
Niken and Marquez are still in the back garden. The gazes of the two of them still pointed towards the flower that had already started to bloom.
Niken looked back at the man beside her. Without realizing it, a tear fell from his eyes. With a quick movement the woman rubbed the roundness of the clear object.
"We go inside!" Niken began to move her wheelchair towards the entrance of her house.
"Let me help you" Marquez said to help push Niken's wheelchair but the woman brushed him off. "No need! I'm not as fragile as you imagine, Marq!" Niken smiled at Marquez and turned his wheelchair towards the entrance.
Niken's tears fell. He doesn't want to get any more mercy from Marquez.
Once the wheelchair was in the doorway, Niken immediately wiped away her tear marks.
Marquez followed the direction of the wheelchair that moved inside. The wheelchair did not go in the direction of the living room, but it went in the direction of another room.
Marquez continued to follow where the Niken wheelchair moved and the wheelchair was now in a room with a wedding dress designed by Niken himself.
Marquez and Niken majored while they were still in college until finally Niken suffered from a deadly disease that made him discouraged to continue his ideals to become a designer like Marquez.
Marquez looked amazed at the wedding dress in front of him. "This is so beautiful! did you make it?" asked Marquez approaching the clean white wedding dress.
"of course! I think if I'm more talented than you are" Niken's lead on Marquez and Marquez's smile is engraved when he hears his best friend's chatter.
Niken was so happy to see Marquez's smile that finally radiated like a ray for him.
"You'd rather I be like this apparently."
"Did you remember when you forgot to do the design and I made it for you" the great-grandson Niken still stared at Marquez.
The handsome designer smiled at Niken. "I remember! and I can conclude, if you're a talented designer beyond me" said Marquez, who began to melt the atmosphere.
Niken raised her hand to point her little finger at Marquez just as they did when they were in elementary school. "Friends!" Niken wants to mend his relationship with Marquez before he actually leaves.
Marquez was still silent with Niken's sudden behavior as it is today.
Niken narrowed her eyes with her paled face. "Being my husband you don't want to! be my best friend, you don't want to! so ...."
"Friends!" Marquez hooked his little finger on Niken's finger.
Both smiles are beautifully engraved. Marquez was relieved that Niken again considered him a friend, in contrast to the woman who now spread her fake smile with a heart that was holding back pain.
"I don't want to give you bad memories, Marq! I want to give you sweet memories."
It is time for Marquez and his family to return. Marquez pushed Niken's wheelchair towards the living room. Although at first the woman refused many times.
In that room, all the families gathered. "You're getting married in two days and we've discussed all the preparations" Niken's father told his daughter and future son-in-law.
Niken smiled sweetly, while Marquez just put on his flat face.
Both their parents say goodbye to each other. "We go home first" Evelyn told Niken's mother.
"Yes! just try our house is still next to each other, surely you do not need to take a car here," Niken's mother told Evelyn.
Niken's mother's words were met with a smile by Marquez's parents.
Niken's house next to Marquez's house has been occupied by uncle Niken since his grandmother died and Niken moved to the house he currently lives in. So the distance of their home can be taken by car with only 20 minutes.
Marquez walked towards his parents but, before he actually left, Marquez still turned his head towards Niken. "Don't forget to take your medicine" Marquez told his best friend and Niken gave her thumbs up saying yes to the man she will miss so much.
Now Niken can only see Marquez's back starting to move away from his presence.
Niken smiled sweetly when he could feel Marquez's attention even though it was just a little.
"If by being friends you're going to pay me back attention, I'm willing as long as you don't be cold to me anymore! and look forward to the surprise I'll give you."
Niken moved his wheelchair back towards his room which was on the ground floor so that he could more easily do what he wanted.
Now Niken is walking towards the nightstand. He took his cell phone and called someone.
"Hello!"
"Me, Niken! can I ask you a favor?" asked Niken with a hopeful face.
The person behind his phone still did not respond. A few seconds later, his voice finally began to sound.
"Solicit what please?"
"You're gonna have to take that woman to my wedding in two days and I'm gonna send her an invitation."
"Why ask him to come?"
Niken smiled sweetly considering what he had prepared when at his wedding.
"If you fuck around, I don't hesitate on you!"
"I don't want to add to the sins in my life that can already be counted with this finger."
"All right!"
Tut tut tut tut tut tut tut
The call was ended by the person behind Niken's phone.
Niken was silent with the direction of the gaze focused forward. His eyes started to turn red holding something back and finally his tears slid as well.
The sobs of Niken sounded. He could no longer cry in silence. "I'm sorry, Marquez! i'm sorry!"
Niken lowered her head with tears that kept flowing.
"I .. will make you remember me even if I have to sacrifice the most precious thing in my life."
Niken looked at his phone where his picture and Marquez as a child were displayed as wallpaper on his phone.
Niken wiped his phone screen. "I love you so much and always have been! just as you love her and my love for you is just like that, too" Niken murmured, wiping away her tears.
Niken opened his short message and tried to contact Marquez. He wanted to know how the man reacted when he accepted Marquez to be his best friend again.
Nikens
Hi, buddy!
Niken was still waiting for a reply from Marquez however, there was no reply from the man.
Niken smiled bitterly because he thought Marquez might have hated it to the crown until the man did not want to reply to his short message.
When Niken was about to put his phone back on the nightstand, suddenly the flat object clinked.
Niken immediately disengaged his intention and saw maybe it was a reply from Marquez and sure enough, it turns out Marquez replied to his message.
Marquez
Hi, buddy!
Nikens
Have you arrived?
Marquez
There's still one more bend.
Nikens
Good riddance!
Marquez
Is that all you want to ask me?
Nikens
Sure was! whatagain? I'm asking you to love me you don't want to so we're going to this wedding as a couple, not a husband and wife.
Marquez
So we're still getting married?
Nikens
Of course, because the invitation has been spread and we live those days as friends no more.
Niken held his chest that began to hurt because he had to pretend to accept the reality, even though he could not.
Marquez
I concur.
Niken put her phone right on her chest. "After I'm gone, you'll be happy."
Niken closed her eyes enjoying the throbbing pain on her chest.
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