SIN (Lecturer Dear)

Chapter 75: Darren's Turn

Darren pulled back Karen's hand while still holding it. The woman's feet were not moving, just trying to release the link of their hands with eyes that went around full of vigilance. Afraid that someone might see their togetherness.

"Ren, I'm not ready if our marriage is known to many." Karen shook her head.

"Why? Isn't it sooner or later that our relationship will be discovered?"

"Yes .. but not now. I told you, I want to be the person you deserve."

"You are now, it's best for me" Darren replied with a reassuring look.

Karen nodded again. "But I'm not ready. Not now, huh? Please ...." Karen is even welding.

Apparently, Marsha's opinion yesterday is similar to Karen's current thinking. Issues that spread over the past few days have been very stressful. Especially if people see his closeness to Darren. He could not even imagine what kind of blasphemy and ridicule he would receive.

"Keep, when will you wait? Wait for us to get caught up with other people making out on campus?" Darren again remembered his guidance student who always monitored him secretly to dare to make slander against Karen.

"Nobody knows anything about our marriage except Marsha's mother Nadya and Vera. I always keep my distance."

Darren's gaze was fixed on Karen's fingers. "Where's your ring? Why don't you wear it?"

"The ring I keep. It was your first and special gift to me. Anyway, if I wear it, it'll invite suspicious classmates."

"Eatya from now on just let them know that you're my wife. We don't have to stick around anymore."

"You're weird, man! It's not like you used to want me to let the bucket about our marriage." Karen was suddenly confused by Darren's protective attitude this time.

"I was right to make that rule first. But, it turns out I realized I can't hide this marriage for too long. I can't stop myself from acting like you're just my student when you're in college, can't let you get fancied and teased by another guy, either, and can't accept that you're being talked about." As he said this line, there was a feeling of guilt looming on his handsome face.

Karen was only able to look at her husband's lewd netra. For some reason, he liked those worried words.

Looking at Karen who was just looking at him in a clatter, Darren slipped his palm on the side of the woman's face.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine! No one can bother you anymore!" A warm smile rose from the man's lips. He further tightened the links of their fingers, then took Karen to walk together towards the faculty building.

Why is Darren suddenly like this, huh? Did he know about the rumors on campus?

Karen looked at Darren's back as she continued to walk in her footsteps. A faint smile rose on his lips as he looked at their hands that were within one grasp. The moment that he had dreamed so much about, finally materialized as well. He and Darren can walk together in the campus environment.

They are not celebrities who need press conferences to announce the status of marriage to people. Only in this simple way, Darren seems to show that he has been owned.

Realizing that they were in a campus environment where many students passed by, Karen hurriedly picked up a book in her bag to cover her face. For some reason, his insecurities showed up. However, he was still not ready to expose their marriage.

Apparently, the couple attracted many pairs of eyes looking towards them. Some students were immediately shocked to see Darren holding a girl who looked the same age as them. Various reactions also appear, ranging from curious, jealous, to unpredictable expressions.

"Didn't you see we've got a lot of people's view attack?" karen replied with eyes that moved wildly.

It turns out that the couple also did not escape the observation of Feril and MAHDI groups who often hang out in front of the faculty building.

"Eh, uh, who's the professor?" ask the dreadlocks.

"Wuih, co twit also tuh lecturer. The same dating of college children, in public anyway," said another friend.

"I think I know a girl, huh?" thought Feril while looking at the figure of a shoulder-haired woman who covered her face with a book.

Feeling uncomfortable with the gaze of the people who were fixed on her, Karen asked Darren to release his hand. He will soon be in class.

"The real college. UAS, right?" Darren patted Karen's front hair gently.

Karen nodded, then turned around quickly with hurried steps without taking down the book that covered her face. He put his book back in his bag, then stepped confidently into the classroom. It seemed, the scandalous issue about him had subsided. No more snide looks on him.

In fact, his classmates were busy talking about gossip is heating up about the issue of perverted deeds done by one of their lecturers in the campus environment. He felt grateful that the new gossip managed to shift the sloping news about him.

Taking a seat in the middle, Karen's eyes were busy looking back and forth. "Nadya and Vera don't exist, do they? Nadya, is she recovering?"

Sitting for ten minutes while waiting for the lecturer's arrival, Nadya and Vera suddenly approached Karen with a panic-stricken look.

"Kar, Kar, have you seen the news, not yet?" ask both.

"What news?"

"What a hell of a know, don't you!" reply Vera.

"It's trending on campus!" connect Nadya.

Karen's cheerful face suddenly became anxious for a moment. Afraid that this was bad news about her again.

Vera took her phone and showed the contents of the news taken on one of the instagram gossip accounts. Instantly, Karen's eyes widened to read the big headline of the news content: "Oknum lecturer at the University of Jakarta, perverted with students in the campus environment."

Karen was more surprised to know the photos attached to the gossip account. The photo was similar to Darren's desk in the research room. It became more convincing when the photo showed a woman's leg under the table. From the shoes that the woman was wearing, made her realize that it was her.

"Say the lecturer in question was Mr. Darren. Is that chick under his desk you?" ask Vera full of worries.

Karen nodded. "Yes. Ta–tbut ... This is not as bad as it was written. I was just hiding because it was .. The student suddenly came."

"This is just so bad! Mr. Darren is now called Rector to his room!"