The First Curse of Love
1. There is No Friendship Between Man and Woman

...-DOES FIRST LOVE-...

..."Like an evil witch, you've always managed to hold me back like a curse."...

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March, 2014...

After the class was dissolved, Danny went upstairs to catch up with Qiara, who must have finished his studies by then. As soon as he was about to enter Qiara's class, Danny stopped his steps in the doorway when he saw Qiara sleeping in the classroom alone. Danny nodded incessantly. Last night, the girl must not sleep anymore because she had to do a broadcast schedule for the night.

Danny breathed after. With a slight annoyance, he entered Qiara's class and approached her. He even tried to dampen the sound of his footsteps so that Qiara would not be disturbed. Next, Danny took off the alma mater suit he was wearing, then attached it to Qiara's shoulder in a slow motion.

"Why do you sleep so fast?" Danny grinned in a half-whispering tone, then landed a gentle punch on the girl's forehead. He was upset, but also worried.

Afterwards, Danny immediately went out and waited in front of Qiara's class patiently. Half an hour passed, two students suddenly arrived. And when they were about to enter the classroom, Danny immediately prevented it.

"Sorry before, but this room will soon be used."

"Oh yeah? Sorry too, huh?" Say one of them, then immediately go and look for another class.

Danny immediately breathed a sigh of relief while holding his chest. It's all because of Qiara! If only he hadn't slept so recklessly, Danny wouldn't have had to lie like this.

Fifteen minutes later, as Danny peeked into the classroom, he could see Qiara who was low-moving. It seems he has woken up from his long sleep. As Qiara's eyes slowly opened, Danny immediately left the front of his class with light steps. A smile on his face.

"God! Class is empty!" Pekik Qiara was so aware that her class was already completely deserted.

When he straightened his body, he automatically realized that on his shoulder had been draped in an alma mater suit. In surprise, Qiara pulled the suit. At that time, a perfume scent that he was so familiar with immediately greeted his sense of smell. At that time Qiara already knew, that the alma mater suit must have belonged to Danny.

"Fucking danny! Why not wake me up, anyway? Watch out, yeah!!"

...****...

Qiara approached Danny who was gathered with Arga and Celine at a cafe. The three of them looked engrossed in chatting with each of the ice coffees on the table. Qiara slid the alma mater's suit down on Danny's body, then immediately took a position beside Celine. Without permission, he sipped Celine's ice coffee. That thing, kontan was welcomed by Celine's insistence that she was not mindless with the behavior of her best friend this one.

"Lo was in my class, wasn't he, Dann? Why not wake me up?" Qiara protest with keki.

Before answering, Danny was seen deliberately sniffing his alma mater suit, then appeared a frowning face, pretending as if he was smelling an unpleasant scent on his alma mater coat.

"Bau iler lo, nih!" Said Danny who deliberately wanted to trigger a commotion just to disguise his attitude of attention to Qiara.

Qiara immediately snatched the alma mater's suit from Danny's hand, and also sniffed the scent that Danny meant. Inevitably, the thing that Qiara did by showing her innocent face successfully made Danny hold a half-dead laugh. Qiara's facial wrinkle really looks very funny now.

"Lied!" Hardik Qiara, then again threw the alma mater suit at its owner.

Danny chuckled softly, followed by the laughter of Arga and Celine.

"So you slept really good. Where while snoring again. Where can I wake up."

"The real Danny?" Ask Qiara sanctions.

"Why am I lying too? What is the benefit for my future?"

"Already! It's already! You guys are hanging out." Lerai Celine before the commotion between them continued even further. If the two of them had already fought, it was very difficult to put them together again.

Danny then got up from his chair, and went to the counter table without saying anything.

"Semalem in the studio until what time?" Ask Celine curiously. Earlier, Danny had told me that he saw Qiara falling asleep in class after college hours.

"Semalem until one o'clock. Kevin did not come in. So, one of his teams asked me to replace him. Where the author is really happy again. Kevin could be at home on that team. If it were me, I would have run away from day one."

"That's you! Don't equal Kevin who's mentally stronger." Arga Ledek.

"Ga, this temen lo is tired. Can't, huh, pretend to give that spirit?" Qiara started to show a clear face. But Arga doesn't care.

"Can't!" Typal Arga firmly.

Danny suddenly placed a glass of Almond Smoothies right in front of Qiara who was bending her face on the table. Qiara glanced for a moment at the Almond Smoothies while putting on a pouting expression, she then turned to look at Danny. Instead of saying thank you, Qiara instead threw a protest.

"Gue wants Ice Americano. Not Almond Smoothies."

"Semalem you barely slept. This malem you want to not sleep again? Drink this so you can sleep. And stop protesting like a child!" Danny Omel. His voice sounded quite cold. The look on his face now seemed to hint that he did not want to be denied.

Qiara grimacing. Before the situation became a disaster, he chose to give up and not answer Danny's words. With a quick motion, he then grabbed the Almond Smoothies, then drank them and pretended to show a fond expression. It was actually a form of protesting to Danny for the second time. But Danny was not interested in talking about it.

"Eh, if that's me first, huh? Prissy has already chatted. Bye, everybody!" Danny said to his friends shortly after he opened a message sent by Prissy, his girlfriend.

Before getting an answer from his friends, Danny had already walked to the door, and out of the Cafe in a hurry.

Qiara sighed. Suddenly his face turned grey. Not because of work fatigue, or because Danny just forced him to drink Almond Smoothies. But he felt that something had disturbed his little heart without him wanting to.

Almond fucking Smoothies!

...****...

"Hay, Qia!" Sapa a voice that sounded quite familiar in the hearing of Qiara.

Qiara hurriedly turned to the side. In an instant, he immediately felt his heart gradually improve upon seeing Dean who was now walking beside him while putting both hands on his pants pocket.

"Sister Dean?" Screeched Qiara with a fairly enthusiastic tone.

This young man has changed a lot. Although he only showed his warm attitude in front of Qiara, but at least he could show the other side and was not always confined in his cold shell.

If you remember the old days, somehow Qiara felt pain. That how persistent his efforts to be able to get close to a Dean and try his hardest to be able to tear down the high walls that surround him.

Although many times Dean drove him away and asked him not to come closer again, but in the end Dean lost also with strong determination Qiara. And although Qiara failed to tear down the wall, Dean finally opened the door of his heart and allowed this girl to enter it.

However it is worth noting again; only Qiara is the one whom he pardons into his heart and his whole world.

They spent the rest of the journey home sharing stories with each other. Every now and then, Dean was seen chuckling as he listened to the story Qiara had told him.

The situation is quite warm between Qiara and Dean, accidentally caught by Danny who was in the car with Prissy. Both of Danny's eyes continued to be on Qiara and Dean even as the car driven by Prissy had already passed them. Of course, the thing Danny did did did not go unnoticed by Prissy.

"Sister Dean seemed comfortable, huh, same Qia?" Prissy said while staying focused on driving.

Prissy's words just now, instantly break Danny's burden. He slightly gasped, then turned to look at Prissy with both eyebrows clutched. The beautiful-faced girl looked bright with a smile and looked back at Danny.

"This is in my opinion, huh? I think Dean likes Qiara."

Danny froze for a while before he finally smiled and looked away.

"of course. There is no friendship between man and woman."

Prissy nodded in understanding, "continue, you still want to take that matter to Qia?"

Prissy asked the question actually just to tease Danny alone. Nor did he have any other intention behind the question he had just thrown. But Danny took it quite seriously. He looked back at Prissy with a sharp eye. Next, Prissy chuckled, not expecting Danny to be that shocked.

"Hahaha. kidding, Dann!"

...****...

July, 2010 (First Day of High School)

Danny was stunned to stare at Qiara when for the first time he saw the girl wearing her High School uniform. For some reason, Qiara looks so pretty in Danny's eyes. For the first time as well, he felt his heart pounding so hard as he stared at Qiara.

"Where, Dann? I look pretty not wearing a high school uniform?" Qiara asked confidently. He even twisted his body with his cheerful face.

Danny shook his head, shook off the strange feelings that began to crawl through the walls of his heart, and tried to be reasonable even though his heartbeat was already making trouble in there.

"Dangerous!" Danny answered briefly. He then turned his bike around and left Qiara who was still standing in front of the gate of his house with her face suddenly turning sullen.

That morning, Danny was indeed about to pick up Qiara. Since they were kids, they have been neighbors. They were very close to each other, and were even used to visiting each other's homes. And since they were still in Elementary School as well, they always went to school together. Every morning, Danny would pick Qiara up to his house on his bike.

This morning was the same as the previous morning. The only difference is that Danny's feelings are starting to develop into feelings of like.

For the days that followed, that feeling he had not dared to mention by name, continued to disturb him shamelessly. He even found himself wrong several times whenever he was next to the girl.

"Qi, what are the signs of people falling in love?" Danny asked Qiara one day.

At the time, they were on their way to school. As usual, Danny was piggybacking on Qiara behind him.

"Why is it all of a sudden? You like someone else, huh?"

"Just answer me!"

"Emmm..." Qiara seemed to think, and carefully replied, "from the dramas I watched anyway, when Male Lead fell in love with a Female Lead, or vice versa, he will feel his heart pounding every time he squirms a girl or guy he likes. When one of them does not exist, he will feel that there is less. Even when –"

Ciiiits! Danny suddenly pressed his brake pedal to stop his bike before Qiara finished his words.

"Dann, how do you stop?" Qiara asked in wonder.

No answer from Danny. All that was heard was the sound of his breath hunting.

"DANNY!!" Call Qiara louder, but still there is no answer from the Owner of the Name.

Qiara then got off the bike, he slightly lowered his face to see Danny, "all right, right?"

Danny turned his head and looked right at Qiara's two clear eyes. His eyes looked quite serious, so inevitably Qiara also felt the same pounding as Danny felt.

"Lately, I've also started to fuss about it every time I'm on your desk, or when you're not around. Does that mean... I like you the same?"

To Be Continued...^^^