Flower Seller Girl

Go home

Lily held onto her head which felt throbbing. Make Doctor Hendri immediately immediately immediately asked. The ties in the hands as well as in the legs have been removed.

“Why? What do you feel?”

“My head hurts, Doctor.” From the suit and stethoscope hanging around Hendri's neck, Lily knew the man was a doctor.

“When did you start feeling it? Recently or has it been a while?” Doctor Hendri begins his duties by inviting Lily to communicate. He also began to check the condition of Lily's normal body starting from the heartbeat, eyes, mouth, etc.

“So after waking up from a dream, I didn't feel any pain. But after remembering..” The girl's eyes were dewy again. And without being prevented tears have run down the cheek.

“Why are you crying?” The doctor lures Lily again to communicate.

“Why not cry, Doctor? I lost the people I loved at once. Papa and my baby.” Lily sobbing. But not accompanied by screams or revolts.

Instead of taking pity, the doctor spoke again, “not you alone can be sad and suffer because your loved ones have died. I have experienced it too. My sister, brother and both my parents were smashed to pieces and that I saw for myself in front of my eyes. So, never think that you are the saddest person in the world.”

I don't know. Only Doctor Hendri knows if what he says is true or just takes the life story of someone else. But it was successful in making Lily's cry gradually soften. Adnan and the nurse were also stunned to hear the doctor's words.

“Why are their bodies smashed to pieces, Doctor?”

“They are suicide bomb victims.”

While continuing to tell stories, the doctor examined and assessed Lily's emotions. Lily looked at the doctor with concern. It was more horrible than what papa had experienced. Turns out to be true, it wasn't just his fateful life. He will try as hard as he can to accept the reality as the doctor suggested.

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“This is a miracle. Previously there were no signs that he would improve.” Now Dr. Hendri and Adnan are in the doctor's office. Several scanned sheets of Lily's head filled her desk. “The best mental doctors from developed countries have even raised their hands and admonished Lily will not heal.”

Adnan listened with sparkling eyes, even with a smile that continued to expand.

“Her nervous system is working fine. His way of communicating smoothly, his body gestures are no longer afraid when meeting people, everything is normal. This is truly magical.” said Hendri again with admiration.

“Iya, Doctor. I am so grateful for Lily.”

“For him not to be depressed anymore, do not leave him alone so as not to remember the incident. Or you can give him a positive flurry to distract him.” Adnan.

After it seemed like the doctor had finished saying what he had to say, hesitantly Adnan asked, “for his request earlier, is he able to go home, Doctor?” Yes, Lily was whining asking to go home. The girl felt unfamiliar in the cramped room which did not make her feel comfortable.

“Actually can't. It still needs to be monitored and there are stages of follow-up checks. But look at him who is eager to go home, fine..”.

Adnan smiled in response.

“Oh, yes. Where's Mr Dion going, ‘ya? I should have told him directly.”

“Sweetest. If only he were here, he would surely be very happy to see his wife's improved state.”

Adnan himself was confused. For the next week he said the man would miss visiting Lily. Usually, one day never missed the husband of his adopted sister not to come. What an important matter was that Dion had to leave within a week. Even the company led by him had already been ignored for the past more than a year.

After Doctor Hendri repeatedly warned Adnan about anything Lily could and did not do, the skinny girl was finally allowed to go home. Not to forget also Doctor Hendri prescribes appetite-boosting vitamins.

They are already in the car online in the parking lot of this hospital. Adnan had to book a taxi online, because at the time of his arrival he was using a motorbike. There was no way he was piggybacking on Lily whose body was still weak. Lily's tears didn't stop a while ago after already knowing what place she had been living in.

“So, a–aku to crazy, Mas,” his stuffing stammering. “Up to one se–half a year?” he said again with a mourning all over his face.

Adnan tried to restrain himself from spilling his tears. “What matters is that you are now healthy. Don't remember that incident anymore. If you are always down your health will be disrupted again.” Her burly hand carried Lily's head to her chest that fielded. Wiping the girl's head lovingly. Not like the love he had felt before against Lily, but the love of a sister to his sister. “Papa won't like to see you like yesterday it was.”

Lily confirmed what Adnan was saying in her heart. Although the painful scratches will continue to stick in the heart, he will try to strengthen his heart and live happily as papa said in a dream. There are many good memories with papa that will be used as a life encouragement.

“For now, let me cry, Mas. I promise from tomorrow I will try to be happy.”

Gentle pats were given by Adnan on the back of his thin sister. “Enough just five minutes. Because for one year you have shed a lot of tears. Maybe if accommodated already there is one full toren.”

Lily smiled in between her cries as it felt funny. He hooked his hand on the man's waist. I feel lucky to have an adopted brother like Adnan. A man who loved her without knowing. Until the car they ride continues to go along enliven the city streets in the morning up this afternoon.

Epilogues

“So we go straight to your in-laws' house?” Lily nodded. The crying has subsided. For now he does not want to go to the flower shop first because he feels traumatized by the place. A place that bears silent witness to how papa was tragically persecuted.

“But your husband may not be home. He said he had important business. I've called a few times but it's not answered.”

Undeniably. The only loved one she missed the most was Dion. Really am. Along the way Adnan tells about Dion's struggle for his recovery. How the man went about his days with a hit. How Dion who does not want to take care of himself because it is more concerned with treatment for his wife.

“It looks like he's looking for a doctor again. He is very persistent day and night so that you recover quickly.”

Lily's eyes were back in tears from feeling touched. “'And there's papi sama mami at home, Mas. I miss them too.”

Eventually the car drove there.

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Did Lily stop the marriage or did Dion divorce her and get married?