Chapter 57

"Any questions? If not, we'll end today's lesson."

While waiting for his students to ask questions, Arka began to organize some of the books he had brought for teaching. Once all his belongings and books were neatly organized, the man stood up, preparing to end his lesson.

"Mr. Arka, can I ask you something? But my question is not about the lesson," asked one of the female students before Arka left the classroom.

Without saying a word, Arka just nodded. 

"Mr. Arka is really married to Naya? This isn't your way of making us all shun you, is it?"

Who would have thought that the question from one of the students just now managed to make almost the entire class curious about Arka's answer, even they did not hesitate to urge Arka to answer honestly about his marital status with Naya.

"Come on, sir, answer honestly. We want to know whether Mr. Arka is married to Naya or not."

"Yes sir, we just want to know the truth."

There was a long breath coming out of Arka's mouth. Honestly, the man was very lazy to respond to his students' questions. It was just that he had already allowed his students to ask questions even outside the lesson.

"As I told you before, I'm married to Naya. We even have a child. You have met him, right?"

"Why, sir?"

"Why what?"

"Why Naya? I think there are many women who are much more beautiful than her."

Arka smiled slightly before saying, "I think this is a privacy issue and I can't talk about my privacy. My class is over so I'll take my leave." Right after saying this, Arka walked away from the classroom where she had just been teaching.

Just a few steps out of the classroom, Arka had already met Jenny. Actually, the man was very reluctant to meet her but he couldn't turn around because the room was only one way.

"Mr. Arka, did you just finish teaching?" asked Jenny while walking hand in hand with Arka.

"Can't you not call me that? You're not my student."

"I just want to be polite during this campus. But if you don't like it I won't call you sir. By the way, do you have class this afternoon? Want to have lunch together?"

"Sorry Jenny, I'm busy."

"Busy or want to have lunch with Naya?" Jenny asked in a displeased tone. Jenny was sure the reason why Arka refused to have lunch with her was because he wanted to have lunch with Naya.

"It's none of your business if I want to have lunch with anyone. Sorry I'm busy, don't bother me." Arka began to speed up her walk leaving Jenny who was bothering her a lot.

Seeing Arka's body starting to move away, Jenny immediately swore. She was annoyed because she found it very difficult to get close to Arka.

"Damn, the good way is hard like I have to use the bad way," Jenny thought while looking at Arka's back who had started to move away.

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"Why did Kenzo have to pee all the time? I also forgot to bring my diapers.”

Naya looked so troubled right now. She had just discovered that Kenzo's pants were leaking because he had urinated too much, but unfortunately she had forgotten to bring a change of pants. There was no way Naya was going to let her son wear a full one, but she also had no idea what to replace it with.

"How about this, I have class soon. Where's Arka going too, he can't be reached!"

In the middle of her confusion, a man suddenly came up to her. "Hi, I see you seem to be confused. Can I help you?" The man asked Naya.

Naya looked silent for a while staring at the face of the man who was currently in front of her. The man looked just like Arka. If you think about it, maybe his age is also not much different from Arka.

"Hey, do you need help?"

"Uh sorry. I have class in a minute but my son urinated until his pants were full. I forgot to bring a change of pants so now I'm confused."

"Child? Is this your child?" Asked the man in a surprised tone. 

Naya nodded.

"Ummm if you don't mind I'll go and buy a change of pants for your son."

"Seriously? But isn't it inconvenient for you?"

"Its okay. You wait here for a while."

Naya nodded again before the man left. Honestly, Naya didn't know the man, she had never met him at all on campus.

Naya waited for a long time until about 10 minutes later the man returned with some pads. Seeing this, Naya was surprised. 

"Sorry it took so long, I was confused about where the convenience store was."

"Why did you buy this much? I only need one."

Scratching the back of his neck that wasn't itchy, the man smiled "Hehe sorry. I didn't know the size of your son's pempers so I bought all sizes so you can choose."

Naya was really surprised by the behavior of the man in front of her. Unable to let her son wear his full pants for too long, Naya immediately replaced them with new ones. Her son, who had been crying because he was uncomfortable, finally shut up.

"Finally, thanks for the help. By the way, are you studying here? I've never seen you before."

"Introducing my name is Zack, this happens to be my first day of college here. Previously I studied abroad and decided to continue my Masters here. What's your name?"

"Naya," Naya replied as she accepted the handshake from the man named Zack.

"Naya? Greetings. Is this really your son?"

Naya nodded.

"Then you're married?"

Naya nodded again.

"Wow, you look young but you're already married and have a child."

Naya just smiled in response to Zack's words. Feeling very grateful to be helped by Zack, Naya again said the word thank you.

"Zack, thank you for your help. It's a good thing I have you, otherwise I might have been confused. I'm sorry for troubling you before."

"Its okay, you already thanked me earlier."

"I have a class after this, I'm leaving now is it okay? Thank you again for your help. If we meet again, I'll treat you in return."

Since she had a class soon, Naya hurried to her class along with Kenzo.

"Beautiful, but it's a shame to be married and have kids. Zack, why did you meet her so late? I wish I had met her before she got married," Zack muttered. It seemed like he admired Naya at first sight.

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His meeting with Naya earlier somehow made Zack keep thinking about her. Even now, what he had wanted to go to the campus leader's room, he forgot because he was thinking too much about Naya. Until accidentally because he was thinking too much about Naya, he almost hit someone while walking in the campus corridor.

"Sorry, it was an accident," Zack said to the person he almost hit before continuing to walk away.

"Stop!" Yelled the person Zack almost hit.

Seeing that Zack had stopped his steps, the person immediately walked over to him. "You just made a mistake and just walked away?"

"Why, didn't I apologize?"

"Apologize for what? The way you apologized earlier was wrong! If you apologize, apologize properly!"

"Who the heck are you? Why is it such a big deal? We just almost collided, it hasn't happened yet and I apologized even though I wasn't at fault, why are you getting angry? Come on man, don't be like a woman who makes everything complicated."

Hearing himself called a woman made the man who almost collided with Zack angry. The man almost hit Zack in the face but unfortunately he managed to control his emotions.

"Are you a new student here?"

"Why if I am?"

"No wonder you don't know your manners. Just so you know, I'm a lecturer here. Don't let us meet again especially until I become your lecturer, if you don't want me to give you a bad grade forever." Right after saying this, the man who claimed to be a lecturer to Zack left Zack feeling upset.