Come To Visit

Noel falls asleep peacefully. Her eyes closed so calmly and her face looks very innocent now. Nathan moved to kiss the lips a little longer and switch to her forehead. 

"Good night, baby." 

The next day, Noell wake up right at six hours morning and staring around her bedroom. Actually, Nathan moves it her to the bedroom and that guy seems to have been gone a long time when she feels her bed cold. 

Noell stretched in her bed. Her body feels so fresh today and she immediately doing her morning ritual in the toilet. After she takes a shower she opened her wardrobe and wearing a black span skirt then a black long-sleeved shirt. She looked in the mirror with an expression that was hard to read.

After she tidied her clothes, she combs her hair and binding her hair with ponytail style as usual. Then she takes her black bag and left home. Short trip, she arrived at a public cemetery with two red roses which she picked in the front yard. It's already seven o'clock morning when she arrived at the cemetery.

Noell remembered every memory on that day. Many people who deliver the corpse of an old man to the cemetery. Noell holds her adoptive father photos with trembled hands and almost lost consciousness. She heard from the officer when she still in a military training hostel, her adoptive father passed away. 

She back to reality and feels her eyes already teary with her grip strengthened, she almost injuring her hand because of thorn from the roses. Her feet tread a row of stone step by step neatly arranged forming a path leading to the cemetery. Her expression changed wistfully when she will meet with the two gravestones of her foster father and mother. She stopping walk to calm down her feelings for a while.

They are indeed not biological parents. But they have raised her until she success like this. She can reach her ambition to be a military. She so proud of herself and want to show off her ambition to them although that is not her style. But this is her, she made it. 

She wants them to laugh happily in her promotion ceremony. She wants them to tell it his neighbors proudly that his daughter who's they thought was naughty and poor was now a military officer. She meets with the president and shakes hands with him. 

She wants her big event in her life, they will present and celebrating together. She wants all that has now been taken away from her. But all she wants have to be were buried together with the bodies of her father and mother in the ground. She bowed her head, staring at her ankle boot and biting her lips firmly to hold back her tears.

Noell with a strong heart stepped and trying so hard to keep her emotions goods. Her eyes looked at a man standing who turned his back on her. The man who was instantly recognizable by her when she first saw him. Sounds of her footsteps made the man turn around and look at him who walked slowly toward the grave that was right in front of him. 

There was no expression on the face that Noell showed other than the deep sadness in those eyes. She gets through that man and put roses above that grave. There is another red rose there, she stepped back and then they pray together. 

"Dad… Mom… I come to visit you again…" She silent for a moment. "I visit you less and less because lately, I'm busy in the military ... I hope you can understand it." 

"Dad… Mom… This is your wedding anniversary. Geez, I come without brings any present for you. I know, I'm a stingy woman." Noell smiled forced. 

"I'm trying to live every day as usual. Undergo missions and spying enemies. Oh? Dad! I'll attend in birthday party First Lady and invited directly by the president. If you're still alive, I'm sure you will envy me hehehe." 

Nathan smiled softly and touch her shoulder.

"Dad, mom. Don't worry about me. I'm used to living under threat. Although had almost died last time, your daughter too great for step over the grim reaper hehe… I always take care of my health, never drunk, and routinely drink traditional drinks that you often recommendations for me."

Noell felt tears running down and fell softly on her cheeks.

"I have learned martial arts and no one can defeat me in the military. Dad, you don't need to worry if there was a bad guy who would rape me or steal my wallet while on the road, okay?" She smiled broadly. "I'm very reliable. You take rest in peace now… I… I…" 

She's speechless. Tears welled up and she closed her mouth which felt so stiff.

"Don't worry about her in the future. I'll protect her, take care of her, and watching her every time and seriously. I really don't know you, and vice versa. But I know, your upbringing to her made me realize how great you are have been able to make this girl strive to this day."

Nathan held her hand tightly. 

"I'm sure she will succeed and happy. She's stronger, believe me. She's a powerful woman like a bull when I saw her for the first time. No one can robber him in the street, I'm worry they will be destroyed by your daughter." Noell was offended and sighed harshly.

"I'm not! Don't accuse me, Nathan!" 

Nathan pulls her waist and so she gets closer to him now and then stroking her head. Noell leaned her head against his chest while crying and occasionally wiping her tears.

"I promise. I'll ensure she will happily. Because she's the main priority for me. So don't worry." Said Nathan and then he hugs her tightly, calm her down 

Noell opened every shield in her feelings. Spilled all her emotions so strongly, Nathan can't be like her. Live so hard and she builds sturdy steel walls to cover up her weaknesses.

That's why she like she seemed to be able to step on anything that got in her way. Because Noell, has practiced a dozen years to build her character to become a woman who is difficult to penetrate. She is the invincible emperor of ancient stories. She is tough. And no one can build a character as strong as her. She was the only thing in the world that Nathan wanted. That haughty emperor, Noell.

"Let's go home." Nathan whispers softly and she nodded in his arms.

He realized her if she will happily when Nathan says a promise in front of her parent's graves to protect her. She glanced briefly at him for a moment and then looking forward again.

"I won't collect the promise you made in front of my parents' grave... But ... Can I wait for that promise to be kept?"