Chapter 11

March 13.

The silence makes the women inside the restroom feeling unbearable. One of them started to laugh, the next one soon followed filling the restroom with a loud laugh. Anna stops herself in front of the door. The woman who knocked at her door just now shaking her head before stop laughing.

"You can just walk out now, we need space for our own here."

"Yeah, how can you act so funny like that?! Hahaha."

The restroom soon again fills with a bursting sound of a laugh. Without bringing her head up, Anna said sorry and walk out of the restroom. With a click sound, the restroom is now locked from the inside preventing others to come in. Feeling relieved, Anna continues to walk forward leaving the restroom and heading to the gate.

All the things that she wanted, for now, is to walk out from the university where she can't even feel safe to somewhere that she knows no one will know her. Anna is also from the town, but she came from the west side of the town where most people who lived there prefer to directly spend their time at neighbor town which is fancier and fills with more entertainment.

Because of this, Anna decided to come here to lived where she can start everything anew. However, she never had thought about the possibilities of those students at the university will looking at her in a weird way. The streets are full of small stalls, after walking out from the university, Anna walks towards one of the stalls that sell bread with strawberry filling, using it to pad her stomach before drinks some milk on her way to the library.

There is two stop which Anna will make while heading to the old library, first it will be the uncle's stall where she currently stood at buying the bread, the other will be a shop that had been run by an old grandmother where she will buy her milk.

The bread not only can help her pad her stomach, but it also can delay her hunger time. With a smile, Anna walks away with the paper bag in her left hand, the spring makes the temperature went down even in the afternoon triggering others to walk out taking a breath in the town.

Anna walks while occasionally watching people wandering around with their families, a park where she will come across every day before reach the grandmother's shop is full of kids running around playing happily. The scenes bring people happiness which makes those who watching can't help from drawing a smile on their faces.

Walking slowly, Anna suddenly saw a boy sitting on the bench looking bluntly at people. When their eyes meet, Anna quickly withdraws and walks faster heading to the shop which is only ten feet away from the park. The pair of dark eyes that had met with Anna show a smile, sitting while watching people around him, the boy suddenly gone after a family of five walks in front of him.

The grandmother who had received Anna as her permanent customer welcome her with the brightest smile. Knowing exactly what she wants, the grandmother who is in her seventies quickly walks to the cashier desk waiting for the young girl. After Anna greets the owner of the shop, she quickly walks to the beverages sites and picks one bottle of milk she usually buys. Seeing the grandmother already waiting for her, Anna jogs a little bit. With a smile, she put the milk before reaching to her bag to take out the money.

"You don't have to pay, I'm treating you today."

With a questioning look, Anna struck dumb quietly stood while staring at the shop's owner. The owner of the shop pushes the milk to her back with a smile and repeating her words. The grandmother had long observed the young girl who always come and brought milk every day without a miss. It had been one year since the first time the young girl come into her shop. Who doesn't like to have a regular customer, also it is not strange for the old woman to have one after she had open the shop for more than thirty years. But what makes her feels strange is the fact that the girl only buys the same milk every day without changing the flavor or the brand.

If the girl really loves the milk, of course, it will be out of issues, but the way she walks straight to the beverage sites without looking at other things makes the old woman suspicious. There are a lot of factors that can lead to it, but if it too often then there must be a reason behind her action, and the grandmother come up with the most reliable assumption which is the young girl must have lived in poor which resulting in her too tightly monitors her expenses. This resulting in the old woman continuing to observe before deciding to treat the young girl to look at her expression.

"Thank you! Thank you!"

With her eyes shining due to the tears running out, Anna bows down saying her thanks to the old woman. Feeling grateful, Anna keeps the milk up to her chest like a tressure, this is the second time she received kindness for today. Wiping her tears away, Anna walks out with her head low staring at the milk, she can't help from feeling like a dream, even though it's a dream, she hopes that she can remember the feeling and buried it deep, so she knows that there are kind people out there that willing to be kind to her despite her timid and weird looking.

The shop's owner sighs in low voice, remembering the way the young girl reacts to her kindness. Feeling bitter, the grandmother can only pray for the young girl's good luck so she can walk through the hard day.

It only took Anna five minutes to walk from the grandmother's shop to the library, however this time it took almost ten minutes for her to walk from the shop to the library. Arriving at the entrance of the library, Anna walks in pushing the door open. Ringing the bell, her colleagues who waiting for her to changes shift quickly call her out.

"Anna! come in quickly, I still need to do some errands after this!"

Urging the young girl, the brown hair girl stood inside the counter in a bad mood. She already plans to watch a movie with her boyfriend, planning to ditch her job early, the brown hair girl waits on Anna since she knows the young girl will come to the library straight after class because the young girl had no other place to go to. Ever since the young girl working at the library, she had never seen anyone come waiting for her or talking to her, this fact not only know to her but also to the other librarian.

Putting her things in the locker, Anna quickly wears her apron as the librarian before she walks to the counter changing the shift. Even though she knows she still has some more time before she officially gets into her shift, Anna is still willing to take over the brown girl's work. Other people might see her as a pushover, but for her, these are the only things that she loves which make her do it willingly.