
In a village called Sukamaju Village lived a girl named Nella Giancarlo a simple girl who every day worked hard to support her and her grandmother , he only had a grandmother who was often sickly every day just lying on the bed, actually from childhood who took care of her was his grandmother. No knowledge of the whereabouts of his parents. All he knew was the grandmother he had, feeling the orphaned child an independent figure already inherent in his daily life, it was a teaching from his grandmother.
Every day he works in an oil palm plantation as a taker of oil palm. Oil palm plantations covering an area of approximately 200 hectares is not known who the owner is, who workers know the owner is the richest person in the city of Lampung, but even so does not necessarily make the workers calm, the workers, it's just that the wages they receive workers like Nella and her friends are not even how much, just to support his grandmother and also Nella he often look for cassava plants to eat if the rice is up and not paid. So sad if you see the workers often get salaries not in accordance with their efforts every day, serving companies that manage but not necessarily appreciated.
Nella is currently resting sitting under a palm tree, eating provisions that he brought, containing boiled cassava. Gobbling his provisions by thinking about what he had to do so that his grandmother could seek treatment to the city, considering the village he lived very far from the city and medical devices that are modern.
"Nella!" call the supervisor of workers in the oil palm plantation. Mr. Mingun his name. Nella approached the origin of the sound, Mr. Mingun with a trembling voice telling the news that his grandmother had just died.
"So said Mr. Wawan on the phone, Nella." Pak Wawan is a neighbor near Nella's house.
Nella's chest ached at the news from her foreman. "W-how could grandma die, sir. No. .. is impossible. Just the grandma I have." Nella feels desperate to hear from her foreman.
"You go home first. I'll give you one week's permission to take care of your grandmother's funeral and ease your grief. " Mister Mingun who felt the pain of Nella was so deep in giving money to Nella to take care of her grandmother's body.
"It accept. Maybe you could help with your grandmother's funeral. I'm sorry I couldn't get you home, because I had to keep an eye on the workers here."
"No pa pa, sir. Thanks again, Sir. Excuse me. " Nella says goodbye.
Nella ran to her house with the money her foreman gave her. Distance 500 meters plantation from the house only in ten minutes. No matter the bushes that slit his feet. He continued to run with tears that continued to flow rapidly to his cheeks, occasionally rubbed so as not to block the view of his eyes.
After reaching his yard, he saw that the neighbors had gathered to worship. The yellow flag was placed on the wooden pole of his house. Nella walks into her house. Neighbors who saw Nella's arrival gave way to Nella. Judging by his old body and pale face, he had been lying stiffly on his grandmother's couch. That body that every day cheers his life, accompany when he was tired of this life, has now taken his life by the Khalik.
"Grandma!" Nella's body splashed into her grandmother's arms. "Why did Grandma leave me? Why, Grandma?" Nella shook the stiff body.
"Nella!" call Nella's best friend, Gea. He hugs his best friend and drains his positive energy so that Nella is strong to face reality.
"Gea .. Now I have no one. I'm on my own now. " Nella hugged Gea.
"You still have me, Nella. Don't be like this, pity your grandmother if you're like this. He won't be calm in nature. Let's just pray your grandmother would be quiet by his side." Gea tries to calm Nella who is endlessly crying.
"You're right Gea." Nella agreed with Gea. "grandmother. I'm sorry I just cried."
Nella then went to stand with the help of Gea, cleaning herself because the clothes she was wearing were still clothes to work in the garden, after which she sat beside the corpse praying for her grandmother to leave quietly. His grandmother's body was buried in TPU Udik Sukamaju Village which is 500 meters from Nella's house.
One week later, he still felt a deep sadness. Nella sat on the front bench of her house. Daydreaming alone, thinking about what he should do now, there was no longer any encouragement of life for his work.
"Hey, why daydream?" gea's screams startled Nella, out of nowhere.
"Why daydream? Didn't you start working again today?" Gea sat down next to Nella.
"I was lazy to go to work, not excited," he said lazy and desperate.
Gea stood up, pulling Nella's hand. “How can you not be excited like this. The Nella I know couldn't have acted like this. Come on, you better find some firewood. Who knows, you might get better after a short walk. But I can't accompany because there's business.”
Nella finally nodded. Finding firewood is not bad either. If she keeps quiet at home, she will keep thinking of her grandmother, and end up with tears as usual.
Nella started walking towards the forest, occasionally picking up found firewood. As he walked at the bottom of the abyss, his eyes flashed with pleasure upon seeing so many piles of wood.
"There's a lot of firewood here."
As Nella was busy picking up firewood, the bush suddenly moved. Nella wondered how the bush could move on its own. In the open of the bush he found a man dashing and also handsome, but filled with wounds, his clothes tattered and full of incisions on his body, probably hit by a sharp grass bush. Nella glared in surprise, then shouted.
"Akh, bodies!” Nella jumped in shock, inched back a few steps. But then there was a small movement of the body lying helpless, making Nella rush to approach him, then check her breath. “Still breathing!”
"Please. " The man's moaning voice was heard by Nella.
"D-he's alive!"
Because of Nella's great pity, he did not bring firewood, even the stranger he brought home.
"Hem... What's more, this is for my humanity, I'm forced to bring her home for my care."
At first, Nella had trouble holding the man.
But he put all his energy and
he brought her home half-dragged, because the man's body was taller than Nella's.
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