Another Home 2

She spent another five years living in Another Home. She wasn't too excited for coming back, nor too sad for leaving Hometown. She left her school in Hometown, when she was in her senior year of elementary school. Leaving her friends was never been a big deal for her. Mainly because she's never been so into making friends.

In Hometown, all she did was studying at school from 8 am to 4 pm, going home, taking a nap for a while, so that she could stay awake until 10 pm for studying. On pastime, she would read Majalah Bobo, read a book of short stories compilation, write postcards, write short stories, write diaries, write letters to penpals and play with her cousins. She did too much studying and writing that she could barely remember doing anything other than that.

Being back to Another Home, didn't make a difference to her routine. Not until when she was in eighth grade, when a friend of her introduced her a thing called K-Pop. She hated it at first, but that was just a matter of time until she became a huge fan. She did everything a huge fan would do. On top of that, she still did write a lot. Fanfictions, of course. When she turned fourteen, she received a fanfiction as birthday present from her friend. The story followed her as Super Junior's Lee Donghae's girlfriend. It made her the happiest birthday girl in the entire universe. Until then, her world was rotating around a fantasy of marrying Lee Donghae.

A place where she first knew K-Pop

Despite of her irrational dream, she lived a life of a typical top five student: sat in the front chair, took notes diligently, did homeworks, self-studied at home and most importantly, not dating (mainly because she wasn't attractive enough for anyone to date her). She went to school (which was four kilometers away from home) by bike. Sometimes, she took a bus. Sometimes, she had to come back home just because the bus didn't show up until past seven. Sometimes, if she was lucky enough, a very kind-hearted teacher would give her a ride. But most of the time, she wasn't that lucky.

She was so unlucky that there was a morning when she became a victim of a hit and run by a stupid motorbike rider. No one helped her. Not until a car stopped, the driver came to her, put her bike on the side of the road, just so he could keep on driving. She was so embarrassed that she couldn't feel the pain anymore. Her bike looked okay, so, she rode it back home. Reluctantly, she told her mother what happened and showed her some bruises in her body. Some friends came to visit her, which  was supposed to made her feel better, instead of making her more embarrassed.

A crime scene of a hit and run by a stupid motorbike rider to a junior high student.

Outside school, she had a Balinese dance course. Every Sunday, along with her sister, she rode her bike to the class. One Sunday, her mother told her that she won't be home until night. Turned out, she totally forgot to bring the key. And when she forgot, her sister would too. Their immediate future was to be homeless for the next, at least, six hours. They starved, got no money and got no key to home.

Brilliantly, her sister came up with an idea. The scenario was, they would visit a friend whose mother sold mie ayam, they would pretend like they're such a good friend. So good that they even spend their Sunday with her. The real intention was, of course, to have two bowls of free mie ayam for lunch. And they did it. That was their best achievement of all times.

Those two homeless children were there, secretly expecting for a free lunch.

Her final year in Another Home, was when she was in tenth grade. Nothing really happened during that short one year period. She was in a debate club, but never won any competition. She should've known that she better did more writings than arguing stuff she had no idea about. Only farewell party was the moment she cherished the most. Until then, she didn't know that farewell could be that exciting.