Aunt Melinda

Rain Water And Misting

Two years later.

Linda is already in fourth grade of elementary school. He grew taller, and not like most of his other friends.

He also looked more mature, and unlike his actual age.

It's just that Linda's reserved and timid nature, which still remains the same as it used to be. He is not as brave as his other friends.

If she is playing in the garden, and climbing a tree or a kettle, Linda is just downstairs, waiting for her friend who is on top, to receive some of their gifts.

He did not dare to climb a tree, just like his other companions.

They are just like Linda. The same age as her, and the same sex, that is, girls too.

That is why, Linda who is aware of him if he can not be as brave and segesit as others, more silent and at home.

Linda will just play around, if any friends invite her, and pick her up at home.

"Linda. You're not playing Maya?" ask Linda's mother, who saw her son just stay home all day.

Maya is Linda's playmate. His classmates too, who usually come to invite Linda to play together.

"Son Ma'am. Linda has a lot of PR, and there are some books from the school library, which Linda has to read. You see, he must have been returned again by the day."

That's Linda's habit. He would be at home more often, with book readings, which he borrowed from his school library, which was not so great.

The books are not much different either. Only folklore, or history and culture exist in Indonesia.

But Linda would be happy if she could read it. He felt that if it made him know more, it would not necessarily exist in ordinary school lessons.

"Well, drizzle. Linda, pick up the clothesline! I'd like to follow your father to the rice field. Let's finish quickly and get home before it rains."

From outside the house, Linda's mother screamed at her.

"Yes ma'am" Linda replied, as she was at the door.

Linda saw her mother, who had gone to walk towards the road, which connected the settlement of the villagers, with the road towards the rice fields.

Shortly after, Linda had already lifted all her clothesline into the house. He also closed the window, so that rainwater could not enter the house.

Accidentally, Linda saw her old clothes, which she had worn, while watching dangdut orchestra at Pak lurah's house, that night. And the clothes he had not worn for a very long time, was among a pile of old clothes, which usually meant to be used as a rag, or a tool to clean his mother's kitchen utensils.

It was like there was something in his body, which moved his hand to grab the shirt.

Linda brought her old clothes into the room. Suck it up, close your eyes.

Linda seemed to feel a different sensation, as she recalled the events of that night, just by imagining it.

And this makes Linda her own crime.

He did not know, what happened to him, and a strange feeling, which suddenly appeared and he felt this.

"God..."

Linda sighed with her eyes still closed.

Tok tok!

"Linda. Linda!"

Hearing the call, Linda realized from what she was doing in the room.

"May? what's up, huh?" murmured Linda, by walking out of the room.

The clothes he was holding, he just dumped them in bed.

The door to the house opened Linda from the inside. "Maya, what's wrong? it's been drizzling. I don't want to go to the garden" Linda said, before Maya told her she meant to come to Linda's house.

"Not in the garden. But play the show."

Apparently, Maya invites Linda to play with the rainwater.

"But still drizzle May, not yet raining heavily" said Linda, who remembered her mother's message from a long time ago.

Linda's mother told Linda, if you want to play rain, it's if the rain has fallen hard.

If it is still in a state of drizzle, it is not allowed to play raindrops, because the only drizzling rain, which often makes a person become fever after.

"What if it doesn't hurt?" linda asked at the time, her mother's pepper, while giving her advice.

"Yes. Because you will quickly stop playing rain, when it rains heavily, compared to when it drizzles."

Changes in temperature that are initially normal to cold force the body to adapt more quickly. This extreme temperature difference is what affects the body's endurance. Rainwater that water the head makes the body temperature becomes cooler, especially in the head. As a result, you experience dizziness after the rain.

Some studies say that rain showers can make bones stronger. Negative ions contained in rainwater are believed to produce biochemical reactions, neutralize body acidity and destroy free radicals that cause bone fragility.

So, everything is only limited to one's habits, when exposed to rain water only.

Not about the rain that is still in a state of drizzle, or already heavy.

That's just an excuse, so that little Linda does not play rain when the rain is still drizzling.

Because when it is still drizzling, Linda or other children, will make an excuse to play longer, compared to playing in heavy rain.

Time alone distinguishes. Because in the heavy rain, play time is only a short time, and already feel cold.

"Yes, I played first. You will follow later, if the rain is already heavy!"

Eventually Maya no longer invites Linda, to play rainwater now. He will play first, along with his other friends.

"Yes. Wait for my mom to come home!"

Linda replied with a shout, because Maya had already passed from before her.

Now, Linda closed the door to her house again. He entered me in the room, to do school work, which he had not done.

But it seems Linda has not been able to focus on her initial goal, which was to work on her pr. Now he is reading a folklore book, which tells the story of a princess.

Linda so drifted in the atmosphere of the story that two read.

Moreover, when the story of the Princess describes a marriage relationship, with a prince.

Linda again could not control her strange feelings, which suddenly appeared.

By lying down on the bed, Linda felt uncomfortable, and only felt more comfortable, when one pillow she was located at the bottom of her stomach.

I don't know what Linda feels. But he felt very happy with such a face-down position.

And Linda only found out about what happened to her, that night, and after, when she was fourteen, when she was in junior high school.

Because since she was in Junior High, Linda has often seen and read adult books and novels.

"Am I not normal?"

That's how Linda thought, when she realized that she was not like her other friends.

Or it could be, there was also his friend who was the same as himself as well.

But being used to being silent, just like Linda is, eventually only yourself knows and realizes it.