Hear My Wish's

Chapter 15 – Enlightenment

The darkness of the night is invincible by the dim light of the lamp

small post ronda. The breeze whispered to Sylvia, telling her to stare

the paved streets where it used to act under the supervision of the moon. Lens

the dark chocolate did not go away. Sylvia's eyes continued to look

his knuckles were flushed and scuffed. Molar bluffing. Unconcerned

no matter how many times his two fists hit the hard surface, it didn't

can stop his feelings from getting mixed up again. Anger and

heartache. All of this came about because he had failed. He is unable to run

his duty as a sister. His heart was also filled with regret. During

six-year-old Noel grew up in an environment unfit for children his age

always be firm, showering him with snares and connoted exclamations

coarse. Indeed, that treatment holds a reason. So that Noel gets used to

the cruelty of life, without having to fall into a state and look for the right hand

willing to caress her every time her tears fall. Yeah, it's all manifested.

The boy grew up to be a strong figure who did not cry easily and never

words of complaint. Honey, it all turned into an edged sword

two for Sylvia. Because, the two tiny lips Noel did not question the existence

his parents or brothers. Sylvia's treatment makes the boy

know him as a friend who acts as if he is the leader

group, not a brother.

A faint voice called out to him from across.

“Syl? Sylvia?”

Edwin rushed down from his parked sedan in a dead engine.

Then walk a few steps closer to the owner of the name. Piece of eye

chocolate squeaking. Reddish gradations of bruising marks on Sylvia's knuckles

has caught his attention. The young man drew his fingers closer to the girl's hand

which sits under the protection of asbestos tile patrol post.

“Ngapain anyway?!” Sylvia quickly retracted her hand before the tip

edwin's fingers landed on his skin.

The looks of the two men clashed with each other. Edwin flabbergasted. Now it's not

again it was the first time for him to see such an unfamiliar sight

caught retina. Sylvia looked up a sad face. His eyes are visible

little swollen. Both of the girls cheeks were wet. In fact, traces of the flow of tears

the top is still clearly visible. Edwin bent both his knees and sat right in

next Sylvia. He was busy reaching into the pocket of his black jeans.

“Nih,” he said while thrusting a handkerchief.

A pair of dark irises belonging to Sylvia glanced at a piece of pastel yellow cloth

brown striped in Edwin's hand. Then his eyes shifted to the young man

hand that thing over.

Edwin pointed at his own cheek.

“You cry, right?”

Highlight both eyebrows Sylvia sharpens. Roughly, he grabbed a soft object

shaped like a square from the hands of its owner.

“No need to be shy if you cry. You're still fierce, kok,” smile

thinly etched on his lips.

In that instant, a fist struck Edwin's left arm.

“ADUH!” the young man's hand caressed the spot where Sylvia's fist was

disembarking. “Sick tau, Syl!”

“That's why don't ngocol lo!”

“Yes, yes, sorry,” said Edwin while stroking the head of a busy girl

wiping away the remains of her tears. “Oh, yes. By the way, you're still outside

gini nights? Not if you have to go home in the afternoon, huh?”

“New rules. The gondrong wants a lot of money. So, yeah. you know.

by oneself. We-we're all told to get out of the mallem, too. Whatever it is, that

it is important to bring home more than two hundred thousand dollars. If not, be prepared

lo bonyok.”

“Bent, briefly... Gondrong... Gondrong is your boss, right?”

“Not that time I've ever said same lo?”

“Kalo Yes... You know Noel, dong?”

Sylvia flabbergasted. Both of her dark brown irises almost look round

full-fledged.

“Lo... You know Noel? You know him, Win?”

“Yes, I met him at the park..”.

The girl didn't take a second or two to give her a chance

for Edwin so that the sentence arrangement is perfectly spoken.

“Which park?!”

“...Cattleya.”

Sylvia quickly got up from her leisurely sitting position with one leg

uplifted.

“Win, anterin I'm there now!” it sounds like a commander

commanding troops.

Edwin glanced at the clock that was coiled around his wrist. Needle direction

short is between the numbers ten and eleven.

“Kalo asau me, this time the park is closed. This is thirty

another minute at eleven. I'm not good too if I go home really, really,”

obviously the young man, “Indeed... Why do you want to go there?”

“Gue want to nyari... adek.... i,” he replied with a voice increasingly swallowed, the,

until his last two words were barely heard by Edwin's ears.

Edwin scrunched his forehead. Why look in the same place at the same time

he first met Noel if Sylvia really intended

looking for his sister? Except, if Noel and his sister were the ones who

same.

Edwin was silent for a moment. His mind began to make a little comparison between

Noel and Sylvia. Their natures contradict each other. Noel is easy to follow

the order, even though he himself disagrees. Sylvia though? The girl always

brings his rebellious soul in almost any situation. Their faces are not

too similar to be categorized as brothers, unlike him

with his brother, Dean. But, if observed repeatedly with accuracy

more. Sylvia and Noel both have moles on the right temple.

“You... Noel... Noel is your sister?”

Sylvia no longer wanted to bury and hide that fact deeply.

Without hesitation, he firmly said, “Iya... Noel adek me. Just.he.

tell me where I don't know.

meet...” the girl sighed, “Makanya pas lo say you never met

he's in the park, I want to try looking there. I want to see Noel again. Lo

gotta help me, Win! Origin you tau..”

A moment of silence passed between them before Sylvia finally opened

mouth, telling the whole piece of his past that came back buzzing

shackling his mind lately. Despite sobbing, the girl remained

insist on continuing the story of his life long ago, and his sister,

Noel, who doesn't know him as a big brother figure.

After hearing everything, Edwin bowed silently. All words and sentences

it seems to be imprisoned in the heart. Freeing Noel from the torment of hell

the earth is a noble act. But, on the other hand, he also made mistakes

fatally. Indirectly, he almost snatched Sylvia's sanity because

a forced separation that occurred between the girl and her biological sister.

“Syl... You don't have to find Noel anymore.. he's at my house...”.

Not yet Edwin continued his sentence, Sylvia immediately pulled the collar

the blue shirt in front of him. The two black eyebrows of the girl clashed. It

it actually rose in black until its right fist clenched tightly, about to float

a blow.

“Syl! Syl! Dengerin first! I have no strange intentions, kok!” Hurry up

Edwin held Sylvia's hand before landing on her face. “That time, I just

sorry to see he got hit! So I brought it home! I really-many

I don't know if he has a sister! Noel himself never said!”

The tightly clenched fist slowly weakened. Sylvia could not judge Edwin

as a guilty man. As powerful as ever the girl's brain accuses her of

the accused, the charge was immediately broken. Edwin just wanted to help

releasing Noel from his old ‘rumah’ which is completely uninhabitable. Herself

it is the guilty themselves. He never told the ins and outs of life

original them as brothers. Noel has to decide

his dependence on Sylvia or on anyone in order to survive

such a cruel environment. Noel considers himself to be

the son of kara.

The grip that pulled the collar of Edwin's shirt was released. The girl took

a few steps back. Chaos has no control over Sylvia's mind

also with sadness and anger in his heart. Everything slowly faded and

disappeared completely without a trace.

***

The dark brown lens was glued to the outside of the car window. In spite of

hindered by the turnstile and windowpanes, his gaze remained focused on

a child who is none other than his own biological sister, Noel. That kid

really groomed. Her reddish black hair looks short and

neatly combed. So are his clothes. Not a single stain was tucked in between

those yellow cotton fabric fibers. Every now and then, the boy was seen muttering,

ask a question to the private teacher who sits opposite to himself while

designating a written book. The revolution happened to Noel. Capability

Noel to interact with people around is good. It's not anymore

you must be told to say a word or two. With your own initiative, though,

his mouth could already put out a sentence.

Sylvia's heart was cold to see the sight. At first glance, the impression of ferocious in

the girl's face faded, swept away by the sweet arch on her lips. He felt

a different morning. Where his head felt so light. As if, the whole load is in

his mind floated and vanished.

“Yuk, down,” Edwin brings the end of his index finger closer to the seat belt release button on the left of the seat.

“No need, Win.”

“Lho?” Edwin pinched his forehead, “Kok is that? Kan...”

“He's learning again, I don't want to disturb him,” the girl sighed

deep and exhale slowly, “Lagian too... Noel doesn't know

if he catches me.”

“Well, right, that's exactly why you should meet him. Let him know, though,

Syl!”

Sylvia shook her head. “Better if he doesn't know. I don't want Noel to know

same people as me.”

“But you are her brother! Dia...”

“Gue is much more choosy Noel does not know me but his life is good like that

than he knows me his life is messy!” A pair of dark brown irises

it looked at Edwin meaningfully. “Gue wants Noel to be successful, not kayaking

i'm! SD diploma does not have! Hence...” his voice vibrates, “..gue seneng.

really pas lo say... if you nyekolahin him. i..” the girl let.

sentence for a moment, “There are many yes, Win.” The smile on Sylvia's lips grew even more

inflate, “Gue same debt lo.”