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The 2020's Barnum

Diperbarui: 18 September 2022   21:13

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If you're now walking around Kalpasastra University and accidentally seeing a beautiful girl sitting near a pond, you're finding me now. Here I am, sitting nearby a little pond in the middle of the college's park surrounded by people walking around here and there. 

This girl just sitting right here doing nothing but staring at a man sitting across the pond since twenty minutes ago. A man wearing a black sweater paired with blue jeans sitting alone keeps tracking of tiny card---something that makes me curious since the first time he landed his body in front of me. I don't know what is on his mind but he is walking closer to me right now.

"Can you help me, please?" said a man sitting next to me after putting his large bag before.

"Excuse me?" I said.

"Oh, I'm sorry but my class starts ten minutes further, so I don't have that much time to give my hand to you." Said a beautiful girl arrogantly. No other people sitting around us, that beautiful girl is me.

"It is okay."

Hold on, this isn't the response that I want to hear. He supposes to say, "actually I am dying and having only a week left to live and I have no one but you to help me." 

"O well I don't love the class that much. What is happening?" I ask him like we were best friends since forever.

"A few days ago, I found a card in a campus toilet. The card straightly sought my attention. I bring it with me and think about it all day long."

"Wait---you're not trying to ask me to join some kind of Squid Game, right?" I asked him and got an answer by looking at his plain face.

"May I see the card?" he gives me that brown-colored tiny card.

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