Liz Nadia's

Lost - Ridiculous Shadow

"You're sure you don't want to go back? Everyone misses you, Nad."

Slightly raising his face looked at Kenan Lingga who was now sitting filling the sofa opposite him, Liz Nadiah slowly shook her head. "No, Kenan. I made a promise to myself, too ...." A moment of silence, taking a deep breath. ".... To mother, to devote myself to this village."

One other thing that became the reason the reinforcement Liz Nadiah settled in her village, he could not explain to the man. About Malea Lupi. He knew clearly the feeling of his professional friend, after seeing him crying in the bathroom toilet of the hospital, while raving full of wounds, because Kenan Lingga never once glanced at him. Also a small note Malea Lupi wrote about her feelings for Kenan Lingga, making her even stronger to leave the man behind. Although there was never a knock between them, there must have been a bond.

There was a tinge of disappointment on Kenan Lingga's face. "Well, if that's your decision. But ... Where is your mother? Can I meet him?"

The question was quite a jolt to Liz Nadiah.

On the soft pedestal he shook his head again. "He's not here. Maybe somewhere. What I wish someday, I could find."

Kenan Lingga was clearly surprised. "You mean, Nad?"

He looked at the man for a glimpse, then revealed, "My mother is missing."

....

Ten years ago.

The palm of the 16-year-old teenager Liz Nadiah continued to wave in a car that crawled further away, leaving her mother, Galuh Aisyah.

The 40-year-old woman stood in the middle of the village street and returned a wave of Liz Nadiah's hands with tears that blurred.

Liz Nadiah was taken by her uncle, Jaya Purnama, Galuh Aisyah's half-sister to the city, to continue her schooling to a higher level, on the guarantee of her uncle of course.

The hardships of life that he experienced after the departure of Shada Yasin-husband, made Galuh Aisyah respond to Jaya Purnama's desire to bring Liz Nadiah to the city. He himself refused to go for a reason. Pusakan Jaya Purnama ends a sigh of caving.

While Liz Nadiah can not refuse, even though it is hard to leave the mother in solitude.

"Go, Son. I beg you." The palm of Liz Nadiah's hand continued to be grasped by Galuh Aisyah, in a blue tear, also a little bit of actual forced feeling. "Be a hero to this village. Be a great doctor, so that no more people die of late treatment, or from hunger."

It was her mother's magic message, which made Liz Nadiah unable to say 'no', to support her. In the end he nodded despite the excitement.

The village was full of difficulties, many women died in childbirth because of late handling, and with the baby. Many of the sick people died without medical help.

They rely on living from the catch of fish in the river or being fishermen in the sea, with results that are difficult to reach the word 'enough'. Or tapping rubber with little wages, because the besiegers did not pay them as they should. Too many cheats from greedy people who press them to the difficulty of ruling .. even to just breathe once.

The village was as if covered in fog, which was unattainable to the cold hands of the government. The village apparatus was too staggered, letting its inhabitants be crushed by misery. I don't know what their job was at that time.

Three years earlier, Shada Yasin, the father of Liz Nadiah, died while at sea in suddenly bad weather one night. The man drowned with several crew members in a wrecked fishing boat hit by storm surge. Then it was found lifeless the next day at the coastal end not far from the village. He left his son and his wife in a pain that drained the tears after his departure.

Early in the city, Liz Nadiah still often exchanged news with her mother who was on the phone, in the village office. But the longer, Galuh Aisyah increasingly rarely preach it. Even almost never after months Liz Nadiah was in the city. And the last news received from Lurah in his village, his mother was declared missing, with the state of an empty house, no longer maintained. Giving birth to mystery.

Liz Nadiah was quite hit with the news. Jaya Purnama strictly forbade him to return to the village to ensure the condition of his mother, because of a plague that was afflicting his village at that time. Until time changed everything in the city.

...***...

Sean can only wait. Though the boredom had been piling on him for almost an hour.

With confidence and a sense of bodo very, finally he decided to sleep in a car that he parked not far from the lake area where Andromeda aloof.

Until this second, Andromeda was still silent stiff, slippery body bent legs, in front of a lake at the end of the city. Occasionally throwing small stones into the middle of the lake to create a circular wave, which does not make it calm at all.

"Why should he reappear before me, when I have buried him in all that he has about?" It was the sentence to the many times he had spoken, from the very beginning of tracing the place.

The shadow of the face of Jennefit Moon, the woman he almost married four years ago, continues to shadow inexplicably filled his eyes.

He left the banquet at the hotel before the end of the afternoon, after meeting each other face to face with the woman who turned out to be the nephew of Diraga Madewa, his new business partner at this time.

Jennefit Moon is petrified. The meeting was too shocking for him as well Andromeda. Everyone looked at them both in wonder. And Diraga Madewa, might get an explanation from Jennefit Moon himself after that.

Either fate what else will befall Andromeda in the future.

But one thing is convinced in him now ....

"No! I can no longer be tempted by you. You've already left me. Enjoy your regrets now!"

That is if the woman is truly sorry.

A flash of hatred emanated clearly in Andromeda's pair of eyes.

Dissolved in his feelings, a sudden motion disturbed him. He saw a boat in the middle of the lake, filled by a pair of human beings who may be, contrast with the clothes worn by the man.

Both appear to be immersed in a shady romance with tumblr lights dotting the perimeter of the small boat. Occasionally laughing in small talk, also occasionally stroking each other's faces. And that ... is quite envious of anyone who sees it.

Either the ridiculous demon that penetrated into the mind of Andromeda, until the romantic couple, as if changing roles into himself and Liz Nadiah.

Unknowingly, Andromeda's lips pulled to the side forming a smile. The shadow was too beautiful to hold.

Until ....

"Young Master! When do you want to stay here?!"

"Who?" Andromeda's head moved spontaneously looking at Sean who was now standing beside him. His heart rate was quite bounced, in shock. "You!"

"It's been almost two hours" Sean lamented, lowering his body, sitting next to Andromeda, staring into the middle of the lake located within the scope of an amusement park at the end of the city.

The place is quite crowded at night. Most of the visitors are young in pairs.

Andromeda grunted in annoyance. "A large portion of ratatouille, you may spend after this" he said without turning his gaze from the small boat that began to move away to the other end of the lake.

Hearing that, Sean suddenly exclaimed cheerfully. "Wow! Is that true, Young Master?!"

But they don't care about Andromeda. He thought back to the shadow of Liz Nadiah and himself in the little boat. Why the shadow of the doctor girl could easily replace the shadow of Jennefit Moon, the girl who had filled his heart for years, even up to a day before he knew Liz Nadiah.

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