Please Look At Me!
Chapter 15's
The odd semester holiday passes by briefly without anything special. The two girls' parents also took care of her move to another school closer to home. The school that he will occupy this time is not a famous private school like his previous school. It was a public school where more diverse people compared to his former school.
Without feeling it, today is already the first day of the new semester begins. The school he attended now entered earlier than one week compared to his former school. The first sight that greeted him when he arrived at this school was a far greater number of students compared to his previous school.
He was standing in front of the teacher's room holding tightly onto the rope of his backpack. He seemed clumsy because he had to adjust to the new environment. He is not so ready to adjust his current environment, but he has a necessity for it.
“Intan!” call father.
A curly haired girl came closer towards them. It seemed that she was a girl named Intan who had just been summoned by Erina's father.
“This is Intan, your cousin,” said her father.
The girl shook hands with Intan and introduced herself to each other. After introducing himself and explaining about his move to the school, the girl's father asked Intan for help to accompany him while at school. Intan just smiled and agreed to Erina's father's request. Afterwards, the girl bounces off to her class.
Erina and her father just fell silent while observing the activities of the students at the school before the entrance bell rang.
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Erina was led to the class by the teacher who was going to teach in her new class today. He and Intan are not in class. Maybe it will make the vast distance stretched between the two because to just interact with new friends in the class feels quite awkward, especially if he went to another class just to meet his cousin, Intan, whom he only knew today. It would feel very awkward for him.
He could feel how the attention of the students in the class was directed at him who had just first set up the class. He did not really know how they looked at him, but he himself did not want to expect much from his school this time. He was already let down before he started following the teaching and learning process today.
There was a hint of hope embedded in his heart when he was transferred to this school. He never expected this school would be exactly the same as his school that was all complete equipment. Even for physics, chemistry and biology laboratories have complete equipment when practicum. It was just that he never expected that his new class would be like this.
The girl thought, at least her classroom will have a tile floor like her school used to be when she was in elementary school because it is also a public school. But the sight he saw this time was really far from his current expectations.
Another thing that surprised him was that the school property that seemed to be provided as a matter of course the class was really a reflection of the school in the villages in the far reaches of the floor made of land and chairs and tables sober which is not uniform. He even saw someone using plastic chairs that are commonly used at events for guests, used in his class today. Probably due to a lack of benches.
Although it feels unethical, but he made comparisons between his school first with his current school in the heart. Even when the school was still in elementary school, all the benches and tables provided in the classroom were always uniform. One table and one table for one student. But the scene in front of him right now was one bench and one table could even be used by three disciples sitting in a tight gag.
Her insincere sense of removals grew even more so before she even introduced herself to her classmates this morning. The sight was unsurprising as he set his sights on the outside of the window that featured the back of the school. He was surprised to see a row of bamboo made into a fence at the back of his school. The arrangement even impressed original and very messy.
‘From all the classes in this school, why should I be placed here,’ inner complaining.
He introduced himself before today's lesson began. A boisterous voice sounded as soon as he mentioned the name of his former school. The students seemed excited to see him transfer from the most famous private school in his city.
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“My name, Lina,” a girl reached out her hand inviting Erina to shake hands when the lesson hour is over.
“Erina,” he said as he welcomed the girl's helping hand.
Not only one two, many disciples especially the female disciples came swarming around him and invited him to get acquainted as if he was a famous artist. He welcomed their hands one by one and introduced himself to them personally even though he had already introduced himself in front of the class.
He made a lot of friends today, although the main reason most of them were out of curiosity. Perhaps this was one of the strengths that his school name had when he moved to another school. People wanted to get to know him more closely after he mentioned the name of his previous school. The girl was also very aware of that.
Although he had already judged this school, especially his own class recklessly, but he did not want to reveal that assessment to his other classmates. He kept it in his heart. It's just that a sense of unrequitedness and compulsion accompanies him throughout the day, even though he often smiles when dealing with others.
In his mind, a thought came to mind about how he would be today if he still remained in school. It had accidentally built a huge wall between him and his current classmates. Moreover, he still could not accept how the current state of his new school. It felt too far away compared to his previous school.