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21 » Nuts Night

◊ Niall ◊

New York City, New York, United States of America, 13th September 2022

The sound of a girl sobbing fulfills the entire air in my master bedroom. In response to that, I can only giggle while seeing the girl who's sitting in front of my desk, staring at her laptop, and keep on saying, "This is really hard I can't do this," but she keeps writing something in Microsoft Word. Not to forget, from the bed I can see that she gets the split screen, one for Word and another for her Safari.

"What if I failed in this class?"

"Okay, okay. I need to calm down, I will get this shit down."

"God, I hate CISG!"

"I hate Vis, why do they need to make Ms. Bupati got Covid and forgot the whole agreement that they have arranged?"

I burst into laughter by the time she says the Covid thing. "What the actual fuck?" I say while sitting at the edge of my bed and shaking my head in disbelief with the case position.

With her swollen eyes, the girl who's wearing my t-shirt tilts her head in my direction. After the rainy session last night, we decided to go to my apartment and she sleeps and wakes up in my t-shirt because she doesn't have her pajama here – all she has in here is several of her hangout outfits. Well, my apartment feels like her second home huh?

"The head of purchase that concluded the contract verbally in 2013 forgets that she has concluded it due to Covid infection," and Avril starts to scream and cry again. "why is this such a stupid case?"

I can't help it but I laugh over the case. "This is why I don't want to be a lawyer, now you're not only her lawyer but her doctor as well!"

Avril swipes up the tears on her face. "And now she emailed Mr. Chandra that she remembers all of it and it makes me even harder to create the skeleton to defend her! Why is she so stupid?"

Well, I can guarantee my laughter booms throughout the room. Honestly, I feel bad to see her crying over the fictional case that is assigned by her lecturer. I know this must be overwhelming for her but I can't help with the fact that the case is stupid. The core problem is that her client forgets because she gets Covid back in 2021 and she can't stop mumbling about that.

"You know what? I keep on reading the same page over and over because I keep zoning out of how stupid the core problem is," she says as she keeps crying. "Niall please hug me this is so sad."

"Come here," I say, stretching out both of my hands as a symbol that I'm ready to give her a warm hug.

She stands up and comes over to the bed. Surprisingly, she bursts into my arms, puts her head on my left shoulder, she sits on my lap and my eyes widen constantly; she wraps her thighs around my waist, radiating an awkward situation and position. With the dumbfounded thought in mind, I welcome her with a warm hug as my body feels a little bit stiff, don't know how to act correctly. "I really hate Ms. Bupati!" she shouts out in my ear makes me shudder a little because her voice kind of deafening my ear.

Shit, girl you really know what you're doing when you're sitting on my lap like this. I can tell that's one of the hottest things since she sits on my lap with my t-shirt on for the first time. Okay, focus. "It's okay, it's okay, you can cry all you want," I say as I try to keep myself sane. My hands move to wrap her who sits on my lap, and I rub her back. "it's such a shitty case I can tell, no wonder why you hate it."

And she keeps on crying.

"You look like a monkey who's climbing over her dad," I comment then laugh a second after I say that, trying to distract what's on down there. To be frank, I will go crazy if she stays like this for at least 30 minutes. Not that I can't control myself, but it comes naturally as I can't even control that.