I Want to Be Loved

Glimmer of Hope

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Flora looked up to follow her mother's eyes. Flora circulated her gaze to the floor opposite where they were standing at that moment.

"Mother, where's dad?" Flora had no idea who her mother was looking at. A lot of people over there.

Seruni raised her hand and pointed her index finger towards the elevator on the floor.

"He got into that elevator?" Seruni's eyes were already glazed.

Flora wanted to run towards the elevator but her mother who almost lost her balance made Flora undo her intentions. Flora held onto her mother's body and took her to a seat not far from her place.

"Mom's okay?" ask Flora.

"Mom really saw your father, Flora. He was there …." Seruni again pointed towards the same elevator.

"Mother seriously? Mommy didn't see wrong? I mean it's been 25 years." Flora tried to explain to her mother the possibility of her mother seeing wrong.

"Flora though it's been 25 years but I still remember your father's face."

Flora lowered her face. Seeing her mother so sure made Flora unable to ask anymore.

"Yes already, Mom. If indeed we are destined to meet with father surely we will meet. Now we better have dinner first," Flora said.

Seruni napsu actually disappeared when he saw the face of the man named Ferdi. But he also had to think of Flora and also Tiara.

Seruni walked up from the seat and then they stepped back towards the food court. Once in a while Seruni looked back at the same elevator hoping that the man would come out of the elevator. But it is just hope because the reality is that what Seruni wants does not happen.

To be honest, Flora was eager to meet her real father. But he didn't want to expect too much, he wasn't ready to come back disappointed.

Flora, Tiara, and Seruni were sitting on the kusri and facing each other in the food court. The three of them were waiting for Adit, Tiara's husband.

Flora saw her mother was not excited, unlike before seeing the man. He knew his mother was thinking about him.

"Mom's okay?" Flora touching her mother's hand made her mother flinch.

"Yes, mom's fine. I just feel tired" replied Seruni.

"Yes, we have finished eating, yes, ma'am," said Flora, who was immediately embraced by Seruni.

Not long Adit came along with the arrival of their order.

"Let's eat!" Tiara exclaimed to try to melt the atmosphere.

"Come on." Flora and Adit called out.

Seruni saw the enthusiasm of the three people before her and it made her unwell. Seruni who did not need to eat eventually joined in eating even though only a little.

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"We went home first, Ma'am, Mas .. mother looked very tired," said Flora.

"Yes. You guys careful on the road?" tiara.

Tiara rubbed Flora's arm. He knew what Flora and her mother were feeling.

"Mbak also do not go home too late, a lot of rest too," said Flora who was immediately embraced by Tiara.

Flora and Tiara split up at the food court after dinner together. Tiara still wants to spend Sunday night in the shopping mall with her husband.

Flora and her mother stepped towards the place where her car was parked. After arriving at the parking lot Flora opened the car door for her mother and after that Flora walked around her car to the steering wheel.

When both of them were in the car, Flora began to drive her car away from the shopping center area.

The light rain accompanied Flora and her mother's journey home. Flora turns on the windscreen wiper to wipe the raindrops on the windshield of her front car.

The silence was so deep in the car. Neither Flora nor her mother wanted to speak. Seruni recalled the incident 25 years ago with her lover. Early meeting with Ferdi in Bandung. His encounter with a man named Ferdi made himself lulled into a forbidden relationship that made Flora live in his womb.

Seruni still remembered clearly Ferdi's sweet promise to marry her. But the harsh reality that Seruni had to accept, Ferdi left without informing himself even before he told Ferdi about the whereabouts of Flora in his womb.

"Mom, we're here."

The words of his son made him flinch. Seruni Daydream was immediately opened.

"What's the matter, mom?" flora asked when she saw her mother looking confused.

"No, Son. I just feel tired. "Let's go down, you should also rest."

Without waiting for the words of his next son, Seruni got off in the car. Seruni stepped up leaving Flora who was still sitting in the car.

Flora looked at her mother from inside the car with a sad look. Flora knew what her mother was doing but what she could do.

Flora took a heavy breath before leaning her body against the back of the chair she was sitting on. Lying if he doesn't want to see his father. When his mother said that if there was a father in the same place, Flora was very happy, but her happiness had to wear off again when she was late to see him.

But at least he knew his father was in the same town. Flora hopes to find her real father soon.

Flora decided to get out of the car because her head was in pain. Arriving inside the house Flora went straight into her room and fell asleep and did not even have time to change her clothes.

Two days later.

Flora's head still feels very heavy even though on Sunday she had a complete rest at home. Flora is in her office pantry. He was making coffee requests from his boss, Farhan.

Flora stood in front of the stove table while waiting for the water she was cooking to boil. Her memory goes back to the night her mother saw her real father. Since that day Flora kept thinking about her father, did she have a new family and not remember her mother?.

That question often comes to Flora's mind.

Flora kept thinking about it until she didn't realize that if anyone entered the pantry, it was Gio.

Gio smiled faintly as he looked at the girl his puja was daydreaming. Initially Gio wanted to tease Flora, but when his eyes saw Flora's hand was about to move towards the hot pot, Gio immediately ran over and it turned out that he was late.

"Aww-www." Flora screamed as her wrists nudged the extremely hot pot.

Gio instantly pulled Flora's hand and doused her with water flowing from the faucet.

"Basic stupid! What are you thinking?" snapped Gio.

If usually Flora will reply to Gio's curse, but at this time Flora can only be silent. His hands are still very hot.

Gio immediately took the phone from inside his suit pocket to contact Abi.

"Bring me some ointment for the burn, now!"

Gio immediately disconnected his call without giving Abi time to answer from across the call.

"It's still hot?" ask Gio.

Flora nodded.

"What are you thinking that keeps you from focusing like that? Huh!" ask Gio.

"My biological father" replied Flora.

"Y-your birth?" tanya Gio did not understand.

Flora nodded with a downcast face.

"Yesterday when I was in the moll my mother saw my real father, but before I saw him he was gone." Flora's tears finally spilled. "My mother and I were so unwanted by her."

Gio instantly pulled Flora into his arms. "Why say it like that. Where there is a father who does not want his child" said Gio.

"Then why didn't he try to find us?" Flora sobbed in Gio's arms.

"We'll know why if we find him" Gio said. "If he's really in town I'll help you find your real father."

Flora nodded while returning the hug Gio gave her.