Red Velveit

Chapter 23

The video call ended. After painstakingly displaying his smile in front of Ganan, he now returned to his original self. Return to the fact that his heart is not okay. Back to the fact that Nico was fooling himself.

Sheina rubbed her face riled with both hands. I don't understand what's going on right now. Is it so easy for him to be lied to or is it so bad that Nico lies to him?

Sheina bit the tip of her fingernails. He needs to see that guy now. He looked at the phone and saw the clock on the screen.

20:42

It's late at night. Sheina wasn't sure if she was allowed to go out at night like this by mom. But if he doesn't go to Nico's house, he might not be able to sleep all night because he's stuck feeling upset with the guy.

Drrr... Drrr...

"Hello, Nat?" tanya Sheina immediately received a phone call from Natsi.

[Hei Shei, the flash that I gave to elo, please love to Rashi this malem too. The word Rashi is very important so it can not be postponed,] said Natsi without further ado.

"Why does it matter, Nat?"

[That's it. I don't know, Shei.]

"Ohh okay I'm anter now ya."

[Favor Shei.]

"Yoii, byeee."

[Bye.]

Sheina finally got a good reason to get out of the house now. Without further ado Sheina immediately rushed down and prepared to leave.

🌸🌸🌸

Sheina perfectly arrived in front of Nico's courtyard. Armed with memories of Nico taking her to the big boy's house, Sheina finally arrives there. The difference, when Sheina entered through the underground garage, while now she entered through the front door. And sure enough, his guess. Nico's house looks very luxurious from the front. The four-storey house with white dominance looks very magnificent because it is decorated by a garden the size of a football field. Sheina was amazed to see it. Very different from his home.

Sheina then locks the bike and puts the helmet on the right rearview mirror. He slowly walked closer to Nico's big door. After pressing the bell three times, finally the big door opened. But it wasn't Nico who opened it.

"Sorry what's wrong?" ask a woman in white. What Sheina believes is Nico's housekeeper.

"His nico is?" sheina asked straight to the point.

"Oh ada's. Just a moment, mba," said the waiter and went back into the house.

Not long after, the man Sheina had been waiting for finally arrived. With a black shirt and shorts, Nico walked over towards Sheina. From a distance, the guy was surprised to see Sheina was his guest this time. Quickly, Nico turned around to change his clothes and pants. He doesn't care to meet a pretty girl in knee-length shorts.

"So the production film has been sent to the race committee?"

Hearing the girl's question, Nico stopped his steps, pecking in the middle of the road. Then, he slowly turned his body, staring back at Sheina.

Seeing the guy looking at her, Sheina smiled bitterly. "So you lied to me?"

Nico exhaled the breath he had been holding. Then he approached Sheina. "Who said that to Elo?" ask Nico with a serious look. He asked back, not answering Sheina's question.

Sheina looked away. "Tega ya lo. I think you're really good at helping me. It turns out there's a shrimp behind the rock."

"Not Shei. You misunderstand me," let's get Nico fast.

"Misunderstand? I'm too stupid Nic!" snapped Sheina. His tone rose by a hundred percent.

Silent. Hearing the snapping and sharp gaze of the girl, made Nico peck for a moment. The night wind that was blowing made the cold around them become more so. The distance they both created even made the stars in the sky reluctant to show themselves.

Nico then shook his head. "Lo's too good, Shei." His voice echoed in the night. "Thanks to the motivation of that time, I now have a way out. The way out so that my production can go forward again and join the race," explained Nico with a faint smile. To her, the snaps of the girl would not be able to affect her smile for Sheina.

Sheina looked at the floor of Nico's house. "Yaudah, I came home first" Sheina resigned without looking back at the man. There is a feeling of shame because it turns out Nico did not really lie to him.

"But, Shei.." Nico's words hang. "Rain" Nico said, looking at the drizzle of rain that began to drench his yard and garden.

Sheina turned her head. And sure enough, the rain that was just a speck now began to harden. Sheina clucked in annoyance. Why does rain come at the wrong time? Now he wants to get away from that guy.

"What is the gue anter?"

"No," Sheina replied quickly. "I mean, I'm waiting for the test to stop."

Nico nodded. "But the power will be an hour or two, Shei. You see, it's raining heavily, not just drizzling," Nico said as he looked back at the night sky filled with black clouds.

Sheina was getting worried. He bit his dry lips. He was afraid that what Nico said was right. "Lo.. is there a car?"

Hearing Sheina's question, Nico reflexively smiled. Even then, he hid his smile again.

"There's. Wait a minute, I change clothes first," said the man then quickly went into the house.

After waiting for a few minutes, Nico and his car arrived at the yard. It was a long time for Sheina to wait, because it seemed like the guy came out of the basement garage through the back door.

Nico opened the glass of his left car in half. "At the front of Shei," said Nico with a smile amusedly looking at Sheina who was about to open the back seat door. Sheina then undoes her intentions, and turns to open the front door.

"It feels like the driver is the same as his employer if you are in the back," said Nico asked Sheina to joke when the girl was perfectly seated in her car.

Sheina only smiled faintly at Nico's jokes before she smelled the scent of roses in Nico's car. The smell of flowers he hated.

And sure enough, Nico had replaced the AC fragrance of his car with the smell of roses. Sheina looked at the rose-pictured fragrance hanging behind the rearview mirror. Sheina then shrugged both of her shoulders, indifferent. For him, the smell of roses is better than the aroma of coffee is very bitter at that time.

A few minutes passed. But the rain still did not subside. Sheina could not even hear jazz on the radio because of the sound of rain outside.

"God! I forgot," Sheina suddenly said, hitting her head. He then reached into his pocket.

Nico who was still busy driving, then looked confused. "Why Shei?"

"I'm late yet, Nic?"

"Emmm... It's not yet."

"Let's go to the street I say yes."

" okay."

Sheina then took out the flash she was going to give to Rashi. In order not to forget again, he then put the flash on the dashboard of Nico's car.

"Still straight, Nic. Entar crossroad turn left. Well second from the corner," Sheina explained directing Nico.

Nico drove his car slowly. Trying to follow Sheina's orders.

"Well, it's over, Nic," said Sheina who made Nico a little brake suddenly.

Rashi's house? Nico asked inwardly after his car arrived in front of the house they were looking for.

"So soon, Nic" said Sheina while taking back the flash she had put on the dashboard.

Nico jerks. He was busy looking at the house. "Eh yes," replied Nico.

Is Rashi in Dalem? Usually it's mulu mulu mulu mauh child, Inner Nico while sharing a small smile.