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Chapter 21's

As a result of the impact wound, my forehead got nine stitches. I'm still not sure what hit my head, but for sure it's all because of Dad, he didn't even accompany me to the hospital and make sure I was okay, he just left, really irresponsible parents.

I arrived home late at night and went straight to sleep. My head is still very dizzy and my body has a little fever, even until the next day I still rest at home accompanied by mother.

Seeing the rain coming back, I remembered the blanket I should have given Ranu. But I can't go anywhere, because my mother's been by my side all day.

Fortunately on the night my fever started to drop, and my mother went back to her room. I slipped through the back door to hand Ranu a blanket and jacket. I brought a flashlight because it was so dark outside, it was raining so much that even though I was wearing an umbrella, my clothes were still wet.

I banged on the back door of the house that Ranu was in, and as soon as Ranu opened it, I closed the umbrella and barged in to take cover from the cold air.

It's just... When I entered Ranu's house, I did not take shelter from the cold air, because inside the old house it was even colder. I panned around the living room and kitchen using a flashlight that was still on.

There are no couches, chairs, or mattresses. I handed the backpack containing the blanket and warm clothes to Ranu, and continued to look around me. There was a big hole in the roof of the kitchen, wind and rain water bursting into the house, and I realized that half of his eyes had been submerged.

I closed my mouth in shock and horror. Ranu lived in that old house for weeks!

Ranu touched my back and tried to guide me outside. "You shouldn't have come here, Tari," he said. "You could get in trouble."

I snatched his hand and said, "You shouldn't be here either." I pulled him out with me. "You can sleep on my bedroom floor tonight. I'm gonna lock my bedroom door. You can't sleep here Ranu, the house is flooded and too cold, you can get pneumonia and die."

Ranu looks worried, wondering about being caught in the room Dance as scary as getting pneumonia and dying. "Okay" he answered.

I did not feel at all guilty for taking Ranu to stay in my room, because after all Ranu would sleep on the floor, I only gave him a warm place for him to rest.

After smuggling her through the back door and sneaking into my room, I made her warm tea and then locked my door.

We chatted while enjoying a warm cup of tea, he looked at me and asked, "What's wrong with your head?"

I didn't know what to say, I just touched my wound with my fingers and then got out of my seat looking at my window.

Ranu must have heard a fight in the garage and seen my mother take me to the hospital. I was surprised to hear Ranu was going to my house, I can't imagine if my father saw Ranu wearing his clothes, father must be angry and hit Ranu.

I looked at Ranu with a serious face. "Ranu, don't do that, you can't go to my house when my parents are."

Ranu finished his tea then put it on my study table. "I heard you scream, Dance. I'm so worried about you." Ranu said as if I was more important than everything.

"I just fell down." I said, it doesn't feel good to lie. I roll out the floor mattress as a sign that it's time for us to rest, I don't want to talk about what happened yesterday.

I crawled up onto the bed and shifted to the side in order to see Ranu from above. Ranu looked up at me for a moment with his hands folded under his head, then said, "When it rains like this, I always miss you. When I was a child, my father often invited me to play with rain in the yard, now I can only remember it all while praying for my father to be calm in nature" he said, holding back tears.

"So your father is dead?" ask Dance carefully.

Ranu nodded. "But four years ago, my mother remarried a man who didn't like me at all. We fought a lot, until six months ago he kicked me out of the house and no longer paid my tuition."

Ranu breathed his heavy breath. "For a few months I lived in my friend's house, but soon his parents were transferred to Aceh, and they couldn't take me."

"Then what about your other family?" askaku.

"If my mother's family came to know, my mother would prefer her husband to be compared to her son, my mother would get into big trouble from her family. While my father's family was in Europe, I only knew the office number where my uncle worked, I've tried to contact him several times but until now it hasn't worked."

"Then what about the parlour? Are not the poor and abandoned children in the care of the state?" I read the Basic Law of the Republic of Indonesia in 1945, Article 34.

"I've been to one of the orphanages, but I think I'm too old to be in the orphanage. So I decided to work odd jobs at the penny market, and get stranded in that old house."

I don't know I don't understand Ranu, he can still smile at me as he tells me such a sad thing. "If my savings have been collected, I intend to contract a tenement. Would you like to play in my house Dance?"

I nodded, though I wasn't sure I could come because my father wouldn't let me play at a friend's house.