The Porcelain Doll

"You can't have sex in this room, I'm totally against it!" Soraya said irritably. Deep in his heart he really didn't want to lend his room even for 30 minutes to someone who had made him feel uncomfortable every time he fell asleep.

Hearing Soraya's agreement, Kimberly, who was previously crying hysterically, immediately became happy and smiled broadly in a matter of seconds.

"Of course! We're just talking for a moment, there won't be anything else. Trust me!" Kerry, who was already excited, immediately grabbed Soraya's hand tightly.

Soraya shuddered, she had never in her life met and faced someone like this whose mood could act so quickly.

Soraya was forced to get up from her place, took her cell phone, wallet and bag and went out while holding back her annoyance at her stupidity in always letting her room become a place for lovers to make love.

At the door, Soraya met the acting man. Soraya lowered her head, this time she was really reluctant to lift her face even if she only glanced at the face of the man in front of her.

Soraya decided to walk away without saying hello or just giving this man a welcoming smile. However, a strange impulse in her heart made her raise her face and glance at the man who seemed to be about to walk into the room.

Soraya's eyes caught a sight that seemed strange and frightening to her. The man stared at him while grinning like a terrifying beast.

Soraya shuddered again, she hurriedly lowered her face and walked faster so she didn't have to see that strange smile any longer.

Blaaammn

The door closed, Soraya was sure the man had entered the room with Kerry. Soraya stopped walking, slowly turned around and looked back. She no longer saw the man at the door and once Soraya had to admit her stupidity in letting Kerry bring her boyfriend into the room again.

"What was I really thinking? What a fool I am!"

"The number you dialed is currently unreachable, please try again later."

Soraya looked at her cellphone screen in despair. After Diana refused his invitation to go spend time with him and Kimberly who could not be contacted.

"Aaagh... what should I do...?" he shouted. Soraya started to go crazy because she didn't know what to do now.

Kerry Smith only asked for 30 minutes, but for Soraya those 30 minutes felt like a long time when she didn't know what to do.

Soraya looked around her, she was screaming like crazy at the side of a road like this where there were lots of people passing by. He should have just waited in front of the dormitory until Kerry and his girlfriend finished talking. But somehow he managed to get near the shopping center which was one kilometer from the dormitory.

"Okay, it can't be helped. Since I'm already here I might as well go somewhere and buy something." He thought. Several sketchbooks and drawing tools came to mind. Soraya just remembered that she needed some new drawing tools.

As her feet were about to cross the other side of the road, Soraya saw a man wearing a black coat get out of the car and seemed to be going into the antique shop in front of her.

Soraya was stunned, observing the man who was familiar to her. The tall man with broad shoulders, black hair and always a flat expression was none other than someone he had been thinking about some time ago.

"Mr. Levi? What is he doing here?" he muttered.

Soraya saw for herself when Levi William Stanley entered the antique shop casually as if it was not the first time he had entered that place.

Driven by a very strong sense of curiosity, Soraya's footsteps unknowingly took her towards the yard of the antique shop.

"Oh my, what am I following him like this?" He thought. Soraya blamed herself for always losing because of her high curiosity.

Because she didn't dare to enter the shop, Soraya tried to peek at the situation inside the shop through the shop window. He hoped Robert wouldn't catch him peeking like that time.

In the shop, Robert chatted with a middle-aged woman wearing a black blouse who looked friendly. But what caught Soraya's attention was the object Robert was holding in his hand. A porcelain doll in the form of a little girl with brown ambition and wearing a white dress.

"I-is that a porcelain doll?" Soraya was sure that the object in Robert's hand was a doll that looked very beautiful.

The woman who spoke to him left after talking for a few minutes, leaving Robert alone with a doll in the form of a little girl who couldn't escape her cold and slightly scary gaze.

Suddenly something quite surprising happened, Robert, who Soraya knew as a mysterious lecturer with minimal expressions, suddenly smiled gently at a doll. Yes, a non-living doll.

"H-he's smiling? He was really smiling just now, wasn't he?" Because it was too hard to believe, Soraya convinced herself many times that she was not seeing anything wrong. He actually caught a very rare strange appearance, namely the smile of the lecturer who was famous for his amazing talent.

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