Sashi sat on the bench in front of the school building, waiting for Bintang, who still hadn’t arrived.“Did Mommy forget?”Sashi let out a heavy sigh, her shoulders rising and falling. Her teacher had already tried to contact Bintang, but there was no answer because Bintang’s bag—along with her phone—had been left at the clinic. That was why Sashi kept waiting, convinced that Bintang would eventually come to pick her up.She remained there patiently, sitting while swinging her legs back and forth. Soon, a boy approached her.“Haven’t you been picked up yet?”Sashi looked up and met the gaze of a boy from a higher grade, a sixth grader.“Yeah, Mommy hasn’t picked me up yet,” Sashi replied, still looking at him.The boy glanced around, then sat down beside her.“My mom hasn’t picked me up either. She’s probably picking up my two younger siblings from their lessons first,” he said while scanning their surroundings.Sashi nodded at his words. It wasn’t bad to sit together while waiting fo
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