Against Restu
MR Chapter 104: The last hug

..." As creatures, we cannot make everything work the way we want it to. But believe me, if the Owner of the Universe still grants you another wish."...

...~ Leonard Brian Marsello ~...

In a park filled with many flowers, there was a sound of running water like being in a waterfall. The place was so beautiful, yet deserted as if uninhabited.

Anne continued to step her feet while enjoying the fragrance of flowers that were so fragrant. The footsteps suddenly came to a halt when someone in white clothes was standing near the waterfall.

From her posture, Anne seemed to know who that person was. Anne resumed her steps, and at the same time the man turned his back.

" Sister, Brian..," said Anne when she found out who the man was.

Brian smiled at Anne, making the girl smile.

" Sister, are you here?" ask Anne. However, Brian did not answer Anne's question. He just smiled, then waved his hand and disappeared.

" Sister, where are you?" call Anne while walking to and fro looking for Brian. However, he did not find the man.

" Where are you brother? Don't leave me alone here ...," exclaimed Anne who immediately woke up from her sleep.

Hearing Anne who kept calling Brian in her sleep, certainly made the Prince's heart hurt. Now she is Anne's husband, but her heart and body still belong to another man.

" Sister, where's Brother Brian?" anne asked Kean beside her.

" Anne, you drink first" the Prince bargained. Seeing the Prince's distance so close, made Anne spontaneously move away.

Kean was still speechless, his tongue felt faint as if he did not want to say anything. Seeing Kean's face, Anne suddenly recalled the incident before she fainted. Where, Jeremy told me Brian was gone forever. Anne smiled bitterly with eyes that were back to condense.

" It turns out, Brother Brian really left me" said Anne.

Kean immediately hugged Anne's body to give her strength.

" Sister, take me to see Brother Brian one last time" Anne asked in a soft voice.

Kean nodded, after all he also had to do the duty of a Muslim to his dead brother. Because after all, it was Brian's right to be bathed, pardoned, and buried like a Muslim in general.

Kean helps Anne to stand up, when the Prince wants to help Anne back away.

" Don't touch me!" said Anne who did not want to be touched by the Prince.

The prince kept his hands away from Anne's body. For now, the Prince does have a lot of patience if Anne does not want to accept him as husband. Because this is the beginning of the struggle that the Prince must do.

Seeing Kean and Anne leave, Papa Ken, Mama Dira, Dinda, and the Prince come along. They all left in different cars heading to the Marsello Mansion.

During the journey, Anne kept silent like a living statue. His body was here, but his soul went nowhere.

After traveling for about an hour, they arrived at the Marsello Mansion. Their arrival, as usual will be welcomed by the guards there.

The aura of grief was clearly visible in the house, there were even many bouquets neatly lined up to say condolences. Brian's photo is also the longest in front of the entrance to the Marsello mansion.

Anne paused in front of a picture of Brian smiling happily. The photo where Brian is still in good health.

" Let's go in, Anne," take Dinda and Kean.

Inside the house, Daddy Samuel is seen sitting limp near Brian's body. Mama Dira who had been papah by Papa Ken, suddenly seemed to have the strength to run towards Brian's body which was wrapped in white cloth.

" Bri ...," exclaimed Mama Dira who immediately embraced the body that was no longer alive.

While Anne, she fell back to the floor as if she had no energy. Dinda and Kean also crouched when they realized Anne had returned despite being on the back.

" Anne has to be strong, if Anne's like this. Brian's gonna be so sad, didn't he want to see Brian one last time?" Kean tries to encourage Anne, although he himself is also very lost. But, it should still look strong . Losing someone we care about would be sad.

" Why did Brian leave so soon, brother? Why didn't he say goodbye to Anne? Why didn't the universe let us be together first? Why?" Anne wondered with tears flowing so hard.

Anne's chest felt so tight, she didn't expect that her story with Brian would end like this. Staying away by that very loved one, it hurts a lot.

" Anne, everything that happened was written long before we were born in this world. We as human beings can only accept it with the airy chest, and just think of this as a rebuke from God so that we do not love the creature too deeply. Because, in fact, the creature is impermanent. "

" So, did God take Brian this fast because Anne loved him too much?"

" No, but God loves Brian so he won't make Brian feel pain for too long."

Anne was down, what Kean said was true. Now, Brian must no longer feel pain due to cancer cells that continue to gnaw his body.

Kean helps Anne to stand up and walk over to Brian's smiling and very handsome body.

" Sister, let me hold her one last time" Anne's pinta confused Kean as to how.

" Help Anne if it can ease your grief a little." It was not Kean who spoke, but Papa Ken who was standing beside his wife.

Anne walked a step closer to Brian's body, then hugged the frozen body.

While in the distance, the Prince who could not see the scene also left from there. His status is a husband but he can't do anything.

Anne cried as if, the memory of the incident where Brian who hugged her for the first time seemed to come back.

" Anne, just allow me to hug you once."

" But our brother is not yet__"

" Just listen to my heartbeat, does he beat very fast?" cut out Brian who's trying to distract Anne. Anne also seemed to just follow and listen to Brian's heartbeat that beats so fast. Actually, it's not just Brian's heartbeat that's beating very fast, but Anne's too.

" Let's just say it's the first and last hug before I leave" said Brian, trying to enjoy a moment he'll never have again.

Anne returns to the real world, where she can no longer hear the sound of her heartbeat. Heartbeats sound like music.

Anne let go of her embrace, then looked at Brian's face intently.

" Are you happy now, brother?"

" It seems like it already is, because your face looks so happy." Anne answered her own question.

" You're handsome if you smile like this, brother. And I will always remember this smiling face. Goodbye my love, may you be happy there, and may we be reunited with a more beautiful story."

Afterwards, Anne rewinded her body to move away so that Kean could take turns talking.

" Goodbye, Bri. Now you are no longer sick, and God willing is your paradise where you have just become a Muslim. I'm sorry if you can't be a good brother to you yet" said Kean, who finally couldn't hold back his tears from falling.

" Goodbye, good son of Mommy. A son who loved the people around him. Wait for Mommy there, son. May we be rediscovered. Mommy dear Brian."

Afterwards, Kean and Papa Ken helped bathe Brian's body.

" I'm sorry Papa's been so wrong with you, Bri. May you calm down there, " Papa Ken said in his heart while helping to wash Brian's body.

Because there are only a few Muslims, then who insolve Brian was only a little. But, Kean and Papa Ken successfully complete all of Brian's final rights as a Muslim.

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