Maura nodded quickly. She took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly.
"Well, err... "H-why did you give me the letter, Sarah? That-it's Valentine's letter," Maura said with difficulty.
Unfortunately, Even her lips trembled violently as she spoke. Maura glanced slightly. Her gaze was directly met with a pair of charming irises. She was tempted.
If there is an angel in this world, then Maura is pointing at the man completely. Why didn't she know the figure of that man from a long time ago? Damn it!!
"OHHH.. what letter is that?" Gilang's joke broke the silence. His lips pursed as he glanced at Erlang, who snorted in annoyance at anyone.
Maura looked at Gilang, who was whistling softly. His eyebrows rose and fell, teasing him with a thin smile.
"Eh, you got Maura's letter? "Let me guess, it must be a death warrant," Bintang replied casually. His expression was almost indistinguishable between when he was joking and when he was mocking.
"Shit!!" Maura cursed softly while hissing. Another chat from extraterrestrials who somehow managed to stray and stand in front of him.
The sound of the wind getting louder and louder, blowing back the leaves they had gathered earlier. Maura's feelings were getting worse.
Judging from the reactions of the three men, it was clear that the letter he got was fake. She shouldn't have followed Luna's advice to confirm it straight away.
It wasn't just a shame that she got after this. Worse yet, she might be branded by the solar system's gang of children as a coquettish girl who lacks caresses.
'Shit!!'
Maura glanced at Luna while whispering.
"I told you the letter was fake!"
Luna smiled while showing her white teeth, then turned around. "Listen to what the Erlang said first." Her friend's level of pessimism is in the final stage. She deserves to be single.
Maura rolled her eyes, bored. The sacred letter she got was the same as a debt bill in another sense, equally stifling, bastard.
Maura didn't know what to say anymore after successfully humiliating herself. Did she have to hide in the barn every day, and come out when the bell rang?
Did she have to have lunch on the rooftop to avoid those three damn men in the cafeteria?
Until when? Until they graduate?
Damn it!!
Maura looked down as she counted how much longer they would have to graduate. February, March, April, and May.
Four months.
Maura laughed inwardly. "Take her life right now, you bastard!" Four months of ritual evasion as well as killing him slowly and in the least elite way.
Maura shuddered in horror at the thought of her emaciated body being found between the balls in the hut. Thin cheeks with bulging eyes are caused by a lack of food. Wrinkled skin due to disordered blood flow
Fix, the letter is a death summons, as said by Bintang, a strange creature that Maura is not sure if the man is human.
"Letter?" Erlang glanced at his two friends who were whispering, then shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.
Erlang cleared his throat, looked up while staring at the dark irises that were full of question marks right in front of him.
'Maura Octavia Magen.'
Erlang repeated those words and recited them in his head. His eyebrows rose slowly.
"Yeah..." he half-whispered. His gray irises avoided Maura's gaze as much as possible.
"Ehh.." Maura rolled her eyes a few times.
What did she not hear correctly? What exactly did he say?
For the sake of what? as deep as the ocean and as barren as the Sahara desert. Maura seemed to have dropped a large number of dollars and unfortunately hit her in the head.
Sick shit!!
Maura still couldn't believe what she heard. Her brain was thinking hard, even harder than working on biostatistics problems and algebraic logarithms. Is the world about to end until an Erlangga Orion Lorenzo admits that he has sent Luna's version of the love letter, her version of the death summons, and Bintang's version.
Maura cleared her throat. "Err.. what does that mean?" Maura asked quietly.
"Yes- i.. that," Erlang cleared his throat slowly. He rubbed the back of his neck. His gaze was still evading all directions.
Will you go out with me? I've liked you since freshman year. "
Erlang said his sentence was the same as reading the text of an opening speech, without the typical expression and intonation of a teenager who was asking the girl of his dreams on a date.
What kind of joke is this?
Maura was silent for a while until the nuisance creatures around her giggled, holding back laughter.
Maura hissed softly, her lips pursed as she looked at Gilang, who was already standing next to Luna, and Bintang, who took a large leaf and fanned it at Erlang, who was annoyed with someone.
What do they think he and Erlang are arguing about? Basic human lack of work, you bastard.
"So how?" asked Erlang.
Maura fell silent again. She lifted her head, turned her gaze forward, staring at Erlang, who was not like he had heard so far.
'He asked me out?'
Maura knew from the gossip that had been circulating all this time. Erlangga tends to avoid other children who are not from their dormitory.
'The Racist at all costs.'
Maura still remembered the time when the man had rejected some girls years ago. Her ears heard that Erlangga said he was too rich to date ordinary people.
Maura smiled wryly at the memory.
The question is why did the most wanted man now want to date someone who came from the lowest dormitory?
Is the world about to end?
"Are you still sane? Did you just fall off the roof? " Maura did not believe Erlang's invitation.
Because, seen from anywhere, everything seems logically impossible.
If the man fell from the roof and suffered a concussion, it would be impossible for him to stand straight in front of him without any injuries.
It looks like the closest option is the first option.
In other words, Erlangga Orion Lorenzo is just as insane as the Bintang.
Maura nodded, confirming her thoughts.
"I understand," She continued.
Maura turned to look at Luna, who was glaring in disbelief, and asked for an explanation.
Maura raised her finger and twirled it beside her temples as if to say that if the man who asked her out was mentally unwell, his human language was stressed, her eyebrows were insane.
Luna gaped as she understood the gesture from her best friend. Bintang had already burst into laughter, pressing his stomach by then.
"Maura, somehow I agree with your current thinking," Gilang added casually. Don't care about Erlang, who growls and is annoyed at someone.
The man sighed heavily, closed his eyes for a moment, then cursed harshly, "Shitt!! What do you think I'm crazy about? Seriously? "said Erlang disapprovingly." His brow furrowed, his eyes rolling in boredom.
Erlang turned to look at Maura calmly.
"Maura... I'm serious."
"Just accept it, Maura! When will you get a date on Valentine's Day? Who knows, you won't be single again. " Luna exclaimed, breaking her daydream about the impossibility.
"Poor thing!" said Bintang, tilting his head.
Shucks!!
Maura hersed softly, then looked back at Erlang, who was still waiting for his answer. Maura took a deep breath, held it for a moment, then exhaled slowly.
"Err.. are you serious? I mean, you're not kidding, right? "
Erlang nodded in agreement.
"OK then," Maura said as she turned to leave.
Erlang smiled strangely, between happy and sad, but he held it in. He looked at his two friends, whistling teasingly, before throwing a twig at one of them.
"Then I'll call you later."
"You have my number?" Maura recalled that she had never shared her number all this time.
"Ish, let alone your number, even your locker number, Erlang knows." Exclamation, Gilang fast.
"Dear my princess," Bintang laughed when he said that.
"I don't know where to start. Because expressing yourself is too extraordinary for me, "Gilang continued excitedly, spreading his arms as if reading an impromptu poem.
"You're too good, to seek out."
Erlang quickly embraced Gilang's mouth, whose bucket exceeded the neighbor's mouth. His gray Netra hinted at Bintang to join him in dragging Gilang right then and there.
"Err... Maura, we went back to the dormitory first. I'll call you later. " "Erlang I shouted while dragging Gilang inhumanely.
Maura furrowed her brows. There is something strange. Her irises narrowed suspiciously.
'Something's odd,' she whispered.
Continued….