After that, Professor Vega walked toward her chair. She immediately put her things on the table, and then she began to prepare for the presentation of the material on that day. She tried to connect her laptop with a connecting cable to the projector, but the laptop couldn’t connect. Then she immediately called Lorena.
“Lorena!” Professor Vega called.
“Yes, Professor,” said Lorena.
“Why can’t it connect?” Professor Vega complained while she showed her laptop, which won’t connect.
“I don’t know, Professor.” Lorena shrugged her shoulders and lowered them again.
“How can you not know about that? It’s your job as the person in charge of human anatomy and human physiology in this class. You must prepare my laptop before the class starts. Alberto always prepares my laptop and makes sure that my laptop is ready before I start teaching.” Professor Vega immediately glared at Lorena and said those words loudly, which made the other students in that class stare at them because the students were curious to know.
Lorena was embarrassed. She could only lower her head. Afterwards, she apologized.
“Oh. Okay, Prof. I’m sorry. I don’t know about that. I just know about that now.” Lorena had only just learned about that at that time. She thought all this time that the task of being in charge of human anatomy and human physiology courses was only reminding Professor Vega about the teaching schedule for her class on that day.
“Why don’t you know?” Professor Vega frowned as she looked confusedly at Lorena. She pretended to be confused. Indeed, Professor Vega knew that, but she never told Lorena before. So, it was not strange if Lorena didn’t know that. Actually, for Professor Vega, it was natural that Lorena didn’t know about it, but she was annoyed with Lorena’s behavior.
Lorena could only be silent and stupefied. She couldn’t answer or say anything else. What should she do? That was thought of by her at that time.
Request apologies? She has done that to Professor Vega, but he has not forgiven her and instead blames her so much. Indeed, Lorena didn’t know before, and it was Lorena’s fault.
“Hey! Answer my question, Lorena!” Professor Vega immediately hit the table hardly.
“I’m sorry, Professor! I don’t know.” Lorena answered weakly.
“Really? How can you not know about that? I was waiting for you in my room, and you only remembered me from today’s class. What’s it for? I remember my own teaching schedule. Why don’t you prepare my laptop for my presentation today? Don’t you like me for teaching your class? Don’t you like human anatomy and human physiology? Don’t you like to have a lesson from me today? Because of that, you pulled a trick to make me refuse to teach your class. Is it all your tricks, Lorena?” Professor Vega’s anger made Lorena’s heart beat faster; her face was pale, her eyes bulged, and she was frozen for a while.
Lorena really didn’t expect that Professor Vega would scold her so fiercely at that time. As soon as she was conscious, she bit her lip. She was very afraid of Professor Vega. Her brain was thinking so hard about the words she should say. She felt that she could do nothing at that time. She could only apologize again.
In a hurry, before Professor Vega scolded her again, Lorena immediately apologized and explained her ignorance. “I’m sorry, Professor! I really don’t know. I like human anatomy and human physiology. I like you for teaching me, but I don’t know about that. I’m sorry, Professor!”
“Please forgive me!” She apologized again.
“Well! Okay! Come on! Let’s start this class!” Professor Vega immediately changed the topic. A few moments later, she looked at her brown-skin watch on her hand. Time showed that the class had run for five minutes.
Meanwhile, Lorena immediately grabbed a bottle of water and gulped it down. She tried to calm herself. After that, she inhaled and exhaled her breath. She was still very shocked by Professor Vega’s anger that could explode so big like that just because of the projector problem, but she tried to be calm and remembered her mistake.
Lorena guessed that Professor Vega would not scold her again, but Lorena’s guess was wrong. Professor Vega was still irritated. “Ah! The time for me to teach your class is going to be five minutes. We lose our five minutes, Lorena, because of this problem. Next time, you must not be like that, Lorena! Don’t be like that again!”
“Okay, Professor.” Lorena nodded her head quickly. Not long after, class started. Professor Vega explained about the peripheral nervous system.
At that time, Bonita immediately called out to Lorena quietly. “Lorena!”
“Yes, Bonita.” Lorena immediately looked at Bonita. Bonita was sitting to the left of Lorena.
“Lorena, don’t you think that Professor Vega definitely wants to make a problem with you? So, she does anything include this? I guess it’s one of her plans.” Bonita immediately started a conversation with Lorena.
“Hah?” Lorena immediately frowned because she was confused by Bonita’s words.
“No,” Lorena said quietly then.
“Oh! How come you’re not feeling it or aware of it? It really looks like Professor Vega’s behavior is like that! She is deliberately making trouble with you and making a big deal out of your problems to embarrass you in front of your classmates, Lorena.”
Bonita immediately spoiled her anger, which had been suppressed since Lorena was scolded by Professor Vega.
Because, according to Bonita, Professor Vega was deliberately exaggerating the problem in order to embarrass Lorena. Bonita knew that Professor Vega never told Lorena about her duties for preparing the laptop and projector before because she asked Lorena about her duties as the person in charge of Human Anatomy and Human Physiology lessons. Lorena said that she must only remember Bonita about Vega’s class.
“I’m sure she did that on purpose because she is really jealous of you. Because you’re Alberto’s girlfriend and she wants to be Alberto’s partner. You know how ambitious she is, right?” Bonita was very sure that Professor Vega’s behavior was because he wanted to make Lorena cry.
“Yes, I know that, but I don’t think she’s very bad, like what you say, Bonita. For me, it’s my fault, Bonita.” Lorena realized that it was her fault.
“Ah! You’re too innocent as a person until you’re not aware of that.” Bonita was irritated by Lorena’s actions, which she still blamed on herself.
“I don’t know, Bonita! Obviously, I want to pay attention to Professor Vega’s class first.” Lorena immediately ended the conversation.