Ever
since the beginning The girl’s family member disagree her relationship
with the boy. Saying that because of family background, if she insist of
being together with the boy, she’ll suffer for her whole lifetime.
Because
of the pressure applied by family members, she frequently quarrel with
him. The girl does love the boy, she used to ask him, “How much do you
love me?” Because the boy is not good with words, he used to make her
angry. With additional comment from her parents, her mood get even
worse. The boy, has become her “anger releasing target”. And the boy,
just silently allowed her to continuously release her anger on him. Read
more after the break...
Later,
the boy graduated from University. He plan to further study overseas
but before he left. He proposed to the girl… ” I, don’t know how to say
nice words but I do know that, I love you. If you agree, I am willing to
take care of you, the whole life. About your family members, I will
work hard to convince them and agree on us.”
“Marry me, will you?”, the girl agreed.
And
her parents, looking at the effort shown by the boy, agreed with them.
Finally, before the boy go oversea, they are engaged. The girl stay back
in the hometown, step into the working society where as the boy
continuing his study oversea. They maintained their relationship through
telephone and letters. Although time is difficult to get through with,
but both of them never give up.
One
day, the girl left home for work as usual on her way to the bus stop, a
car lose control and knock her down. As she awake from unconsciousness,
she saw her parents and realize how seriously she got hurt and how
fortunate of her, not to get killed.
Looking
at her parents, with their faced got all wet by their tears, she tried
to comfort them. But then, she found out that She can’t even spell out a
word, she tried her best to make some voice but all she managed, was to
breath without any voice. She’s mute. According to the doctor, the
injury affected her brain, and that cause her to be mute for the rest of
her life. Listening to her parents persuade, but can’t even reply with a
single word, the girl collapsed. Throughout the days, others than
crying silently, still it is crying.
Later,
the girl discharged from hospital. Returning to her home, everything is
still like before. Except that the phone ring, has turned into the
worst nightmare of hers. Ring after ring, continuously stimulate her,
stimulating her pain But she can’t tell the boy. She don’t want to be a
burden to him, and wrote him a letter telling him that she no longer
want to wait, the relationship between them ended, and even returned him
the engagement ring. Facing the letters and telephone from the boy, all
she can do, is to allow tears falling from her eyes.
Her
father decided to move, after seeing the pain she is suffering. Hoping
that she could forget everything and be happier into a new environment,
the girl started to learn, slowly picking up sign language and start
over again. Also telling herself to forget the boy.
One
day, her best friend tell her that the boy’s back. He’s searching all
around for her, she asked her best friend not to tell him about her and
asked her to tell him to forget her. After that for more than a year
there was no news of boy. One day her best friend tells her, that the
boy is getting married soon, and passed the Wedding Card to her. She
open the card sadly, but she found her name on the card.
The
moment she want to ask her best friend, the boy appear in front of her.
With an unfamiliar sign language, he told her ”I spent more than a
year’s time, to force myself to learn sign language, in order to tell
you, I have not forgot our promise, give me an opportunity, let me be
your voice. I love you.”
Looking at the slow sign language by the boy, and the engagement ring she gave back to him, She finally smiled.
Moral:
Do not be a coward and run away whenever there is a problem, remember
that every problem has a solution, never ever break someone’s heart, you
may not know when it will happen to you.