Flying Roses

This is a story about hope, faith, perseverance, and friendship. It is told through the tale of a friend group of five teenagers, all of them aged 13. It started out when they got to know each other in an online writing community. They searched for friends based on location and all of them who reside in Tangerang Selatan felt an instant connection among them. They chatted online almost everyday. They simply clicked with each other. They called themselves Gang "MIKIR", Indonesian slang for "think" and an acronym from the initial letters of their names, Melati, Indira, Karina, Ivan, and Rosa. Great minds think alike, they always say. One of them is not too fortunate in terms of wealth. During the pandemic, a lot of things happened to Rosa's family. Her school in a remote village in Bogor had to close down because no activities could be done at school. Never crossed their minds that it was the beginning of an adventure and an exposure to the world they never knew existed. This book will tell the story about their friendship and the struggle that Rosa had to go through in facing her family problem at home and the bitter reality of dropping out of school. What can be done by this friend group to help Rosa? What social phenomena they only heard from the media before and now see before their eyes that they are all real?