Young Lecturer Love Cage

Chapter 23

"Ohahaahhh.."

Laura spread her arms wide as she managed to get out of the mini bus with her university banner, with several other students seen one by one coming out of the car. At this time they had arrived in front of the gates of Forest Camp Lembang.

The black sedan stopped not far from where Laura was standing, the accompanying lecturers got out of the car. Laura's eyes saw Sabiel coming out last from behind her hood, she opened the sunglasses that had been perched on her nose ever since. His eyes scattered to see the busyness of students bring their luggage into the camp. Sabiel smiled gently as his eyes collided with Laura who was standing with Rena not far from the mini bus.

"I love the atmosphere of Lembang." Rena's speech distracts Laura from Sabiel. Laura smiled looking at Rena who was looking at the front gate of the camp.

"Yes, I am too" said Laura with a look back at Sabiel who walked with the accompanying lecturers to approach the guard of the place.

Benak Laura still remembered Gisel's remark saying that Sabiel had special feelings for her. He immediately shook his head, not wanting those memories to mess with his mood that turned uncomfortable.

"Why?" asked Rena who was astonished to see Laura shake her head.

"Ah, it's okay. I was just tired" Laura said.

"I'm also tired, let's go inside." take Rena with me while carrying her big backpack. Laura nodded in agreement. They walked among other students who were also about to enter the camp area.

Laura and Rena decide to take a small camp that comes face to face with a lotus pond. Actually than in the say camp, the place to spend the night was more similar to a simple wooden hut with a canopied porch on the front. The small camp-camp is semi-circular surrounded by pine trees. While the distance of camp one with the other is only a few meters.

Just before choosing a camp to be occupied, all students were instructed that one camp must be filled by four or three people. Therefore, a girl who looks flirtatious with shoulder-length wavy hair becomes an additional resident in Laura and Rena's camp.

The girl's name is Destri. She was only one year apart from Laura. His black skin is a blend of his father who is Flores and his mother is Javanese. His character who is always cheerful with a flirtatious attitude that he always shows anyone, making the girl always able to attract the attention of those who see her.

The three of them were currently busy tidying up the equipment they had brought inside the camp. While out there, many other students who are cool to relax fill their rest time by enjoying the natural scenery in front of their respective camps.

Laura moved from the camp, after she finished arranging the equipment in her backpack for her to put in a special small drawer of clothes. The beautiful girl chose to sit casually on the terrace while paying attention to the bustle of the students who were busy with their own affairs. He folded his legs enjoying the breeze that wafts slowly leaving strands of his hair. His gaze was fixed on the lotus pond in front of him. He remembered, in that chair he had sat with Sabiel some time ago. Recalling that, his eyes scattered looking for the figure of the lecturer who was close to him.

That's her!

At the end of the large wooden camp, close to the open dining area. The companion lecturers were seen discussing there. They sat in a circular table with wooden chairs without a backrest. Sabiel seemed to focus on looking at the sheet of paper he was holding.

"Does he really have feelings for me?" Laura nodded without taking her eyes off watching Sabiel in the distance. "Damn you Gisel, you shouldn't have told me that." Laura snorted later.

"Oh let it be, if it's true that he likes me, I just reject it, fine." Laura said that sentence a little loudly. Unaware the two girls inside the camp were staring at him full of question marks.

"Who likes you?" Rena approached Laura with a curious look. Followed by Destri behind him.

They both sat flanking Laura in the middle. Laura looked nervous as Destri and Rena's eyes looked at her while grinning ignorantly.

"You're close to someone?" ask Rena to investigate.

"Who likes you?" this time it was Desri who asked.

"Ckckl.. There's no way that guy over there, is he?" asked Rena while pointing at a group of men who were chatting casually in the front seat of the lotus pond.

"Oh No baby! You're too pretty for them. Don't let what you mean be one of them." said Destri impassively.

"Iisshh, what are you talking about?!" Laura tries to avoid the question.

"We should have asked, what did you say? Who do you mean to like you, huh?!" rena asked not to release Laura from the core question.

"That-that.... " Lava doubts

"Yes aampuuun, the beautiful Laura.. You're upsetting me." a flirtatious-pitched voice came out of Destri's red pomegranate lips.

"Let's tell me.." demanded Rena, nudging Laura's shoulder with her shoulder.

"Don't make us curious." Destri poked her shoulder against Laura's shoulder.

Laura went awry, looking for something that could save her from the questions of her two friends. He could not possibly tell about his closeness to Sabiel, let alone about Gisel's guess that Sabiel liked him.

Priiiittt...!

Amidst Laura's uneasiness, the sound of a loud blown whistle broke Rena and Destri's concentration on Laura. The three of them looked at the direction the whistle was coming from.

"All gathered in the dining area, we had lunch together" said a middle-aged lecturer who was fattened to all students around the camp area. Instantly the camp area was boisterous by students who began to walk together towards a place called.

"For a while." murmured Laura while stroking her chest softly as the two friends who had accompanied her, focusing on listening to the lecturer's announcement.

"We have to go there" said Destri looking at his two new friends.

"Yes. Come." take Rena while standing up from her seat, followed by Laura as well as Destri. Rena and Destri walked along with Laura who was in their midst, and forgot the question they were asking the girl.

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One hour is enough time for students to enjoy a variety of dishes presented in large bamboo crock-shaped containers on a long wooden table dining room.

Sabiel sat among the accompanying lecturers, enjoying the overlapping chatter that was thrown from the mouths of his fellow colleagues. Sabiel's ears listened to the contents of the chatter, while his eyes looked at the beautiful smiling girl with two friends on one side of the dining room. The prowess of people walking covered the petite figure of his favorite girl, but it was unable to make his gaze diverted from the girl. Laura, become the pivot in Sabiel's cosmic heart. Her beautiful figure will always be visible even though she is within a few fathoms in front of her.

"How's lecturer Sabiel?" ask fellow lecturers who were next to Sabiel.

Sabiel turned to the lecturer, his auditory prowess was at stake in a sudden question amid his gaze that kept glued to Laura.

The young lecturer shook his head slowly, he was sure of what he had to say about the question.

"It is impossible to do, the cloudy sky today can endanger the students later on the climb" he said while staring at the lecturers who waited to hear his opinion.

"Yes. Youre right. The plan to climb the hill will not be able to be done today. Huge rain could have suddenly fallen." the female lecturer before him responded to Sabiel's remark.

"I think we should replace the climbing event with another event." the middle-aged lecturer who had given the lunch announcement also issued an opinion.

"What event is right for them?" sabiel said as she looked at the students who were relaxing, and stopped at Laura who was now seen staring at her phone in the middle of her two friends who were busy talking. The girl was typing with a smile.

"Who are you texting, Laura?" Sabiel.

His possessive soul appeared when he noticed the bright look on Laura's face across there. Without Sabiel noticing, he clenched his hands tightly. As much as the man's energy tried to resist his urge to bang the table in front of him and walked up to Laura to snatch the cursed phone from her girl's hand.

Sabiel was wracked with curiosity to see who Laura was related to through the phone, until a beautiful smile could not be separated from the lips of the girl when her eyes were glued to the screen of the phone.

Soon Sabiel's anger was forced to subside, when a fellow lecturer named Willi stood up from his seat, and picked up the loudspeaker that had been lying at the foot of the table. The lecturer walked a little forward towards the group of students who were still in the dining room.

"TODAY OUR PLAN FOR THE CLIMB OF BUKIT LEMBANG CAN NOT BE DONE, CONSIDERING THE SKY IS OVERCAST WORRYING HEAVY RAIN FALLING WHEN WE ARE CLIMBING." A voice weighing in the room. There was a tone of protest from some students, over the failure of the climb. "IN EXCHANGE, TONIGHT WILL BE ART NIGHT. FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE A SHOW, PLEASE PREPARE YOURSELF. THANK YOU" Mr. Willi's voice straightforwardly gave new instructions to his students.

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Thin drizzle drenching the camp area. Langit Lembang never lied to give a sign from this afternoon. It rained just as night began to come to power. The cold wind of the night faithfully accompanied the whistling water that descended from the sky. Provides a more piercing cold sensani as they are on the plateau.

Laura is excited about the novel she is reading on the canopy porch of her camp. That night because of the rain, the familiarity night event that was to be held in the middle of the student camp was diverted to the dining room area which was changed to spacious with tables and chairs neatly arranged in the corner. Leave a room large enough to gather to see the show that will be brought by some students.

Laura chose not to come to the event. He reasoned that his head was a little dizzy so he had to stay silent at the camp, without Rena and Destri who were now in the dining room to attend the event.

From a distance Laura heard the boisterous sound of laughter from her friends there. His eyes were fixed on a romance novel he had read. The cold wind plus the drizzle, did not make him give up to enjoy the silence of the night accompanied by the rustling of pine tree leaves surrounding the camp.

"You can be sick of being silent here." The voice of the grown man Laura memorized broke her concentration on reading. The man covered Laura's shoulder with a woolen blanket that was not too thick.

"Mr?" laura's eyes were rounded when she saw Sabiel standing beside her. Laura grieved the seriousness of her reading until she did not realize the lecturer was approaching her at the camp.

"Mr?!" ask Sabiel not to like it.

"Ops! I forgot." Laura grinned at Sabiel who now chose to sit next to the girl.

Laura's eyes looked cautiously at the surrounding camp area, she was worried that someone else might see her alone with the young lecturer. Sabiel who was aware of Laura's anxiety, smiled full of proclamation. Of course Laura was worried, a student and a lecturer sitting together in the middle of the silence of the night, would definitely invite the suspicion of anyone who saw it.

"I was assigned to see the student who was 'sick' when the event was about to start" Sabiel said a little offending Laura who instead looked fine.

Laura blushed in embarrassment, the reason for her fake being uncovered with Sabiel's presence at her camp.

"So I was so dizzy," Laura defended herself.

"That's great, your head's dizzy but you're still stuck with the reading." Sabiel's eyes glanced at the novel that Laura closed.

"All right, I confess. I'm lazy to go on a show like that." I'm Laura in the end.

"I understand." Sabiel smiled.

"Laura, there's actually something I want to tell you" Sabiel said staring fixedly at Laura's pretty face.

"What's that?" Laura raised her eyebrows curiously.

"I can't say it here, when I get home from here. You're coming with me." Sabiel looked at Laura's face that was about to refuse. "I'm gonna find a reason to let you come with me."

"But-"

"Just calm down, no one will be suspicious even if we go home together." Sabiel's remark slashed the rebuttal that Laura wanted to say.

"Wind of night can make you really sick Laura. You better get back inside camp." Sabiel stood up from his seat. "Don't sleep too late, tomorrow's climb will drain your energy later" he said later, stroking Laura's hair gently and stepping away leaving Laura stunned by the questions that were present in his mind.

"No way, right?!" his murmured softly as his mind managed to give one possibility that Sabiel was about to tell him.

Laura shook her head strongly, as she got up from the patio chair and entered the camp with a wool blanket given by Sabiel covering her shoulders.

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