Commensalism

Promises kept…..

Febri truly kept her promises…

She still gets caught fighting, skip classes, accusing trouble and ruckus’ but now she rather spends her time at a garage shop, where the youth spend their time modifying their motorbikes to get more power for their bikes to win their races, while her sister only able to give a deep sigh to see her little sister ‘new hobby’ which she did obviously as the rebellion to their father who actually owns a garage shop himself…

And she did finish her middle school with struggle and the minimum passing grade which make her older sister palmed her face….

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“Are you kidding me, Bi…? Don’t you have another option…? Have given it a good thought…?” Asked her sister, shocked and surprised when her little sister said that she wanted to enter the Vocational High School, majoring in Automotive Engineering….

“That, or no school at all…!” Said Febri in challenging tone to her sister, who gave a deep sigh and then forced to agree to what her little sister demands….

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Is this serious…?

She’ll join our major…?

She’s going to be our classmate…?

A lot of surprised murmurs followed the girl who walked and queue along with the boys on the Automotive Engineering as they all gather on the field and listened to the boring homecoming sermon from the school….

Some might say that high school was the best time in life…

And it might be true since the girl finally able to wear trousers as the change to the skirt she forced to wear in the Junior Highschool….

Her favourite attire, second to her coverall she uses for workshop activity at the mechanical high school….

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At first, the boys think of her as noting but a girl who enters the wrong major….

They tease her, make fun of her, even bullied her…

But soon they realize that she was not any ordinary girl….

“Touch me again, Asshole…! Come on…! Touch me…!” She snarled as she grabbed the collar of one of the boys that grabbed her breasts and yelled…

“Flat bed!” and the whole class erupts with laughter, before all stunned to see Febri jumps on the boy like a cheetah to its prey and started introducing her fist to the boy’s face….

And it takes couple of the boys and the thundering roar of the teacher that managed to stop the fight….

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Agustina gave a deep sigh as she looked at her little sister, with her black and blue face, torn uniform, and next to her, was the boy, who look not much better than she was, with his parent looking angry at their son….

Agustina shakes hand with the counselling teacher, and with the father of the boy while the mother doesn’t even want to looked at her….

“You should put a leash on your sister….!” Snapped the mother that makes the husband tries to calm her down…..

Agustina doesn’t fall to the confrontation, she just kneels next to the boy, looking at him and then she gently, yet sternly asked…

“Did my sister attacked you out of the blue…?”

The boy was stunned, he looked directly at the older sister, and somehow, her deep eyes make him feel frightened that he blurted out the truth….

“No…. I… I started it…. I…. I grab her breasts, I… I molested and mocked her….”he said with his head looked down…. Embarrassed, and frightened under the fiery gaze of his father, while her mother looked at the girl in hatred before poring her anger on her son, before the counsellor calmed her down…

Agustina then said….

“Counsellor, I wouldn’t say that my sister was only the victim and was innocent on this matter, by her landed her hand to her classmate was against the rule of itself…. I just wish that you are just in your verdict….” She said in calm voice that makes the counsellor nods in approval while the mother of the boy still grumbling, mumbling, wishing the counsellor would punish the girl severely…

In the end, they both grounded for a full week, which was answered with fury by the other who threatened to sue the school and the counsellor, while her husband tries to calmed her down and hurriedly left the school….

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That incident makes the rest of the class, even the school realizes that the girl means business, and she was not to be played with….

But then again, like or not, she was only a girl, and she begin to get attracted to the boys at her school…

One of them, she candidly took his photo….

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“Feb…”

A voice called that startled the girl, that she dropped the wrench she was holding….

She can feel her face redden, even though her face was covered with sweat and spoiled with traces of oil….

“Anton…! Damn it….! You scared me….” Said the girl, trying to show a casual face even though she can feel her heart pounding hard as she saw the face of her senior, so close to her face, she even can feel his breath on her face….

His naughty smile makes her pouts which unfortunately makes her face looks cuter….

“What’s up…?” Asked the girl after wiping her hand clean, fixing her, now jaw long and looked at the man who able to softened her heart….

“I want to take you out tonight…. You able…?” Asked the boy, sitting at the edge of the desk, filled with tools, his hand folds in front of his chest….

The girl suddenly feels a little nervous but she cannot leave her workstation because the boy blocked her way, and she has no excuses to say that she needed tools…

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“Where are you going, Bi…? You look nice…” Asked her sister as she was looking at herself in the mirror, making sure her white t-shirt, with an unbuttoned blue-coloured shirt over it, which knotted at the belly, and chinos pants she rarely used, which feel strange on her skin….

And her big sister tone makes her realize that it will be no use for her to lie….

“Umm… a friend wants to take me on a date…. Can I…?” She said, hoping….

Agustina gave a sigh…. Her instinct to protect her little sister was so strong, and her feeling was never wrong….

But to see how happy her sister was, she can do nothing but give her words of advice for her sister….

“Be careful, Bi… Take care of yourself…” She said as she got the grateful kiss on her cheek by her little sister who quickly left their house and jumped to the online ride, she orders….

“I have a bad feeling about this, Meena…” said the girl to the old maid who prepared a snack for the girl who look worried as she sits at the kitchen table….

“Just pray that she would be alright…” said the maid who takes a seat next to girl….

“It’s complicated…” said the girl…. “We know nothing about the boy that get close to Ebi…. And why doesn’t he come and picked her here…? Is he a man or what…?” Snapped the agitated girl….

“If that was that easy, Miss…” said the maid as she wraps her hands around the girl and take her head on her chest which she uses to ease the pain she never shows in front of public…

Dad….

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