Oleh: Keysha Afra Aurellia, 8I

Aisyah was engrossed in admiring a statue of a beautiful woman. Suddenly, a classmate's voice was heard in another statue. Aisyah looked down sadly. His friends moved to observe another statue without asking her.

Indeed, Aisyah is a transfer student at her school. However, she has moved since seven months ago and until now Aisyah still has no friends. The laughter of Azka and his school friends sounded cheerful to his senses of hearing. Aisyah is getting sad.

Instead of following where her friends gathered, Aisyah separated herself. She walked slowly along the rows of gravestones that were also in the museum. She really hopes that his friends will invite him to join them.

"Hi, little girl!" Aisha gasped. A beautiful woman is standing in front of her

"Sorry, but I want to go there," said Aisyah not interested in having a conversation with the woman.

"Your friends will not call and invite you to join if you don't do it yourself." Aisyah's steps stopped. What did the woman say? How did she know what she was thinking?

The woman smiled and lowered her body so that her height could be equal to Aisyah's. "My name is Olivia Marianne."

"As you can see, I'm a foreigner in Indonesia. I'm here to accompany my husband on duty. At first, I lived here I didn't have any friends. Everyone was just being polite to me, but not friendly. It turned out that it was because myself kept my distance from them. They think I don't want to hang out with them! "

Mrs. Olivia paused to catch her breath. Fortunately, it didn't last long. I often had tea at my house and invited the mothers who lived near my house. And I started to talk to them. Over time, I got to know all of them, and they all got to know me. Since then, if I'm walking around the house, they start greeting me friendly. I'm so happy!"

Aisyah was silent hearing the story. Could it be... she doesn't have any friends because she keeps his distance from them? "Sometimes we don't realize that we are actually keeping our distance from them. Try to talk to them first," said Mrs. Olivia while patting Aisyah on the shoulder in a friendly manner. Mrs. Olivia turned around and disappeared behind the trees.

Aisyah hesitated for a moment, she turned to her friends who were still joking among them while observing a tomb. Hesitantly, she stepped over to their place.

"Ermmm... you guys... what are you looking at, anyway?" Aisyah asked slowly.

"Aisyah! Look, there is the grave of Sir Raffles' wife. That, you, made the Anyer-Panarukan road," said Azka, pulling Aisyah's hand in a friendly manner closer to the tomb.

"People said that Raffles really loved his wife. In Bogor, a monument was made!" said Chaca, Azka's close friend

"I've read that Raffles' wife is close to native people. She is never arrogant and friendly. She likes to have parties at her house and invite people around her house." said chacha explained.

Aisha was once again silent. It was clear that the name Olivia Marianne Raffles was engraved on the tomb.