After working at the cafe, Felicia returned to her house by taking a Transjakarta bus, which happened to be the stop there from the Matching Point cafe. The cafe where she works after every class.
Felicia immediately got into the bus which was taking her home. It is quite far from the bus stop to her house, about half and four miles. But this transportation is the cheapest. So that she can save money.
About thirty minutes later, Felicia arrived at the bus stop closest to her house. She got down from there and came out after tapping the card on the automatic door. His long legs took a leisurely stroll down the main road then into an alley. Not far from the alley entrance, on the right there is a small gate inside which a small building stands there. Surrounded by a hedge and a few trees around it, it is like securing the house from the crowd. Although their neighbor's house was quite close, it was only fifty meters away.
Felicia opened the iron gate which was full of rust slowly because there was a squeak sound that was quite disturbing to the ears. Especially at night like this. She also stepped back through the yard that looked well-groomed. Most of the yard is still of fertile red soil. Only a path is made using rocks that connect from the fence to the terrace of the house.
Even though it was dark, the door to her house was still slightly open. Interspersed by the sound of sewing machines that sounded as soon as Felicia approached the door. She opened the door slowly, revealing the figure of a middle-aged woman who was now sitting on her sewing table chair with skillful hands pushing the cloth over it.
"You're home, Fel?" asked the woman with her gaze still focused on her work.
"I am." Felicia walked over to the woman and greeted her politely.
"Go eat first before resting," said her mother.
"Mama, don't sleep late at night, okay." Felicia tried to remind her mother who likes to forget time when working, just like herself. "For the research cost, you don't need to worry. Felicia got a lecturer project. At least a small fee."
"Oh, yeah? Thankfully. But I used to work until night. After all, I have an appointment with the customer," Emili said again, as stubborn as Felicia.
"Okay, Felicia went to the room first."
The brown-haired girl immediately entered her room which was quite spacious and simple. There is only an old wooden wardrobe there, a small bed and a study table which is concurrently with a few make-up arrangements.
Felicia lay back on the bed which was soft enough to unwind after a long day of studying and continuing to work. The girl looked at the ceiling of her room decorated with tumblr lights for the sake of beautifying this simple room.
At least she and her mother don't need to think about a place to take shelter anymore, because her father has built this simple house with his income. Felicia felt lucky to have a father who loved his family so much that God loved her father even more.
There wasn't much Felicia expected. She just wants to graduate immediately and work in her field. She wanted to save money to continue her studies at a pharmacist again. She wanted to raise the rank of her mother so that no one would underestimate her family. Moreover, the family of her father who until now blames Felicia and her mother for making her father have to work hard until he had an accident. Even though who wants to lose their father and husband in their life? Although exchanged for assets of whatever size, family is the main thing.
Slowly Felicia closed her eyes, trying to release all the fatigue in her head.
Today nothing special although some people test their emotions. The girl tried to be strong even though she had to limit herself from those who tried to knock her down. She only needed to cover her ears from the bad words of others about her, her two hands wouldn't be enough to cover those people's mouths.
The longer her body relaxes. Her silent surroundings dissolved her even more in dreams. The dream that she will fulfill with all the hard work she has put in. Even tonight she might wake up again in a third of the night. Routines she has been doing since her father left. In order to get closer to God who has given her strength until now, praying. She is also used to getting up at three in the morning to finalize lessons for the same day plus working on entrepreneurial proposals and looking for thesis proposal materials.
All the busyness that Felicia has at least will make the girl not have time to think about the bad words of people who don't like her. Because she is busy realizing her own dreams.
Jayden stared out his bedroom window, resting his chin. In front of him, the laptop is still open and lit, displaying a row of journals that he downloaded to complete his research proposal material. His head started to feel dizzy because he was still awake until this early morning. But he was reluctant to rest.In his head, Felicia's sweet face and all the stubbornness of the girl, let alone the madness she was so blatantly showing him, made Jayden smile to himself. The girl who caught his attention since the beginning of the semester. When he saw her in the garden reading a book alone. At that time Felicia looked left out from the others. But in the following semester, he did not see the girl's figure again. From the news she heard, Felicia took semester off. Even though they were in the same class, even though as he
About fifteen minutes away by Transjakarta bus, they arrived right in front of the campus main door which is indeed integrated with the bus stop. As one of the facilities to facilitate student travel here."It's cool to get on the bus," said Jayden again as he got off the bus and headed for the campus gate."Don't be tacky!""Please understand, I usually take an angkot.""Whatever! I didn't ask!" Felicia got annoyed by herself hearing the random and unnecessary sentences that Jayden said. She hopes that in the library the man's mouth will suddenly not open rather than bother he
Felicia stretched out her hand as soon as she finished copying the material to her laptop and some that she hadn't summarized, she took a photo on her cellphone. So that she doesn't have to go back and forth to the library again. Moreover, the opportunity to go to the library with a lot of time is only on weekends. The girl also glanced at Jayden's work which was summarizing the journals the man had printed."Are you done?" asked Felicia as she closed her laptop.Jayden even muttered indistinctly, with his hair disheveled, the man stuffed all his pile of journals into the file bag he was carrying. This man is quite diligent and tenacious, he even has a special bag for data which he will use later during research and thesis. Nothing wrong with
Felicia was just about to enter Pharmacy management class when she saw Jayden's figure who was gathered with female students and some students behind were cool chatting about something she didn't understand. That man was very easy to get along with anyone. Unlike her, who withdrew more often than tried to blend in. Felicia was just tired of pretending they liked her as a chat. Even though they like to talk about her from behind. Of course she knows and has ears that are still working properly. Although only a whisper, but she often heard people talking about her. Especially about the lecture.Instead of having hot ears or running out of patience clarifying the real situation, it felt like a waste of time. After all, telling other people about your good side is the most tiring thing, let alone telling people who clearly hate
Felicia glanced at her cell phone vibrating in the pocket of her work uniform. It turned out that she had been included in the research chat group by Jayden. There appeared to be several other members in the group besides Jayden and Harumi, whom Felicia guessed was the extract-making project group. Because for the Felicia group is the specialty of pharmacology, so that the assignments and theses are not discussed too much. Also, the work can be shorter and faster if done by many people. Besides, the extract will be made in a month's time. Meanwhile, the proposal seminar is still about three months away. So while waiting for the proposal seminar, she and the others can make the extract first. After the proposal seminar is over, it can be continued to the pharmacological test. Maybe about two months.Felicia only found o
Felicia sat in an empty chair in the lobby of the laboratory building as usual. The girl was busy with her laptop, revising the proposal that had been crossed out by Mrs. Dinda yesterday and sending the proposal to Mrs. Rahmi. She deliberately sent the revised one in order to reduce errors that might be revised again by Mrs. Rahmi. Mrs. Rahmi is a lecturer in phytochemistry, usually dealing with plants and extracts. According to Felicia and her group's thesis.So serious, Felicia did not notice a man sitting in front of her and looked at the girl deeply. Ansel. The narrow-eyed man watched Felicia's eyes focus on her laptop. Until the girl's eyes glanced at him and was shocked.
"Because I was too busy with my world, I realized I didn't have much money like other students so I needed to work hard. The person who I thought could accompany me during the lowest moments of my life, in fact, actually left me. And now he's back again by appearing in front of me. Even though I'm starting to forget about him."Jayden still remembers very much how Felicia's expression when she talked about her past, the reason why she finally broke up with Ansel. Actually he was just joking about Felicia, who seemed unworthy of having dated the youngest laboratory assistant. In fact, he admitted that they were actually compatible even though his heart was evasive. For him Felicia fits Ansel better. But seeing that his senior still had wounds and was so focused on what she was doing now, Jayden was reluctant to bother the gir
After two revisions with the same two lecturers, finally Felicia's proposal was perfect. She has checked again, starting from the wrong typos or punctuation marks as well as the writing format of the research proposal she really cares about. In order to avoid any more revisions. Because both Mrs. Dinda and Mrs. Rahmi are very careful with punctuation marks and writing errors. Maybe because they are used to guiding many students, they have memorized the mistakes in the proposal.Since it was still early in the morning, Felicia immediately went to the photocopy booth to print out her new proposal as well as print a validation sheet to be signed by her supervisor. Incidentally, in two weeks is the deadline for submission of the proposal seminar so Felicia doesn't want to waste time.