The Effects of Early Marriage
36 Chameleons

Next day

"Freya, are you okay?"

Freya just mumbled quietly. Her face was laid out on the table, with blackened eye bags and dim eyes.

"Eh, Freya, you know what?"

"What?"

"Two days ago Atika fell down the stairs in the east building!"

"Huh? Seriously?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"How do you want to go now?"

"Listen, he's still hospitalized."

"Owh."

Freya sighed. It is getting harder for him to tell which ones he does, which ones he doesn't. However, for some reason Freya looked relaxed. There is no fear in him if he is found out.

In the hospital

Ms. Atika is conscious. He had a mild concussion, and forgot the events that happened that day. There was no CCTV at the scene. In the absence of evidence and witnesses, the incident was considered purely an accident.

After all who intends to harm the teacher BK who is considered friendly? Especially in the school environment.

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Days passed, during this one week Freya's body condition worsened. While at home, I don't know how many cigarettes and liquor he spent, which he packs and cans he discreetly disposed of outside the house.

At school, what he did was like that. Drinking, smoking, or skipping school. Either done alone, or accidentally met Mico when the young man also wanted to do it. Yes, they are indeed suitable partners in juvenile delinquency, except free s*x.

Freya's values are still good. It was done so that the image of him as a model student who achieves to stay awake.

Who would think badly of a good student like him?

"Basic chameleon!" mico Eject.

Instead of being offended, Freya laughed.

"Being a chameleon is good for self-protection. After all, my values are good because of my own efforts, not cheating. When my grades were ugly, they told me to work on it again. They were more worried about my grades than I was about myself. I've never been afraid of my grades being ugly, but they are. Afraid of losing the good name of the school and the high-achieving students who perfected their school's name."

Yes, they both fit in the way they express themselves. Mico is wayward, but he doesn't throw people into disrepair. He also never wanted to know people's affairs let alone mix them up. An exception to Freya's problem, but she also never asked Freya anything, not wanting to make Freya remember much less trauma.

He can understand Freya, as well as Freya who can understand Mico, because they both understand, that every delinquency must have a cause.

In a corner of the school, in a hidden place, a place that bears witness that there are a pair of school teenagers who often share stories, a place that years later they will remember and kangeni. A place that makes their life experience more meaningful and how to behave for the future.

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Freya is sitting next to Arby, she is forced to welcome the Arby family whom she does not know. A middle-aged woman with her husband. Freya looked at the face of the couple, feeling like she had seen it but where? What was at her wedding with Arby?

Likewise with the husband and wife, looking at Freya with a gentle gaze, making Freya careless and willing to vomit. His stomach seemed to be shaken, no matter how many cans of beer he returned to drink after school, making him have to do cleaning so that there is no aroma of cigarettes and beer in his body and room.

"How are you doing, honey? It's fine, right?"

Freya nodded slowly, too reluctant to make small talk.

Not enough to get there, they still invite Freya to chat, ask about her school, her friends, even her family, making Freya even more careless.

"I'm going to sleep first, dizzy."

Arriving at the room, he immediately vomited. Sitting leaning inside the bathroom, while massaging his forehead. After feeling strong, he headed to bed, sipped a can of beer, then squeezed the can to a crumble.

Whether he deliberately tortures himself, or as a form of impingement, namin for him this is one form of freedom in the midst of the support of his family and Arby's family.

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A day of school, a day of truancy, under the pretext of getting sick and going to the UKS, while climbing the wall. Like it continued for this one month. The teachers also believe it just like that, because they see the face of Freya who is pale and looks weak.

"Stupid yuk, once in a while," Freya asked.

Nania and Aruna looked at Freya's astonishment, but they immediately cheered in excitement.

"Finally, this exemplary disciple broke the rules as well."

Don't know them yet.

The three girls finally came out of the school again, fortunately the bell had not yet rung, so they could freely go out.

"Eh, it's Mico, right?" ask Aruna.

Freya opened the window and shouted.

"Woy Coco, I want to skip dong. Go to the mall, eat, watch, shop, see the handsome guy."

"Woy Yaya, I also want to skip dong. Band rehearsal, captivating chicks, groaning PHP-in, deh."

Freya laughed, the two of them became a spectacle at the red light. Two shameless schoolgirls brag about wanting to skip.

"Eh, let's see Mico rehearsal band, yuk. You know, since your appearance on the school anniversary show, so many girls are curious about him. My cousin just saw your video all the way to the persimmon."

They then followed Mico from behind. Mico, who saw Aruna's car behind him, just kept quiet.

They are now in the music studio, there are already some young people. Cuek Freya sitting on the sofa while opening a can of soda that has been provided there.

Freya has been here several times, so she already knows Mico's friends. Nania and Aruna can quickly blend in with them. Maybe because Mico's friends are friendly, indifferent and what they are.

At school

Nuna looked at the three empty benches with a pushy look. He was alienated, unregarded, and abandoned.

She recalled the time the children of her mother's new husbands cursed her.

Nuna's mother has been married four times.

The first husband was Nuna's father, divorced when Nuna was ten.

The second husband, married after five months divorced with Nuna's father. The status is still the husband of people, married for two years ago divorced.

The third husband married six months later after the divorce. Her third husband, a widower, married three years ago and divorced.

The fourth husband, his status was still the husband of another woman, and still survives to this day.

That's why many people hate her, because she's the son of an actor who often changes husbands.

Of course not ordinary husbands, because they must be rich.

During this time Nuna tried not to know much about her identity. She considers her stepmom as her own mother. Act to people that it is her real mama.

During this time his friends were very rarely met with his parents, because they were more often gathered at the house of Nania or Aruna.

In fact, it was his friend who cut the wound.

His mother was a actor, his son was a actor.