Moonlight Flower

Chapter 12 - Moonlight Flower

"Yes, Jane?" Claire asked right after she entered the medical laboratory. "What do you want me to do?"

Jane removed her hair cap and face mask. She walked toward the table with a basket on top of it. She put various medicines inside it. "Amie has a fever," she said. "Can you please do it?"

She nodded and took the basket.

"You just need to drop the medicines to the basket in front the house of a family whose name is written here," Jane explained giving her a piece of paper.

Claire took it and glanced shortly. She then put it inside and proceeded to leave that afternoon.

"Teresa Flonee," Claire read both the house residence and the paper. "Epimedium Sagittatum, Liniosma Ovota, Panat Ginseng and Avena Sativa." She put these medicines in the provided basket outside the door. "All done," she said, checking the name. 20 families that were listed were all checked.

Few minutes after she had been there, the door of Flonee's house opened. A little girl with two ponytails came out and smiled excitedly upon seeing the newly-arrived medicines inside the basket. She took it in then hurriedly went out.

"Nii-chan! Nii-chan!" the little girl called out, rushing down to the lake side.

Claire heard that the girl was speaking Japanese. She shortly looked back but didn't stop.

"NII-CHAN!" the girl kept calling. "The medicines are here now! You're sleeping here again! Lance-niichan!!

Claire suddenly stopped walking but didn't look back. She was surprised when she heard the girl call out a familiar name.

"Grandma and mama's medicines has just arrived!" said the cheery girl as she arrived at her older brother's place on the lakeside.

A male's voice finally spoken. "Really?" he said excitedly. "Thank goodness!"

Claire finally looked back as soon as she heard him. "That voice..." She looked at where the two was. Then, near the lake, a man's back was seen. He has black hair and in red shirt.

"Why do you like sleeping here, Lance-niichan?"

"It's refreshing here!" answered Lance.

"Really?" she asked in curiosity. "Then... I'll sleep here right now!"

"Oh sure! It's still three so you can..." He stopped when he realized that she had fallen asleep already. He also lay down again, with his hands at the back of his head.

Claire was just few steps away from them. "Why is he here?" she said to herself.

After a while, Lance sat up, stretched his arms and legs then looked at his watch. He stared at the shiny, sky-liked lake for many seconds. He looked to his left as something caught his attention. He heard light footsteps getting near. There wasn't any special reaction when he saw who came, unlike back then that his excited and happy face was seen obviously when he met her.

"Hi," she greeted, smiling lightly.

Lance was quiet first, not saying anything back. Then, he smiled at her. "Hi." The smile he showed was very unusual. It seemed like it's the first time he ever showed this. 

"I was surprised to see you here," she told him, in her unusual friendly approach.

"Well, me too."

"But your expression is not like that," she complimented, giving it as a joke.

He laughed shortly. 

She suddenly felt that his laugh, thought short, was genuine.

"You didn't have the surprised expression, too!" Lance said.