
"Seriously you're both out of action, Mr Darren?" ask Jamet in shock.
"Yoi, Bro." Proudly they confessed.
"That's so bad, Njiir! Not afraid to be harassed by your faculty?" gimbal said a little shudder with the actions of his friends.
"No! There's no cctv monitoring either!" answer the two offenders casually.
Feril then stood up while hitting the heads of two of his friends. "Bego don't divest, dong! Don't you think what you hit is the lecturer, Dudul!"
From Feril's harsh response, it was clear that the man did not agree with the actions of two friends who attacked Darren.
"Eh, Ril, we're taking your heartache back to that lecturer!"
"Who's hurt, huh? Gua secretly kek gini because again regretted the beauty of the cave that for several months was eager to chase people's wives! Where one faculty knows again the cave effort to chase Karen. Wanna put it where the face of the cave is now?"
"Quiet, Cuy. For a while you keep the same face as the one who looks for face first!" gimbal.
"Elu mending mingkem or muke lu that is not pleasing to the eye from any side of the cave ilangin all!" sambar Feril on Gimbal.
"It's all because of you too. All day just sitting dumb-bellied cake with hemorrhoids. We're gonna be thinking nothing."
"Yes, Ril. We're just pointing our solid sense at you!"
Both men blamed Feril.
"Udah-udah .. had already kek gini also do not need to make a fuss! The cave is afraid now, if until Mr. Darren report to anyone who attacked him."
"We are not anarchists either. At most his head is just a bang doang. Very cute if he uses a report card!" The perpetrator defended himself.
"You guys don't think long either, anyway! If the campus party finds out, auto in-DO you on!"
Feril was silent for a moment. If that really happened, then he couldn't stand to see his two fellow dossiers just for defending himself.
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There is no change of time to deliver the morning to greet all humans. Just closing her eyes, Karen frowned to see that the place her husband was sleeping in was empty. Thinking Darren had woken up first, he went to the restroom. Coming out of the restroom, he turned on the phone that was charging.
One unread message is immediately visible on the phone screen. It turned out that the message was from Darren who reported that he would not go home and would spend the night at Barack's father's house. Although he frowned, it seems that Karen did not really bother about it. He chose to get ready to go to campus to attend the morning course.
After preparing to leave, Karen descended from the top floor towards the dining room where Aswono's grandfather and Oma Belle were first there.
"Where's your husband?" ask Oma. As a person of extraordinary sensitivity, Oma Belle was even suspicious.
"Don't go home, Oma. He said he spent the night at Barack's father's house."
"Well, tumben! Why did you spend the night there?"
"Yes, maybe she'll be with her mom. Barack is abroad." Grandpa Aswono chimed in with positive thoughts.
"Kayak toddler just ask for company. Here's a pregnant wife who needs company!" oma toilet with sewot tone. Understandably, because he never liked Darren's father's second wife.
Oma Belle's suspicion is contagious to Karen. Not usually Darren stay elsewhere even though his parents' house. He immediately finished his breakfast so he could go to campus and meet Darren there.
In the apartment, Chalvin was busy buttoning a white cameja as the interior of a tuxedo that he would wear today. The man turned to the restroom, looking at Darren who had just come out. Yes, last night he offered his cousin a stay at his apartment.
"Will you go to the office?"
"Yes, it just so happens that today Belleria products open stands in PRJ. So I have to come control and help the promo-in, so that our brand is not less competitive with brands from Korea and Japan," explained Chalvin while putting a tie.
"Oh, that. You have food to cook, don't you?" asked Darren as he headed for the kitchen.
"Yes. I can cook with the ingredients in your fridge, okay? I'm gonna make Karen lunch." Although brothers, Darren asked permission first to Chalvin as the owner of the house.
"Take what you need. Uh, but ... Aren't you not going to see him until the bandage opens?"
"Yes, I'm sending you gojeklah!"
Karen arrives on campus and returns fashionable as ever. Entering the three months of pregnancy, she is still active with various activities as usual. Fortunately, she does not experience Emesis gravidarum¹ like pregnant women in general. He was also not very picky about food.
The day after her marriage broke out, Karen tried to ignore the discordant voices that were directed at her. Yes, there are indeed various kinds of reactions from his classmates. Some of the women who did not like it just look at it cynically without talking anything. In part, she approaches him and asks him to tell her about his relationship with Darren so that he can get to the marriage stage. On the other hand, the man in the class was more relaxed. Most of them just give him new nicknames such as lecturer mother, professor mother to mistress Darren. Karen precisely risi with the nicknames given them. Even so, he felt relieved. At least, his classmate's reaction wasn't as extreme as his thoughts all along.
After the first lecture hours ended, Karen went to the lecturer room just to peek at her husband's desk in line with the door of the room. Seeing that the table was empty, he tried to stand on the doorpost while circulating his gaze throughout the room. Apparently, Darren wasn't in the room. While thinking of checking into each classroom, Marsha's voice calling out to her seemed to make her intercepted.
"Karen, what are you doing?"
"Ah, I'm just looking for Mr. Darren, Mom," he replied a little clumsy because some lecturers also turned to him.
"Loh, didn't Darren come in the afternoon, did he? He asked me last night to exchange hours for me."
Karen was stunned for a moment. His expression actually made Marsha again raised the question with the corner of the lips that looked sneering.
"She didn't tell you, did she?"
"Ah, last night Mr. Darren did say stay at his parents' house. I also don't like the kepo-in of her job, "reply Karen who wants to move on. However, suddenly Budi Luhur sir came to say.
"Oh, so this one's Darren's wife anyway?" The voice of Mr. Budi Luhur who was so thunderous shifted the entire room, including some students who were dealing with the lecturers.
Karen bit her lips while closing her eyes tightly. There is no reason to hide or cover up. Apparently, her marriage to Darren will soon be exposed to the entire faculty or perhaps the entire campus.
Meanwhile, Nadya had just visited her coffee shop after the first course was over. He told his employees that his uncle who was always the owner of this cafe had rented a stand during the PRJ.
"Andre, you come with me to keep the stand there, huh?" pinta Nadya at the only barista and male employee in her cafe.
They then prepare the equipment that will be taken to the exhibition stand. Because it was not enough to carry it on a motorcycle, they had to order a grab. Arriving there, the two entered while carrying equipment and a coffee maker. The place was very crowded with entrepreneurs who also opened a stand there. From middle class entrepreneurs to upper class. Many YouTubers and Selebgrams also come to create content.
"Nad, that's not the guy who came to the cafe last night?" Barista named Andre raised his chin to the right.
Nadya's eyes followed Andre's chin movements. Right, not far from them at the moment, there was Chalvin chatting with a young girl. Nadya suddenly raised the height of the arrangement of coffee cups that she brought so that the man did not see it.
"That's the girl who's with him, the tiktok celeb cake that hits, huh! You see, the cave is also his followers!" chirps Andre who is still watching Chalvin.
"Eh, let's take the elevator!" Nadya's step suddenly turned because she did not want to cross paths with Chalvin who was standing near the escalator. This he did to take care of his own heart.
Nadya wore a millipede to the empty elevator. As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief while leaning back. When the elevator door was almost closed, a hand grazed between the doors so that it opened wide again. Nadya was stunned to see Chalvin had been in front of her. With his leisure, the man immediately entered between Nadya and Andre, deliberately shifting the position of the barista who previously stood beside Nadya.
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Emesis gravidarum: symptoms of nausea accompanied by vomiting that commonly occurs in pregnant women in the first trimester
Brother Yu wishes a happy Eid al-Adha for those who run.