Restore Your Smile
First Word
It didn't feel like a month had almost passed, since James last left his dorm to go see Celine. Now it's time to go back there to attend her graduation and tidy up the things in her dorm.
Today, one day before graduation, the family of Wijaya + Celine - Alex (schaleee math sentence), will go to the city of S by driving a car.
The plan, after arriving, they will be together to clean up James and Dion's belongings, then arrange them in the car. The night they will stay at the hotel, because it will be exhausting if they have to return to the house which is 2 hours from here and have to return the next day to attend the graduation event.
In preparation for today, Papa Heru and Mama Ratna had already arranged their teaching schedule well in advance. While Alex, can not join because of office work that can not be diverted or postponed.
Two hours had passed, and now James was standing at the door of his dorm room. There was a blue feeling, because after all this could be the last time he stepped on this place after spending 4 years of his life here.
James entered his room, followed by his parents and Celine. After sitting down and looking around for a while, they started working. Empty cardboard boxes began to be prepared and items began to be tidied up.
James sorted out the items, both his and Dion's. The items that he wants to carry, arranged in cardboard. While the useless items, he collected for disposal later.
Mama Ratna and Papa Heru helped pack things. A neatly packed cardboard will be taken to the car. While Celine, just waiting by sitting sweetly on one of the beds in the room. Unbeknownst to him, what he was sitting on was the bed his late brother used.
With the situation already developing into this, they agreed not to return Dion's belongings to the Adipratama family home, given the attitude of the Great Lord Adipratama who still seemed to harbor bitterness to Dion. Those things are planned to be placed in Celine's room.
The size of the room is not too large, with the presence of 4 adults in it, as well as items that are in the process of arrangement and packing, making the room atmosphere look solid, tight, and messy. There was hardly any place left empty in the room.
The arrangement of items looks everywhere, according to their respective types. Books with books, clothes with clothes, and various other items that do not fall into both categories. Dion's bed was no exception, the place where Celine sat. Celine's left-right was filled with a pile of Dion's stuff.
James deliberately set it so to facilitate the arrangement of goods when packed later. The bed as a place to organize his goods, while the bed Dion as a place while stacking Dion's goods. The floor is deliberately left a little loose to make it easier for people to pass.
This minimalist Celine's head movement did not go unnoticed by James. "That's Dion's drawings. Celine knows yah?" said.
Celine remained silent as she continued to pay attention to the pictures one after another. Until his gaze came to a halt in one of the pictures and subconsciously his hand grabbed the canvas.
"Yes, that's Celine's picture. Dion drew it as his first work here. Good well .... Just like Celine, when was little Celine?" james said again, adding his caption.
Suddenly a tear trickled down Celine's cheek. And not long after, a voice came out from her tiny lips, "Sister ...."
James was stunned to hear that. Same with Papa Heru and Mama Ratna.
"Sir .." he said again.
Like a black cloud that was no longer strong enough to hold water in it, or like a dike that was no longer strong enough to withstand the pressure of the water pressing on her, Celine's feelings spilled out.
Celine was sobbing until her entire body shook violently. Tears were pouring down his cheeks. His hands hugged the canvas tightly. And his mouth, constantly repeating the same word, "sister".
All activities in the room stopped. Everyone could only be speechless watching that heartbreaking scene. Unknowingly Mama Ratna also shed her tears.
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