The Struggle of a Child
Arriving at Home
After that, my uncle went back to his house.
Not long after my father and my uncle's conversation. He came with a bag containing clothes.
"Let's go!" My father said to please.
The woman went up while my father. Put the bag behind the rickshaw tent.
I, who was sitting beside my father, did not make a sound all the way. Meanwhile, my sister is sleeping on my lap. Now sleeping is getting worse.
"Emang, Daddy's not tired, huh?" I asked my father.
"No boy! How could you be tired!" While pedaling rickshaws.
"Does Dad mind taking us? If we're heavy, Dad, just put it down here! I'll just pick you back up after delivering sister." I said I kept seeing my dad.
"Thank you, son! I still can!" My father said innocently.
While pedaling her paddle. My father was so amazed to hear my words that he paid so much attention to it. Instantly, my father turned his face to look at me with a slight pull of his lips. He too, saw my sister and the woman as well, who was none other than my mother.
From the side I heard the woman's words about my sister. She turned to my sister and to my father with a wrinkled face.
I, who was among them, shuddered. See their faces one by one. I can't guarantee that there will be a commotion. I, too, continued to look at them closely.
And suddenly!
"Dad! Why stop?" I asked my father who was still sitting on the rickshaw.
"Yes, boy! We've arrived."
We also came down. Meanwhile, my dad's still on the rickshaw. To park the rickshaw and take down my mom's bag.
"Dad! The pedicab was put here?" I asked my father again.
"So, we're going home on foot, Dad?" Ask my father in a clean manner.
" Him, son!" My father kept pushing his tricycles into his tricycles' storage.
"Want to dad! I don't want to walk!" The sound of my sister's whining was now heard spoiled.She too, immediately jolted and woke up from her sleep.
From a place not so far away. That woman, too, was heartbreaking to see my spoiled sister.
"Yes, already! Here's Daddy's fat!" My father also held my sister behind.
"Dad! You're not cold?" Ask my sister who rests her head on my father's shoulders.
"Engga! As for Dad's son, I might be tired!" My papa.
I kept walking beside my father. With the woman holding her bag. He didn't speak a bit. Just, listen to my brother and father talk.
"Cold Dad! We're still a long time away, Dad!" Even my sister's voice, now it sounds so fresh not like the one who woke up.
" No, son! We'll be there soon." Said my father who now looks a little tired.
And finally!
"Well! We've arrived." My dad dropped my sister off.
"Dad, let's sleep!" My brother said while pulling my father's hand.
"Assalamualaik." Said my sister who entered the house with her small voice.
I'm silent. See them one by one. My heart feels like a dream. Look to the side. The woman was still standing looking around the room.
"Liyan!"
"Yes, dad."
"Yes."
"So you call me Mother. The woman said while looking at me.
While my father. His face seemed to have not been able to accept everything. He looked like a frustrated person and a hint of uneasiness was reflected on his face.
"Where's the room?" Ask the woman flatly.
"There!" My father pointed to room number two of our room.
"Dad! My dad slept with me, did he?" Ask my brother to my father.
Hearing my sister's spontaneous speech she stopped. Looking back at my sister. My brother who sits on my father's lap also looks ordinary. He did not care about the woman. My father could only shut up.
When I heard my sister. My father, too, was silent while taking a deep breath.
" The room is good? The house is good too!" He said he came out of the room.
"Yes." My father said while holding my sister.
My father doesn't talk much. Suddenly, he left the woman. Meanwhile, the little me doesn't know anything. Just sit in the corner of the room door and see what happens.
My father is still awkward with his current circumstances. Trying to adjust.
From inside my room and my sister.Suddenly my sister came out with her pillow.
"Dad." Approaching my father with pillows in both hands.
My father, who was in the room, was surprised to see my sister carrying a pillow.
My father." too." What's this for, son?" Ask my dad while he picks up the pillow that my sister brought.
"She's going to sleep with me." With a heart so happy while smiling sweetly to my father.
My father, who could not refuse my sister's request, allowed me to sleep in his room tonight. My sister who was left dead by my mother. He was closer to my father. Starting from eating, sleeping, even taking a bath, my father worked to attract my brother to come with my father.
Looking at his innocent and innocent face. My father, too, took my brother's hand to sleep with him.
Elsewhere the woman was upset by my sister's annoying behavior. He also listened silently to them talk. From the look in his eyes it was as if he was saying, "this child's basics are just annoying." His face was so, sour at my sister.
"Tonight, you slept with Liyan, yes!" From the door my father said with a cold face and a flat voice.
"Yes." He said flatly looking at my father for a glimpse.
"Liyan! Take your mother to the room, yes!"
"Yes, Dad." Heard my father tell. Me too, went to the room with him.
Meanwhile, my spoiled sister slept with my father.
And I, too, somewhere else slept with that woman. As long as we are together. We do not rebuke. For myself. This is new to me. It wasn't easy for me to get close to a stranger I just met. Moreover, she should be a mother to me.
I don't know how? It feels like having a mother. It's not wrong that I don't feel so sorry for him.
Wherever I see it. Not much of a stale talk with me. As long as we were in the same room. He seemed to be silent. Turning his mind to fantasize while chanting the tune of a song he knew.
We are one place to sleep. But we are like the sea and the land close but apart. That's me with the woman. Tonight that makes the atmosphere quiet.
My habit before going to bed. I pray like what my father taught me. My hearing, too, began to faintly hear the rhythm that came out of the woman's mouth.
Half-steep! I feel that he's uncomfortable. There was a loud sound of movement from the bed. With my heavy eyes I forced it to open a little. See what he's doing?
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