Commensalism

Anxious….

Freddy was a little anxious since the next day, the internship was concluded, and he found out that the girl checked out early morning and left the island without even saying goodbyes, even to the custom shop which make the owner sigh in disappointment to the attitude of the girl…

He was still worried about how he will face her at the campus, because the last time he saw the girl that furious was when he accidentally spilled his meal over her flannel shirt… And it only for a peanut problem…

But this….?

He now knows that she something she hated more than anything…. But to have her just getting angry, furious at him, makes him feel devastated….

He never wishes to hurt the girl, he never had any intention to do that, and what broke him most is that the girl….

Not only she was angry, she blocked him out of her life, she cut him off completely, she ignores him, ignoring his existence….

And every time he tries to make connection or when she accidentally looked at him, she always makes him frightened at the girl who he knows looking at him with her furious, fiery gaze…

Not only she avoided him, she even spits to the ground every time they passing each other….

And that situation continues for quite sometimes until she realizes her grades on practices lowered….

Her stern, mean, and perfectionist attitude troubled herself since she always feels her partner either “incompetent” and some of them just plain hated her because they feel threatened by her hostile and dominant attitude, also they irk to have “a girl” ruined their boy’s club…

“NOT THIS ONE”

“WHAT ARE YOU? A SNAIL?!”

“YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ENGINE AT ALL?!”

Well, no one can stand her with that kind of attitude….

No one, but…

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And after quite a while, the lab finally “calmed down” when reluctantly Febri “accepted” Freddy back as her partner….

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“d**k… Buy me something too…” She said harshly as she passes her partner, buying meal from the cafeteria and take the table at the farthest corner of the cafeteria…

The server shook her head as she saw how obedient her partner, who brought two trays of food, was to the girl….

They both then eat in silence when the girl becomes the first who breaks their silence…

“You don’t like to see my face…?” Ask the girl suddenly, which makes Freddy choked, and get worsened as he sips the hot tea, he ordered for both of them

“Have you tired seeing me…?”

“No… Of course not, Babe…. I never get bored looking at your face…. You know that…” said Freddy after he stopped coughing….

They both quiet again for a while….

“Sometimes I feel that I’m not worthy….” He said to fill the awkwardness…

“Does it mean that you no longer wanted to be around me, d**k? Fine…. Bye!” Snapped the girl flipping the tray, spilling her food all over his shirt….

Me and my big mouth…. Thought Freddy, groaning as he saw the girl storm out the cafeteria, completely ignores the sorry look from those who eat at the cafeteria who looked at him pitifully

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And it seem the girl already has his replacement as a couple weeks later he saw a quite luxurious SUV stopped next to the entrance of their campus, welcoming the girl who enters the SUV, which sped away, leaving trail of dust that makes him cough as he walks in defeat towards his rent house which feels lonelier, despite his buddies in full formation, playing games on the tv at the living room that witnessed how panic he was when the girl accidentally drink the drugs left there by Roy who now behind bars after get caught impregnating a girl with it…

Shaking his head trying to forget the memory, he then went to his room after casually greets his buddies who quickly turned to their games….

And it was a big mistake…. How is it not…. The room fills with her fragrance as she regularly visited him, may it just to take a leak, a little nap, and also…

Angry to himself, he then decided to forget her, takes his automatic scooter and went to a mall that becomes a favourite hangout place for students at the city….

It’s almost raining when he parked his motorcycle and quickly enters the mall…

And there she was….

Febri… The girl seems to enjoy her time with a mature man in front of a distro shop that displays her favourite clothing line, black-coloured, and motorbike themed….

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Freddy ignores the rain that pouring hard on him and the honking horns of the vehicle which almost collides with him, that what makes him realizes that he was riding his motorcycle under the heavy rain, and don’t wear any rain coat….

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For a week he was restless on his mattress, not only from the fever after the rain, but also from his hopes that the girl would come to see him….

Finally, after he feels that he gets better, he decided to put an end to all of this debacle….

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“Good afternoon… May I help you…?” Asked the security as he stopped Freddy at the gate of the cluster…

It was his second visit there, the first was when he accompanied Febri, who going to take some tools they need for their project, even then he waited at the security gate….

“I want to go to Febri’s house, Sir…. I want to send some spare parts…. Sorry if I come this late…” He said as he waited the security making phone call to the girl’s house….

He already thought of the worst if the girl only wanted him to put the parts at the security….

“Follow me, please….” Said the security which he follows obediently….

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“Thanks, Sir….” Said the girl as she opened the door…. “I have to check the spare parts first… It won’t be long…” she said, welcoming Freddy into her house and keep the door open.

At the living room, Freddy handed cardboard box to the girl who opened it without any question asked…

“Wait here…” she said flatly, taking the box inside….

Freddy looked around and there he saw it….

The photo of the man, with a beautiful woman, with long hair to her shoulder, sitting at a plush chair, while the man stands behind her, and the woman cuddle a baby in her lap….

“Come, follow me….” Said the girl, now wearing a perfect fitted leather jacket, black jeans, black army boots, and a black-coloured full-face helmet was on her hand….

And not long before Freddy’s automatic motorcycle tries to keep up with the girl’s customed motorcycle….

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