"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." -Pablo Nerudα
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Jasper has been back to normal since he found out about the stories Carmen published. He kept what he told to Haru that he had nothing else to say about what he knew.
 
Haru and Arche walk back to the hospice because the two of them bought groceries for the patients at the hospice. Haru stopped walking when she felt a headache again.
"My Haru, are you okay?" Arche suddenly asked her. Haru smiled at her boyfriend.
"I'm fine, I feel my vision, it's dark, maybe it's hot today." she lied. 
 
"Do you want me to handle the groceries you brought?"
 
"No Arche, I can handle it. You're holding two bags of groceries." Haru smiled again at him and she came closer to Arche and she quickly kissed him on the lips. Arche was shocked. Haru walked away from Arche while she laughed.
 
"Arche! If flies enter your mouth, I won't kiss you again!" She was shouting at him. Arche ran towards her and they walked together again, this time with a smile on their faces.
 
"Oh, Why are you quiet now? You were talkative earlier."
 
"Because I was shocked by what you did, my Haru."
 
"Why? Isn't anyone else kissing your lips?"
 
"None." He didn't look at Haru while saying these words. Haru eventually smiled.
 
"Really?"
 
"Yeah!" A bigger smile flashed on Haru's face.
 
"You are my spring," Arche suddenly said. Haru looked at him for a moment because she didn't understand what he said.
 
"Huh?"
 
"Haru means spring in Japanese. You are my SPRING," Arche said with a smile and he emphasized the word spring and continued speaking.
 
"You changed my life, Haru."
 
"Not me Arche, you're the one who changed yourself."
 
"You're wrong Haru, as long as you change me," Arche said. He held Haru's hand and they happily entered the hospice.
While they were on their way to the hospice, they did not notice earlier that there were two people following them.
 
"Haru and Arche your here! Catherine are looking at two of you. Jayson and Anthony will take of all the groceries."
When they entered the hospice, Nurse Freya suddenly said to them, so when they took Anthony and Jayson all the  groceries that they carrying. Haru and Arche followed nurse Freya to Catherine's room.
 
"Haru, Arche I need your help. I need to talk to my son and my husband now."
 
"M-mommy?"
 
"H-hon?"
 
All of them simultaneously looked at the door when the two people spoke from Catherine's door room.
 
"W-what is this hon?"
 
"I thought you were working here in Manila?! But why are you here mommy?" Her son shouted at his mom. And her husband fell down his plastic bag carrying because they couldn't believe what they saw. Haru and Arche wonder why they are here.
 
"H-hon, S-son." Catherine tearfully called her son and husband.
"You're a liar, mommy! You're a liar! You said you worked here, but no! You said you were in good condition! But no!" Kyle shouted again at his mother while he was crying. 
 
"I-I'll explain,"
 
"You're a liar! I hate you! I hate you!" Kyle shouted and ran away from his mother's room, and Arche immediately left the room to chase Kyle. 
 
"Your son and I were thinking you were fine here."
 
"I'm sorry hon, forgive me, Kelvin. Please forgive me. I hid it because I don't want you to worry about me. I want Kyle to be able to finish his studies so he doesn't see me in this situation. " 
 
Catherine is crying while she speaks. Her husband was not able to bear to see his wife  cry. He immediately ran into Catherine and hugged her tightly. 
"You should have told me that this is your situation here! If your son and I hadn't seen Arche and Haru, if we hadn't followed them, we wouldn't have seen you suffering here! Why? Why did you do this, Catherine?"
"Forgive me, forgive me. I just don't want to hurt you." 
 
Kelvin touched his wife's face and kissed their foreheads while Catherine continued to cry.
"You'll be fine. Hon, you'll be fine. I'll take you to the biggest hospital in town. Okay? You won't leave us, right? You will stay with us, and we will support Kyle's dream, so you will fight your disease, right?" Kelvin repeatedly said to his wife while he cried and hugged her wife very tightly. Haru avoided her sight when Catherine repeatedly shook her head at her husband.
 
"Hon, Kelvin, there is no hope for me to recover. I only have a few months to stay here. Promise me no matter what happens, take care of our son for me."
 
"Don't say that hon, don't say that. I'll fix everything. I'll make a way for you to get well soon. You'll get well soon, okay? You'll get well. I will be with you for a long time."
 
Haru couldn't look at them for a long time, so she quietly left Catherine's room. While walking to the hallway, she suddenly stopped because she saw Kyle and Arche.
 
"I know, because of me, my mom is here. And she did not say her true condition here because she didn't want to hurt us."
 
"Kyle, listen to me. You don't have to blame yourself. Your mom was able to lie to you because she didn't want you and your dad to be hurt." Arche said, and he knelt in front of Kyle so he could match the child. 
 
"But, why does she have to do that? Mom hurts me and dad more because she hid her real situation from us." 
"Kyle, you're a big boy now. You understand some things about why your mom did this. So go back to your mom because I know she was hurt by what you said and when you left earlier."
Arche stood up and held Kyle's hand as they walked away. Arche suddenly saw Haru standing. Haru nodded and smiled at him. Haru walked to the garden and texted Arche that she would wait for him in the garden.
 
Haru breathed and thought of Catherine. If Haru is Catherine's situation now, she will also hide her disease from her loved ones until she disappears from this world. 
 
We do not know when we will live longer, so as long as we are alive and strong, we can enjoy what we have as early as possible.