Lost Words II

At the same time, in their respective homes. Grace, Mia, and Leah were busy tweeting. Grace sat in her living room with the television on. She didn't watch at all, her eyes were glued to her smartphone. Her thumb kept dancing on the buttons of her cell phone, occasionally she chuckled. The situation is not much different from what Leah and Mia did.

They lay on their bed with smart phones in their hands, it turns out they are replying to tweets on. It all started with Grace's tweet about thirty minutes ago, a tweet that contains:

@Grace: I didn't think I could be as loyal as anyone.

A tweet that Mia saw and she added.

@Mia: @Grace Yes, I'm really lazy. Why try her must enter the committee?

Grace smiled when a notification came into her cellphone, she replied.

@Grace: @Mia she is already fat, and Mrs. Know It All. Do you still remember how she pretended to know when she was in grade 1?

Mia's face changed, she recalled how jealous and annoyed she was when Evie was able to answer all the questions given by the math teacher. Evie took home the entire value of the day, leaving nothing for anyone else. Mia looks annoyed when she replies to Grace's tweet.

@Mia: @Grace Yes, it's true, at that time I'm too tired for that body. I'll deflate the body then hahaha.

Grace's laughter broke when she read the sentence "I'm too tired for that body", she was even more eager to reply to Grace's tweet. However, before she had time to reply, it turned out that Leah had replied to their tweet first.

@Leah: @Grace @Mia just deflated her body, or you broke her pimples xixixi.

@Grace: @Leah @Mia eww, I'm disgusted to see her acne. It's so disgusting eww, why not you just break the pimple? *evil laugh*

Mia quickly replied to the tweet that seemed more and more interesting.

@Mia: @Grace @Leah let's just do it, make her body thin all of a sudden hahaha.

Grace, Leah, and Mia used twitter to release their evil thoughts that had been running through their heads when Evie was first elected to the seminar committee. They held back the thoughts, but the embankment holding them back collapsed at the sight of Grace's chirping. One thing they forgot that night: everyone on their timeline saw all their tweets. People who agree with them will find their tweets funny and entertaining. However, those who don't agree will really regret their tweets. However, the worst thing is: Evie is one of their followers and she cries while reading their tweets.

Evie burst into tears after reading the tweet, her chest burning hot. A heavy weight seemed to squeeze her, making it difficult for her to breathe and occasionally choking. Her stomach was queasy, and a sour sensation rose to her throat. Make it feel wanted to throw up, while tears kept falling from her eyes. She slapped her hand several times against the surface of her study table to reduce the emotions simmering within her.

Olivia opened the door to Evie's room, she was shocked and tried to wipe her tears. It turned out that Olivia had come home, and she had brought Evie's favorite tuna-topped pizza.

"Here, sister brought pizza," Olivia said with a face who is happy.

However, all of that was lost when she got a strange attitude from Evie, "What are you doing, Evie?"

Olivia slammed the pizza she brought to the floor, and run to Evie. "You cry, huh? Who made you cry?”

Olivia lifted Evie's face so she could clearly see her sister's face, Evie tried to let go of her face and looked down again to wipe her tears.

"Its okay, Sis. I'm not crying," said Evie. "Don't lie! I know you're crying. Why? What's wrong?"

Evie couldn't help it, Olivia clearly felt her face wet and her eyes puffy.

"Its okay, Sis. Earlier I got news my old friend father is dead, I'm so sad, I remember dad."

Evie was forced to use her own wound as a shield. That way, Olivia will believe and won't trying to find out. Olivia knew that her sister was devastated by the death of their father. So it is not surprising that she cried when she heard her friend's father died.

"Well then, don't think about it anymore. Father must have happy there." Olivia's voice softened, she rubbed Evie's shoulder a few times and sat on Evie's bed.

           

"You've eaten, haven't you?" Olivia asked as she played with the little teddy bear lying next to Evie's pillow.

"Yes, Sis. Just now," answered Evie slowly, she left from her study table and sat down next to her brother.

"Well, even though you already brought your favorite tuna pizza. I wanted to invite you to eat together, but never mind if you have eaten. I will eats alone."

Olivia took the pizza box and put it on her thigh, and opened the box slowly.

"I want the pizza." Evie smiled and looked at her sister.

"You want one? Really?" Olivia has to convince herself again that her sister did not want to.

 "Yes, Sis. I just ate a little bit. It's okay to skip the diet once in a while, right? The pizza looks delicious after all." Evie laughs small, small laugh between the wounds.

"Well, then let's eat. We're not really fit for a diet." Olivia pinched Evie's plump, springy cheeks.

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"Where's Althan, anyway? How come this hour he hasn't come yet?" asked Leah.

Darcy, who was sitting in front of her, shrugged his shoulders, then he continued to cut some decorations for the decoration of the seminar which would be held in two weeks. They also began to prepare everything needed, decorations, tables and chairs, and gifts for questions and answers.

"Maybe he's playing football, sometime. He's playing football almost every day." Mia tried to guess, and it seemed he was right. Althan is someone who is crazy about football.

"Even though it's late? But he hasn't come yet." Grace, who was wrapping gifts one by one for people who asked questions at their seminar, added.

"Well come on, just wait. He'll be here in a minute, don't worry. He's really a busy person." Darcy tried to calm Leah.

A few minutes later Althan appeared in front of the main door of the school hall, holding a pink cotton candy. He pinched the cotton candy a few times, and slowly popped it into his mouth. The soft cotton candy melted in his mouth as it touched the walls of his mouth, spreading sweetness all over his mouth.

"Looks like we're busy," Althan teased. He was no longer wearing the school uniform, he was wearing a plain white T-shirt that showed his broad chest. However, he still wore trousers, and a sling bag hanging from his body. The school uniform must be in that bag.

"Well, he just came, where have he been, you?" Darcy looks relieved. "That's fine," Althan replied curtly and then walked over the large hall. "Help me pack gifts, Althan." said Grace when Althan stood under the stage at the end of the hall.

"Okay," Althan replied, then he went up on stage. "You want?” Althan offered his cotton candy to Leah when he was through it.

"I will," it didn't take long for Leah to answer. She took the candy in Althan's hand, then joined Darcy in preparing the decorations.

Althan sat cross-legged beside Grace, his strong hands picking up a bunch of scattered items to put together in a plastic wrap. When Althan was doing his work, Grace's eyes couldn't stop looking at Althan's face. Althan was so charming to Grace. Althan's jaw that looked firm but soft, and his straight hair that formed big waves in the front made her drunk. From where he sat, she could smell Althan's sweet scent. The scent is so soft and light. Makes her so calm and falls deeper and deeper into her attraction to Althan. When she smelled Althan's body, somehow possible, he smelled the scent of a meadow filled with colorful flowers and a cold breeze. Althan's body scent is right really hypnotized him at that moment, made him want to hug Althan tightly as soon as possible and inhale the scent from only a few centimeters away. Grace's palms trembled at the thought of stroking Althan's arms, which were perfectly formed by the muscles of a man's masculinity. Grace drifted off to land.

"What's wrong, Grace? Is there something wrong with me?" Althan's voice shattered Grace's thoughts like a shattered mirror.

"No, why? It's nothing." Grace trying to cover up her heart was beating fast, and her desire was so strong when near Althan.

"Oh" replied Althan very calmly. He put things back in the plastic wrap. Althan's calm demeanor has made every girl fall in love, including Grace. The serenity was both stunning and elegant at the same time. Like an expensive and classy suit.

"I hope Evie does a good job." Leah looked at Mia.

"She have to. Otherwise she will regret it. All of our good names are in this seminar. If this seminar is destroyed, then she is also destroyed." Mia spoke in a threatening tone.

Leah chuckled, so did Darcy.

"Ah, how can a kid like that work. I'm sure she's still sitting in her room right now. She doesn't know what to say to lobby the candidate for our show." Grace on purpose lowered her lips as she spoke to show that Evie was a lousy person.

"We'll see. Tomorrow there will be an evaluation from the student council president and the supervising teacher. If she can't show progress at all, she's out of the seminar committee." Darcy cut a piece of paper to form a circle.

"Have you done your own work yet, Grace?" Althan glanced at Grace, making her heart beat faster.

"Yes. I have booked the seats for the participants. One day before the event, the school guards and security guards will arrange them." Grace's tone was like that of a five-year-old trying to convince her mother that she was doing better than her sister to earn more praise from her mother.

"How about yourself, Althan?" Grace replied to Grace's glance. "I've ordered snacks, two kinds. One for the participants, and the other for speakers and invitees. In the morning before the event starts, everyone is already in the queue, and I have put other necessary items behind the stage. You'll see for yourself if not. Trust me, everything is ready even though the event is still two weeks away." Althan spoke without pausing at all, leaving Grace pensive in awe of his authoritative voice.

"It's good if everything is ready. Faster less chance of events failing, except for this Evie. Until now there has been no news." Leah threw the star-shaped cardboard she had cut out. "We'll see tomorrow," Darcy repeated his words again.

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"So, how far have you prepared for the seminar?" the student council president opened the discussion forum that afternoon.

"Preparations are about 70 percent, only a few executions of funds and logistics are left at the event." Leah spoke calmly but clumsily, some of her voice slipping to a strange sound.

"Can we see the report?" the student council president looked at her. Leah collected reports from Mia, Darcy, Althan, Grace, and finally Evie. Then she gave it to the student council president.

When receiving a pile of reports from the seminar committee team, the student council president took one report and put the others on the table. He opened the report, read it for a while and distributed it to other administrators and supervisors. Everything went like that until the last report, they read carefully every report given by Leah.

Across from them, Grace looked happy. She imagined when the student council administrator and the supervising teacher read the report from Evie and found that she could not find a single speaker who filled the event for this seminar. Evie will definitely be kicked out of this committee, everyone knows that lobbying speakers is difficult, especially if they are a city-wide artist.

The student council administrator and the supervising teacher finally finished checking all the reports for the seminar from various sections they were still silent. The student council president nodded his head slowly

"All the reports seem good. It went well, the preparations were well done. All the necessities were well prepared. The student council secretary smiled with satisfaction, and scratched the surface of the table with his fingers. Overall, Leah caught a satisfaction from the student council administrator. Finally she could take a deep breath. .

"But especially for Evie...." the student council president glanced at Evie. Evie was taken aback, her shoulders rising and falling.

"Get lost" whispered Mia who was sitting next to her, "It's over.”

"As the student council president, I am very proud to know that Evie can invite Alexander as a speaker with a relatively minimal budget. You must have worked hard, we are very happy when we read your report. Surely the seminar will be busy." The student council president smiled at Evie as did the other administrators and tutors.

Evie was embarrassed by the compliment. She was confused whether to be happy to hear that or even regret it. Leah, Grace, and Mia simultaneously turned to Evie. They were shocked and furious, once again Evie's cleverness had destroyed their credibility. Just like when they were in first grade, when chemistry lessons took place. Their teacher at that time divided all his students into study groups, and gave those assignments to research certain compounds. Leah, Grace, and Mia who are in the same study group (they are always together) make a presentation that they think is perfect and will win praise for their teacher's admiration.

However, Evie ruined everything. She innocently raised her hand and exposed all the mistakes they had made to their research. They had an argument with Evie about it, but then their teacher said that Evie was right (theoretically Evie was right, without any defense).

Leah, Grace, and Mia were really humiliated at that time. Instead of the praise they get, but instead laughter that comes barrage. Make their group the dumbest group in the class.

"Well, it looks like you all have worked well together. So this meeting ends here. Thank you for coming and good work!" close the student council president. They also rose from their seats, and briefly greeted Evie before leaving the room. Evie smiled loosely as she was with them. That smile was like a leech that couldn't leave her face. All administrators and supervising teachers had left the room, leaving her with the seminar team. Leah, Grace, Darcy, Althan, and Mia got up and walked out of the room. When they crossed paths with Evie, they stared at her intently and full of anger. They really wanted to explode seeing Evie's success.

"Watch out. Just look!," Grace whispered as she stood in front of Evie. Althan came out last, but it didn't say anything. He didn't do anything, and his face still looked calm without the slightest fire of anger burning in his eyes.