Please Look At Me!
Chapter 1

The girl stepped into the classroom which had started to get noisy since earlier. It was still early in the morning, there was still plenty of time left before the bell rang, but there were already many disciples who had started to fill the classroom. They are claiming the seat they will occupy for the next year.

This is the beginning of the New Year of Teaching, where students go back to school after a long vacation.This is the beginning of the start of a new lesson for students and choosing a strategic seat for them is the first step of everything.

They were students of class VIII in the City's most famous private Junior High School. The people who enter are people of the upper middle economy.

The students were engrossed in squabbling with each other, especially with their friends who were separated during the holidays. They were very happy to finally meet again inside the classroom at this time. But none of them welcomed the girl, as she did not have any close friends in the class.

Not so many empty spots left, he chose to sit in the second row from behind. Behind him, there were two benches that had been filled by two male disciples. Perhaps this time he would also not have my fellow students anymore like before, because the number of students in their class was odd. He is often alone.

Not that his classmates hated him. No. gabe. They were just not so familiar with her, moreover the girl was quite reserved.

The attention of most disciples was distracted by the unfamiliar figure entering their class. No one's ever seen him before. He may be a new student in the class.

"May I sit here?" ask the girl.

The whole class was suddenly full of cheers as the man asked to sit right next to the girl. They were busy flirting with both.

It was not without reason that the man asked awkwardly at the girl who was just silently staring at him. He has no other choice. All the benches had been filled except for the one beside the girl.

Even though he was embarrassed, he still had to sit in the classroom. There was no other choice for him. Unless he wants to take other benches and tables from outside their class to be included in the class. But where there may be, other classes also require a bench for students in their class.

Teachers will feel strange if there are two people sitting alone in the classroom. In the end they will still sit on the bench with the same table in the class.

The girl stared awkwardly at her surroundings, hoping for at least one empty seat for the man. He was too awkward to interact with the opposite sex, let alone that person was the one he had seen for the first time.

No, there were no empty seats in the class. All the benches were filled except for the one beside him. The girl's gaze turned to the male disciple who was looking at her for approval.

"Y-yeah," she replied awkwardly.

The man put his bag on the table and sat on the bench to the left of the girl. After that, there was no more interaction between the two as if there was a high wall separating the two.

Not long after, there were a few boys who entered into their classroom. One of them had a face similar to the man sitting right next to the girl. Very similar to the point that it is difficult to distinguish between the two.

"Hi, bro!" greet one of them to the man next to the man, shaking hands.

"Hahaha..why are you sitting with a girl?" taunted one of them after seeing the girl sitting next to the man.

Ali and his friends stared at the girl for a moment. Afterwards, they chatted regardless of the gazes of the students within their current class. Curious and curious faces.

Through their chat, the girl was able to deduce that the man sitting right next to her was currently named Alan. He is not a new student. She is actually her upperclassman, but has been on leave for nearly a year due to her illness.

The man with a face very similar to him is his twin brother, Ali. Both are identical twins so the faces are very similar and difficult to distinguish.

The other students who went into their class with Ali were Alan's former classmates. They were familiar enough to come to their underclassman class to just say hello to Alan who had just returned to school after a sick leave of absence.

***

Ding...Dong...Ding....

The school bell rings a sign that the first lesson hours are about to begin. Although this was the first day of the New Teaching Year, the school did not want the students to waste their time without studying at all. Teaching and learning activities have started at the school since the first day they finished a long holiday.

Ali and his friends leave Alan in the classroom. They will return to their classrooms because the first lesson hours will begin soon.

The students exit the class and line up neatly in front of the class before the first lesson hour begins. Outside it was raining so that the ceremonial activities are usually done every Monday morning, this time it was forced not to be carried out.

Teachers began to walk to classes while carrying their teaching supplies. When they get to the front of the class they will teach, they will allow students to enter one by one into the class according to their ranks.

After all the students entered the class, the teacher entered the class. The first lesson begins.

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Awkwardly, that was how the girl felt at this moment. He and Alan did not interact again after the man asked permission to sit on the bench right next to him. They were like two strangers who refused to know each other.

The girl did not want to bother either. Even so, he still felt uncomfortable, as if sitting with the person who hated him the most on this earth. He doesn't like. He did not like the existence of the man in his class, let alone sitting with him. He really doesn't like it.

His eyes turned to the bench that was right behind the man. There Gideon, the man who attracted him while he was in Class VII, was sitting. The two were not very familiar, even though they graduated from the same Elementary School, even being in the same class as well.

He immediately turned his gaze to another place as soon as the gazed realized that he was being stared at. The girl turned her face away. He was surprised to find Alan staring at him.

The girl was wrong. It seems like he is caught committing a crime at this time. He turned his eyes to the blackboard in front of the class and pretended not to know what had just happened.

Alan looked at the girl who looked wrong. He turned his gaze to Gideon who was right behind him at this moment, then looked back at the girl.