5

"Mel, you know Mr. Rudi didn't come in today?" Ulfi, Melsa's classmate, asked, stirring the orange juice before him. "Ouch, why isn't the stirring right?" He complained at the bowl of chicken noodle.

"Well, it's useless yesterday when we were doing a dead-end home work." Melsa pursed her lips. Last night Melsa and friends did a group call while doing the assignment given by the lecturer.

"He said anyway, there will be assistant professor who replace him."

Rahmat, Chicken Noodle Seller, delivered chicken noodles ordered by Melsa and Ulfi. "Thank you, sir." Said Melsa. "So today is going to lecture with the assistant?" Melsa was busy adding chili sauce to the chicken noodle bowl in front of her.

"They say Mr. Rudi is on sick leave, he's already old. I think this time the pain was rather severe so it was replaced by assistant professor. "

Melsa said nothing, only nodded because her mouth was already busy chewing on chicken noodles which turned out to be spicy for her tongue.

"You're still with Alex, aren't you, Mel?" Ulfi asked in between his eating activities.

Melsa nodded. "Why you asking?"

"Doesn’t matter, it's just that I don't feel like lately seeing him around you. You usually stick to it first. "

"I'm fighting with him again, a few days ago I ignored."

Ulfi let out her laughter so that people around her started to pay attention to them.

"Shut up, Fi!" Melsa scolded her friend. "There's nothing funny, what are you laughing at?"

"But I imagine it's funny, Mel." Ulfi is still trying to muffle his laughter. "Imagine, guys like Alex are sulking. And the cause is only because you ignored it. "

Melsa chuckled and shook her head. "You don't know how often you sulk over trivial matters." She remembers the time when Alex went on a rampage because of a small problem at the campus diner. "It makes me want to break up, Fi."

"Really? Isn't he sweet and really caring? "

"Indeed! But also a he is easy sulking. "

"Does your boyfriend have multiple personality, Mel?." Joked Ulfi. But Melsa thought about the words of her best friend. Maybe there's a point, Alex seems to have multiple personalities.

Melsa inadvertently sighed at the thought. "Eh, why? How come your mood turned moody? " Ulfi was surprised because suddenly Melsa seemed to be unenthusiastic. "Sorry, I'm just kidding."

"Fi, do you think I will be better if I broke up with him?"

"You're not happy with him, Mel?"

"Sometimes I'm happy. He can instantly turn into a jerk, Fi. It's so easy to make me tired. "

"Gosh I don't know if you think like that. Just have a good talk with him what's your problem and where he is at fault. " Ulfi does not want to go along with the affairs of her best friend with her girlfriend. SHe was afraid to give the wrong advice because so far in the eyes of Ulfi, Alex was a person who had no problems and could make her friend happy.

I did, but Alex didn't accept the discussion, he just wanted his own opinion to be heard by others, Melsa thought.

Since the incident Melsa ignored Alex's message the other day, the man had been prolonged anger. Just because she didn't immediately reply to her message and choose to watch the drama. Whereas all this time she rarely ignored Alex, Melsa always prioritized himself because she knew he would throw a tantrum if Melsa turned her attention to something other than that man.

Ting.

Melsa was interrupted by the sound of a cellphone notification that suddenly sounded.

Hoping Alex contacted him. But apparently Melsa's guess was wrong when she saw the Instagram notification that appeared on her screen.

Reihanadhyasta: Thank God you're fine, I'm happy too. You look happy, Mel I saw it from your posts feed.

Melsa smiled reading the message from Reihan.

Camouflage, that's what Melsa wants to convey to Rei. Everyone can camouflage and pretend to be happy. Showing the world that she is fine because no one likes sadness, at least Melsa displays happiness for the people around her. That's all she can do.

"Who, why are you smiling like that?" Ulfi teasing. "Have you gotten better with Alex?"

Melsa turned off her cellphone, had not had time to reply anything to Reihan. "Nobody." Melsa drinks the remaining orange juice. "Yes, let's go to class. Come in soon. "

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As usual Melsa always took the third row from the front. She does not really like to sit in the first row, making her sleepy but she also does not want to be behind because she can not listen well. Not to mention, the back seat is usually filled by a group of men who are lazy to go to college. Sometimes they fall asleep or play cellphones when class starts. Melsa might not even be smarter but even lazy.

The noise in the class stopped when someone entered the class.

Melsa, who had been discussing the problem of the best waxing place with her friends, immediately went quiet and paid attention to the front of the class.

sHe gulped to see who had just stepped into her class and sat at the table where the lecturers were usually.

Ulfi nudged Melsa who knows what her purpose was but the one who nudged didn't react to anything because her eyes were fixed on one figure.

"Good afternoon everyone, as you already know before by the notice on the group chat." Said the man as an opening, "today Mr. Rudi cannot fill the class. And I will replace him teaching until an undetermined time, please be cooperate with me. "

Melsa could hear some of her friends clapping, some were cheering in response to the man's words.

"Name, sir!" exclaimed one of his classmates who knows who.

The man gave his eyes to the whole class looking for who asked, but before he found it, Reihan's eyes first met the eyes that he had been missing. Both looked at each other's thoughts in his brain

"My name is Reihan Adhyasta," said the man with eyes that were still nailing Melsa, making the woman unable to breathe properly. "But a long time ago someone insisted that Rei's call was easier and shorter to say. So, it's up to you. "

Right, Melsa said that first because she had trouble calling the man's name so she complained and promised to call him only as Rei.