
Audrey
He had just locked the door and wanted to go out when Miss Dariyah approached him in a bit of a hurry, and he could already guess the woman from Palembang was about to collect rent boarding that had been waiting three months.
Me ngu lum lips strong, he thought of a reason especially to avoid this time, starting from the reason has not been delivered, until the money kepake, wait another week paid, wait another week paid, in fact, until now all just false promises.
Already cornered Audrey can only sigh while swallowing saliva that tastes like salak seeds stuck in the esophagus.
One...
Two...
Three...
"Audrey, want to see you?"
(Audrey, where are you going?)
"Now to go to Bu Cik's Hospital."
(Just want to go to Bu Cik Hospital)
"Mak Mano cerito you nih Drey, money kosan tuh when to pay, dak katek money continues, dak dak tebayar again, wong others ado nyo wait."
(Where is the story you are Drey, boarding money when to be paid, if you can't pay again, someone else wants to spend here)
"Come on Miss, wait until the end of the month koh yo, Audrey again trying to find money.
(yes Miss, wait until the end of this month, Audrey is trying to find her money)
"Nian yo, dak katek reason again anyway (Seriously yes, there are no more reasons)
He just nodded, though not entirely sure he could get the money as soon as possible and his head grew dizzy because at the same time, his phone rang.
"Hallo Assalamualaikum."
"Waalaikumsalam, Drey it's me Fitri."
"Yes Fit?" while nodding gave the code to Ms. Dariyah to leave from there.
"Where was the money you used yesterday? is there yet? because I again need to pay a lot of motorbike credit this month, sorry, Drey, actually I'm not good to charge like a gini, just a little bit more Drey."
He closed his eyes for a moment, pinched the base of his nose and walked towards the gatherer.
"Fit, wait three more days yeah, I'll try three more days, please."
"Truly three more days, Drey, fear of being fined if the delay in paying the installments of the motorbike noah."
"Yes, I'm working on it."
The phone disconnected, again, he felt the weight of his life squeezing like a giant godam right in the chest area, tightness, oh my ...
Dig a hole close the hole
Borrow money to pay debts
(Rhoma Rhythm)
Bang Rhoma's song seemed to be mengiang in his ears like a tangled cassette that played over and over, making his head seem to want to explode.
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He thought busily at the Hospital, a little relieve the dizziness that is increasingly becoming, but in fact the chatter of students in the nurse's guard room successfully made him want to gulp poison grass branded Gramaxon.
Ouuchh shitt !!!
"Eh, have you read the campus announcement yet? in front of the academic room?" Robi the HIMA leader landed her butt in a long wooden chair right next to Audrey who pretended to be busy reading the report.
"Oh, that intern at RSJ, right?" graceful Voice.
"Malaysia brother! we'll be interning at the Malaysian Mental Hospital, cool right."
"Abis interns here, departs immediately, about a month away."
"How much money, bro?"
"Fee details are already in the announcement attachment, already shared in the class group, the final payment limit next week."
Anggun who immediately opened his smartphone, seriously read the announcement file that had been downloaded.
"Total cost details 20 million."The girl muttered softly, the ill-fated one could still catch Audrey's ears.
20 million...
20 million...
Where should he find that kind of money, oh my God...
His body is squeezed, his bones somehow since when has turned into yupi, he prefers to go out of the room rather than hear the chatter of his friends.
Loony, who had seen Audrey's strange changes, caught up with her who had walked towards the cafeteria.
"*hei why...?"
"Nothing's."
"Come on, can you tell me*?"
He sighed softly, his eyes glazed over at Loony.
"I quit college."
"What's because there's no cost?" Loony walked up to the canteen.
He chose a thousand languages, until they sat in the chicken noodle shop waiting for orders.
"Mother told me to quit college, she couldn't afford me anymore."
"But there's only two more semesters of Drey." Loony looked at him pity.
"Yes, but I'm dead, all the doors are closed, not even the windows are there."
"There's still ventilation." Both sat.
"There's still ventilation just to breathe." smile on Loony's lips.
"Work."
Studying in health with an irregular hit-and-run schedule like this, sometimes to the Hospital, sometimes to campus in the same day makes it very difficult to find scheduled part-time jobs.
And again what work can bring tens of millions in less than a week try, he sighed somehow for how many times.
"I also banged my own life Drey, my parents divorced late last year, I'm alone too." Loony clasped Audrey's hand.
"You can live a quiet life without a crush, how can you?" suddenly he could not hide the above average soul of his kepo.
"I work."
"Work?, you've never told me this whole time?"
"Because of my work..." Loony's voice choked.
"*what?"
"What is your job*?"
"I'm..."
"My job's not good Drey, you must be..."
"What...what is your job?"
To be Continue
happy reading interrupted by the busy preparation of lebaran yes dear reader...