It Turns out I'm the Second

Ch.4 What other trial is this?

Mr. Sapto suddenly misbehaved when he heard Nanda's demands. He occasionally glanced at Gathan whose face remained flat. Then he looked back at Nanda whose face was already gleaming with emotion.

"Sorry deck Nanda, you can't" said Mr. Sapto as he squeezed his own hand.

"Why can't it?"

"Because .. because the money is no." he said nervously.

"What?" nanda shouted while shaking in disbelief. "Then what about us, sir? See those kids, where do they live? Why is that old man the same as us?" scowl Nanda with tears already in her eyes. Similarly, Mother Rieke was unable to stem her tears.

"That's because ... because the money has run out to pay the bank debt" said Mr. Sapto was stamped making Nanda more riled thinking about the fate of the children of the home and Rieke's mother in the future.

"Sir, I beg you, give us some more time" said Nanda, standing in front of Gathan, whose face remained flat, expressionless.

Gathan looked at Nanda's face for a moment and stood up. He let out a long sigh and said, "Sorry, I can't because the company has signed a contract with the contractor. So the plan is impossible to back down. Please pack up!" gathan said flatly and walked out of the room.

Rieke's mother roared, Nanda immediately hugged Rieke's mother to calm down.

"Bun, don't cry anymore, pity the sisters must follow sad if you see the mother cry kayak gini." whispered Nanda lirih while rubbing the back of the body of Mother Rieke. "Mother wait here! Nanda will try to beg the master again." said Nanda while releasing the arms of Rieke's mother. Mother Rieke could only nod. He also doesn't know what else to do.

With wide strides Nanda tried to chase after Gathan. When he saw Gathan had entered the car, Nanda immediately ran closer to Gathan's car, just a few more steps Nanda approached the car, suddenly the car drove away from the yard of the home. Nanda tried to run as hard as he could while shouting.

"Master .. stop sir. I beg you to give me a little more time sir." shouted Nanda as he ran. No matter the scorching heat burning his skin he kept running. He even forgot to use his footwear. His skinny legs tread the hot paved streets until reddened.

The driver glanced at the rearview mirror on his right side, his eyes narrowing when he saw a beautiful girl chasing his car.

"Sir, it looks like the girl is chasing our car!" erwin said to Gathan's personal driver.

Gathan looked back, sure enough, he saw the girl chasing his car barefoot. Gathan could only sigh deeply at it.

"Speed up this car!" tell Erwin. He had no intention of stopping his car to talk to the girl named Nanda.

Erwin who is only a driver can only say yes.

'Isn't that the girl at the red light? But why is he chasing this car while crying?' inner Erwin guessed because he did not enter the orphanage so he did not know Nanda was also one of the residents of the orphanage.

Seeing the car that was getting away, making Nanda unable to resist the crying that he had stopped. Nanda sat on the street roaring and buried his face in his knees.

"Oh my God, what else is this ordeal?" she was in between her cries.

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After winning Rieke's mother, Nanda again drove her bike to Cafe Starla. His eyes looked swollen and red. Sometimes his eyes stinged, as if not satisfied with shedding his tears. But there was no way she would cry again because she still had to work. How could he face a customer with a face like a broken heart. Although he is actually heartbroken, heartbroken because he had to get out of the orphanage that had become his shelter after he left his father's house a dozen years ago.

Upon arrival at the cafe, Nanda immediately washed his face and used baby powder that he used to wear. Yes, if other girls use branded talc such as Maybelline, Make Over, Wardah, You, and others, not for Nanda, because she can only buy baby powder, other than because it is cheap, because it is not, it also contains a lot, and he can wear it along with his younger siblings instead.

"Why are you? You're crying?" tegur Alfi, manager of Cafe Starla.

"Ah, ng-no, sir." he said as he lowered his face. It is always wrong to be addressed by Alfie.

Nanda speechless. He could not possibly tell the problem to Alfi because Alfi was just a manager in his place of work. He could not ask for help from a nobody.

"Why silence?" ask Alfie again.

Nanda shook his head slowly, "Nanda is not really papa, sir." kilah Nanda again kekeh do not want to be honest.

"I've said, Nda, if only the two of you don't call me dad, like I'm old. Another call, napa." sewot Alfi made Nanda smile knot.

"Well, if you're beautiful. Lots of smiles, let a lot of customers." said Alfi with a smile. He no longer asked Nanda for an explanation of why she was crying. He does not want to force, he hopes, if there is a problem, Nanda can open with him.

"We're selling food or smiles anyway time' Nanda told many smiles so many customers." sewot Nanda with pursed lips.

"And your smile is able to hypnotize, Nda , so customers who have been here will come back again because they miss your smile, just like me." he said with the final sentence only spoken in the mind of Alfi.

"Ish, really bo'ong . Ah brother, Nanda wants to work. Nanda's salary was cut because most of the conversation."

"What did you say?" alfi asked with sparkling eyes.

"say what? Which one?" ask Nanda confused.

"That one! Sis ..."

"Oh, that's .." said Nanda timidly with a gaze staring at her shabby shoes.

"Relse ... Nanda called her older brother, Kak Alfi is more mature than Nanda" he said making Alfi smile more widely. As for Nanda, his face had met red making him not dare to look at Alfi.

"It's good. Brother is even grim. The call was great. Brother Alfi .. hm .. brother likes." said Alfi with a big smile.

When they were busy blushing embarrassed, suddenly Mardi who was one of the cafe waiters like Nanda came.

"Sorry sir, I need to be with Nanda for a while" Mardi told Alfi.

"What do you need? Still about the cafe or private?" cecar Alfie.

"That, Nanda called Lavina's mother into her room" Mardi said.

Alfi frowned, curious. Not usually the owner of the cafe asked to meet with his subordinates directly. What this has to do with the incident with Freya yesterday, inner Alfi. But the problem is not finished because Lavina actually defended Nanda. Although he did not see directly, but he had seen CCTV footage of the cafe because yesterday he was not allowed to enter work.

"You have a problem with Miss Lavina?" alfi asked and Nanda shook her head with her innocent face making Alfi smile.

"Yes have met Ms. Lavina now, do not let her wait for long." alfi's word as she rubbed Nanda's shoulder made Nanda cry out in shock.

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