OPACAROPHILES
6. I know I was wrong
Love is sitting looking at the rain that falls in the middle of the day. With her hands resting on her chin, Love closed her eyes while inhaling the smell of rain that was so typical. But that calm did not last long when a flash of memories about the rain came to his mind. Memories that take away someone he loves.
That night, about eight o'clock. Love, Tyra, her father, and one man were sitting in the park waiting for her Mama to come pick up after leaving the four of them in the park to go to the boutique.
"Love, do you want to wear your jacket?" asked the thirteen-year-old Tyra to Cinta, who was one year younger than her.
"No, Brother. For Brother only his jacket," replied Cinta with fingers that interlocked because of the cold wind that night that blows slapping his face and body wearing a T-shirt and knee-length skirt.
"Love's wearing Daddy's only, yes?," now his father offers his jacket to Cinta.
"No, Dad. Love is not cold, really, make a father, yes," said Love with a reassuring smile.
"Love don't do that, later if Love hurts we are sad to know," said the man who sat next to Love.
"Sir Cala, Love has said Love will not hurt. Love is strong, "Reply Love with a bright smile.
"Well, if Love doesn't want to wear a jacket, let me buy you warm milk across the street, will you?" asked his father to Cinta. Think quickly give love in return. He could not refuse his Father's offer because Love did not want to make his Father worry anymore.
"Love, Tyra, same old sister Cala once was, yeah. Dad went across there to buy warm milk for Love" said his father and soon passed to go buy warm milk. While waiting for her Dad to come, Love and her two older sisters chatted warmly about what they were doing at school today.
"I don't know, Tyra's friend was crying because she was angry at the teacher's mother, very sad but she was wrong, sister," said Tyra.
"Yes, that's why Tyra don't be naughty lest you scold the teacher" Cala replied with a hand stroking the top of Tyra's head that sat to her left. While on his right there is Love whose gaze can not be separated from the motion of his father who is buying warm milk.
"When Love is in school what is it today?" Cala asked Love.
"Love today sports-Aaaa! Dad!!," cried Love when he saw his father's body lying after a bullet hit his body accompanied by a firing sound that sounded very loud. All the attention of everyone who was there was immediately focused on the body of his father who was unconscious. Cala quickly pulled her two sisters across the street. Cala ran after someone in black who was running fast. With all his might he followed the footsteps of that person who was far ahead of him. Until the moment will cross the road in the middle of the highway, a large truck hit Cala's body until bounced far away. In less than a second, his body was unconscious. While his two younger siblings were crying over how his father was at that time.
"DAD!," cried Love as she hugged her father's bloodied body from her belly.
"DAD WAKE UP!," Tyra said with a loud shout.
"Please!!! Help my father!" Tyra told those around him. A man in an ash suit came and carried his father's body. He put his father's body in the car.
"Love, you come with me. Brother will look for Cala for a moment!," Tyra said in a hurry.
"I'm afraid, brother!," replied Love with a cry that did not stop.
"You're strong, Brother went yes," after that Tyra went looking for Cala's whereabouts somewhere. While Cinta came with the man in the suit to go to the hospital to take her Dad. In the car Love still can't stop crying over what happened to her father. A moment later the rain came down along with the tears of Love that fell to his cheeks. The man in the suit continued to look at Love from the glass without a sound. He knows how devastated his feelings the girl witnessed Dad's death with her own eyes.
"Dad..," lirih Cinta interrupted between her cries.
At her place Tyra was running down the crowded street in clothes wet from the rain. His eyes wandered around looking for where Cala was. But as he was about to cross the street, Tyra saw a crowded crowd. Slowly his footsteps slipped towards the crowd. And as if becoming a statue instantly, Tyra's body stopped breathing and moving when he saw Cala's body was covered in blood like his father's condition which a moment ago he just saw. Tears came out and dripped continuously as her legs moved closer and grabbed Cala's body into her cold embrace due to her wet clothes.
"Sister!," called Tyra to Cala who closed her eyes.
"SISTER WAKE UP DON'T STAY IN THE IRA!," cried Tyra loudly. His body is relentless.
"Sister.... Tyra please wake up, Brother!," cried Tyra with a broken cry after her.
"Sir Cala!!!,"
And after that incident, Love is no longer related to Tyra. Tyra hated her for the reason that it was Love that she lost both the people she cared about, Cala and her Father. Though Love did not know that his desire to accept the offer to drink warm milk will make him lose Cala and his father. If Love knew, she would have refused and forbade her father to go buy her warm milk.
Tears just drop every Love recollects memories like a nightmare for her. Until now, the feeling of guilt that he either feels wrong or not continues to haunt him every time he sees rain. His heart was like it was sliced because what he had done back then destroyed all of it. Destroy her harmonious family, destroy her childhood, and destroy the future of her older sister, Tyra. Only her Mother forgave what Love did, because she thought it was not Love's fault. There must be someone who really intends to kill her husband but it is very fitting when Cinta accepts his offer to buy warm milk.
The man in the suit who helped her was a very meritorious person for Love. Although the case was five years ago, the man is still willing to find out the motive for his father's murder. They are still often in the news, through the application they send messages to each other. Sometimes the man asks a few questions to find out what he might need to know.
That guy was very nice. Like a helper who can't help but extend a hand to anyone. Cinta sometimes participates in social service events held every few months in various parts of the city that have orphanages.
From following various social events that Love got a lot of learning that makes her very grateful for her life. Where he learned to be grateful for his life, although he had to give up his youth to work part-time. When they see how the children in the orphanage can still smile when they know, if they do not have parents or siblings. But their laughter never faded for a second.
