Novel & Cerita Flowers For Algernon

The room fell silent as soon as he was gone. Better. Darian neatly folded his papers. "Your flowers." I looked. "My what?" "The flowers." Oh. Yes. Apparently, I was getting paid to keep the flowers alive. That was still unbelievable to me as a real job. "You're serious." "Very." I massaged my forehead. "Do all Alphas hire people to water flowers?" "No." "Then why do you?" His gray eyes locked with mine. "Because you're terrible at accepting help." I parted my lips.

"The whispers say go left. The erased ones remember. They say left leads to the center." "You're trusting whispers from the Void?" Walter asked skeptically. "They're all that's keeping me sane right now. They say left." We went left. The path continued through more perfect landscape. A field of sunflowers that all turned to watch us pass. A grove of cherry trees in eternal bloom. A stream that sang as it flowed. And then I saw it. A flower unlike any other in the garden. It was small, almost insignificant compared to the massive, perfect blooms surrounding it. Just a simple white flower with five petals. But something about it drew my attention.

Alexa ignored it and changed to another topic. "No." "Alright." She said and when Doreen was about to leave. "Tell Blue to meet me, right now." She said and Doreen bit her lips, nodding. "By the way, ma." Doreen said and Alexandra raised her brow, "Do you still love me?" "What?" Alexandra let out a chuckle. "That's what the flowers symbolize. They are Daffodils." Doreen said and the smile left Alexandra's face as she looked at them.

mine being studying, and his being preparing his next lecture. I settle into the little desk in my room, smiling at the vase of flowers I’ve set there that Axel had delivered this morning. It’s a mix of colorful wildflowers in a silver vase. One in particular catches my eye, a yellow flower in a strange tube shape. It looks familiar, so I pull out my Green Mountain Botanical Species book and flip through it. “Thank you for the flowers,” I tell Axel through the mind-link. “You’re welcome, love,” he replies. “I thought you’d like some of our local wildflowers instead of the standard roses.”

Dia mendekati Renata dan memberikan bunga dengan membungkukkan badannya. Tapi berbeda dengan raut muka Renata, dia bersikap ketus pada Alghara. Memang bunga Orchid adalah bunga favorit Renata. Namun, ketika Alghara yang membawakannya dia malah jijik melihat bunga di depannya. Renata menepis tangan Alghara dan melempar semua bunga di meja kerjanya. Alin terkejut melihat kelakuan Renata, dia tidak mengerti kenapa sahabatnya berubah?

Foto karangan bunga yang akan dikirim ke Celia diunggah ke nomor Agatha oleh pemilik florist. "Matilah kau, Celia. Aku akan senang kalau ketiga anakmu itu ikut keracunan serbuk bunga Red Spider Lily karena mewarisi genetik lemah ibu mereka. HAHAHA!" Di dalam kamar tidur yang tertutup di lantai dua, Agatha Cartier tertawa sendirian begitu nyaring.

“Alira.” “Iya?” “Tidak semua hal perlu dibicarakan terlalu jauh.” Alira mendesah kecil, meski sudut bibirnya sempat terangkat. “Baiklah. Aku hanya mengatakan apa yang kulihat.” Ia kembali bekerja, merapikan bunga-bunga yang baru datang dari pasar pagi. Ada krisan kuning, beberapa daisy liar, dan tangkai lavender yang masih membawa aroma lembut dari bukit.

Jika dipikir-pikir, tanaman apa yang dapat menarik perhatian Felix hingga kebutuhan airnya perlu diingatkan ke Nenek. Aku mengangguk dan Nenek pun mengantarkan ke sudut taman di dekat pagar pembatas sekolah. Seketika aku tersentak kaget ketika mendapati sebuah pot kecil berisikan mawar hitam yang menjulang tinggi dan bertanda kesuburannya telah terjaga. "Mungkin karena tanaman itu kurang air, makanya menghitam," kata Nenek dengan prihatin. Sontak aku berjongkok di dekat bunga tersebut dan memegangi kelopaknya yang terlihat begitu segar, bukan seperti tanaman sakit.

Fera tidak bisa menerimanya. "Perasaan dari tadi gue curcol mulu ya? Hehehe... maaf ya, soalnya gue kalo lagi bosen suka kek gini. Oh ya, btw gue belum tau nama lo. Nama lo siapa?" tanya Bianca. "Nucifera," gumam Fera. "Fera? Itu asli nama lo? Unik ya? Jarang loh orang pake nama bunga lotus, biasanya juga mawar, melati, dahlia dan banyak lagi."

Aku menghela napas, marah pada diriku sendiri. Lupakanlah, Anna. Suara dalam kepalaku selalu muncul di saat yang tepat, memberiku sejenis sinyal peringatan sekaligus mentor yang berguna agar aku tidak mengambil opsi yang salah. Namun, kadang-kadang itu justru sama sekali tidak membantu. Aku kembali memperhatikan sederet bunga yang ditanam di luar halaman dari balik jendela—bunga anyelir dan anggrek mendominasi sebagian besar populasi di sana. Aku mendadak teringat pada kekasih Aldrich yang mempunyai nama seperti salah satu genus spesies anggrek—Cattleya.