Fakhri was wandering around the school after encountering with his older brother Naim, a part of him wanted to say how much happy he was to meet him, but his ego kept preventing him from saying it, or even showing it to him. Deep down he was in the verge of crying, but he held it down as he would always thought men don't cry.

Well.........that's where he's wrong, because he will get to know it by himself soon.

Fakhri came across the schoolfield yard, when he saw Lily sitting on one of the table, she was covering her face while resting her head on her arms, to support on the table, her long straight hair just stretched through almost the whole table.

Fakhri chuckled with a dreamy smile, immediately forgetting the pain after seeing Lily again, he slowly walked toward her before wiping his teary eyes. He stood in front of her but she's not moving at all, he slowly sat next to her and put his elbow on the table, supporting his head to stay still, so he can watch her closely.

Even though Lily's face was completely faded, Fakhri was smiling dreamily at her, not awaring amything surronded them. She suddenly started to move, her head raised slowly, feeling of someone's beside her. She slowly looked at her right side to see her favourite man, smiling at you.

Fakhri: Hiiii Lily!!!!

Fakhri waved with a dreamy smile, greeting Lily with his cuteness. She's taken aback by his sudden appearance and shouted, almost tripping over to her back. She closed her eyes to get ready to fall, when she felt a hand behind her head and another on her left waist.Lily slowly opened her eyes, witnessing Fakhri's raging eyes.

Fakhri's hair was dancing a bit from the wind, his eyebrows twitched at her face, his sharp nose breathed out loud, making it expand it even more. His soft lips were gasping, finding some words to express. The felt of his rough hands on her head and waist made her hormone level went up abnormally, the hungry gaze he was giving to Lily was something she wouldn't missed in her entire life.

Both souls were staring at each other at the same position, their hot breaths were touching each other, their faces were in an inch apart, their lips would had met in a second without any warning. But Lily immediately warned herself and sat straight again, breaking their eye contact and startled Fakhri.

Their face became too red, even the tomatoes would disappeared if it's placed in front of their faces. Never did the two souls knew they would got interacted to the opposite genders so much in their whole life.

Their tongues got tied, as they can't find the right words to describe what just happen a few seconds ago. Until, Fakhri decided to break the awkward silence from not letting it taking their space.

Fakhri: Are you all right, Lily?

Lily was about to answer, when she felt something again, she looked down and found her left side of her waist was held by Fakhri's rough hand, he didn't aware of how much he was holding her waist softly. He widened his eyes in shock, immediately retreating his hand, made his face redden even more and more.

Lily felt an electric shock wave past throughout her whole body when Fakhri held her waist, she was surprised to the fact that she felt softness from his rough hand. On the other hand, the man who was brave to fight anything now fighting for his own shyness, he didn't realise what he was doing, as he didn't have the courage to do something like that.

Lily: Uh......Fakhri?...........

Fakhri wanted to look at Lily, but his shyness kept him from looking at her. She immediately held his chin and made him to look at her.

Lily: What's the matter?

Fakhri for a second stared at Lily's bright eyes, he held her hand from his chin and held it tightly, not letting her to go away.

Fakhri: Did I make you uncomfortable?

Lily: No you didn't, you just saved me from tripping over.

Fakhri: It's not that, I.....I.....held......held...your.......

Lily now understood what's making Fakhri to hesitate so much, he was holding hee waist for so long without even noticing. He thought he might made her uncomfortable at that moment, but the truth was......she liked it when his hand was on her waist.

Lily: Fakhri, it's all right. It's not a problem, you didn't do it purposely.

Fakhri: No, I think I lost my mind, I would rather go then.

Fakhri immediately stood up from the seat, trying to ignore the situation by walking away, followed by Lily stood up and stopped him from going.

Lily: Fakhri, wait!!!!

Fakhri stopped his tracks and stood still, whether to turn around or not.

Lily: Come on Fakhri, I told you it's fine.

Fakhri immediately turned back and raised his eyebrows.

Fakhri: How can take this easily Lily? Don't you feel wrong? Don't you feel something awful of me when I touched you?

Lily: NO, I DON'T!!!

With that said, Lily walked toward fastly, facing Fakhri who had a sweat face and unreadable expression. She held his both hands, placing it on her waists. Ignoring the shock face of him, she cupped his cheeks with her hands tightly.

Fakhri: Lily, what are you......

Lily: Don't take your hands off from me, now listen carefully. I don't feel uncomfortable of your touches, nor your presence to me, cause you are my favourite man Fakhri. No matter what you did to me, I won't stop letting you go away from me. You have the rights to touch me, care for me, and everything Fakhri........

Fakhri: But why Lily?!

Lily leaned forward a bit and stared deeply into Fakhri's eyes.

Fakhri: Because I trust you Fakhri, I trust you so much.

That one sentence was enough to flatter Fakhri's heart and let him out his whole emotion, he immediately hugged Lily tightly, hiding his face on the crook of her neck, crying softly. She was shocked to see another side of him, as she didn't expect anything like this.

Lily: Fakhri, what's wrong?

Fakhri: Let's stay like this for a while, I don't want this moment to be ruined.

Fakhri said with a broken voice while crying silently, never in his life had anyone told him how much they trust him, even his own family didn't. But, to the fact that Lily was the first person to trust him a lot, his entire emotions were drained out from those simple words with a huge meaning.

On the other hand, Lily had no idea about Fakhri's sudden behaviour, she wanted to know why but a broken man was hugging her so tightly that he didn't want it to stop, instead she returned the hug and patted his back, trying to calm him down from whatever he's thinking about.

After a short period of time, Lily brought Fakhri to her room as she didn't want anyone to see him crying. He was sitting on her bed, with her next to him. He calmed down a bit, but his red eyes kept flowing with tears, she was heartbroken to see him in this state, she felt guilty as she thought she might had made him broken. She slowly reached out her hand, wiping off his tears, he slowly turned toward you, staring for you in silence.

Lily: Fakhri, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you or made you cry, I'm just a bit frustrated after you said you made me uncomfortable and something like that...........

Lily kept feeling guilty of making Fakhri cry, but she could get was a dead of silence, she found him staring at her nonstop, tears still flowing down, without any body movement.

Lily: Fakhri....I.......

Fakhri: Why do you trust me, Lily?

Fakhri asked a sudden question to Lily, which she didn't expect that coming. But now that she thought about it, why did she say that? They just came across like two to three times, chatting happily, hanging out, but to the fact she said she trust him was something he didn't expect at all.

Lily: I.....I.......umm......

Fakhri: Tell me Lily, why do you trust me?

Lily: Should I tell you the truth? The first time I saw you, I felt something different inside me, like I have no words to explain about it. After getting to know you, I started to like you a lot without my knowledge, I feel like I'm safe with you, I feel like I'm home. And most of all, I feel so comfortable being with you. I don't know how, but that's how I feel right now.

Fakhri wipes his own tears and got closer to Lily.

Fakhri: Do you trust me so much?

Lily: So much that I even brought you here in my room alone, isn't that enough?

Fakhri: But if I hurt you, will you still be with me Lily?

Lily turned completely to Fakhri, who had a curious face to know her answer.

Lily: I won't leave you anywhere Fakhri, I'm always be there for you.

Fakhri had a sad smild on his face after hearing Lily's sweet words.

Fakhri: I'm so lucky to have you in my life.

Fakhri suddenly held Lily's hands and tighten it with both of his hands, lowering his head while looking at her hand.

Fakhri: My family won't trust me that much, even some people who surronded me won't. They felt like I'm a completely loser, who won't do anything good to anyone. At that moment...........I think I'm not capable of anything, for anyone to trust me.

Fakhri raised his head again and looked at Lily, who's face had soften after hearing his words. He immediately reached out his hand, caressing her cheek softly, that one gesture was enough to make her heart went even softer.

Fakhri: But when you said you trust me, I was quite shocked, a person who you just knew for 2 days like that started to trust me a lot. I felt like.......something special all of a sudden, something precious.....

Lily: Because you're always special Fakhri, and you will remain as it till the end.

Lily had no idea how much she was making Fakhri to fall hard on her, it's almost as his heart started to get ruled by her, but it's not the right time to think about that as it's too early to do so.

Fakhri: Lily........thanks for being with me........

Lily: Why thanking between us? I'm not that sweet, sunshine.

After a long time of sadness, Fakhri finally chuckled slightly, enough to calm Lily from worrying about him.

Fakhri: Sunshine?

Lily: Yeah, you're the sunshine of my line. Cheesy right?

Fakhri laughed softly from Lily's cheesy line, she was happy to see him smile softly after a waveful of emotions, and she hoped she will see it everyday.

Lily: Fakhri, you have to be strong for the future ahead. No matter how hard it is, you need to fight for your own life. Don't lose that hope and confidence, for every war you're facing, you'll become more stronger Fakhri. I hope you will understand what I'm trying to say.

With that said, Fakhri stood up straight all of a sudden from the bed, wiping his tears from his face. His sadden eyes now turned into raging eyes, the fire had now started to blast, all thanked to Lily's encouragement. He felt motivated again, to fight anything he will face, he put on his hoodie on his head and clenched his both fists.

Lily: What happened Fakhri?

Fakhri smirked devilishly and turned toward Lily with firing eyes, she was quite taken aback from the sudden change of his behaviour.

Fakhri: Lily, from now on this fire will never get down, it will blasts more and more to fight off any enemies I faced, you are going to see a new Fakhri starting from now. Good night Lily, I'll see you tomorrow.

With that said, Fakhri left the room with a smug, leaving Lily alone there. She peeked out from the doorway and looked at him walking away, he stopped his track and looked back at her.

Fakhri winked out of the blue, attacking Lily's heart with an invisible arrow. She gasped and stepped back a bit, before seeing him smirk at her and walked away, completely disappeared from her vision.

Lily: Did I just see a ghost? That seems like a high speed of attitude-changing.

Kahar kept blackmailing Fakhri to fight with him since the beginning, but today when he gone back to his room, he and his friends were gone over the limit. He stood in front of him in rage and glared at him deadly, when Kahar was grinning widely at him, with an evil look.

If it was before, Fakhri would had let it go, but after having Lily's trust and her words, he decided to fight it back rather than running away. Two men were glaring at each other, they were raging in anger, as they wanted to kill anyone in anytime.

Fakhri: You wanted it so bad, right?!!

To be continued.........

Hi guys. Thanks for reading. I know this chapter is kind of draggy, sorry if I didn't reach to your expectation, I will try my best to make you the best in this story for you all to love it. Anyway, what do you think about this chapter? Leave your thoughts in the comment section down below, stay in touch to find out more about the story. Until then, I will see you guys in the next chapter. Bye, guys! Terima kasih!!

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