
Sunny afternoon, the sun began to look yellow at the end of the ocean making the teenage girl reluctant to move from the beach side. Here is so calm, even the sound of waves sweeping the sand on the beach feels so incisive when compared with life.
Briana closed her eyes, breathing oxygen around the beach. Let the wind blow and blow away her long hair. Exhaling all the weight that felt heavy on his shoulders.
If only, ah that word no longer wanted him to say, so that his life would not be more stifling when remembering the lives of others who were so lucky in comparison to his life.
Briana, the name that her mother said was deliberately given so that if she met her biological father would immediately be able to recognize her. Really ? I don't know how many years he searched around Bali, but did not find the man who was meant by the mother. His hopes of meeting his biological father are no longer in his life plan. After years of searching and disappointing results. Let it be, maybe they are not paired to be a family.
The knee-length gray skirt, as well as the slightly shabby white shirt, was still attached to her body, but the ugly clothes could not cover her pretty face at all.
Briana's beauty is declining directly from her mother. The woman who became a prima donna where he worked, until a businessman fell in the charm of the mother and produced himself.
Briana calmly stepped off the beach to a stop on the side of the road, waiting for public transport to stop there.
Briana spent nearly two hours at the beach and is now back. Although the place he returned was not as quiet as the beach earlier, but only the house was the place to go home.
***
"Thank you sir." Briana said when the public transport she was riding had stopped at a stop near her home. While tidying up her long hair decomposed beautifully on her back as the wind hit, Briana continued to step her feet until entering the slum alley where her house was.
Just as his feet were stepping on the courtyard of the house, the sound of his mother's screams was already heard in his sense of hearing.
"Mama..." Shouted Briana while running towards Karin who was already sitting limp on the floor. The kick and punch of the mother's husband continued to hit Karin's thin body.
"Stop, pity mama." Briana said while hugging Karin's body. The white shirt attached to his body is now no longer shaped when the foot kick that wears papa's shoes continued to hit his body.
"Mother and child are the same, both***** and do not know in the profit." Maki Irfan on two women who are now curled up in the corner of their slum house. Irfan violently closed the door and left the two women inside.
Irfan's passionate love for Karin had faded, changing his deep hatred when she chose another man and left him alone. More infuriated, Karin returns with a daughter who increasingly reminds her of the woman's betrayal.
"Ma, we're going to the hospital." Briana talked to her mother when she saw blood on the corners of her lips as well as on some parts of Karin's body, but the woman who was limp in her arms shook her head. They no longer have a lot of money to spend in a useless hospital, because in the next few hours surely the wounds that are trying to be treated will increase again.
"Mama's hurt, we're going to the hospital." Persuade Briana again. But Karin still remained in his stance. She had enough to make this daughter suffer and no longer wanted to add to the burden of her stupidity.
"Sorry mommy is Briana, mom can't take good care of you. Mama should have taken you to see your papa before she came back here." Said Karin with tears still dripping down her cheeks.
"Gga Ma, we can be together. Wait for Briana to finish High School, we'll get out of here and live well in another city." Briana said then hugged the body that was getting thinner day by day.
"I'm sorry dear mama" said Karin again. The apology from Karin's lips continued to be spoken with melted tears that were still dripping down her cheeks. No, not because of the pain in his body that made him cry, but imagine the fate of his daughter that was sad because of his stupidity.
For Briana there is nothing more important than the mother. She is the only family and important person in her life.
After cleaning the wound and making sure her mother rested, Briana came out from inside Karin's room to her bedroom to prepare to leave for her workplace.
Black shirts and matching colored jeans had already attached to her body. While carrying a bowl of porridge and medicine for her mother, Briana entered the room and placed the porridge and medicine on the table beside the mother's bed.
Before closing the door of the room, his gaze again led to a thin body that was still lost in bed.
"Wait a minute, ma, Ana will work on our lives." Briana then passed from there.
***
"Good night, brother." Sapa Briana to her co-workers while entering the restaurant where she made her living for almost three years.
"Annight." Reply Leon with a smile towards the girl he had been waiting for since. "I wanted to pick you up earlier, but I was scared when I saw Irfan coming out of the house with wrath." Connect Leon.
"No need brother, you'll get angry with my father." Briana and Leon smiled understandingly. They live in the same settlement and have been friends since they were children, so Leon is not surprised anymore by the nature of the father
Leon, a student whose life is not much different from his. But the man who is often called by the name of brother was raised with love by his parents.
"Let's take me home." Said Leon and Briana nodding affirming the invitation of the man who had considered him like his sister.
After the conversation, they separated. Leon is tidy with the restaurant uniform while Briana will just go to the employee's special room to change her clothes.
Just like always, Briana will do her job without saying much until it is time to go home to a house that is like hell every day.
***
Twelve o'clock at night it was time to go home, and Leon was waiting for him as usual in the parking lot.
Briana had come out of the restaurant, the girl's smile was clearly visible when she saw the hand that was now waving at her from the top of the matic motorbike parked in the parking area.
"Thank you." Briana said as Leon thrust the head protector that must be used when using the two-wheeled transportation tool.
"We're leaving." Said Leon, and Briana nodded.