The Young Guardians of the Heart

Chapter 29. Too Cowardly

“Assalamu’alaikum, Nadia. Sorry, I couldn't pick you up.” Ferdi stepped closer and the words spoken by the man made Nadia's body turn around.

The girl smiled along with a nod of her head while answering the greetings the CEO said.

“Wa’alaikumussalam warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Nothing, Om .. I was escorted with Renaldo. Is it true that Rei is his brother Om Ferdi?” nadia asked without changing the position of her body that had led to the figure of her uncle's best friend.

Ferdi smiled thinly, he felt relieved because there was no look of annoyed face on Nadia's face because she failed to pick him up earlier.

“Yes, Renaldo is my sister. We are two brothers and she is my beloved sister. Why do you like my sister?” asked Ferdi casually when in his heart he did’a hopefully his fear did not occur if they both liked each other but only the prestige to speak as he is doing now.

“Like? No, even I haven't liked anyone since coming to this town. I just want to be a successful person and be able to make Om Bagas proud of me but his koAkunten outside of me who has accepted Om as my pretend girlfriend. Why didn't you ever tell me that Rei was Om Ferdi's sister?” nadia asked with a frown.

Of course the girl was curious because Ferdi should have said that he had a sister who went to school in the same place as him but the man was instead impressed by deliberately covering it all up from him.

“For what? Kan Rei also has nothing to do with you, or are you actually in love with her, hem?” The man sat next to Nadia, opened the hat he had worn to cheer because he did not want Rei and Nadia to see him when he came to pick her up earlier.

“Om Ferdi what the hell? Where might I like your sister who is clearly lacking in quality hehehe. Eh sorry, I mean that I prefer a smart guy not a lazy guy learning like your brother, let alone I have also heard that he was apparently the king of the wall fence climbers late,” he said that immediately made Ferdi chuckle.

“Masa …? Sorry if Om would be disappointed because I'm not one of those girls. I don't like your sister's class president at all. Looks like I admit handsome, but Om Ferdi is also no less handsome, great again. I'm sure Renaldo won't be able to do what Om Ferdi does,” praise Nadia without realizing that the sentence he uttered has made the man blissfully happy.

“I also know that the type of guy like your sister prefers to spend time playing games because as long as I know him, Rei played more with his boy friend than went to the library and often I just saw him hanging out in the cafeteria,” continued Nadia recounting the figure of Renaldo in her eyes.

The woman took the mask from her backpack, sat down slightly sideways so she could point her body at her uncle's best friend. “Oh yes Om, I put this bag first yes, because I want to go inside but have to change clothes first!” he said goodbye because every time he wanted to see his uncle, Nadia had to wear special clothes when in the ICU room.

“I will wait for you here, oh yes, Nadia ... What about my offer yesterday? Instead of you having trouble going back and forth to home, it is better to stay all at the hospital until Bagas siuman.” Ferdi looked at the girl who did not get up from her seat after saying goodbye earlier.

“Sorry, Om .. I just don't want others to misunderstand our closeness and I don't want the Ferdi family to know and blame me,” he replied.

“I found Om Bagas first,” he continued stepping away to report first to the guard nurse.

Ferdi immediately nodded his head because Nadia's routine was memorized outside his head because the man was accompanying his best friend's nephew every day in the hospital without ever complaining, let alone feeling upset.

‘When will I dare to say love and true feelings to Nadia. I guess I really don't know the place and time if it now expresses the same feeling of that innocent girl because her own uncle is lying helplessly weak and might even be gone forever if the whole equipment was unplugged of body. Am I really too cowardly for fear of my love being rejected?’ Ferdi breathed a rough breath into the air, imagining how sick Nadia would feel if Bagas really left the girl forever plus her who had lived a kara.