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Meet You At Sunrise

First meeting

A moody young foreign boy sitting at the corner of the class. A cheerful girl entered her first class in Year 1 of primary school. She introduced herself in front of her class.

“Hi, everyone. I'm Oriana. Nice to meet all of you,” she said with a bright smile on her face.

The teacher asked her to pick a place to sit and she picked to sit beside the foreign boy. She greeted that boy and asked for his name.

He replied, “Eleodoro,” and kept quiet.

The class continued. Oriana sat quietly for a few seconds but she was curious about Eleodoro's name and asked him, “Hey, what is the meaning of your name?”

Eleodoro smirked and replied, “Do you know what is the meaning of your name?”

Oriana innocently said, “Humph, I asked you that question first. Answer me and then I will tell you.”

The teacher noticed their conversation and asked them to pay attention to the class or they will be punished. Oriana waited patiently for the class to finish to ask him again about his name. The bell rang, all of the children ran towards their parents happily. Oriana also ran with them joyfully, forgetting about her question to ask Eleodoro. Before she got inside her car, she turned around and saw Eleodoro getting into a car. At that time, she remembered about that question and ran towards his car. Her mother, Mrs. Summer noticed her daughter's absence a few minutes later. She looked for Oriana and saw her in front of a black Mercedes Benz car talking to someone. Mrs. Summer approached the car and asked her daughter politely to whom she was talking to. Oriana happily replied, “Mommy... Mommy... Look. This is my friend,

Eleodoro. He sat beside me today.”

While smiling at Eleodoro, Mrs. Summer said, “Nice to meet you, Eleodoro. Your name is similar to Oriana.”

Oriana stunned and looked blankly at the car being driven away. Mrs. Summer stroked her daughter's head and held her hand to bring her back to the car. In the car, Oriana non-stop questioned her mother the meaning of her name and Eleodoro's name. Before answering Oriana's questions, Mrs Summer asked her

the reason to go to Eleodoro in his car without informing her.

In guilt, Oriana while facing down mumbled to her mother “I went to ask him what is the meaning of his name. Sorry, mom.”

“It's okay, dear. No need to worry about it. Next time inform mom before meeting anyone. Okay?” said Mrs Summer while hugging her daughter who seemed to be crying soon.

Oriana softly replied, “Okay, mom” and slept off at her mother's lap.

On the other side, Eleodoro sat alone in the back seat while driven by his family driver. His parents, Mr and Mrs. Horus, were on a business trip to Okinawa, Japan. They were well known for their company that deals with

automobiles. They went to Japan for the opening ceremony of their new branch and will be back after two weeks. Thus, they are unable to attend their only son's first day in school. As for Eleodoro, he is already used to this

situation. He was always left alone at this house and only taken care of by his babysitter, Ms. Feroza. She took care of Eleodoro since his birth and she really loves and understands him.

The Oriana family was really loving and supportive. Both her parents, Mr and Mrs Summer were owners of the company that deals with automobiles. It was started by Mr. Paul Summer who used to be a mechanic when he was young. After marrying Jessica Wellington who is the daughter of a wealthy family, they both started this company. Within three years, they made a huge development with Wellington's family help and became well known. Even though they were busy with their careers, they still gave Oriana their love and attention.

Home sweet home?

Around 5 pm, Oriana's father reached home after work. He smiled delightfully at his wife and kissed her forehead. Then, he was curious where his little princess and both of them went to her room.

Mrs. Summer whispered to her husband, “She fell asleep on the way home after her class.”

Mr. Summer can't wait to ask her daughter about her first day at school, went towards her daughter and tickled her to wake her up. While whining Oriana slightly opened her eyes and realized her beloved dad in front of her. Out of joy, she hugged her dad tightly and Mr. Summer brought her daughter downstairs. All of them had their teatime while listening to Oriana's story about her first day of class.

In contrast, Eleodoro who arrived after his class had his lunch and went to his tuition. After 5.30 pm, he reached home to change his outfit and left to play sports coached by his father's friend. Eleodoro only comes back home at 7 pm to bathe and have his dinner. After that, he will do all his homework and then sleep. This was his routine since he aged four years old. Now it had been one year and his school classes added to his routines.

After one month sitting together in the class, Oriana still can't talk to Eleodoro as friendly as how she talks to her other classmates. This made her heavy-hearted and tried to approach him again. After class ended, Oriana's mother came to pick up her daughter and told her that they will be having a small party in their house.

In the car, Oriana was in deep thought until her mom stroked her head and asked her, “Darling, are there anything that bothers you?”

Oriana replied “Mom, can I invite Eleodoro to this party too?” Mrs. Summer nodded and said, “Of course, Oriana”.

Next day, during the class Oriana didn't get a chance to invite Eleodoro to the party. After the class ended, Oriana with her mother went to Eleodoro's car and knocked on the window. Oriana startled to see a graceful woman sitting

beside Eleodoro in the car.

Without hesitation, she looked at Eleodoro and said, “Eleo, I would like to invite you to party at my house this weekend. Hope you can join us.”

Eleodoro looked at that woman sitting beside him.

She told Oriana “Owh, hi girl. I'm Eleo's aunt. I would be glad to let Eleo join the party if he wanted to attend it.”

However, Eleodoro didn't say any words and they left. Oriana gloomily walked with her mother towards their car. Mrs. Summer tried to cheer her daughter by telling that Eleo would probably come to this party. Oriana smiled and nodded to her mother.

In the car, Eleo's aunt did some background checking about Oriana after asking Eleo what was that girl's name. At first she forced Eleo to attend the party but Eleo was adamant that he was not going to that party. At his house, his aunt told her husband about the party and Eleo disagreement to attend it. Currently, Eleo had been taken charge by his aunt and uncle after Ms Feroza took a long break as she planned to get married soon and his parents continued their trip to other countries to expand their business. The main reason for Eleo's disagreement was he planned to video call his parents who are currently staying in Canada. All three of them are only free at the weekend and due to the different time zones between the countries, Eleo needs to be prepared as his parents might call him at any time. He might have felt disappointed if he was unable to attend his parents call at that time. Thus, to avoid such circumstances from occurring he planned to stay at home for the whole day.

During dinner, Eleo's uncle talked to him about attending the party. Even though, both his uncle and aunt were aware of the call that would be made by his parents but they still forced him to attend that party. He was unable to convince them and lastly agreed to attend it. However, Eleo was enraged with Oriana who invited him to the party even though both of them are not close. Eleo unaware that Oriana had invited personally all her classmates and teachers to attend it as well, after all he ignored what happened around him.

Who are you!

During the weekend particularly on Sunday, all the desserts and drinks were fully prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Summer specially for Oriana's friends and teachers. Even though Mr. Summer invited some of his friends and their family, priority was given more to people invited by Oriana. Since it was her first time inviting people to their house. Almost all the guests arrived at the party but Oriana eagerly waited for Eleo's arrival. After some time, Eleo arrived at the party with his aunt. His aunt apologized for their delay and blamed Eleo for it. However, it was the aunt's fault for not

being aware of the time for the party and reminded by Eleo that they needed to leave the house to attend it.

Even at the party, Eleo brought his iPad so that he could answer his parent's call. He sat at the most hidden table so that he won't be noticed by others. Unfortunately, Oriana who went inside the house noticed by her friends regarding Eleo's arrival appeared in front of Eleo. She even brought some desserts for him and sat on the same table with him. Eleo was frustrated with her presence and tried to ignore her and kept looking at his phone. Oriana noticed that Eleo was avoiding her and had to leave the table once her mother called her.

After an hour suddenly Eleo got a call on his iPad. He was truly excited but it turned out his aunt called him. She wanted to leave the party with him so she informed Eleo to meet at the car parking in a while. Eleo walked towards the car park and saw Oriana standing at the entrance of the house. She stood there to send off her guests and saw Eleo passing by her. She waved and even said goodbye to him but Eleo only glared at her like he didn't know her. After reaching his home, Eleo went straight to his room and lied on his bed with his iPad. He continued to wait for his parents to call and he even skipped his dinner. He realized that he sent a message to his parents early in the evening and browsed his messenger whether they replied to it or not. There was no sign of their reply, so he decided to call them directly.

To his surprise, the first thing he heard was “Hello, who is this?” from his father who answered the call without looking at the caller's name.

Even though Eleo was sad, he still answered his father “I'm Eleo, dad”.

Mr. Horus was surprised to hear his son's name and asked the reason why he called him. Eleo figured out that his father forgot about calling him today but he didn't mention it and talked normally with his dad. Then, Eleo's mother had some conversation with him and told him that they were busy today due to a sudden change in their plan and they need to prepare for the meeting tomorrow. They ended the call after talking a while with Eleo and said they would call again once they were free.

It was almost 11 pm, Eleo staring blankly at the sky filled with stars. He can stargaze from his bedroom through his transparent roof installed in his room. Every time Eleo feels empty, he will grab the remote to open the ceiling below the roof of his bedroom and stargaze. While he looked at the sky, his tears flowed through his cheeks without him realizing and suddenly a ‘ding’ sound was heard from his handphone. Eleo immersed in deep thought while staring at the sky and completely ignored his surroundings.

After thirty minutes, he became conscious and took his handphone to see the time. At almost midnight, then he saw a message notification on his phone screen. At first, he taught to read it in the morning but he changed his mind and opened the message.

It said, “Have you fallen asleep?”

He didn't save that number and was curious who messaged him, so he asked “May I know who this is?”

Since Eleo was too sleepy he slept after sending that message.

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