A Dark And Pearl We Lost (A Novel)

A Fake Smile

"Bintang!"

"Hey. Hey. Buddy, stop!" Rayyan finally reaches his arm. "Sirman, help me!"

Bintang is so strong. Rayyan feels he will be free as soon as Sirman doesn't help. They lock him on the wall.

"Buddy, calm!"

"Let me go!"

"He is crazy now." Sirman talks to Rayyan.

"Definitely." Rayyan nods while keeping Bintang on the wall.

Bintang moves like a drakula who got angry because of smelling blood. He is a fierceness.

"Bintang, you need to calm first. If you can't, I won't let you go." Says Rayyan.

"Calm down, Buddy. Breathe slowly. Yes, that is."

"Oh his baby will come out!"

"It's a girl!"

Shit! Those boys, Sirman and Rayyan, plays in this situation.

Bintang tries to fix his breath. It is quite difficult but then he can.

"Okay. I am okay. You can take your hands off." Asks Bintang.

Rayyan and Sirman are giving a sign to each other. Sirman nods first and makes Rayyan off. He follows him after.

"Bin, what are you thinking about? You don't know the president like we are. Why did you push yourself?" Sirman punches his arm softly.

Bintang doesn't say anything. For those boys, it is the first time they see Bintang acting out of his usual. He was cool and wise but not today.

"Does everyone act weird whenever they falling in love?" Sirman asks Rayyan.

"You need to fall first."

"I know."

"Are you going to stay talk or go with me?" Bintang cuts their conversation. "Morning will be not a year."

Rayyan and Sirman smile at themselves.

"We will go with you but you must promise us; never do anything bad to ruin the situation. I won't make him angry now." Rayyan asks.

Bintang doesn't respond.

"Deal?" Sirman seems like couldn't waiting for long. He gives his hand.

Bintang is staring the hand. Thinking again. He puts his hand to his waist. He then sighs, given up within taking the hand.

"Okay. Deal!" He does a fake smile but it looks like natural. His dimples appears and makes its owner looks gorgeous.

"Ouwh...I will love what we are going to do. Playing a spy." Sirman looks so happy. He claps his hands like a player boosting his team. "Where will we start?".

"He is playing us, isn't he?" Bintang says it in a fit of pique.

"Ignore him. He is just an under age." Sirman is complaining the words when Rayyan has asked them to go.

Sirman follows them last. He looks sullen.

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"Kakak Wali, may I go? People are looking at us. I feel awkward." Tiara says it as whispering.

But Wali stays on his calmness. He is grin beam for ear to ear.

Tiara stands up, "I am going."

"Sit!" She is about leaving when her hand has just been caught by Wali. "Sit down, Tiara, or you will ruin yourself. You know my skin is pure as usual."

Tiara swallows. She knows no one will be badmouthing a president.

"They will be badmouthing me as I sit here, Kak." She says that after sitting back. She lowers his voice.

"One plate of Nasi Goreng special jumbo and a plate of Gado-gado. Here you go." A waitress serves their food as a cut.

Tiara's eyes open widen, "why do you order a jumbo for me?"

The plate is as Wali's but the food is too much, twice for a girl with a small body.

Tiara isn't fat but isn't thin either. She is not tall. She is enough for a cute and healthy girl. People who sees her might think she is a junior high school. She is a baby face. Honestly, she is sharp and mean. But don't know why people thinks her face has smiles.

Wali is smiling. The smile makes him like an angel and an evil at the same time.

"To make you grow up and fat as soon as possible."

Wew...he says it like a witch from Hansel and Gretel story.

Tiara feels eerie, "will you eat me after I did?".

"Ha?" The question lifts Wali's eyebrows. He then laughs, "do you think I am a cannibal?".

Tiara shakes her head.

"Come on, eat as much as you can. I will help you after mine. I am extremely hungry."

Tiara won't doubt him anymore. She eats as he eats, "gather your power, girl, because today you are going to have a long day beside me."

Those words is like a mystery for her but it seems like pouring her stomach, "beside you? Long day?".

She wishes an explanation but she doesn't see him giving the signal. Instead, this handsome does a weird smile. It is more like a smirk with a hazily. His expression is like hiding something.

At the far place, 6 eyes are looking at them. A pair is like having an anger. 2 pairs other are being ready for any bad situation.

"What do you think the president has for her?" Rayyan is asking to don't know who.

Bintang is holding firmly on the shutter as he hears the words. Unfortunately, those two buddies don't see what he does.

"Wew..." Those brown-skin boy and yellow-skin boy is spelling the word simultaneously. They feel awkward on something they just seen.

"Sssstt!" Soon Bintang admonishes them.

"Sorry..." again, they are like a twin.

"Watch out!" Rayyan suddenly presses down Sirman and Rayyan's head.

"What?" Bintang asks as he did't see what was going on behind him. He was turning his body when Rayyan saw something. He knows it must be very dangerous so he keeps his voice down.

"They are looking at here."

"Do they know we are spying?" The yellow-skin and short boy, Sirman, feels afraid.

"I don't know but we need to get out of here first." When Rayyan says the words, the bell is ringing.

Those 3 boys give signal to each other. Sirman and Rayyan agree to go but Bintang is uncertain. Unfortunately, his friends don't heed on him. What they think now is the face of anger of the president.

"Bintang! Hey, Buddy, come on!" Rayyan, who walks like a frog as Sirman but walking last, realizes his absence. He calls him whisper.

Bintang, this glasses boy, really feels reluctant. He stares his friend, then to the wall where he believes its the couple place. He sighs. It's time to go. He cannot stay as long as he has the anger. He might do out of his mind. The friends are right, he needs to calm.

He follows them but he walks humped. He feels walking like a frog is foolish. Even does humped is foolish. But he has no other choice. He doesn't know how the personality of the president. He won't find a way to know. Not now.

I need to talk to you as soon as possible...

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Author's note:

Hello guys!
Is my story very bad? Let me know please! I feel afraid. Can you help me to clean my afraid please?

I love you,
Eunoia Rain