The Winter Man
#31
Yura went inside her room with a lethargic face, her mind in a frenzy. Doctor Leon's words continued to ring in his head. Yura slapped her face on the bed and then sobbed alone.
"I don't want to die .. hix."
His cry grew louder, if only someone was standing outside his room, he would definitely hear the girl's cry.
"God is weird, people who can't take drugs like me are sick. I'm also afraid of injections ...."
Yura pulled herself to sit on the bed then wiped the tears that flooded her cheeks. But when she wiped her tears, her tears just exploded.
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Until the afternoon Yura just stayed in the room, she had not even eaten at all. Yura just sat on the bed hugging her own knees with an empty look. His eyes looked a little swollen from crying.
I think I should go to church.
Yura got out of bed, picked up the bag on the sofa and went to church on the bus.
In front of the church he let out a long sigh by firmly grasping the rope of his sling bag. His eyes were expectantly staring at that sacred building in front of him.
He entered and stood with a glaring gaze staring at the cross in front of him. He closed his hands, closed his eyes and began to pray. Yura moaned in her heart.
"I know that dying is coming back to you .but, can you give me more time to be happy with the people I love in the world, Lord ... This disease, nothing with your love, I believe you heard and will grant my prayers."
Then Yura heard the voice of the little boy beside her who was praying by letting out her voice.
"Thank you for your love today, Lord. I got a lot of ice cream this afternoon ..."
Yura slowly opened her eyes then turned her head to the side. The little boy was smilingly staring at the cross in front of him by closing his hands together.
The thing that made Yura astonished, the boy was wearing earrings but his head was bald.
"Hallo .." said Yura.
The little boy looked.
"Hi ..."
"Who did you .. come with?" ask Yura.
"Himself."
"How old are you?"
"Six years."
"O-oh. Eum, I have food. You want?" Yura offered the food that was in her bag.
The little girl nodded. Yura smiled. "Come, eat somewhere else."
Yura clasped the girl's hand leading her to the dining room. They sat on a small carpet. Yura took out a few snacks in her bag, only milk and a few snacks.
"I want milk ..." The girl took the chocolate milk. Yura smiled and took the strawberry flavored milk along.
"Whose name?" yura asked while poking the milk of the box with a straw.
"Lilly."
"Wahhh .. Your name is good."
"Whose sister's name?"
"Ayura that. Call me Yura's sister."
"Okay, Brother Yura hehe."
Yura was still drinking milk by continuing to pay attention to Lily's head. Lily realized Yura was watching her head, because Lily was often noticed like that by people.
"God loves me too much, brother."
"Huh?" Yura immediately moved to look Lily in the eye.
Yura was digesting the speech of the little girl in front of her. The roots are growing in the body, his speech is similar to the sentence that Doctor Leon said.
Cancer cells are like the roots of a tree. All we have to do is not only stop the roots from growing but also uproot them. Cancer cells are easy to develop, hopefully with the treatment that Miss Sunshine does not only make the cancer cells stop developing but also disappear.
W-w-w-would that kid have leukemia too.
"Lily ..." call someone.
They turned their heads and found a middle-aged mother who was walking towards them with a smile.
"Mrs ..."
The mother sat down to join Lily and Yura. Yura smiled with a polite nod of her head.
"Ma, know this Brother Yura."
The mother looked at him with a smile. "Hallo, I'm Lily's mama."
"I'm Yura aunty." Yura shook hands with that mother.
Then she looks like she's stroking Lily's back. "If you want to go, say it to Mama."
"Hehe's sorry, Ma."
"Where do Aunt and Lily live?" ask Yura.
"Behind this church" said Mama Lily.
"Oh ..." Yura nodded.
"Dear, Tan. Can I ask you something?" ask Yura.
"May, go ahead." Mama Lily smiled kindly.
"Lilly ... What's the pain Lily is, Tan?"
Mama Lily looked at her son for a moment with a glare then turned to look at Yura. And Lily was still busy drinking milk.
"Lilly ..." Mama Lily hung up her sentence. He sighed heavily, as if not strongly telling Lily's illness.
"Lily's got lung cancer."
Yura widened her eyes until she closed her mouth.
"Lung cancer? how could it be, Tan. He's still six."
Mama Lily shook her head. "Tante doesn't know either, none of our families ever had cancer. But Lily ..." Mama Lily looked back at her son with iris eyes wrapped in pain to see her little daughter.
"Lily had to do chemotherapy until her hair fell out like this." Mama Lily then cried.
"S-me .. I envy seeing children of Lily's age who can play every day, while Lily. Lily's a grown child, she never complained a bit and she's always sincere about her illness."
Not feeling the tears of Yura falling instantly, Yura looked at Lily. Her body was indeed so thin that it made her bones almost visible, but Lily really did not complain at all.
What about him, Yura himself even blamed God earlier for his illness. Seeing this child was like a hard slap for Yura, if she had to be more grateful and accepting.
"We've been doing a lot of treatment for Lily, but there's no results yet. Lily felt more and more pain in her chest, but she didn't cry ..." Mama Lily tells her son's story with sobbing. Occasionally his hand rubbed his eyes which continued to emit that clear liquid.
"She said she loves God. Whatever God loves, he will be grateful to have it, including this cancer. I don't know, how could a kid as small as Lily be this mature."
Again Yura could only sigh deeply to hear the story of Mama Lily.
Then Yura covered her face with both her hands so that Lily and her Mama did not see herself crying.
Yura was embarrassed because her cancer fighting spirit lost to the six-year-old.
Mama Lily held onto Yura's shoulder soothingly. In his heart Yura promised to return the spirit, Cancer does not change anything in his life.
Seriate