Changing Destiny: The Goddess

Chapters 11. Back Tested

The wind does not blow to shake the trees but to test the strength of the roots. Like a man in the face of the storms of life. Is he able to endure with all his beliefs? Or give up in despair?

A pair of heart windows that had been dripping with dew, were now closed. The weak body that he had been forced to be strong now decayed in unconsciousness when the sharp dagger struck felt like it was raining. Raga that previously stood tough now like standing on a fragile branch. Just waiting for the time when he will break and make him fall.

Too long under the torrent of rain water that makes the body of the Goddess soaked, now the woman's body suddenly fever. Not had time to change clothes, suddenly the Goddess lost consciousness. In her mother's arms, she fainted. Gegas Ambarwati asked Seruni to take a change of clothes so that the body of the Goddess was not getting cold. After that, Ambarwati and Seruni painstakingly moved the Goddess up the bed.

"Is sister's body still feverish, ma'am?"

Anxious rails also appeared to frame Seruni's face. The teenage girl could only wonder in her heart why the older sister had come home in such a state of disintegration. Though when he was about to leave, the brother's face was filled with a bright happy twinkle.

Ambarwati nodded slowly while changing the compress cloth that adorned the forehead of the Goddess. The middle-aged woman seemed so painstaking in taking care of the princess. Although drowsiness is also difficult for him to avoid.

"Yes Run, your brother's hot body is still high. I was confused how. In this state of fainting it would definitely be difficult to put fever medicine into your brother's mouth right?"

Seruni could only comment on the slight smile she had. He stood at the side of the Goddess' bed and slowly took over the small basin held by Ambarwati.

"Mom rest in the room. The night is getting late. Runi was only worried that mom would get sick too."

"But what about your brother Run? He's still feverish."

"Let Runi take the place of Mom to compress big brother. Now I'll just rest in the room."

"But tomorrow you have to go to school, right, son?"

"No problem, ma'am. Staying up to take care of brother won't make Runi bad luck."

Ambarwati seemed to weigh the words of Seruni. Want to feel he refused the offer of his daughter but how else drowsiness has also attacked him since earlier. Only by closing the eyes can free him from this drowsiness.

Ambarwati got up from her sitting position. "Mom tipped your sister off to Run. Such as your brother's body temperature has dropped you also immediately rest. I'm just worried that tomorrow, you're up late."

"Yes Ma'am, Runi will soon rest if the body temperature of the Goddess' sister has dropped."

With a slow step, Ambarwati left the room belonging to the Goddess. While Seruni was so painstakingly changing the cloth compress his brother. Intensely, the teenage girl looked at the face of her only puppet sister who was late in the dreamland.

"Sister has been suffering for a long time. Hopefully after this there will only be happiness approaching the life of the Goddess. Runi also promised to study harder so that later he could raise the degree of mother and sister Goddess."

Runi busy monologue lirih. Slowly, he kissed the goddess's forehead as a form of the sister's affection for the only brother he had. He knew very well how hard work was done by the Goddess to sustain the survival of his family after the father left. The figure of a man who has long gone to be the backrest of all the bitterness of life they live. Runi only believes that her family's life can change someday.

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The dew falls slowly as dawn greets. On top of the leaves they are spoiled. Reluctant to escape from his embrace. As if he had found his safest place. The small world began to awaken, welcoming a new day filled with joy.

The eyeball of the woman lying weakly on the bed was slightly moving even though her eyelids were still closed. It didn't feel like he was asleep all night. Immerse the succum into a dream world that feels a little dim.

Slowly the woman's eyelids began to open. He slightly pinched, trying to resist the glare of sunlight that was so pronounced piercing the cornea of the eye. His fingers also moved as if issuing a signal if he had woken up from his sleep.

The goddess shifted her body position to lean on the head board of the bed. Sometimes the woman still seems to yawn like drowsiness that still comes attacking. And carefully he stretched the muscles of his body that felt stiff not careless.

Dizziness still feels attacking the head area. So that makes lazy to just move from his place. And I just want to relax.

The eyes of the Goddess circled around. The house feels empty like it is uninhabited. Usually at this hour, the sound of the mother talking to neighbors behind the house, but for today somehow not heard at all.

The goddess reached for a glass of water on the table. It sips slowly, and instantly the freshness feels soaked and drained of its throat.

Did I faint last night? I don't think I remember what happened. All I remember is when my mom hugged me and after that I don't remember anything.

Only leaves a sense of tightness in the chest when remembering what happened yesterday. The shame felt so high when his performance on stage only left a mere mess. Even many times the Goddess blames herself at times when she fails to present her perfect appearance. Once again, he exhaled violently, trying to kill the tightness that still filled the chest cavities.

Why does my face suddenly feel itchy and hot? What's the matter?

The goddess returned to monologue in her heart. He was a little astonished when the itching and heat felt filled the nerves in the cheeks. Not wanting to get too absorbed in the sense of wonder, the woman began to brush away the blanket that covered her. Rushed towards the mirror hanging on one side of the wall.

Oh my God .. What's wrong with my face? Why does it look flushed and flaky like this? What exactly is going on?

The two eyes of the Goddess were perfectly rounded when she saw the reflection of her face inside the glass. His face looks flushed and his skin looks like peeling certainly with a burning sensation and heat.

No, no, no! Right now I'm just dreaming. Yesterday my face was bright white. It's impossible if it turns out like this.

Goddess patting cheeks. Wishing that what he saw in this mirror was just a dream. But in vain, this was all real before the eyes, as if confirming if the test of life came to greet him again.

Already fallen on the stairs plus stepped on the chicken shit again. It seems that the phrase is worthy of being pinned to the Goddess when receiving a test of life that is endless like this. It was not finished about the incident on stage, the compensation he had to give to the Sky, and now plus his face that peels because of the cream of the abal-abal he bought. God gave him this kind of patience test.

"Goddess! Why are you, son?"

Ambarwati shrieked in astonishment when she saw her eldest daughter sitting in the corner of the room hugging her knees. He drowned his face on the sidelines of the thigh with breath that looks irregular. That is what increasingly confirms if he is trying to hold his sobs.

He brought this body of his to be closer to the Goddess. He aligned his height by squatting in front of the princess. Slowly, she raised the goddess's leaven and how surprised Ambarwati was to see the face of her eldest child.

"Oh my God, what more trials have you faced, son?"