บท 273: The transition - 1

[A scene near the graveyard]

Kneeling on the ground she first prayed in front of her parents and then she got up. Slowly taking a couple of steps ahead, she reached up to a tombstone which read 'RAYMOND WALKER'.

She knelt down slowly and then laid a bouquet of baby's breath on top of it.

Her eyes were stinging with tears, but she didn't cry.

All these years, she had come to terms with life. She had finally accepted the fact that he was not coming back. More than a year had passed since he went missing and there had been no trace of him ever since. She had accepted her fate. She had accepted the fact that their togetherness was meant to last only a couple of months.

But the sweet and salty memories of those couple of months were enough for her to survive her entire life.

Then she took out a document from her bag and placed in on his grave and said,