It was a pleasant Tuesday afternoon. 78-year-old Rose was brimming with excitement as she entered the nursing home with her favorite tulips(郁金香), her lips endlessly calling out to just one name—Emily!
"Emily! Where are you? I got flowers…"Rose spoke al oud when she didn't see her best friend, 79-year-old Emily, waiting for her on the usual spot, a wooden bench on the main gate.
Whenever Rose returned from the local hospital after getting her blood tests done, Emily would run toward her with fresh hand-picked flowers. But that afternoon, Emily was not there, and the bench was empty. Emily was nowhere to be found in any of her favorite spots, which unsettled Rose even more. Just then a doctor said to Rose, "Emily's family came hours ago while you were at the hospital... They took Emily with them. She's not going to come back."
The ground seemed to shake beneath Rose's feet when she heard that. Rose went back to her room. Every step started feeling heavy, and every corner reminded her of her best friend and their laughter. Nothing but loneliness and silence surrounded Rose from all sides, and she felt her heart crack.
The scent of freshly picked flowers Emily had last left in the vase lingered(继续存留) in the still air. And beside the vase was an old recorder that endlessly played Just the Two of Us, their favorite music they listened to every day.
When approaching the table, she noticed a note with a message in messy handwriting, "Dear Rose, please write to me at this address: Maple Ridge Ave, Springfield, VA,7…"
"Oh dear... The rest of her address is becoming blurred(模糊不清的)."Rose grew unsettled. In spite of that, Rose knew she could not just let Emily go like that. After a deep thought, she decided to reunite with her best friend.
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Packing the recorder in her luggage, Rose got on the bus to start her journey to the unfamiliar city, Springfield.
Not knowing the exact house number of Emily, an idea suddenly struck Rose.
