The Romance of Earth and Blue
PART 9 – Friends Together

It turns out this is how it feels to live the day so lightly and the feeling that arouses. All the daily repetitions that my friends complain about, it's been easy for me. Though last night I did not learn much because it continues to be imagined Blue. I'm almost crazy like him.

The bells from school have been ringing since.

But my friends are still complete and working on a repeat. “Come quickly collect now. In the count of three if you have not collected, I assume you do not work.”

Threats heavy.

Hearing that everything became panicked and rushed. Next to me, Kartika was still focused on writing something in her answer sheet. “Earth, done?” ask her while preparing answer sheets to collect.

“Already. Come kumpulin,” take me.

He nodded. We directly advanced to the teacher's desk to gather them. The count is over. It turned out that it was not just a mere threat because the teacher had actually left after the count of three made several people run after him.

The class atmosphere became boisterous.

“Earth, how did you know the number three was?” ask Kartika.

I remember what happened and opened his package book. “This, the formula is here. Just in back and forth,” explained me while pointing to one of the formulas.

Kartika looked at him while nodding. “I tried that anyway. What's your final result?”

“476 km.”

“Farthest throw right?”

I'm nodding. Kartika exclaimed and said that her answer was wrong. The formula he uses is correct.

It turned out that for a few days we became my countrymen, Kartika was not as quiet as I thought. He's very diligent. It's a pity that he was left behind in some material because he had to be absent. Otherwise I can guarantee that his name will be in the top 10.

“Emm excuse me, Earth is?”

My class became quiet. I looked over and found Adit there. “Oh there,” replied Faris a moment later.

I looked over, he gestured for me to come out immediately. Quickly I packed my books into a backpack. “Tika, you were picked up right? I was okay first, yes,” my saying to him.

“Yes, papa is already ahead,” his reply makes me relieved.

I nodded and immediately walked out of the class. But Tania's holding me back.

“Now the caper is the same as IPS child?” insinuations.

“I'm not caper,” I replied trying to defend myself.

“Keep what is its name?”

I tried to ignore it and just went right through it.

“Why, Dit?” my many.

“Come home.” I gawked at hearing that. We never even talked except when we met in the cafeteria.

Seeing me bewildered, Adit chuckled. “Not me, that's loh.”

Adit looked back, I could see Blue in the middle of his friends. They sit on the stairs while chatting.

Blue was leaning his body against the wall, his hands were put in his pants pocket with his uniform out and a little dirty. It's only Monday. The look we met. Blue came up and approached me.

“Come home together,” he said.

I nodded stiffly while observing his friends who I thought were creepy. They look like delinquents. “Sama my friends are okay too, right? We always go home together because,” obviously Blue asked me for permission.

“It's okay kok.”

A man wearing a hat came straight to me. “Hey, you Earth? You are beautiful too. I'm Alan, Blue's friend,” he said introducing himself.

“Emm yes, I am Earth,” I replied with a cannggung. I really suck at socializing. They were quite a lot, probably about 8 people. There were some who brought her boyfriend as well.

Along the way to the parking lot, they were really friendly to me. There was even one person who took his guitar with him everywhere. Along the way he sang songs with discord and passages that accompanied him.

I could sense that our existence was really stealing the attention.

We arrived at the parking lot. Blue friends ride high motorcycles like brother's.

“Iya.”

“Tumben. Where to?”

“Altitude. Cassian Earth if riding the Ijo,”

her answer made my face instantly blush.

Alan looked up and immediately ridiculed him. “Liat deh bro, our commander packs a duck motorbike,” he told his friends.

They immediately mocked Blue. But the owner just laughed. It seems like male friendship is like this. They did not put too much into the heart of such words.

“Pakek first yes helmet,” he said then put the pink helmet to me as usual.

“Blue, you're okay to bring your bike one more time. Don't think about me,” my great-grandson.

He equalized his height with me, slightly lowered. “Hey, I'd rather make you comfortable than just the styles.”

That sentence sounds so soft. I looked into his eyes trying to find a lie there. But Blue eyes really only exude sincerity. “Still,” my word finally.

He nodded and smiled.

We headed to the city park. Blue says that they do this for once a week. The goal is just to chat with each other and make friends.

“You really don't have a tutoring schedule, right today?” ask again.

I'm nodding. Blue invites me to follow his friends who have been sitting in the middle of a stretch of grass with a mat that they do not know where to bring from.

We sat very neatly. I thought we were going to have a serious conversation. But it turned out to be completely different from what I thought. They just talk like friends. Not to forget the cigarettes and coffee available there.

“I smoke can?” ask Blue.

“Bby.”

“Oke, wait here. I finished one doang,” he said asking for permission. I allowed it right away.

I saw Blue who was a little away and joined Alan.

“Earth, I saw Tania who ngusik you,” said Adit who is now sitting closer to me. “if she ngelakuin something bad, say aja.

We temenmu now.”

I don't know why there was such a feeling when I heard that. “Iya, Adit. Thanks yes,” my word.

He smiled and nodded. “Ras, Temenin Bumi,” Adit told the woman who was chatting.

The woman just glanced at me and then immediately turned away as if she had no interest in me at all

“Earth, here join.”

This was unexpected because the woman directly invited me. Though I was sure the meaning of the look in his eyes was implying dislike to me. I finally got up from my seat and moved to get closer to him.

“I Baras, this is Nana.” He introduced his conversation partner.

“Emm hello greetings know, I am Bumi,” said I introduced myself even though he already knows my name.

The woman nodded.

“Earth, you IPA boy right?” ask Nana.

“Iya.”

“If not wrong you who often participate in the Olympics?”

“Iya, it's me.” I didn't think he knew me.

“Wow is great. I don't understand why Blue now likes girls like you.” Okay, this time I know where this conversation is going.

“Yah, I don't know. Hopefully you are not thrown away like his ex before.”

I just smiled wryly.