Shanum Smile
Chapter 1
"Sir, I'm going to the market. Wanted to carry the merchandise back home. You're okay, don't you live alone?" pamit Bu Lestari to her husband.
Mr. Yanto just nodded at the wife's words. His body was so weak that he could not speak. Only use sign language.
Bu Lestari also rushed to the market with his old duck motorcycle. Once he arrived at the market he handed over the middleman's order goods. Then, back home. An hour later, she left her husband at home.
Bu Lestari went in because the door was not locked. How surprised she was, seeing her husband lying on the floor near the bed. Mr. Yanto was unconscious when Mr. Lestari entered his home.
"Bapaaac!" yelling Bu Lestari hysterical so inviting the arrival of his neighbor.
A few hours later ....
"Mother ... Buuu ... Mr ... My father!" shouted the 13-year-old teenage girl.
Shanum banged on the door of his locked house. The little girl in red and white just came home from school. Shanum currently sits in 6th grade SD.
When he came home from school the house was quiet, even the neighboring house was deserted. All the doors of the house are closed. In fact, he was used to finding the neighbor's house tightly closed. Why is his house locked now? Father and mother are always at home at noon like this.
"Where the same father mother. Where the key is no more." Shanum grumbled as he continued to search for the house key.
Usually his parents always tell Shanum if he wants to travel. If they leave suddenly they will leave the house keys under a flower pot or under a doormat.
Shanum raised one by one the flower pots that were on the terrace. Even between the precarious terrace was not spared from his observation. The precarious terrace is messy, if it rains later it can be ascertained that the terrace of the house will be wet with rainwater.
After exhaustion looking for the house key and did not get it, Shanum finally sat limp on a long bench on the porch of the house.
As Shanum started sailing to dreamland, there was the sound of someone approaching Shanum. Then the man called Shanum.
"Nr ... Anum!" call the person while rubbing Shanum's hand.
With a heavy heart Shanum began to open his eyes.
"Yes," replied Shanum lazily.
"Wake up! This is your mother nitip lock the same house Budhe," said budhe Sri while handing over the house keys to Shanum.
"Where are you, Budhe?" shanum asked while taking the key.
"Your father is sick, now being treated in the hospital. Your mother kept your father in the hospital" explained budhe Sri.
Shanum fell silent, the little girl did not know what to say.
"You are patient! Pray that your father will recover quickly. You dare to stay at home?" ask budhe Sri.
"How dare you, thank you Budhe. Anum entered first, wanted to change clothes and rest," Shanum replied leaving Sri budhe.
Shanum's body is weak and not powerful, but usually the little girl is very energetic.
Shanum was the last child of a middle-aged couple. He was born when his mother was 47, while his father was 64. One would not believe that the beautiful girl was born to an elderly couple.
Shanum's age difference with his brother's smallest only 10 years. Currently the sister is in the final semester of college in Jogja. Shanum only lived three with his parents. While his brother lives with budhe, his mother's sister.
Many people think Shanum is the grandson of Suyanto's father and Lestari's mother. This is because Mr. Yanto's son, as he is commonly called, was the largest married when Shanum was born.
Shanum has a beautiful face, wide eyes and long curly hair. The little girl since childhood is very easy to get sick, so Shanum is spoiled by both parents.
Of the many children only Mutia who went to college, the three brothers Mutia only graduated from High School or equivalent. The first and second children are married while the third child works in a factory in the capital.
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Shanum started cleaning his house, starting from sweeping, washing dishes, lifting clothes clothes and folding them. The house was left in a mess. Because at that time Lestari's mother who had just returned from the market, found Mr. Yanto lying on the floor of the living room, unconscious.
Until the afternoon Shanum remained alone in the house. Shanum doesn't dare go out to play with his friends. During this time Shanum preferred to play at home alone, because his parents always forbid him to play away from home.
Until the day before Maghrib, Shanum's brother who studied in Jogja returned home. Pearl came home after she got word that her father was in the hospital. Before returning home, Mutia took the time to visit her father in the hospital.
"Assalamualaikum ..." said Mutia at the door.
"Dark really?! Deck ... Sha .. nuuummmmm!" shouted Mutia.
Mutia began to step her feet into the house. The house was dark because there were no lights that lit when the sun had long set. Mutia started to turn on all the lights in the house.
Mutia found Shanum curled up in the corner of her room, the room where she and Mutia had been sleeping. Shanum cried from fear at home alone.
"Dek ... Why are you?" tanya Mutia approached her sister, before she put her backpack on the table.
"Sha is afraid!" shanum shouted while crying.
"Ssttt ... there's mbak here, don't be afraid!" mutia said to calm her sister. Mutia hugged Shanum.
"Sha is afraid, the same father mom did not come home anyway. Is it a holiday to go home?" shanum asked as he sobbed.
"The father's mother in the hospital, Ma'am came home because he wanted to meet Shanum at home. Let Shanum have his friend. Tomorrow morning Ma'am there is a lecture at nine in the morning, so if you leave at seven it can still be" explained Mutia.
Among her five children, only Mutia and Shanum were close. Maybe because they were together since childhood. Unlike his three brothers, they were too busy with their respective affairs.
"So you saw your father in the hospital, right? What are you doing, Ma'am?" ask Shanum.
"Father has been quiet, the doctor was quick to handle this afternoon. Have you taken a shower?" ask Mutia.
"Already, Sha nimba was slow." replied Shanum grimacing.
Their well is still manual there is no water pump engine. Mr. Yanto said while exercising to be healthy, if you use a water pump then you will be lazy to move and not sweat.
The real reason is mediocre finance. Financing college kids takes a lot of money. While Mr. Yanto is old, he is no longer working. Over the past few years, only rely on rice fields and sales in traditional markets are not much.
"Waaahhh, tumben Mbak nimba's own sister. Pinter yes, it is also done with his home. Were you all working on it?" mutia asked with a glowing face.
Mutia did not expect her sister to do all that. Whereas all this time Shanum only knew to play and learn.
"Yes, Sha did it all. Slowly but, Sha is not used to it," Shanum replied timidly.
"Slow down nothing important is done!" mutia said as she gave her thumbs up to Shanum.
"Sha is hungry yet, if we have eaten together. But Ma'am wants to take a shower first." continued Mutia.
"Yes, Ma'am, take a shower first! Sha waitin Mbak," replied Shanum.