Aster Veren
Episode 133

- Esther

"... I can't go on like this" I murmured after a long sigh while watching the thick book before me before leaning my body against the back of the perpus chair.

I am currently in the library to prepare for the semester exam the day after tomorrow. And a week has passed since the rumors spread.

I couldn't focus on learning because of the rumors. Teo says Carel's engagement was planned by his grandfather, and after the exam ends the Alterio family will hold Carel's engagement party with Lusy.

When I heard that, suddenly my heart ached, unconsciously. My mind remembers all my encounters with him lately.

"And .. I realized how I felt about her." Continue muttering.

"You sure you won't fix your distance with Carel?" Kalea asked, who had been silent since then, silently watching me by pretending to read the book in front of her.

"... No, I don't want Carel to get into a lot of trouble. Teo told himself that Carel couldn't do anything about his grandfather's decision because he was threatened–"

"Will be transferred to another class if she insists on denying her wishes." Kalea cut my words.

"Yes, I know that Carel really wanted to be a doctor to cure his mother. If until he is transferred to another class, then ...," I can't continue my explanation. I think my heart is really ungodly.

And Carel was always there and always helped me with my problems, but me? I can't do anything for her.

All I can do is keep my distance and keep other people's view of him. It's all for Carel's sake, I have to do what I can do right now.

"Lately I've seen him moody a lot. Are you sure you won't see him? Just for a moment, let him explain what he has to tell you Aster." Kalea said as she closed the book in front of her.

"Ti–all of a sudden .. What do you mean Lea?"

"I know you're trying to avoid bad gossip about you with Carel, but ... what's the problem? You were even closer to Carel, why did you have to stay away just because she was Carel's fiancee? Can't you still be friends? And again, I feel really, really upset at that woman! Why is he so pretentious?!" Obviously Kalea with a tone of voice up and down, looks very, very trying to hold her emotions.

"The annoying boy also looks indifferent to his fiancee and always runs towards you with his stupid look if you look at him." He continued after sighing deeply to control his emotions, making me recall the times that Carel tried to approach me.

"... have stopped talking about Carel and Lusy. I'm going back to the dorm to rest, Lea want to come?" I said, rising from my sitting position.

"Hah~ I'll be here any minute." He replied after sighing for the umpteenth time, making me step away from before Kalea and keep the book I borrowed back in its place before leaving the library.

I step my foot down a bunch of stairs to the academy grounds. Then my eyes caught the figure of Lusy who was talking to his friends near the sports field. She looks very–sad?

"Did Carel do evil to her again?" I muttered wondering with Carel's annoying nature that crossed my memory.

"No friends!" Shouted Lusy tear down my daydreams, I see he was running following his two friends who walked— approached me?

"Aster!" The words of the woman I didn't know her name, sounded out loud to me.

"No, none of this is his fault. I told you Aster couldn't possibly–" Cut Lusy made me frown confused. What's the problem, actually?

"Don't be so innocent Lusy!" The other woman's words confused me even more.

... this—actually what is this situation? What Lusy? My mind meets Lusy's chocolate bead. The next second, somehow my instincts say that this woman named Lusy is doing something sneaky to me like before.

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-Sean

"Boring," I muttered feeling bored with my activities lately.

"What are they doing?" I continued to mumble along with the afternoon breeze that felt moist, it seemed like it would soon rain.

"Hmm... This time he was bullied again by them huh?" Hendric surprised me.

"You!" My growl tried to hold back my emotions while rubbing my chest, trying to ease my surprise.

"Yes! You want to go back to the dorm? Why not wait for me?" He said with his teary eyes, looking laughable.

"Your business is done?" I asked to divert the conversation.

"That's how, besides ... what will they do again to the child?" He answered while pointing to the figure of Aster who stood not far from me and Hendric.

"What do you mean?"

"Tempo then I accidentally saw him face to face with the three women. Even a few days before they continue to disturb Aster in quiet places. What did they tell Aster? Why do you always bother him like that?" Clearly, it made my attention distracted to the figure of Aster and the three women referred to by Hendric.

"Has he been hit? Wh why? Is the rumor true?" The next thing makes me even more confused by the chatter.

"What are you talking about?" My snort immediately glanced at him who was still paying attention to the figure of Aster and the three women seriously.

"Sean ... haven't you heard any warm gossip lately?" He replied to my eyes quite sharply.

"Did I care about the gossip circulating in the academy?"

"Hah~ you really suck."

"Shut your mouth!"

"Then I don't have to tell you, right? You asked me to shut up."

"Arrgh, tell me what you know briefly and concisely. The point is don't be complicated!" My anger is upset with the nature of my friend this one.

"Then it's as usual." He said with a big smile with the look of his annoying eyes.

"Yes, if I have to pay double." My grunts are trying to keep my emotions in check.

"True double, don't lie or pretend to forget later."

"Are I lying in business?"

"Well, who knows, you're starting to learn to lie."

"Ck, quickly tell me the information you know! Don't talk too much."

"Based on an impatient child," he snorted again to watch Aster and the three women in front of him. "The rumors are that Lusy and Carel are engaged. I don't know if it's true or not, but ... Aster, who has long been close to Carel, is accused of being the one who got in the way of Lusy and Carel's relationship. Even lately the rumors have become more severe–" continues to surprise me.

"really?" I asked to cut Hendric's explanation. I really can't believe there's such gossip in the academy. And again is it true that the woman was engaged to the troublemaker? When's? Why is there no news on the internet?

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