I choose Your Heart

PHD (23)

Daren takes her to the playground, but Triana feels dizzy and does not feel bad. Lanzi told Triana to rest and Lanzi would take Daren to the playground.

Triana lay on her bed accompanied by Fitri who continued to massage Triana's head that felt throbbing. Triana told Bi Aen to buy a testpack to the pharmacy.

After getting tired of playing games, Fariz went to the kitchen to get some drinking water. Fariz searched for Aurel's whereabouts, but Fariz did not find him. He tried to find Aurel in the room. Fariz knocked on the door several times, but there was no answer. Fariz turned the doorknob and it turned out to be unlocked. Fariz came in and saw the situation in the room. 

The room was very narrow due to the large amount of items stored there. Fariz looked at the photo of Aurel's family. He smiled at the picture of Aurel who was smiling happily, unlike now who looked gloomy and cold. Fariz muttered in his heart. 

"He once smiled so beautiful. What made it become what it is now? I really want to know you more. Can you open your heart for me? Aurelia Adidjaya."

Fariz immediately exited the room, worried that Aurel might catch her in the room without her permission. Fariz returned to his room, he glanced at the wall clock which showed eleven o'clock in the afternoon. Fariz was hungry and he did not want to trouble Aurel. He also chose to go out to lunch. 

***

The Lanzi house. 

The maid Triana told her to buy the testpack, is back. The maid gave the item she bought and returned to the kitchen. Because it's time to cook lunch.

Triana gets up and gets out of bed, intending to help cook in the kitchen, but Fitri forbids Triana. 

"Already, just rest. Your body is weak, let me help auntie cook. According to what Mom said," said Fitri. 

Triana could not go against Fitri's orders. He went back to lying down and put the testpack on the nightstand.

Lanzi and Daren have returned home from the playground. Daren searches for her grandmother in the kitchen and Lanzi goes to the room to see Triana. Lanzi smiled seeing Triana sleeping soundly. He closed the door and went to Daren in the kitchen.

***

The Aditya house. 

Half an hour after Fariz left, a hearse arrived in Aditya's courtyard. Aurel got out of the car, then four police officers and one hearse driver lowered a coffin. Aurel followed behind with a blank look. Only tears kept dripping down her cheeks.

Aurel POV.

"Why is destiny so cruel to me. The only person I care about is gone. The man I was waiting to free me from this hell is gone. There's nothing more I can hope for. There is nothing more I love in this world, and no one will love me anymore. Why do I have to go through all this? What is my fault God? What's my fault…?"

Aurel laments his fate of losing someone he loves again. Aurel cried bitterly staring at the coffin that had been placed in the living room.

*Flashback*

*Drrtt.

A greeting from the caller made Aurel immediately run out of the room.

"Miss Aurel, we're from the police station. Mr. Aditya Adidjaya suffered persecution in the cell, his life could not be saved. We beg you, Miss Aurel picked up Mr. Aditya Adidjaya's body from the hospital mortuary. We are waiting for Miss" said the police officer who called from the hospital. 

Those words were ringing in Aurel's ears. Aurel ran to the hospital, not taking a taxi or any other public transport. Aurel ran in thin house slippers, on the way, the slippers broke off. Aurel did not care about that, he threw away his sandals and continued running barefoot. The distance of the hospital is about twenty minutes, if you use a taxi. But Aurel took it with half an hour of running.

Arriving at the hospital, four police officers stared pityfully at Aurel. Hair that was shabby and wet with sweat, eyes moist and red, as well as bare feet that bleed because he had fallen on the walled road. One of the policemen approached Aurel. 

"Miss Aurel, Mr. Aditya's body is inside. Please come with me!" said the policeman.

Aurel entered with the police greeting him, while three other police officers waited at the door of the mortuary. Aurel approached Aditya's body, which was lying stiff on the push-bed. His tears broke when he saw his father was lifeless. 

"PAPA! Wake up! Papa don't stay in Aurel, Pa, hiks hyks." Aurel hugged his father's body while crying roared.

The policeman shed tears upon hearing Aurel's wailing. Aurel lost her only hope. He always persisted with his aunt's behavior just because of his father. Now the life force has gone on forever.

"Miss, you have to sign the papers of consent to bring your father's body, because Mr. Edi can't be contacted. And Mrs Olivia couldn't come here because she was out of town" the police said.

Aurel did not ask much, he immediately signed the letters and then went out and waited in front of the mortuary door. Aditya's body was bathed and put in a crate. After that, the four police officers were assisted by two mortuary officers, carrying the crate and putting it in the hearse. 

*flashback off*

Aurel was alone, sobbing in front of the coffin. The sixteen-year-old did not know what to do.

Fariz returned home after lunch at a restaurant not far from Aditya's house. He was surprised to see the gate and also the door of the house that was wide open. Fariz got out of the taxi and ran into the house. Worried that a robber might enter the house, he worried about Aurel's fate. Upon arriving in the living room, Fariz stopped running, standing glued to Aurel who was crying as he pleased in front of the coffin. 

He stepped slowly closer to Aurel, then crouched down beside Aurel. Aurel turned his head towards Fariz and a blink of an eye turned his gaze back to the front. With hesitation Fariz held both of Aurel's shoulders and patted him gently.

Aurel's cries broke again, his shoulders descending as he sobbed. Aurel is saddened that her uncle and aunt are unwilling to take care of her father's funeral. Though all the wealth of Aditya they took, but there is no sense of pity in their hearts for Aditya who died.

***

The Lanzi house. 

Tom calls Lanzi and tells her that Aditya is dead. Lanzi immediately informed Triana who had just woken up from her nap. They immediately prepared to go to Aditya's house. 

Triana was very worried about Aurel, along the way, Triana kept telling Lanzi to speed up her car. They just go alone. While Daren entrusted to his grandmother, Fitri. Lanzi was speeding at high speed, he prayed that he would not be stuck in traffic.