Masked
Section 40
“How? You like?” little Juan asked a girl who was staring at the vast sea. “If I'm sad again or want to be alone, I like to see the sea.”
“So the reason you took me from mama was just for this,” taunted Arsy without taking his eyes off the sea. Juan did not believe what Indra's listener had caught, so he asked the little girl to repeat her sentence.
“If nothing else you want to point to me.” Arsy chooses to walk towards himself coming along with the crazy young man who has wasted his time looking at something unimportant.
“Wait!” exclaim Juan.
Arsy stopped his steps. The girl turned her head towards Juan, and hoped that what the young man would say this time could restore his mood.
“Gue don't know what you like, but you don't want to be my girlfriend.” Juan looked at Arsy's face while holding his own hand, to relieve the nervousness that suddenly attacked his body.
The beautiful girl only let out a rough sigh. Choosing to walk back towards Juan who was playing sea water that hit his feet. Without guilt Arsy immediately plucked Juan's head, which made the young man look at Arsy.
“What you have no other choice until you choose to express love to a ten-year-old.”
Juan just kept silent at Arsy's words.
“Wah, she's the first girl to say you so.” Someone walked towards Juan and Arsy with tears flowing down from laughing too much.
“Do you also want to love me also?” arsy asked as he looked at the young man who had just arrived.
“Sorry Adek is small, but I am not interested in the same SD.” child
“That's so happy you ngetawain me.”
Juan was his best friend. The young man was already quite hyacinth with Arsy's words, now plus his best friend suddenly came.
“Gue called bokap lu. He said you were told Uutudalikin this boy, or you would be slit as his mother.” Xander embraces his best friend, hoping that the mad young man will return Arsy to Margaret.
Juan was silent for a moment. Arsy and Xander looked at the young man with a strange look, as Juan suddenly burst into laughter.
“Your best friend is crazy?” arsy asked Xander who was standing next to him.
“He's crazy, but I don't know if it's this bad.”
“Mending you take him to a psychiatrist deh, mumpung not getting worse. Kasian tau no, where is still young again.”
“Lu really also Adek small.”
Juan was busy laughing, while Arsy and Xander were busy teasing himself.
“Gua is not crazy huh,” grumbled Juan when he heard Arsy call himself less sane.
“No madman wants to be called crazy,”.
“Lagian elu, suddenly diem trus laugh.” Juan couldn't believe what he was hearing. His best friend sided with the little boy he had just met to insult him.
“Lu it's actually whose best friend is it!” exclaim Juan.
“Yes I'm your best friend, but what this little Adek said is true. I think you need to go to a psychiatrist, check your brain. How about going back.”
Juan let out a rough breath. The young man was tired enough to face Arsy and now Xander was even on the side of a child who did not know himself like Arsy.
Juan took a deep breath and threw it away slowly. The young man pulled Arsy and Xander closer to him because he wanted to convey something quite important.
“Lu is crazy!” exciting Xander. “No one is like that. If until Margaret knows, we can run out.”
Juan was silent again. The young man tried to think of another plan that would not interfere with their school tomorrow.
“How about this...”.
***
Arsy entered the house while carrying two large bags of crackles.
“Mama,” greet the little girl. But there was no answer from Margaret, but the woman was in front of her. “Ma,” call Arsy while holding Margaret's hand.
“Arsy.” Margaret did not think the child she had been looking for was in front of her. “Where have you been? Mama confused nyari you.” The woman hugged the body of the child she missed so much, even though they had only been separated for a few hours.
“Arsy was eating at a Korean restaurant across the street,” explained Arsy. Even on the lips of the girl there were still some leftover food scraps.
“Why aren't you saying goodbye? You can call Mama if you want to go anywhere,”, said Margareth.
“I have asked hundreds of times, and hundreds of times also Mama always refused with the reason is still small.” Margaret could only be speechless hearing the protest from the child.
It is true what Arsy said that the boy often asked for a cellphone but Margaret always refused, arguing that Arsy was still very small to use a cellphone and it was not good for him. But after this incident it seems like Margaret must think again about the desire of the child about having a mobile phone.
“What were you doing there?” ask Margaret. The woman tried to divert the conversation about the cell phone, because if it continued then the discussion would never end.
“I just tried some food. And I also wrap some for Mama,” said Arsy while giving a bag of crackles that had previously perched on both hands. While the other one he keeps for himself, he said to prepare if at home there is nothing to eat.
“Why is this much?”
“It wasn't much. I've even eaten more than that,” grumbled Arsy.
“You, eat more of this?” margareth asked who only answered a nod by Arsy.
The woman shook her head. A little disbelief if a child as small as Arsy can eat in very large portions. Honestly, he just knew that the appetite of this one child is extraordinary.
“What do you eat?”
“Many. Jjangmyeon, Kimchi Jjigae, Tangsuyuk, Tteokbokki, Gamjatang, Samgyeopsal, Fried chicken and Naengmyon, Bibimbap and Kimchi Bokkeumbap. Same some other food that I forgot its name,” explained Arsy. While Margaret could only quietly hear Arsy's words that were difficult to digest common sense.
***
Margaret was sitting on the living room couch with Arsy. Margaret is focusing on some of her work being delayed by having to drop off Arsy, meanwhile, Arsy himself is busy with a television that is featuring a blue cat and also a small brown mouse that sucks.
“Ma, how to make men hurt to not want to be close to us?” arsy asked suddenly without taking his eyes off the television.
“Why are you suddenly asking like this?” ask Margaret. The woman was quite surprised by the child's question which was inversely proportional to the question commonly asked by other girls. If other girls will ask for an opinion that the men want to be close, Arsy even wants the opposite.
“The boy named Juan said he loved me.”
“What!! Then what did you answer?” ask Margaret.
“If it's not wrong I said, what girl your age nobody likes you so you expressed love to a ten-year-old. More or less so,” explains Arsy. There was a sigh of relief from Margaret, which made Arsy look confused by the way Margaret responded to the story. “Why does Mama react like that?”
“Nothing. Mama is quite proud because you did not receive a statement of love from her,”, said Margaret as she rubbed the child's head.
“But it looks like he won't give up. So, I need Mama's help so she doesn't keep nodding.”
Margaret silence. The woman was thinking of the right way for Juan not to come back to harass her son. Juan is not the type of man who will give up immediately just because of some rejection, because once the young man likes, then he will do everything to get what he wants.
