It Turns out There's Love

05 - INCIDENT AT THE MALL

"Why don't you pick up my phone?" the figure asked again with a huffed face.

"So I was busy shopping" Ronald replied casually, trying to find an excuse.

"Shopping you say? Where's your groceries? I didn't see it" the figure railed at many questions, his eyes looking at Ronald's hands, no plastic or paper bag that the boxer was carrying.

"Oh Image, why don't you believe what I'm saying?" Ronald turned his body to the side, faced the beautiful girl and held both of his hands.

"I wonder, why do you always ask like this?" Ronald continued still holding the girl's hand.

A few meters from where they stood, a pair of eyes continued to observe with a sharp gaze filled with fury.

"Yes, I can't believe it, I don't see any stuff you're carrying. Let me see, what are you buying? Show me! So I can trust what you're saying, "the girl still wants proof, looking suspiciously at Ronald.

Ronald shook his head at the suspicion of Citra, he immediately opened the backpack and showed the contents inside to the girl.

In an instant, the face of the girl who had been riled up, full of suspicion and disbelief, turned into a cheerful, sweet smile instantly burst from her lips, he only believed Ronald's words after seeing the shoe box in the backpack.

"Why didn't you tell me you were going to the mall to buy these shoes? I will definitely accompany you" the girl asked as she wrapped her hands around Ronald's arm.

"I was going to call you, but I thought I'd just come by here for a little while, so I went alone, I didn't want to always bother you either, you must be tired of coming home from school, too," Ronald goes back to telling lies to cover up the truth.

"Ooh, so sweet once my girlfriend, still thinking about my situation, it was not good ya dating different schools, we so hard to meet. Try if we are a school, surely every day we can go home together," the girl grumbled spoiled writhing on the arm of the basketball player who was tall, 180 cm.

"It doesn't matter what the school is, but once a week we always meet, go for a walk, watch a movie and eat together," Ronald said comforting the beautiful girl who has been in a relationship with him for more than a year.

"Continue.., are you alone? Why are you going to the mall alone? Didn't call me first? Usually every time you want to go to the mall, you always ask me to accompany you," Ronald continued asking curiously, his eyes staring in wonder at the girl standing in front of him.

"I was going to go with Ana, but after I got here, Ana called me, she said she couldn't come here, because her mother suddenly took Ana to the Supermarket to accompany her mother for her monthly shopping," Imagery explains the truth.

"Oh well, it's only fitting that you don't call me, I'm also surprised when you call and tell me that you're here" Ronald nodded in understanding.

"Well, where are you going now?" Ronald said, asking, as his eyes still turned to look around him.

Ronald's heart was calm again because he did not see Zafira around him, Ronald only saw a man in a black hat standing behind them while bowing his head, it seems that the man is also a mall visitor who is busy playing a mobile phone.

"I want to buy a bag, will you buy it for me?" replied the girl next to Ronald spoiledly.

"Have I ever refused your wishes?" Ronald asked Citra smiling as she touched Citra's nose.

The image of a child rich, spoiled, beautiful, a little aggressive, and quite smart in school, but even though he is the son of a rich man, still often asked Ronald to buy the goods he wanted, he said, because the papa limits the balance in ATM Citra, with the aim that the girl is not too careless to spend money.

"Thank you honey, you can always make my heart happy" Citra said spoiled, then pulled Ronald's hand to walk in search of the bag she was after.

Twenty minutes later, Ronald was at the cashier's desk, paying for Citra's groceries using an ATM.

So engrossed Ronald and Citra shopping, to the point of not realizing that men in black hats still continue to follow them.

"Now that my job is done, I've bought you a bag, you go home now" Ronald told the smiling Citra to look at the shopping bag in his hand.

"Why did you tell me to go home alone? We just go home together, yeah, "Picture pulled Ronald's hand to take him to the parking lot.

"Where can you come home with me, the helmet is only one, I don't want to be ticketed by the police because you don't wear a helmet" Ronald said.

"Oh yeah, I forgot that you didn't bring a helmet for me, well then, I took a taxi," Citra finally didn't mind taking a taxi home.

But his steps were blocked by the figure of the man who had been following him, the man standing right in front of Ronald deliberately blocking the way of the basketballer.

Ronald shifted his foot to the right so that he could pass the figure in front of him, but the man in black hat stepped to the left as if deliberately not allowing Ronald to pass through.

"God! What's the matter with you?! Why do you seem to be deliberately blocking my path?!," Ronald snapped with an annoyed face trying to see the man's face from behind the hat.

"Yes, I do have a big problem with you!," replied the man in the hat undaunted.

"Oh yeah?! What's your problem with me?! Try saying!," Ronald tried to pull the man's hat but quickly the man's hand removed the hand of Ronald who almost touched his hat.

"Coward! Don't hide behind your hat! If you're a man, open your hat and show me who you are!" Ronald snapped back with a reddened face.

"I'm not a coward like you! play heart behind Zafira!," said the man who turned out to be Fariz.

Fariz took off his hat and boldly showed his face to Ronald.

"Oh, it's you! Friend Zafira! Oh wrong, wrong.., his girlfriend Zafira?! Oh wrong again.., the man who likes Zafira but always rejected Zafira? Don't you? It's so sad to see your fate! ck, ck, ckk..," scorned Roland smiling mockingly.

"I don't care if you want to say anything about me! I will not let you play Zafira's heart! Brash man!," Fariz reassembled his hat and sent a punch to Ronald's left face.

Ronald, who had not expected Fariz to hit him suddenly, did not have time to dodge, and a hard blow landed on the playboy's cheek.

Feeling the pain in his cheek, Ronald burned more and more with anger, he walked up to Fariz and hit back at Zafira's best friend, one punch right at the corner of Fariz's lips.

Fariz held the corner of his lips and there was a hint of blood stuck to his thumb.

Fariz advanced quickly then without thinking long kick Ronald's stomach, inevitable, Ronald felt a hard hit in the stomach, so that made his body staggered.

Fariz was not satisfied until there, he pulled the collar of Ronald's shirt which looked still in pain, grimacing holding his stomach.

"If you really like Zafira, don't ever play with her! I will never interfere with your relationship as long as you treat Zafira well! But if you just want to hurt her, then you stay away from Zafira! Or I'll kill you!" snapped Fariz pushing Ronald to the floor.

Fortunately Ronald can still hold the balance of the body so as not to fall to the floor.

Fariz has a slightly shorter posture than Ronald, 175 cm, so he can still balance Ronald's strength and not too difficult for him to push the body height of the basketballer.

When Fariz was about to approach Ronald and teach the playboy a harder lesson, Fariz's body was held by two mall visitors.

"Eh already, already! Don't make a fuss in public places! if Security sees your behavior, you will be punished!" said a 50-year-old man who still holds Fariz's body to avoid continuing his action.

Fariz immediately realized, fortunately the mall visitors pass it, if not, surely the incident will continue.

"Okay sir, I'm leaving, thanks for reminding me" Fariz said, nodding politely to the two visitors who broke up his fight with Ronald.

Without even looking at Ronald, Fariz immediately left the place.

Ronald still staggered holding his stomach and face, he felt Fariz's kick was enough to make his body inflamed.

Ronald limps down to the toilet to wash his face and fix his messy clothes.

He did not want Zafira to see that she was like this, and the girl would definitely be suspicious of him.

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