A short story by Made Dian Andita Mastari
Written in 2020 as a final project of Prose Fiction Course
English Language Education Department,
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
Isabella Dockar lived in Paris
for about 22 years. She made the decisions to live abroad and far away from her
hometown right after her dad’s death because she wanted to make some money
overseas. Bella was a hard worker and unyielding woman, every day she worked
really hard to feed her family and to give her family in her hometown the best
living accommodations. Her neighbors wondered about her decision to not find a
good man to be married and build a house hold because everyone knew that she
was already 52 years old. One sunny day, Bella was visited by Chloe, her niece
that came far away from New York. Chloe planned to live in Bella’s house for
several days because she wanted to enjoy the beauty of Paris and surroundings.
Chloe knew that she would like to spend several days in her aunt’s house , so
she was going to help Bella to do some stuffs in the like helping Bella to go
to the grocery store and buy some groceries. In the first day living in Bella’s
house, Chloe nicely took Bella and helped Bella o prepared all the delicious
traditional meals at that day, but Chloe did not realized the reason behind the
big meals prepared by Bella, a 52 years old woman who lived alone in Paris. On
the second day, Chloe took Bella to go to her working place. Chloe was directly
introduced to El, Mr. Steward’s son right away after she arrived in her working
place. There was nothing wrong with that introduction because Chloe thought
that was a common thing happened if Bella directly introduced her to El,
because they were met in the same office.