new culture

The wind is blowing through a soft pink, beautiful hijab. "nice to meet you" on this first day of transfer, she could see all those eyes are pointed at her. "please introduce yourself" said Ms. Jane. " hi guys. my name is nelly. I am a transfer student. I don't know anything here, so can you guys guide me around? " ," of course ", "why not" .hearing those reply made nelly's heart feel at ease, smiling. she could hear people at the back whispering about her but she wasn't sure if they talking about something good or bad. maybe because she is different? she is the only girl in school who wears hijab. no wonder.

Nelly is a Malaysian, with half of Indonesian blood. she is the last daughter, growing up with 6 siblings. she is not too wealthy, but not poor. just average. transferring at a school with completely different culture, is it a good decision or a bad one?

The starting at a new school, to get a new experiences.. life goes on happily for the first week. however..

"she is not talkative".... "i heard they say muslims are terrorists"... " she is creepy"...

that day, she hear so many things about her.

Nelly didn't care. she don't understand how did she disturb their life by transferring there. just a little sad. because, we are not terrorist. go anywhere and people will call you that like you are really bad. she just can stood there without protesting anything.. what can she do? will they hear her out? .. no.. she rather stay silent and tears will speak for her..at one point, she feel like she wants to be a real villain.. who cares.. because they can't even differentiate between a rumours and a reality. no one really knows her personality yet so she thought she wanted to live their expectations.. of being bad..

being bad is not easy. thinking about what villains usually do (steal, bully, etc) .. so she wants to look bad by not wearing a hijab, sock and arm guard. but she also can't. no. it's a sin. she already have many so why must she add some more?.. and Nelly ended up looking bad by wearing a eyeliner around her eyes that made her eyes look darker and deeper, like a real villain. and now she's staring at her phone, wondering 'I want to look bad, but now how come I look soooo pretty? '

before going home, Liena come talk to Nelly as she looked sad. "I heard they say many bad things about you.. I hope you can relax.. don't think about it too much.. ", Nelly have nothing to say as she feel empty, nothing at all. but " I don't understand why people are blaming our religion when we, people who made mistakes. no, the one who is bad is me, not my religion " comes out from Nelly's mouth, loudly, making it be able to be heard in the whole class.. and she left the class with boundless emotions that can't be described..

~to be continue~

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