It turns out I'm on my own...

Chapter 33: Goodbye

The regret of having wasted Vania was also felt by Erin.

Since her meeting with Johnson, Erin began to realize that she should not be asking too much for what a mother should not ask her child.

Erin began to give up all her bad habits.

As Johnson expected, Erin began to take care of her children, especially Naura and Laudya.

The change made Johnson feel very happy. Erin was often asked to stay overnight at her home and accompany her two daughters while Johnson was on overseas business.

"Why don't you realize your mistake. If you'd realized your mistake long ago, I probably wouldn't have filed for divorce, so we wouldn't have lost Vania either."

"Yes, now I'm asking you to look for Vania's whereabouts."

"definitely. I will definitely find Vania and bring our daughter back to live with us."

"What do you mean by that, my mother?"

"I promise that once I find Vania, I'll refer you." Johnson.

Erin was shocked by what she had just heard.

"Certainly that?"

"Yes, we were a great family before. It doesn't feel the same when we're apart we're also separating kids."

"I'll also help search for Vania's whereabouts. I want to apologize to him for all the things I've done."

Laudya and Naura who accidentally heard that both her parents would refer to her, of course, felt very happy.

They then decide to help her parents, in seeking Vania and intend to apologize for any ill-treatment they have received.

As did Angelina, Erin, Johnson and also her two daughters looking for the whereabouts of Vania.

However, until a month has passed. None of them had managed to find Vania's whereabouts. Or get information about Vania.

Bella is preoccupied with their business that is getting crowded.

Bella decides to recruit some employees to help her as long as Vania still can't go home.

Vania of course did not mind the idea that Bella had.

Riko's condition is still not possible to be able to go home from the hospital, making Vania must be there.

"Vania, thank you for coming and painting happiness in the rest of my life." Riko said after she finished therapy and was in the hospital park with Vania.

"Riko, you shouldn't thank me. Because I'm the one who should thank you, you've been willing to share the beauty of love with me."

"I'm so lucky to know you and feel the happiness of being a couple. If only, God would have given me a second chance to extend this life."

"Richord..."

"Vania, promise me that you will continue to live and seek true happiness."

"Richo. Don't worry about my happiness. Haven't I told you before, I've found my own way."

"No, I mean after this you should be able to be more assertive and fight back when your adoptive mother continues to bully you."

"That's it, I've thought about it. After all for the past few months I've not heard from him anymore." Vania

"I also hope that you can keep yourself safe so that the events when you were almost harassed never happen again."

"I love you Vania, I hope in the next life God will make us a couple."

"Riko, why are you saying as if you were going to leave me?"

"Vania, it's impossible for someone with end-stage brain cancer like me to survive for much longer."

"You must believe that God's help is real."

"Goodbye, Vania..."

"Riko, what are you talking about and where are you going?" Vania asked seeing Riko suddenly rise from her wheelchair and walk away from Vania.

"Riko??" Shouted Vania.

Vania tried to teach me and grabbed his hand. But Riko goes and enters a door of light so that, Vania can no longer reach Riko.

"Riko.." cried Vania.

"Vania, wake?"

Vania immediately opened her eyes and she saw Mama Riko was trying to wake her up with teary eyes.

"What do you dream of, son?" ask Mama Riko.

"I dreamed that tomorrow would leave me forever."

Mama Riko fell silent and she lowered her head. That attitude of course caused Vania suspicion.

"Ma, what's wrong? why is my mom sad?"

"Vania..."

"Ma, we're ready to bring Riko's body home." Said Papa who suddenly came and immediately cut off Mama's conversation.

No, Papa spoke immediately before Mama could even speak to Vania.

Deg !!

"Bodies?" Lirih Vania

The view of Vania then looked at Mama and Papa Riko in turn.

"Hiks .. Hicks..."

Mama Riko who suddenly cries makes Vania even more confused and wondering about what really happened.

"Vania, what you dreamt of had actually happened to Riko."

"What does Mama mean?"

"Riko, Riko has left us for good."

Flashback a few hours earlier...

Vania and both Riko's parents panic when they find out that the chemotherapy on Riko's road is failing miserably.

Riko suddenly experienced a decrease in consciousness while undergoing chemotherapy.

Riko is immediately downstairs to the operating room for the next move. But destiny says something else. Riko leaves life after she gets a lot of happiness along with Vania.

Flashback...

Vania immediately got off her bed and ran towards Riko's room.

"Rich...." Tears could no longer bear when they saw that the body was already in the chest.

"Hiks... Hix... Riko. Why did you leave me so soon." Vania.

Mama who also entered Riko's room, immediately approached Vania and hugged her.

"Riko's last message so you can stay with us after this." Say Mama.

Vania again recalled about her conversation with Riko.

At that time, Riko had asked Vania to stay with her parents because soon Riko would not be able to accompany them.

Vania was just responding to it as a joke, who would have thought if it really happened today.

Vania comes home with Riko's parents and watches Riko's funeral.

Rikot...

Your departure reminds me that I am still alone in this world...

You and I paint happiness that I never got before...

You gave me happiness, you took that happiness from my life..

I'm sorry Riko, I can't fulfill your last wish to stay together with your two parents..

Let me live my own life...

Although this story is only a fictional story, but sometimes reality is not what we expect.

Not all of us will end up happy, the reality is that happy life exists only in our imagination and expectations...

I love you, Riko.

I hope your dreams are truly granted by God, may we be united in the next life.

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