Never A Stranger
ANNUNCIATION DAY
One week passed after the written test exam of college entrance, Riri was very excited to see the announcement of her graduation.
Early in the morning he got up and rushed to take a bath, then got ready to go to campus, he could not wait to know the results. Although deg-degan but he was also curious about the results.
At 06:00 in the morning, it was still dark outside. It's impossible for Riri to come to campus at this hour. Riri again laid his body on the mattress while playing hp with the supine position.
"Huft. when it is ready like this" complained Riri who still stared at the screen of his phone
As Riri stared at the screen of his phone, suddenly there was a notification coming in from his WhatsApp. Riri often gets WA notifications but this time makes her surprised not to believe the notifications of who she receives.
"Assalamualaikum wr.wb Riri" the contents of the wa notification. Riri could not open the chat, he only saw from the notification screen.
"Is this really active?" thought Riri with the phone she put on her chest with her eyes facing the attic of her room .
"Reply yes?" Riri was still doubtful whether he should reply to her or just ignore her.
Riri opened his WA and still saw the name of the person who contacted him as if completely in disbelief, Riri was confused what he should do about it.
"Your husband majored in agriculture?" the notification came in again, probably because Riri was online but did not reply to him sending a chat again.
Riri felt it was okay if only reciprocating chat messages, riri decided to reply
"iya bang" replied a short riri so that he was thought to still look cute.
"Wahh so fast" Riri got up from her bed.
"Wahh hope Riri graduates yes" he replied.
Riri is confused about what to say because she is awkward if she has to deal with an ex.
Yep.. The person who contacted Riri was her ex-boyfriend during the smp, they were dating for only a few months.
Riri is traumatized by her love affairs and past but not by this person.
His ex-girlfriend is named Bagas, he is 2 years above Riri. They were dating when Riri class 3 smp which means the bagas at that time was class 2 SMA. There was no cok check between them until now even then they had also broken up nicely. It's just that since they broke up Riri never heard the good news again even though each other save WA numbers, mutual social media follow-up. Riri does not even know now how to continue his education where or even not continue education.
Riri thinks the bagas WA number is dead because you never update the story even see the story Riri never.
That's what makes Riri surprised because suddenly he contacted Riri again.
Riri chose not to reply to the chat bagas earlier, the reason is not that he can not moveon but he just felt lazy to relate to his past, want anyone it. He was really traumatized by love.
He knew that Bagas might not ask him to come back like he used to but still, the past is the past. The past cannot be the future for whatever reason.
So long daydreaming of the confusion, riri to sleep with hp still above his chest.
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"Honey woke up.." the voice of his mother who tried to wake Riri who overslept.
"Hey, it's 08:00, you're not going to college?" said mother while opening the window of Riri's room.
Riri, who is still half conscious, sees her mother and has not realized that she has to go to campus
"Aren't you going to college?" ask her mother again.
Riri realized after seeing the clock had pointed at 8 o'clock through "ahh mother why not wake up Ikuu.." said Riri panicked.
Riri stepped up to take her bag and put what she had to carry today into the bag.
"you don't think you're leaving" said her mother, who felt guilty about not waking her.
"however, ma'am, today's announcement" Riri rushed down to the bus stop which was a short distance from Riri's house, Today Riri is not considered by his father because surely his father has left for work at this hour.
Riri has not had his own vehicle, since from High School he always took the bus to school and at times also delivered by his father, when he came home from school he took a taxi or bus. Riri comes from a family that is, it could have been if his father bought him a motorcycle but his father did not allow Riri to use a motorcycle before he entered college, which is why Riri did not use his personal vehicle to school.
Riri had learned to ride a motorcycle when he was in the 2nd grade of High School and it made him understand how to ride a motorcycle, only at that time he did not get his father's permission to ride a motorcycle to school.
His father had promised him if he would buy a motorcycle when he had entered the lecture, of course he would not bother anymore because he had his own motorcycle..
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Riri ran to the bus stop to leave for campus immediately, even though the day of the announcement there is no deadline whenever we want to see it, it's just that Riri is very curious about the results of the test so he hurriedly wanted to go to campus.
arriving at the bus stop, Riri immediately boarded the bus to the destination to the campus. The bus began to run, the Riri campus was only about 15 minutes from the bus stop so it did not take too long to get there.
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ahh the sound of the bus horn is very opium once in Riri's ear, he remembered as a child he was willing to stand on the side of the road to hear the sound of the bus horn. It was strange but with that little thing alone could make him happy at that time.
The bus stops in front of the main gate of the campus, Riri immediately descends entering the main gate. There are already so many people on campus, surely they also want to see the results of the announcement, and these seniors would want to monitor the candidates, Riri thought at the time..
Riri passed through a very large parking lot after the main gate, then arrived at the second gate of the actual entrance of this large campus.
After 10 minutes of waiting finally a bit of them disbanded, Riri had a little spare to see the test results.
Riri walked towards the mading and stared at the sheet of each sheet of paper on the announcement board hoping that his name was there.
Riri searched and searched repeatedly from the beginning of the paper, until she finally found her name passed there. How happy Riri was after seeing the results of the announcement.
Riri stepped away, walked towards the campus garden and sat on the bench yesterday, he opened his phone and immediately gave this good news to all his family, including his brother who was abroad.
His family congratulates Riri on his success, they pray for Riri success for the next.
"Riri.." call someone while riri is focusing on her phone, Riri looks towards the origin of the voice that called her that. It turned out to be Nadin, his senior yesterday whom he met at the gate.
Nadin approached Riri and said hello again, Riri smiled happily because nadin still remembered Riri, it means that nadin is not one of the fierce and arrogant seniors as he often saw on television, there are many arrogant and pretentious seniors on the campuses, some are even very fierce, but apparently nadin is open including that group.
"Hallo kak nadin" said Riri back when nadin was right in front of him.
"have you seen that announcement?" asked nadin to riri while sitting on the empty bench next to riri.
"Yes my sister, Thank God I passed" Riri put her hand on her chest as if she felt grateful for being given happiness today.
"Thank God, Riri is already a fix so maba here, Riri must be enthusiastic yes" Nadin is really a friendly senior type and always gives support to his juniors. Riri hopes that after entering college, Nadin will remain a good senior in the eyes of Riri.
Riri thanked Nadin for being kind to him and helping him, nadin even offered to take him to the test room yesterday, Riri was very grateful to Nadin.
They chat a lot about the campus, Nadin is very cool if invited to chat, Riri also feels happy if chatting with Nadin.
"Ohya sister.so I have a cousin brother named Aldo, he has a girl here and his girl is in the same department as me.. Does your sister know who it is? I forgot to ask the name of the brother, males also nanya to bang aldo later in his day I was too kepo" said Riri who began to open to Nadin, who began to open to Nadin, riri feels that Nadin is the right person as her brother's friend and sister for now.
That's how if we're comfortable with someone, want that person we just met though, even if, if we feel comfortable we will be more open to that person and freely tell stories without thinking that we have just met that person.
And if that person we have known for a long time though, but we do not feel comfortable still we can not open and tell our problems to that person. It all depends on us if we feel someone is the right person to listen to our story, then we will immediately tell a story without thinking long.
"You mean Dwi?" ask nadin back after hearing Riri's story.
Riri shook her head and said that she did not know what the big brother's name was.
"Dwi's my friend, she also has a boyfriend named Aldo. Maybe you mean it's him" continued Nadin explained "Later to meet me will know you with him, okay?"
Riri responds to Nadin with a smile and nods approvingly, she feels that nadin has helped her a lot.
While they were busy chatting came someone Riri knew approaching the two of them. However, from his expression that person looked sad, did he get into bad trouble?. That person is Hilda, a friend she met on test day a week ago. Hilda didn't look happy, something must have happened.
"Hilda why are you?" riri asked shortly after the hilda arrived before them.
"Who?" nadin asked Riri because he had just seen the hilda for the first time.
"She's my friend sister, her name is Hilda.. And Hilda introduced this to our senior Nadin" said Riri introduced each of them. Nadin and Hilda shake hands and say hello.
"It seems like my brother will not be my senior" Hilda said after shaking hands with Nadin
Nadin and Riri looked at each other as Hilda said so, then they looked at Hilda as if asking what Hilda's words meant. Actually in Riri's heart already felt for sure there was a problem with the test results, whether Hilda did not pass the test.
"I didn't pass Ri" Hilda continued. It turns out that Riri's guess is correct that Hilda didn't pass the test.
Riri and Nadin went silent as if they could not say anything, It was because Hilda looked very smart and ambitious. So, how could a Hilda not pass that test.
"Are you serious?" asked Riri who was still unsure of what Hilda said. Hilda nodded and then cried in front of Riri and Nadin.
Nadin and Riri who saw Hilda crying felt that what Hilda said was serious was not a joke. Nadin tried to calm Hilda and provide motivation to her, she also made her friends who failed the test first as motivation so that Hilda was not discouraged.
After getting motivation from Nadin finally Hilda was quite calm, she wanted to share stories with Nadin and Riri about the reasons why he did not pass the test. It turns out that Hilda herself already felt that she would not pass the test.
"I'm sure that I won't graduate, maybe in people's eyes I look smart from my appearance and look very ambiguous from my behavior. But actually it's all wrong, I'm not smart. Even if I say that ambiance is also wrong, I just want to try to understand what I am doing because I am very difficult to focus if disturbed just a little, besides, I have a problem with my brain that is very difficult to understand a subject matter" said Hilda explained what really happened to her.
Riri feels very guilty because he already considers Hilda an overly ambitious child and does not care about her surroundings. But the reality is different, Hilda is so because she has flaws and she tries to cover up her flaws by being a different looking person. However, his different self even makes others misunderstand him.
"It's not all your fault Hilda, you've been great because you've been willing to try. You have not failed, only you have not found the right way. I'm sure you'll be a great person someday. There are still many roads to go, so let's try again!" nadin said to give encouragement to Hilda so that she is not pessimistic.
But Riri, he just kept quiet while Nadin cheered Hilda. Riri still feels guilty to herself and Hilda, even though Hilda also does not know that Riri considers her an ambitious child but still Riri feels himself guilty.
After Hilda was calm, she said goodbye to go home first to Riri and Nadin. He said that he wanted to rest himself first so as not to stress. He was picked up by his father.
While Nadin and Riri remained in the park continuing their chat, They remained cool chatting about many things. From there Nadin and Riri became close.
Because of their preoccupation with talking until they forget time, the clock has been pointed at almost 2 pm. Riri who felt that he had been on campus too long said goodbye to Nadin to go home immediately. Nadin remains on campus because there is something he has to work on.
Riri once again thanked Nadin, hoping that Nadin could guide him later on campus.
"See you on the first day of college"
Seriate..