
It had been a week, but there had been no sign that Naura would be conscious. During this week, Nathan has not been able to go anywhere, because of the documents needed to be able to go abroad. However, today the young man received word from his older brother that everything he needed was done and that tickets to London had been purchased for the next two days' departure.
Nathan read the message sent by his eldest brother with a long and heavy breath.
"What's up Nathan?" Nicholas who was in the same room, with Nathan, was in the room where Naura was being treated, squinting his forehead, curious about Nathan's attitude.
"There's nothing, brother! I just feel sad to see my mother's condition has not improved" Nathan replied, lying.
"Patience! we still have to be sure that mom will wake up soon" Nicholas patted Nathan on the shoulder to calm the young man down.
"Sister, I'm gonna let you go for a second. I want to see Dava and Bastian," Nathan swung his leg, stepped outside after Nicholas nodded, assuring him.
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Nathan walked around a park, and spread his gaze, looking for someone who had waited long enough for him. Who is that guy? what he meets turns out is not Dava or Bastian as he told Nicholas, but Renata. Yeah, the girl asked Nathan to meet, because he said there was something he wanted to talk about.
"That's it!" muttered Nathan so see the figure of a girl whose appearance is very contrasting because it is different from the girls in the park. The girl sat in an iron chair, and focused on the phone in her hand, to the point of not realizing that Nathan was already standing in front of her.
"May I sit down?" nathan asked politely.
Renata was shocked, as soon as he heard Nathan's voice.
"Nathan, why don't you come and say something?" Renata pursed her lips, pouting.
"You're the one who's too focused on your phone" Nathan said as he sat next to Renata.
"So you sent me a message, he said there's something you want to talk about, what is it?" Nathan put on a serious face.
Renata did not immediately open the sound. The face of the glasses girl turned pale. The girl also bit her lips, hesitating to say the words she had already stacked up before.
"Ren, why are you quiet? said you want to talk .. Let's talk!" Nathan reopened his voice with his eyebrows clutched.
"Emm, Nathan, if I talk, you don't laugh at me later!" renata said with a soft.
"Laughs you? what's for?" nathan's brows furrowed, confused by Renata's direction of conversation.
"Yes, you can laugh at me, because what I want to talk about is a very rare thing for a woman to do, but, after I think about it, it's too late, there is no harm in a woman talking about it first" said Renata, ambiguous.
"Ren, please don't twist around! go straight to the point!" Nathan is starting to look impatient.
"Yes, but you have to promise first, you won't laugh at me" Renata said. No one knew except her that her heart was now beating faster than a normal heartbeat.
Nathan exhaled then nodded, assuring.
"Nath, I don't know when I've been feeling this way, but I want to be honest, like I like you!"
Nathan's eyes grew, and his mouth opened slightly to Renata's confession, which he did not expect.
"You're still sane, aren't you, Ren?" nathan asked whose heart was suddenly pounding.
"That's it! why anyway? strange if the first woman to talk?" renata's lips were back on the cone. The girl could not imagine if she had gotten a rejection from the young man beside her.
"Ah, bodo! what matters is that I talked about it. As to how it will turn out, let's see, "the girl's inner self-soothing.
Nathan was stunned not knowing he wanted to say anything more. If you can be honest, deep down, his friendship with Renata starting from studying together until now, can already cause vibrations in his heart. However, this time it was very hard for him to answer because he realized that he would go far.
"Nathan, why are you quiet? you don't like me, do you? I'm sure of that, because you're handsome while I'm .. I definitely don't include the criteria you want,"
"Renata! here you are apparently!" suddenly there was a baritone sound from a distance not too far away from the two of them.
"Father!" Renata suddenly stood up in fear and tried to swallow his saliva which was suddenly very difficult for him to swallow.
Not only was Renata shocked, Nathan was too. "Oh, is this Renata's Papa?" the young man whispered in his heart and stood up as Renata did.
"Hello, Om! it's Nathan!" Nathan tried to be friendly as he reached out his hand to shake the middle-aged man's hand that looked like a parlente in front of him.
Rajendra, Renata's father does not seem to have any intention of welcoming Nathan's hand. It was evident from the reluctance of the man to take his hand out from inside his pants pocket. Instead, the man looked at Nathan with a very sharp gaze.
Gaining such an attitude, Nathan sighed and retracted his hand.
"Renata, how can you, a woman say you like a man first. Where's your pride?" snapped Rajendra who seemed to not care about Nathan's presence in that place.
"It's wrong, Pa? everything that runs in our hearts, shouldn't we have to express? that's what I'm doing now. I don't want to keep what I feel" Renata said firmly. To be honest the girl was starting to get a little fed up with the way her papa treated her and restricted everything she wanted to do. Even he looked like that too on the will of his father.
"If the man is your level, it doesn't matter! this ... how could you possibly like a man who is completely below your family level? do you want to be used by him later?" rajendra said coldly, no matter what words hurt Nathan or not.
"Father! I can't talk like that! Nathan's not as bad as papa's mind,"
"You didn't learn from Roby, did you? Roby who incidentally, came from a family that is quite located, approached you because there is a desire, let alone him whose person is not at all clear!" Rajendra continued to spit spicy words while glancing cynically at Nathan.
Hearing all the insults that were thrown from the mouth of his father Renata, made Nathan feel his pride humiliated. The man clenched his hands as tightly as possible, trying to hold back the emotions.
"Om, I'm not an obscure person! I have a father and a mother. I don't come from a rich family like Om. But, I can assure you, I am not a person who likes to beg for mercy, even to the point of using a woman. I still have my pride, as a man! Om can hold these words of mine, I will be able to prove that I can make your daughter happy using what I can, not with Om's possessions" Nathan said firmly, directly, as he said, saying that he will fight to make Renata happy.
Rajendra smiled cynically as if he was being underestimated. "Don't just talk! I need proof not just words,"
"Good, Om! I'm not a loser. I'll make sure that I'll be successful!" nathan said emotionally, because he did not like it, his pride was like being trampled on.
"I'm waiting for your promise! And until you can prove those words, never come to see Renata!"
"Well, Om!"
"Nathan, I don't want to!" exclaim Renata did not accept.
"Ren, please understand! Let me go to get my dream first. I promise that I will succeed and come back to see you. As long as you keep your heart for me, I won't let there be any other woman's name in my heart except you!" nathan said firmly.
"You're done talking, right? Renata, now we're home!" Rajendra grabs Renata's hand and pulls her daughter's hand to come home with her.
"I don't want to, Pa!" resist Renata trying to escape from the clutches of Rajendra's hand. After being released, the girl ran back to Nathan and without hesitation hugged the young man.
"The diamonds!" snapped Rajendra, furious.
"Ren, please let go of your embrace! it's not good to see people!" whispered Nathan.
"I don't want to! you said you were going to achieve your dream, where are you going?" Renata does not care about the clash of her papas either with Nathan's request to let go of his embrace.
"I can't tell you where I'm going. But I will definitely come back again. But trust me. I'll make sure at 25 years old I'll be back again.If in those 7 years, I don't come back, you can accept other men." nathan said with a firm and confident face.
"All right, I'm holding your word!" renata concluded, finally releasing his embrace.
Tbc
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