It Turns out There's Love

13 - WHAT HAPPENED TO ZAFIRA'S HEART?

"Why did you reject Wilda? I've seen her ask you out on dates but you always have a thousand reasons to turn her down" Zafira asked as they walked into class.

"I'm not the kind of man who can easily change his heart" Fariz said.

"Why do you always reject every girl who comes near you? Though there have been many girls who tried to have a serious relationship with you," asked Zafira in surprise.

"That's none of your business. I said honestly it's free, you never understand, either" Fariz replied to Zafira's words with great pressure.

"I understand how you feel about me, which is why I always tell you to forget all your feelings and look for another girl, but you're the one who always follows your heart" Zafira pangkis not to lose.

"Now I ask you? Had someone told you to forget and leave Ronald, would you??" asked Fariz to make Zafira flinch until she was unable to answer Fariz's words, the girl was silent in a thousand languages.

What Fariz said was true, dozens of times even hundreds of times the mother, Laras, often advised her to stay away from Ronald and choose Fariz, but Zafira still maintained what was in her heart, for almost five years he was in a relationship with Ronald and ignored his mother's wishes.

"Why silence? You can't do it yourself, can you? You're still following your heart" said Fariz, once again making Zafira speechless.

"Get in your class, I'll go to my class, wait for me in the afternoon, I'll pick you up here, too," said Fariz cut off the conversation and walked away from Zafira who was still pensive to think about the words of the friend.

A few hours later, Fariz was already standing in front of Zafira's class.

"Do you want to pray first or go straight home?" Fariz asked for the girl's opinion.

"Salat first, let it be quiet to go home not hunted," replied Zafira.

"Alright," said Fariz following the steps of Zafira who had first stepped towards the mosque.

"Did Zafran tell you that this afternoon he told me to take you home?" asked Fariz, still on his way to the mosque.

"Yes, I'm annoyed that Zafran likes to suddenly make an appointment with his friend. He said he would go to his friend's house after the end of the course" Zafira said with a sullen face.

Fariz's lips suddenly smiled at Zafira's explanation, because Fariz himself called Zafran, asking his friend to give him time to take Zafira home this afternoon. Either where his best friend is, go straight home or just hang out first at his friend's house.

"If I had known Zafran this afternoon had some business, I would have brought my own car this morning. So I don't have to bother you to drive me home,"

"Hey, why is it that only now do you feel like you're always bothering me? Isn't it all this time, that's what you've always done, not stopping to trouble me" Fariz laughed.

It is true what Fariz said. Zafira always asked Fariz for help, asking for a ride back and forth. Actually, before asking for help or asking for delivery to Fariz, Zafira usually first asked for Zafran's help but if Zafran was not, then the second alternative is Fariz.

"Why? Do you have any objections?" asked Zafira, opening her eyes at Fariz, who was walking next to her.

"No, I've never had any objections, I'm happy to be able to help and take you everywhere" Fariz replied truthfully.

"Well, you love being close to a beautiful girl like me" said Zafira deliberately mocked her best friend.

"Not only is your face beautiful, but yours is too," Inner Fariz glanced at Zafira.

Twenty minutes passed, they had exited the mosque and now they had been in the car on their way home, and Fariz suddenly turned the car into a mini market.

"You just wait in the car, I'll just wait a minute" Fariz said.

After ten minutes, Fariz had quit the mini market carrying two ice creams and one plastic grocery.

After getting into the car, Fariz gave Zafira his favorite vanilla flavored ice cream. Fariz is also very familiar if the girl prefers vanilla flavored ice cream rather than chocolate.

"This is your favorite, eat before it melts," said Fariz gave the ice cream to Zafira.

"Hmm, you know what my favorite is, always buying me vanilla. Here I eat now!," Zafira eagerly picked up the ice cream and started licking it.

Fariz smiled happily to see the girl looked so greedy to enjoy her favorite ice.

Zafira who greedily ate the ice cream in his hand, suddenly became aware when he saw the hand of the friend not holding the ice cream.

"You don't buy ice cream?" asked Zafira in surprise.

"No. You forbid me to drink ice yourself, you said later my throat could be exposed to tonsils if you drink too much ice," Fariz told.

Zafira immediately laughed while patting his forehead.

"Oh yes, I forgot. I made the rules myself, I almost broke them myself" Zafira shook her head laughing at herself.

Fariz smiled at Zafira's behavior which for him was always funny and never boring. The man continued to stare at Zafira's face which looked even more beautiful at such a laugh, making Fariz's heart continue to pound enjoying that pretty face.

Fariz's heart instantly trembled, his chest a thumping feeling as Zafira intended to feed ice cream into his mouth.

Fariz was silent, not because he did not want to eat the ice cream but because he was nervous about eating ice cream from the hands of the girl who had made him fall in love.

"Fariz, try a little, it's okay if only a little," Zafira again offered by still thrusting ice cream into Fariz's mouth.

Fariz stuttered and tried to refuse, he could not if he had to eat the ice cream from the hands of Zafira.

"Not necessarily, you eat," he refused to turn his face away from Zafira's hand.

"Yes, if you don't want to, I spend it, yes" said Zafira again devoured the vanilla ice until it was not left.

After seeing Zafira satisfied to enjoy his favorite ice cream, Fariz then gave one plastic grocery in his lap.

"This is for you,"

"What is this?" Zafira took the plastic and opened it immediately.

"Fariz?," said Zafira with widened eyes and immediately turned to the side looking at Fariz meaningfully.

"You stopped at this mini market just to buy me ice cream and my needs?" asked Zafira with a look of admiration for the friend.

It turned out that Fariz bought three packs of wet tissue and three packs of dry tissue that while on campus Zafira said he was out of tissue.

Zafira checked all the contents inside the plastic.

"You're so kind, lucky your wife will get the best husband and attention like you" Zafira said praising Fariz.

"I just want to marry you Zafira. There is no other girl I will make a wife for. If I don't match up with you then I'll choose to live alone," Inner Fariz stared at the nanar Zafira who was still busy looking at the contents inside the plastic.

"I don't feel good about you treating me like this, you should have treated this to your girlfriend" Zafira later said.

"No need to think about it, I did this when there was no Ronald next to you, later if you were with Ronald, you would forget me, for sure,"

"I've never forgotten you, the proof is that I'm still here with you almost every day" Zafira stuck out her smiling tongue.

"Yes, when there was no Ronald. Try it if there's Ronald, you forget everything. You think this world is your own, others are only monthly contracts," Fariz tried to make a joke.

Zafira heard Fariz's words.

"You jealous? That's why you say it" said Zafira still with smiling lips.

"It's not wrong if I'm jealous? And it's not wrong if I still want to wait for you?" Fariz returned.

As soon as Zafira's smile disappeared, his eyes focused on Fariz who had not run the car, the car's AC was still on.

"Why do you see me like that? Was my words wrong?," Fariz asked in surprise, because he felt the look in Zafira's eyes so keenly looking at him.

"Wrong! I've told you many times, don't expect anything from me" Zafira reminded the friend.

"Listen Zafira, my heart is mine. So I am free to decide what my heart wants. If my heart wants to wait for you, then I will! No one can stop him!" said Fariz, who has repeatedly explained his feelings.

Zafira stared dumbly at Fariz who was now sitting in the steering wheel.

The girl doesn't know what to do, she runs out of ways to stop Fariz from loving her.

"But I don't want you to wait for me. You've seen with your eyes that I've been in a relationship for five years with Ronald. Even though these last four years Ronald and I have been in a long distance relationship, it doesn't diminish my race towards him. And maybe we'll also go to a more serious level, to a guarantee,"

"That's when I will go away from you and promise never to see you again" Fariz said with confidence.

"Deeggs"

Zafira's heart was shocked and beating hard. For some reason, every time Fariz said he was going away from her, Zafira's heart felt insincere.

It was strange, he loved Ronald, but every time Fariz said he was going away from him, his heart felt unwilling.

What happened to Zafira's heart? Does he love two men at once? Is he really interested in Fariz? Or without him noticing, it turns out that there is love in his heart for Fariz?

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