College Or College Ah?

Andreas's point of view

"Ka Ndre... Do you like it?" praya asked as we met during a division meeting in the faculty courtyard.

"No.." I answered briefly.

"If you say not at this fast tempo, that's a sign, right?" praya answered as if evading my answer.

I also don't answer anymore... I just took a stance as if the last question that Praya asked me had never heard at all.

I usually never care about anyone who wants to know how I feel, because my answers are always honest. But, this time when I answered the question that Praya gave me it was not the most honest answer. Maybe I'm trying to evade, or maybe I'm just being honest in a different sense?

I felt tired, finally I decided not to go straight home to the boarding house and choose to play online games in front of the library, because the internet network there is very fast and smooth. While playing, I met one of my Lecturers who had just come out of there.

"Andreas, please help Lies check the results of the new student quiz in my city village lecture because I have to leave the city tomorrow and please all put yes to the web value for updates"

The lecturer is my lecturer as well as lecturer at a new level. While Lies was my classmate.either because of my grades and Lies' consistent performance in her lectures, the lecturer often asked Lies and I to fill her lecture hours if she had any other activities outside the campus. Maybe it's called "lecturer assistant".

Soon I called Lies and asked her to come to the library to bring along a new student quiz sheet that we would check out later.

"Hello Lies, Mr. Lecturer asked me to help you check the 2011 child quiz right? How about if the check in the perpus aja, you come here to update the value easily also here the signal is fast" I said.

"Okay yas, I must" Lies replied.

After a few minutes Liespun came carrying a map containing quiz sheets that had just been done by Raina's students.

"Do you want to check Class A or B?" ask Lies.

"Class B" I replied.

The reason I chose to check the class B quiz sheet was only one, because Raina was in Class B. I want to know if Raina is also good at college.

Before long I found a quiz sheet belonging to Arika which turned out to be quite good results, Hanifa who is also fairly smart when answering the issue of essay and also Nunu who is short but dense and contains the answer.

"They're worth a lot" I said.

"Who's worth?" ask Lies curiously.

"That's the four of maru's children." I replied.

"Ah... Those who are the inceran of Dhika? Hahaha" ledek Lies.

Rain's quiz sheet is finally in my hands now, Raina's handwriting is neat and orderly. I am comfortable reading it, Raina's answer is also not a theoretical or textbook once because it turns out that the language Raina uses is simple language.

All Raina's answers are complete, as in the matter asked to mention the five conditions of green open space... When I read and counted, Raina was always working on the orders on every issue listed. Even so far only three people have gotten such good grades. One of them is Raina.

I did not want to immediately give a value according to my view, I asked Lies to check again the results of my assessment. Luckily, Lies agreed with all the values I gave each worksheet.

"I agree that you give them that value!" said Lies.

"OK if that's what we just update" I replied while opening the online value site campus.

Liespun and I filled out mid-semester assessment tables for the town village course. But, while inputting the maru value that earlier turned out I could also see the value of maru in other courses. I saw my average grade level sister was good, most of them no one got a B-.

"Wow pretty cool huh" Lies said astonishedly.

"Yes haha who this year the most powerful deh haha different from our generation, as I remember I used to get C this course" I replied.

"Ohya? I'm B haha really, really hard to do B in mid-semester haha" said Lies.

After doing the task from the Lecturer, we also returned to their respective boarding houses.

That night, I miss Mom. I decided to call and ask her how she was.

Mom : Hello bang, how in Bandung healthy?

Me : Healthy mom thank you... How's mom?

Mother: Healthy also bang, Mother is now a lot to take care of since your cousin lives with Mom so Mom is ushered directly to the market, to the doctor ah pokonya Good mother bang.

Mom: Why bang?

Me : I will be asdos yesterday-yesterday, thank God dapet own money also last month I participated in a debate competition and volunteer PON thank God can pay for costs and food for the next month..

(Mother sounded unresponsive to me, on the other end of the phone I heard Mom's voice start hoarse like holding back a cry)

Mother: Bang, I will ask you to focus on learning the focus of college do not while looking for that money, Ibu gamau brother soybean continue to hurt. Brother is far from Mom, if you are sick there who is taking care of? If the business costs are still able to bang, the results of the rubber garden is also quite catering can still cost brother until S2 insyaallah...

(Hearing Mother's words just now, my heart was filled. How much Mother still worries about her single child, how worried she is that her child will get sick from soy sauce.).

Me: No papa ma'am, I'm strong! Mothers who have to rest a lot do not do too much work let alone take care of the rubber garden, ask Om Agung aja who takes care of it. I'm not young anymore if I'm young.

She laughed and realized my stripping.

Mother: Yaudah if there needs anything or less money, brother call Mom!

Mother and child chatter separated between islands ended with a message and advice Mother so that I keep my diet and sleep.

A few weeks passed.

I was asked to be a group companion at a temperature observation field lecture in a freshman class. Of course not only myself but also my three other friends are Dhika, Dhoni and Lingga. The reason Mr. Lecturer asked us is probably because we know the observation area the most, understand for the last two years every field lecture me and my three friends must be a survey team.

Dhika and I were willing, while Lingga and Doni refused because there were REMA activities outside the campus. Eventually the escort team changed, Zaky and Arsil became new members who would accompany me and Dhika while accompanying our younger sister level of observation there.

The day before my departure to the observation site, I heard some very shocking news. He said "Gian and Raina are dating". My three friends and I were shocked not to play.

"Raina is a pendiem? Ko can be so desperate to make a date? Same class again" said Lingga.

"Yes, you think that the beautiful rich maru Raina may have been a long time ago, but the new boys are also normal times to know which beautiful children are involved" said Doni.

"Yes really! after all, two friends of Arika and Hanifa also have a girlfriend haha naturally if Raina follows" added Dhika.

Hearing their commotion talking about Raina cs isn't what interested me. I actually did not like and did not think that the girl who had been "different" turned out to be "just the same" even he could easily fall for his own classmates whom he had only known in the past few months.

"Yas haha you okay Brader?" ask Linga.

"What do you mean by that?" sahutku.

"Who knows you hurt it turns out your inceran taken people! Hahaha" replied Lingga.

"Alah yas calm as long as there is no truth yaudah lu do not retreat if you meet doi ask me directly whether doi doi already have a hahaha man" said Dhika excited.

What am I bothering for? That's none of my business. Want to be with whoever Raina is, that's her right. I have no interest.

Unexpectedly after the morning I and my friends talked about Raina, the afternoon when I was about to borrow a cable in the front panel room of the department lab, I passed Raina.

My lips are actually reluctant to ask questions or even just greetings. I just wanted to be quiet and avoid eye contact with him.

Suddenly when I saw his face again, I was pushed from inside to ask what Dhika had suggested this morning. Finally, the word just came out of me without me noticing.

"Sir, are you Gian now?"....

The answer, you must have guessed it yourself "Yes kak at first anyway we just keep on not knowing how to be deket and yes so"....

I'm reluctant to remember Raina's answer, it's just that my brain is constantly playing the tape.

Either whisper of the devil from where, suddenly I answered that I was with Praya also at that time.

"What the ****? Why did I say I turned Praya around anyway?" my grumbling in my heart.

It was the sudden response I least wanted and it was disappointing. How can I say that to Raina? Raina could have thought that I was just like most men.

Wait-wait... Did I just think about Raina? Why is my point of view like this now?