I'm Just a Substitute
Hope Rico

Rico looked at the desk calendar on his desk with a smile,

"Ah, soon I will be reunited with Ara, I have been so long long longing for me, finally the day I was waiting for. This time we will not be separated again. I will express my feelings to her, I also agree that I am married to Ara, even my father has promised me!", Rico told himself.

Rico propped up his face with both hands, imagining the face of the girl.

At that time the dormitory where his college was quiet, his roommate was also out buying souvenirs, because he also planned to go home.

Rico recalled the first time he met Tiara.

One day his father brought home a daughter, and said he would raise the child to be an adopted child in their family.

Tiara, the daughter is the son of her father's co-worker.

Both of Tiara's parents had an accident and did not survive after being hospitalized for several days, so Tiara became an orphan girl.

When I first met Tiara, Rico was never friendly. But indeed Rico's attitude towards everyone is always closed, Rico has a limp leg, therefore Rico as a child is angry and lonely because of the foot defects he has. it makes him not confident. He always felt like everyone was laughing at him.

Rico walks with limp feet and needs to be helped stick. But Rico has an edge, has a smart brain.

Tiara is a friendly and polite child, each meeting with Rico always greet with brother, but Rico never respond to Tiara's greeting.

Tiara never cared at all about Rico's cold response, Tiara always greeted Rico even at school.

Though her own sister, Bella seems embarrassed to have a disabled sister.

Every time she gets to school, Bella gets away from Rico.

"Don't ever admit my older sister if at school, don't make me shy!", said Bella who always wanted to look perfect.

"No need you to talk, I don't want to admit to being your brother!", Rico replied that he didn't want to lose that time.

That's why Rico and Bella's relationship was never intimate.

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Until one day, Rico's achievements made Toni, one of his classmates became envious of him, because Toni always sat in second place and could never defeat Rico.

This eventually makes Toni prank Rico.

The wand Rico was wearing was snatched and hidden, leaving Rico confused at the time, and glued to his place.

Tiara who was passing by, immediately approached Rico and tried to help Rico.

"Don't be a good ass!, you want to laugh at me huh?", said Rico. All this time he had always been strict with Tiara, so he had thought that Tiara also only wanted to mock her.

"No brother Rico. I always thought that my sister was my sister since I had no parents, because my father and mother also thought I was their child" Tiara said.

"Believe Brother Rico, I just want to help brother!", said Tiara who immediately took Rico's hand.

"Come, I'll take you to class. Later I will report to the teacher, who has bullied Brother, let them be punished and not dare again next time!", continued Tiara again.

Finally Rico let Tiara help him that day, even though his legs were flawed, Rico still wanted to prove that he had the advantage, at least he was always the first champion in the class.

She wanted to make her mother proud of her as well, not just proud of her beautiful sister Bella!

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Since then, the relationship between Rico and Tiara has improved. Rico who never had any close friends, finally gets closer to Tiara.

While Tiara, who is basically easy to make friends with anyone, welcomes the friendship of Rico with pleasure, especially for Tiara who feels indebted to the Wijayanto family, sincerely considers Rico as her brother, especially since the first Tiara really wanted to have a sister.

While Bella always considered Tiara as her rival, Bella always felt her father loved Tiara more, than her, because Wijayanto often defended Tiara whenever Tiara scolded her mother.

Moreover, Wijayanto often mentions the advantages of the properties that Tiara has, so that Bella can imitate the nature of the Tiara.

Bella grows increasingly dislike again, when her brother whom she knows has never cared about anyone and is always aloof it defends Tiara one day, when she scolds Tiara.

"Based on the child does not know himself. It's not just my dad you took! Even my brother you just took it! May one day my husband also you seize!", the sharp-mouthed Bella's nag

Tiara just kept silent, not daring to answer the angry Bella.

Rico who was then watching Bella's anger, immediately approached Bella.

"Who's your brother? Aren't you the one who doesn't recognize me as your brother? Even in school you didn't seem to know me! How now can you say Ara took me from you? Since when did you admit I was your brother?", Rico said angrily.

"I'll say that at school alone, if at home you will still be my sister, our father and mother the same, while Tiara will be different!", said Bella defended herself.

"For me anywhere is the same! not at school, not at home! We are just people who happen to live in one house!", said Rico, after which immediately pulled Tiara out of the room.

While Bella stared at the departure of the two people with a vengeance. Since then Bella has grown increasingly resentful of Tiara, feeling Tiara has taken all of hers.

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Luckily at the age of 17, Rico was able to cure a deformity in his leg after surgery.

The hesitant Rico underwent the operation, eventually agreeing. Tiara never stopped giving her the encouragement and zeal to run the operation.

Tiara's attention eventually slowly brings a different affection, no longer the affection for brothers, but a man's affection for women

Moreover, one day Rico overhears a conversation between his father and mother, and learns the secret that his father has taken all the inheritance from the Tiara family, and the, for capital they started a business in Australia and for the considerable cost of operating his legs.

Rico is increasingly convinced by his desire to make Tiara his wife when he grows up, besides that he already loves Tiara, by making Tiara his wife, he wants to pay his family debt to Tiara.

Even when he expressed his wish, his father immediately agreed to it.

"Ara, I didn't know you loved me or not as a man. But I'm sure after getting married later, slowly the love will grow, especially since we already have a good relationship" thought Rico happy.

Of course Rico never thought that the reality he would meet later was different from his expectations!

Seriate........