CHAPTER 2

-Love is just a play on words played by girls and hearts. And I, the man who played it-

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'You come here or will I pick you up?'

Raisa hung up her phone in a huff, she didn't like anyone managing it. Typical guys who are hated are those who are protective. Moreover, they have not been formally acquainted.

"Thanks for helping me earlier but sorry I don't like basketball."

He got up to the library, but his steps were intercepted by Joey, a former Bela who is known as a land crocodile, a playboy, a kid snapper of IPS 2.

"Where are you going?" asked Joey, arching his eyebrows, his two friends grinning.

"What's your business?" Raisa brushed Pipin's hand that was blocking her. Raisa has always been asking Bela not to have a relationship with a guy like Joey, she feels negative energy whenever she is close to Joey.

"You heard from Bela that I am with her and I have ended, I want you to be my girlfriend!"

Raisa stared at them flatly, waiting for the rest of the playboy's nonsense.

"Already?"

The corridor leading to the library is indeed quiet because everyone has docked in the field. If he screams, maybe no one will help him, but without realizing it, from behind came a guy wearing glasses with a neat look.

"Raisa, why are you here, aren't you going to the library? Uh, Joey, do you want to go to the library too?"

Atha's greeting with a big smile distracted them. The student council president who was famous for his high academic grades looked at them coldly, he was not the type to bully people, with just one sentence the wayward students would shrink. Including Joey, although he is famous for all his mischief but every time he meets Atha, they will choose to stay away.

"Eh, I'm thirsty, let's go to the canteen!" asked Joey to his two friends, "Raisa, I'm waiting for your answer!" he said before passing.

Raisa let out a rough sigh, turning to Atha, who she had often seen in the library corner. Only two times Atha ever talked to him it was just not important.

"Are you going to the library?" Atha opens silence. Raisa nodded, in a bad mood. He goes first followed by Atha behind.

Raisa immediately took a reading book and sat on a bench beside the window. He seemed to forget that Atha also entered the library, so he did not realize that Atha had been watching him by sitting in the front seat. Raisa continues to understand the contents of the book, which numbered more than 300 pages. Digest about the human mindset. He likes to read things related to physcology.

'Are you really not coming? Okay, don't blame me if I let you in later! '

The incoming message bothered him again.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Eh?" Raisa was flabbergasted, if only Atha didn't catch her cellphone she might have slammed into the floor.

"When are you here?"

Instead of answering, Atha laughed at Raisa's expression, which she had been paying attention to all this time secretly.

"I've entered together— ''

"Yes, what do you want!"

Raisa interrupts Atha's statement who is now looking at him confused. Raisa stood up, put her cell phone in her pocket. Taking the blue book, put it back in its place of origin. Saying goodbye to Atha then immediately left the library. His steps stopped at the end of the last stairs. The sound of the audience near the field was so boisterous. The screams of the girls screeching their names.

Ridho.

Yuda.

Raisa focused her eyes looking for the whereabouts of Yuda, the coercive boy who disturbed her day. His gaze swept across the field, where the person he was looking for was now staring at him with a big smile while holding an orange ball.

Sorry. That one word is now enveloping Raisa. How could he not, he shouldn't have moved his steps here. Inviting the attention of all eyes that are now staring at him is full of question marks. He stiffened where he stood, as if waiting for the tall, handsome boy to come towards him, holding his hand gently as he pulled him slowly into the middle of the field. His body seemed to be controlled from the outside. What's the matter with her letting that unknown guy control her soul.

"Introduce her my girl!"

Cheers of disappointment mixed with shock awakened the frozenness of Raisa who was now staring at Yuda questioningly. Yuda replied with a sweet smile, anyone who saw that smile would definitely find it difficult to sleep for seven days and seven nights. Honestly, Raisa has also been blown away by that smile but her consciousness is now awake, she shakes off Yuda's hand with a half stomp.

"What are you doing?" Raisa turned around, about to get out of the crowd that was ready to ask a thousand questions. Like when you were acquainted, why haven't you been seen together all this time. Is that why Raisa kept her distance from the boys who approached her because she was already dating Yuda? And various other questions that filled the heads of every audience.

"Don't be ashamed, dear." Yuda intercepted his hand again, pulling it closer and closer. Their gazes locked, their breaths mingled with each other, inviting envious chirps from the Antariosa High School students.

"Alright, later you guys will continue your romance. Now is the time for us to compete." Ridho the basketball captain took over, taking the ball in Yuda's hands.

"You can show your greatness with your new boyfriend," he said, hugging Yuda's shoulder, "your new toy is great too!" he continued whispering in Yuda's ear.

Yuda glanced behind where Raisa was still silent. "Don't go anywhere, honey."

Raisa's face blushed for a moment but she immediately turned out of the crowd by covering her ears, not wanting to hear the teasing along with the girls' threats.

"Css, all this time acting single. Just watch out for sure to be cut off soon. Look out for me too instead of him!"

"I don't believe it, at best it's just a setting. I dream of a girl like him being glanced at by cogan."

"Raisa! Why don't you tell us what to do." Kinta pulled him away from the crowd with Arifah's help. Both of them flank Raisa with Bela in front of her.

"Are you really dating Yu-da?"

Raisa sighed in exasperation, it was useless for her to explain to her friend who had already seen and believed in the strange incident. Even if he explained that it wasn't true, still they would ask him again and again until he had to answer yes. It has been almost three years that they have been friends, the behavior of the three of them is very familiar to him.

Raisa allows herself to be pulled back to the edge of the field, forced to encourage Yuda, who is now competing with Ridho's team, which is famous for national-level basketball champion records.

From the second floor, someone was watching her closely. A person who does not believe what he hears perhaps a cent. Atha confirmed her glasses, prepared to meet her younger sister later — Ridho, a twin who was born five minutes after she was born. They are identical twins but have very different personalities.

Atha is neat, smart and obedient, while Ridho is a troublemaker at school with proud achievements in the BK room, as is Yuda, a friend of his younger sibling who was often brought home when he was in middle school. She learned a little about Yuda's personality at her school through informants from fans who were fascinated by the charismatic boy from Samudera High School, their neighboring school.

"I'm not going to let you into their game, Raisa."