WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

SUNFLOWER, ROSES AND LILIES

"Hello, Lilliane, What happened, is there something I could do for you" Theo asked sounding quite worried when he picks up the call.
"Yeah, I need a ride" I told him.
"To where" he asked .
"You know where" I said as I sighed.
"Okay, I coming in two minutes, get ready" he said ending the call.
It had been seven weeks since my parents died, well one died and another committed suicide to be precise.
I looked at myself in that mirror and asked,"Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who's the gloomiest of them all".
Everytime it shows the truth, it reflects a broken girl, wearing grey and black hoodie and jeans with scattered heterochromatic hair and awkward blue-brown eyes, whose skin turned paler day by day and had chipped pink lips.
I sighed and picked up the rubber band kept on the dressing table to tame my wild hair.
Soon they were tied in a ponytail.
Me and my room had changed a lot since time immemorial.
The Olympics posters that were once pasted on that wall were replaced by photographs of my family.
Every medal that I ever got were replaced by my parent's last memories.
My closet contained more of my parents clothes than mine and their rooms were kept unchanged and locked.
The bell rang and I pushed myself along that wheelchair.
I opened the doors and saw Theo standing .
He was everything I had now, if anything happened to him, I don't know what will I do.
"Ready"he asked with a hint of gloominess in his voice.
"Yeah" I told him, not breaking the contact of our eyes.
He nodded and pushed the wheelchair outside the door, and then locked it.
He helped me get inside his car and he started the engine.
"Please stop at the flower shop and buy some white roses, some lilies and some sunflowers.
He nodded again and stopped in front of a flower shop.
He got out of the car, then inside the shop and came out with the bouquets.
"I am sorry for disturbing you" I said as he stepped inside the car.
"I am telling you for the last time Lilli, you have nothing to be sorry for." He said and kissed me on the cheek.
I smiled and he started the car again.
The rest of the ride none of us uttered a single word, his eyes were glued on the road and mine were on his face.
"We are here" he said parking the car in front of the graveyard.
I sighed and said,"thank you".
He got out of the car and pulled out the wheelchair and then helped me settle myself on it.
He then pushed me further inside the graveyard until the graves of my parents and my sister was in vision.
"Here you go" he said stopping in front of the cemetery.
"Thank you Theo" I said again but this time my voice was all croaky.
He stood behind me and nodded.
The flowers were in my lap.
The roses for my mom.
The sunflowers for my dear sister.
And lilies for my dad.
Step by step, each bouquet found their way to destination.
"Mom," I began," I love you and I miss you every second of my life, I wish you were here with me, right now and forever, I wish to hear your sweet voice, I yearn for your touch, everything is fine, else than that." I completed moving to my dad's grave,"dear dad, I know your presence in my life was limited, I am sorry for all the quarrels we had, sorry for everytime I yelled at you, sorry I could never tell you that I love you, I do, for real, I wish we could have spend more time with you." I let out a sob and inhaled deeply to calm down the swirling emotion inside my body.
Next I moved to the grave of myself, of my soul, of my dear sister,"hey, sis how are you doing there in the immortal world? I am just okay here. There,look The is here too, he bought these roses for you,hope you are happy where ever you are" I said and a tear slipped down my eyes.

"You okay?" The asked holding my hands.

"Yeah, I am just fine" I told him.

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