The Times New Romance

Chapter 22: Escape Lecture

Chapter 22

Get away with college

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"Have you met yet?" asked Ayna who was busy surrounding the canteen bench who knew the wallet had fallen. Ayna had asked the security guard even all the sellers in the cafeteria, but no one had seen Siti's chocolate wallet. Ayna made sure she didn't leave the wallet at home. Even Ayna did not open her bag at all.

Mira who helped Ayna gave up and sat on one of the canteen benches. "It's not here, Ayna. Let's take it again who was in the classroom at that time."

After hearing Mira's words, they began to sort the incident from the beginning to find Siti's wallet. At that time the class began to blur out when Siti approached him. Ayna looks at Ranya and Via who had seen when the wallet was handed to Ayna, but they leave the class first. Then there is Nino who is still struggling in front of the computer, there is Lika, Wita, and Sacha who are still chatting while walking out of class and there is Gio. Ayna. Gio is busy playing the game on the corner even until Ayna and Mira part with Siti outside the classroom.

"Gio!" Mira nodded while covering her mouth in disbelief. "Gio would need a lot of money at that time until the minjem to all the class children, Ayna."

Ayna nodded in understanding. He did not intend to accuse, but there was no harm in making sure? They rushed to Gio.

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"Lo said what?" Gio stood up from his seat with the other class. After the course, Ayna asked Gio to speak somewhere else. Gio follows Ayna and Mira who enter an empty class.

"Have you ever wriggled a chocolate wallet that Siti has now, Gio?" ask Ayna carefully. He tries to sort out words that do not make Gio feel accused. However, Ayna failed. Gio already knew the topic that cash had just been lost and he felt cornered being asked about it.

"Lo want to say I stole the money?" gio is not relaxed. "What do you want to say, Ayna?" Gio kicking the bench made Mira squeal in surprise as Ayna gasped in shock. "Ah, this must be because I want to minjem money to elo huh, Mir?!" Mira who was stared at sharply by Gio nodded timidly.

"It's just that it's real. You again need money and happen to be in class so yes," replied Mira.

Gio was loud when nothing was funny. "Hey, Girls. It's up to you to accuse me or something. I'm definitely not a thief." Gio immediately thrust his arm at Ayna. "Cut off my hands if you're sure I'm the thief."

Gio laughs at Ayna and Mira who instantly shut up. "No courage, right? Don't accuse people without proof!" Gio also slammed the door rough while leaving the classroom.

Ayna's knees were squeezing. His body immediately decays to the floor followed by Mira. "What do I do now, Mir?"

Mira shook her head small. "I'm sure the wallet's still on campus. We'll find it again, Ayna."

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It has been three days since the incident of the disappearance of Siti's wallet. The class who initially did not pay much attention to Ayna, began to make Ayna a taping material in between their casual chatter. The topic that he thought would subside was even more heated especially when Ranya who seemed to incite other female friends to hate Ayna. Not enough with a satirical gaze, they began to launch a blatant satire that transformed into a dagger that rained down on Ayna's mind. Ayna had already tried to ignore him, but his memory would not disappear as easily as pressing the off button on a computer device. The more Ayna drowned the memory it just rose to the surface.

"Lo know if Ayna's phone has been replaced?"

"really? Don't he actually use the money anymore."

"Gue doesn't want to be suspicious, but what if there are clear facts like that. Hpnya latest model know!"

Ranya, Via and Sacha gossiped with a loud voice that Ayna was able to hear once entering the classroom. Ayna clenched her sweaty fingers as she stepped past Ranya's bench. Ranya grimaced amusedly and instantly took out a wallet from the bag for her to hold tightly. "Huh, look out for your wallet, there are wallet thieves in this class," said Ranya who was greeted with laughter from Via and Sacha.

Ayna sat in her chair and growled. Why could they deduce such a trivial thing? Ayna did not want to straighten out their opinions just that she was too tired to argue. Want as hard as Ayna squealed, if the person who said it does not want to listen to Ayna will only waste energy.

Ayna sits alone as Mira has to take care of her father in the hospital as his high blood disease recurs again. There was no one to take care of her because Mira's mother had to work. Ayna was starting to feel lonely. Ayna looked deeply over the folds of her hands. He had always hoped that his college life would be spared, but it seemed that God would not allow it.

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Ayna almost fell to the floor when Gio did not hold her limp. When Ayna was about to enter the classroom, there was a leg that suddenly appeared to block Ayna's steps. "If I don't hold you, you've been mated with everything." Since Ayna wanted to make sure that Gio was the culprit or not, the man's attitude became colder than usual. After Ayna stood up straight, Gio glared at Ranya, the perpetrator whose smile was unclear. "Not funny, Ran. You have to learn again if you want to be funny."

"It is not necessarily Ayna who did it" said Pras who came with Hari. He looked at Ranya who was delirious not to like. "If Zayn knew how to mojokin Ayna continued, Zayn would definitely not be fooled by you, Ranya."

Hearing Zayn's name, Ayna felt that the dagger that people had stuck to her was stabbing her more deeply. It had been three days, but Zayn had not appeared either. No word on where the guy is. Didn't he say that he would protect Ayna? That the guy will always stand tall and ready to be a crutch when Ayna is fragile? When Ayna needs him now, Zayn disappears without news as if reluctant to be found.

Ranya grunts amusedly. "Didn't his absence also prove that he didn't want to deal with thieves?" Ranya steps closer to Ayna and slips Ayna's hair behind her ear. Ayna stiffened her gaze, but she was too lazy to do anything. "It turns out you pinter mikat guy huh? Now it's not Zayn," Ranya said as she looked at Gio, Pras and Hari. "The cave needs to learn the same way you."

Ranya also took Via who had noticed earlier. They laughed heartily leaving Ayna who sighed heavily. Day patted Ayna on the shoulder twice as Pras smiled at Ayna. They also went into class. Gio grumbled before finally leaving Ayna alone in the doorway.

The beginning of Ayna and Ranya's enmity has been going on since Ranya's favored Zayn approached Ayna blatantly. And Ranya is getting more and more intense to invite other children to hate Ayna after this lost wallet incident. Ayna also directs all her thoughts to find out who is really wrong here and the results do show that all this started from Zayn. Ayna had tried to avoid the guy as much as possible, but Zayn who insisted on being nearby made Ranya who already hated him take advantage of this opportunity to oppress Ayna.

It all started with Zayn.

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His sense of shame tripled to enter the classroom. Usually, Ayna is just lazy because of the courses that she does not understand, but this time the classroom atmosphere is really no longer comfortable for her. He feels foreign in his own class.

Ayna is shocked when the straw she played in the drink glass is suddenly snatched away by someone. Ayna looked up and chuckled little to see Nata now sitting in front of her in the campus cafeteria. Seeing the look on Ayna's face, Nata's smile instantly faded. "Why are you, Ayna? It hurt?" Ayna shook her head in a doldrums. He tries to grab the straw that is now in Nata's hands, but the guy hides it behind his back. "Why? I just saw your friends enter the building, why are you still here?"

"I'm gonna skip it."

Ayna had already prepared the words to answer Nata's next question. However, it is not a question of why or the order to return to the class that came out of Nata's lips just a warm grip between the fingers of Ayna. Ayna. Nata looked at him while smiling a little. "You're truant together?" invite him who breaks Ayna's heart. Nata managed to say the thing that Ayna wanted to hear.

Without question, right or wrong orders and advice, enough warm grip that strengthens and smiles understanding, it is enough to make Ayna's heart grin.

Ayna gave a small nod and they decided to walk out of the campus. Ayna wasn't sure where Nata was taking her, but she didn't care. The feet that moved away from the classroom that turned into the most stifling room gradually relieved Ayna's heart. He looked at Nata who was walking beside him. He did not know the understandable effect could be this great even in his eyes Nata became more handsome than before. Ayna is not sure if this is a hallucination or the power of love. He was happy to be with Nata.

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They pulled over at an ice cream stand near campus. Kiosks that provide various variants of ice cream flavors that are now empty of visitors because they are still in college hours.

"Girls will dip back in the mood if given ice cream," said Nata while keeping a bowl of ice cream on Ayna's table. Nata sat down in front of Ayna after storing her ice cream.

Ayna smiled thinly. "Thank you, Nat," said Ayna after long locking her mouth shut. Ayna just shook her head and nodded as if she could not speak when Nata asked her to speak. His thought of the thief charge completely shattered Ayna's mood to pieces.

Nata smiles. "Together, Ayna."

Ayna took a long breath. "You're not curious I'm like this even skipped college?"

Nata was silent for quite a while before he shook his head. "Everyone has problems and they're just ready to tell me if it's better. If I have a lot of nanya when someone else is destroyed or is at their lowest point, it's like sprinkling salt on a wound. I just make them sick."

Ayna smiled so much she showed her teeth. He was moved by Nata's reply until clear circles crept in both his eyeballs. Nata. He sat down next to the empty Ayna and patted her on the shoulder twice. "If you want to cry, I put my shoulder on. Girls don't like it when we cry about people."

An amused laugh just slid from Ayna's lips. However, he could not refuse Nata's offer because his laughter immediately turned into tears as his chest tightened considering the words and attitude of Ayna's classmate who accused him of being a thief. Ayna rested her head on Nata's shoulder and started crying while cupping her face. There was a soft pat on the top of Ayna's head. "It's bad if you're not strong, Ayna. Crying is not a sign that you are weak, but a sign that you are still a human being with a heart."

Ayna's cries did not stop flowing for a few minutes afterwards.

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Is there anyone who singship Nata with Ayna?

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