
"Es Lemon tea one, sir." Laura's message just arrived at the campus cafeteria. He was sitting on the terrace facing the futsal field that looked lengthened. His eyes looked around the cafeteria that was not too crowded. At the front of the canteen fence adjacent to the mosque, several students were seen gathered at a long wooden table with laptops and diktats they opened.
"Riap neng's. What's a lot of what's a little?" ask the white man.
"A little sir." answered Laura briefly.
Laura re-opened the novel she had brought back when she returned to the cafeteria, preparing her order.
It's still an hour until Laura's class starts today. The girl's eyes continued to stare at the line of writing in the novel. He was indifferent when there were a few men whom he assumed were seniors because their hair was longing and their look was relaxed, trying to tease him. He was too absorbed in the fiction he was reading.
"Every memory will end in a memory." Laura tidied up an interesting line of rhymes in her opinion.
Laura, a beautiful girl who has a hobby of writing. He often writes or reviews anything he is working on. He is also active as a blogger, every writing there is read by many others. He also has a loyal following on his blog.
Since childhood, writing talent has existed in Laura. At school, he was diligent in making poetry, prose or rhyme in his diary. His school friends even called him a poet. When other friends are busy reading comics or playing games, Laura is busy reading artists' books. Ws books. Rendra, Wiji Thukul, Sapardi, Sutjiwo Tejo, even sufism-breathing poets like Jalaludin Rumi, Abu Nawas, Syekh Siti Jenar are read non-stop. It was as if the books had become opium to him.
Laura also loves music. He loves music without a genre. He believes that the problem of music is only a matter of good and not good to hear. Whatever the genre if the music is good to hear, there will be many ears that hear. On the contrary, whatever the genre if basically the music is not good, then there will be few ears who want to hear it. Simplest.
"Laura!"
Laura who was busy reading the novel was suddenly startled by a loud pat on her shoulder. He looked at someone behind him.
"Iishh, you surprised me Rena." Laura snorted.
"What are you doing?" Rena took a seat beside Laura. Laura was about to answer but the father came to him, with lemon tea ice that he brought on a round tray.
"This is Neng's drink.." The white-copied father approached her and placed Laura's order on the left side of her arm.
"Thank you sir" said Laura politely before returning to the cafeteria.
"What novel is that?" Rena grabbed the novel that Laura was holding, and forgot her question that Laura did not answer immediately.
"What exciting?! You seem to be spending your time reading a lot of novels." asked Rena, recalling several times she saw Laura drowning with her books.
"You won't know if you don't read it Rena." Laura smiled gently at her friend.
"Of that, finish your drink. Class will begin soon." Rena told me one thing that Laura had forgotten because of her willingness to read.
"okay." Laura gave an okay sign with her fingers.
***
Today Laura received two courses. One of them is from the favorite lecturer of women, a handsome young lecturer who mengultimatum that he was married. The teacher walked leisurely into the class. Laura lifted her head from the novel she left open on the table. He began to focus his attention on the young lecturer who was talking starting the lecture.
Word by word came out of the lecturer's mouth, some scribbles seemed to adorn the whiteboard in front of the class. Without feeling the time goes quickly, lecturer Sabiel looks to end his lecture when a student raises his hand.
"Yes. What's up?" sabiel opened her glasses. He looked at the student's eyes.
"I want to ask, what is the father's response to the issue of romance between lecturers and students?" The student smiled seductively. Which invited cheers from all students in the class.
Sabiel did not expect to get such a question. His age as a lecturer at the university was too young to comment on the issues before he became part of the teaching staff at the university itself. But the condition of the student who thirsts for attention, he cannot ignore it. They would not be satisfied if Sabiel did not take his eyes out.
"How do you think?" he asked the student in front of him while putting his glasses back on and crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Do you know for sure the story of the incident?" tanyanya. His eyes saw several students whispering to each other. Some seemed hesitant to answer lecturer Sabiel's question.
All the students seemed to have no one dared to answer. They were silent because the issue sounded confusing to those who had just set foot in the university.
"Why discuss other people's business?!" Laura repeated her words while looking at the student who asked the question. "I don't think any of us have the right to discuss other people's privacy issues. In addition to being unethical, it also has nothing to do with our lessons" Laura explained.
"We're just curious." the grunts of the female student got a snide look from Laura.
"Excessive curiosity sometimes causes new problems." Laura's back. This time with a scornful tone of stupidity from the classmate's question.
Sabiel who watched the waist-rattling heard the words coming out of the beautiful girl. Unexpected surprise to find out that there is one student who is good at tongue-lightning. The words that came out of his lips swooped sharply in his heart.
The student named Gina growled to hear the words that clearly pointed at her. He just wanted to intend to tease Sabiel's lecturer with questions related to the relationship between the lecturer and his students. But who would have thought the question was actually fishing out the lioness.
"You....!" Gina growled furiously.
"Enough." Sabiel, who had been enjoying the show since then, let out his voice as Gina was about to reply to Laura's words.
She stared fixedly at Gina who was starting to get carried away by emotions, and stared softly at Laura who looked unconcerned by the irritated aura Gina showed her.
***
Laura leaned her head against the dewy window sills because of the heavy rain that fell a moment ago. He looked through the window of the library, people running around looking for shelter from the rain.
"Squeaky. People say rain is a blessing. But why is it that when the blessing comes down, they avoid it?" Laura smiled as the thought returned whenever she saw people who were busy dodging the rainwater attack.
After the lecture, Laura decided to visit the faculty library. While Rena, straight back to her index.
Laura stared at the atmosphere outside. Heavy rain made many people choose not to continue their journey. They take shelter on the terraces of the faculty buildings. Some impatient people look reckless to break through the rain. No matter the body is soaked because it is drenched in water from the sky.
Laura let out a long sigh, she saw the reflection of her face on the dewy window glass. Then he went back to breathing his long breath.
"I should have been quiet." He felt guilty for cornering Gina with his argument.
Laura is not usually emotionally provoked. Usually, he will always seem indifferent to whatever happens in the classroom. He remembered the look on Gina's face that seemed annoyed at her words earlier. And he regretted it.
Laura's gaze was now on the laptop on the desk by that window. He saw some new comments on his blog.
"Can I meet you? I love your writing here"
Laura rolled her eyes lazily. He gets comments like that too often. His hand began to move his mouse back to the prose he was making before. Without looking back at the blog page and ignoring the comments.
"I'm just a different entity
A mortal sacred phenomenon
In the euphoria of sheer feminism
Shackled by invisible desires....."
Laura's back stiffened hearing a voice behind her ear. The voice sounded half whispered but felt resolute when chanting the line of words Laura made.
Curiously, Laura turned her head to the source of the voice. His eyes were rounded when the handsome lecturer figure of the female student seemed to be smiling gently at him.
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