Last Ramadan for Nayla

Starving

    "Why grandma?" nayla asked confused when she saw her grandmother pacing back and forth with a face that looked troubled.

   "We're out of Nay's rice." Answer her grandmother gloomily. The girl then walked over to her grandmother.

  "We don't have the money to buy rice huh, Grandma?" the little girl asked again.

  "Have it, but if the money is used, then we will not have any more money to buy cake ingredients," explained his grandmother.

    "Yes already then we eat this leftover cake, why grandma should think too long, Nayla eat this cake every day is okay, because the cake made by grandma is the most delicious." Praise Nayla, while putting in her mouth cake, she smiled happily. Her grandmother smiled, and the old woman was very moved to see her very understanding granddaughter.

    "Woi! Called by mama!" tina's voice made her shocked and her daydream also collapsed. It was just a shadow of his past.

    "Owh sorry, nayla didn't hear sister."

  "There is no preoccupation with daydreaming, surely deh it again dreamt of being a normal person, can the normal path do not need to use a stick, right?" sindir Tina, you limp!" he added, every word that came out of Tina's mouth was indeed not a single one that was good to hear, Nayla could only wait to hear her brother's taunts.

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   "Mama call me?" nayla asked, at that time Amel was sitting on the front porch arranging roses, seeing the arrival of Nayla, he felt uncomfortable, he had never liked Nayla since childhood.

  "Who calls you, who goes!!" throw the woman out rudely.

    Nayla went back inside, apparently she was tricked by her sister again.

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    Nayla came with a plate in her hand, at that time her family was eating dinner, she was very hungry because since this morning had not eaten, no one left food for her, no one left food for her,even the rice was spent by her brother who was a man.

    "What do you want?" asked Mr. Arman with sharp eyes filled with hatred.

    "Nayla asked for a little of her rice,pa" pinta Nayla while thrusting her plate, but her papa did not care at all, then the girl asked her mother, still the same. No response, finally the boy turned around with the empty plate back.

Seeing his sister who started to step away David immediately called out to him. "Nay, come here first! There's fried chicken for you!" david exclaimed, hearing the word fried chicken Nayla was very happy, so for life he had never eaten chicken meat, because his grandmother did not have money to buy meat, eat fish only rarely.

   "Take it! Haha..." David laughed happily after successfully pranking his sister."

    "It's just a bone." Nayla said disappointed, Bu Amel and Mr. Arman did not reprimand David at all, he just let his son prank Nayla as he pleased.

Finally, Nayla did not eat that dinner at all, her stomach even though it had sounded from earlier.

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   It was late at night, but Nayla still could not close her eyes, the boy was very hungry. He finally came out of his room which was on the ground floor.

Nayla started looking for something to eat, nothing was spent, there were only eggs, so she took the eggs and boiled them.

Nayla had to wait for the egg to ripen again, but the girl was already very hungry.

   "Waiting for this egg to ripen pa." Honest answer.

   "Who gave you permission to take that egg, huh?" snapped Mr. Arman, Nayla was frightened to hear the sound of his papa. The man never loved his son.

  "It... Em, nayla's hungry can't sleep, she's eating no more rice." The girl said she was very nervous.

   "Everything is looking for its own money to be able to eat, you know it's eating, it's been handicapped bother people again, you know not? You're a fucking kid!" said Mr. Arman. Nayla just fell silent while lowering her head, hearing every harsh word that came out of her papa mouth.

The child did not cry, not cry but she held him back, Amel's mother who heard the noise in the kitchen immediately came out of her room and saw what was going on, until her husband was angry like that.

   "Lho, what is this pa, night-night storm gini shy to know at the same hearing neighbors." Said Amel's mom.

  "This is this, your handicapped son, so I'll go up in blood every time I see him." Mr. Arman replied, the man immediately left Nayla and his wife.

   "You again, always make people angry."

  "Nayla is hungry ma, can you ask for one egg only," pinta Nayla pleaded.

   "If you want to eat wait until tomorrow, you enter the room!" tell the woman to turn off the stove Nayla used to boil the eggs.

   Nayla returned to her room, looking for a cloth to tie her stomach that had been in pain from earlier.

  "This is better, rather light now, I must quickly go to sleep, can't wait for tomorrow." Nayla spoke to herself.

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"Pa, next month Nayla can go to elementary school, where do we go,pa?" amel asked her husband's opinion.

    "What don't you think? Want me to put it where my face will be, if anyone knows he's our son?" snapped Mr. Arman, the man looked riled up. Nayla whose room is downstairs can clearly hear her papa's words, at that time she just finished praying isya.

    Nayla is only seven years old but she already knows a lot about religion, when her grandmother was alive she was always taught to never leave the five prayers, even though she was sick,that is our duty as a Muslim.

Nayla is a righteous child, but why don't her parents like her?

   "Then where do we go to school?"

  "No need to go to school, do you want to go to school? Just spending money! What could he be with his deformed leg?" pak Arman's lips.

  "Whatever you have," Amel gave in.

   "Everyone told me to be born disabled." Said Mr. Arman again.

Her husband really had no heart, he had insulted his own son. Nayla was indeed disabled, but the girl was still her daughter, her own biological child. Nayla also never asked to be born in such circumstances, but she can still accept her condition sincerely, then they why can not accept Nayla with her imperfect situation.

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  "Nayla look! This is my new pretty school dress, right" said Tina showing off her school uniform to Nayla, the girl just nodded her head off. Nayla then refocused on her work mopping the floor.