MY LOVELY AUTHOR'S

ON THE VERGE OF DEATH PART 1

            Human life is full of secrets and mysteries. We never know what will happen in our lifetime unless we go through it. We will never know who we will meet in our lives, be it a short meeting or a short meeting. We only know what is certain in life: we will surely experience death when it comes.

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            “You are crazy, Sena!!!” I stared intently at Sena with a face full of anger. “My family may dump me, may be guilty of me but I never want them dead! After all, they are my family! Bora is the same! Even though he did to me so badly, but he is serving his sentence!! What rights do you have until you decide on the death of those around me, Sena??”

            If normal humans would feel guilty when shown their guilt, then abnormal humans like Sena would react otherwise. Sena laughed at my words and did not regret her actions at all.

            “I did it to please you, Asha. It is proof of my love for you! Don't you realize it, Asha??”

            However I tried to think about it, my mind could not accept Sena's actions in the name of her love for me.

            “You're crazy, Sena!! Anyone in this world, any woman would not accept if you killed someone out of love for her!! You're obviously crazy, Sena!!! You're sick!!”

            Sena looked at me with a sharp look in both of her eyes. The smile on his lips in a short time disappeared. I think my words just, really hurt him or maybe provoked him?    

            Sena approached me, touched my face and before long the touch turned into a firm grip on my neck. I guess ... Sena would probably choke me because my words just now were apparently really provoking her.

            “You know, Asha??”

            I prepared to accept the giggle, but Sena paused her intention and asked me instead. I looked at her intently in order to let Sena know that I wasn't afraid of her.

            “What should I know, Sena?” my reply.

            “Sometimes you make me think of my mother.”

            “Your mother?” my ul. At a time like this .. I only realized that as long as I knew Sena, I had never known about her, her background and her family. Sena and I spent a lot of time working together with both of us.  And that's the only reason that connects the two of us, the reason that made us meet and the reason that made us spend time together.

            “Yes, My Mother.”

Sena got up from her seat and soon walked out of the room where I was. I don't know what he's doing out there, but after a while Sena returns with a picture frame of a woman who looks a long time because of the brownish color that arises around her. I had to slightly pull my body to look towards Sena who was standing in front of the door of the room where I was.  From her face that looks similar to Sena, I suspect that the woman might be Sena's mother whom she just offended.

“Is the woman in the photo your mother, Sena?” my many.

“Yes, she's my mother, Asha. The mother I love the most and also the woman I hate the most.”

I frowned at the thought of her, “What do you mean by the woman you hate the most? Why do you hate your mother, Sena?”

After that Sena told her dark story that she had always kept alone to me. And it made me understand a little how Sena ended up being like this ...

            Little Sena is a boy who loves his mother very much. The family in which Sena was born and raised was originally a happy family like most other families.  Their life is normal where on holidays, they will spend time together with vacationing to a vacation spot. Everything felt so happy for little Sena. Father and mother who love him, a time of togetherness that is fun and happy, life little Sena as if able to make many children out there will be envious of him.

            But all that changes when something unexpected happens.

            That day was Sena's 10th birthday, her father who loved Sena then took Sena and his wife on vacation to the villa where I am now. Sena's father put up a tent, bought a lot of meat, tarts for partying. Sena and her family partied until Sena fell asleep because of the satiety.

            In the middle of the night, a rainstorm came along with lightning that struck several times. The thunderbolt sound usually will not make Sena wake up from her sleep especially after a glut.  But that night .. Father and Mother debate, making 10-year-old Sena finally woke up from her sleep. Sena opened the door of her room a little and tried to figure out what happened between her Father and Mother at night.

From the crack of her bedroom door, Sena saw how Mom and Dad were arguing with each other. Not long after.A man came in from the back door and attacked his father.

            Jamb. A blade that was sharp and glistening from the flash of lightning before lightning struck, pierced through the back body of Sena's father.

            “You really ... “ Sena's surprised father gets an unexpected attack then looks at his wife with a gaze full of anger.

            Jelb .. jleb. It was not enough with one stab of the foreign man to stab Sena's father several times until it collapsed with red liquid flowing from the wounds on his body. That night ... on her 10th birthday, little Sena lost her happiness.

            As if it was not enough with his father's death, the man then realized the whereabouts of little Sena peeking out from behind the crack of his bedroom door. The man pulled the knife that stuck in Sena's father's body, brandished it and walked over to Sena. The man was supposed to stab Sena to death, but that intention was stopped by Sena's mother. But instead, Sena's mother hit Sena's head with a nearby vase of flowers and made Sena's head bleed and fall unconscious.

            Little Sena collapsed and then became unconscious.

            “Nak ... Can you hear me?”

            As soon as she opened her eyes, Sena found herself in the hospital with several men in police uniforms staring at her.

            “Nak, can you hear me?”

            Little Sena who was still confused by his circumstances then stared blankly at the men. “Who are you? And who am I?”

            Sena looked at me and looked at me with a sad look. He stopped his story for a moment and then sat down on the chair beside the bed where I was. Sena put down a picture frame belonging to her mother. Not long after ... Sena opened her mouth again and continued her story. “That day I lost all my memories. Either because of the hard blow my mother gave me to save me or maybe because I couldn't see my father's death, I don't know. I lost my memory and had forgotten about the unfortunate incident.”