C4

When everyone just saw her quietly, Gina immediately jogged and with her tiny hands she hugged Drake. The warmth of Gina's hug made Drake couldn't hold himself anymore. Drake immediately burst into tears and gave off all the flavours he had endured.

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Several days have passed, the orange rays of the morning sun have become Alex's favourite beautiful sight since he was hospitalized. Since opening his eyes again, Alex has liked to sit alone on a park bench just to see this beautiful sight. Even today he is willing to wake up very early just to see the sunrise. The sound of birds singing became the music that accompanied his morning.

Alex loved the morning sunshine he saw so much that he couldn't stop smiling. He was so focused on the beautiful scenery that he didn't realize that a girl his age was watching him and walked over to him. The girl was wearing a patient uniform like herself but the girl looked perfectly fine and didn't look sick in the least.

"What are you looking at?" asked the girl.

Alex was immediately surprised when he turned his head and a girl was already sitting beside him. He did not know the girl and this was the first time he had seen her. Alex, who didn't know how to respond to a question from a girl he didn't know, in the end, could only stare at the girl with a confused look.

"Are you new here? This is my first time seeing you. Oh yeah, my name is Ruby, what's your name? " Asked the girl named Ruby while smiling very friendly at Alex.

Although he was reluctant, Alex still mentioned his name to Ruby. Whether it was the sunlight that happened to hit his face or the drug was still working until Alex began to see things very differently.

At that time Alex didn't know why he felt something different when he saw Ruby. He didn't know why Ruby's smiling face when he looked at him looked so radiant. Even Alex could not stop himself from smiling when he saw Ruby's smile. He never thought that this brief encounter would bring him such a new start. The beginning will bring big changes in his life.

The clueless Alex just thought that it was just a casual encounter, just like meeting other people in his life. Like the people who come and go in his life, a brief encounter that will take him nowhere. So Alex just smiled faintly and acted politely without paying any attention to Ruby. But it was only temporary until he saw Ruby and all the colours.

"We always try hard to meet the standards people give us as if we will be left when we don't meet those standards. Often we go to great lengths to completely change ourselves, blaspheme ourselves and feel inferior just because of the hurtful words of blasphemous people. We close ourselves and become someone else to them until we forget that we also shine like other people that we are also very valuable as we are