Choosing to Let Go
episode 47's

"So I saw Cicha outside, he looked really sad. Do you know why not Key?" ask Anggara to Keyndra.

They are currently on the basketball court. Although Anggara is a guy, but he knows that Cicha is sad. He saw Cicha standing alone in front of the school gate. That girl looks lethargic and somber.

"Lo care so much for her, don't tell me you like Cicha?" ask Dany who has been playing basketball with Keyndra.

"Ck, I just have it, don't think weird," Anggara said.

"Who knows, right?" aditya said, spreading his shoulders.

"Gue just don't have to, it's not possible I also stabbed my own friend," said Anggara.

"I think Cicha is like my sister" Anggara continued.

"Keep on!" dany.

"I'm sorry Lisa Black Pink is mine" Dany said, making others look at her.

"Mine, mine, hit the terosss!" aditya told Dany.

"Like me, the important thing is I'm happy," said Dany.

Keyndra who had been twirling the basketball he was holding, stood up and then mendrible and put the ball into the basketball hoop. The guy sighed softly. He wanted to meet Cicha, for sure now that girl is still in front of the school gate.

"Gue wants to go home first" said Keyndra. His friends understood that the man was in a lot of trouble, seen from the look of his face that was different from usual.

Even his attitude is now more labile, Keyndra is more frequent urgency. His emotions are sometimes uncontrollable.

From the parking lot Keyndra could see Cicha standing in front of the gate with a look down. Keyndra knows what the girl is feeling right now. Keyndra wants to fix everything. Determinedly, the guy started his montor, he wanted to approach Cicha.

Keyndra felt that he was too lucky to get a girl like Cicha. Not only smart, Cicha has a lot of skills that other girls may not have. If only the difference in social status between them, the girl is looked at one eye.

"Cicha," called Keyndra when she was near the girl, making the dreamy Cicha flinch.

"Not home yet?" keyndra asked Cicha to make the girl nod.

Keyndra got off his bike, stood next to Cicha, "Would you go home together?" looking at Cicha who still has no movement.

"No need" said Cicha over Keyndra without looking at the man.

"Udah afternoon, there are no angkot passing by here," said Keyndra staring fixedly at Cicha. "You want to?!"

Cicha turned slightly to Keyndra. Cicha's broken hair was slightly blown away, revealing next to her cheeks that were still red from Sandra's former slap and Keyndra could see that.

Keyndra touched Cicha's red cheek, causing Cicha to flinch and instantly distancing Keyndra's hand from her cheek. But Keyndra still saw it, even now the guy rubbed cicha's cheek.

"Not as sick as what my heart feels," said Cicha made Keyndra speechless because of it.

"Why? Who?" ask Keyndra.

"Not intentionally sucked the door in the classroom," lied Cicha. Cicha doesn't want Keyndra to know what Sandra did to her. Because Cicha is sure that Keyndra will not believe even Cicha's true story.

"When?" ask Keyndra.

"What if you don't go home with Sandra?" ask Cicha to Keyndra.

"Son, I want to be with you" said Keyndra staring fixedly at Cicha's bead eyes.

"Keyndra," call Cicha to Keyndra a little slowly.

"Three years ago I liked you. For as long as I don't dare to say. The first time I saw you at school. I like you right away. I always watch you play basketball, secretly watch you if you're the same as your friends. Although only from a distance I always pay attention to what you do, and it's been for me to smile. Three years is not a short time for me. And after I had that chance, why did it just hold on for a second?" cicha.

"Which girl I can't like you? That's not how I became your girlfriend? I can only make you embarrassed, huh, Key?" cicha asked with her voice swallowed.

"Don't you say that? who said it?" ask Keyndra to Cicha.

"I used to be able to hope, but why after the delivery it feels so painful" Cicha told Keyndra.

"Please don't ever talk like this again. Don't listen to anything that others say. They don't actually know that I'm the lucky one here. Lucky to have you, Cha. When I could have you by my side, I felt like I was the happiest person" Keyndra said.

"But why does everyone say you're not happy with me? I'm trying, Key. But if the truth is you're not for me. What else am I supposed to do, Key?" ask Cicha to Keyndra.

Cicha ducked down, which was when Keyndra was surprised to see Cicha drop her tears. Cicha held desperately the sound of Isaac so that Keyndra would not hear. But Cicha failed to hold him back, and that made Keyndra even more jolted.

"You know Key, actually I want us to be together. I don't want to believe it. I can't make my own feelings. But if in reality I am just a burden that becomes an obstacle for you how? I want to see you happy even though I'm not the one who can make you happy" Cicha told the still sobbing Keyndra.

"Have I been the only one struggling in this relationship? And keep hoping, while you're not?" cicha.

"Later if you've met someone who can make you comfortable and happy tell me yes. And I'm asking you one thing, don't forget me, Key, even if it's just my name!" cicha said before she intended to leave.

Keyndra's hands clenched on both sides of his body. When Cicha just a few steps to step his foot. The girl's body was being forcefully rotated. Cicha felt that someone was hugging her waist tightly and rubbing her cheeks. The girl could smell a perfume that she was very familiar with, which was mixed with the smell of wet soil due to rain water, or people used to call it the scent of "Petrichor". The girl's vision was blurred by the rain that suddenly came to wet the earth. The increasingly heavy rain made Cicha's eyes tightly closed. Then at once Cicha felt a very close roar of breath whack her wet face and something soft touched her lips.

Long enough the incident lasted, until Cicha regained consciousness.

Keyndra.

And it was a first for both of them. The rain that afternoon was a testament.

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