I'm Not an Old Virgin
Season II: Mahligai of Love (Chapter 13.6)
One by one, the students began to finish breakfast. They do not stay in the food booth because they have to go to school. However, there are also many people who eat slowly. It is not surprising that most come from female students. While the male santri leaves only a few people at the dining table.
First of all Ai, Mega, and Asri begin to collect the tableware on the table that is empty to be washed immediately. They were so busy working that they did not have to exchange greetings with each other. They parted to separate desks to finish faster and did not take too much time as they also needed to go to school.
"Sorry, is your name Aishi Humaira?" A santri asked Ai.
Ai stopped her work for a while, politely answering the girl's question.
"Right, my name is Aishi Humaira. Do you need anything?" Ai knew them from the same year of entry despite not knowing each other.
The girl then turned to her friend with a strange look before returning to look at Ai. He smiled awkwardly, shaking his head after that back sitting in his chair to continue breakfast.
Ai didn't feel there was anything wrong with the girl so she kept smiling as usual and started working back to collect dirty dishes and glasses.
"I'm not sure. His face was indeed like a woman but his body was too thin for a woman's size." The girl and her friend started whispering.
They may not realize it if the conversation can be heard by Ai, the girl on whom they are talking.
Ai surprised. Both of his hands were busy working speechlessly not making any more movements. His heart was pumping very hard inside his body. No more sweet feelings like a moment ago when he met Ustad Vano.
Instead of being sweet, the blood flowing within his body now carried the emotions of restlessness, nervousness, panic, and fear.
He felt all these uncomfortable feelings inside him.
"I'm not really sure either" the girl's friend whispered.
"She is very pretty but...why is her chest so flat?" Said confused.
Ai closed her eyes holding tightness, her heart was extremely tight at this moment. It feels really uncomfortable.
"Hey, don't say that. She's wearing a big headscarf so it's possible that her chest is disguised." Another friend chimed, from his speech he was a person who likes to think positively.
Ai opened her eyes again. There was a faint fragility shining within his eyes. Showing thin ripples of signs of crying.
"Don't joke. No matter how small a woman's chest is but it can still be seen even if the woman is wearing a large headscarf." The girl immediately denied what her friend said.
Ai took a deep breath, smiled faintly at the corner of her lips and began to resume her work. He acted as if he had heard nothing and acted as if nothing had ever happened around him.
Even though it hurt, he could only endure it because no one could help him.
Well, his disability is a destiny that can not be eliminated even if he had undergone surgery. Just like the former surgery that had not been able to disappear completely from the 'it' place, Ai's disability would also remain imprinted inside her.
It's like a title that can't be eliminated.
But their conversation still hasn't stopped and Ai is forced to listen to everything.
"Don't suudzon do that, later if it's not true how? What you are talking about today will be judged by God." The girl's friend reminded generously.
But the girl still did not want to end their conversation.
"But what if what the rumors say is true if she's transgender"
"Shhh! Don't say that. If true then the fall of the gibah but if not then the fall of slander. Nothing is justified between these two because all are equally disliked by God." Cut out others wanting to finish the topic immediately.
"It is not a matter of sin but it is about its existence in the boarding school. Would you like to interact with a female jejadian-"
"Astagfirullah, stop talking about this matter. Aren't you afraid that he'll hear what you said just now? The fall of sin if it is not true. Come on, I'll go first. School's coming in and I don't want to be late."
One by one the girl's friends left. Making the girl who started the conversation topic hurriedly finish her breakfast before going after them all.
Now only Ai with her pretense. He was silent, his gaze was blank and both his hands were still busy working - well, his hands were just holding a dirty plate without knowing where to put it.
"Transgender?" This is the first time Ai has heard someone accuse her of being transgender.
It turned out that there was someone more sick than someone who said it as a disabled human. It turns out there's something more painful than this.
How come?
She has never been transgender because this is illegal unless there is a need for health.
He really never did!
"Who is spreading this senseless rumor?" He asked me who.
"Where did this rumor come from?"
Ai was terrified, she was afraid that everyone would find out about this rumor and justify it. Ah, perhaps more precisely he was very afraid when the man he loved - Ustad Vano heard these rumors. And he was even more afraid that Ustad Vano would believe him and make a distance with him.
Ai really can't, she's scared really scared.
He was embarrassed to meet with Ustad Vano again, he had no face anymore because of his secret no one knows who spread it. Creating untrue rumors about him here.
"Oh my God, what should I do now?"