My Ex-husband Lecturer
Chapter 23 Arrives - It's Cold

“Halo, ma.”, greet Kirana by phone.

“Where are you? At this hour I have not come home yet. Nginep again?”, asked mama Kirana who already knows the habits of her daughter.

“I-iya. Kirana is now in Ghea's house. He forced Kirana nginep. Want to confide in him said. Gapapa, yes ma. It's 8 o'clock. Turn around right now too. Mama knows Ghea's home is far.”, explained Kirana at length.

“Mana Ghea, mommy wants to talk first.”, said mama Kirana beyond expectations.

Usually his mother will say ‘Oke. don't forget tomorrow morning go home first, yes.’. But the opposite is true.

‘Wadd.. Why do you even want to talk to Ghea.’, thought Dinda panicked.

“Ma, Ghea is again taking a shower. Yes tomorrow. Ga yummy already malem gini.”, said Kirana managed to find the right reason.

“Why take a shower at this time. Mama just wants to make sure you're not weird - weird. Mama met with me Mom. They're stories about promiscuity and juvenile delinquency. Ih. mama worried darling. You don't lie to mama.”, unlike usual, mama Kirana continues to insist on being able to talk to Ghea.

“So I took a shower first, ma. So Ghea can take a shower now. Kirana's not doing anything strange - weird, really. Mom doesn't believe in her own son. Don't dong ma.”, Kirana tried to make her mother believe and not ask anymore.

“Ya. Later when Ghea is done, you call mama. Anyway, mama just wanted to make sure that you were at Ghea.” house, her mother said back.

“Ga yummy dong, ma. I don't know when he finished his shower either. As long as you know yes, Ghea it if the old bath.”, Kirana still continues to lick her tongue.

Kirana really does not want her mother to know that Kirana is now in Rian's house. No. gabe. Like anything, it's not the best choice. Plus lately, her mother often asked about Rian.

‘ Anyway, mom can't know that sister Rian is in Indonesia. Moreover, knowing that he is a lecturer at my campus. Can't.’, inner Kirana in heart.

“Ya. Then video call.”, said mama Kirana immediately made the girl almost drop her phone.

‘What?? Video call? How is this..’, Kirana panics.

He walked left to right like an iron in Rian's kitchen. At that time, he was preparing dinner. Prepare in the sense of serving food that he ordered through an online application.

“Oh. wait.. I never saw Ghea's house. Mama also rarely went to Rian's house when I lived with him. So, video call at home is just gapapa, dong.”, Kirana is so confident with her reasoning.

‘Mama was Kak Rian in France. Disappear. He wouldn't have guessed that I could be at his house.’

“Ya yes. It's up to Mom if you don't believe. Oiya, I'm downstairs again grabbing the drinks and food that Ghea's parents had offered me. So I am now again in the kitchen, yes.”, Kirana said even giving a detailed explanation.

“Hm? You take it yourself in the kitchen. Got caught? No polite it Ran.”, ucpa mama Kirana arrived - suddenly focus on it.

“Gapapa, mom. It was Ghea kok who bargained to be taken directly in the kitchen. You see abis was heated earlier.”, reply Kirana.

“Mama is not good for video calls. Later they are disturbed.”, replied mama Kirana arrived - suddenly sungkan.

“Tab.. I've already said. Yesterday tomorrow ma.”, Kirana seemed to capture the feeling of his mother's reluctance as a golden opportunity to escape from this tense situation.

“Ya.. Later if you're in Ghea's room. You said same mom. Later mama phone.”, said Mama again still with the same idea.

After successfully closing her phone, Kirana tries to take the spot by heart. Spot - a common spot that would be almost in all houses the same. Namely, the sink in the kitchen. In this way, mama Kirana would definitely no longer question him.

And right, after Kirana finished sending the selfie, her mama didn't ask any more questions.

Shortly after Kirana sent the photo to her mother, there was a sound of footsteps from above. Kirana immediately moved towards the stairs.

“Kak Rian? Brother is already gapapa?”, asked Kirana surprised as Rian went down the stairs while carrying his infusion.

‘At least the man did not forcibly remove his infusion.’, thought Kirana inwardly.

Only about 5 hours ago, Arya was completely helpless until Kirana had to help feed the porridge to her mouth. The man who was still weak did not even give any resistance or questions at all to Kirana.

“You are still here?”, asked Rian in a cold tone.

A very different tone from a few hours ago where the man pulled her and didn't even want Kirana to leave.

Kirana did not answer Rian's question and simply fell silent.

‘What does that question mean? Of course I'm still here. How could I leave this man alone in the house with no people at all. What if she fainted or needed something.’, Kirana could only mumble from the inside.

“Already night. Better you go home soon.”, said Rian in a tone that is no less cold than before.

The man's gaze slowly led to the cupboard that was in front of the main door. He still remembered that he had dropped whatever was on the floor there. And now everything looks neat again.

However, there was something different from Rian's view on that table. Silly gazes. Though the arrangement did not change too much. Only a few figurines have lost glass or framenyua.

“What do you mean by Rian? I went home by myself at this hour?”, asked Kirana forward and showed me the watch in her hand.

“You should have come home from earlier. Why are you still here and complicate yourself.”, said Rian ketus.

The man walked past Kirana towards the kitchen. Instead, he took a glass and poured water and drank it.

“Sister Rian needs something? Let me help you prepare. Brother just go back upstairs and rest. Brother Rian has not recovered properly.”, Kirana said ignoring the words of the man who told her to go home.

“Where is my phone.”, ask Rian.

‘What - what's ‘saya’. We are not on campus.’, said Kirana somehow annoyed with the name used by Rian.

“For what? Better Brother Rian rest. Doctor Surya said so. So that tomorrow Rian can get back to health and activity as before.”, explained Kirana.

“I order you a taxi. You can go home now. For value issues, we will talk back at campus, you do not need to bother coming here.”, said Rian still with a cold tone and a sharp gaze.

‘How could his gaze turn 180 degrees from last noon.’, thought Kirana.

‘While she herself opened the fence and asked me to come in.’, Kirana was really confused by this man's actions.