but it worried gabriel, like he couldn't get a scratch

"What kind of sick? Is it serious?"

"Ataxia."

Gabriel was shocked when he heard that one word, and he knew exactly what ataxia was up to. Yoongi doesn't have to bother explaining what ataxia is because judging by the expression of gabriel, the kid seems to have figured it out

"I'll leave shilla, take care of her, I think you can take care of her more than anyone."

Gabriel only looked at yoongi

"If you'll excuse me, my shift is back on, and remember, please take care of shilla"

Said it before they actually left

***

Gabriel looked at shilla intensely, and there was desire to hug the strong looking girl in front of him.

"Do you think I'm bad?

"Did you ever kill anyone?"

"Gabriel, i'm serious"

"No, you're fine, just a little twat"

"I'm sorry I cheated on you, and your friends"

"I see."

"Because of raka?"

Shilla smiled askedly at him

"You still sore at him?"

Shilla answered only with a nod

"But, ashilla..."

"I can't be honest with my friend either." he's still waiting for shilla to continue

"I may be open about all my problems, am I still worth being called a friend?"

Gabriel breathed deeply,

"If it's not ready, don't force it, they'll understand it someday"

"I can't even be honest with alyssa"

Gabriel patted shilla on the shoulder slowly and gave the girl a deep desire to hug him, but she was not yet so big

"Shilla, be honest with me"

Shilla looked at gabriel in confusion

"What?"

"As much as you hate him, do you still love raka?"

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