Mom, I Want School
6. SCHOOLLIST

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I silently looked at my mother who seemed to be cooking rice for dinner. He was seen occasionally wiping the sweat that soaked his forehead. I was so sorry all day he didn't stop to work.

I am now conscious and convinced that heaven is indeed at the soles of the feet of a woman whom I call Mother.

"What is cooking?" tanyaku who supports the chin looks at the mother who looks sauteed red onion.

"Emak wants to saute kale. Today my mother has picked kale on the riverbank."

"Ari likes kale, Mom."

The sound of footsteps made me look at the father who seemed to put a bucket in front of the door. He grabbed a towel, wiped the sweat and opened his hat and hung it on a nail attached to the wall.

I could see his face looking sad. I stepped closer to the bucket when my father went inside the WC to take a shower. I saw the empty bucket, no fish caught this afternoon. Today as usual we did not eat fish because the father did not get fish.

Vegetable stir-fry kale make a friend of rice for tonight. The smell of the smell of kale stings my sense of smell so fragrant makes my stomach rumble.

My mother's flat face, the look on her face every day always wants to be angry. Both of his eyebrows looked as if they had a lot of problems rising up like a mountain.

He put the plate in front of me, took some rice and some vegetable scoops for me. I sat right next to my mother who also put rice on a special plate for my father.

I smiled at my parents who looked so greedy at dinner. So much work that these two guys did today as did me, so many games that I went through today.

I who had been focused on eating now moved my two eyeballs to look at the two creatures that I loved so much. I remembered one thing and this time I wanted to say it about school

"Mr!" calling me made the two people in front of me look at me for a moment and then he refocused on eating

"Ari wants to talk something," I said starting if my parents refused to talk then I would undo my intention to say this.

You can see me looking at a glass of water, looking at me for a moment who looks silent waiting for me to talk.

"Speak!" ask father.

"Ririn and Cai are already on the school list today, they're all late coming to play and they say tomorrow is the last day to apply for school."

My father stopped his chewing, he glanced at my mother who looked indifferent, he still put food in his mouth without ever stopping to look at me or at my father.

I gulped my saliva, for some reason my heart was pounding as I wanted to say this. I'm scared but tomorrow is the last day and I don't want that day to be missed.

"Ari's friends have enrolled in school and Ari-" I paused my sentence. I don't know why I'm so nervous.

I took a breath and exhaled slowly trying to calm myself down. I hope my mom and dad are not angry. I may not ask for money and only the word money makes them angry.

"Ari wants to go to school" I told her that my mother's chewing had stopped.

I sipped my salivary. Mom's face looked so scary after I said that.

A second later my mother's lips moved again, chewing on the food in her mouth. There was no response from my mother there was only a frozen gaze given by my father. I smiled doubtfully as if only my father was interested in my speech.

"Mr, Ari wants to go to school."

My father smiled. He put the dishes on the floor, washed his hands on the dishes and threw his hands behind him trying to clean his hands from the water.

"L-yes, yes you can go to school."

I was so happy when I heard it and it made me unconsciously rise from my seat and approach my father.

"really? Is that true, sir?" ask me so excited. I didn't even realize I touched both of my father's benches and shook them.

"Well, you can go to school, but school's not easy."

"It wasn't easy? What's not easy?"

"You could go to school but it's all there is to your mom if she agrees you go to school then you'll go to school."

Hearing that I turned to look at my mother, she looked so serious while eating even I felt if she did not hear my sentence earlier. I ran over to my mother who never looked at me at all.

"Emery! Ari wants school! Ari can, right school? Tomorrow is the last registration, tomorrow the registration will be closed if the registration is closed Ari will not school" I explained.

"Emak, I don't know" replied Mother and got up and walked away leaving me to enter the kitchen.

I silently stared and looked at my father who was as silent as I was. He got up and stepped out of the house, sitting on the porch enjoying a cigarette he had saved two days ago.

I didn't give up, I stepped into the kitchen and looked at my mother who was in the dishwasher.

"Let Ari help, Mak," said I who then rinsed the dishes that had been wiped with soap. Looks like this is a surefire way to touch my mother's heart. Hopefully after this mom will let me go to school.

For more than a minute I rinsed some dishes, placed them in a basin and smiled at my mother.

"Emery! Why didn't mom know? Ari's friends are enrolled in school by their parents and they also want to go to school."

My mother stopped her plate-wearing hand, she looked at me, touched my hair, and she smiled.

"Yes Ari, you're going to school but you don't know how to get you to school or you'll see tomorrow."

Mother got up from a small stool that was occupied during washing dishes. I silently stared indistinctly at the wall that had been porous. I don't understand what's good to say.

Mom answered but it didn't seem like an answer and it made me even more confused.

I rose up and took my bare feet towards the room but, my steps stopped when I heard the noise from outside, it was the sound of their mother and father talking to each other but, still, my steps stopped when I heard the noise from outside, using a high tone of voice as if bluffing.

I was curious to make me take small steps that barely heard the sound of his steps, approaching the door right next to the window where they were seen standing facing each other while pointing in the face.

I couldn't hear more clearly what they were saying, sounding vague. They occasionally whispered however, not for a long time the tone of the screaming voice sounded. I could also hear the sound of a collision against the wall making me flinch in shock.

Whether they were fighting and what they were fighting over one thing was, my desire for school.

I ran into the room, lay face down under the worn-out covers and hid my body and ears refusing to hear their quarrels.

I don't want them to fight because all I want is one thing, school. Ari just wants to go to school, that's all.

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