Worried

Upon arrival at the campus medical room, Anthony immediately put Henzie's body on the gurney.

                         

"What is this?! What happened to her?!" A woman who looked young, approached Arabella and asked.

                         

"Ma'am, help my friend," Arabella answered quickly to the woman who was one of the guards in the infirmary at Valery University.

                         

"Yes, but first answer why your friend can be like this?" The woman asked again.

                         

Arabella nodded quickly. She told her everything that had happened, from Henzie forgetting to do Mr. Hans' homework, making the lecturer angry and then punishing her by cleaning the toilet, but never came back after almost two and a half hours away. Until the condition that Henzie and Anthony found collapsed on the floor with wet clothes, and the toilet door was locked from the outside. She explained everything in detail.

                         

"Okay, I'll check it out first. Both of you please come out," said Mother, causing Arabella and Anthony to nod obediently out of the room. They waited while sitting in the waiting chair which was right in front of the health room.

                         

"I'm really worried." Arabella sighed harshly, leaning her back against the wall.

                         

"Don't worry, we'll leave everything to Mrs. Giselle," Anthony said calming Arabella.

                         

Arabella stared at him for a moment then nodded. "What I'm thinking now is, why is Henzie's clothes soaking wet like that? There's no way she slipped and passed out?" Arabella said a little thinking.

                         

"No way. If she fell because she slipped, there's no way her clothes were all wet like that. Besides, the door was locked from the outside, so maybe someone locked it and then flushed it from the gap above the toilet," thought Anthony.

                         

"If that's the case, I'm sure that person won't survive!" Arabella growled annoyed. Her hands were clenched into fists.

                         

"We'll just ask Henzie when she wakes up. Don't think negatively about it, it's just my guess," suggested Anthony, and Arabella agreed.

***

"Your friend is awake. You can come in, but don't stay too long! She still needs rest," said Mrs. Giselle.

                         

"Okay, ma'am. Thank you very much!" cried Arabella, bowing herself, a sign of gratitude. After that, he and Anthony entered the room, finding Henzie sitting on the gurney.

                         

"Henzie you're all right, right?!" Arabella immediately ran, hugging Henzie tightly. "I'm really worried, you know?!" 

                         

"Yeah, I'm feeling a bit better now. Thank you for worrying about me," replied Henzie who was still a little weak.

                         

"So why did you pass out and your clothes were soaking wet?" Anthony immediately asked Henzie after Arabella's embrace was released.

                         

"I was bullied by Natalie and her friends. They locked me from outside, then poured dirty water from the gap above the toilet on me," answered Henzie honestly.

                         

"That girl has really gone mad! Can't let it go!" Arabella growled. She really wanted to teach Natalie a lesson.

                         

"Never mind, just let her. I'm also okay. Besides, I don't want this problem to get longer later," said Henzie.

                         

"But Henzie! You almost got hurt because of her!" Arabella looks annoyed to hear Henzie's ban.

                         

"I just don't want to have anything to do with her anymore because of this problem, Arabella. Please stop," said Henzie.

                         

Arabella chuckled. "It's up to you," she said, only relenting.

                         

"Then let's go back to class, Arabella. We have to report to Mr. Hans about Henzie's condition," said Anthony, breaking the silence that had been created.

                         

"Yes." Arabella stood up. "Henzie, I'll be back first," added Arabella again. Henzie nodded, and after that they walked back to the classroom.

                         

***

                         

The recess bell rang, students and students from various fields began to leave one by one. Likewise with a lecturer who teaches in the tenth grade room. He looked out, stepped into the campus health room.

                         

Arriving there, he greeted and approached a brown-haired girl who was sitting on the bench. "Henzie, are you okay?" he asked the girl with the brown hair—Henzie.

                         

"Ah, Mr. Hans?!" Suddenly, Henzie was a little surprised by the presence of the lecturer. "Yes, I'm fine. Thank you, Mr. Hans," replied Henzie with a small smile.

                         

"Hm. Sorry, because of me you have to be here. If only I didn't tell you to clean the toilet, maybe you wouldn't be like this," said Mr. Hans feeling guilty.

                         

"Ah, n-no, sir! It's also my fault! Just try if I did your homework, surely you wouldn't punish me for cleaning the toilet. Sorry, sir!" Henzie exclaimed, apologizing back.

                         

"Okay, you just take a break. You don't have to follow your father's lessons anymore after this. Just go home!" Mr. Hans' orders

                         

"N-no, sir! If I go home, I will miss a lot of your lessons, sir." Henzie waved her hands, forming an X in front of her chest.

                         

"No need to worry, I will give the material to you tomorrow," said Mr. Hans and then left, indicating that the lecturer did not want to be denied.

                         

Henzie took a deep breath after the lecturer left. She had no other choice but to follow her teacher's orders.

                         

Just a few minutes Mr. Hans came out of the room, suddenly another person appeared who entered there.

                         

"Henzie!"

                         

Henzie , who felt her name being called, quickly turned to the source of the voice. "Kevin? How did you know I was here--"

                         

Thump!

                         

Before Henzie could finish her words, Kevin had hugged her first.

                         

"You don't need to know. The important thing is that you're okay," Kevin said, making Henzie's heart beat wildly again.

                         

"So why did you end up being treated here?" Kevin asked after letting go of his arm. He stared intently into Henzie's eyes.

                         

"No big deal. I'm just being bullied by nosy people who don't seem to like me," Henzie answered briefly in outline.

                         

"Next time you should be careful with anyone," Kevin suggested breaking his intimidating stare at Henzie.

"Then let's go home now," said Kevin, adding.

                         

"Eh? Home? Where?" Henzie looked confused by the words of the man in front of her.

                         

"Of course you go home. Where do you think you're going?"

                         

"I-I- I mean don't you still have class?! I C-can go home alone, really!" Henzie blushed and was nervous for a moment.

                         

"No problem, I've asked permission to take you home safely," said Kevin.

                         

"Yeah, okay," Henzie finally relented again.

                         

"Henzie, you can go home now." Kevin and Henzie looked away after hearing someone's voice. Mrs. Giselle had just walked in and walked over to Henzie's gurney.

                         

"Okay, thanks, ma'am." Henzie nodded once.

                         

"Hm," Mrs. Giselle replied, then left again.

                         

"Get ready, we're going home." Kevin said after Mrs. Giselle's back was no longer visible from them. Henzie nodded and got ready.

                         

After everything was finished Henzie stepped out, following Kevin to the car park wearing new clothes that had been prepared by the campus in case there were cases like this. Nothing special, just a regular t-shirt with shorts and flip-flops.

                         

Arriving at the parking lot, Kevin immediately took out his car and drove Henzie back to the house.