Abandoned Flower's

The Right to Be Happy

*4 Years Later*

"Are you there again??" Simon builds firewood assisted by Hally who is now 10 years old. "Did he say nothing??"

"Yes!" Hally lifted 2 wooden beams at once to be placed close to the fire furnace. "Lately, miss has been to the top of the mountain a lot, this is weird dad. Miss also likes to reflect alone, sometimes she also cries at night."

Simon let out a long sigh, he might be able to guess what Flo was thinking at the moment.

Maybe it's because of the news I delivered the other day, right? News of the grand duke having returned to the capital after being able to take control of several parts of the territory after ending the long cold war.

News of the expansion of the territory has been heard where since last week, the current king's government experienced victory although that brings victory is clearly a grand duke who is trying hard in the middle of war. And Simon heard it all while shopping at the capital market and told Flo.

After finishing composing the wooden beams, Simon thought about approaching Flo on the top of the mountain. Seeing the woman just sitting quietly on the rock close to the cliff and looking away at the mountain back there.

"Aren't you not able to reach the place just by looking at it??" Simon's words break Flo's daydream.

"It's been five years. Are you still not ready??" Simon walked over to Flo and stood in front of the woman.

"Ready..?" Flo looked at Simon as if charging at the man.

"Why did you come here again?" As if already memorized the habits of Flo 5 this year, if the woman gets a lot of thoughts she will just sit on the edge of this cliff all day without doing anything.

Flo stared up at the sky. "..Lately I kept remembering something. I kept thinking of the faces of my three servants who were brutally slashed before me when I told them to run away. Ah no, than that I remember things earlier." Flo recalled how she tried only to see Winter every day, "Remememememememory of the past." It was a time when Flo was hoping for affection but she never got it.

"I grew up feeling like I had no one, nothing. That's how I grew up with a sense of inadequacy. But. actually back then I had a lot of things, only now do I realize it."

Flo bowed sadly. "I'm not sure if now I can go back to a world where there's nothing left for me.."

"But isn't that the reality?" Simon sat on the rock and looked at the edge of the cliff. "The reality you have to face. How long will you keep hiding here?!"

Flo bit her lips softly. "...You mad?? I'm.."

"Because His Highness the Grand Duke has returned." Simon interrupted Flo's words. "Didn't that fact seem to be getting clearer?? But you have absolutely no courage, courage comes back to reality."

Simon was silent looking at Flo, then he bent his body slightly. "...I'm sorry if I'm so presumptuous, please just forget what I said."

Flo got up and walked to the cliff. "She, already dumped me... Right, that's the reality I fear the most." Flo's face is getting sad. "Even Ethan.. ah I mean the future successor to the duke who sometimes met me already 2 years not here."

"Master Marquis Ethan came here last month." Simon's words made Flo look surprised.

"What?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

"If I tell you that, if I tell you. Are you going to give a good answer to the sincerity of Mr Ethan coming here to take you home?? You will just ignore it as usual." Simon pause. "So you asked me if I was angry.. I am really angry. The one who hinders the miss is not the noble grand duke or the one who has passed away.but the lady herself."

Flo's face grew increasingly uncomfortable hearing Simon's precise speech.

"Didn't the lady feel sorry for yourself?? Your body.. Aren't you being too mean with that pathetic yourself??"

"Do you never think that it is possible. Not someone who does not worry and love yourself??"

Flo was again struck by Simon's words, and then he sat down on the rock again and looked down. "So you mean I've never tried to love myself?"

"Yes miss. Please try to entertain yourself once.

You've done well..

You have survived enough..

You've been struggling all this time..

Therefore, you can live happily now."

Flo's tears just slid on her cheeks hearing Simon's words, her heart warmed and moved. Never once did she try to love herself and now she knows that she deserves that much affection from herself. The woman could only cry as she wailed to cover her face, crying for herself who had tried her hardest, struggling hard.

I deserve to be happy...