chapter 4

The next day Sean had recovered and went back to school, although he still had a plaster on his forehead. He looked around looking for someone, and it was certain that the person he was looking for was Rhea.

As soon as he saw Rhea coming, Sean immediately blocked her path.

Rhea almost had a heart attack from the shock. "HEH?!"

Sean immediately put on a face full of questions. "What's been going on these past few days?"

Rhea tried to act calm.

"Um… you mean?"

"Why didn't you pick up my calls? You never visited me when I was in the hospital? Why?" Sean asked in unison.

He was very curious about what was happening.

"Sorry, I'm busy," Rhea excused.

"What are you always busy about? Don't you have time at all to just call? Do you know, I'm worried that you're sick or something. I call you but you don't pick up, I chat you don't reply either." Sean chatted. "Aren't you worried about me?"

"Uh... worried about you? What are you doing?

You're fine too." Rhea lied.

"So I have to do something first to make you worry about me?"

Rhea glared at Sean. That wasn't what she meant either.

Sean sighed. "Okay, okay, you're not worried about me. But if you weren't worried about me, why did you come to the hospital crying the night of the accident?"

Rhea was very upset, it must have been Abel or Tody who told Sean about that night. Rhea herself also regretted it, why did she come to the hospital and cry all that time?

"Why?"

"Just accept that I was wrong."

"WHAT???" Sean's eyes widened.

Her reaction was almost the same as Adel when Rhea said the same thing. "So you mean... you cried because I was a mistake?"

"Hm," Rhea ketus.

"Ha... ha... ha...." Sean pretended to laugh. "It's so funny that someone cries because of a mistake."

"Why? You just found out now?" Rhea was still grumpy.

Sean looked at Rhea with a pleading gaze, half giving up on Rhea. "Are you mad?"

"Why are you angry?"

"Our event that night failed. Are you mad at me?"

Rhea still with her arrogant attitude. "Why should I be angry? After all, I don't expect much either."

Sean sighed for the umpteenth time. "Sorry, yeah. I promise we'll make plans again another time. And I guarantee it won't fail."

"I told you I'm not mad about it." Rhea affirms.

"Then why are you angry?"

"Ah, never mind. I'm busy, the bell will ring soon." Rhea walked away to avoid talking to Sean.

"RHEA! RHEA!" Sean screamed.

Rhea didn't care, she didn't even look back.

Sean punched the air, venting his frustration. "Why is it so hard to get close to Rhea? What else should I do to make Rhea like me?"

A few seconds later, Sean looked back at Rhea who was getting further and further away from his reach. "RHEA! ARE YOU MYSELF? RHEA!"

"R-h-e-a." Suddenly there was a voice that startled Sean.

Sean turned his head, seeing Tody's face grinning next to him, who knows when he came.

"Yes. Rrrrrhea." Annoyed, Sean emphasized the R word in Rhea's name.

Tody just held back his laughter hearing that, then put his arm around his friend's shoulder. "Sean, I have a really good suggestion for you."

"What advice, Tod?" Sean wondered if Tody might have a good suggestion to solve his problem with Rhea.

"I have a doctor acquaintance here. How about you start doing therapy?"

Sean immediately looked at Tody in annoyance and let go of the guy's embrace with a bad mood. "Let's start, let's start."

"Huh? As a good friend, I always think about you, Sean. Who knows, after therapy you might be much better and Rhea won't be mad at you anymore."

"What does my going to therapy have to do with Rhea being mad at me?" Sean was confused by the direction of their conversation.

"Yes, of course there is, Bro. It's possible that Rhea is angry because you've never been able to call her name correctly. Right?"

Sean pushed Tody's face away from him in annoyance.

Apparently he was wrong to entertain his friend, who he thought had a solution to his problem with Rhea. "You're noisy, ah."

"You're noisy, Sean." Tody, who had intentionally wanted to tease Sean, once again corrected Sean's statement.

Sean glared at Tody as horribly as possible. "Sooooo noisy. Satisfied?"

However, the one being glared at laughed. "Your face is so scary, Sean. I'm serious. I think from now on you have to cure your lisp, so you can pronounce Rhea's name correctly. You know, Rhea's full name is Rheana Diandra Karisha. There are so many Rs, right? Can you pronounce it correctly?"

"Eh, I've been like this since childhood. It can't be fixed anymore. You're talking randomly. After all, it's impossible for Rhea to be angry with me just because of that.

"But it's okay if you want to try, Sean. Go to therapy and try it, so you can say your own name correctly---Arseandrio Rahendra. Well, loh. There are a lot of R's too."

Sean could only take a deep breath and once again look at Tody in annoyance. Tody had deliberately wanted to tease him. Everyone knew he had a lisp since birth. Sean had trouble pronouncing the letter R when he spoke. Sometimes the letter R that he pronounced would change its sound or not be heard when he pronounced it. But even so, as long as other people could still understand what he meant, then according to Sean it was okay.

Being stared at in horror like that made Tody nod and give up. "Yes, yes, okay. Sorry, sorry. I just want to help you, really."

Sean rubbed his forehead which had a plaster on it.

"About Rhea, how about you cast a spell on her, Sean?" Apparently Tody wasn't done with his misleading advice.

"You're so crazy!"

Tody again just grinned. "It's like you're really desperate. That's why I'm giving you practical and convincing advice."

"Do you really think that with magic spells like that everything will be okay? You're crazy!" Sean pushed Tody's forehead.

Tody rubbed his forehead.

"Could it be that when you were dating Abel, you also used to play with love potions?" Sean was suspicious.

"Wow... you're so easy to talk about? I became a couple with Abel because of LOVE. You know... LOVE. Ce i en te a. LOVE." Tody made a heart symbol using his fingers.

"Ah!" Sean rejected Tody's hand. "You don't have to make me any more, bro."

Tody nyengir again. "Sorry bro."

Sean snorted as he rubbed his plastered forehead again. His head was throbbing thinking about Rhea.

"Oh yeah, how's your head?

Are there any severed nerves? Or maybe a lump for life?" Tody teased Sean who was in a bad mood.

Sean immediately attacked Tody and held him by the armpit hair while hitting Tody's head.

"Ow... my goodness, my goodness! I was joking, Sean. Just kidding!" Tody screamed because he was being abused by Sean.

***

At Soekarno-Hatta Airport, a tall and sturdy man was walking among the crowd while pulling his big suitcase. He smiled at everyone he met behind his sunglasses which added to his attractiveness in the eyes of the public.

the girls.

After walking quite a distance, the guy finally reached the exit. He stopped walking and took off his sunglasses.

Smiling looking at the atmosphere outside the airport. Jakarta City.

"Finally I'm back in Indonesia," said Juno as he got into a taxi that was waiting for him in front of the airport.

The taxi driver put the suitcase in the back trunk.

In the taxi, Juno took out his wallet and looked at the photo of himself with someone there. He smiled.

"We will meet again. After a long time."