
"Cockcampus?"
It was Eleena's words when Arfin first set foot on the floor of the corridor and met eye-to-eye with the girl. The girl who pinched her hair in half with a blue ribbon behind her was in line with the knee-length white skirt and light blue sweater that the middle girl was wearing.
Those words also stopped Arfin from continuing his journey to his class. He did not meet with Vishnu and the others this morning but he instead met Eleena—the girl who managed to become one of the people he thought about more lately.
Eleena with red lips, lentic eyelashes, eyebrows are not too thick but not too thin also with a little light brown polish so that the eyebrows belong to the girl are slightly colored. Her white skin, Eleena's soft hands and don't forget the girl's perfume has always been Arfin's greatest drunkard. Fragrant vanilla whenever Eleena was a few steps ahead of her was able to dispel Arfin's momentary consciousness.
Arfin glanced at the girl from the tail of his eyes, he could not lie that Eleena was the perfect girl. Anything she did would look special including this time, when the girl was sticking a wet cloth over Arfin's forehead.
"Lo's still feverish, supposedly resting at home!" edith Eleena, lowered her hand after putting the back of her hand to Arfin's forehead to check the body temperature of the man whose steps she stopped because of the question 'cock-small?'
Arfin only smiled hearing Eleena's howling. He did not argue but did not answer, I don't know when his lips want to open to reply to the girl's words. However, her tongue was suddenly twisted due to the worried full face that the girl displayed when checking her body temperature.
"Lo strong to kill?" Eleena's question did not get an answer from Arfin, instead the man lost his balance so fell in Eleena's arms. If only Eleena did not hold the weight of Arfin, it was certain that the man would fall right now.
Eleena placed Arfin's hand on her shoulder, and her left hand coiled around Arfin's waist. Deftly and sensibly Eleena told the people there to get out of her sight.
The people in the corridor just watch how Arfin almost fell because he could not bear his own weight also overcome this sense of dizziness.
Eleena is the only person there willing to carry Arfin, taking the man to the Health Unit available on their campus. The room was empty, there were only a few medicine boxes and first aid kits there.
Eleena laid down Arfin's body slowly, making sure that the man was no longer in pain as he laid his body on the bed. Arfin's eyes slowly closed even so Arfin still had an awareness of what was happening there.
Panic Eleena looking for a thermometer to check the body temperature Arfin more certainly can be seen by Arfin although vague.
"Fin, you're not going to be okay, there's me" Eleena said after learning how much Arfin's body temperature actually was. On the object emblazoned number 38° indicates that the condition of Arfin's body is far from the word okay.
Eleena tries to calm down and reassure Arfin that she will be fine. Arfin was already unable to endure this pain, Arfin's eyes closed again. When she felt that there was movement in the form of hand rubs in the mane of her hair, Arfin's eyes closed perfectly. He doesn't know what happens next.
...***...
Arfin smiled, he did not know whether to be grateful or sad because he fainted this morning. Glad that her condition today was the reason Eleena was by her side this time. Sad because Eleena became very agitated because the heat in Arfin's body did not go down even though it had been compressed since.
"Fin, is it still sick?" eleena asked, holding Arfin's hand. Arfin tried to nod, but because he was so weak and was lying down now Arfin was in trouble to do so, so Arfin tried to tell the girl through the words, "Still." Arfin's voice was slow, sounding like a whisper, indicating that Arfin's power was indeed drained out now.
"Duh, how should I? I don't know what to say about gini." Eleena's hand again put the wet cloth on Arfin's forehead. Still hoping that the cloth could absorb the heat.
"Fin, did I say that if you are sick don't be forced to waste, why don't you beat me anyway?!" Eleena stroked Arfin's hand which also had a slight hot taste there.
Arfin flashed a smile on his pale face, "Gue wants to learn," he replied weakly but clearly.
"Can learn, can mengkampus, can meet your friends, can meet with the girls lo, but that's after you really healed Fin. If you're still like this, you're here now and you can't get anything."
Eleena is right, Arfin gets nothing but she gets one thing, Eleena's attention and the girl's worries. Actually Arfin did not like Eleena like this, but Arfin was not a hypocrite, he felt happy when Eleena was worried about him.
"Sorry El, so take some nicotine" said Arfin. Eleena shook her head, "No need to take nicotine, but you make me anxious like this."
Eleena smiled at Arfin, she clasped Arfin's hand as if giving strength from there so that Arfin could get better soon and get out of this Health Unit room because it was already home hours.
Arfin was there for a few hours, from Arfin coming to this place until the bell went home to ring, Arfin state has not shown any signs of recovering immediately then from that, from that, the man has not yet come out of this place.
"How can you get such a high fever?" eleena asked with a worried look like that.
"Wishnu didn't tell you?" Eleena shook her head. "Say he told you everything was the same, lo" continued Arfin.
"He doesn't know why you're sick, just how you're doing."
Arfin did not immediately reply, he collected a supply of air to fill his chest that felt tight even to just breathe.
"Gue's busy, El—"
"Busy with your girls?" sela Eleena, Arfin tried to shake her head.
"Not that," he replied firmly but slightly restrained due to the condition of his body that was still weak. "Gue is busy with the same organization, college assignments as well, and some activities at home—"
"What's in your house?" Arfin did not reply, instead he threw away his gaze from Eleena.
Eleena's hand movements slowly rose, until the girl's hand touched the top of Arfin's left elbow.
"You...." Arfin grimaced as Eleena's hand touched the top of her elbow. Hunt Arfin's right hand to touch the part that Eleena had just touched.
Arfin's painful facial wrinkle appeared again. After Eleena managed to get the man to talk and slightly relieve the pain on Arfin's face, now that Arfin's girl was back in pain.
"Fin, why?" Eleena panicked, but Arfin did not respond to her, she was still preoccupied with this pain in her hand.
"El, I want to sit down," pinta Arfin. Eleena helps Arfin to tend her body after behind the man Eleena put a pillow for Arfin to feel comfortable.
Nothing had changed, Arfin was still holding onto his left arm. And that brings up Eleena's curiosity. Without permission, Eleena touched the part she touched until Arfin felt this pain. And true to her guess, Arfin again grimaced in pain.
Without saying anything, Eleena rolled up the sleeves of Arfin's shirt.
"El." Arfin tried to prevent Eleena, but Eleena was so deft that Arfin could not resist the girl from raising her sleeves.
Eleena's eyes perfectly rounded what she saw behind the long sleeves of Arfin's shirt. Something the man covered in a long shirt that he had been wearing for days.
"El this—"
"Why? How can I believe in gini?" Eleena's gaze was fixed on Arfin completely. It was not the worried look that the girl showed but rather the gaze waiting for the truth from Arfin's mouth that she displayed.
Arfin was slightly stunned to see Eleena's gaze like that. Slightly intimidated, but Arfin was confused as to what kind of lie she had to tell after Eleena noticed there was a considerable bruise and had started to turn blue on Arfin's arm. The bruise that Arfin had almost a week ago.
"This is why Arfin?" Eleena asked once more and this time with a little emphasis.
Arfin swallowed his saliva suck. "Pa.. It's because of Papa." It was hard enough for Arfin to tell Eleena this, but Arfin was powerless to hide this from her, even though Arfin had not told her friends about it.
"Gue fought again Papa, he meant me to move majors again, he appeals me again. I was angry, I was beaten." Arfin's eyes heated up telling him that.
"Hit what's he wearing?"
"Not wearing anything, empty hands. But, sick...." As Arfin's tears fell, the man could never hide his sadness in front of Eleena.
"Papa ngancem if I do not move majors, I will be expelled from the house. That's why I'm afraid of El, that's why I came today, I'm afraid of Papa, afraid of being hit again...."
Eleena brought Arfin into her arms, giving the man a warm feeling. Arfin immediately tightened the hug as soon as Eleena hugged him. Not hysterical, but Eleena could feel something very painful from Arfin's cry.
"Lo's sick for sure because of this, right?" Arfin did not reply, he still let out all the tears as long as he held on.
"Fin, why don't you tell me the same story? It should be from the beginning of the story, do not be self-flagged like gini, so you are sick. I don't like you being sick, Fin," said Eleena trying to give Arfin strength through elusan on her back.
"Fin, you can do this all by yourself. If I were lo, I wouldn't be strong" said Eleena. "Fin, you're great. You shouldn't bokap lo nyia-nyiain lo kayak gini."
"El, don't tell anyone?" Arfin suddenly released his embrace. With her face still wet from tears, Arfin continued her words, saying,
"Don't tell me this is the same thing, please. I don't want them to worry, especially Vishnu. You know that Vishnu has acted like how. He's Aksanta's son, I'm afraid that if Vishnu finds out, my family's company could be in danger."
Eleena did not ask much let alone argue, she immediately nodded her head. Even at a time like this, Arfin was still thinking about his family.
"Arfin!"
The door of the room opened, displaying Vishnu with a half-dead panicked face there. Vishnu immediately approached Arfin.
"Lo crazy huh? Still sick but maksa ngampus, thank God there was El, if he did not have lo how?"
Vishnu took Arfin into his arms. Like a brother who hugs his sister lovingly when the sister is in pain.
"Don't get sick, Fin," said Vishnu.