Just a Nanny

Fires

"The doctor should go home, let me put Asa to sleep," she gently pushed Julia away, before she got into bed.

"All right," replied Dr. Arman, inching.

"Don't! I can't go home!" yelled Asa, about to cry. "Asa wants Daddy with Mommy. We sleep together, Father, Mother" he asked with tears beginning to drip.

"Rather, Honey. Uli's aunt's bed will be narrow," persuaded Julia who still calls herself aunty and hope, Asa also calls herself so. The girl tried to give understanding to the little boy.

"Then, tomorrow we go home, Mother. In dad's room, right, the bed is wide. Later we can sleep three there," pinta Asa who kekeuh in order to sleep three with Mother Uli and also the father.

"We'll talk about it next time, honey. It's night, Asa must be booby soon," Julia persuaded while enveloping Asa's tiny body.

While Doctor Arman was still standing while listening to the chatter of the princess and Julia.

"Certainly, where did you sleep, Mother?" ask Asa while looking at her father.

"Later dad can sleep on you ...."

"Dad should go home, honey. Pity your grandmother if she's alone" Julia said quickly, before Dr. Arman finished his words.

Julia turned to look at her father Asa. "Sorry, it's late. The doctor should go home soon. Not good for the neighbors" Julia said.

"Honey, salim used to be the same Dad," Julia asked as she helped the little girl to wake up.

Asa said, Doctor Arman's only daughter then greeted her father. "Father be careful on the road, yes," the little girl's message to the father, after kissing the back of her father's hand as Julia often teaches.

Doctor Arman smiled and then kissed the princess on the forehead. "It can't be fussy, yes. Poor Mother Uli, "his message to the princess.

"Yes, Dad," Asa replied as she waved her hand.

"Mother lock the outside door first, yeah. Asa just wait here" said Julia. The girl immediately followed Doctor Arman's steps, coming out of her room.

"Julia, please reconsider my request" said Doctor Arman as he stepped out.

"At least for my daughter and also for your sister" he continued. Doctor Arman stopped his steps and looked back, before stepping out of Julia's door.

"What if I stay as Asa's nanny?" bargain Julia.

"If you become Asa's nanny, then the rules are still the same as before. You stay at my house and once a month you can go home" replied Dr. Arman.

"How, Julia? Would you have the heart to let your sister grow up without your supervision?" Doctor Arman looked at Julia with an intimidating look.

Julia took a long breath. His chest felt tight considering the request of Doctor Arman who was heavy and not at all beneficial to him, even more than his tightness left by the mother.

"Give me at least forty days," Julia pinta, then.

"Seven days, deal?" Doctor Arman reached out.

With a heavy heart, Julia welcomed the outstretched hand of the man who was always cold to her. "Good, Doc. Seven days," Julia replied, resigned.

Doctor Arman smiled smirk. The adult male then passed away, leaving Julia in the doorway of the modest house now without a buffer.

The only buffer of the house, just called by the Almighty, even when Julia has not had time to meet her mother for the last time.

The girl's tears gushed back from both of her eyes and then dripped, soaking her smooth cheeks. Julia hastily wiped away the tears, when the voice of the sister called out.

"Mhrs ... Juli hasn't slept?" ask Dika who approached the sister.

The teenager nodded. "When you can't sleep, ma'am. On the mind, how will our lives be."

Julia smile. "No need to worry, brother. Ma'am can work, really, and you can still go to school" Julia comforted.

"Lantas, what about Ma'am Juli's lecture?" pursue Dika who is not satisfied with the answer of the brother.

"We'll talk tomorrow, yeah. It's been a really late night, Mom's tired, brother. You must be tired too, right?" kilah Julia who deliberately avoided because she did not know what to do.

The two brothers then went into their respective rooms, to rest their tired souls and bodies.

*****

In the days that followed, Asa did not want to part with Julia. The little girl always stayed at the simple house and did not want to be invited home by her father or grandmother.

"Asa wants to go home, if Mommy Uli comes home to us Daddy," whined Asa, on the third day when the father picked up.

"Darling ... Asa go home first yes, same Dad," persuaded Julia. "From here to Asa's school, right, far away? Asa's not tired, back and forth here?" continues asking.

Yes, during these two days, Asa left for school from Julia's house with a pick up by family driver Doctor Arman.

The little boy nodded. "Asa wants to be with Mommy Uli," he said as he hid in Julia's arm.

"Sorry, July. Because Asa has not wanted to come, you do not mind, if I return Asa," asked Dr. Arman.

"Yes, Doc. It's okay," Julia replied.

Asa smiled widely, revealing a row of her small and clean white milk teeth. "Thank you, Dad. Thank you, Mother Uli," said the little girl cheerfully.

After a good-bye with his daughter, Doctor Arman quickly moves on. "Please, reconsider July" asked Dr. Arman before passing.

Julia could only sigh deeply.

Asa then waved at her father, as he began to run his car.

Silent, momentarily greeting Julia's simple home page. The girl pecked, staring at Doctor Arman's departure. While Asa, engrossed in playing her hand puppet.

The voice of a neighbor who came while running, broke Julia's daydream.

"Son Julia! Son! Shops, kid, stalls!" the middle-aged man exclaimed with hunting breath, pointing to the end of the alley where his mother Julia's stall was located.

"What's with mom's stall, Mang?" julia asked, starting to panic.

"Warung, keba-fire, son," replied the neighbor Julia with a stammering voice and breathless.

Julia closed her mouth, the girl immediately ran towards the end of the alley and forgot about Asa's whereabouts.

"Mother! Asa come, Mother!" The sound of Asa's cry calling her name, made Julia realize and immediately returned to hold Asa and bring the little girl running towards the stall.

The scorching sun that stings during the day, as well as a gust of wind that is quite strong, makes the fire that grabbed the stalls of Julia's parents, quickly spread and scorch merchandise, making the fire that snatched the stalls of Julia's parents, quickly spread and scorched merchandise, which is easily burned.

The stall building that is semi-permanent and has been weathered here and there because it was eaten at that age, immediately collapsed and finished engulfed by the red hero.

'Our stall, ma'am,' Julia's inner, languished.

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