Sleeping Rooster
28. Expressing Love.
"Why are you here?" tanya Dion approached Lina alone.
"Wait until they're done playing."
"Main?" Dion still didn't understand what Lina was saying.
Lina goes to tell Dion where Ardan and Linda are. Dion followed Lina from behind. Until they reach the hospital garden. Linda and Ardan told stories and laughed at each other on the bench of the hospital park.
"They're happy because there's each other. I wish Ardan could smile like that every day" Lina said.
"I was selfish to have Ardan but Ardan was Linda's and I had no right to take him" Lina said.
Tear drops flowed in Lina's eye fertiliser.
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Linda saw the two of them from a distance. It was Lina and Dion. They're across the park. Linda called them to join together.
But Lina suddenly left Dion alone. Dion walked over to Ardan and Linda on a park bench.
"Where are you?" ask Dion to Ardan.
"Good cave." answered Ardan.
"Thank God then."
"Why didn't Lina meet us here?" ask Linda.
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Flashback when Lina and Dion both :
"You know we're like we're being set aside here" Lina said.
Dion was still silent not answering Lina's words.
"Don't force it to be his. His heart was locked by someone. Don't be stupid and selfish to want to have it. I once invited Ardan to marry me because I was fed up with the yoga mas attitude towards me."
Lina breathed out her frustration towards him and Dion still remained the same pecking and silent listening to the woman's chatter.
"But I was rejected because her heart belonged to Linda. Luckily Linda can be loved by the figure of Ardan. Yaudah I said goodbye first. Say hello to them."
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"Dion why are you daydreaming?" ask Linda.
"Ngga, no papa. Lina said hello to you guys."
"Thank you." Linda replied.
"Then I have to say goodbye. I had permission to leave school for a little while" said Dion, when he actually skipped.
"Oh yes heart. I sent you a 1-day permit to accompany Ardan here." Linda replied.
"Be careful." replied coldly Ardan.
"Yes. Cave pull first." said Dion.
Ardan and Linda replied with just a nod. Dion rushed away but not to school but to a cafe near the hospital to calm down.
Dion is still mingled with the words Lina. "Don't force it to be his, his heart already belongs to someone else."
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"Do you know why I gave you dandelion flowers?" asked Ardan after Dion left the hospital room.
"I already know." Linda replied without turning her head towards Ardan.
"What try?" asked Ardan curiously.
Linda turned to look at Ardan. Their eyes met and clashed with each other.
"Dandelions. I thought the flowers would be beautiful after a few days. It was like a rose from Dion. But the reality is not."
"You were given a rose by Dion?" ask Ardan cut out Linda's words.
"Heem." Linda replied with a nod.
Their conversation halted for a moment, Linda again started her conversation earlier.
"However, what I love about dandelion is its passion for growth, but it's fragile."
"You're right, but he's also easy to find because the seeds are scattered everywhere." added Ardan.
"Linda, if you find a dandelion flower. Say "I Love You Too" because it's a symbol I love you."
Linda stared fixedly at the brown eye lens in front of her. Tears flowed through her eyes.
"My answer when you shot me. I Love You Too. I love you too, Linda." said Ardan, crying out to Linda.
Linda also could not help but hold back her cries. They ended up just as embracing. In the hospital garden with plants and sunlight and wind blowing. Ardan declares his love for Linda.
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Dion drinks his chocolate milk order at the cafe while enjoying the breeze that begins to enter his body.
Dion felt something was different today. Lonesome. Nothing he wants to pour out now. Maybe for a moment he should leave this city of memories.
Dion's trying to focus on pursuing her ideals now. Become a successful entrepreneur.
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Lina saw a lot of people passing by on the gatung bridge. The sun was radiating brightly with the breeze accompanying him.
Is God still a sincere love for me?
The nausea suddenly began to feel. Lina covered everything from her husband that she was pregnant. She doesn't want to see him now because it's for her son's safety. Lina stroked her stomach to calm her baby.
"I'm sorry, son. I can't get you to meet dad. Because I know that you will be hurt by it. Enough mother is sick, not you." muttered Lina while stroking her stomach.
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Linda went into the house to meet her mother who was preparing lunch for her father who was going home soon.
"Mama." said Linda while hugging her mother's body from behind.
"Mama's son. Are you home, son? Oh, how's Ardan?"
"Ardan is aware of ma. Sorry I didn't go to school because I wanted to accompany Ardan in the hospital."
"Papa NGO. Now you take a shower and help mom. Papa's coming home soon to take a break from his office schedule."
"Yes ma. I take a shower." said Linda to her mother.
Linda rushed upstairs to take a shower and changed her clothes. Not long after, Linda came out in her usual suit and shorts.
"Here ma, Linda help cut the vegetables." pinta Linda while taking the vegetables that will be cut by her mother.
Seeing the joy of his happy son had made his mother curious.
"You're why I'm so happy about the mood."
"No, no papa ma." said Linda.
"Hayo began to lie to mama." teased his mother to tell her son.
"What the hell ma. I really don't papa."
"Son, you know how you feel when you're sad or happy. You are mama's son. Never hide anything from your mom. Even though it's the saddest thing."
"Yes ma. Linda understands." said Linda.
Silence returned to accompany the two there was only the sound of a knife that Linda was using slicing vegetables and the sound of her mother frying fish.
"Ma." call Linda who focuses on cutting vegetables.
"Yes." answered his mother.
"Have you ever fallen in love?"
Her mother then approached her son and poked Linda's nose.
"Mama has experience when it comes to love" said her mother while taking a cut of vegetables that have been cut by Linda. Then turn around to immediately saute the vegetable.
"Ma, what should be given to someone who has no hope of living?" ask Linda.
His mother immediately stopped from sauteing vegetables. His mother's eyes were blank considering the past events he had experienced.
"Ma, mama." call Linda but not supported by her mother.
"Mama." call Linda again this time a little louder.
"Ah, yes son." her mother was shocked and Linda's voice blew her daydream.
