He's Not A Bad Boy
Chapter 10 - Conqueror of the Heart

That afternoon in a hospital, crowded with patients and health workers who passed by. Khaira and Shaza walked down the aisle of the hospital with Ifan in front of them. They continued walking until they arrived at a VIP room bearing the name Boy Anderson there.

"This is his room, come in." Ifan invites Khaira and Shaza to enter, but the girl stays in place.

"You go in first" pinta Khaira then told Ifan, making the man finally enter.

A slightly touching sight of Khaira now greeted his gaze. Inside the large room was a man lying weakly with his hands pierced by the infusion and his pale face closed his eyes.

Ifan looks closer and whispers something near Boy's ear. Shortly after, the beautiful eyes of the man slowly opened.

"You're saying who came to see me?" tanya Boy with a distinctive hoarse voice woke up after getting a whisper from Ifan.

"Look at yourself, Boss," said Ifan then shifted slightly and now Khaira and Shaza were behind him.

"Khaira," said Boy smiling happily. The man was even about to rise from his sleep, but he paled when the pain in the abdomen again disturbed him.

"Lying down, I'm not here long" Khaira said, approaching just a few inches from her initial position of about 150 centimeters.

"Thank you for visiting me" said Boy.

"I should be grateful that you were protecting me back then, and I'm sorry, because of me, you got hurt like this."

Boy silently looked at Khaira's beautiful face which was becoming clearer at this moment, making the girl lower her head in a slight unease.

"Do you feel guilty about it?" ask Boy with a serious face.

"Of course, that's why I'm sorry for everything that's happened to you" Khaira replied.

"Then make me your friend."

Khaira instantly raised her face looking at the man who was still holding on looking at her with a serious face.

"What do you mean?" Somehow the girl immediately became blank, all this time she had no male friends, that's why she felt so strange to hear Boy's request this time.

"Hey, don't you understand what friends mean? Just like you and Shaza are close friends, I also want to be like that with you."

"Hey hey, where did you know my name?" sela Shaza's.

"Sssst, don't interrupt the conversation" whispered Ifan, making Shaza snort annoyed at the tattooed man.

Khaira who had once turned her head towards Shaza now turned towards Boy. The man understood the meaning of the face of the hijab girl at this time, just like his best friend, he certainly had a curiosity about it.

"I'm sorry, since I first met you, I've always been curious about you, so I asked Ifan to look for her" Boy replied honestly.

Khaira linked her eyebrows slightly objected, eager to get angry and protest, but given what the man had done to protect her, she could only give in and take a rough breath.

"Next time don't do that" Khaira said later.

"Of course." Boy smiled happily because he was not scolded by Khaira. However, he was instantly silent as he recalled his request a few seconds ago. "So, how?" he continued to demand an answer.

"What's how?"

"My request, did you want to make me your friend?"

Khaira was silent for a moment to think, until finally he nodded in agreement to Boy's request.

"Sorry, Pa. It's just a friend, nothing more, Khaira sure won't fall in love with a man like him, "his inner self as the father's advice instantly rotates around his head like a broken cassette.

"Yes" said Boy, so pleased, and without further ado he stretched out his hand toward Khaira.

"What's this?" khaira asked confusedly.

"Our friendship, I also want to formally introduce myself to you. Hello, my name is Boy Anderson."

Boy shook his hand giving code to Khaira to shake his hand immediately.

Khaira again fell silent for a moment staring at Boy's hand, slowly raising both hands, but not to shake the man's hand, but rather he cupped both hands in front of his chest.

"My name is Khaira Muthmainnah."

Boy smiled wryly looking at his hand which now feels numb because it is outstretched but not welcomed.

"Do you not want to know ...."

"Srr."

Shaza again snorted in annoyance as his words were cut off by Ifan. It was actually made like a shadow in the room by Ifan, existing and visible but not considered to exist.

Khaira and Shaza now return to their rented house. The two are in the kitchen to prepare dinner together.

"Ra, you know, I was so upset with Ifan, that he could have held me back from giving up my freedom of speech." Shaza opened the sloppy conversation of carrot-cutting.

"Are that what?" Khaira who is frying chicken is now looking towards the friend.

"I don't know, anyway, it feels like the room belongs to both of you, I'm a mosquito and Ifan is a mosquito repellent, 'ih kesel I'm the same tattooed man, iiiissh."

"Our two? There-there's you, we're just friends now" elak Khaira laughed softly.

"Eh, Ra. You know, no friendship between a man and a woman is completely pure unless one of them harbors a special feeling."

Khaira who was busy flipping chickens now immediately stopped his movement. "What do you mean, Sa?"

"Duh, you're too positive thinking or plain anyway? That is, I'm sure, Boy must have harbored special feelings for you, otherwise he might have sacrificed himself to protect you" Shaza said.

"Again, the two of us visited him, but the one who was invited to be friends was only you, me? Shut up in the corner," continued the girl.

Khaira thought for a moment, he recalled the beginning of his meeting with Boy until he always found the man around him, whether he was intentionally or not.

"Did he really like me? No no, we only met a few times by accident, it is impossible that accident produces attraction, "inner Khaira.

***

Day after day passed, today Khaira spent her days in school without the presence of Shaza, the friend because he was allowed to attend his family's events.

Khaira is currently eating in the cafeteria with her other friends except Shaza. When he was about to pay, he was surprised by the nominal he had to pay for breaking through six digits, even though he only ate meatballs one portion.

"Mom, why do I have so much to pay?"

"Oh yes, son. That price includes food for some of your friends there who you said you bought." The cafeteria mother pointed at a group of girls who were staring at Khaira from afar while laughing, one of them was Silvi.

Khaira let out a lethargic breath and went back to taking the money in her wallet to pay for everything. However, when he was about to go home, he whispered something to the mother canteen.

The school hour bell has ended and it finally reads. All the students came out of their respective classes, as well as Khaira who chose to go out first in order to get home quickly.

"Khaira, stop!"

Khaira instantly stopped her steps when she heard her name called, this time she already knew who called her and the reason she was called.

"Hey, you're being rude, well, why did you tell the cafeteria mom that I was going to pay for all the snacks in the cafeteria because I had a birthday?" Silvi spoke in an exalted voice because she was so upset.

How not, because of that, Silvi was so embarrassed in front of his friends because apparently the money he brought was not enough, he was about to pay with his atm card, he said, but it could not be done there because the mother canteen did not provide the tools.

"I thought you were birthday earlier," Khaira replied with a calm face.

After many times getting bad treatment from Silvi, Khaira now does not want to be treated like that because she feels silent which has been her choice of attitude turned out not to be the right choice. The more she kept quiet, Silvi increasingly did not appreciate her as a friend.

"You're innocent, you want revenge, right? Then feel my revenge too." Silvi raised her hand about to pull Khaira's veil, but was held back by a burly hand that was now holding her hand.

"Boy?" lirih Khaira's.

Silvi who saw Boy was stunned when she saw the handsome man beside her.

"Don't bother my friend" Boy said as he looked seriously at Silvi's eyeballs.

After saying that, Boy immediately pulled Khaira's bag to make Khaira walk behind him and left Silvi who was still stunned unconsciously.

"Why are you here? Are you stalking me?" khaira asked after trying to remove the bag pulled by Boy.

"I'm not stalking you, I'm just following where my conqueror's heart goes and I'll make sure he's always safe" Boy replied casually.

"What?"

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