THE GUARDIAN OF THE HEART

Chapter 3, Beauty But The Beast

Shortly after taking a bath, Sherly headed to her room. She took her cell phone lying on her dresser and then sat on the edge of her bedroom bed covered in pink, her favorite color.

He opened his cell phone and found some sms that went into his phone. But he was very surprised when reading text from a name that he had been very familiar all this time. He quickly got out of bed and then walked out of the room.

In a hurry, Sherly headed to the living room and then opened the door of her house. He saw a boy who was sitting in front of the fence. Drooping down while looking towards the road doused in rainwater.

" Shaka "call Sherly.

Sherly then runs towards him to open the gate of his house. He looked at Shaka who was soaked. But he was a little stunned when he saw Shaka's face that tried to hold back tears trying to come out of both eyes.

" What's going on? Are you okay?" said Sherly.

Sherly looked at Shaka who was silent. Sherly grabs Shaka's hand and leads him into her house.

Sherly's house is big and big. He is classified as a child who is quite rich because his father is a successful contractor in the city of Malang.

Sherly is an only child accompanied only by Papa and his mother and 3 Household Assistants. He was so loved and spoiled by his parents. It also makes Sherly rather choosy in several ways, including the affairs of men in her life.

After entering the house, Sherly tells Shaka to sit down. But Shaka instead went out and chose to sit on the chair on the porch of Sherly's house.

"I'm here" said Shaka.

" It's not pa-pa, just go in. You'll get sick later." Sherly replied.

" I'm more comfortable here, Sher" said Shaka.

" Yes, it's up to you. Wait a minute, huh?" sherly said and then she left Shaka on the porch of her house.

He told the Household Assistant at his house to prepare warm food and drinks for Shaka.

Shortly after, Sherly returned with a t-shirt and pants.

" Now, change your clothes" Sherly said as she handed over the t-shirts and pants she had brought to Shaka.

" Don't worry, it's my papa. It's new".Sherly said with a smile.

Shaka just looked at Sherly with a confused feeling of embarrassment and then he said :

" Is there a papa of yours?". while turning right and left.

Laughing, Sherly said that her father and mother were going to her papa friend's party invitation out of town. So he doesn't have to worry about that.

" I need you more than those shirts and pants. I just want you. "all of a sudden those words came out of Shaka's mouth.

Deg.., deg.., deg.., shakes Sherly's heart at the word Shaka. He was surprised Shaka said those words. With a bit of sculpting, he looked at Shaka with a shy blush.

For some reason, despite the many sweeter words that stopped by Sherly's ear from the crocodile men, did not make Sherly's heart beat fast. But the short words from Shaka actually made him nervous and his heart felt unnatural.

"Maybe I will no longer be the old Shaka anymore, Sherly." Shaka said.

" I'm going to change for the pain that's in my heart." she continued.

"Why, Shaka? What's going on?" said Shaka.

At first Shaka was silent while looking at the rain that afternoon. But, after Sherly urged her, she finally told him what she had experienced.

" Dance is outrageous. I'll talk to him later?" sherly.

" No, there's nothing to do." Reply Shaka.

" But it can't be dong, he must be taught a lesson. Let him play tricks on the feelings of others. Mind he is lonely, so can he arbitrarily use others only for his own sake, huh? cerocos Sherly with a long sentence.

Seeing the length of the sentence coming out of Sherly's lips, made Shaka smile.

"Let time go by properly. Let what is supposed to end be ended properly."

Sherly was just speechless hearing Shaka's poetic words. He began to understand the meaning of Shaka's self-change that had been said before.

" What's your plan? grumbling Sherly.

"It's not easy, but I just need time to walk with this wound." Shaka.

Finally the Final Semester Examination had been completed, each student came and swarmed the notice board to look at their respective classes. Sherly was surprised to see Shaka in a different class with her. Sherly is in class XII IPA 1 while Shaka is in class XII IPS 3. Sherly does not understand why Shaka who is quite thin-brained does not enter the IPA class, even though Sherly knows that Shaka wants it. Sherly is even more shocked to hear from Bobi, Shaka's taekwondo friend, that Shaka is stepping down from the Interschool Championship. It is very unfortunate because Shaka is a mainstay athlete in his school. He was the defending champion of the National Championship last year. Until finally the result of his decision, he had to be ostracized by his friends including teachers and trainers.

"Why did Shaka do that? Why did he bury all his dreams and hopes? What's he thinking? Is he still heartbroken? Is he okay?" all those questions were in Sherly's mind.

Sherly tries to contact Shaka, but Shaka's cell phone cannot be reached. Then he contacted Shaka's mother and was surprised to hear that Shaka went on vacation to her grandmother's house alone. His mother only said that Shaka is now more closed off and rarely gets along. He spends more time in his room.

Indeed, since the incident in the afternoon of that time, Shaka and Sherly's relationship became tenuous. Shaka never called Sherly. Shaka never shows his face or approaches Sherly again at school. Shaka is just busy with his own world regardless of the others.

Sherly has been trying to contact Shaka, but Shaka's cell phone is always dead. Sherly attempts to communicate and approaches Shaka, but Shaka always avoids Sherly. Sherly just wishes Shaka well and prays that everything passes quickly.

I don't think the semester break is over. Each student enters his class. They are busy with their own activities. Until one day in the school cafeteria, Shaka saw a thin-faced girl walking towards the cafeteria. He was fair-skinned and tall.

With his eyes narrow and his black hair unraveling long on his back, he walked alone. Attract the attention of other students who see it.

"Hayo, what do you see? you must have seen him, right?" bobi said while patting Shaka on the shoulder.

Bobi is Shaka's classmate in XII class IPS 3 who is also Shaka's taekwondo practice friend. He is one of the top class crocodiles in his school.

With a tall posture and a handsome face, making Bobi as a plaboy since sitting in the 1st grade. To him, there was no girl he could not conquer, except Sherly.

Yes, Bobi had time to assess Sherly and tried to tease him. But it was rejected raw - raw by Sherly. Even Bobi was begging Shaka to be taught how to approach Sherly. But Shaka instead laughed and told the bobi to try it alone. " The crocodile period learned ma lizard" Shaka said at the time.

"His name is Besty Quenn Roselle, his name is Besty" said Bobi.

" He's a Grade XI-1 kid, the new kid in our school. The move from Surabaya that I heard." continued Bobi.

Shaka just kept silent and kept looking at the girl without saying anything to Bobi.

" But don't expect you to get close to him, Shak. Her personality is not as beautiful as her face. He likes to say bad and hurt." Bobi's cerocos nonstop.

When Besty entered the cafeteria, many male students of XII IPS class tried to tease her. Many tried to approach and seduce him. But Shaka doesn't care about any of that. He just kept quiet while continuing to eat the meatballs in front of him.

" Silence..!!! Have you never seen a girl? The..!" said the girl.

He looked at all the guys who tried to tease him were no exception Shaka. He was a little surprised to see there was a boy whose attitude was not like all the men in the cafeteria. Besty was astonished by her indifferent attitude and just continued to eat her meatballs without commenting anything, as all her friends had done to her.

" Hey, Besty. Watch what you say..! You want to find something?" said Bobi.

" Yes, you don't want to sell expensive. Who are you? There are a lot of styles" said another male student.

" Would your mouth be sewn? Your face is not as pretty as your mouth. I guarantee there won't be a guy who wants to be your girlfriend" said another male student.

" What's my mouth, huh? You like my mouth? You wanna kiss my lips?" reply Besty.

Cuhhh..! Besty threw her saliva beside him while intending to leave the school cafeteria.

Before leaving the cafeteria, Joni, the male student of XII IPS class who was big and stood up and then held Besty's hand until Besty stopped. He raised his hand and intended to slap Besty. However, before the big hand touched Besty's cheek and lips, there was another hand holding her back.

All the students in the cafeteria turned their heads, seeing Shaka standing up and holding Joni's hand.

"It's inappropriate for men to hit women" Shaka said, looking into the school's notoriously rude boy's eyes.

Besty was silent and could only look at Shaka. He was surprised, how could the indifferent guy move quickly to protect himself.

" Silence, Shaka! Don't interfere! Or I'll beat you up" Joni said.

"Don't be a hero of bad luck." he continued.

"Let go of her hands right now..!!!" shaka said as he clenched his teeth and looked at him with the glare of his sharp eyes.

Finally Joni let go of Besty's hand and looked at her, saying :

"I'll deal with you later, arrogant girl..! " said Joni who then left and left Shaka and Besty.

Then Shaka left the cafeteria without saying a word to Besty. He passed from before Besty without giving Besty a chance to thank him.

The girl could only look at the departure of Shaka who was followed by Bobi who followed her with a hurry.