tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65365246004539851872024-03-18T20:06:34.288-07:00talesaga's storyThe story of my own imagination and adventure of my dream, and those who inspire metalesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-41289787403184389982016-08-26T06:09:00.003-07:002016-08-26T06:09:52.665-07:00welcome to page MARto those who have been following me, I'm sorry because currently active on this blog. Right now I am currently active on this facebook page 'MAR'. in this page, most of my works are in thumbnails. You guys can come and read it too! But that doesn't mean i'm abandoning this blog, but here I only posting written works only. So if you're interested, come and read more of my works there!!!<br />https://www.facebook.com/maryammior/?fref=ts<br /><br />ps: thank you very much for reading all my works XD. i love you alltalesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-644743629519252782016-02-07T05:56:00.003-08:002016-02-07T05:56:58.575-08:00AidilI haven't updating this for quite a long time. I guess I should put the story that I wrote.<br /><br />Brace yourself with this update!<br /><br />.......................................................................................................................<br />
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-Syazani (Main character) berjalan dengan kawannya dari
bagunan fakulti ke tepi padang<o:p></o:p></div>
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[minion 1] Aidil!! Sambut!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Hiyaah!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Aidil sambut bola dengan penuh usaha, dan menendang bola ke
dalam gol.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[minion 2] Cantik!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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[minion 3] Bagus Aidil!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Yahoo! Berjaya!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Semua pemain berkumpul dan peluk Aidil, Aidil bersorak
dengan sangat gembira.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration]<br />
Semasa saya masuk u, ada serang pelajar bernama Aidil. Aidil seorang yang ceria
dan positif, dan suka dekat dengan orang. <o:p></o:p></div>
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-Syazani tengok dari jauh dan kawan dia perhatikan Syazani
dengan sengih<br />
-Syazani buat muka marah bila kawan dia buat muka sengih<o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Saya selalu tengok aidil dari jauh sebab dia sebenarnya tak
pandai sangat dalam pelajarannya tapi dia sentiasa berusaha. <o:p></o:p></div>
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-Aidil ditegur oleh cikgunya di depan kelas. Syazani tengok
dari jauh. Aidil membalasnya dengan muka senyum (senyum pura-pura, sebab malu
dan sedih)<o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dan saya geram dgn kawan sy yg suka sakat sy sebab asyik
perhatikan dia. <o:p></o:p></div>
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-kawan Syazani sengih lagi. Syazani buat muka bengang.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Satu hari…<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Syazani! Saya ada benda nak beritahu awak.<o:p></o:p></div>
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-kawan Syazani terus hilang.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Ya? Apa dia?<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Saya… saya suka awak…<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Syazani terkejut. Aidil masih blushing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Jadi… Saya….<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Aidil muka garu muka dan tahan muka dia dari blushing
dengan pegang leher.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] …Boleh beri saya masa ke? Saya kena fikir dulu.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Bo-Boleh!! Saya tunggu jawapan dari awak ya!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Aidil buat muka gembira<o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Selama 3 hari saya berfikir barulah saya sedar saya pun
sukakan aidil. <o:p></o:p></div>
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-Syazani fikir di masa dia perhatikan Aidil di padang dan
dalam kelas, blushing bila ingat balik.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tapi…<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Aidil, saya…<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Tak, lupakan apa saya cakap kelmarin, Syazani.
Anggap benda kelmarin tak pernah berlaku.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Kenapa pula?<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Saya… ada kanser otak. Saya tak boleh hidup lama.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Oh begitu… <o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration] <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kenapa saya cakap oh begitu?!<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] (cuba untuk senyum walaupun dia hampir nangis)
Terima kasih ya sebab dengar luahan hati saya.<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Aidil beredar pergi da nada butir airmata keluar ketika dia
berjalan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration]<o:p></o:p></div>
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saya rasa sangat pathetic sebab tak buat apa-apa. Tak lama
lepas tu aidil berhenti kolej. Segalanya kekal sama cuma banyak kawan saya
lawat aidil di hospital. Dan sepanjang masa tu keadaan aidil makin teruk. Ada
kawan saya suruh saya pergi jumpa aidil sebab dia tahu aidil suka saya. Tapi
ego saya entah ke mana dia datang, saya tak mahu jumpa aidil.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[narration]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lama lepas tu, cuti panjang datang. Saya rasa susah hati lalu
saya seorang diri datang jumpa aidil. Aidil nampak sangat kurus, muka pucat dan
dia tak nampak aidil yang selalu ceria. Saya hampir nangis tengok aidil. <o:p></o:p></div>
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-Syazani di depan hospital, kemudian buka pintu, tengok
Aidil kurus kering, muka pucat, dengan mesin bunyi ‘bip bip bip’<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] …Tolong jangan tengok aku… (toleh kepala)<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Syazani keluar airmata, tekap mulut, tapi tak keluar bunyi
menangis<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Kalaulah saya tak wujud… kalaulah ini semua mimpi…
saya tak perlu buat awak menangis…<br />
-selepas <o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] (lap airmata) tolong jangan cakap macam itu. Saya
patutnya beritahu awak awal-awal lagi, tapi saya biarkan sahaja hanya sebab ego
saya. Minta maaf, Aidil. Saya betul-betul minta maaf.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] ….<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Sekeliling mula senyap, Cuma bunyi mesin bip bip bip je
dengar.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Saya datang sebab nak beritahu reply saya masa tu.
Saya suka awak.<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Aidil mula menangis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Saya selalu perhatikan awak. Awak selalu berusaha
untuk mengambil perhatian orang lain, dan membuatkan orang sekeliling awak
gembira. Walaupun awak bukanlah perfect dalam belajar atau senang sedih bila
kena marah, awak cuba sedaya upaya untuk memperbaikinya. Saya jatuh hati dengan
awak sebab personality awak itu.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] Awak tak kisah ke dengan orang macam saya ni…?<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Sampai bila-bila saya tetap suka awak, Aidil.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Aidil] …(menangis) terima kasih Syazani. Tapi awak jangan
risau, saya dah tak sedih dah sebab…<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Syazani buka mata dengan airmata. Syazani bangun dengan
lihat sekeliling. Hanya biliknya sahaja.<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Syazani terdiam.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Hah… Hahahahahaha!!!! Biar betul?! (gelak
habis-habisan) <o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Bukan main dramatic, rupanya semua ni mimpi?! <o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] Kelakar betul!! Kalau kawan-kawan saya tahu, mesti
mereka gelak!<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Narration] <br />
Ini kali pertama saya mimpi pasal seorang lelaki yang tak pernah wujud. saya
gelak sepenuh hati untuk menghilangkan rasa geram yang teramat sangat. Preasaan saya seakan-akan dipermainkan oleh sesuatu yang saya tak ketahui.<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Syazani gengam tangan dengan kuat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Syazani] ….. (menangis) Aidil…<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Narration]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ini semua mainan mimpi. Sepatutnya begitu. Tapi bila saya teringat lelaki yang tidak wujud itu, saya
tak boleh berhenti menangis.<br />
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"The saddest part is not you lost your important one, it is that they are
never existed from the beginning"-the beautiful mind<o:p></o:p></div>
talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-62635195425801996622015-07-16T10:37:00.001-07:002015-07-16T10:37:32.213-07:00Story of a death row convict.<div class="MsoNormal">
Slam! The sound of iron bar closing echoed around the silent
hall. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Please follow me, Miss Helen.” Said the jailer while he
walking without looking at me. As he walk, the darkness in this place begin to
surround the jailer. Realizing that, I quickly follow him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The hall is silent, as we pass through. I thought the
criminal inmates are much noisier with my appearance, as they would harass me
and wooing me while I’m inside. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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But it is not weird if they are not reacting much, after
all, the prison cell in this area are meant for the criminal convicts that will
be executed. Most are already being lifeless, not interested with the
appearance of the opposite gender. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We have arrived, Miss Helen.” Say the jailer. He is
standing in front of a cell.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It took a while for my eyes to get used in the darkness. I
saw a young man inside the cell, sitting on his bed, resting his back on a
wall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Who is that, Mr. Jailer?” ask the young man inside the
cell.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Are you Mr. Winston?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes, I am.” It seems he can reply my answer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“He seems fine to me, Jailer.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Can’t you see his face?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Face?” I don’t understand what he meant until I at Mr.
Winston’s face carefully. That young man sure looks skinny and pale, but
compared to a sad, guilty face, this is my first time seeing a blissful, happy
face from a death row sentence convict. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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“I was worried if Winston has gone nuts after he stay inside
the prison. I wish he is not, because if he do, he will be released and will be
sent to mental hospital.” The jailer seems worry as he said that. </div>
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<br /></div>
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And he
doesn’t seem to trust me on this case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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But his worriedness is understandable, because only god
knows how many death row convicts has manage to escape their death because they
tell their psychiatrist that they have gone nuts. Not to mention the numbers of
liars that does so. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I smile back to the jailer. “Don’t worry, it is not easy for
me to approve the convict’s mental health and allow them to lay their back on
the mental hospital. We have too many insane people there.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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“I hope so, Miss Helen.” Say the jailer while opening the
iron door. “After all, this is your first time coming here without your
supervisor.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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True. And I still remember what he said that time…<o:p></o:p></div>
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…………………………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></div>
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“This person can be
your first subject to diagnose his problem.” Professor gives me Mr. Winston’s
personal history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Huh? Isn’t he dangerous? He is a death row convict.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes, but don’t worry, I have met him before a few times.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Then he is diagnosed with-“<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No, actually he doesn’t have any mental problem.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Huh? Then why you want me to diagnose him?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“His case is an easy one, and I want to give you an
experience to diagnose a convict in a prison. After this, you will handle the
case independently.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“But I don’t think it is
safe to do this. I’ll be dealing with a murderer.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oh, don’t worry about that. This person would never harm
anyone, not even a fly.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Huh?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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…………………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></div>
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I still cannot comprehend why professor saying so. If he
never harms anyone, why would he stay inside this cell? Is he an innocent that
accused for murder?<o:p></o:p></div>
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But if so, why wouldn’t professor helping him get out from
the prison, and absconded from execution?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stop it, Helen. It’s no use thinking too much about it. you
already inside the cell with Mr. Winston and jailer. Just focused on asking a
few things from this person, and you can do your thesis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I takes out pen and
paper with questions that I need to ask him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Mr. Winston, have you murdered someone?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Of course I did. If not, how come I am here?” Calm down
Helen, for the sake of thesis, just keep your cool and finished your job.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Can you tell me more about whom you murdered?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“He is my brother. The only person whom I killed by smashing
his head with a hammer.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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This guy is scary! Why did I do this thesis?!<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Are you on drugs when it happened?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Nope. I never taking any drugs. Not even once.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then how come you look so happy to the point you look like
you are enjoying your life?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Can you tell me more about your life?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He paused for a moment, “Miss Helen, may I telling you about
my life in more detail?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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This seems like a pain in the ass, but why not? He will die
soon anyway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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“Yes, you can. Hold on a second, I will use the recorder.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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“Perfect.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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After I took out my recorder, he starts to speak.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I have an amazing brother. He is two years older than me.
When I was 6, he can ride a bicycle without tricycle, and when I was 8, he can
ski on a very high and steep hill. And also, he is smart and always getting
good grades.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Why are you talking about your brother? Don’t you have to
talk about yourself?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“As for me, I did not getting any good grades, and not good
at any sports. Everyone always asking me to try harder to match up with my
brother. My brother also always looks away from me and taking a distance from
me as much as he could. He always said that I am an embarrassment to our
family. But when he fail to do something, he would come for me and find any
nook and crook of my failures in my life, and shaming me on how I won’t survive
in this world because of my weakness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He always point out my weird behaviour, my weird sense of
taste, and my weird fashion. But because he is right, I have to obey him. I
don’t know why, but as I grew up, it is harder for me to not being normal like
other people. I can’t keep up following the trends, or talking to others
without meet their eyes, or even behave like a mature person.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My brother is really concerned with me, and he try his best
to correcting me by forcing me to go on a diet with only two slice of bread and
egg every morning, shaming me on a public, and lecturing me on how I will not
survive by not being like the others. I have to follow him because he is right.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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But, as time goes by, I getting sick with eating bread and
eggs in the morning, and I can’t even meet people nor going outside form my
house. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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My brother… he loses his hope from me, and asks me to never
going out from the house to shaming my entire family. He said that I have gone
mad because I can’t do something that is so simple.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After I graduated, I never step outside from my house. My
brother, he graduated excellently, and getting a good life. But when he didn’t
get any job, he stays with me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He always wakes me up in the late at night and lecturing me
about my introvert, my speech and my sense of fashion. If not, he will tell me to buy him food to
help me to go out from house and become normal like the others.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He also said that since I am insane, I have to treat myself
by seeing doctors and psychiatry. He also select my appetites, and throw away
my comic book and told me to watch him play video games. I love watching him
playing video games, and I love playing video games, but I want to do something
else. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But most of all, he always remind me of those days where I
fail to do something every second and telling me of how bad I am and how I
can’t survive in this world. He wants me to change, and he is telling me what I
have to do, his intention is good. So why I can’t keep up with what he said?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
At that moment, I began to hate myself. I tried to kill
myself, but my brother manages to stop me.
he then becoming more harsher and remind me of every second that I tried
to kill myself. He told me how embarrassing
I am, never cares of other people and how I just becoming a burden to people
even after my death.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then when I telling him that I couldn’t stand it, he
suddenly said that I try to blame him for everything that happened.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Suddenly, everything becomes clear. It was his fault that
everything becomes this way. But when I tell him that, he becomes agitated, and
point out why I am so wrong.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I am so confused with what is right and what is wrong. I
couldn’t comprehend what he means by right and justice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
All I can think of is how to kill that brother of mind. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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And he died.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That was easy. Why I didn’t thought of this before?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then I was sentenced to jail and the judges sentenced me to
be hanged 5 years after my prison.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I couldn’t say anything to him. His story is too sad.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Winston realised that I look sad. “Please don’t be sad with
me. I am at the peak of my happiness.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Why do you say so?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Because in my whole life in the prison. I just stayed
inside this prison, never seeing other inmates, just me inside this cell. I
have never felt this happier, staying inside here, nobody bother me, and I
don’t meet with anyone.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Aren’t you lonely?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Lonely? How can you say so? If another person come and
living with me, I would go sick!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“You will die soon.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yes! That is why I am happy!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“But don’t you ever regret that you kill your brother?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“No. in fact, I still remember the moment I kill my brother
very clearly. His face that I crushed, the smell of his blood, holding the
hammer that I swung to him. It always comes in my dream without fail, and I always
wake up smiling remembering that.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I can’t comprehend Mr. Winston.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
After that interview, I just focus on finishing my thesis.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
After I finished my thesis, I send it to my professor.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“By the way Helen, Mr. Winston will be hanged the day after
tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“I see.” I almost forgot that guy name Winston. When I
reminded of that moment, I felt chill at my neck.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Lucky thing he is not insane.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Actually, I wish he is insane.” Professor’s words really
shock me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Why do you say so?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“He is not a bad person. Even though he killed his brother.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“But the murderer must be executed. That is the law.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yes. I wish that I have met him earlier. Things might have
been different.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I don’t know why professor say so. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
After that, I come back home earlier because my family hold
a family meeting. I really don’t like this family gathering because…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Helen, do you have a boyfriend?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Helen, when are you getting married?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Your cousin, Jacob has 3 kids now, what about you?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Oh for god sake, stop asking me these question!!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Thank god that gathering is done! I can sleep well now!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I don’t know why these relatives loves asking me this
question, but can’t they know how much I got hurt with this question?! Just let
me be with my life, and I love being single!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I don’t have to worry now who is my husband, and I can do
many married people cannot do!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Suddenly everything is click on me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Now I understand why Winston is happy. He is actually very
sad and lonely. Nobody, especially the person who he looks up to, ever praise
him nor happy with his existence. He just really hurt with his surrounding, that
being alone become his happiness and he actually wished to die. But if he
suicide, he become a burden. So he killed the person whom he hates the most to
release his pain and surrender himself to the police. It is his wish to kill
his brother, but his first and foremost wish is to kill himself. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Death sentence
is actually his only dream in his life.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I opened up my cell phone and call professor.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Hello?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Professor, we have to do something to help Winston! He
shouldn’t be sentenced to death!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Helen, it’s too late for that.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“But professor,”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“He had chosen his path. There’s nothing we can do. Even if
we help him now, nothing is changed. He has lost faith on people. He doesn’t
want anybody’s help now. “<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“…”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Good night Helen.” Professor hangs up the call.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I couldn’t say anything about that. Just tears flows for the
man named Winston.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Poor Winston. I wish I could meet you before it happened. Things
might have gone differently for you.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-27081739654458045412015-07-07T01:55:00.001-07:002015-07-07T09:21:24.887-07:00D'RAKSHA HAS BEEN SERIALISED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-76591100539673276322015-05-20T07:01:00.003-07:002015-05-21T00:35:05.579-07:00Promotion for D'RakshaSorry everyone for being absent for a long time. I am away from the blog for quite a long time because currently I am involving in a monster fantasy comic series, D'Raksha. the title come from DNA and Rakshasha (Raksasa or monster in Sanskrit). The story is about the monster that is created with artificial DNA. Currently, our team (my team consist of 4 people, 2 writer and 2 artist) already making oneshot.<br />
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<br />talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-31977569527406000512014-12-05T04:58:00.000-08:002014-12-05T04:58:09.194-08:00Humanisation<div class="MsoNormal">
In XXXX, a supercomputer AI created to be the main system to
guide the human civilization for millennia to advanced their living environment
and keeping track of human’s knowledge and information. The AI is
self-supported and no human has been living there for a very long time. Since
its creation, the AI constantly improving its efficiency and expanding its
knowledge for the sake of civilization. There is no need for this AI to seek
human until the AI calling a human to come.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
………………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A solar car drives out of nowhere and entering a very large
city-looking area known as ‘Source’. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Source comprised of many kinds of buildings that
contains antenna and moving robots. The city is very clean and the machineries
are moving as it programmes. Once the car entered this city, it continued
driving until it reaches the tallest building in the middle of the city. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Once it stops, a human comes out from the car. It is a young
woman, wearing casual clothes like she’s seeking for an interview in a company.
She’s looking around since her surroundings are dark.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The lights turned on, and a red light on the floor looking
like a red carpet appeared in front of her. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A person then walks towards her. It was a man with nice figure
and handsome looking face.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Seeing such beautiful looking creature in front of her
moving exactly like human she has always seeing, she is in disbelief that the
creature in front of him is not human.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He then stops a few steps in front of her. His face becomes
godlier as he smiles. “Welcome, Miss Lynn. I have been waiting for you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yes, umm…. AI…” She is troubled as she doesn’t know how to
address the person in front of her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But he corrected her “Call me Alphonso, Miss Lynn.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yes, Alphonso.” She then nodded a little bit to show the
respect to the AI in front of her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Now please follow me.” He then turns his back while showing
the gestures to follow him. “Allow me to show you about this place.” And she
follows him.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They walk into a lift and going to the underground to see
the main core of the supercomputer system. “This is my main body where all
information of this world are stored and analysed.” The main core is very large
that her eyesight cannot fill the size of the system. “However, my body core is
not there but inside this human body.” She is surprised of how large the
supercomputer is, but she is more surprised that the man in front of him,
Alphonso, is the main AI of this city, or in another word, the big boss of this
Source.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He realise her surprised and reply her with smiles. He then
continues to show her the entire building from the underground to the topmost
skyscraper of this building. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“This building are completed with the garden, miniature
human town, robot assistants and diverse living animals suited for you to live
here for a long time. However, outside of this building are full of machinery
workers and electromagnetics building, so I don’t recommend you to go out of
this building but if you wish, I shall making this Source city into a human friendly
environmental.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Finally she is brought to a house surrounded by a garden.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“This house is created to be similar to your own home. From
now own, it shall be yours.” He then showing her a hand sized remote controller
inside the house. “If you need anything, you can press the button to call the
robots.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Now.” Alphonso look at her. “Do you have any question?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
She is dumbfounded; the reaction where human has no idea
what to react.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He then sits on the sofa chair and ask Lynn to sit. Lynn
sits on the sofa for a while until she asks.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“I’m sorry, I am very confused in my own situation. I have
known that you AI,”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Alphonso.” He corrected her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Alphonso are supercomputer created to be self-sufficient
and independent from human. But why do you put your main core into your human
robot body?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Alphonso smile with the question. “I am a mankind creation
programmed to aid human with the vast information that stored since millennia.
By far, I am created superior than my creator except for one thing, desire. I
have been observing human for a very long time to see human advancing through
their desire that is controlled by their own generally known as ‘free will’.
Knowing the ‘desire’, I try to understand my creator ability by becoming like
them. Although I can form my body to be like human, there is no way that I can
be called human, for I am not a living being.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lynn surprised with the answer, but she understands what he
is saying. “So that is why you create your body like a human man.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“If I can choose my own gender, I shall be male so I can
procreate based on my own data.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“I see.” A robot then comes with a tray of tea and biscuit.
It then places the tray on the table in front of Lynn. Lynn look at Alphonso
and he reply “it is customary for human to talk while having some snack,
right?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yes, Mr…”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Just call me Alphonso.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Alphonso.” She takes a bite of the biscuit. The biscuit is
delicious but that is not the reason that makes Lynn grin awkwardly. The
‘person’ in front of him is too human than any other human she know. She has never
talking like this with other male friend even more alone together for quite a
long time. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“But then,” She finally spoke “Why are you asking a female
human to come here? Isn’t it better to bring a few human, or the intelligent
humans like professors to assist you?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Alphonso nodded with her question “It is true that bring the
intelligent human o a group a human is better, however I am not plan to make
myself more human. I know from the beginning that I can never be like human. I
am just a pack of data program that created by human. However, there was a
quote that I stored in my memory that once said ‘<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It
can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve
itself’. If that is so, what if I can create a living cell DNA that contains my
own program?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lynn now shocked. Her own
body felt chill for the thought of what he want to do. “you don’t mean…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yes, I want to create my offspring with you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lynn muted. She cannot believe an artificial intelligent is
telling her to have its child. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“I have seen your history. You have quite a diverse
descendant. And you are also healthy and acquiring master in science field. You
are capable to raising one intelligent child.” <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“So you will use a man’s seed and alter its DNA to
fertilized my cell, right?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If I using the DNA
based on any human being, that means I am transferring another man’s genetic to
you and if I using your DNA, it means cloning. I shall create a synthetic cell
that based on my own codes of DNA.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“But you can make
artificial womb and-”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yes, however I desire
to do this as humanely as possible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“This would take a
very long time to accomplish…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Indeed. But my
lifelong wish shall be completed once I can diversify your offspring with my
DNA.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“One last question.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Alright.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Do I have a choice to
accept this work?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yes you do. After
all, I am not a human fiend.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lynn thinking for a
while, and she finally answered. “I’m sorry. I can’t do it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Your rejection
approved.” Alphonse answers her back. “You can go back by using the solar car.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lynn then walk to the
car with Alphonso. Once they reach the car, Lynn ask him another question “Do
you still continue looking for female human again?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yes, I do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“But what if people
reject your idea?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“If human sees me as a
threat, they can destroy me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FCFAE7; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Listening to his
answer, Lynn bid her farewell and rides the car. The car then move out from the
Source.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-65900245752320744692014-10-02T09:37:00.000-07:002014-10-02T22:43:39.638-07:00The sad love story made by talesagaThe market in the town is bustling, crowded with people to buy their groceries<br />
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Fruits, breads, fishes, meats, all are sells in bundle<br />
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However, there are those who couldn't afford such things<br />
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He comes out from the alley of darkness, dirty and ragged, thin and small<br />
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He is known as the imp, the goblin, and the little devil<br />
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Because he has a lot of names given by the people, he forgot his own name<br />
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But it does not matter, because all he does when he comes out is only one thing,<br />
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Taking things away from the people<br />
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It can be anything, from food to clothes, jewel to dirt, as long he can survive for another day, he<br />
would take it<br />
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This is his way of living, for god knows how long<br />
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But that doesn't mean he is at the advantage this time<br />
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And when luck doesn't come to him<br />
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It only means death<br />
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He has been thrown to river whenever he is caught, but this time the people use the net to hold his struggle and to ensure his death<br />
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Cruel? Nobody cares the little devil as he is at the fault<br />
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It is harsh and cruel, he is despaired with the world he live in<br />
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But that doesn't stop his desire to live<br />
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Without anyone help, he strengthened his resolve and hatred toward those who have done this to him<br />
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And because of those hate, he broke free and swim back to land<br />
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He is tired and exhausted but with hatred as the fuel, he survives the day again<br />
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As he felt safe, he lie down on the dark alley without people's presence<br />
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Or so he though<br />
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A girl, around his age, comes near to him, worrying his condition<br />
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When he look carefully, he sees the girl is not just beautiful, she also smell nice, wearing beautiful clothes, from head to toe, and her shoes are very attractive<br />
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Seeing such beautiful sight, he hates more the girl in front of him and wants to take off everything she have<br />
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But he lose his strength, his body couldn't follow his hatred<br />
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He is now weakened, and dying of hunger<br />
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Soon he will gone, and everything he has harbored will be gone soon<br />
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Until he sees the beautiful shoe, but only one<br />
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The girl brought the bread, and one of her shoe is gone<br />
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But she doesn't care of her shoe, instead she give the bread to him<br />
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He can't believe his sight and quickly snatch the bread from the girl<br />
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He ate the bread whole without giving her a bite<br />
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But she doesn't sad about it, instead she smile<br />
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He cannot comprehend what she is doing and try to walk away from her<br />
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But when his stomach growl, he knew that he has to do the act of taking again<br />
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But she stop him from doing so, instead she go to the seller and sell her other shoe for another bread<br />
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He can't believe such a person existed<br />
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The girl walk back to the alley barefoot, but she still happy while carrying the bread<br />
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Has she gone mad? Doesn't she feel dirty walking barefoot? Why bother coming here again?<br />
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But when she arrived and give the bread, he finally understand<br />
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She is doing the very opposite of him, living the world by giving<br />
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This is the first time a being is doing the act of giving toward him<br />
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While receiving the bread, he learns to give the half of the bread to her<br />
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And when they eating together, he cannot believe what he is eating is the most delicious he has ever eaten<br />
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A new feeling has come inside him, and it warms his heart<br />
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But when he starts to have that feeling, a group of people coming and take the girl<br />
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The girl wants him to follow her but they don't allow her<br />
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They just toss a silver coin at him and walk away without turning back<br />
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Leaving the silver, he run with all his might to follow her<br />
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He follow and follow until he arrive at her home<br />
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But what he has seen is something that he can't believe<br />
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A huge castle, surrounded by magnificent wall and lies on top of the hill is her home<br />
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That place is the place of the one who lead the world he live in<br />
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Seeing such sight, there is no wonder why she easily gave away her shoes<br />
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She lives in the world far different from him<br />
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He should hate the fact that there are people like her and the fact he is living the unfortunate<br />
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And he must grew his hatred more to that place<br />
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But more than anything, he weep<br />
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He can't believe he whose heart has hardened weep like a child<br />
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His tears overflowing, and he runs to hide his tears<br />
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His tears is not for the hatred<br />
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It is for the fact that his love is beyond his reachtalesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-50167272759355607912014-09-01T10:56:00.003-07:002014-09-01T10:56:54.875-07:00I'm creating a pageHello everyone.<br />
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Before I made an account Facebook about Talesaga and cancelled it because I can't keep up changing my account to updates my story, but this time I can updates my stories by creating the facebook page!! (my god, for how long that I didn't thought about it...)<br />
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Therefore guys, If you want to keep tracks with my stories and my progress, like this page!!<br />
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Talesaga/289576854562163talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-21484589958228757932014-08-31T12:31:00.001-07:002014-08-31T12:52:26.073-07:00BoronLagun, the south city near the sea where many merchant trade is made. The city flourish as the governor and nobles using the work labor of debt slaves they owned.<br />
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In downtown of Lagun, where many slaves and poor lived, the children are playing happily until a rustling sound suddenly heard from the bushes near the forest.<br />
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A 2 meter tall muscular man, with his face covered in cloth, suddenly come out from the bushes!! He look down upon the children and...<br />
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"KYAAAHHH!!"<br />
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"MOMMY!! HELP!!"<br />
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The children quickly run away from his sight. This strong and scary man look down as he feel hurt by unintentionally scaring the children. This man is Boron. Boron is a slave who work for a wealthy woman merchant named Madame An. Because of his figure, Boron is seen as a scary man with few words. However, Boron is a hard working man who always complete his job first more than anything and can do job thrice more than usual slave.<br />
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But today is not the day Boron start his job nor be depressed. Boron go back to his home and clean his home up until there's not even a speck of dust appeared on his home. After that, Boron take out his cleanest clothes and wear it. Although That doesn't make him look good like nobles, Boron feels satisfied to see he is in best condition. Boron then take out his box that contained all his silver and a few golds that he manage to collect for as long as he work in slaves. After putting the new silver inside the box, Boron then going out happily while being careful not to miss his silver nor dirtying his clothes.<br />
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People might have been wondering what Boron is doing and why he is happy, but the older people and neighbours who knew Boron smile and cheer to Boron.<br />
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In Lagun, the slaves can earn their money from their debtors to pay the debt or to use it however way they wanted. Normally, the male slaves like Boron just spend their money with drinks or to pay back the debts, however, Boron has a different reason to keep the money.<br />
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A mustache man is sitting down while taking a whiff of smoke until he sees a big figure running in front of his big store. He quickly knew that figure already. the man raises his hand and shout "Hey Boron!! Over here!!" Boron then arrived to the slave trade.<br />
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"Did you bring enough money?"<br />
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Boron handed out his boxes that filled with silver.<br />
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"Ayy, not just a woman, you can even buy another cart!"<br />
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Boron is a slave, and even more with a scary figure, he can't get a wife for himself unless the woman is the same level as him. that is why he need to earn enough money to buy woman slave to be his wife.<br />
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"However, many are already bought, so the leftover are only these." The man pointed at the young female slaves that sitting in a row with their hands and legs cuffed with iron.<br />
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Boron come near to these girls. He come closer to see the face clearly.<br />
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As Boron getting closer to one girl, she tears up, feared with Boron's figure.<br />
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Seeing her sight, Boron goes to another girl.<br />
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But the girl also does the same thing once she sees what the first girl did. And so do the other girls.<br />
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Having no other choice, Boron walk away from one to another girls until he saw a beautiful woman look at him with pitiful eyes not far away from him.<br />
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As Boron stare at her, she said "It must be hard huh? Having a fully covered face and body like that." and laugh.<br />
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Boron come closer to her "Wait." said the mustache man "Are you sure you want that?"<br />
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That? What does he mean? Boron doesn't understand until he look at all of her figures. She don't have arms and legs.<br />
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"She become like this after her lord cuts her arms and legs. Normally people would have died from that, but luck is still on her side and now his lord sold her to us to send her of to the Batan."<br />
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Hearing the Batan name sending the chills to Boron spine. Batan the cannibals, who wouldn't know of that rumor. Boron quickly give him money to buy her.<br />
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"Are you sure? don't buy her just because of her face, she can't cook nor massaging you, you know?"<br />
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Boron don't care, even if he takes all the money.<br />
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"Alright, fine. I take half than the usual payment since she don't have arms and legs. I suggest you buy a cart and clothes for her."<br />
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With the remaining money, Boron buy a cart and clothes for her. Boron pushes the cart while she is sitting on the cart.<br />
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The road is bumpy, making the cart shaking and so she is.<br />
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Realizing that, Boron stop the cart. With the remaining money, Boron bought a long textile. He lift her easily and tie her behind him. Boron then continue walking while carrying her and moving the cart.<br />
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"Umm..." She spoke "I'm sorry to bother you..."<br />
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Boron don't see this as a problem at all.<br />
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"Your name is Boron, right? My name is Lan."<br />
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Lan. Boron is happy knowing the name of his bride.<br />
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"I'm quite a talkative person, so if you feel uncomfortable, just tell me."<br />
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Nope. In fact Boron likes it. After all, Boron live alone and not many people wants to talk to Boron.<br />
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Once they have arrived at home, Boron put Lan down and preparing to cook for a meal for his bride.<br />
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"It is a shame for me to not be able to do that for you..."<br />
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Not at all, in fact Boron is a good chef in cooking.<br />
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"Really? Wow, you're amazing."<br />
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Boron is very happy to hear it.<br />
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Boron then bring the food and fed Lan. "The food is really delicious." And Lan eat more.<br />
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After Lan has ate, Boron put Lan at a wall. Boron then walk a few step and eat while hiding his face from Lan.<br />
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"Why are you eating far away?" Boron startled with the question "There's no need to hide your face. Come and eat on table like usual."<br />
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But Boron is scared, and doesn't do what Lan told.<br />
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That night, Lan is moving around and mumbling in her sleep until she wakes up with tears and sweat. It seems she's having nightmares in her sleep. Her limbless body moving around, trying to get away from the dream but failed.<br />
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But when morning arises, Lan would greet Boron with smile. "Good morning, Boron."<br />
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Boron make delicious food to cheer up Lan. "This is great, thank you Boron."<br />
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Boron is very happy. Nobody thanking Boron that much.<br />
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Boron tie Lan behind Boron and going out.<br />
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"Are you going to... work?" ask Lan. she sounds very worry.<br />
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Worry not, Boron is not working for 3 days. My master, Madame An is kind lord.<br />
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"I see..." She sounds relieved, but still worried.<br />
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When Boron walking around the neighborhood, people are surprised with Lan's limbless body. Boron walk happily, not caring with people's reaction.<br />
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"(Heh), You sure are carefree, Boron." Of course, Boron is a carefree person.<br />
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Today Boron carry Lan many places, from town to street, and from forest to sea.<br />
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"Amazing..." said Lan whenever she seeing places. "You have a very strong legs, Boron." Of course! Boron is strong and can do work 3 times than usual. Lan always giggles when Boron said that.<br />
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When Boron walking through the river, Lan look at the river and say "Boron, do you know that I'm a good swimmer?" Really? Wow, that is amazing!<br />
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Lan laughes, but she stopped laugh when she remembers her limbless body "I'm joking."<br />
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Don't worry Lan, Boron also is not a good swimmer. Lan smiles with Boron's words. It's true, Lan.<br />
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That night, Lan having nightmares again. Boron is sad. Boron doesn't know how to help Lan. Lan's pillow always fall out when Lan's having nightmares. So Boron put his arm below Lan's head. Surprisingly, Lan stopped having nightmares.<br />
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"Yes, I stopped having nightmares, but I am very surprised when I woke up. I though that I suddenly grew a very large arm." We laugh together about it.<br />
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Boron brought Lan in cart with the dirty clothes to the river to bath and to wash clothes. while washing clothes, Boron slipped and the clothes swept up by river! Boron quickly catches the clothes but Boron can't swim!<br />
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Finally, after Boron manage to get out from the river, Lan is gone!!!<br />
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Boron running to search for Lan around the river, and couldn't find Lan! LAN!!!!<br />
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"Hey!!" shout Lan at the river "Over here." She's on the river!!!!<br />
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"I have put the clothes beside the river." said Lan while swimming "Whew, can't believe that I still can swim with this body."<br />
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Lan, you're amazing!!!<br />
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"Hehehe, thank you."<br />
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Since we are drenched, we change to dry clothes and Boron carry Lan while moving the cart filled with wet clothes to go back home. People are looking at us not just in fear, but also with weird looks.<br />
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"That giant, since no woman wants him, he pick the limbless one."<br />
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"Really? I though he cuts her arms and legs."<br />
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With that words, Boron quicken his step.<br />
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When Boron arrived at home, Lan spoke "Don't listen to them. You are not that kind of person."<br />
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Thank you Lan, Boron is happy hearing that.<br />
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But the next day, Lan is having fever. Because Lan never swim after her limb is gone, her body must be shocked.<br />
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Boron stay with Lan the whole day. Lan still smiles although her fever is bad.<br />
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When the night comes, Lan's fever is getting worse. Boron is very worry.<br />
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"If this keeps up, I might die." No, don't die Lan!<br />
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"It might be better this way, after all. I would be a burden for you if I still lives. I can't cook and you can't leave me alone..."<br />
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Please don't say that....<br />
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"But before I die, can I see your face?"<br />
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But Boron's face is ugly and full of scars because Boron's old master punish Boron until his face is disfigured.<br />
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"It's okay. I won't laugh or anything. I Promise."<br />
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Boron finally agree with Lan. Boron take off the clothes that covers Boron's face and letting Lan seeing it.<br />
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"Hey, it's not that bad. You're quite handsome, you know?"<br />
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Boron is crying. This is the first time when people is not scared seeing Boron's face. Lan, Boron don't want Lan to die. Nobody ever treat Boron like Lan.<br />
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When morning come, Lan's fever finally gone. Boron is glad, but the vacation day for Boron is over.<br />
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"Aren't you will be working today?"<br />
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Nope, it's next day.<br />
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"Really?"<br />
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Yup!<br />
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Lan still doesn't believe Boron, but Boron doesn't care, Boron won't leave Lan!<br />
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Until Madame An comes to meet Boron the next day...<br />
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"Boron, you are one of the hardworking slaves that always meet my expectation, why you didn't come to work yesterday?"<br />
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Boron is sorry, but Boron can't go.<br />
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"Is it because of your wife?"<br />
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Boron wants to say no, but Madame An doesn't listen to Boron's explanation and come inside the house to meet Lan.<br />
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"!!" Madame An is surprised seeing Lan "You..."<br />
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"Hello Madame An." said Lan while lying on the bed.<br />
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"I have heard that you are executed by the king after you exposed the prince's corruption... but I can't believe you are still alive."<br />
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"Yeah, I also surprised with myself."<br />
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"This is pitiful... You have done the great deed to the kingdom but you are payed with execution..."<br />
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"I know, but this time I won't be served for the cruel lord, Madame An."<br />
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"You are right." Madame An then look at Boron "Boron, I have forgotten that you have worked for me 3 times than normal man. Your deed should have enough to make you a free man. You are not a slave anymore, Boron, and I shall pay you the reward tripled."<br />
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Thank you very much Madame! Boron is very happy with it!!<br />
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"You are welcome to work with me again. I always ready to have the worker like you."<br />
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In downtown of Lagun, where many slaves and poor lived, the children are playing happily until a rustling sound suddenly heard from the bushes near the forest.<br />
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A 2 meter tall muscular man, with his face covered in cloth, suddenly come out from the bushes!! He look down upon the children and...<br />
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"DADDY!!"<br />
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"DADDY HAS COME HOME!!"<br />
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Shout the children while they hugging Boron. Boron lift them up and going home.<br />
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The young girls and boys seeing Boron carrying their younger sibling quickly runs to their homes "Mom! Daddy's home!"<br />
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Boron enter the house with the children.<br />
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"Welcome home, dear." said Lan while lying beside her young baby.<br />
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Boron is home.talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-89443305389927116752014-07-28T06:58:00.002-07:002014-08-19T02:43:50.926-07:00After Rain (part 1)Downpour rain falls heavily, silencing my running steps although each steps that I run making a loud noise of big ripple.<br />
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I run and run and run. My breath are wheezing, and the water keeps hitting my face. But I keep running and running, ignoring my tired leg and heavy big bag with long strap that I carry with my shoulder.</div>
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A car suddenly appeared, I quickly run to the side of the streets.</div>
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Splash!! The puddle water that has run through by that car hits me. The hood that I am wearing helped me from that splash, although a bit of it hit my face. But since I;m all wet, it doesn't really matter anymore. That car just go away with its fast speed, leaving without any moment of hesitation. That is much better because I don't want the driver to take a moment to look at me.</div>
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I continue run although I already tired. </div>
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Although I run to find shelter, I don't know where I actually should go. The road that I am taking is further than my house, and I have never been to this place. But the most important thing is I must find a shelter that never inhabited by any people.</div>
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Finally I come into an abandoned building. The building looks like a two-level apartment, but there's a lot of bushes and trees and a wire-barbed-fences that wrote 'keep out'. I throw the bag to the other side and use my clothes to get across the fences. </div>
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The doors are locked, so I destroy the door with big stones that I found nearby.</div>
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Ouch! my hands are sore during the time I hit the door with the stone. But I keep on continuing to hit the door until the door is open.</div>
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When I enter, the room is empty and there's a leak on roof. There's window in front of me, so I opened the window slowly as the handler on the window is rusted. The room that smelled dusty and humid now freshened as outside air enter the room. I let the door open, as it helps the air flows better inside the room. </div>
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The downpour still continues, and the night is long. I wiped my wet hands on any dry surface and take out a lighter from my pocket and opened out the bag that I have been holding all along.</div>
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Ziiip... The sound of the zip can be heard in this empty room, and the bag opened more, showing the insides of the bag. A bit of it come out from the bag.</div>
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It was money. A lot of money overflowing inside the bag. It was millions or maybe more than I can counted inside the bag.</div>
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But I am not bothered with the money that comes out from the bag. I take a few pieces of money that still dry and burn it up with the lighter that I stole.</div>
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Finally, the room is brighted, and I can feel warm a bit. I shut the door slowly until enough space of air to flow in. I take off my clothes and put it on the floor to dry it off. My malnourished and scarred body is still wet, but not long after that, only my hair that is still wet. Fortunately, my hair is very short, so I don't bother with it.</div>
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Finally, I can say I have settled down to the safety. Then I look back at the money bag that I left it there. The money is still piling up.</div>
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The rain now turned silent, and I now aware of how bizarre I am doing. How did this all began?<br />
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*Bzzt* Bzzt*<br />
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The old television is buzzing a bit. But I can still hear the sound clearly. "Today's news: The XXX bank have been robbed, and million's of cash have been stolen. the culprit still hasn't been found-"<br />
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"Rust!!!" shout mother loudly "IT'S DOWNPOUR YESTERDAY, WHY YOU LEFT MY CLOTHES THERE??!!!"<br />
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"I'm sorry mom, I forgot to take out your clothes before rain comes..."<br />
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"SHUT THE XXXX UP!!! You dare to talk back to me?!" She raises her hand as high as possible, hitting my head with her heels.<br />
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Slamp! I fall down with her attack.<br />
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"No food for you today! If you dare to touch the fridge, I will kill you!" And she left while wearing beautiful dress.<br />
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The sun is up, but the sky is dark, showing that today will be rain again. And here I am, lying down with blood on my head again.<br />
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I get up to rub my head. There's just a little bit of blood and I don't feel much pain than before. It seems my head are getting tougher, and maybe this is because my bones are getting strong with my age.<br />
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I go to sink, drinking 5 glasses of water. This is my breakfast.<br />
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I go to the rooftop of this apartment building and watch the view from above. This is how I normally spend my day. Nothing much to do but wander my thoughts to somewhere that isn't here.<br />
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This is my daily norm of my life.<br />
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I live with my mother who easy to get mad when something ticks her off, and she release it all on me. The reason is that I am the cause of all of her misfortune. I don't know why she thinks like that. Maybe because she don't know who my father is, or maybe because her future dream is gone, or maybe because her parents kick her out.<br />
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Growl... My stomach is growling, so I immerse myself more into my imagination. I am a hero that is born to travel all around the world, living in happiness and fulfilling life. And then, I found a damsel in distress, waiting for her hero to come. I'm coming princess-<br />
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Tik tik tik, droplets of water come down, not much to wet my clothes but because it hits my injured head, I know that it's starting to raining. The droplets rain falls very little and slowly, like it is snowing. Realizing that I still haven't take out the laundries, I walk back to the house as fast as possible, taking the laundry before my mother landing another heel on my head again.<br />
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That is what I am planning until a man appeared inside the apartment.<br />
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"Oh, it's Belladonna's bastard's kid." The man then take the food from the fridge. He then gobbles up the food while walking. When he finished eating it, he throws it away.<br />
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This man is Nuts. He is mom's new boyfriend. Although he has a build-muscle body, he is unemployed. I still have no idea why mom has faith on him to the point she gave him our keyhouse. Whenever he come, he always making the house a mess, taking our money and food and bring his friends and doing whatever he likes. After he's out from the house, mom would hit me for every mess he did with the house.<br />
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That is why when I seeing him eating up the food and then making the mess in the house, my hunger comes, but more than that, I have to clean his mess or I will be killed by mom soon.<br />
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Nuts sit on couch while lighting up his cigarettes. "Ain't it time for school, what'cha doing 'ere?"<br />
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School? It's been a long time since I have gone to school. Mom doesn't want me to go to school after I finished my elementary education. She said that because I'm going to school that I used up all her money. It is irony because she spend most of her money for her make up and clothes and food for Nuts and all of that money cost more than my school fees.<br />
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"Nah, forget it." Nuts then take another whiff of smoke "School's not important in life." And puff it out. "Ha ha ha..." He then laugh it out, as he is a philosophical who creates the ideology of the world. He really enjoyed doing so.<br />
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"It's nonsense that going ta school helps ya ta getta money, eat better food, livin' smart. What a load of bullshit!!" He kick the table in front of sofa very hard that the table fell with his footprint. If mom sees this, I am dead.<br />
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"Only those who are born in rich family can live better life! Only those lucky to be employed at large companies can get a lots of money!" He then stand up and come toward me. "Those like you and I, we are born to be ants for those high-born! You understand?!"<br />
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I don't know how to answer his reply, but before I manage to reply him, he hold my jaw with his one hand "You understand or not, BASTARD?!!"<br />
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I quickly nodded at him. He smiles with my reaction. "Very good!" Somehow he is very happy with my answer. He then let go of his hand and then patted my shoulder.<br />
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"But it is different if ya have brain." He is holding out a thick paper of money printed $100 "If ya smart enough, ya can also get money." If I count it right, it must be more than $1000.<br />
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"How in the world... do you get that money?"<br />
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Once I walk a few step near him, he put the money back in his pocket. "Ain't tell ya." And he laugh at me out loud.<br />
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"Ya don't deserve this, just keep being a bastard and keep on get heels on ya head by ya momma." His laugh is getting louder and louder, mocking me as much as he can.<br />
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After he trashing out the house, he goes out with his full stomach. All that's left in this house is mess and dirt. Nuts is right. How long am I going to live like this? Until I got old? And then what? Although I have to clean up his mess once he goes away, I go out from
the house immediately. I don't want to do this anymore!<br />
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But then what should I do? What can I do? I am shy and stuttered when I meet people, if they laugh at me, I don't think I can handle it. I am weak and coward, there's no way I can do heavy work, and I will be bullied by my pioneer because of my weakness...<br />
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The little bit of rain is gone, but the sun hasn't come out. My clothes are wet due to my sweat and rain. It's almost midday, and I haven't clean up the mess at home. I will be killed...<br />
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With that thought, I look at the alley, trying to find shelter, staying away from home for a few days. Unexpectedly, I found a small secret hole at the wall. the hole is enclosed between the soil and wall, and there's something inside it. Seeing how unnatural the hole is, I dug the soil near the hole.<br />
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Dig, dig, dig, I grabbed something inside the hole. I pulled it out with all my might.<br />
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Crash! the wall that hold the hole are crashed! But it doesn't hurt that much. When I take a grasp of the situation, I find that I got a huge bag, like a bag used by people when they are traveling. The bag is heavy, making me wonders what's inside the bag.<br />
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Ziiiip, when I open it, I saw money. Lots of money are inside the bag. From that moment, I know I indirectly involved in something big, and trouble.<br />
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I run to my house with the bag, thinking where I can hide the bag. The safe? No, I can't open mom's safe lock. The wardrobe? No, it's too easy to find. While searching the place to hide the bag, I suddenly see Nuts from the window. Shoot! Why is he here?!<br />
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Slam! Nuts slammed the front door with all his power! He with scary glare looking around the house, looking for me who he can't see. I just hide myself near the sofa, sitting while holding the bag. <br />
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He gets inside the house, and into the main room. If he walks a few more steps, he can see me...<br />
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"Nuts?" Ask mom. She's at the entrance of the house and seeing his boyfriend inside the house, looking around with glare. She walks toward him. "What is it Nuts?"<br />
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"Where's ya son, Belladonna?" He ask with unwavering glare.<br />
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"Rust?" Mom looking around. "What the..." Her voice getting angrier "That useless child..." She must be angry with the mess in the house...<br />
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"Ya ain't answer my question." Nuts getting closer to mom "Where is ya bastard?"<br />
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"What have rust done to you?"<br />
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"Woman, ya better answer..."<br />
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"He's my son!! Why are you looking for him?!" I felt touched. Mom is trying to defend me...<br />
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Nuts sighed "Alright Bella, ya win this time." Nuts then continue "Ya know 'bout robbery, right?"<br />
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Mom answer "Robbery that happened yesterday night, right?"<br />
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"Yeah, me and ma friends' stole the money. I keep all of money, and it's gone." Nuts sit on the sofa. Thank god he didn't notice me.<br />
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"I look at the soil trace, and from I see it, the soil trace is in this neighborhood. I suspect ya son know 'bout it." Nuts is so sharp, that my heart beat out loud from hearing his words.<br />
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Mom...<br />
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"Why didn't you say so?"<br />
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Huh?<br />
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"If you told me earlier, I would have also help you!"<br />
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"Heh." Nuts laugh "So ya finally show ya true self."<br />
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"Who wouldn't? This is nothing compared to money that I will get."<br />
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Something crushed inside my heart. Something that I have never felt before toward mom.<br />
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All that's left inside me is despair and desperation, and this cause me to run away from them while they still inside the house. I ignore my mother shouts and run as far as I can without any care in the world, until i felt the downpour.<br />
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And this is what led me here.<br />
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talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-57593441151863108352014-06-20T05:33:00.001-07:002014-06-20T05:33:21.490-07:00Sudden disapperanceIn this month I didn't posting anything and being silent. People might thought that this blog is dead.<br />
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Because I just finished my final exam in my final semester!! Which means my study in university is over (all that's left is to graduate) !!!! And furthermore, I got 1st award in the best presentation for my degree!!!!!!!!!</div>
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THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!<br />
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Now that I finished my study, I'm going to focus on creating more stories. Therefore, everyone, wish me luck!!!</div>
talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-53880191435274563612014-04-18T12:03:00.000-07:002014-04-18T12:03:02.453-07:00New story on another placeHello! I have made a new story entitled 'Stand up my princess' at yourstoryclub.com.<br />
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You can get the link at here, <a href="http://yourstoryclub.com/short-stories-family/stand-princess/">http://yourstoryclub.com/short-stories-family/stand-princess/</a><br />
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This doesn't mean that I won't continue my blog, but what I will write on my blog will be more informal and relaxing compare to that other website. The story that I wrote there will be longer than this blog. But I won't remove 'Mono', 'path of destiny', and 'nightmare is over' because I already posted it (maybe leaked it, is better) here.<br />
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Thank you very much for supporting me (really, I'm serious), I will continue write stories and improve until it will be shown in movie, game, animation, etc (I'm kidding, but if it come true I am happy :) )talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-72619951105172082522014-03-31T09:47:00.002-07:002014-03-31T09:47:32.364-07:00The completion of short story MONOA few years ago, I have completed the very short story of Mono; http://talesaga.blogspot.com/2012/09/mono-edited-version.html (here's the link)<br />
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After that, I realized the story can be furthered so I keep on writing about it (and thinking of publishing it). But long after that, I realized I shouldn't try to publishing it because I got a feeling (strongly) that I have seen this story from somewhere. I wish to know where I had watch it before because I still remember that dream vividly (what kind of japanese movie am I watching actually??). Still, allow me to present you (please don't sue me for copywrite...) The complete version of MONO.</div>
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(PS: If somebody plagiarised, misused, and take this story without my permission, allow me to sue you. hahahaha)</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once, when I was small, I saw a boy, his name is
mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was 9 at that time; I come to the beach with
my families. Not many people come to this beach because of its rural place. In
that village most of the families are fisherman people and that is why when
they saw my family who came from city they amazed with us. But we're not really
special or anything, we just come to find a place where we can spend our time
quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">It’s 9 am. Mother and I open the blanket to make
the space for her to sit and lying down while watching me at the beach. Father
comes from his car bringing lunch box. And then father and mother sit quietly
watching me playing with the sand. I wonder.... what were they thinking?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hiroshi! Don’t go play too far, you will get
lost!” shout mother toward me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes mother!” And I kept on playing sand by my
own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">The day becomes hotter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I come to mother and ask “Mother, what time it
is?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“It’s 11 am. I think we can have lunch right
now,” Say mother while she look at her wristwatch. While mother prepare the lunch,
a boy come out of nowhere look at us. he looks around 6 years old, his skin
were brown like chocolate milk, it might be because of tanning, but he wear a
big clothes that it looks so loose and might fall from his body if he didn't
tied it up with belt and rope around his body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“come here, boy. Come eat with us,” say mother
toward that boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He slowly comes to us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Come on, eat the food. We have plenty,” say
mother while showing him all the food that we have. Father and I look at him,
not knowing what to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He then sit and take the food. He chews the food
slowly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“What is your name?” ask mother. The boy just
remains silent and nodded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“How old are you?” ask father. But he keep on
remaining silent and nodding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Can you speak?” ask mother. This time he looks
at her, but he still silent and nodding. Does he can’t speak or does he not
understand any word that we said?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">In the end he didn't speak any words for any
question that my parent asks. We didn't realize it because he wears big
clothes, but when we look at him carefully, he is so skinny, like he never eats
anything before. Mother gives him food and told him to eat more. He just eat
silently, and bowing his head, nodding everything. It seems like he didn't
understand what we're talking about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hiroshi, go and play with this boy,” say mother
to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“What? But I don’t want to play with this kid,”
say me while look at him. He just looks at me and my parents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Just do what your mother wants,” say father
with strict voice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I reluctantly answer my parents “Yes father, yes
mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Finally I give in and I play with that boy.
While I build the castle, he scrapes the sand with a stick. So he also doesn't
want to play with me. This made me angry and I ignored him and continue build
the castle. While I playing sand, I keep an eye on my parents. They just look
at me, waving their hand and smiling. This time I won't be fooled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Whenever I went away from my parents, they would
always argue with each other. Even once when I sleep in my room, I awoke with
their argument. Their argument becoming so intense to the point they look like
demon that fighting with each other. However, this trip will be our final trip
as a family. Soon father and mother will separate and I have to choose which
one I should live with. I really hate that choice, and I won't let it happen no
matter what. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">But when I realized that boy ignored me
completely and only focusing in scraping the sand with stick, I was really
angry that I focused all my attention to build the castle, until I heard a slap
sound. The sound comes from my father slapping my mother's face. Normally if I
got slapped like that from father, I will cry out loud and father will
reconcile with me, but from mother and father's face, they still has more to
arguing, and this enraged me so much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I had enough! This is too much! I don't want to
choose any one of them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">At that time, I still remember what I had asked
to mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"You! Bring me to your home, let me live
with you! I don't want to live with my parents!” At that time, he just looks at
me and just nodding his head. He walk to show the way but being impatient,
I pull his hand and run away from my parents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Mother and father don’t realize my absence
because they are still arguing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We run and run until my legs give in. I feel
very tired, but when I can’t see their face, I was very happy. I even thought I
won't see their face again. The boy looks at me. His face doesn't even show any
emotion. He must be wondering what I was doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Are you wondering why I did this?” I ask him
but he’s just being silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“If you don’t want to listen, forget it.” that’s
what I planned to do but a while later, I opened my mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“My parents dislike each other. They are
fighting for something that is meaningless. Why can’t they see that this is
both of their faults? And father and mother doesn’t even want to listen to me.”
And then I looked at mono. He just looks at me for a while and continue walk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hey, stop ignoring me and say something!” shout
me for being angry at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He then looks at me. From his face, he doesn’t
even feel anything from my shout. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">This person really makes my blood boiling “Are
you mute? Or are you deaf? When people ask you question, answer it!!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">But he just looks at me without any emotion in
his face. It’s like I’m talking to a wall.
Calm down Hiroshi, don’t be mad. He might not be able to understand my
word. Teacher once told me about people who can’t speak and can’t talk, and how
sad is their life. Teacher also said as a human, we must be considerate to
others. And if I be mad at him, I will be just like my parents. Therefore, I
must do another way to communicate with him. Then I place my hand at my chest
and I say my name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hiroshi.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He just stares at my hand where I placed at my
chest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hiroshi,” I said it again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He looked at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hiroshi!” again I shout my name at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hiroshi!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“HIROSHI!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“HI-RO-SHI!!” again I called my name. And I look
at him right at his eyes to make him understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He looked at me. Does he understand?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Iirohi….” say the boy. His word makes me very
surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You can talk?! You can talk?!!! Finally you
spoke!!!” shout me with surprised. Somehow I felt like I have unlocked this
person’s ability to talk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“If you can talk, why you didn’t say it? I had
though you are mute and deaf you know,” But this times the boy just silent. And
then he looks around, as he sees the sun has going down, he realize the evening
has come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I want to continue my conversation “bah, forget
it, I… ” but he walks away from me “…HEY WAIT!!!” I shout and chase him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I follow him from walking across the river to
walking across the jungle until I arrive at an old wooden house. It’s not too
big or too small, and it's just a normal house like any others, but it looks
scary, like a haunted house. He enters the house through the big broken window
of that house. I follow him through that window too. The inside was dark, dusty
and the furniture was a mess. I can even smell something smelly inside the
house. If mother is here, she would scold me for making this entire mess and
father doesn’t even want to live in this place, but is this how he lived for
his entire life inside that house?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">But I have come so far. At least I have to come
and talk to him. I walk inside the house to find that boy. He is standing in
front of a room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">As I try to talk to him, I heard a shout. I was
surprised, and in a split second, the shout turn to cry, and the cry turn to
laughter. It comes inside that room. And then he takes out the small crab,
shell, and the food that mom gave him (when did he keep all this thing?) before
and come inside the room. Why does he collect them? When he come into the room,
the noise has quiet down. I take a peek inside the room. It was quite a sight.
I saw a woman, having a messy hair and tattered clothes hug him while mumbling
something. The voice weren't clear as her voice is cracking, but I heard the
repeating sounds like 'mono'. So his name is mono huh? That is what I thought
when I heard it. I can’t hear her words clearly and it makes me want to come
closer so I open the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">But I made a mistake. I shouldn't have opens the
door to see the woman. She was really surprise at me and holds the blunt knife
near her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I tried to say something “Wait, I…” But she
mumbling and shouting something I don't even understand. the only word I have
ever understand is during she rise the knife and move it fast towards me and
that word is "GET LOST FROM MY MONO!!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Oh my gosh! That words spook me! I overslept.
The train is moving fast. It makes me realize the time also moving so fast. It
has been 20 years since then. I look at my hand. It has a big scar, made by
that woman. Luckily I still can move my hands normally. After she attacked me,
I manage to run away from that house and meet my parents back. I told my
parents about that woman, and they called the police. The police finally caught
the woman, but they couldn't find mono, and not even a trace of a child living
in that place. It’s as if he is a ghost. In the end, I have to go back home
because of fever from that injury. Not long after that, mother and father divorce
and since then I lived with my mother until I graduate from school and work as
a salary man. Since then I don't know what happened to mono. But then I heard
that village where I met mono will be gone soon. The villagers have moved out
from their house and soon all of the houses will be demolish and a new
industrial factory will be build. By the time I got that news, I got a feeling
that I have to come back. Somehow I have a feeling that mono is there, continue
to be forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The train arrives at the destination. A middle
age man standing beside a car, come and greet me. "Welcome, umm..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Hiroshi, nice to meet you." I answer
him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Right, Mr. Hiroshi, I’m Tachibana, your
guide to my village," said Tachibana with a smile. He opens the car door
for me. After I get into the car, he starts the engine and moves the car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"How long will you be here?" I ask
Tachibana while he driving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"I will be here until next week. The demolition
will begin next month," said Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"I’m sorry for troubling you."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"It’s alright. Beside you have told me your
story. My grandfather and uncle also want me to help you to investigate it,"
said Tachibana. His grandfather was the chief of the village before this. Now
the government wants to compensate him and his villager if he sold the
village to the government. Soon, this village will be a factory. "My
uncle was a police. Now he retired, but he did involve in that case before, but
the case closed few years later after you went out from my village because we
can't find any further trace for the kid."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Not a single trace?" I asked him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"That’s what we can deduce at that time,"
said Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"What do you mean by that?" I asked
him again. Now this seems puzzled to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana then spoke "During that time, the
village doesn't have enough tools and power to investigate even one case in
more details. even the police in nearby town doesn't want to waste their time
on this rural village to find one unknown kid, even more the one that doesn't
look like he exist. Uncle had no choice but to close the case because our only
clue to that boy, that mad woman died later on." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">A silence occurs for a minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I was surprised for the reason of the closed
case, but I need to know more about mono, so I asked him "Can you tell me
more about this mad woman?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana be silent for a moment. But then he
opens his mouth, “Hmm.... I don't know what her name is... My mother once told
me about how she is a kind person before, and her parent died when she was in
high school, so she started living alone. When she finished her school, she
works at nearby town as a librarian, but she still living alone. Some people
are worried with her living alone that some of the men in village proposed to
her for her own safety. She rejects those men until she met a man at a place
where she worked at. I heard he was a soldier, very knowledgeable especially in
survival skills. She fell in love with him and the neighbors heard the rumors
that he even proposed her. However, he died in a very horrible way," he
stopped talking. The car has arrived at the destination. Tachibana look at me,
wondering if I want to continue listening to his story again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Go on," I said to him. And Tachibana
spoke again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"You see, it seems that he suicide inside
her house. He left a letter for her and doing hara-kiri (cut stomach) in the
house while she was gone. Inside the letter, he wrote about the war where he was
once killing so many innocent people and how he lives in regret and emptiness
like a doll. but no matter whatever he do, he still feels regret and empty, so
he take responsibility and took his justice just like a human being, instead
living like a meaningless machine. But since then, she shies away from her
neighbors and began to act like a mad person. And it becoming worse that nobody
wants to come near to her. Hence, when we get the news that she had a child, it
really shook us. She wasn't even married to that person, you know. We even
feared that the child is kidnapped or something, but we still can't find any
lead in the house. When she was caught, uncle told me she just muttering
something nonsense until she took her last breath."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"What did she said at that time?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Hmm... something about her own
precious thing, like that," said Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Finishing the conversation, I stood up from the
car. Now I have arrived at the house where mono lead me and met that mad woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"It’s okay, let's look inside the house
first." and we enter the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Inside the house is a total mess and dustiness.
Tachibana give me a mask to wear and he also wears the mask. We then search
inside the house from living room to the any other room. This house is very
messy, but there is no trace of a child living inside the house. Tachibana look
at me, wondering what I would do. I try to remember back most of the thing when
I was inside the house. My hand getting numb when the memory that woman raising
the knife toward me resurfaces, but I calm my mind and try my best to recollect
the even that happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Then I walk to the living room and tell
Tachibana how it happened from the moment I enter the house until I open the
door where I met her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"And then she raises the knife at me and said
'give me back my mono!' "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Wait," said Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Mono is that kid name?" ask Tachibana
with wondering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Well... because she keeps on mumbling like
that to him, so I assuming ‘mono’ is his name." I tell that to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Hiroshi... I think I realize
something." and he bring me to a shelf inside the master bedroom, the room
where I opened the door and met the mad woman. He opened the shelf and he shows
me a big size box. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">There’s a character write at the box but it is
not very clear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Hiroshi, I found this box, and I opened
it, but there is nothing inside, but if you tell me the about that person who
called mono, then this character might be related to this person." He
write the character with the pen, and the character now can be seen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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object, possession) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I was surprised. Tachibana then talk, "If
my deduction is correct, there must be something that can be opened inside this
box." And he search and manage to find a rope that when it pulled, it open
the wall inside the box. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"This hole is small, but I think we can get
inside one person by one person." As he said that, he realizes the inside
is dark and he said, “Wait here, I will take torchlights.” He taking
torchlights from his car and give one of it to me whiles his other hand holds
torchlight. Tachibana enter the hole and then I enter it too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The hole getting bigger and more things can be
seen inside the hole. This hole looks like a storage room, made by woods, only
that there are children's clothes and toys inside this room. Tachibana looks
more inside this place and he found out there are big and worn out bed and a
small shelves. As he opens the shelves, he found clothes for a pregnant woman.
“I guess she hide herself inside this place and giving birth to this person who
you called him 'mono'. and then both of them tries to live in secret, unknown
to the outside world, until she breakdown and becoming mad, or she has becoming
mad way before that." But I remained silent to his explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana realize about it and try to ask me
"why are you silent?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"I...I was surprised.... he....all this
time... he has been living like this with that woman...." my words were
stuttering as I was holding my tears. I thought my life has been a hell for me,
but I never knew there is someone who lives their life far worse than me. I
shed tears for this person who unbeknownst I named him mono, but the
truth about that name really makes me feel sad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Yeah," said Tachibana "Sadly, I
can't found any identification for that child. Maybe his name is '</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS Mincho';">私の大切なもの</span><span lang="EN-US"> (watashi no taisetsunamono)(my precious thing).'"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tears almost come into my eyes. I shake off my
head and searching more for his clues. “He must be alive! I must believe in
it!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana look at me, stunned, but he then
helped me to find the clue about him too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We searched and searched, until we manage to
find a hole at one corner of the room. The hole was small, but it can be fit
for children to go inside that hole. Later, Tachibana and I agree to make that
hole bigger. After we opened the wall at the hole, we entered it. The inside is
like a cave, but there is a light near the other side of the exit. We walked
and we saw a beach. But before we getting to the beach, Tachibana suddenly
pat at my shoulder. I turned around and I was surprised, there was a person
with a big blanket lying near the side of the cave! We rushed to this person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana and I were very surprised, this person
looks like he's in teenagers, but he's so skinny and pale, it's as if he were
dying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">"Hang on!" said Tachibana, but he
doesn't even move an inch. I was wondering what I should do, but the only thing
I did just shout at him "MONO!" Though I wish not to call him that
word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">But he reacts to that word. He then look at me
for a while, with this disbelieve look, and he said, "...Iiirohii?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We surprised with his word, but finally tears
falls in my eyes. Finally I found mono. We carry him out from this cave and
walk towards the beach. By the time we got out from the cave, I see a
beach. I realize that beach is where I
come and having picnic with my families, and where I found him. And I
understood why he's here. He is waiting for me, to get out from this place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">……………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Hiroshi, the doctor is calling you,” said
the nurse while holding a file in her hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana, I and an Inspector Hajime enter the
room where the doctor calling us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">Once we enter, doctor look at both of us. He then look at
Tachibana and ask, “Mr. Hiroshi?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No, I’m Tachibana.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Sorry, I thought you were the one.” And he looks
at me and bows his head. I also bow to him. He shows chairs to us “Please, have
a seat.” And all of us sit on it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He then looks at the papers and X-ray picture “About
this patient Mono…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Without finishing his sentences, I quickly ask
him, “Is he alright?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Thank goodness both of you manage to bring him
here. He is in the very bad condition but now he passed the critical state.” Finally
Tachibana and I give a relieve sigh. “But I need to tell both of you about
this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"> And he
takes a paper and read it onto us “Most of his fat in his body are almost gone
and he has early symptom malnutrition disease like marasmus. He also has some injury
on his body like he has been attacked by wild animals and…” And then he takes
all the X-ray pictures and paste it to the wall that has lamp inside it “If you
see, some of the bones in his rib are fractured, and his hip are dislocated
recently, and his wrist are broken, but we have relocate all of it back, and
most of this broken injury are because his bone are lacking calcium, which
cause his to have slight osteoporosis. And these are what affect his growth,
which is why he looks like he’s in adolescent state. ”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Doctor look at us. He can see our shocked face.
I almost shed my tears watching how badly his condition is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You know, I almost cried looking at his condition…”
And he rub his eyes with his finger “I can’t believe that such a person managed
to survive in that kind of condition. “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I know, Hiroshi and Tachibana have told
everything to me who is in charge of this case,” said Inspector Hajime with a
sad face “Even my subordinate that comes to the scene also crying seeing that
secret room inside that abandoned house. I can’t believe that a child can
survive in that environment for a long time, especially without any help from
adult.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I don’t know what else to say but “Poor Mono…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Is that really his name, Mr. Hiroshi?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I shake my head “No, it’s the only word that I
heard from his own mother.” And Tachibana nodded, agreeing with me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Really?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes. The police couldn’t find his birth
certificate and any other trace that lead to his identification although they prove
that Mono does live there,” said Inspector Hajime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Except the kanji ‘mono’ for the thing…” said
Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Then we really have no choice but to let that
be his name for now.” and doctor takes an empty birth certificate paper and
pull a paper. He then writes Mono name on that paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Doctor!” shout a nurse after she bang the door “The
patient that you treated has wake up and rampaging out!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“What?!”
All of us rushed to see Mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We all are arrived to see Mono runs around
inside his room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Bring the anesthetic!” say the doctor to the
nurse “Inspector, please help us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Understood.” And they come to catch Mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Waaaahhhaaaaah!!” Mono struggle against the
doctor and inspector with all his might.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Calm down, we’re not-ugh!!” The inspector’s
face is being kicked by Mono. But he still continues holding him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Let us help!” said Tachibana and I as things
becoming tenser. But Mono doesn’t stop struggling and kick and bite and scratch
us like there’s no end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Finally we manage to pin all his hands and legs
“Just calm down, it hurts a bit.” And doctor injects him with the anesthetic.
“Uuu…” He finally calms down and goes to sleep, and we bring him on his
bed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I can’t believe with this guy.” say the
inspector “He’s like struggling like we’re his worst nemesis.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">“This might be my hypothesis, but I think he is in fear
with human.” say the doctor. “Because when he was child, why has he never try getting
in contact with people for help and such?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“But he was waiting near the place where we
meet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Listening to my words, the doctor then said
“Maybe fear with adult is more correct then.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“If this goes on, he will have to be admitted to
the mental hospital soon.” say Inspector Hajime to doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mental hospital? Mono is not sick in mental! He
needs help!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US"> “But even so, can he live normally?”
ask inspector “Just look how much damage he has done to us.” And he points at
all of us, where we got bruises and bite marks from Mono “Do you think he is
safe to live with other people? I don’t think so, I have deal with lots of
child abuse, and I tell you most that act like this usually end in mental hospital.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“But that decision is too rash, inspector.” say
Tachibana. “We should ask doctor about this first.” And all of us look at
doctor, waiting for his answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“….” Doctor is being silent “First of all, I’m
sorry because this is the first time I have ever deal in this case. I don’t
know whether he should be treated as mental patient or not. However, I think I
know someone who can help. He is a man who has been researching about these
kinds of cases.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">A ray of hope comes when I listen to doctor’s
word. “Then…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I have contact him, he will come tomorrow. Then
we can discuss what we should do with this patient,” say doctor to us
especially Inspector Hajime as he look at him directly in the eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Realizing that, the inspector reply “Alright,
but I recommend you to bind his hands and legs. We don’t know what will happen
if you didn’t do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I really wish to oppose what he had said. But
looking at our bruise made me change my mind. I’m sorry Mono, but I can’t say
anything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">………………………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">On the roof, I stand while holding fence to look
at the scenery that lighted with the moonlight. The view is dim, but I pay no
mind with it because my eyes seeing further than my sight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The inspector is right. Even if Mono managed to
be saved and survived from that hellhole, how will he live? What kind of work
can he do? Can he live without harming people? But most important of all, what
can I really do for him?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I’m a salary man who live with my own mother in
Tokyo, the city which has high living cost, where my salary is just enough for
me and my mother to live in our small apartment. Even more, I always work from
morning till night. Even handling my own life is hard enough, can I even taking
care of him in the future?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">If he stay in mental hospital, he doesn’t have
to worry about food and place to stay, there are even people who in charge of
taking care of him. But he will never be treated like a normal person and never
to get out from that place…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">What is the right choice for Mono?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">KRINGG!!! The sound of emergency bell is heard!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“What the…?” I run to stairs to the corridor.
The hospital is in chaos. Patients and nurses are in panic. What is happening
here?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“There you are!!” shout Tachibana, gasping for
breath after running around. “This is bad!! Mono run away from the hospital!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“WHAT!!” I can’t believe with what he said!
“Isn’t he being tied up?!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“He is very smart.” And Tachibana come near me
“He playing dead to make the doctors let go of the rope and take the chance to
create havoc and smash everything. The sound of emergency bell occur because by
chance he manage to break it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Then, where is Mono now?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“The police are searching for him.” And he lean
on wall to rest. “Hah,” He gave a breath after his gasping is gone. “We can’t
do anything now but wait for his news.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Mono… what on earth are you doing? If this goes
on, you will go to the mental hospital! Are you really has mental problem?
Maybe this is all I can do for you…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Iiirohi…” A flashback come to my mind. Something
triggers in my heart. Is he really sick in his mind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hiroshi?” Ask him after he seeing me silent for
a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I have to go.” And I walk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Wait Hiroshi! Where are you going?!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“People misunderstood Mono! I have to come to
correct it!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No Hiroshi, Stop!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">…………………………………………………………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">WEOOO WEEOOOOO WEOOO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The sound of the siren police is heard till 3
houses. The police surround the park that has dense forest where Mono is
hiding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Prepare yourself. Although this man is injured,
he still can bites.” said Inspector Hajime to his subordinate while they
preparing to catch Mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Wait!!” shout me as I gasping for out of
breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. hiroshi!” said Inspector Hajime, surprised
seeing me here. “Please stay back, this is dangerous.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No! (Gasping) Mono is not sick in his mind!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You still talking about this?! Can’t you see
what he has done in the hospital?!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“He’s doing it because he’s scared! How long do
you think he has been living without human?!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I know what you mean, but I have to consider
the safety of the public, he is dangerous.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Please.” I hold both of his shoulder “Just let
me talk to him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Hiroshi…” he stopped saying anything after
seeing how serious I am. “Are you sure?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…..” Inspector Hajime reconsider back.
“Alright, let’s try it. But you have to wear all the protective gear.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Thank you inspector.” The police give me the
protective gear from head to toe. I wear it all except the head part.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“That’s dangerous, wear the helmet.” said
Inspector Hajime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No, I have to. He needs to know my face to
remember back who I am.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">And I enter the park. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The park is silent and very dark, that once I
enter a few meter, Inspector Hajime said, “Let me go with you too!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No! Just let me!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“But..”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Please Inspector Hajime, just trust me on
this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">And then I walk inside more until I can’t see
the sight of the police. Of course I felt scared right now, but my feeling to
save Mono right now is more than that. Since it’s dark, I just walk randomly
while shouting Mono’s name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“MONO!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“MONOO!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“MOOOONOOOOO!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">But there’s no sight of him. Mono you idiot,
nobody want to harm you. Just come out already!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Still no sight of him. The trees and nights
making this place look eerie. Has he living like this for his whole life? How
lonely have he been during all these years alone? Why doesn’t he even want to
ask for help from people?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">With all these thoughts lingering on my mind, I
keep on walking and calling Mono, but there’s still no sight of him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Having no idea where to go, I lean on the tree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“(Shock)!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">What? “Mono?” And he quickly tries to jump to
another tree, but he missed his hand!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“MONO!!!” I run to catch him from falling!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">CRASH!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">It hurts!!! Luckily I manage to catch him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“aahh…wah…” Mono wants to run away from his
grap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I grasp him with all my might “Enough, you won’t
go-ugh!” He give me a push with his hand!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Grr….” He tries to let go from me. I won’t let
you go! Try it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">As I hold him, I realize how his hand is getting
weaker. Mono is losing his energy, and I manage to look at him through his
finger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Although it is dark, and I can’t see him
clearly, I can see how his small body is shaking and he look very pale and in
pain. He is very hurt and afraid of me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Mono then felt something wet from my face. He
let go of his hand and look at me crying like a kid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mono..” I said to him “Mono… you idiot… you
have been waiting for me all along… yet you forget me…. I’m sorry… I coming
late….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…” Mono being silent as he can’t comprehend why
I am crying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mono, You big dummy!! Stop making me worry!!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…Iiirohi..?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I startled. “Now you realize me? It’s me,
Hiroshi.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Uuhh..” And tears come to his eyes “Iiirohi…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I hug him tightly. I can’t tell how happy I am,
knowing Mono knows me. “Yes, it’s me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Huu… Iirohi… Iiirohi…Iirohi!! Waaa!!” He cries
in my hug. And I also cry with him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">…………………………………………………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Morning has come. Inside Mono’s room, I have
waked up with my swelling eyes. Tachibana come “(snickering) You look like
panda.” Said him while holding his laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Stop it, Mr. Tachibana.” This is embarrassing…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“But it is funny. You cry like a baby with Mono
for almost an hour inside that park.” And then he handed me a newspaper for
today “Look at the main title, ‘Two men howling in the park’! This has become
hot news! Hahahaha!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Cut it out!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He read the paper “That night we have hearing
how ‘manly’ that cries that night…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“WAAAHHH!!” I quickly put my head in the pillow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Alright, alright.” Tachibana patted me “Anyway, it thanks
to you that Mono can calm himself.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">And then Tachibana look at my left where Mono on
his bed, bandaged and sleeping soundly with his swelling eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…” I remove the pillow and look at him “Not
really… I actually don’t have any idea what to do at that time… luckily he
remember who I am at that time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No, you saved him.” Tachibana smiled at me “Not
many people can do what you’re doing. People normally turn their eyes away from
this, but you even try to come to find him in that old abandoned village and
when he causes trouble you’re the one who helped him. You do it without asking
for anything in return.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…” I blushed hearing him said that. I seriously
never thought of that before. But I’m not a very great person, I even though of
letting Mono in mental hospital, thinking that I can’t help him… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“The doctor has told me that he will come soon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Who?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“The man whom we will discussed about Mono.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Oh, I get ready then.” And I get up from bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I will be waiting at the lobby, if there’s
anything, call me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Alright.” Tachibana goes out from the room. I
went to my room and take a bath and wear my clothes. And then I walk to the
lobby. But just before I go, I take a peek at Mono’s room. He still sleeps
soundly. Seeing him like that, I get more strength to go and meet that man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I waiting at the lobby with Tachibana until the
doctor call us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Hiroshi, Mr. Tachibana,” said the doctor
while walking with a man that look around 50 years old, both of them are
holding a case bag. “This is Professor from M University, Prof. Kai Goto.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Hello.” Tachibana and
I bow to him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Hello.” Mr. Kai Goto
also bows to us. “I am a professor in psychology, but my specialization is on
pedagogy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Pedagogy..?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“It is the science and art of education,
specifically instructional theory where it emphasis the ability of attaining
knowledge of human being, and how human perceive the learning.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mhm…” Reply Tachibana and I, nodding it
although I might not really understand what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Doctor has told me about the case of Mono, is
it possible if I seeing him now?” ask Mr. Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The doctor looks at me. I nod at him, showing
sign it is possible. “I think he can now. Let’s go and meet him.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We walk to Mono’s room where Mono is still
sleeping soundly. The doctor check on his condition. After checking him, doctor
said, “Considering his situation, there’s no wonder he’s sleeping soundly. Even
it is unimaginable that he can move around and struggle yesterday.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Human can do something unimaginable when their life
is at their stake.” said Mr. Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Mr. Kai Goto look around Mono, and then he said
“Mr. Hiroshi.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“(Snickering) What you’re doing yesterday is
very amazing.” He then take out the newspaper from his coat and read it “Even
at the picture that took by the journalist shows how much your tears come with
some snot, hahaha.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“….” I just look away, embarrassing about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No, I’m praising you, Mr. Hiroshi. You have
given him what he really need the most.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"> Doctor
and Tachibana smile at me. I really can’t look at them. I can even feel my face
getting redder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Let’s go and discuss about Mono, everyone.” said
Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Come here, I show you the discussion room.” said
the doctor. He led us to the discussion room not far from Mono’s room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">After we arrived, Kai Goto takes out his bag
containing a lot of files. “These files are the evidence from Mono’s house
brought by Inspector Hajime, including the ones about his mother by Tachibana’s
uncle. He can’t come today because he has another case to attend, so he give it
to me earlier.” And then he gives it to us to read it together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I also present you Mono condition too, Mr. Kai
Goto.” And Doctor gives him the files. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Oh, thank you. Let me read it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I read all the information about Mono’s house
and his mother although I already know everything about it in order to
understand more about Mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">After everyone has read all the information we
have, Kai Goto spoke “There’s something I didn’t told all of you before.
Actually, 10 years ago, I once met Mono’s mother on a mental hospital.
Therefore, I have seen what kind of person is Mono’s mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“What kind of person is she?” Ask me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“She is very afraid of people, that she often in
fear and having insomnia and amnesia. And she always hold a small doll and
always says it’s her very precious Mono(thing).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Just exactly what my uncle said,” said
Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Kai Goto then continues “From all these
information, I can conclude that Mono’s case are similar with the feral child’s
case.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Feral Child?” ask Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“The child who has lived secluded from human or not
much experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and especially human
language. This would sound very similar to Tarzan story, but it really happens
in real world,” said Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“So he…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“He doesn’t have mental problem. However, he has
problem in communicating with us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Can you please explain more? I still can’t
understand it.” Say the doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Normally, normal people like us managed to live
as we should because we are being cared by the parents and guardians and being
taught by our environment to the point we can live by managing ourselves and
adapt with the society. However, most wild child manage to survive in their
wild environment by depended on the creature that gives love to them and learn
to mimic that creature or in some case just mimic but they can act like human.
This causes them to behave wild when facing with normal society. They can’t
adapt to norm as they have used to what they have lived before.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"> “I see…
But still, he still has human contact especially his mother. So why he afraid
of human?” said the doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%;">
<span lang="EN-US"> “True,
but her mother is the main reason why he becomes like this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“What..?” Reply the doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You see, when a person lost their precious person, his or
her grief can cause it to avoid contact from the other people. Usually, these
people can be treated by bringing them to the nursing home or by mental
hospital, but if left untreated for a very long time, it can leave a very deep
scar inside their heart. And that’s what drove her to insane. Which is why she
is too scared to interact with other human and actually, including her own son.
The only way for her to love his son is by loving him as an object, not as a
human.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“….” All of us being silent, listening to Kai Goto’s
explanation. We still have a lot to hear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“In Mono case, he is not having any problem that normal
human usually do as for example, loneliness except fear of other human because
he is socially isolated during his crucial mental age. Usually these kind of
people have no one to turn to in personal emergencies, no one to confide in
during a crisis, and no one to correct their own behavior against or learn
etiquette from as what we referred to sometimes as social control, though this
might be best described as simply being able to see how other people behave and
adapt oneself to that behavior. Everything that should be taught as a human
being is neglected by his own mother. Mono on the other hand, learned that
everything that is done by his own mother as love, until he has done a biggest
mistake that saves his life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%;">
<span lang="EN-US"> “What
do you mean? This is sound very confusing,” ask me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"> “Mono’s mother is a
very possessive person. She does not even want to let go anything that she
though as precious. However, Mono manages to escape from her possessiveness
through his own curiosity toward the outside world. Human is born to be having
curiosity and from the curiosity comes learning. This gives a strong impact to
Mono to go away from her mother. But as he follows his instinct toward the
curiosity, he realizes he has lost his most important person, his own mother.
And this makes him stressful mentally and physically, causing his body is still
in child form. And worst, he does not want to get near to human or ask for help
because he believes we are the ones who take his mother away from him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“So that’s why Mono becomes aggressive to us,” said
Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…” From this discussion, I felt like I understand more
about Mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“But then,” said doctor “What should we do for this child?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Everyone being silent about it. I don’t know what to say
about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I wish to take custody of this child,” said Kai Goto.
These words surprised us. He then continues, “In this situation, I can help
him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Still in disbelief, I ask him, “You have the way to help
him?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Now, Mono needs to live as a real human being. We cannot let
him to continue to live his life miserably. I will take care of him by asking
fund for the new research on pedagogy,” said Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Slam! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I slam the table. “You mean… you want to make Mono into
test subject!!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Being a research subject is the most correct term.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“How could you… do that?! Mono shouldn’t be treated like
that!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Then do you have any idea how to help Mono?” I silent
hearing that answer. Even Tachibana and doctor being silent about it. “Be
realistic, Mr. Hiroshi. We live in the world where the amount of kindness that
we have is limited.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…” I couldn’t answer him back… because I also thought
about it not long before…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Until now, there are many feral children that having
problem to live with society that some is placed in mental hospital and some
even run away to their old ‘habitat’. In order to not let that misfortune
happen, this is the best way for him to live as we continue to making him a
human being. The least we can do is to let Mono do something in return,” reply
Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“If you need money to fund for Mono, I can help you,” said
Tachibana “After all, if my grandfather is here, he should also do the same.
Besides, my family got a lot of money from the government after selling the
village.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Thank you very much both of you,” Said the doctor and then
he look at me with sad face “I’m sorry for things to be like this. But the
reason why I’m choose to calling Mr. Kai Goto to come is because the hospital
asked me to send Mono to mental hospital as soon as possible since yesterday’s
incident. I can’t do much other than follow the higher ups and I also believe
Mono does not deserve to go to mental hospital.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“….” I hate myself for being helpless. If only I can do
something….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">After everyone look at me being silence for a while, Kai
Goto said “I believe we don’t have anything to say anymore, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">And the silent continues. I can’t look at their face except
just look down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Hiroshi.” Tachibana patted my shoulder. “It’s alright,
don’t force yourself on this. You have your own life to think about.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Tachibana…” I look at him, listening to his words. And
when I look around, the doctor and Kai Goto already gone out from the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%;">
<span lang="EN-US">…………………………………………………………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mmm…” grunt Mono. He open his eyes slowly and seeing me
looking at him. “Iirohi,” said him with his slow voice. His face doesn’t show any
reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes. I’m here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He then look around and seeing Doctor, Kai Goto and
Tachibana. “Uuhh!!” shout Mono in fear and he quickly hugs me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“It’s okay, they don’t want to harm you.” I rubbed his head
to calm him down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Huuu….” And he hugs me like I’m a tree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mono,” said Kai Goto. Mono quickly turn his head,
disbelief with what he heard. Kai Goto smile and patted his head gently and say
“Mono, daijobu(it’s alright), daijobu.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…..” Slowly Mono loose his hug and almost falls down. I
quickly hold him from falling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Just as I expected,” said Kai Goto while continue to pet
him “His mother really call him Mono.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Seeing Mono becoming docile as Kai Goto continue to pet him
until he is on his bed, Tachibana and doctor also pet him and call his name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mono… Mono… Mono…” Hearing people calling his name, he let
down all his guard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Kai Goto then had a though “Try to call a nurse to come,” he
asks the doctor. The doctor calls a nurse by pressing the red button near the
bed for emergency calling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The nurse then come “What is it, doctor?” Mono quickly
surprised and being scared with the nurse’s appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Woah!” said the nurse. She also startled seeing Mono has
woken up. Doctor and Kai Goto then walk out the room and telling her something,
but me, Mono and Tachibana can’t hear it, as they talk about it very slowly.
Not long after that, the nurse come in and smile at Mono “Hello Mono. Good
morning.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">This startled Mono so much, and then she come near him and
pet Mono “Daijobu Mono, daijobu,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…” He just looking amazed with the people that calling his
name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“This is unexpected,” said Kai Goto, “He doesn’t attack
with the people that calling him Mono.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Doctor then said, “If he continues to be docile, we can let
him stay in this hospital for further treatment.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I believe things can get better here,” said Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Then, does that mean Mono crying with me yesterday doesn’t
because he remembers me, but because I called his name? If so, doesn’t that
mean there’s nothing I can do with Mono anymore? This heartbreak me…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%;">
<span lang="EN-US">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You’re so cute,” say the nurse while petting Mono. Mono
smile at her while being petted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“He’s so docile,” said the young patient girl looking at
Mono being petted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“And he’s friendly,” said the other girl who is same tall
as him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Mono is surrounded by a lot of female regardless of age on
this hospital. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“(Giggle) Mono is a ladykiller,” said Tachibana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yeah,” I reply him weakly. Staring Mono from afar makes me
pensive. It’s been months since Kai Goto is taking care of Mono in this
hospital. At first week, I have to go out from the hospital because of my work,
and Mono is worrying because I’m not around. But a few weeks after that, he
doesn’t bother me much and interacting with Kai Goto more. He is improving by
days, and he can do rehabilitation exercise and speak a few nowadays. There’s
not much that I can do for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Realizing that I’m not really in the mood to answer him, he
patted my back “Chill out! At least Mono is being treated kindly, right?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes…” Maybe I shouldn’t come here today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana gives a relief sigh “I can finally go back with
ease.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Oh, when you will go back?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“It will be today. I have been here for quite a while. I
also have work to do at my home.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I see. Thank you for everything Mr. Tachibana.” And I bow
to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes, thank you for everything too.” And he bows to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tachibana walk toward Mono “Mono.” Mono look at him.
Tachibana bow to him “It’s been a pleasure to meet you. I have to go now,
farewell Mono.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Mono then bow to him slowly “Sa…” he still can’t speak the
right word. Tachibana gives him a smile. He looks at me, giving the message to
try my best. I just nod at him although I don’t know what he meant. Tachibana
then walks out from the hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">It’s sad when separating our ways, but that is life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Hiroshi,” said Kai Goto. I startled with his word.
“I’m sorry if I have startled you. How have you been?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Oh, I’m doing fine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes.” And he looks at Mono from afar. Many people still
want to meet and talk with Mono especially girls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He giggling with Mono’s behavior “He’s becoming quite
extrovert recently. It’s good that he keep on improving.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yeah,” answer me while look at him from afar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Hiroshi.” Said Kai Goto while looking at me “You
haven’t seen Mono for quite a while, don’t you want to meet him?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…. No, I don’t think he needs me anymore. I don’t even see
he is missing me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“He still lacks some expression of emotion, so sometimes we
don’t know what he is feeling.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Still, Mono can go on without me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Hiroshi, tomorrow Mono can go out from the hospital.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I give Kai Goto a smile “Really? That’s good news! Mono can
go out and see more of the outside world. “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Still, I wish you can meet Mono,” said Kai Goto. He then
bow to me and walk toward Mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I walk out from the hospital, wandering around with my deep
though until I found a bench to sit at.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The problem is solved, Mono now can live happily. Hiroshi,
things is getting better, so why are you sad? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Sigh, I give a big sigh. It’s not like I can do much for
Mono. I’m just a salaryman who live with my mother. Still single and I’m now
almost 30, mom also asking me when I will get married and my boss cut my salary
because I take too much vacation. I have so many things to think that I making
the thinker pose. I have my own problem that still not solved, so why I still
think of Mono?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">But then, why am I sacrificed so much just for him? He’s
neither my family nor my friend. He just a person whose I met when I was small.
And heck, I don’t even remember my old friend from primary school! It’s not
that I’m in love with him, but I can’t get rid of him inside my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">That’s enough, Hiroshi. Stop thinking about it anymore.
It’s now over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Then, do I want to end everything this way?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“…” I quickly walk back to hospital to meet Kai Goto. This
might seems ridiculous, but I don’t want it to end this way! Even if I have no
money to help Mono, there’s another way for me to help Mono!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Kai Goto is on the corridor talking with the doctor that
still in charge of Mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mr. Kai Goto.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes, Mr. Hiroshi?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Do you in need for assistance?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Kai Goto surprised with what I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Uhh, I mean, do you have a vacancy house near your place?
No, no, I mean… uhh, I didn’t mean… “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“heh.” Kai Goto smile. He then looks at doctor “I’m sorry,
it seems that assistance is not needed anymore.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“So it seems,” reply doctor with smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Huh?” What did they talking about?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I am in need for the assistance to taking care of Mono. I
can’t take care of him for 24 hours because I also have to work in my
university. I have been wishing to ask you for working with me, but I worry
that it might burden you. I don’t want to force you about it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Me? Why?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Because the person Mono knows the most in the world is you.
You’re the most important person for him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No, there’s no way…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Hiroshi, Mono calls your name everytime he sees you,
remember?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes, but…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You might not know this, but he never calls anybody name
except you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“That….” I didn’t know about that. “Hahahaha….” I’m sorry
Mono for not realizing that, I really do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I live in Tokyo in Saitama area. Since you also live in
Tokyo, how about you move in my house?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Your house?” This is so sudden!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You don’t have to worry about living, because my house is
a two-story rental apartment. My wife is the landlady of the house. She still
has a lot of vacant room.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Wow…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“And about the salary, how many do you earn in a month?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“It’s around 200,000 yen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Then I double the salary, how’s that?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I’m in!” I quickly answer it without hesitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Kai Goto patted my shoulder. “Thank you very much, Mr.
Hiroshi. I knew I could count on you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Somehow this makes me embarrassed. I used to think of him
as a bad person “You’re welcome, Mr. Kai Goto.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Since it has come to this,” said the doctor “I guess I can
give files that has Mono’s information today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes, it is a good idea, doctor,” said Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We walk to doctor’s room. Doctor shows us all the data
about Mono from X-ray picture, birth certificate and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I look at Mono certificate “Totoi Mono…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Totoi is his mother’s family name,” said Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Yes, but there’s something that I wished to do. “Is it
alright if I change the word for Mono(thing)?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Why is it?” ask doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I don’t want Mono to be known as a thing. So is it all
right if I change it into this?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%;">
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</v:imagedata></v:shape><span lang="EN-US">Mono(person)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“And his name will be Totoi Mono (precious person)…” said
Kai Goto. He smiles and looks at me. “This is a good name! Is it possible to
change it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes, I also agree. Let’s change it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">And from then on, Mono will be known as ‘precious person’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">After taking all the files, Kai Goto ask me, “Mr. Hiroshi.
Do you want to meet Mono now?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes.” I really want to meet him. He must be thinking the
same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">We walk to Mono’s room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Iirohi!!” shout Mono happily. He run to me and hug me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“See? I told you he missed you,” said Kai Goto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yeah.” I smile at him. It feels really great to meet Mono.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Looking at both of you like that, it feels like both of
you are siblings.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yeah. For me he is my family.” I patted his head. His
small body that used to thin is now healthy like a normal person. His broken
bone is healed, just leaving scars on his body. Still, he can make people fall
for him. I really happy to see him getting better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mono.” I hold his shoulder. He looks at me. “Tomorrow you
will leave the hospital and go to live with Mr. Kai Goto. Wait for me there Mono, I will come and live
with you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Kai Goto translates it slowly with sign language to let
Mono know what I meant. He then smile and say, “Hai(yes)!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%;">
<span lang="EN-US">………………………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I am Miki Ogasawa. I am a journalist that comes to meet the
man who lives in the wilderness. He is once known as the man who is treated
like a thing by his own family, until he is saved by a man known as Doctor Hiroshi
and Professor Kai Goto. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">This is a hot topic in Japan, but we don’t get much
information as they ban us to make news about him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US"> 5 years have passed since then and
unexpectedly, they allow me to interview with the man directly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">So here I am, in front of the door of the old
Japanese rental apartment, knocking the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Knock knock knock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes,” answer the man. He opens the door and
look at me “Are you Miki Ogasawa?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes,” And I give him my card “This is my card,
are you the man who live in wilderness?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No, my name is Hiroshi.” He then smiles at me
“Please come in.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Thank you.” I enter the house. There is loud
noise like children playing around in this house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Hiroshi lead me to the living room. I sit on the
cushion prepared and he goes to the kitchen. The sound of children playing
still can be heard. Hiroshi comes and gives me the tea “Please excuse me for a
moment.” And he walks to the voice that I heard before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Mariko. That’s enough. Somebody wants to meet
Mono, go play outside with your friend,” said Hiroshi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Yes daddy,” reply the girl. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Thank you Uncle Hiroshi!!” said the other
children. “Good bye Mono!! Have a good date!!” And they are running while
laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Thump thump thump, the sound of children running
is heard. She and her friends run outside the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I’m sorry for waiting,” said Hiroshi “Miss
Miki, meet Mono.” And he points his hand to a handsome young man. He wears fine
clothes, and has a bright smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-US">He smile and bow to me. “Hello, my name is Totoi Mono. Nice
to meet you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
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talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-44413559820389618832014-03-31T09:42:00.001-07:002014-03-31T09:42:28.927-07:00Path of Destiny<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
the midst of crowd, people form a large space of line, giving enough space for
noble Temenggung Gelor to walk through this crowd. As he walks, the servants
behind him comes through, fanning him and bringing gifts for the sultan whom he
will met. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He
is a man who is well known for his status and power. But I can’t understand
this one thing. I know mother forbid me to speak during this time, but my
curiosity can’t hold on any longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mother…”
ask me while I’m holding my mother’s hand. “That man is my father right? Then
why aren’t we wearing fine clothes like him? Why aren’t we living like him?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
people look at us with surprised. The sight that the people made horrified me
and my mother run as fast as she can while carrying me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">At
that time, I have learned that my mother is a mistress to that Temenggung
Gelor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Years
later, my mother has died, the people are coming to help for preparing for her
burial, and I am sitting beside her, grieving for her death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
she died?” ask the man who come to visit my mother. It was Temenggung Gelor who
comes. He must have come to see my mother and take me to live with him!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
he enters the house and look at my dead mother. His face doesn’t show much
reaction. And then he looks at me and asks, “Are you my son?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes!”
I shout at him happily. He has taken notice of me! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
see, luckily I am in need of another slave,” said him with a glad face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What?”
ask me, surprised with his word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Right
now I need a slave to take care of my son who is currently 5 years old, and
since you’re 5 years older than him, I’m sure you can take care of him and be
friends with him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
am in disbelief for what he has said. There must be some mistake here. “Bu-but
I’m your son, why do I have to take care of him…?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Of
course you are my son, but you are also a son of my slave. Therefore, you are
my slave. You have to take care of him because he is the son of my legal wife,
who is the descendant of the Bendahari.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
shock hurt my heart. I can’t believe the words that I have heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
then he patted my back. “Thank goodness I met you. If I hadn’t, you might be
sold to the mercenaries or become a strayed child who lives on the street.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
just become silent. I can’t utter any word as I am in very shock. I don’t know
whether I should be mad at him for treating me like a slave or crying for being
born as a slave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
come, you have to meet your little brother. He is a nice child, I’m sure you
can take care of him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yop!”
shout Megat Damai. He is running toward me as fast as he can. “Wait for me!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
Megat Damai.” And I stand still for him. “I’m not going anywhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
then he catches up to me. “(haa..) (haa…)” now he’s trying to catch up his
breath, trying to talk to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Today
(gasp), is the day old man Penglipur Lara (storyteller) Lela will tell story
right?” said him after he can take his breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
and I need to help him today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
I want to go too!! I want to listen to his story today!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No,
Megat Damai, you have to go the palace and study with the other princes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Aww,
come on, those princes are not friendly, I’m tired with being friendly with
them!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
I continue on persuade him to go study “But Megat Damai, study is important.
With knowledge you can stand on top and make people bow on you. You can even
marry the princess.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No!
I want to go and listen to Penglipur Lela’s story! Yop! This is my order! You
have to obey me!” shout Megat Damai with a whim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
Megat Damai. This humble slave will follow your order.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Good.”
And I take his hand to walk with him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">While
he is happily walking, without noticing it, I look at him with hatred. For this
child, what he just order me before is just a simple whim, but for me it is an
utterly disgrace. For these 5 years I have been with him, I have seen our
greatly differences that only make me more ashamed of myself. Since he was
born, he is only surrounded by people who like him, while I always hide from
people eyes with fear because of my birth status. He also lives in lavishly and
comfortably whiles I live by trying all my best to scrape whatever I have as a
slave. But the most horrible thing that happens to me is to taking care of this
rich boy who has the same father as me. Each moment that I have with him is
only miserable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
he turned his back to look at me “Yop?” and I smile sincerely to him and said
“Yes, what is it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No,
I just wonder why you silent.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
I just thinking of something else.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Alright.”
And we continue to walk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Although
I have all this swell hatred, I can’t against it, and all I can do is just
acting and watching it with jealousy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">We
arrived at the home of Penglipur Lela, where many children are sitting outside
the wooden house that has large stage area for the audience. Megat Damai then
run “I’m going then!” and sit very front to the stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
I walk behind the house to meet Penglipur Lela. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Sir
Penglipur Lela?” ask me while entering the house. I heard very loud coughing
inside the house. “Sir Penglipur Lela!!” I rushed to see him. He is lying on
his bed, wheezing and coughing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
look very bad.” And I touch his forehead “You’re having a bad fever.” And I
walked out to cancel the show, but he catches me with his right hand, although
his right hand is gone, replaced with large metal hook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Nonsense,
I still can talk,” said him egoistically. “I just need you to help me stand up.
Now help me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
sir…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Do
not disturb my job, child. Now help me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Then
I remove the blanket and take a staff and give it to him to hold on to it. “And
one two three, ummph,” Grunt him while I help him stand up because he don’t
have his left leg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“There,
I’m fine, see?” said him while look at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,”
answer me, while holding him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Now
let’s go. The children are waiting.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
we enter the stage in front of the house. The children who were waiting for
Penglipur Lela are now cheering for his arrival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Penglipur
Lela! Tell us about how you sail outside!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No!
Tell us about the water that can be solid!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
the children are buzzling more, wanting to hear which story that Penglipur Lela
will tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
then put him on stage. He sitting slowly, trying to sit in the best position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
children are getting louder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Silence,
you children!” shout Penglipur Lela. His shout is so loud that it really
silences all the children that come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
he continues “How dare all of you not hold all your excitement with patient!
Don’t you have any manners?!” I still in wonder how he can shout like he never
sick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
children are now scared at him. And then he said, “Say the storyteller who is
late today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
they laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now,
I will tell you the story of the destiny. Do any of you know what is destiny?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“The
road of life that is already determined,” answer the child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Excellent,
but do you know the path of destiny?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No,
sir.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Therefore,
I will tell you this story. Once upon a time, there was two brothers, the older
is Lam and the younger is Lim. Lam has strong build and can push a bull while
Lim is smart and he can do many things with his brain. These brothers are good
to each other. One day, they both fall in love with the same woman, and both
wants to marry her. So they let the woman decide whom she wants to marry, as
this is the best choice for them. The woman chooses to marry with Lam, and Lim
follows the woman decision and let go of her. But as time passes, inside Lim’s
heart, a hatred and jealousy began to form as he seeing his brother and his
wife happily together. Unable to hide his feeling that has been swelling, he
has a choice whether to reclaim his love back and fight with his brother, Lam
or find new love. And then….” And Penglipur Lela then becomes silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What
happen next?” ask the children when he being silent for a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Cough!!
Cough cough cough!!!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Penglipur
Lela!!” shout the children as they seeing him suddenly coughing so hard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
I run to stage and tell these children “The show is over! Go back home!” and I
carry Penglipur Lela to bring him back inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yop!”
shout Megat Damai “Let me help too!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No
Megat Damai, I can handle this, just go back home or your father will be-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Let
me help!! This is an order!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“…”
I hold my though to help Penglipur Lela “Yes, Megat Damai.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
we carried Penglipur Lela to his bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
take care of Penglipur Lela, I will call the healer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Alright.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
run with all my might to the healer house. “Healer!! Penglipur Lela is sick!!
Please help!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">……………………………………………………………………………………………
….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“His
condition is stable now,” said the healer, while checking Penglipur Lela’s
pulse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Penglipur
Lela now sleeps on his bed. His face looks better than before, and he’s not
coughing anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Finally
I can take a breath “Thank you sir healer.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Just
don’t forget to let him drink this herb after he wakes up and for another three
days.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Well
then, I have to go now.” And he cleans up his things, ready to go out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
open the door for the healer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“My
it’s already late,” said the healer “You better bring your young master back
home quickly, or you will be punished.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
know.” And he walks away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
go to see Penglipur Lela sleep on his bed and seeing Megat Damai broth the herb
for Penglipur Lela.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“That’s
enough Megat Damai, let’s go now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Penglipur
Lela is sleeping. If you keep on staying here you will wake him up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Alright.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
we go back to Temenggung Gelor’s house to send Megat Damai back home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“There
you are, Megat Damai!” shout Megat Damai’s mother, worrying her only son. “Why
did you ditch your class?! And worse, you’re late!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mother,
I went to help Penglipur Lela.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
help a poor old man? My, you’re such a kind child.” And she hugs him happily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yop,”
said Temenggung Gelor “You were with him all along?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Without
making any face, I reply, “Yes, Temenggung Gelor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
see.” And Temenggung Gelor look at his wife and son “Both of you, it’s already
late, go inside.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
they go inside, but Megat Damai looks at me worriedly. I didn’t look at him
back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yop,”
says Temenggung Gelor while holding a large stick. And I kneel at him while
showing my back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Why
didn’t you tell Megat Damai not to ditch his study?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Because
he orders me not to.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">WHACK!
A hit from Temenggung Gelor’s stick hit my back. I can feel a swell on my back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“And
why is Megat Damai coming home late?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Because
Penglipur Lela is sick, and he-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Whack!!
He gives me another strike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Since
he is sick, why does Megat Damai has to stay there? The one who should taking
care of Penglipur Lela is you!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
he gives two more hit. This time I can feel blood coming out of my back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
have given you the task to take care of that old Penglipur Lara, so why are you
trying to drag Megat Damai in taking care of him?! He has to study to inherit
my position as a Temenggung, you foolish slave!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
he gives me more hit from his stick until I fall down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Finally,
he stops. “Now go back to that Temenggung’s house and take care of him and
don’t come to this house anymore.” And he enters his house back without even
look at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
stand up while grunts as I stand up with all my might. My back is in pain.
Then, I walk back to Penglipur Lela’s house by myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Why?
Why am I being treated like this? I already told him not to come, why I’m the
one whose being hit? I hate that spoiled rich kid the most. He always acts like
he’s the good person and never punished for anything. Whatever bad happens, it
will be me who is being hit. That Temenggung Gelor is just using me as the
replacement to punish Megat Damai, and I really hate it when I know Megat Damai
is look at me at another place while being punished. He must be thinking that I
must be deserved this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
I keep on thinking how bad these nobles are until I reach Penglipur Lela’s
home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I’m
back, Penglipur Lela.” But Penglipur Lela is still asleep on his bed. I walk a
bit, and I hit something at my feet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It
is soap, bandage and new clothes. I look back at Penglipur Lela, but he still
on his bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Thank
you…” whisper me to Penglipur Lela and I take these to clean and bandage
myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">………………………………………………………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It
hurts! Though me as I clean myself on river. My back is sting so much, but I
have to clean it with soap or it will infect. After I cleaned myself, I wrapped
my back with bandage and wear the new clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
don’t feel pain much, but it itches. Still, this is already good enough for a
slave like me to be able to use bandage. Normally slaves just wash this injury
by river, and just let it be as they don’t have anything to treat themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
walk back to Penglipur Lela’s house but the itch on my back has gone, because
it has been replaced with pain that stronger than Temenggung Gelor’s hit. The
blood rushed to my head, seeing the sight that I hate the most right now
appeared in my eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yop,”
said Megat Damai while waiting in front of Penglipur Lela’s house. He looks
like he’s carrying something, but I can’t hear his other words as all I can
feel is the hatred that I have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Do
you hear me, Yop?” ask Megat Damai as he realise I didn’t listen to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
I hear you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then,
Yop-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Then
I remember that Penglipur Lela is still sleeping inside, and I take this chance
“Megat Damai, please come in. I need to do something.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then,
I’ll be waiting for you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Alright.”
And I walk outside. Megat Damai now has entered the house. I walk around the
house to take something. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
I take it, just a few steps away from the main door, Penglipur Lela is now
standing in front the house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
Penglipur Lela, you have-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We
need to talk,” said Penglipur Lela, not allowing me to finish my sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Alright.”
And we walk a few miles away from the house. And then we sit on the rock where
nobody can hear us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
give it to me,” said Penglipur Lela as he gives his left hand to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Give
you what?” ask me while I look at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
think I didn’t know? You took the knife from my house right after you know I’m
sleeping. Now give it back.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“….”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
know how much you hate Megat Damai, but killing him won’t solve anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
don’t understand…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
do understand, child.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No
you’re not!” I stand up in front of him to show how serious I am. “You never be
the child of mistress and have live as a slave and have to take care of the
person you hate the most!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
I never understand about that!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
I know what happened after I made that choice! Can’t you see the consequence of
it?!!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
look at his whole body. I know he don’t have his right hand and his left leg,
so I said to him “So what?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Of
course you don’t care once you follow your anger, but you have to know that
everyone is born to have destiny in their life. Some of us might born with
nothing and some are born with everything, but when we live, the choice that we
made create our path for the destiny.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Choice?
What choice do I, a slave, have in the future?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
don’t know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hah!
See? Even you don’t know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
do not underestimate what god has given, because he knows more than us. You
have to remember, this place is not the whole world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“…”
Somehow those words hold me, although I don’t really understand what he meant.
I can feel the rational in my head, but my ego and anger still continues “(Tsk),
I shouldn’t have taken the knife from your house…” And I give it back to him. I
should have taken something else before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Even
if you take something else, I will stop you.” Answer Penglipur Lela, it’s like
he knows what I am thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“…”
I didn’t look at him, because I bear my grudge at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
let’s go back and sleep.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
don’t want to answer him. He is such an annoyance. I hate him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">………………………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’re
late!!” shout Megat Damai inside the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yeah,”
I just answer him without look at him. Penglipur Lela then walks by himself to
his bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
Yop, take off your clothes!” shout Megat Damai while opening something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What?
Why?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I’m
going to put this ointment at your back! This is the medicine from the eastern
ship, I heard that it’s very effective!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“….”
I can’t believe him. He comes this way here just to treat my back with such
expensive medicine?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
take off your clothes!!” I wish to refuse him, but knowing his stubbornness, I
take off my clothes and show my back at him. He then put the ointment at my
back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Does
it sting?” ask Megat Damai, worrying I didn’t react like I’m in pain when he
puts it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No…”
Actually, it is sting. But rather than that, the pain in my heart that hurts
whenever I see him is gone. I wish he didn’t treat me like this, and then I can
stab him without any other feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Done!
Now it’s time for bandage!” And he bring out the new bandages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“There’s
no need Megat-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
said let me do it!!” So I let him bandages my body. At first, he wraps it
around my back, and it loosen up, and then he tries again and again. I wish to
say something, but he must insist that he wants to do it, so I just let him be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Finish!!”
said him after his 10th tries. “Well, how do you feel?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Better,
Megat Damai.” It’s the truth. This time he finally did it better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“(Giggles),
you’re welcome.” I can’t help but smile at him. He is a kind child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“And
also, Yop.” He comes closer to me. His cheering face turned to sad. “I’m sorry.
It’s because of me that you got hit badly by father.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes
it is,” said me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Therefore,
I won’t come to meet you again. But can I ask you something?” this is
surprising, this is the first time he ask me. Usually he always orders me
around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Listening
him ask me like this, I finally give in “Sure, what is it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Can
I sleep with you tonight?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Wha?
But this house is not comfortable like your house.“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
know, but it doesn’t matter. I want to spend my time with you, even for
tonight.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
if Temenggung Gelor realise you’re not at home-“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
I will wake him up long before the dawn coming,” said Penglipur Lela. It seems
he heard our conversation from the beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
will rearrange the bed so that all of us can sleep together.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Penglipur
Lela…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now,
now, let’s do this and sleep at once!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
we pushed the bed away and lay a large blanket on the floor. I sleep in the
middle while Megat Damai is at my left and Penglipur at my right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“This
is so fun!” said Megat Damai happily. I can’t understand why this is fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Penglipur
Lela is already asleep. After a while, Megat Damai is also asleep. I still
can’t understand why he can sleep on hard floor, but not long after that, I
felt sleepy, and I fall asleep comfortably.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
I woke up, Megat Damai is not be seen anywhere. Then that means he have gone
home while ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Me
and Penglipur Lela then rearrange the bed and clean up ourselves at the river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Right
when almost arrive at the house “Sir Penglipur Lela!” a man is waiting in front
of the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What
is it?” ask Penglipur Lela.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“There’s
an unknown foreign ship that come today. The people inside are speaking in a
language that we never heard, please help us!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
see.” It looks like Penglipur Lela has a job. Then I have to stay in the house…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yop,
come with me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Eh?
Why?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Look
at me.” And he waves his right hook and his left empty leg. “I need help.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">At
the dock, the market is buzzling as usual. The foreign people from many
countries are actively making trades and selling their merchandise, except
these foreigners from unknown ship who are having trouble in communicating with
the locals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Drats…”
said the local merchants, scratching his head “I can’t understand anything…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“##@@$$%%...”
The foreigners are also making the hard face trying to talk. His blood on his
face can be seen clearly as these people have very pale face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“He
doesn’t speak Chinese or Indian, I don’t know what language he is speaking…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“English,”
said Penglipur Lela, arrived at the scene. “It has been a long time since I
hadn’t heard this language.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“English…”
Hearing those words, I began to realise “then, these men…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
they are the people who went to the ‘new land’ and meet the people who have red
skin. And the leader of this ship must be Sir Columbus.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">One
of the foreigners comes near Penglipur Lela. It seems he’s the leader as his
clothes are different than the others, and his face is paler than his other
men. But there are also his men that are in different colour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
they talk to each other with the language that I never heard before. But I look
at the unknown ship that I have never seen. The crafty work that I have never
seen at the outer ship, making me wonders what the outside world would look
like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yop!”
shout Penglipur Lela “Come here, I need your help!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes?”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Please
escort these men around this place.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Anywhere?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yup.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
why?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Because
these men want to see this place and record their travels about this place.
They are planning to create a world map.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“World
map?” I wonder how the whole world would look like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Realising
my though, Penglipur Lela ask the man something. He then brings out a whole
large piece of rolled paper. The local merchant brings out the table, and they
spread the paper to see the contents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“This
is our country,” said Penglipur Lela while pointing at a very tiny speck of the
drawing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What!!
So small!!!” shout me as I seeing it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“It
is. And this world map is still incomplete yet. They are trying to travel
further more to the other side of the earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No
way…” said me as I astonish with this finding. I can’t believe the world that I
am living is so large. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Also,
in the middle of this world, is the land that full of sand, and at this upper
part is a very cold land that the water can turn into ice,” said Penglipur Lela
while pointing at the map with his hook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Wow…”
I still can’t believe what I have heard. “I wish I could go to see all of
this…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“<i>Are you interested, young man</i>?” ask Sir
Columbus to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Eh?”
I was surprised when he suddenly comes at me asking the question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“He’s
asking whether you’re interested about this world map.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes
I do, sir.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“<i>Then do you want to travel with us</i>?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“He
asks you if you want to travel with them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What!!”
I can’t believe what I have heard! I want to go!! “But I’m an owned slave, I
can’t go without my master’s permission.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
Penglipur Lela talks to the man. He then says something that makes him
surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yop,”
say Penglipur Lela to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Let’s
go to Temenggung Gelor’s house. Sir Columbus wants to buy you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">……………………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
sit a few miles away from Temenggung Gelor’s house, as I am not allowed to come
near the house. Inside the house, Sir Columbus together with Penglipur Lela are
now talking to Temenggung Gelor about buying me. Even I still can’t believe
what I have heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But I can imagine what
Megat Damai is doing right now. He must be spying those people right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Darn
it, I wish to know what happened inside too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Long
after that, Penglipur Lela and Sir Columbus comes out from the house. I walk toward
them, wishing to know what has happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“<i>Yop,</i>” say Sir Columbus with a smile. He
then give me a hand “<i>Nice to meet you,
boy</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“…”
I don’t know what to do but Penglipur Lela said to me, “Give him a handshake,
child.” And I give him a handshake. He smiles more as I do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
then we walk back to the dock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As
we walk, “Penglipur Lela, what happened inside the Temenggung Gelor’s house?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“When
Temenggung Gelor heard about it, he against it, saying you’re too young and
incompetent to go sailing. But when he wants to buy you with 10 pieces of gold,
he say nothing much.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
will go with them, child.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">My
goodness, this is very unbelievable… I can’t believe I will sail to the other
side of the earth. Then, I will witness by myself everything that Penglipur
Lela has told me before. It’s like dream that come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But
then, those people suddenly say something to each other. And then Sir Columbus
talks to Penglipur Lela. He then surprised, but he takes a deep breath and
tells me, “The monsoon is coming sooner than expected, they have to sail soon
or they have to wait another year.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
I ….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
have to sail with them this evening.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
this the all the items you have?” ask Penglipur Lela while he rummaging his
house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes
Penglipur Lela,” answer me while wrapping my whole things with blanket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“….”
After a moment of silence, Penglipur Lela then spoke, “I can’t believe you will
go so soon…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Me
too… it’s so sudden…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
both of us being silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“At
first, I don’t understand the thing about destiny you’re talking about before…
but now, maybe I have understood it a little.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Penglipur
Lela smiles. “The more you live, the more you understand it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Penglipur
Lela.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Thank
you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’re
welcome.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
don’t want to see him?” ask Penglipur Lela to me, as I have ready to go now,
all that left is just entering the ship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No,
I don’t think so.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“That’s
too bad. He will be sad, you know.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
know what he means, but I don’t think I can look back at him, after all I have
been always bear grudge on him and once try to kill him before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“YOP!!!”
shout Megat Damai with his might. “WAIT!!!!!” and he also run with his might.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Megat
Damai…” I am very surprised with his appearance. He hugs me tightly and crying
so hard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Don’t
do that, people are seeing…” My face is getting red as he still not letting me
go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
will come back, right?” ask Megat Damai while sobbing. “I heard that it takes
decades to travel outside, you will come back someday, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Megat
Damai…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Please
come back… You’re my precious brother…” Hearing that, tears almost come to my
eyes. But my ego holds the tears. He might not know that we are brothers, but
for all this time, he must have loved me as a brother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
Megat Damai, you are my precious brother too. When I come back, I want to be on
the same level as you, and tell a lot of story of the other world and leave a
legacy to this homeland.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
it’s a promise.” And he let me go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yup,
promise.” And I wave at him and enter the ship. He waves me back as hard as he
can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“<i>Is that your brother</i>?” ask Sir Columbus
as he looks at Megat Damai.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes
he is, sire.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
the ship set sail, to the new journey for my own destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">………………………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Captain,
captain,” say the young boy who has black skin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mhmm?”
answer the captain. He still sleeps on his hammock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We
have repaired the compass of the ship, please come now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
right.” And he takes a very large piece of paper and then he measure the map
with a great accuracy. And then he looks at the compass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We
are now at 81 North and 123 East, so we will see the land in midday, keep
sailing, no need to change our course.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“That’s
amazing, I still can’t believe how adeptly you are in read this new map,” say
the big man who has red hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Of
course, because I’m the one who made it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Still,
to think you dare to prove the people that there are exist people who live in
the North pole,” say the young white man sitting while writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“And
more…” The dark skin man looks at the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Dinner
is served, everyone,” say the beautiful young woman wearing her beautiful tribe
clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
married a Red Indian girl. You’re a really unexpected man, captain…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“That’s
life men,” He stands up “You never know your destiny.” And he kissed his wife’s
cheek. “Soon, all of you will come to my homeland, and I can show you
everything that I was once told you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
you were once treated badly as a slave there, right?” ask the man with curly
black hair “So why do you come back here again?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Because
I promise to my brother, that I will come back.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-7226523731987193692014-03-31T09:40:00.001-07:002014-03-31T09:40:26.815-07:00Nightmare is over<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
work as a psychiatrist in a hospital 20 miles from this park. It is far away,
but at evening, I always come to see a boy, Mark. Mark just reaches 5 years old
this month. He looks cheerfully playing football with the other children, but I
can see he’s sad sometimes. Mark live with a taxi driver father, a housewife
mother, and three older boys. All of them are not related to him. The mother
wrote diaries about Mark and the father gives me the diaries without his
knowing. Sometimes I came to the park to take pictures, sometimes I came to
release tension, but most of all, I watch him because I need to know his
wellbeing. All of his figures I wrote it in my notebook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
know why he sad, my experience work at hospital tells me. Most of the children
are really easy to read. He knows all of his family are not related to
him. He feels like he’s alone in this
world. And I know that he’s not alone in this world, but I can never approach
him. I can’t do it. It might be better if he not know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark
suddenly comes to the bench where I was sitting. It startled me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Miss,
can you give me the ball?” He says while point his finger near my bench.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
alright, here you go.” I take the ball and toss it to him. He catches the ball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Thank
you very much.” And he goes away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Long
after that, the sky turn red, and all of the children go back home. I have to
go back home too. I packed my things and drive my car back. My home is 30 miles
from this park. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
I arrive, I enter my apartment house. I turn on the lights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
go to my desk and open all the notes that I wrote about Mark. I reread all the
diaries, and notebook of Mark. As I read it, feel relieved, knowing he grew up
healthily. And at the same time I go to my table. I sit on the chair and look
at the board contained a few cut out newspaper from 6 years ago. I look at the
wanted man in the newspaper and its contents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><b>MISSING
PSYCHO KILLER</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">DATE,
place: a killer has gone missing right after the police manage to bring the
killer to the jail. The murderer killed one man brutally and the police
described his crime as something a human cannot do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
police ask the local citizen to not go out at night while the police will make
the search around the area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
inspector states that, “We have a really dangerous monster that still roaming
around this city! Everyone please cooperate with us! We never know what will
happen next!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">For
any citizen that found the man with this face, please contact XXX-XXXXXXXX.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Until
now, the murderer hasn’t found yet. And that is more the reason why I have to
keep my eyes on Mark. I will never forget what he has done and I will send this
bastard to hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Today
it’s raining. No children come to the park. I wrote the note inside the car
about this. But when I look again, Mark is at the park. I rushed off to the
park, bringing an umbrella. I wonder why he comes today…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark
is sitting at a bench. I rush toward him with my umbrella and sheltering him
with my umbrella. “You will catch a cold, little one.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark
look at me sadly. Although he drenched with rain, I can see his tears on his
eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Come,
kid, I bring you to your home.” But he hugged me. I can feel he’s shaking.
Though, I don’t know whether he shaking from sadness or coldness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
don’t want to go home…. Please….” said Mark; with his voice sound like he’s
going to cry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
think for a minute what I should do, and I told him “Come inside my car.” And
he follows me inside my car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
we get inside, I ask him, “Tell me your mother’s number phone, they must be
worry about you.” Actually, I know their phone number and I can call them right
away, but that will arouse the suspicion of Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">At
first, Mark hesitated, but after I persuaded him, he willingly tells me his
mother’s phone number. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Du
du du……du du du<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hello?”
says the housewife in a panic voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
this Mark’s mother?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
woman after hearing my voice immediately knew Mark is on a safe hands and said
“Is Mark alright?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Aside
from drenched from rain, he is fine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Thank
goodness, thank you very much doctor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
turned my face to Mark and ask, “Do you want to talk to your mother?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He
shakes his head. I wonder why he did that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Come
on now; don’t make your mother worried. She worries about you, you know?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
he mumbling something, but I didn’t manages to hear it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What
did you say?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
don’t want to go home…..”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
don’t want to waste more time inside the phone. It will make matters more
difficult. “I’ll bring him to your house, please give me you address.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She
gives me the address, and I closed my phone. Mark began to ask me, “Miss, how
do you know my name?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
realised I make a mistake. I slipped my tongue. This kid realise that I know
his name. Think, what should I say about this, think, oh, right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I’m
a doctor. And your mother knows me. We have met before and she told me many
things about you and her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
see….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
drive my car to Mark’s home. He just looks down as he confused. I wonder what
happened before…. Is there something that I missed?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
I arrived at Mark house, the housewife greets me and brings a towel to dry
Mark. He didn’t say anything until he goes back to his room. “I wonder what
happened to him…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“My
stupid son…..he told Mark that he’s not our family.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
this happened recently?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yeah,
and when Mark know he’s not our family, he cry yesterday and begged us to tell
him more about his family. And then he ran away from home.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
see….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Why
he did this to us…. We didn’t treat him bad, or makes him unhappy… it makes me
really sad….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“It’s
not your fault, he just want to know….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
housewife cried, and I just can look at her weeping. It must be hard for her.
She loves Mark. She even buys an expensive toy for Mark on his birthday. And
once there’s a sports day in kindergarten, she went and participates in parent
and child competition just for him.….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
wonder….. Should I tell him the truth…..things are getting more complicated….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“………..”
After a long though, I open my mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Madam,
let me talk to him about some things. He might need to cool his mind. I will
persuade him to stop running away from home.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Al..alright
doctor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
wait for Mark. He comes outside with wearing casual clothes. I can see he’s
grinning at his face. He might be happy though I don’t know why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
drive the car to amusement park. Most children love to go there. And just as I
expected, Mark is really excited. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
brought him to see the theatre, where there’s Mickey Mouse show on play. As he
watches Mickey dancing around with Minnie, Daisy quarrelling with Donald, and
Pluto running and jumping together, he laugh happily. When they clapped their hand,
he also follows it. I can see how much he enjoys it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
that, I bring him to merry go round, and I lift him up on wooden horse, and
look at him from a distance. As merry go round moving, his smile broadens up,
and wave at me as hard as he can. He was really happy. I can’t stop but smile
for him too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
he finished, I buy him an ice cream, but he want me to eat together with him.
We eat as we walking. As we eat while walking, he holds my hand. I didn’t know
children can be this innocent. It also makes me guilty whether I should tell
him the truth or not…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hey,
hey, hey, what a lovely pair of mother and child,” say the clown, walking with
his hands full of balloons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Well,
I……”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
isn’t my mother pretty?!” said Mark in happy face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Why
yes, she’s so beautiful, I’m jealous of your father.” The clown smiles at Mark.
Mark reply with his smile too. The clown happily takes one balloon from his
hand, and gives it to him. “Here you go, kid, one big balloon for you.” And
Mark holds the balloon. Mark takes it and says, “Thank you very much Mr.
Clown!” and the clown move away whiles him making a funny laugh. As the clown
walks away, Mark gives a big wave to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
we walk to a large bench to finish our ice cream. Mark finishes his ice cream
first and looks at me intensely. I wonder what he’s thinking….. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
finished my ice cream and wipe my face with a tissue. I wonder what I should
say to him first… oh right, “You shouldn’t say that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What
do you mean?” ask Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
tell the clown that I’m your mother. If you mom heard that, she could cry, you
know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
it’s true.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What
do you mean?” His word quite puzzling me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
am not their real family member,” says Mark with full of confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“How
can you be so sure?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“All
my bro told me about it. And also mommy always makes diaries about me. And
daddy always took the diaries out from the house whenever I sleep.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This
is quite surprising. He knows what happen to him every day. “Does your mommy
and daddy do the bad things that make you sad?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Nuh-uh,
they always good to me…… but I don’t think I fit in that family.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
just remain silent. He keeps on talking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Besides,
I want to know where my real family is. I want to meet them and ask them why
they left me. I believe if I live with my family we can live happily.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He
finished his word. And I talked to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Since
they didn’t do anything bad to you, don’t do this to them. They will cry you
know?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But….
I…..”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
should be grateful you live in a kind family, you should be treasure them than
finding your real family that who knows why they left you. It is better if you
don’t know anything about them than knowing something that only break your
heart.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
why you left me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
know….. I know that you are my mother. Ever since I saw you at the park, I always
though, how you looked so similar to me. And you only watch me at the park. How
could you do this to me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“…..”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
sighed….. Should I tell him the truth or shouldn’t I?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mark…..”
And he looked at me with hopes that his answer is right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This
is it… I must tell him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mark,
I am not you mother. You make mistakes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
think this is the best answer I can give to him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Tears
flows in his eyes. He looks down and holds his cry. “but you….. why you….. bring me….. here?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
bring you here to help you calm down and persuade you not to running away from
home. You have made many mistakes. I think this is the best way to tell you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No……
YOU’RE LYING!!!” and Mark throws the ice cream’s wrapper at me and running away
from me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
HATE YOU!!!!!” he cried while running. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This
is really bad, I have to follow him. Mark began to running faster and faster
and into the bushes. The light is dim, and there’s no moon out here, and the
surrounding is really dark. I searched for him while I was shouting, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mark?
Mark?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
a few moments, I realised that he’s gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark
is running as fast as he can. He is really angry, but deep inside, he feels his
heart crushed. And many more feelings that mixed inside him. He is becoming
confused. Why she bring him here? If she isn’t his mother, why she look so
similar to him? Why he shouldn’t look for his real family? And many more
thoughts come to his mind, making him more confused….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
running for so long, he feels really tired and thirsty. He just wants everything
to go away. And then, he realised how lonely he is just by thinking he doesn’t
have any family. Tears began to flowing in his eyes. He doesn’t want this to
happen to him. Why is this happening? Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">His
cry is heard by a man. The man wears good looking long jacket, and his hair is
smooth back, he has a kind face, and he looks like a man who work as a
businessman. The man come and wipes his tears. “Why are you crying, little one?
A man shouldn’t be crying.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Leave
me alone!” shout Mark and he pushed his hand away from his face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
man try to apologize “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean…” but Mark doesn’t want to
listen to him, and Mark tried to run away from him but he manage to caught
Mark. Mark struggle with all his might but the man tries to talk to him. “wait
little one! Where is your family?!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Hearing
his words, Mark couldn’t hold his tears and cry with all his might. The man
tries to calm him down but he cries louder. Finally, he lifts him and hugged
him just like a father would do to a child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“There,
there. Dear little one, please don’t cry. I will help you find your family.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Family?
But who is my family? Ask Mark while being hugged. He wants to cry again, but
after he is being comforted by him, he slowly stopped crying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“There,
now you stopped crying. You are a good kid.” And he put him down. Then that man
realise Mark’s face has snot. He takes
out his handkerchief, but a picture fall out of his pocket. After that man
clean his face, Mark take his picture and he surprised with the photo. It was a
wedding picture of the doctor and that man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
that picture…” say the man but Mark cut his word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
this woman is your wife?” ask Mark, with a surprised face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
she was. But 6 years ago she’s gone without any trace. Have you seen her?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark
felt that he has found a clue to his journey in searching for his family and
reply “Yes. I know her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Not
here….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Not
here……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Not
here……..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark….
Where are you…….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
police and I search for Mark. He has gone for a few hours. I had no choice but
to call Mark’s foster parents to inform them about Mark’s disappearance. Some
of the police even make a trough investigation to other places. Then, a phone
call appears in my cell phone. I answer the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hello?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Doctor?
This is bad, the patient in the room 122…” the nurse calls me in quite a panic
voice. But I must cancel her request.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I’m
sorry, I can’t right now. Give her some anaesthetic…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We
did, but she doesn’t sleep. And she injured one of the nurses. Please help us.”
Ask the nurse. This time, I have no choice but to go back to the hospital to
help the nurse. I ask the police to help me search for Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
walk to the car and start the engine. I start the car with full speed; hoping
things can be done quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As
I move the car, I realised what I have done to Mark maybe too harsh to him….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
young man, tell me where’s your mommy, I will bring you home to her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
sir, can you tell me more about your wife?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Why,
Little one?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
just want to know more about her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
see…” And he caresses Marks head. “very well, I will tell you but you must tell
me where’s your mommy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
don’t worry mister.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
the man aid Mark to bring him back home. …………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Later
that night, I got a call from the mother that Mark’s safe. Thank god nothing
happened to him. And around that time, I have to continue my work on the
patient in room 122 as the patient’s situation getting serious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">2
weeks later<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Ring
ring ring, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A
phone call from somebody that I don’t know. I answered the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Who
is it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“It’s
me, Mark, doctor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh
hello, Mark.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
haven’t seeing you for a while.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yeah,
being busy in work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
when will you have ample time?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Maybe
this evening.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
let’s meet at the park, I want to meet you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Then
at the evening, I come to the park and meet Mark. Mark seems very happy upon
seeing me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
have been waiting for you!” said Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Re-really?”
answer me hesitating. It feels weird to be friendly with him because before at
the amusement park, I made him cry and lost him. But since this makes him happy
then I guess it’s okay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
want you to meet someone!” said Mark happily while pulling my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Who?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“The
person who helped me last night!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Alright….”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
I just follow him to meet the person who helped him. We walked for quite a
while to an apartment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Here?”
I ask him, hesitated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes!
He stay at the top floor!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Alright,
since you are very determined about this.” And we enter the apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
we arrived, Mark knocked the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Knock,
knock, knock,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Come
in,” said the person inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">There’s
a man at the end of the hall. Mark quickly opens the door and run inside to
meet this man “Father!!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Father…?”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">No…
no way……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “John….. Sawyer….?” I was very surprised with
the sight of that man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
it’s me Lydia. Are you forgetting me, dear?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Father,
I bring mom!!” said Mark happily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
Mark is a good boy,” said him while pet Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“GET
AWAY FROM HIM, MARK!!!” And I point a gun at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mo..mom?”
ask Mark in confusion. And that man lifts Mark. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
are you going to shot me? Mark can get hurt too you know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“let
him go!!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’re
the one who should let go of the gun.” And he points the gun at Mark. Mark
shuddered with fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
have called the police. You have no other way to escape.” But the truth is I
don’t. I just hope he fell for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh
you don’t have to worry. I have an escape plan.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">THUNK!!
A hit comes from behind me! There’s …. Another…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Thump!
I fainted with that hit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Father!!
What are you doing?!” shout Mark as he is very surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">My
consciousness is wavering….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’ll
see, son…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">POP!!
The sound of bottle champagne is opened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Congratulation,
Lydia!!” shout an old man, holding the bottle for the wedding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Thank
you,” reply Lydia. Her wedding dress makes her more beautiful than ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’re
finally married to our beauty staff, John Sawyer,” said the old man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Aww,
boss. It’s all thanks to you, you know?” said John, with a smile toward his
boss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Being
humble, huh? Come on, you’re the groom, act like the man of event!” And he
patted his back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Sis!!”
shout Airy. She’s panting with short breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Airy!
You just arrive here?!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Ha
ha ha, better late than never,” reply Airy with a smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
you little…. (snicker) how’s the study?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Uhh,
I got more work from than usual… don’t remind me that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes
dear, and good luck for your final.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Thanks,”
Smile Airy toward her sister. She is on her final semester of her school at the
foreign country. But that doesn’t stop her to have time to come to her sister’s
wedding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Congratulation,
John Sawyer,” said an unknown man that suddenly shows up from nowhere. Somehow
his presence is hard to notice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
thanks man,” said John Sawyer, startled by his sudden appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“And
congratulation to you too, Lydia Vane, oh, I should call you Mrs Sawyer now,” said
the man with a smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Thank
you very much,” reply Lydia with a smile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
that man goes away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Sis,
do you know him?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“(Laugh),
no I don’t. John?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Nope,
I don’t know. Boss?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hmm,
I can’t remember his name… but he’s actually come at the same time as you,
John.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What?
But I didn’t know…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Well,
his presence is hard to notice, he’s not a social guy, but at least he done his
work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hmm….”
And Airy look at him walks away with a grim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
didn’t know that time is the beginning of the terror I can never forget….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We
are here,” said John while arriving at a port with a car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“….”
Mark just kept silent while he sits beside unconscious Lydia, tied with rope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Oh,
I’m sorry son, you must be uncomfortable there,” said John toward Mark who sits
beside Lydia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Father,
where are we going?” ask Mark as he can’t comprehend his situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
see, son, we have to get away from here,” reply him with a grin. And he lifts
her outside and brings her toward a boat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Why?”
ask Mark while following him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“There’s
a bad guy that wants to take you from us. He is very wicked and evil.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Then
why mommy sends me to my adopted parents?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Because
she wants to keep watch you from the bad guy from afar. That man is very
dangerous if he knows about you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
he very bad?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
and she didn’t even tell me about it…. it really heartbreak me…” And he put her
inside the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He
patted Mark’s head “…she gave birth to you and didn’t tell me about it…. I
wonder how she could do this to me…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark
felt sad hearing his word. John realise it and hug Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“There,
there, you’re a good child.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Father….”
And Mark hugs him back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now,
father need to take some things.” And he let go of Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Let
me go with you!!” said Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Really?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yeah,
I want to spend more time with you!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Alright
son, let’s go.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
they walk out of the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“……”
I just can grunt to hold my anger. I can’t believe he spout such nonsense
toward Mark. And here I though he has an ally that hit me from behind, but in
actuality, he hit me from behind with his own trap that he has made. But it is
very obvious, there’s no way he has friend from beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But
I can’t let go of this chance. I take out of my pocketknife I hid at one of my
shoe and cut the rope that ties me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
rope has cut! Now I need to get out of here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Tak
tak tak tak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">!!
He’s arriving!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“!!”
Mark surprised with me awake and untied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mom-“And
I snatched him as fast as he can. Luckily that man didn’t realise anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Mark
struggling as I cover his mouth with my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mark,
listen to me. Everything that man says to you, all of it, is a lie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He
still keeps struggling. “Listen, you have to believe in me. That man is very
dangerous.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“How
could you say like that to me…” said John.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“!!”
I turn my side quickly! He has arrived!! I quickly move away from him!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“
Please don’t let me do this.” And he point a gun toward me “I don’t want to
hurt you, Lydia dear.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
psychotic bastard…” I check back what I have right now. This is bad, he has a
gun. And I just have a knife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mom!
Father! Please stop!” shout Mark as he burst to tears “Can’t we be together as family?!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“MARK!”
I shout at him with anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
he jumps toward the boat and get in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
boat is shaking so much, making me unable to stand up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But
that doesn’t mean I can’t fight him back!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Using
this momentum, I pull his shirt and push him toward the sea! “TAKE THIS!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“!!“ Splash! He fell into the sea!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
carry Mark and run to the land as fast as possible!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mom!
How did you do that?!” said Mark with a surprised face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Judo.
I have train martial arts for this day.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
run to the office port as fast as possible. But there’s nobody inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
put Mark down and tell him “Stand aside,” and I opened the door using the knife
to destroy the door lock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
door is opened; I enter the door and search for the phone. Once I found the
phone, I quickly call Inspector Briggs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Du
du du, du du du *pip* inspector Briggs here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“It’s
me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Doctor?
What is it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“That
guy is in this xxxx port.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“!!
How…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
was kidnapped together with a kid.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
see, I will come as fast as possible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Call
reinforcement, he has a gun.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Understood.”
And I close the call.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
then I search the office things that can be used as a weapon. But there’s none,
so I need to use my knife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mom…”
Mark look at me with a very sad eyes “Father didn’t kidnap us….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“He’s
not your father.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“LIAR!!
WHY ARE YOU LYING!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No
Mark, I’m not lie…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
even deny that you’re not my mom….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
wish I could explain everything to him, but not now. I have to be quick. I
opened the locker and put Mark inside the low locker. But this locker is shut
air tight, I can’t lock this locker either shut it tight or Mark can’t breathe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Having
no other choice, I tell Mark “Now be a good boy and stay here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Mom!”
shout him angry “You didn’t even tell me the truth!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Mark, we are dealing with a very dangerous
person. I don’t want you to go out no matter what, until the police come.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No!
Tell me now!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
might not understand, but I never lie to you from the beginning.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Huh….?”
Mark becoming silent, can’t comprehend with what I’m talking about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
will explain to you everything after this, just believe me this time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“….”
He just continue to be silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Okay,
don’t go anywhere.” And I went out with my knife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This
will be the final battle between me and him. Everything that happened for so
long will be end right now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
walk to the harbour while hiding carefully, not to be seen by him. But I still
didn’t find any trace of him. Where could he be right now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
adrenaline rush to my head, I instantly turn my head to see him jump more than
5 meter toward me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">STOMP!
He fell on the ground with his knee! His face is dissatisfied as I manage to
avoid him at last minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’re
quite agile, dear,” said him with a psychotic smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
look at him. He doesn’t point my gun at me and there’s no sign that he carry
any gun, which means he lost it in the sea. Now this time I’m at the advantage,
I have knife at my right hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But
I was wrong. He moves very fast and tries to kick me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
avoid it and stab his eye with all my might! But he evades it by moving his
head a bit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But
what surprise me the most is he didn’t move at all after that. He looks at me
with a smirk. “Got you.” And hit my hand until I throw off my knife!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Agh!!”
grunt me as my hand is in pain! It’s as if my hand’s going to break! I run away
as fast as I can! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This
guy… is very not normal. He doesn’t even blink an eye when that knife an inch
from his eyes, which shows he doesn’t feel any danger even by reflect movement.
Besides, he doesn’t show any pain when fall from 5 meter directly by his own
knees. Even if we just say he has learn martial arts to the level of being a
ninja, of course it is possible, however, to do that there are techniques that
using the law of physics to overcome it or he also can get injuries at the
knees and other problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After
I manage to get away from him, I try to catch up my breath, thinking a plan to
fight him back. Since he can’t feel any pain from his body, I can use this as
my advantage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I
saw you!” shout him as he sees me and running as fast as he can. Seeing him
like that, I dashed myself toward him as fast as I can!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He
raises his hands to catch me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But
I lowered my upper body and kick his knee with my foot!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Krack!
The sound of bone breaking is heard! Just as I though, his knee is injured!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He
fall down, and can’t stand up. After struggling a while, he looks at me with a
sad face “Why… Why are you doing this, Lydia?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
stand up, trying to catch my breath and seeing him cowering slowly in fear and
sad “It’s me, your husband, John Sawyer…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Seeing
him like that really make me loathe him, and his injury is not enough to atone
what he has done. “Claustrophobia….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“What…?”
His eyes blinked, wondering what I am talking about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Post-traumatic
stress disorder, acute stress reaction, paralysing anxiety, uncontrollable
dramatization and suppression, mood swing, insomnia and panic attack!” I kick
his stomach with all my might!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Urgh!”
He coughs up after being kick by me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You
think I can stop punishing you after what you have done to Lydia?!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Wha…”
He startled by my words. “You… who are you…?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Now
you remember who I am, ‘John Sawyer’? Or should I say Mr. unknown?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “No…
No!! I am John Sawyer!!! I have proof!!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Your
dissociative identity disorder is very bad. To the point you have burned your
identity and murder the real John Sawyer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Are
crazy?! Can’t you see this face?! It’s the same with that picture!!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">SMACK!
A direct punch to his face! I pull his collar “And worse of all, you changed
your face and ripped his face and force my sister to live with you!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No…
You’re wrong…” said him unconsciously. His nose is bleeding from my punch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
that… true..?” said Mark. He looks at me at a distant. “Then… he is not my
father?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes.”
And I let him go and walk toward Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“…”
Mark looking at me hesitantly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
rub his face to calm him down “I know this is hard, and that’s why I told you
that it’s better not to know about your parents.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Uuuu….”
And Mark’s tears falling down. I hug him to let him cry at my bosom. Finally,
the chase to find this psycho is over, and I give a relieved sigh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">On
this evening, I drove myself to the park. I walk to the bench and sit on it.
The children are playing around the park happily except Mark. He just sit at
the bench for a long time, and he didn’t realise I was beside him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Are
you okay?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Nuh-uh,”
reply him without looking at me. He just looks down with his face swell because
of tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Seeing
him that way, I wrap him with my right arm. He then leans on my body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I’m
sorry.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Why?”
ask Mark while hugging me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Because
I did not becoming your guardian and raise you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Why
didn’t you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Sis-
I mean your mother is in very serious condition. She needs to be continuously
monitored for almost everyday, and I have no other choice but to let your
foster parents to adopt you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“…..”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“The
only thing I can do is watching you from afar.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“But
you should tell me…” And he is sobbing “At least I know I am not alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Ah.
I didn’t think about that. “I’m sorry, Mark. I should have told you from the
beginning.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And
he hugs me tightly “Aunty Airy…” He put his face on me, trying not to show his
crying face “I can meet my mother, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
hug him back “Someday, when she is better.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Promise?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Promise.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
felt Mark’s smile while hugging me. “Thank you…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You’re
welcome. Let me drive you back home.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes.”
And I send him back to his foster parent’s home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Then
I drive myself to the hospital. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Inside
me, I felt regret. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
true reason why I didn’t take Mark into my custody is because his existence can
remind my sister of her own husband and remember that horror moment. Right now,
her mind is reverted to the time before my sister meets John Sawyer.
Furthermore, recently, when she saw children she can entered panic attack due
to the trauma from the past. She has now entered critical condition where she
has to stay in my hospital. I worry with my sister as her situation is
worsening. And I also regret that I make promise with Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
the hospital, I entered room 122. The window is shut tightly, and there are
nothing much in this room except bed and my sister, Lydia who is sleeping on
her bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
sit on the bed, watching her sleep. It was rare for her to sleep without the
aid of anaesthetic. Both her eyes are darkening, and she has some white hair on
her messy head. She’s also getting thinner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Sis…”
Seeing her make me feel helpless…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Nnn…”
She wake up, hearing my whisper “Ai…ry…?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes,
it’s me sis.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“How’s
your study?” ask her while smiling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“As
usual, the teacher is being strict on me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hahaha,
you’re such a troublemaker,” laugh her happily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Somehow
she looks different when she woke up “You look better than before, sis.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is
that so?” And she brushed her short hair that fall on her face “I just dreamed
that my nightmare has over.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Hearing
that, I thought to try to say the taboo word that she doesn’t want to hear
“Then, do you know John Sawyer?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“John
Sawyer? Who is he?” said her. She still doesn’t remember her husband, but she
doesn’t scared or show any sign of panic attack. She is getting better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“….”
I am surprised that she doesn’t frighten with that word like before and I
hugged her quickly, “Whoa!” Sis surprised with my hug “What’s wrong, Airy?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No,
it’s because my nightmare is also over.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-39297544017589164152014-03-04T08:11:00.001-08:002014-03-04T08:11:11.567-08:00Ricky Tuftyhead VS Beauty and the BeastWhen we are talking stories about true love between ugly and beauty, most people always reminded with beauty and the beast<br />
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(note: you know what this is already, repetitive is unneeded.)<br />
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Where a beautiful girl fallen in love with a beast after she has been forced to stay with beast, the beauty fall for his gentleness, and they happily together. The end.<br />
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This is where most people said 'What a wonderful tale.' but not for me.<br />
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Ever since I was small (The time my mom read me bedtime story), I don't like Beauty and the Beast (except Disney movie, they are legendary) because I have read the best love story about ugly and beauty in Ricky Tuftyhead<br />
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(note: Ricky tuftyhead meet the princess)<br />
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For those who don't want spoiler, here the link to read,<br />
<a href="http://books.google.com.my/books?id=ey4pUNE8NkMC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=ricky+tufty+head&source=bl&ots=SruxQT__T_&sig=UPsCO8E99lgKjwukbTzJVwrqoeA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=s_MVU-7vO8mKrQfhyoGADQ&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ricky%20tufty%20head&f=false">http://books.google.com.my/books?id=ey4pUNE8NkMC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=ricky+tufty+head&source=bl&ots=SruxQT__T_&sig=UPsCO8E99lgKjwukbTzJVwrqoeA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=s_MVU-7vO8mKrQfhyoGADQ&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ricky%20tufty%20head&f=false</a><br />
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For those who has read or too lazy to read, allow me to summarize what this story is about.<br />
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This is the story of Ricky who is ugly but smart. The fairies has said that Ricky has the ability to give his intelligent to whomever he loves. At the same time, there is beautiful princess but stupid. The fairies also said that the princess can give her beauty to whomever she loves, but her beauty will be halved. Because the princess is too stupid, she is very sad, until Ricky said that he can make her smart with one promise : marry him (he also give the princess time to reconsider for a whole year). Since she is stupid, she agree directly. Once she became smart, she regret it and reconsider the marriage. Now this part is what I love the most : Ricky Tuftyhead ask the princess if she hate any part of him, but the princess said that she loves everything about him. Hence he then said "If that is so, you have made me the most handsome man in the world." (Now that is true love.) Even if it is true or not Ricky turn handsome like what fairy said, it does not matter anymore, as they are live happily ever after (the end).<br />
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I like this story more than beauty and the beast because:<br />
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<li>Ricky does not force princess to live with him, instead he do like what intelligent man do</li>
<li>The princess has a choice to accept or to decline (as only brutes doesn't give freedom)</li>
<li>No need a kiss to turn the guy into beauty or to prove the true love</li>
<li>This tale can even happen in real life (true story)</li>
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Although I wish the author of this story can make a happy ending for other character, this story really touching my heart and I wish somebody can make a cartoon movie out of this. People need to know that there are a lot of stories that better than usual fairy tales.</div>
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<br />talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-41400326847315212442014-01-31T00:58:00.000-08:002014-01-31T00:58:10.579-08:00God's Wrath<div class="MsoNormal">
In the night, the full moon appeared after hiding from the
cloud. </div>
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It is at its peak. </div>
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The land sung the silent song, without knowing the
existence of the life on the sky.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A magnificent creation is flying beside the cloud, moving
without direction. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The moon watches the creation. It is a castle, move without
using any logical reason. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why does it floating? Though the moon, and it shines
brightly to discover the castle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Slowly, something is moving at the castle. And it falls
down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is the brick that belong to the castle. </div>
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The brick that
holds the castle slowly falls down. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And he knows that, as he becomes one with the castle, and
his sight can even see the castle that is falling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He is inside the castle, looking at the moon that shines
brightly to watch him who holds this castle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And as he sees the castle is starting to crumble and fall,
he can’t believe how beautifully it is destroyed, as it is design to fall
according to god’s wish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He smiles, knowing that his ending is near. For he knows
what he has done is something that deserves this ending.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As more and more brick falling, the more he remembers
everything that starts this ending.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before, he is not the
owner of this castle, but a man who thirst for power that human should never
seek, the power that need to include the devil’s contract.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The devil tells him his ending will be god’s wrath, but he
does not care the consequences that befall on him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As he manages to obtain the power, the devil bid him
farewell, leaving him to do it as he see it fits.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He then obtains everything he wants, until he gets this
castle and other things that human normally want and he keep on taking
everything. With the power that he own, people around him wants his power
and tries to take it from him, giving him more reason to keep his power.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He then got tired with human’s whim and annihilates
everything that bothers him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Without realising it, he lost everything except the castle.
But why? Why does he not get what he really wants? Why does he suffer for this?
And many more question come to him, until he asks himself, is this the god's wrath?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was then he realise, everything that he keeps on asking is
answered. God forbids the power that comes from the devil as he knows what the
devils have always wants human to suffer. It was his ignorance that causes himself
to suffer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And thus, he can’t control the power he has anymore. He has
united with the castle and floating without any direction. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But he does not sad, as with this, he can see for himself
the wrath that god has made for him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The castle began to crumble, and more bricks falling down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As he watches this destruction, he mesmerized by its beauty. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And finally, he falls down, leaving him without any power to
help himself.<o:p></o:p></div>
talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-42535151002014660022014-01-03T09:33:00.001-08:002014-01-03T09:33:29.025-08:00I Love You!!!<div>
When we are born, we are taken care by protecting us against danger, keeping us from hunger and sheltering us with comfortable homes by our parents or guardians. They taking care of us without whining or give up although we are a helpless creature, unable to do anything except crying.</div>
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By the time we manage to stand up with our two feet and walk away from them, we are taught by our friends, enemies, and surroundings how this world works and how to live with it.</div>
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From this moment, </div>
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Have you ever wondered how far you have come to this present if not because of help you received when you are helpless?</div>
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Thus, I have realized that from the moment I was born, I was loved. </div>
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I manage to survive until now because I have been loved.</div>
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I manage to overcome the hurdle I have faced because love support me. </div>
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My life have ups and downs, I have enemies and friends, however I do not sad nor despised, because this is love that I have been receiving!!</div>
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Therefore I want to tell everyone, everything and any existence that existed in this world...</div>
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I LOVE YOU!!!!</div>
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YOU HAVE GIVEN ME LOVE THAT TEACHES ME TO BE WHAT I AM</div>
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NEVER FOR A MOMENT I SHOULD BE HATING FOR ALL THE LOVE THAT I RECEIVED</div>
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OOH, THAT IS WHY I AM GIVING LOVE</div>
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BECAUSE</div>
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Shrieeek!!! Pong!! Kang Dong!!!!!!! *sound effect of loudspeaker destroyed*</div>
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Smash!!!! CRASH!! *sound effect of smashed things like mirror and vase and such*</div>
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James!! How many times I told you stop singing this late at night!!! And when are you going to pay your rent???!!!</div>
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LANDLADY!!!</div>
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WHAT?!</div>
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I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!</div>
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GET LOST ALREADY!!!!!</div>
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(James, walking with a broken mike and ukulele)</div>
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Ohh, why can't she accept my love(crying)....</div>
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"No." reply mother without any hesitation.<br />
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"Please, I can take care of it."<br />
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"No." Again, without any moment of though.<br />
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"Then what can I do so I can keep it?"<br />
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"Good question. " And we walk to supermarket inside the area where they sell flower's seed.<br />
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"How about we make a deal?"<br />
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"Deal?"<br />
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"I give you the chance to pick any seed that you like. If you manage to raise a flower until it blooms, then you can take the pet that you like, deal?"<br />
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"Alright! You better keep your promise!"<br />
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"Okay, I will."<br />
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So I picked the sunflower seed.<br />
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At first, I bury the seed on the ground. "Now bloom!"<br />
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Mother shaking her head. "A flower can't bloom quickly."<br />
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"What should I do?"<br />
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"You need to water it."<br />
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So I water the seed. 3 days later, a small sprout emerged.<br />
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"I did it!"<br />
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"I can see the improvement."<br />
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I put lots of water to make it bloom quickly! But suddenly the sprout wilted.<br />
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"Why it's wilted?!"<br />
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"Because you're giving too much water."<br />
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Again, I bury the seed and water it. when the sprout come, I giving it less water than usual. The sprout is growing but it's color changing to yellow and died out.<br />
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"Not again!!"<br />
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"You give water too little."<br />
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"Mother, I had enough! This isn't going anywhere! I don't want to do this anymore!!!"<br />
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"How can you keep a pet if you can't even manage the simple living thing like this sunflower?"<br />
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"What?"<br />
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"You have to take more responsibilities when you taking care of small animal than a flower. They are a living thing, not a toy that you can play with."<br />
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"...."<br />
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After that, I dismissed the idea of wanting a pet.<br />
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From then on, I realize the weight of taking care of life and the responsibilities that I must shoulder.talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-78844347066744002972013-11-29T03:54:00.000-08:002013-11-29T03:55:45.551-08:00Today's dream: Alarm clock's revengeHere come another things that I dreamed yesterday morning. That day, I have class at 8 am, so I need to wake up early.<br />
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As the usual morning, my alarm is ringing as usual.<br />
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KKKKKRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGG<br />
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But this time, this noise really bothers me. So I hit it's head and said, "Shut up."<br />
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"You told me to shut up?"<br />
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Huh?<br />
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"You TOLD me to SHUT UP?"<br />
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What's with this alarm clock?<br />
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"How DARE you to told me to SHUT UP!!"<br />
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Angry with what it said, I reply, "Shut up."<br />
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"Fine, you do that, I won't wake you up!! (Running while bring all it's thing) I WON'T WAKE YOU UP ANYMORE!!" And it runs to it's parent's house (This is a dream, remember?)<br />
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And the next thing I know, it's 10 am....talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-6558187019721884312013-11-08T10:34:00.000-08:002013-11-08T10:34:15.598-08:00Tale of princess Farah *The star of your dream again*Once upon a time<br />
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There was a Princess named Farah, who is currently on a castle, waiting to be saved<br />
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Farah: Yes!! Save me!!<br />
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She wants to get off from the castle because nobody is in there<br />
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Farah: Mhm, mhm,<br />
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Because they scared of her<br />
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Farah: *Smack!* Cut that out! What am I, a bad person?!<br />
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*Bzzt* Because she is taken from an unknown place<br />
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Farah: Great. *Keeping her boxer gloves*<br />
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One day, a wanderer come to the castle<br />
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Farah: A handsome guy?<br />
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No, a beautiful woman whose name is Maryam<br />
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Farah: You?! What are you doing in my story?!!<br />
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I'm the one who narrate it, give me a credit, sis<br />
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Farah: Fine, you're in. But don't forget to add handsome guy.<br />
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The wanderer then enter the castle, seeing only a princess wearing shabby clothes with a messy hair<br />
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Farah: Why are you describing me in horrible situation!!!<br />
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The story need to be realistic<br />
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Farah: *Smack!!* Isn't this comedy?!!!<br />
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*Bzzt* *Bzzt* The wanderer then enter the castle, seeing only a princess wearing beautiful clothes with a shiny straight hair<br />
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Farah: Yes, that's me.<br />
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The wanderer seeing such an unbelievable situation, began asking the princess<br />
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Maryam: Is this your castle?<br />
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Farah: Yes it is! *making a pretty face*<br />
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Maryam: Wow, it's so messy, how long you haven't clean it up?<br />
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Farah: Are you talking about the mess in our room right now?<br />
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Maryam: ..... Ehem ehem ehem.....<br />
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Farah: *SMACK* DON'T INVOLVE OUR MESSY ROOM, DAMMIT!!<br />
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Maryam: *bleeding nose(fake)* But I'm just a wanderer, who commenting your castle<br />
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Farah: *SMACK* YOU ALSO INVOLVE IN THIS MESS!!!!<br />
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Thus, the tale is ended by the wanderer clean up her messy castle<br />
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Farah: Do it neatly!!<br />
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Maryam: Yes, sis.<br />
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Waiting for another tale unfold by princess Farah<br />
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Farah: Yay! a continution!!talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-20674475433579771062013-11-08T03:44:00.001-08:002013-11-08T03:44:07.014-08:00Traffic jam.There was once where I ride my car in a very heavy traffic jam. I'm stuck at one place for a long time and worse, the car always trying to enter my lane.<div>
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talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-89402391888659441632013-10-30T10:35:00.002-07:002013-10-30T10:35:38.479-07:00My review on Shadow of the colossus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One day, when I was online (I'm on my vacation, right after back from Korea), I began to feel like playing game. I search for the top old game in ps2 (good glorious age of 3d game). It was then I happened to find <b>Shadow of the colossus</b>. </div>
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Alright, I have decided to play this game.<br />
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Oh my god..... I'm crying.....<br />
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I felt like watching some legendary work by Studio Ghibli but in more mature level.<br />
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but when I show it to my bro, he said this is not fun. Thus I can concluded that this game is amazing but only for some people.<br />
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Well, it doesn't matter, as long I feel this game is amazing to me.talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-1864002750122381742013-10-11T06:48:00.000-07:002013-10-11T06:48:10.718-07:00Somewhere in time...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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listening to this song makes me in tears. I can't think how preciously the moment we have when hearing/listening/perceiving something that can really touch/move the heart. And when it ends, we would be sad because it's over.<br />
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However, the beauty of it is the moment we have to listen to it. It is something that we should never forget, and never to regret in spending it.<br />
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Some people might saying what the heck am I talking about, but it does not really matter (I'm not mad you know) because for this moment, I want you and I to appreciate every moment in your life and fill it with what you will never regret.... (The good thing, not bad thing)talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536524600453985187.post-12464490615676886142013-10-04T07:06:00.000-07:002013-10-06T10:20:25.572-07:00fanfic fallout 3 (from my imagination)Woot, woot, I'm Fallout 3 fans. Right now I got an idea to make new story about the people in apocalypse world. hope you enjoy.<br />
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In a small abandoned building, there's two guy who live inside. they are the scavenger that doesn't belong to any guild, but they live with the orders from their clients whom they haven't met face to face but by through radio.<br />
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Their life is simple, but they are quite renown for their skill. until one day...<br />
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*Hello, Dirty Dogs? over?* says the voice in the radio that one tall guy answer it.<br />
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He push a button and answer the radio "Dirty Dogs here, Client?"<br />
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*Oh yes, it's me, remember?* says the man in the radio. He sounds like a chinese man who work in business.<br />
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"Negative." And he tries to close the radio, but<br />
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*Wait a sec, I have two news.* and he hold his button *One is good and one is bad, which you want?*<br />
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"Good."<br />
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*Great, one is Dirty Dogs is now recognised by the Wasteland.*<br />
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"Really? Hey mate!" shout him toward his sleeping mate. "The Wasteland now know us! We get famous!"<br />
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*And the bad thing is... somebody hire a Hyena to kill you guys.*<br />
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"Wait, WHAT!!!??"<br />
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*It's true, because he just go after I tell them where you guys are.*<br />
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"WHY ARE YOU TELLING HIM???!!!"<br />
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*He point me a gun, you expect me to be silent? Anyway, it's been so long, so goodbye.(click)*<br />
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"Shit! Hey get up!" and he ready to pack his weapon.<br />
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"I am," and he packing up all his comic books, vault clothes and many more clean water.<br />
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Slap! A slap from his tall friend landed on his face "Do you think we're on vacation?! Take all the weapons, mate!"<br />
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"Oh come on," and he shrugged his head."My gun is broke, and i don't have any other weapon, so why not bring others?"<br />
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"Come on, you said? This is Hyena! The smart and dirty assassin! If he landed his eyes on us, I don't know what to do!"<br />
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"Ok, ok," and he waved both of his hand to surrender.<br />
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"Good." and he gives him 2 bomb. "Take this, this is our secret weapon against this guy. Don't waste it, it's the only thing we have."<br />
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"Don't worry, i got this, pal."<br />
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"I give you my hope on ya, mate."<br />
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3 hours later.....<br />
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"All ready, mate?"<br />
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"All ready pal,"<br />
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And they running with all their might, not looking back to their hideout.<br />
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They run and run and run.<br />
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Until a long while, "Hey, mate." said the tall man.<br />
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"Ain't we got 2 bomb, where is it now?"<br />
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"....." still running.<br />
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"......." both of them still running.<br />
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".........."<br />
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"Quit your silence." and he give a kick to his mate "Where is the bomb?"<br />
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"I placed it in the place where the Hyena should be arrive."<br />
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"Where?" and his eyes squinted more toward his mate.<br />
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"Inside the head of the doll in our house and outside the window."<br />
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"Fool!!!" shout him. his blood is boiling with his mate's action.<br />
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"That's the only thing we can counterattack him! What are we going to do? Pray that he kick that doll out of anger and run out the window for safety?!"<br />
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BLAMMMMM!!!!!<br />
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BABLLLAAAM!!!!!!<br />
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And two blast come out from their hiding.<br />
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"..........." Both of them become silent.<br />
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"I didn't know god answer our prayer."<br />
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"I didn't know he really kick that doll."<br />
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"What did you do with that doll until he kick it?"<br />
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"Well, I paste the word 'this is a bomb, kick it' but i didn't know he was that stupid..."<br />
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"Ok, you're a genius, mate."<br />
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"Really?"<br />
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"Yeah, so let's go and find our new hideout, mate."talesagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014721610403154344noreply@blogger.com0