Mom, I Want School
10. SAY LATER

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"What?"

"You're not at school."

"But why? Ari's friends from school? Why isn't Ari?"

My mother seemed silent, she looked at me so seriously with her eyes were also very serious looking at me who kept looking at her asking for an explanation from her until finally she decided to step away from me.

I honestly couldn't accept her decision and her departure made me follow in her footsteps.

"Emak, why doesn't Ari go to school?" I asked when I was behind him.

My mother did not answer my question. He looked back at me as if he had not heard the question I asked him. Instead of answering, Mother even busied herself by pretending to stir the vegetables in the pot.

I can tell if this is a pretense because honestly the vegetable has matured but the mother acted as if the vegetable was being cooked.

"Sme!" call me.

Mother did not answer again, she stepped making me follow my mother like a tail that was reluctant to move away.

"Sme!"

"Ari wants to go to school like Ari's friends."

"Why Ari is not in school like Ari's other friends. They're all in school then why isn't Ari?"

Mother did not answer. He is silent as a deaf and mute man. He doesn't care about me.

"Emery! Ari wants to go to school. Ari wants to go to school."

Still no answer.

I looked up at the wall clock that showed me at eleven o'clock and at that moment my heart was beating very fast. I'm afraid that registration time is up.

"Emak, please! Ari wants school!"

"Look at what time it is! Registration time will soon be up. Ari doesn't want the registration time to run out."

"Ari really wants schools like Angga, Ririn, Cai and Ami."

Mom still didn't care about me making me hold her wrist making Mom look at me.

"Come, mom! If you do not want then just take Ari to school so that Ari who enrolls, buar Ari who goes to school to register."

"Come on mom!" I said while pulling his wrist.

"Emak, let's get Ari!"

"Come on em-"

"Stop Ari!" yelling Mom who managed to make me jerk in shock after hearing the snapping from mom.

Both eyebrows look uphill like a mountain, exactly with facial expressions that look angry like when he was angry with my Father.

"Emak told me you didn't go to school for the year. Why don't you want to hear Mom's words?"

I'm really quiet now. That angry face of hers really made my heart ache inside. It's strange enough that a snot boy like me who is seven years old says heartache but this is the reality.

"So Ari's not in school?"

"Emak didn't say that you didn't go to school, but Mom wanted to say that you didn't go to school this year. You're going to school next year."

"You didn't go to school this year" repeated the mother.

"Then why are Ari's friends at school this year?" ask me with a face that has been really pouting.

My lips were shaking trying not to cry in front of my mother.

"You're different from your friends."

"What difference?"

Mom seemed to take a long breath and exhale slowly. He seemed to support his waist with his gaze staring in the other direction as if he refused to look at me.

"Sme!" call me who this time really asked for an answer from him.

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