Chapter 3: Confiding

The next morning at Marina's house, she woke up, but still thinking about Lina's words last night, she suddenly burst into tears. Her mother came in and saw her crying daughter and rushed to comfort her.

“ It's okay honey, everything will be fine. Maybe Lina didn't mean to hurt you. It must have been because she was hurt that she unintentionally said those words.”

“ If she gets hurt, does she have the right to hurt me?”

“ No dear, baby, everything will be fine. Who knows, if you go to school today, Lina will apologize to you when she calms down and thinks again.”

Mrs. Vlaschos hugged the sobbing Marina in her arms. It took a while for Marina to get out of bed. Although Mrs. Vlaschos advised her to take a day off from school to go somewhere to relax, Marina insisted on going to school.

Stepping out of the gate, he saw Hasan waiting, saw Marina come out, he happily said:

“ Good morning Miss Marina, let me take you to school.”

Seeing Hasan's trying to play tricks, Marina couldn't help but burst out laughing:

“ Haha ha, you look good as a driver too. Mom, I'm going to school!”

“ Farewell, Miss Vlachos, good morning to you.”

“ Thank you, have a nice day. Remember to drive carefully.”

Mrs. Vlachos saw that Marina was smiling, so she felt at ease in her heart.

“ Hey, are you better?”

Hasan was driving and looking out for Marina, who was looking outside. Receiving Hasan's question, she was startled.

“ Well, I feel much better, I think I did something wrong with Lina that's why she hates me so much.”

“You didn't do anything wrong, because Lina was just too infatuated.”

Despite Hasan's comforting words, Marina only smiled slightly and then turned away again. She is still thinking about what she did wrong to Lina little by little, even thinking about going to Lina to apologize. Marina still wants to save her relationship with Lina even if there is only a little hope left.

At this time, even though people on the street were still busy doing business, the atmosphere inside the car was silent, no one said a word. Unconsciously, a line of thought flashed in Marina's head, she pondered for a while, still looking out at the outside scenery, she said:

“ Hey Hasan, does Lina like you?”

“ Huh?”

Hearing Marina's question, Hasan was surprised, he regained his composure and asked again:

“ Why do you ask like that?”

“ I've thought a lot, no matter what, it won't make Lina hate me so much. So I think the problem is with you.”

...

Hasan was silent for a moment, he sighed and said:

“ It's correct! Lina has feelings for me.”

...

“ But we've played together since we were little, so for me, Lina is like a little sister that I want to protect and protect. I can only consider him as a relative of mine and never develop male-female feelings. However, he was too stubborn that's why he was like that. Honestly, isn't the relationship right now good? Are you saying that's right, Marina?”

“Huh? Ah... well you're right. We are really good like that.”

Hearing those words Hasan, Marina felt a little pain in her heart, she felt sad and uncomfortable when she heard Hasan say that. As for Hasan, he also felt sad when he heard Marina agree to his words. Originally, he was going to ask Marina, but he stopped because, with Marina, this is not the right time to talk about this.

After talking for a while, it was time to go to school, when everyone saw Marina getting off Hasan's car, they were surprised and started talking. For Marina not to be talked about too much, Hasan loudly said:

“ Everyone, stop making noise, Marina, Lina, and I have been friends since childhood. So there's nothing to talk about.”

Hearing Hasan says that everyone turned from talking to Marina with admiring eyes.

Of course, the words that Hasan said were all heard and witnessed by Lina. She was a little happy and a little sad at the same time.

When Marina and Hasan had just entered the classroom, Lina blocked the door, before she knew what was going on, Lina took Marina's hand and said:

“Sorry, I was too excited yesterday, I couldn't control my emotions, so I said such words to you. Can you forgive me?”

Hearing Lina says that Marina immediately cheered, this was exactly what she expected. Not letting Lina wait long, she held Lina's hand tightly and replied:

“ I'm so happy, you know, I've been thinking about this all night, I don't know what I did wrong to hurt you. It's good that we can continue to be friends.”

“ So... can I hug you?”

“ Of course.”

Marina happily hugged Lina, but Lina took the opportunity to sneak a strand of her hair. After successfully getting a sample of Marina's hair, Lina turned to Hasan and said:

“ Hasan, I have to apologize to you too, I shouldn't have done that. I figured it out, maybe we should still be friends like before. Can you forgive me?”

“ If you said so, I'm very happy, of course, our feelings will still be the same as before, not changing at all.”

Lina then stretched out her arms to signal a hug to Hasan, who did not hesitate to extend his arms to hug back. Thus, Lina successfully obtained more samples of Hasan's hair.

The class that day ended, Marina happily sat in the car that Hasan brought home, her mouth still happily singing a little. Seeing that, Hasan said happily:

“ That is satisfactory, isn't it, Miss Marina?”

“ Right. It's a pity that Lina didn't come home with us.”

“ He said he has his own business so he can't go with him, but don't worry, he has his driver.”

“ You're right, anyway, we made up and I'm happy again like before.”

The two chatted happily until returning home, Marina said goodbye to Hasan and happily entered the house. She entered the house and did not see her mother, but saw that her office door was open, entered she was about to hug her mother, but saw that she was frowning, so she just gently knocked on the door and said:

“ Mom, I'm back. What's difficult for you?”

“ Oh Marina, you're back, there's nothing, I'm studying a newly unearthed relief, but its date is about a thousand years ago, so nothing has been researched yet. new.”

“ Can I have a look, please?”

Marina took the bas-relief from Mrs. Vlachos, the relief was not as big as four fingers put together, the top was engraved with a very delicate pattern, there was also a hole in the corner as if to thread a string into it. . Just holding the bas-relief in her hand, suddenly an electric current ran through her body, strangely enough, she immediately felt that the relief was very familiar to her.

Seeing Marina standing still and saying nothing, Mrs. Vlachos said:

“ How are you?”

“ Yes, it's okay, I just find this relief so beautiful and sophisticated.”

“Yes, maybe you still need to study it for a long time.”

“ Yes, I have something to show you.”

“ Let me guess... it's Lina's story, isn't it?”

“ You're really good, that's right, today Lina took the initiative to apologize to me, she said because yesterday she couldn't control her emotions. We have made up and are as close as ever.”

“ Good to hear this, honey.”

Marina then said goodbye to her mother and went back to her room, she lay on her bed and thought about today's events, thinking back to her feelings and Lina that had healed and happily fell asleep at any time. Little did she know that the person she treasured was plotting a conspiracy behind her back.