Blue Blouse
ONE

“Perfect by nature

The Icons of self indulgence

Just what we all need

More lies about a world that

Never was and never will be

Have you no shame don't you see me

You know you've got everybody fooled"

Lyras. Call a girl who is currently singing a piece of the song Evanescence “Everybody’s Fool” alone in the living room of her small house while playing the guitar. The sound is very clear, has a clear articulation of pronunciation with a fresh voice like apple cider.

He was particularly fond of the songs of Evanescence, an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer-songwriter Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. He even often muttered the band's songs anytime and anywhere. Even when the old Evanescence did not release a new album, he was still looking forward to what songs would be produced by them. However, he is a fan of Gothic music, both Rock and Metal.

DOC! DOC! DOC!

Suddenly there was a loud knocking on the door from outside that touched him. Soon he put his guitar on the couch and opened the door. There appeared a middle-aged woman with curly hair and thick powder and a dress made of silk. Who else if not Mrs Garrett, the owner of the rented house she currently lives in, charges her monthly contract fee.

“I'm sorry, Mrs Garrett, I haven't paid this month, the cafe's been quiet all spring,”.

“At least half the money, time doesn't have?” ask Mrs Garrett covetak.

“Actually I have, but I set that aside for my semester fee, I'll be testing soon,” Lyra pleaded. “Please give me a waiver, I promise I will pay it soon,” he added.

Unfortunately, Mrs Garrett did not want to know, she kept her right hand and made Lyra resigned to give the woman some red money. That's half the original cost. Without saying anything, Mrs Garrett left after receiving the money.

Shortly after, while watching Madam Garrett's back slowly drift away, a man appeared in front of her house, parked her Ducati bike there and took off her helmet, then smiled towards Lyra while waving cheerfully. He was Moses, Lyra's current friend, the only man of Lyra's best known age.

“Kesambet what afternoon is this coming here?” ask Lyra.

“Of course the work of Professor Lewis's task group, did you forget? Tomorrow the day after we present tau?!” moses, who was now gawking into Lyra's house, put down his backpack and pulled out some reference books for Semantic work.

“Oh My God, how can I forget that PR?!” lyra exclaimed in surprise, then closed the door of her house and went up to Moses in the living room.

“You've been ditching college a lot lately, but actively participating in college, you're weird!” exclaimed Moses.

“I need money, Musa, earlier Mrs Garrett just collect the contract bill, but I want to leave the money to pay the semester,” Lyra limpal lethargic.

“Kok you didn't tell me? I can borrow you money, we're friends,” Musa's timps are trivial.

Lyra put a flat face towards Moses, regrettably, because Moses never understood the situation he had been in. The man only takes his life lightly just because he is active in some campus activities.

“Already, let's do this, what chapter are we?” ask Lyra.

“Entah, the chapters are sorted right? Try me asking Liam, his group yesterday what chapter!” moses opened the Whatsapp app on his phone and started chatting to Liam, one of his male classmates.

"I'll get the laptop ready, I'll make the ppt!" lyra exclaimed, entering the room to retrieve her laptop.

"Oh, yeah, Lyr, Professor says we should make a quiz on ClassPoint!" exclaimed Moses.

"Give it to me, but never come up with the design!" exclaim Lyra who was back in the living room while carrying a laptop then began to sit on the sofa and open Windows.

"My Little Pony sure, I don't know you," Moses guessed, looking at Lyra with a seductive look.

"Yes dong" said Lyra, raising her head. Yups, one class already knows Lyra as a Brony, a fan of the hard-line My Little Pony animated series that never misses any info about pony, even to put the pony element into college assignments though. "Where, Liam last week what chapter?" ask him after that when he has opened the Microsoft PowerPoint application that he will use to create presentation slides.

"In the meantime, it has not been threaded yet, this semprul is rarely open WA, push rank mulu he mah," replied Moses who was apparently also playing the game Clash of Clans at this time.

Lyra tries to steal a glance towards the man's cell phone screen which features the castle headquarters of the game Clash of Clans. Lyra squinted her eyes and put on a flat face. "Well, you're playing the game yourself!" he caught Moses.

"Hehehe," Moses smirked as he scratched his non-itchy head.

"So what group work isn't it?" ask Lyra to challenge.

"Emmm, this is my story confused by the Semantic task because it does not understand," Musa said, still putting his focus into the game without looking at Lyra at all.

"You think I get it, just go in almost never?!" tymphal Lyra's.

"Yes, you are a pinter" Moses said. Moreover, this time he laid his body on the sofa and was engrossed in playing games.

Lyra rolled her eyeballs as she watched her best friend. Actually, he was upset, but nevertheless he just accepted it from the task of not running around. Inevitably he also began to open Semantic books and learn his own chapter at that time.

***

At a food stall in the street, Lyra and Musa sat at a table near the wall staring at the screens of their phones.

"That's your focus!" moses began the topic of conversation. He opened the Webtoon app, but didn't actually read the comics. His eyes are now on Lyra who is still seriously understanding the Semantic chapter through her pdf file.

Lyra just shut up, bitch. More concerned with the Semantic material he reads today because he has to go the extra mile to make PowerPoint slides as well as ClassPoint quizzes.

"Yes, no need to read the whole sentence times, Lyr, Liam aja said that he was the same Rosie video on YouTube, we do not just imitate anyway let not dizzy," said Musa.

Lyra looked toward Moses for a moment with a sinister look. "My surrender!" shouts flat.

"Nyam nyam!" moses was enthusiastic. He immediately sprayed soy sauce into his meat sauce, as well as sauce and chili sauce. In a hurry he still devoured a large pentol in his still hot bowl.

Lyra frowned, finding Moses' behavior that always made her wonder at every moment. Instead of blowing on the pentol, the man directly devoured it with heat.

"You're so overreacting!" exclaim Lyra.

Moses did not care, he continued to eat, until suddenly the look on his face changed drastically within a few seconds. His originally happy face had now become silent a thousand languages, as if holding something back. Lyra responded in silence and just looked at him. Moses at once also spewed out the pentol which he had previously chewed back into the bowl. Lyra wonder.

"What's wrong?" ask Lyra not understand.

"Aww!" moses touched his right cheek, complaining of pain.

"Your teeth hurt?" lyra asked, for some reason she's still relaxed.

Moses did not answer, only muttering how much his teeth hurt at this time.

Lyra gulped for a moment and thoughtlessly took Moses home and made him salt water.

"Try the gargle first!" lyra, who was now accompanying Moses, sat on the sofa in her living room, still holding her right cheek. The girl offered him a glass which he had mixed with salt.

Moses refused, feeling that he was unable to move, the pain in his teeth was completely incomparable.

"Tomorrow if you don't overeat!" lyra said as she poured a glass of salt water into Moses' mouth slowly. He was really attentive with his best friend. "Your mouth first, and then I spit it out here, and then I pour it out!" he yelled while putting a mini trash can with the picture of Twilight Sparkle on the table.

Moses himself seemed to hold back his tears, because he did not know what to do when his teeth hurt. He has never experienced this before or his parents will be angry if they find out because they will think that he is lazy to brush his teeth, but so far he diligently brushes his teeth four times a day.

"Let me see!" lyra shouted again while turning on her cell phone flashlight and pointing it towards the mouth of Moses which was now open. He looked carefully at Moses' right tooth which looked hollow and the hole was quite large, and there were also many remnants of Moses' food left there, such as rice, chili and snack marks.

"Your toothpick is so dirty, I'll take it to the dentist to clean it!" yell Lyra again. Somehow he was so considerate even though he had no feelings for Moses.

Moses shook his head, he was thinking no. Trauma with the Upin & Ipin series of dental episodes in which the diseased tooth was to be removed. He didn't want his teeth removed.

"Not revoked what?" moses panicked.

"No, it's just patched. If you are sick, your teeth cannot be removed!" exclaim Lyra. "Come, I'll take you to the dentist, but it's only eight o'clock, it's closing in an hour!" continued.

"No, I want to sleep, I will be healed tomorrow" Moses refused.

"Where can you sleep, that must be really fretful!" exclaim Lyra.

Moses said nothing, just lying on the couch covered in Lyra's Hello Kitty blanket.

"It's up to you, I want to do the ppt!" exclaim Lyra resigned. He went to his room, leaving Moses alone in the living room.

Lyra is also changing clothes. Previously he wore a knee-length white washcloth, then he replaced it with a sky-blue singlet and cotton-style shorts, a suit he often wears at night before going to bed. Not to forget he washed his face with facial foam and then polished his face with cream-colored night cream.

Not going to sleep even when he was ready, he opened his laptop and began writing some important points from the Semantic chapter material on a plain white slide page that he had not decorated anything. He was fine if he had to do it alone because he knew that Moses was the type of slacker whose hobby was watching when doing the task, especially tonight the man had a toothache.

Overtime overnight, he yawned repeatedly and back and forth picked up water from a dispenser in front of his room. Lyra did not like to drink coffee since college, she felt that if her mouth was not as healthy as before, she would easily thrush if drinking coffee, moreover the cankerawan usually do not receive one, but four or five, he said, frequently on the tongue.

Despite enduring the drowsiness, Lyra felt that tonight she also had insomnia. He tried to stretch his body for a moment and close his eyes. Instead of falling asleep, he was still awake and as a result he did not sleep at all until the morning.

***

A mini tape recording that was on top of the refrigerator played a light rhythmic song this morning. "Evanescence's "Everybody's Fool" has a place in Lyra's mind, he often plays it at any time, especially when he is cleaning the house. Currently he himself is frying sausages in the kitchen, he does not have enough money to buy side dishes at the market, already three days he fries sausages if you want to eat.

When the food was ready, he put it on the table. Not to forget he prepared two dishes of warm rice, one for Moses who is currently still sleeping on the living room sofa.

"Moses, let's get up, I've made sausages, let's eat!" lyra woke Moses up slowly. He patted Moses' arm wrapped in his Hello Kitty blanket.

Moses' plain face was so open that both of his eyes were open. He looked towards Lyra who was smiling cheerfully over him. In fact he wondered why Lyra was so considerate of him even though he was just a guest.

"Breakfast time!" exclaim Lyra.

"I can't eat" said Moses, lazily awake.

"I'm taking a bribe, eat slowly" Lyra said. "Your stomach must be filled, so it can be filled with medicine later," he added gently.

"No, I'm going to sleep, today's college is off, right?" timpal Moses turned his body and closed his eyes again, intending to sleep again.

Lyra sighed for a moment. "Do I need to blend a banana? You have to have breakfast, your stomach acid will rise, your teeth will become even more painful!" yells.

But Moses did not care. Her teeth didn't hurt this morning, probably due to the effects of sleeping well all night with a nice Hello Kitty Lyra blanket. He went back to sleep.

Lyra resigned and moved back to the kitchen, cleaned up some items there and then breakfast alone. He knew that Moses would be hungry later, so he did not finish off the ration of Moses' sausage, but put it on the stove, who knows Moses took it later.

This morning also Lyra had to go to work, she could not possibly watch over Moses in times of need for money. Moses would not understand the life he lived. All Moses knew about Lyra was a classmate, a college, and a set that always had a semester value exceeded. Yeah, or maybe this particular semester Lyra's grades will go down because of frequent truancy.

Just as the clock was pointing towards the eight, Lyra left the house, leaving her tape recording still playing Evanescence songs. While Moses did not yet have the desire to really wake up until finally the Evanescence songs from the tape recording was over.

His stomach rang, indicating that he was very hungry. Moses walked into the kitchen, looking for a snack he could eat. He opened the refrigerator at first, but there were only vegetables and unprocessed syrup. His eyes checked around, fixed on two dishes containing rice and sausages located on the stove. Swallowing for a moment, Moses brought the dish that Lyra had originally prepared for him to the dinner table, about to eat it.

Just sat down. He devoured a spoonful of rice and accidentally chewed it with his right molar teeth. His eyes widened in shock for a moment, he spewed his food back onto the plate and cried. There was no one there, not even Lyra, she was all about crying in solitude. His teeth really hurt, he did not expect that a toothache would hurt this much.

***