The Struggle of a Child
Rejecting reason
"Sister, sick tofu! Little, little Brother always pinches. My cheeks are going to be red. Have a look!" my sister grumbled with great emphasis showing it to me.
"Times, yes, brother. Let's see Brother!" my door saw my sister's cheeks. "Why, ah?!" I looked at his right and left cheeks. "Sister's pinch is slow, Brother."
The dispute that occurred between me and my sister had set with the twilight sun. The shadow is no longer visible with the smiling sun listening to our discord. Now he has immersed himself with the gray blue clouds leaving us who are always witnesses.
Hustle and bustle of the sounds of the wind was now joined by the twang of time that rotated. The beautiful sound of birds is no longer heard. Only the flapping of wings looming over the earth looked happily for shelter.
There was not much I could say after I saw my sister stop her puppet play. My sister who likes to play dolls now moved to take a towel after she arranged her dolls neatly. I who saw the development of my sister was so happy because little of the rules applied by my father had been carried out.
I immediately followed my sister from behind. "Sir, take a shower, okay?" many followed him.
"Yes, sister" replied my sister as she picked up a change of clothes from the closet.
I who was standing at the back saw him was very happy because my sister tidied up some clothes that looked messy.
"Sister!" call my sister while draping the clothes one by one.
"Yes" I said from behind.
"Sister not showering?" ask my sister, glancing a little backwards.
"Not yet, Sister," I replied hesitantly.
"Why doesn't my sister know? It's late in the afternoon" my sister asked.
"Yes. I know it's afternoon! But you still have doubts about taking a shower or not." I immediately remembered my sick self.
"What sis the doubt?" ask my sister to know.
"No doubt, later if you take a bath, have a fever or not, yes?!" I answered with concern asking back.
"Yes, Brother. That's also confusing. It's a hot day, brother. Where could you have a fever except rain! If it rains, you may shower, Brother will probably have a fever," said my sister who looks diligent today.
"The condition of our bodies today is different, Sister." I looked down, like a withered flower.
Spontaneously my sister twisted her body back to face me. "Different how, brother?" asked my sister to look at me.
I who had been silent was suddenly aghast standing in front of my sister. As soon as possible I quibbled so that my sister would not be more wondering.
"Yes, my brother is sick. You're healthy," I said directly.
Heehhhhhhhhh! My sister immediately sighed softly hearing my reason. "So because you're sick?" asked my sister to raise her eyes.
"Mmmm!" I answered in embarrassment.
"Yes, my brother. Brother do not want to lose with the disease Brother," continued my sister. Mature oafish. "Sister's going strong," he continued, mimicking the adult language style. "... ." He was silent and did not continue his next speech.
"Strong what?" I cut my sister's talk.
My sister immediately dizzy to see me. "During this time, the brother who always accompanied me to play, looking for me where I played?, even the brother who was still sick just wanted to find me to my game place. You never told me that you were sick." My sister looked at me remembering the events of the past.
Instantly I fell silent, like a person who held in shame. My sister was right. What he said is true. Even in my sick state, I kept trying to find my sister until I met no matter if it was hot or rain, the most important thing for me was to find my sister. In addition, my father always said, the first child should be able to take care of his sister. And he gave me full responsibility for my brother.
The young me now feels what it is like to take on a big responsibility for myself. That's what prompted me not to cry under any circumstances. The trigger must remain strong in undergoing every pounding wave and must be able to hold on to the weathered wood.
Tears can only weaken the spirit. Tears cannot strengthen themselves. Tears also can not be a solution to the problem precisely it will be a thorn that shackles every breath. Therefore, today, no matter how much disease strikes me, I must not be fragile.
I was still silent after hearing my sister's words to me which made my sister ask again as if urging me to follow her wishes.
"Sister, don't shut up. We'll go to the afternoon shower. Brother, do you know, how's our bath?" my sister reminded me.
While I was still worried just keep quiet and wait for the answer to what I will give my sister who increasingly makes me nervous. The question now sounds soaring up into the sky. He unceasingly asked inquiring.
"Sister is strong. The proof, all this time even though Brother is sick, Brother can still accompany me to play, even Brother is still able to go to school. Yes, even if you can't play sports," my sister said back.
"Where do you know?" I was surprised to ask my sister in surprise.
"Come from where? Yeah, from la school, sister. That was when I was cleared to leave class. I saw Brother in the corridor of the classroom of Brother's person. The brother stood there, looking at those who were exercising. Even the class leader of the Big Brother Fikri, I know, if he begged Mr. Duan, so that Big Brother did not participate in sports," my sister said to make me even more surprised.
"Do you know where you're from, brother?" ask me to investigate back as if I can't believe it.
"I heard from the canteen. Brother's friend who spoke, the vice-chairman of the class, whom Rashd named, Brother," replied my sister in a soft tone of voice.
"Ooh!"I murmured slowly with a straight staring look considering the incident. "Then what else did he say?" ask me to investigate next.
"I don't hear it anymore, brother. I went straight to my class" replied my sister.
"If you can know. Why are you out?" aska I want to know.
"To the bathroom" my sister replied briefly.
"Why doesn't Brother see you, huh?" I asked myself in front of my sister.
"Ooh! Brother was serious, look at Brother's friend who was exercising." My sister answered him immediately.
"Emmm!" I just nodded and looked at my sister while shaking a little bit of my lips in reply.
After my sister finished tidying up her clothes it was now my turn to answer my sister's invitation to take a bath. I turned back the two eyeballs looking at the floor of the house that was directly related to the kitchen door that we often went through, especially for bathing.
The tightness in the chest is increasingly attacking, the breath is no longer inhaled with regularity. The tired and anxious began to approach slowly. The breath I never heard now sounded.
While the silence that still silenced me made my sister look back at me as if she wished for my decision soon.
I who started to pull over slowly was now restrained because the sharp look in my sister's eyes saw me. He stood up as if he would not allow me to escape from before him. His sharp eyes took me back a step forward.
"Sik, Big Brother didn't take a shower, yeah!" my door gently. "If you're afraid to take a shower yourself. Brother will accompany you to take a bath." I looked at my sister with a slightly less certain feeling, if my sister was willing to accept my reason.
"Betaka!" my sister's whining back out. "And Dad said, both of us, when it's time to take a bath, yes, you have to take a bath, brother," complained my sister who did not want to listen to my reasons.
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