Aster Veren
Episode 86's

- Carel

After hearing Aster fall ill from Kalea. I immediately decided to meet him while everyone was busy studying in their respective classes. Yeah, in other words I'm ditching now.

I even bought some plaster with a heat-lowering compress along with the heat-lowering medication as well.

It was fortunate that I was able to break out of the academy secretly. My mind while watching the groceries in my hand before climbing the mango tree in front of me.

I should have been able to buy it at the dispensary in the academy provided specifically by the academy, so that the students in the dormitory would not have to go outside to buy medicines. But since the time didn't fit, I decided to buy it outside. Because if it wasn't, the dispensary would know that I was ditching.

"Is that really his room?" I continued with breath gasping from tired of running around looking for Aster and Kalea's room. Then my gaze was fixed on Aster and Kalea's room on the second floor while recalling Kalea's words explaining the layout of her room.

And without wasting any more time, I decided to climb up the mango tree in front of me quickly before anyone caught me around the female dormitory.

"Hup!" I said as I jumped on the terrace of Aster's room carefully, then I tried to open the window of the room in front of me that was slightly open. It seems that it was deliberately opened a little so that fresh air outside could enter their room. Especially now that Aster is asleep because of illness.

"I'm really acting like a thief huh? Sneaking coming into a woman's room." I continued muttering after I managed to get into Aster and Kalea's room.

I spread my gaze through every corner of the room arranged in such a way with personal belongings of Aster and Kalea. Then my gaze stopped on the figure of Aster who was asleep with a wet towel fused.

His face was completely pale, but at the bottom of his eyes was red. Probably because of the heat.

I haven't seen him sick in a long time like this. If I have to remember the past again, I used to sneak into Aster's room secretly to wait for him to wake up from his sleep. But when he woke up, he accused me of being a ghost of a child for standing in his bedroom balcony. And the shadow of my body frightened him to such an extent.

Very amusing.

"His memory is so much ...," I murmured while sweating on his face and replacing the wet towel he had been wearing.

"Hhm .. Did I wake up now? He will have to eat and take medicine" I put the wet towel back on, of course, after squeezing it back.

... yeah, I'll just wait a minute. I'm afraid he's just getting some sleep. I broke my heart when I remembered how hard it was to fall asleep if I had a fever.

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-Sean

So that purple kid is sick, huh? My mind looked at the empty bench beside me before returning to focus on the lesson.

Lately I have been thinking about it a lot, why? Especially when I heard he had a bad experience in his old school.

But what confused me, why is he even familiar with Kalea? The one who gave her bad memories. Isn't that weird?

"Guhhh!"

"St...oi!" Hendric's voice broke my daydream, I quickly glanced in annoyance at him. However, the boy instead pointed his thumb at the blackboard and made me frown confused at the sight of his expression.

"You're asked to do something there." Still whispering made me look at the blackboard.

"Yes, you're Sean! Do this in front." Mr. Vito said to me a little surprised, I think Hendric was just kidding because he saw me daydreaming.

With a little heavy heart, I also walked towards the blackboard while scratching my back head which honestly did not feel itchy in the slightest.

Simple form of (2n²)³.(3n)² is ..., my mind when reading the problem on the board wrote before filling the answer. Then without wasting time, my hand immediately grabbed the black marker from Mr. Vito to write my answer under the problem.

"The result ... 72n⁸ yes?" I murmured after arriving at the picture.

"Okay your answer is right, you can come back now. Next time don't daydream again while I'm teaching." Said Mr. Vito when I turned to him who was watching me from the side, then I gave the black marker back into the hands of Mr. Vito.

"Hhehe, I'm sorry sir." I felt ashamed of being confused.

"Alright because the time is up, we continue in the next meeting. Today's class we end, you can go rest now. Good day." Said Mr. Vito along with my new butt shaking hands with my chair. Then I saw Mr. Vito watching his watch before grabbing the books on his desk and leaving class as the break bell rang.

"It's also great that you can do it, but don't pay any attention." Hendric said making me turn to him who was standing next to my desk with an annoyed look.

"Hhaha, just a coincidence." Shall I feel bad for her, "want to go to the cafeteria now?" I continued to shift the conversation while getting up from my seat.

"Yes." Yeah." He answered while nodding his head in a doldrums.

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- Esther

"You're not going back to class?" I asked after taking a deep breath because I felt tired. All I did was eat and take medicine, but my body was tired. Is it because of the pain?

"I'll go after you sleep. Now go to sleep." His reply made me feel very disturbed by his words. How could he say such a thing when the situation was not the same as usual.

"You kidding me?" I asked her to be immediately cut off by him who had pressed my shoulder with both hands so that my body could lie back as before.

"Have slept–"

"Not so, I don't care if this kind of situation happens at home. But this is in the dorm, not my house. You could be in trouble if the hostel mom finds you here,"

"Then–" I said again when I heard the sound of the door being opened from outside.

"Aster, I'm in." The sound of the hostel mother surprised me as well as Carel. I just warned him.

"Ce–hurry to hide! Go to te–ras?" I couldn't hide my panic, plus when I saw Carel obeying my orders without saying much and went straight into my wardrobe without being asked and without him noticing.

He entered the room?! Why not just go out of order? My mind is both upset and ashamed of the child's behavior.

"Aster," the voice of the hostess came back to wake me up to my current situation.

"Ah mother ...." I tried to show her my best smile.

I saw the hostess bring hot lemon tea, smelled of its fragrance and a puff of smoke from the cup in her hand.

"You alone?"

"Eh? Ah–iya, I ... myself," I replied feeling the cold sweat against me.

Did the hostel mother realize it? No right? My mind continued to babble, hoping that the hostess did not notice it and immediately came out from inside my room. It's nothing, it's just that Carel is in my closet right now. And I can't let it linger in there.

"What's the Aster? Why continue to pay attention ...," the voice of the hostess returned to wake me up with her presence, I quickly turned my gaze to her who had placed the teacup in her hand on the table.

"Ti–no. I just, ah my head." I was trying to distract the hostess from my closet by pretending to have a headache.

"Geez, Aster. Your head? What pain?"

"I–iya." My lie grimaced and held my head with my right hand.

"Medicine .. Have you taken your medicine?"

"Su–already, but ...,"

"Then rest, sleep Aster again. Don't push yourself too much." He seemed to worry so much about me.

Inevitably I also returned to lay my body when my body was forced to lie down by the dorm mother. Yes, I woke up from my bedside position in shock when I saw Carel in my closet. And I forgot to lay my body down again.

Ah, I feel so guilty now for lying to her. My mind cannot turn away from the worried gaze of the hostess.

"But mother just arrived, I–" My words were immediately stopped by her hand that had already grabbed my face, stroking it gently and attentively. Then his faint smile began to adorn his face.

"It's okay, mom will go now. So you can rest in peace."

"Sorry,"

"No problem, if it still hurts you can call me. I'll leave my number here." He left his cell phone number near the cup he was carrying.

"Thank you."

"Then I'll come back later, you rest again." He said before leaving my room.

I saw the housewife leaving from before me and after she closed the door of my room, Carel went straight out of my closet with a sigh of relief, but her expression instantly changed as our eyes met face to face. Not looking relieved in the slightest, even the opposite of his breath a moment ago.

"Your head hurts?" He immediately walked up to me who was lying down. I saw her red bead staring at me worriedly with her body sitting on the edge of my bed. Even his right hand had already grabbed the top of my head and caressed it carefully.

I haven't seen him for a long time now so worried about me. I wanted to prank her, but I didn't want to lie to her because her eyes weighed heavily on me.

"No." Short made him surprised.

"... You really are!" His growl was full of emphasis while pinching my cheek in a fit of anxiety.

"It hurts!" I tried to get his hands off my face. But my energy cannot match his power. Yes, besides, which sick people can match the energy of healthy people, right?

"Whose fault are you worrying me about?" Ask

"That–" I answered along with the sound of the door opening again made Carel's body freeze in place, as well as my body.

"Is the hostel mother back?" My whisper broke out in a cold sweat after creating a few seconds of silence in shock.

"you reckon? It's wrong who can't speak quietly!" Carel whispered.

"Why blame me? You're also guilty of coming to my room you know! And again is that really a housewife?" My protest did not dare look at the door because it was blocked by Carel's body. And Carel's position was facing me, turning his back on the door behind him.

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