About Miss

What Hugs Down on the Road

I don't know how many secrets nature has hidden from its inhabitants, nor do I know how much life the universe has managed to hide from every creature that exists.

All I know is to live a life full of questions, as I search for an answer even to the voiceless coral.

The evening of the morning together with shame, take the time of each rolling feeling. Full of suspicion and guesswork, it really is not an answer to many questions

what I really look for in life, a sense of curiosity that is so passionate that it often torments the heart.

The first night without Appa, as I've had my instincts changed when Appa wasn't home. It's like having more than double personalities

“sa where you going?” mother asked as I began to step foot out of my mother's room

“mau front brake bu for a while, it feels outside is still crowded”

“ alright but don't take too long outside the weather is not good, you hear? The sound of wind and waves until it sounded loud once” mother again reminded me

“well ma'am I won't be long, just want to make sure the source of this crowd” I reassured mom and went out of the room to the front porch of the house

I saw the neighborhood around me, many residents who compose mounds sacks filled with sand at some point of his house like making a dam, like, I murmured in my heart lulled by the sight of gotong royong cooperating between father and son, son and mother, wife and husband

although not a few of the people here whose attitude and nature sometimes make me feel better not to approach, but more people still have purity and sincerity in their hearts

For some reason my heart always trembles to see a kindness that people rarely do, my tribe is always touched when they see the simplicity, sincerity of people who care for and love each other

the warm scenery of the cold sea breeze to make me forget one thing.

“sa, arsa” sounds like a middle-aged man calling my name, I was surprised

“ehhh uncle, iyah uncle what's wrong?” I spontaneously answered a question from my neighbor Moa's uncle

“walahhhh can-can you daydream while walking sa, your father is there?” said uncle Moa

“heheh, yes sorry uncle, Appa went sailing this morning uncle” I answered uncle's question

“walahhhhh this bad weather ko even sailed” uncle Moa said in wonder while shaking his head

“iyah uncle, but said Appa's mother spent the night on the island sebrang uncle, did not sail there, as well as there is need with his friend on the island sebrang” I tried to explain

“ohhh so apparently, thank goodness if you stop on the island sebrang, uncle thought your father sailed to the middle of there” uncle Moa began to understand after I explained

“kok crowded once what is it?” while chatting with uncle suddenly mom came out to us

“it loh bu, earlier RT sir said the announcement was likely tonight there will be heavy rain, and now the sea water is rising, he said, it is feared that the water rose to the house so that its citizens were urged to stem the house in anticipation” said the uncle explained what the neighbor was doing to the mother

While we were chatting, one by one, little by little water dripped down from the sky, accompanied by a gust of wind that was quite strong, making it seem as if dancing under the darkness of the night, he said, swayed to reach the ground, whether it will survive or disappear just like that

“walahhhhhh already drizzled, but it was announced that it would go down at midnight, then I went back, forgot my house was not impervious, I said yes mother, Arsa, I know, don't forget his house is dammed also mumpung yet big rain” uncle Moa say goodbye while hurriedly leaving us

“iyah uncle, thank you for the information ya” my mother replied with a little shout because uncle Moa had run small leaving us

“sa you enter gih accompany your adek, mother want to bend the back first” mother gave the order to me, but again I ngeyel, how can I let mother dam him alone, so that I can not do anything, plus if suddenly my sister wakes up how.

“no ma'am, let me just dam it, after all just the back of the low? Mother just adek adek inside, the wind is too strong the sound of the waves is also too loud worry he woke up looking for mother”

I refused my mother's request, again because I felt responsible for them having been given good choices sometimes I myself choose the difficult path, sometimes it makes me wonder what's wrong with me.

“you are serious sa, the sack is heavy so let's just mother, you just wait in” mom back memimtaku, not so long heard my adek voice whining from inside

“nahh kan ade wake up, already mom enter just accompany ade, I can ko bu, after all just piling the sack is easier than memorizing the triangle formula pascal” while joking I assure mom

“you're all there, yasudah then be careful yes, if the trouble call mom yes, mom entered first fear adekmu nangis” mother then leave me and enter the house

“ready bu” I smile still reassure mom, while thinking hard how to lift the mound sack filled with sand, really my body portion is too minimalist, but I must be able to take responsibility for my words, the rest I will think about when I see the place directly

Without thinking long I walked towards the back of the house, the rain gradually turned into a lot, my time will not be enough to think about how to arrange it, will be late because the rain is getting heavier.

The only idea that came to my mind at that time was a triangle, I tried to make the dam resemble an isosceles triangle where each pile of sandbags I sorted like a ladder, like a ladder, that way I can climb on top of it and pull the sacks up to the highest part without having to lift fully.

‘Gglllgrrrrrrrrc Ccettttarrrr…. The rumbling and lightning sounds were ringing with the rushing rain, my clothes were already soaked by the water, and faintly heard the sound of my sobbing, I had to finish it off soon otherwise mother would become more worried

It did not pass how long “saaa, the rain was very heavy, a lot of lightning anyway, had entered, it's okay not to continue to let alone” mother's voice from the back door asked me to finish my work

“iyah ma'am is done ko” soon I ran over to mom

“ya pardon flood once you sa, shower first gih use flask water just let warm, then change clothes so as not to catch a cold, then change your clothes, later I make warm tea for you” mother asked me to take a shower immediately while wiping my body soaked

“air thermos bu, why not let me take a bath on the stove alone bu hehehe” I mocked mom while squeezing my clothes so that the floor does not muddy when I pass

“you are there-just sa” mom smiled and then look at my work from behind the door

“saa, new mom saw such a dam, what's the shape sa?” my mom seemed surprised to see it

“that's the shape of a triangle ma'am, but without pascal” I replied as I left my mother for the bathroom