Beautiful Monster
Busy Month

The busy months begin. Class 12 began to be attacked by a wide variety of assessment methods. The presentation of the task always comes almost every week. Trials of a Few Weeks. Talk about going home in the afternoon again. But it is still arguably easy if it does not include a list of individual and group practice exams.

It's getting harder to see Rajendra. He became a busy student. Only a few times did Ignacia find Rajendra leaving in a lab coat to the chemistry lab. If not, maybe go to the cafeteria at break time.

"Don't drown that way. Let's finish your meal and get the job done before the next lesson." Nesya rebuked Ignacia, staring intently at the girl who looked like grass that had been stepped on. Wilt and no longer has the spirit of his life.

"I'm tired. Can't the food just move straight into my stomach?" To chew, he was tired.

It's like babysitting.

"You are just there. Let's quickly spend and do the next task. We haven't learned the material today either. You promised to study together. Hurry up or we'll be late for the study."

Every night after a task like never ending, Ignacia always sends a short message to Rajendra. It doesn't matter whether the message is read or not. Whether the message is disturbing or not. Rajendra once said that he had no problem with the messages from Ignacia.

"Sister, dinner's ready" called Athira from behind the door of her sister's room.

Ignacia turned towards the door she had just knocked on. Instead, look at the wall clock that shows dinner time. Why is time going so fast? Was it because Ignacia was too focused on her task to finish quickly?

"Sister, do I want to bring the food to the room?" Athira is still waiting.

Ignacia hurriedly came out. Turn off the desk lamp, charge the phone, and close the books on the table. Athira was still around the door. The two meet face to face then together go to the kitchen to eat.

"Why does my sister look weak? Something happen? Brother could tell me," Athira looked at him with her busy hands twirling the fork into the noodle bowl, "sister can say anything that makes sister feel tired. I'm not just here as a householder."

"I'm tired of all the last class pressure. I want to pass without needing an exam."

"Then you need a miracle. Oh yes, I bought this earlier," Athira took something out of her jacket pocket, put it on the table, "i think you need a lot of snacks because you keep doing the chores in the room. It must be boring not to eat a snack."

Fitbars. Ignacia's Favors.

"Thank you."

"By the way I don't see brother going alone again with Kak Rajendra. You guys deliberately busied yourself and didn't see each other again?" Athira was just curious. Her brother would usually meet Rajendra right?

"We're already in 12th grade, Athira. We're getting ready for a bright future."

Athira just ooh ria heard her brother's answer. Athira's job is just to make sure her brother is okay before his monitoring plans after graduation. At least she won't regret not making her brother okay while at home.

"At least I don't want to lose the chance of being a good sister," Athira muttered.

...*****...

"Good morning" said a friend who sat in front of Ignacia. A friend with black glasses. Ignacia nodded and waved her hand. His mouth was unable to make a sound.

As I approached the table, there was something there. Vanilla and Fitbar flavored milk Ignacia's favorite flavor. "Who put this here? Is there anyone sitting here before I come?" Ignacia spoke in a small voice. The quiet atmosphere of the class made his friends can hear his voice well.

"When I came, it was already there."

There's a little note under the vanilla milk. A small piece of folded paper. Looks familiar like Ignacia ever get the same paper. The writing is not so foreign either. When it was opened, it seemed that the writing there was indeed what Ignacia thought.

...{I love you}...

...{Have a nice day}...

Ignacia smiled slightly reading the small note there. He kept the paper to the back of the phone case and sat in its place. It was still morning, and a sweet surprise came over. Ignacia was happy to be able to come after that person prepared this little gift.

"You are so sweet," the inner Ignacia pleased. Ignacia will open her phone to thank the one who gave this gift.

"If I were to thank you now, I wouldn't ruin the surprise right? Do I have to postpone it until I can meet him in person?"

The next day Ignacia also gained the same density. School, going home late in the afternoon due to extra classes, and doing errands in the evening before going to bed. After yesterday, vanilla and Fitbar milk came back just before Ignacia entered the classroom.

The table is at the very back, but the typical vanilla milk box color makes it easy to see even if the distance is a bit far away. Of course with different small notes.

...{You know right?}...

...{How much I love you}...

The days passed, snacks kept coming to his desk almost every morning. Ignacia had already come early to see someone who had placed a snack on her desk. But Ignacia always missed it. The snack came faster.

On the seventh day, Ignacia did not immediately turn to her class. There was somewhere he wanted to visit before his boring day began. But he better put his heavy bag in class. Than her body shrinks later.

Slowly his feet stepped, settling down so as not to disturb the one inside. Ignacia's hand touched the door frame, making sure she wasn't caught.

"I wonder what you're doing this early," the girl said. Ignacia began to peek, finding someone sitting on the chair she had once occupied before.

"Rajendra," Ignacia said to the man. He came out of the hiding place, making the one sitting in front of the laptop shocked. But the water his face instantly turned happy. "You came early and gave me a snack for the last seven days. I wonder what you're doing this early."

Ignacia takes place next to Rajendra. The class of men was still quiet. His friends may still be on their way. Ignacia so there was no need to hesitate to go to her lover who - ah apparently she was busy doing group tasks. He's making powerpoint now.

"Do I bother you?" Ask Ignacia regretfully.

Rajendra shook his head, "i'm glad you came. So someone's accompanying me here."

"What task is still piling up? Shall I help you do something? Maybe I can ease up."

The man beside her stopped for a moment. Waiting for his phone to load something. His gaze flashed on Ignacia with a sparkling gaze. "Can you help me out here for a second? It doesn't feel good to do a task alone."

Ignacia nodded in agreement, breaking off eye contact suddenly. "I'll be back after your many friends come. Why did you buy me a snack? I mean why is it still possible? You're busy doing something here."

The girl beside him placed both of his hands on the table, folding them as a headstool. "Why not just send a message? I'm happy if you reply to my message even if it's just a short answer. I sometimes open our old messages when you're not around, Rajendra."

"It feels less if you just send a message. Ignacia, I have group work this afternoon. Sorry if I can't send you a message later. I haven't opened my phone yet this morning. Is there something you want to tell me?"

Ignacia remembered for a moment. "Oh yeah, I haven't read a book in a month. I was so tired I could no longer read. Also I want to know how you can buy me a Fitbar. I never said I liked Fitbar before."

"I'm getting help." Rajendra held back a smile, looked at Ignacia at a glance then back at the laptop.

Ignacia smiled, "definitely Athira who leaked this. Hah, even though I didn't even tell Nesya." The girl closed her eyes slowly. The atmosphere is very comfortable to sleep in.

Rajendra's one hand moves to get rid of the haircut that is blocking Ignacia's face. "Don't fall asleep, Ignacia. You're not home." Rajendra's hand was still in the air, his gaze directed at his two favorite girl's beads.

"Remember if this is also still in school, Rajendra. You can't keep looking at me like that" Ignacia whispered.

The corner of Ignacia's eyes caught Rajendra's friend turning to enter the classroom after seeing the two. There was a friend who did not enter the class because of the work of friends in the class. Even so, Ignacia was no longer afraid of other people's views on her and Rajendra.

...*****...

The day changed, still with the same rush.

Ignacia does not want to keep quiet when Rajendra prepares a snack every morning. The girl tried to sneak into her lover's class to put the same gift on the table when the owner was away at the cafeteria.

Ignacia must also repay her lover's kindness.

Luckily Rajendra's class was empty during the break. People were busy going to buy food to prop up the stomach due to afternoon classes. There were people carrying supplies, they gathered and ate them in the back of the class without knowing if Ignacia had come to Rajendra's table several times.

Ignacia also made the same note. Take some of the words he got from the book he read. And there are also only small curses that Rajendra may not have read on his phone.

Sometimes there are people who are aware of Ignacia in Rajendra's class. But his girlfriend's friend is too lazy to bother the two. Just let the couple who supposedly said he had never gone on a date enjoy the sweet busy days of the last year of school.

"Ignacia," someone reprimanded the girl who came out secretly from Rajendra's class. Ignacia was startled and could only throw a stiff smile at the one reprimanding her. "Thank you for giving me snacks lately."

The man stepped closer, patting the top of Ignacia's head gently. "You always come to my class like this hm? I can't believe people don't catch you when you go in and just walk away."

Ignacia froze, it felt like her stomach was producing butterflies.

Nesya pretends not to know when Ignacia sneaks out of class to give Rajendra something. He thinks Ignacia can do anything as long as it's good. The girl looks thinner because she feels stressed with all the activities at school.

So he better find his happiness again in the middle of the onslaught of the end of the semester.

"Rajendra found me when I left the classroom" Ignacia explained with a shy smile at the good friend.

"It's okay. You've managed to give it to get caught over the past month. You guys shared a snack but didn't see each other and haven't been caught before." Nesya opened her phone while talking, typed something on the phone and prepared to read a comic.

"Today I was found out. That surprise should really be a surprise."

...*****...

At home, Ignacia doesn't know what to do. He was too tired to read, too afraid to send a message to his lover who had high flying hours. The message Ignacia had not read yesterday when it was written online on her account. Rajendra is that busy?

"Sir, dinner," Athira called out.

"I'm not hungry."

This is the fifth time Ignacia has refused dinner. The reason if not because of fatigue, busy, must be because they want to vent their frustration because of Rajendra. Someone who is in bad emotions sometimes do unimportant things occasionally.

"Come Brother. Are you not afraid when you are so angry because you don't want to eat? Brother was already in a busy month before the final exam. Big brother needs a lot of energy to study and test." Athira nagging. He himself was upset with his brother's behavior.

"I'll eat it later."

"Would I get it?"

"Then I don't want to eat."

"All right, I'm going. But you have to keep eating tonight. Otherwise, I'd be very angry."

Ignacia could hear the sound of footsteps slowly moving away from the door of her room. With her sitting on the floor, hugging her knees, and withstanding the overwhelming tightness in her heart, Ignacia was still sculpting.

"Is it because Rajendra is rarely present? I kind of miss her" Ignacia muttered.

The moon has changed. Rajendra could no longer deliver snacks as Ignacia still did in the break. The message has stopped. It feels back to the time when the man became the chairman of MPK. The days Ignacia hated to come whenever she felt lonely.

"If I bother him, will he forgive me?"

Ignacia's head is moving. Look to the right and to the left to find the whereabouts of the phone. His phone was on the nightstand across from the bed. Far enough out of Ignacia's reach.

"Even though I bother him, he still won't read my message."

Ignacia circulated her gaze towards her messy study table due to the task she was trying to do alone. He was exhausted and decided to sit on the cold floor to calm down. He was quite depressed about everything. School is also a matter of the man he likes.

"All I did was just keep waiting for him. For years. All I did was wait until he was done. Waiting until he takes time for me. Is this fair?"

The girl on the floor straightened her legs. His eyes stared blankly ahead. "When can I stop thinking about him like he stopped thinking about me? It's not fair to me."

Ignacia smiled slightly. Feeling stupid about his feelings.

"Why should I keep waiting for him like a fool in the midst of my own busyness?"