Does Fate Have to Be Like This?
New Friends

Since then, these words have forced me to remember them. Those words also always left my heart hurting, an annoying feeling of loneliness. I don't want that to happen, I don't have any friends. I'm just a lonely man now, who has no friends to lean on, and hears all my suffering.

From then on my relationship with Adrian changed. We are further and further away, and our friendship may soon break. Adrian kept ignoring me even though we were in the same room. Even at school Adrian no longer sat with me.

Adrian swapped benches with the same people as us, a loser who was only taken advantage of by powerful people like him. Adrian looks cool playing with them, laughter, smiles, happy looks have now been given to his new friends.

While I can't feel anything like that anymore. Everything was completely unexpected, the thing I feared the most had finally happened. But even so Adrian did not join me with his new friends. He just looked at me haughtily, and didn't come along to bother me like his new friends.

The person who is now sitting on Adrian's bench before is the one they often use. This person named Kasta, he was the one who was used to forcibly ask for answers by them. Inevitably he had to give the answer to those powerful people, otherwise they would be wiped out, just like what they did to me.

"Hey... do you want to.. be friends with me?........ otherwise it's okay. After all no one wants to be friends with.." I told Kasta who suddenly cut off my conversation.

"I want to. well, actually now I don't care anymore about your physique. I just need a friend from a fellow loser like us" said Kasta who looks still shy with me. I don't know why I feel so happy to hear his words, because I always think that no one will accept me even though they are losers like me.

"Thank you for being friends with me in the future, please help" I said, sticking out my hand.

"Alright" said Kasta who shook my hand with a small smile.

That's how our friendship started. Well even though we were still a bit awkward to chat with each other, but it didn't feel bad either. It's so much fun, maybe it's because there's still people willing to accept me for who I am. Maybe that's what makes me feel so happy right now.

Although we both remain considered losers by people whose positions are higher than ours. We don't have a problem with that, because the most important thing for us is a nice friendship. Then the next days there was a loser like us who wanted to make friends, and join us.

The person who wanted to join us was named, Alan. He is a loser who was made a slave by Arya's gang. From now on we call them the Aryan gang, a society of mischievous children. Alan is considered a servant for them, if they want something then they just need to call Alan, and tell Alan to buy something what they want. Then Alan swiftly left after hearing orders from them, rather than Alan having to be beaten by them, so Alan chose to obey their words only.

The day has passed so quickly, and it is a Saturday, or holiday. Me, and my new friends intend to hang out together, and play. We've planned this before the holidays, to play together. We were gathered in a park not far from the school. So it was a fair place to gather.

"Hey friends!.. hah.. huh.. sorry I'm late" said the bored me for pedaling the bike quickly from home. Since I was late to wake up, I had to rush a shower, then eat, and immediately go to the park to play with them.

"Bas with you.. Well then what are we going to play?" said Alan who looks excited, and is looking forward to this to play with us.

"Well, you are. Good thing I have a basketball in my bag. Let's play basketball on the basketball court there, before it is occupied by others" said Kasta who pulled a basketball from his bag, then run towards the basketball court.

If the ball is thrown into the ring, it will be scored one. Before playing we do a suit to determine the order in which to throw the ball first. Alan got first position in throwing the ball, then after me, and lastly Kasta.

Thirty minutes have passed, Kasta who is the player with the last position to throw the ball instead won his game. Then I was second, and Alan was last. After playing we rest first by sitting on the field to eliminate fatigue.

"Well..he's tired!" alan lamented who laid his body on the field.

"Haha! though you get first position in throwing, but instead you become the last champion" laughs Kasta who feels happy to be the first champion.

"Basic cheated! from what I see like you're good at playing basketball" Alan said.

"Really! almost every ball you throw goes into the ring" I continued.

"Hehe. it's because I used to play with my father" said Kasta.

"Don't talk about basketball anymore. We better change the topic of our conversation" said Alan who was upset if we discussed the game earlier, because he became the last champion.

"Hmm. oh yeah Ryan, actually I wanted to ask you this before. But I'm afraid you'll feel bad." said Kasta who inexplicably took on a heavy topic.

"What is that?..."

"On Adrian.... actually... what happened to you guys?... if you don't want to tell me it's okay too" said Kasta who felt bad about me for asking my personal things.

"Oh yes, if it's not wrong you will live in the same house" continued Alan suddenly who already knew this because before me, and Adrian always leave together, he said, and then Alan accidentally saw us coming out of the same house.

"You're right, but for now I'm still confused to say it" said I, who was distressed by this conversation, because for me this is a very sensitive conversation for me.

"I'm sorry to ask you something that makes you feel bad. Well then how do we play basketball once again" said Kasta who immediately tried to change the atmosphere by forcing himself to look exhausted.

"Oh no longer.." said Alan who had been tepar. Then after that we continued playing basketball again after a few more minutes of rest. We asked Kasta to teach us how to play basketball properly. Because me, and Alan are determined to beat Kasta one day in the next game.