He Knows Me?

Evelina looks confused, because Nox knows her name. In fact, they have not known or met each other.

“Do you know me? Not ... have we met before?” asked Evelina to Nox.

Nox hears the words. He slowly releases Evelina’s hand. At that moment, Rissa only realizes that the person who hit her best friend is Nox Cyril.

“NOXXX!!! What did you do to my Eve?” cried Rissa.

“My Eve?” said Nox. Then the man turned to his side when someone was calling. He was surprised when he saw in front of him a girl he knew. “Rissa?” said Nox as he looked at Rissa in astonishment.

“Yes, it’s me!” insisted Rissa.

At that time, Nox ignored her and left Rissa without saying a word.

“Hey! Apologize before you go!” said Rissa.

Evelina nods her head, and she tells Rissa that she’s okay. After all, it’s her fault for not seeing the road and having someone in front of her earlier. Franss is still standing and near Evelina. He goes straight to Evelina and he apologizes for Nox’s disrespectful treatment.

“I’m sorry, has made you fall,” Franss said.

“He’s not good at apologizing to other people, but he’s a good person,” he explained to Evelina.

“Franss ... You’re here too!” said Rissa.

“Of course. Who else can look after or handle the man? Wkwk,” Franss said.

“Oh yes, I stayed first. Bye-bye Rissa ... and Evelina,” he said.

Franss leaves Rissa with Evelina, after Nox, and calls him because Nox has abandoned him ever since.

“Hey Nox! Why did you leave me alone?” shouted Franss.

Evelina is surprised by the man’s remarks, as Franss learns her name. In fact, they have never met at all. Rissa realizes that Evelina looks confused, explains it to Evelina.

“Franss Vessalius, he’s an easy man to remember anything. Although, once seen and also he was the youngest son of the Family Vessalius of the Company Swath.”

“Swath Company? Isn’t that ...,” Evelina said.

“Right, a worldwide company in the field of technology that has been famous since the past until now,” replied Rissa. “It doesn’t matter, let’s go back to class!” Rissa asked Evelina.

“Oh, right!” said Evelina.

While walking with the book, Evelina realizes that Nox seems to know her and it appears that the man wants to say something to her. However, it was not said by the man. Evelina also realizes that before Nox left, his facial expression looked sad when she looked at her.

“Have we ever met? I don’t think so ... before that, I had never had a man friend as a child. Well ... but I think there were some male friends at the time,” Evelina thought.

After that, they finally got to their class. Shortly thereafter, the school bell rang.

Ding... dong...

Although today there are no school lessons, but they have to introduce themselves before that. Rissa and Evelina sit on the bench, Evelina realizes that there are Nox and Franss in their class. After that, there is a man with dark gray hair with a navy blue eye color. He came and entered the class, he immediately introduced himself as a homeroom teacher 1-4.

“My name is Kyle Xerxes. Just call me Mr. Kyle, I teach maths and also as your homeroom teacher, please cooperate!” said Mr. Kyle.

After that, Mr. Kyle asked his students to introduce themselves to the first one at the end of the window, namely Nox Cyril and Franss Vessalius.

“Nox Cyril from Izles Junior High.” Smiles Nox.

“Franss Vessalius from Izles Junior High School too, greetings know all!” exclaimed Franss.

The disciples began whispering to each other when the popular men introduced themselves.

“Franss is Nox’s best friend. He has a cute nature that is in contrast to Nox,” whispered student A.

“Right, despite his cute nature he’s a talented kid in the field of technology. Since childhood has won many awards as well,” said student B.

Then, followed by the introduction of two men who are no less famous and influential in this city.

“Owen Blouse... from Anwerd Junior High School, greetings know everyone,” he said kindly.

“Lucas Aland, Anwed Junior High School,” Lucas said briefly.

When Rissa sees her class situation, she sits down and leans back. She saw the men crossing her hands.

“Well our class is really surrounded by famous men,” Rissa smirked.

Evelina smiled thinly and she said, “That’s right.”

Seeing Evelina’s smile, Rissa, who was sitting next to her, amazed her and said, “But, I’m not interested in them. Hmph!”

After everyone finishes introducing themselves, all that’s left is the two girls. They introduced themselves to their classmates.

“Larissa Klariss from Vanth Junior High School,” said Rissa

Everyone is impressed by her gorgeous look with long blackish brown hair unraveling.

“Evelina Caroline from Vanth Junior High, greetings know everyone,” she greets kindly with a smile.

Their classmates began to whisper something again when the two girls introduced themselves.

“Larissa Klariss isn’t she the daughter of a world-renowned designer? And also Evelina Caroline who earned many awards when in Elementary and Junior High School in Science and Math competitions in a row,” said student C.

“Right, I’ve heard it too that she has an IQ of 200,” said student B.

“And also I listened ... she went to high school on a scholarship from the school board. She is also a friend of Larissa Klariss since childhood,” among students D.

“No wonder she looks familiar with Rissa and also many who like her,” explained student A.

After the students had finished introducing themselves, the homeroom teacher told the students that today is an empty hour. So, they are now free of subject hours. Later, Mr. Kyle left his class.

After a few hours later...

3:00 PM

In the afternoon, the bright color of the sky began to fade. A man was standing and staring at the view in front of him while waiting for the day to set. Nox was on the roof of the school and rested his hand at the base of the stairwell fence, he stood alone near the stairs thinking of something. At that interval, Franns appears and he comes to Nox. He patted Nox on the shoulder and asked what Nox was doing alone on the roof.

“Nox what are you doing here?” asked Franss.

Nox doesn’t answer a word of his question and Franns asks him again.

“Do you think she’s that girl?”

Nox sighed when he heard the question from his best friend and he answered the question.

“I think so ... when I held her hand, this familiar feeling that I felt at the time,” Nox said while looking at his palm.

“Isn’t she a very important person to you? So, you have to protect her this time,” Franss said with a smile.

Franss also sees Nox that he smiles a little listening to the words of his best friend. Franss was relieved to see Nox smiling again, meaning he smiled a lot but it was all just a fake smile that he showed to others.

On the other hand, Evelina and Rissa are still in class. Evelina who is still dissolved in reading her book seriously while listening to music. Meanwhile, Rissa accompanies Evelina while reading a book as well. Rissa who looks bored she squirms and talks to Evelina.

“Eve... How many hours have you read a book?” asked Rissa.

“Wait a minute this is only three books ...,” said Evelina casually.

Rissa stares at Evelina while supporting her cheeks. “Isn’t this too boring? Read a lot of books ...,”

Evelina closes her book and sees her watch. “Oh right, it’s late,” Evelina said, as she stood up from her chair.

Ding...Dong...

The school bell also rings which indicates it’s time to go home to each of them.

Evelina puts her book in her bag and takes Rissa home. After that, they have reached near the ginkgo tree at their school. At that time, Rissa remembers that she had left her wallet in her desk drawer. She asks Evelina to wait for her for a while, Evelina nods her head. Then, Rissa has left in front of Evelina. The girl while waiting for Rissa, she leaned under the ginkgo tree.

Ginkgo leaves begin to fall slowly, because of the strong wind. It was until the long brownish-black hair that unraveled was wiped as well because the water was blowing fast. Evelina also holds her hair so that it does not fall apart and attaches her fine hair to her earlobes.

In between scenes, a silver-haired man was approaching the girl. Evelina realizes Nox’s presence and looks at her, they stare at each other.

“Have we ever met before?” she asked Nox gently. The girl’s gaze goes to Nox Cyril.

TO BE CONTINUED...