Butterfly In You
Chapter 81: The Thread of Destiny

"So what's your next plan, Sarah?" shehan asked when the family's entire breakfast was over but they were still sitting and inhabiting the dining table.

Sarah let out a long sigh before answering Shehan's question. "I've decided to sell this house and go back to Bali, Shehan."

Suddenly Sarah's expression invited a reaction of shock to those who heard it.

"But this is Jody's house. There are a lot of memories of you being with him here. You don't have to sell this house. Another way you can sign it is if you don't want to stay here anymore" Shehan suggested.

"It's true what you said, Shehan. But after Jody's departure, I had absolutely no desire to stay in Jakarta anymore. I moved to this city because I wanted to follow my husband. Once my husband is gone, this house will just be a memory album that holds bitterness every time I look at the whole room and its contents" Sarah said, not wanting her decision to be dictated again.

"Well, if that's your decision. Tell me if you need help, I'll help you" Shehan concluded.

"Yes, Shehan." Sarah smiled faintly then. The two look at each other.

Lilis who was opposite them stared wistfully at Sarah and Shehan who seemed to still hold a longing within each of them. The hour hand seems to stop, bringing Lilis on four years ago where Sarah and Shehan still love each other. They stared with the same look of amazed eyes as they were at this moment. Slowly, Lilis bowed her face. Don't want others to know their feelings of disappointment.

"Sarah, sorry can't keep you company any longer. I, Nurbanu and LiIis must return to Bali today."

Shehan's words jolted LiIis from the daydream, forcing her to look back at the two again.

"Yes, Shehan is okay. I understand because your work can't be left much longer. Nurbanu also had to go to school. Thank you for coming here and comforting me." Then Sarah dragged her gaze to Lilis, "Lilis, thank you also you are willing to come here."

LiIis's dry lips that had been silent so it felt stiff when she was about to speak. "Yes .. yes, Sister Sarah." He became clumsy and his attitude made Shehan notice him.

**

Shehan closed the door to the guest room that he had been living with LiIis for three days. Nurbanu slept in another guest room. Lilis looked at the listless Shehan who was moving towards her.

"Has all our clothes finished?" shehan asked as he walked towards the edge of the bed-to where Lilis was.

"Already, Mas," LiIis replied quietly, less excited. Take the suitcase off the bed. However, Shehan was quick to ban.

"Let me, LiIis!"

Again LiIis was silent, refusing to answer. He lets Shehan do the job - lowering the suitcase from the top of the bed to the floor. As soon as the suitcase was taken down, without saying anything Lilis left wanting to leave the room.

"Where are you going?" ask Shehan.

"You see Nurbanu, Mas" said Lilis, still without seeing.

Shehan realized there was a change coming from LiIis' attitude. To further convince his guess, Shehan deliberately provoked LiIis's behavior by telling him to do something.

"Lilis, can you please get me some water? I'm thirsty."

"Yes, Mas" said Lilis. Although he did not argue but he still did not want to see Shehan.

'He avoided my gaze, ' Shehan murmured realizing something.

Saps....

Just about to turn around, Shehan suddenly grabbed Lilis hand quickly. It is interesting that their distance becomes closer.

"Akhs...." Lilis clucked gasp.

Their faces met each other on the threshold of a fairly close distance. Only then did LiIis see Shehan because he had no chance to dodge anymore.

"Take me off, Mom! I'm going to the kitchen to get you the water you asked for."

Instead of answering, Shehan further eroded the distance between them. His gaze focused on one direction, LiIis' lips. Shehan wanted to greet the moisture with his lips.

Dag! Digs! Dugm!

Instantly Lilis pounded. Whenever Shehan did this, LiIis would definitely be nervous and pounding. But when their distance was too close, something unexpected happened. LiIis boldly threw away her face, unwilling to kiss Shehan.

The deg!

Shehan reflexively nodded, realizing he had been rejected.

'He refused to kiss me.'

For a moment, Shehan clamored. However, it remained that Lilis did not let go even though the girl was struggling, tugging at her hand.

"Take me off, Mom! I'm going to the kitchen to get some water for Mas." LiIis moving guerrilla wants to escape.

'You think by rejecting me, I'll let you go? Absolutely not!'

"Mas--"

"Actually I don't want to drink" I'm Shehan.

The two hands of LiIis who had been trying to escape suddenly stopped. His chest puffed up. Shehan was really playing him at the moment.

"All I want is you, not water as I said." Shehan continued his words.

Lilis remained silent, even looking down unwilling to see Shehan.

"Why are you avoiding me? Are you mad at me?" shehan asked with a close distance to LiIis.

LiIis remained silent not wanting to talk let alone look.

"LiIis, look at me!" shehan's Order.

Somehow LiIis dared not obey the orders of her husband. He's like a rock, so stubborn. Still unwilling to see Shehan even though the man had already said his orders firmly.

"Are you jealous of me seeing Sarah?" This time Shehan asked directly to the point.

Suddenly Lilis was surprised to turn her head. His bead circled around Shehan who was aiming at him intensely.

"My jaw! Are you jealous of me seeing Sarah?" shehan again.

"I don't want to talk about this, Mom." Lilis reply was in no way representative of his heart.

"Then why are you suddenly indifferent to me?"

"I...." LiIis lowered her gaze, "i'm just exhausted, Mas."

"You're indifferent because you're exhausted?" sergeant Shehan doesn't believe in Lilis' reasoning. Unknowingly his grip on Lilis's arm loosened.

Knowing there was a golden opportunity, LiIis did not waste it. Hurriedly rising from Shehan's lap.

"Don't go, Lilis!" One hand Shehan tried to reach. However, Lilis brushed it off.

"I .. want to see Nurbanu, Mas," concluded Lilis. She confirmed her clothes before leaving Shehan alone in the room.

Chequek!

Shehan was glued to see the door shut tight. LiIis had indeed left him.

**

A week later.

Highlight LiIis's hollow eyes out from the way she looked at the area around the house. He was limp-less excited after returning from the hospital to take the results of his health examination. His footprints staggered onto pieces of floor ceramics. He was barely able to support his body to stand up straight.

And more heartbreaking is when passing through one of the rooms that there is a piano there. From a distance LiIis saw Shehan and Sarah and Nurbanu sitting in the middle of them were engrossed in laughter while playing piano keys.

"Haha...."

"Come on, press these keys yeah, Banu!" said Sarah.

"Yes, Ma. Now Mom and Dad both play the piano, yeah!"

Not wanting to disturb the family harmony that had cracked, Lilis chose to give up. Shift my eyes in another direction. He then walked out of the residence of the foreign investor-Shehan Murad.

"Non LiIis, where are you going?" Mr. Maman asked when he saw LiIis walking alone through the security post.

Lilis could not hear Mr. Maman's voice. He could only see the movement of the middle-aged man's lips. Without knowing what Mr. Maman said, Lilis replied as she could.

"I'd like to take a walk, sir."

Lilis' smile gave to Mr. Maman. Mr. Maman himself was still watching Lilis until he came out of the main gate of the house.

Lilis single-handedly swung her weak steps on the sidewalk of the road. One point of his blood dripping then fell onto the shirt, seeping rapidly into the fabric fibers. However, Lilis remained calm despite her trembling hands as she was about to cover her nosebleed. Presumably Lilis had accepted fate and accepted this nosebleed as her life's travel companion.

'Since destiny, should I break my bond with this life?' lirih LiIis while wiping the blood that is still coming out.

***

SERIATE....