Ode To Latitude
Grandma?
Mia went through her school days feeling empty.
He was so envious to see his friends allowed to go home early, and practice race preparation. Mia no longer waited for Bi Nina in front of the school gate at home but watched the selected students train in the school yard.
“Come home” invite Bi Nina while holding Mia's hand.
Arriving at Mia's house and then heading to her room. While passing through her mother's room, Mia saw the door of the room slightly open.
Mia walked towards the door, trying to keep her footsteps from being heard.
Mia's heart wanted to surprise her mother, but when her head appeared behind the door, there was no one.
“Ma.., mama” call Mia in a small voice, making sure her mother is in the room.
There's no answer.
Mia researched the corner of the room.
Blank.
Mia approached the bathroom door. Smelled of shampoo commonly used by his mother and there was a splash of water in the gap of the bottom door.
Mama again bathed Mia while walking away from her mother's room.
Before Mia closed the door of her mother's room, her eyes were fixed on one of the sacred objects left near the pillow that was on the bed.
Quickly Mia headed towards the thing and opened it.
Input PIN
The PIN you entered is wrong.
While tinkering at his mother's phone.
Mia thought hard what PIN her mother used to lock her hanphone. The umpteenth time Mia tried and succeeded. her PIN is Mia's date of birth.
The first thing Mia does is look for contacts on the phone.
Regata contacts are numerous and consist of the names of doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, radiologists and other health workers.
Regata has a habit of writing contact names by including the profession or where the person works.
Mia shifts her phone screen looking for a name that might give her a clue as to who her father and mother's family are.
Mia remembers the easy way to find contacts is to search in the search feature that is on the top right of her phone screen. The various keywords in his way are only related to father.
Try now change the key word to mother, inner Mia pressing while pressing the letter mother.
Search not found
Mothers
Search not found
Mama
Mia's heart was racing. He opened the zipper on the front of his bag and took the pen.
Mia rubbed her sweaty hands on the skirt of her uniform and wrote down the row of numbers.
“ceklek” door knob rotated.
Mia immediately returned the screen display of the phone back to the beginning, then pressed the off button and put the phone in its original place.
“Have gone home” asked Regata while rubbing hair with a towel.
“Iya was about to ngagetin mama, tauunya mama again bathe” Mia tried her hardest to hide a nervous look.
His hands were sweating again.
“May not be erased, may not be erased” prayer mia in heart.
“Change, wash hands, finish it eat”
Mia immediately ran to the room and locked the door. He immediately copied the number on the back page of his book.
“Bi Nina, can you borrow a cell phone for a minute?” mia asked while looking at her mother's room, making sure Regata did not hear their conversation.
Regata promised Mia when Mia was in high school that Mia could only be bought and allowed to use a mobile phone. During that time Mia was secretly taught to play games on Bi Nina's phone, take pictures, and type. For Mia who is a generation born in the 2000s the buttons on the phone in a computer-like design and easy to use, only taught once Mia has started to be able to tamper with the phone.
“Eat first" insisted Bi Nina.
“Penting Bi, just aja” pinta Mia again.
Bi Nina gave her phone while looking at Mia suspiciously.
“There is no pulse?” ask Mia again.
“There. Kena...” has not had Bi Nina
finishing her sentence Mia had run to the side of the house, to a place not visible to Regata.
Mia pressed one by one the numbers she had written on a piece of paper.
Mia waited long enough for the phone to be picked up.
“Halo good afternoon, with whom is this?” ask a voice that sounds flattering.
Mia was silent for a moment.
“Halo?” ask for a voice across.
“Grandmother?”
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