Handsome Ghost (Medium in Revision)
"There's guests? who?"

*Songwriters from Agatha Chelsea - Solfami.

"It's hard to believe, every tear from the memories, and it won't stop."

It had been three weeks gone by so quickly, without the figure of the presence of the two old men who usually made the days feel complete, but after their absence made Lia feel so empty. In his lips he always said that he had given them away. And try to toughen up through all the sadness that is being occupied. Apparently not that easy, Lia was not at all able to accept the circumstances she was in. His heart could not lie at all, that now his life felt bland as if he had lost his own life, living in an endless sadness.

Lia could only stare at the glass window of the room with a blank stare, the glass window was visibly wet by the rainwater that had just descended on the rainy city. Along with the tears that fell.

His fingers touched the strings, picking them slowly without singing.

"Dad, Mom do you know that I miss you so much? can you see me when you cry like this? are you still able to sense how the slump I'm going through here? It still feels very difficult to accept this fateful message, do you know that I am so tormented without your presence?"Lia expressed her heart inwardly, and let the tears grow so heavy.

"Li?"someone called Lia, making Lia aghast. Apparently it was her brother who was now sitting right next to her, not since when.

In the accident back then, only Lia and Bayu survived. At least Lia didn't lose all her family members. However, the loss of both parents was not an expected desire. Three weeks ago, the condition of Lia and Bayu has recovered, although the condition of Bayu's head is now slightly dented due to a hard impact on the asphalt at that time, and the hair is now pelontos after shaved off after surgery.

If Lia could choose, she did not want the tragedy to happen at all. However, all of this was not his will.

Thus, Lia quickly wiped away her tears with the back of her hand. And trying to hide again from the slump. With a smile staring at the brother, then put the guitar next to his mattress.

"Sister, since when are you here? usually you always knock on my bedroom door first, "welcome Lia as cheerfully as you can, although maybe now her voice sounds raucous, typical of people who just cried.

"For a long time, I knocked on your door, but there was no answer at all. I was so worried about you that I decided to check on you. And you-are still the same, still late in grief." said Bayu with a smile that made Lia silent for a moment.

"Ah, I'm just not feeling well."Lia tried to find a reason to deny what Bayu said, so that the brother did not worry too much.

"You lied, Li."tepis Bayu then let out a long sigh.

Lia immediately turned her head, and her eyeballs were again bristled by a circle of clear liquid."I'm serious, "let Lia still want to keep denying.

"I can't believe what you're saying, Li." said Bayu, smiling wryly.

"I-i,"

"Li, I understand and I know how you feel. I'm also experiencing what you're going through right now. In fact, I felt so devastated and desperate. Why don't I just die, Li?!"seloroh Bayu sad mixed with despair and then suddenly Bayu sobbed.

"Sister?!"reprimand Lia for a moment.

"I-I don't know, brother. I don't think I can either, and I can't accept what we've just experienced. We lose both, Dad and mom are role models, they are both pulse, they are both everything. Even this time I don't know how to live life anymore, I don't know how to smile loosely. I felt like I lost my way, lost my enthusiasm, passion, and felt very empty. I can't walk without them, they are like feet that know how to walk."Lia poured out everything that was stuck making Bayu immediately hugged Lia, then they dike cry helplessly in arms, hugs strengthen each other.

"Li, why is our life changing like this. Why, Li?"racau Bayu interrupted her sobs.

"I don't even know the answer. maybe this is life's test, life's toughest test that we experience, and it feels like we can't." said Lia Lirih.

Bayu let go of the embrace slowly, then looked into Lia's puffy eyes as a result of dissolving in tears. Both of her hands extended out holding onto Lia's shoulders and then smiled slightly, like a reassuring smile so that the two of them could immediately rise from the protracted slump.

"Li, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I haven't been able to be a good brother to you, I should have strengthened you. But, apparently I'm a whiny too."Bayu smiled wryly."Li, we shouldn't drag on in this grief, I feel sorry for mom and dad. We should let them calm down by sending do'a, not by tears" Bayu said trying to think mature and calm.

"I pray to God for my mother and father every day. And I always said in my heart that I was strong, I was willing but it was hard to do" Lia's tears fell again, making Bayu's hand outstretched and his fingers wipe away the tears of his beloved sister.

Bayu smiled as he nodded slowly."Yeah, I got it. But, from now on can we promise each other, so that we don't dissolve again in sadness?"

"I-i,"

"Please promise,"The wood lifted the pinkie's fingers towards Lia, while Lia fell silent.

Lia looked at the older brother, the older brother smiled with both eyebrows raised."Promise, "finally Lia widened her smile, while hooking her little finger tightly around Bayu's pinky.

"Promise," said the two of them together, making the two of them laugh together in the end.

Trying to laugh freely, and trying not to dissolve in grief and strengthen each other, that's the agreement of the two of them. Although it took some time, but they both had to get up immediately.

Suddenly the laughter of the two of them stopped after the front door bell rang, a sign there was a guest. Lia raised her chin instead of asking, while Bayu only answered with a twitch of the shoulder. Then, they both decided to leave the room and rushed to open the door.

Chequek...

Bayu opened the door, and looked at the old figure in silence. And trying to recognize who came across his house, he really did not recognize the guest in front of him at all at this time. He's very foreign.

"Amorning, is Lia there?"greet someone politely.

Hearing her name called, then Lia's head immediately poked from behind Bayu's back. Trying to peek, and Lia was fixated after seeing her figure.

"Th-you?"Lia looked at the figure hesitantly, as well as trying to remember her figure. Did he really know her or not?