
“Sayang?.” Said Ray's father calling his wife who was now with Ray watching into the chicken coop.
“ssst...” Desis Ray's mother against her husband. He told her to shut up and invited her to join them.
Slowly Ray's father stepped slowly to get closer, he joined and stood right on the other side of Ray.
“See the eggs are ready to break.” Said the father to Ray.
“Papa... will the chicks be okay?.” With the eyes still on the chicken eggs.
“The chick will be fine if it is on the side of the mother, because the hen will always keep and protect her chicks.” Ray's father answered him with a faint smile.
“Papa, will the chicks grow healthy?.”
“Ha ha ha, ehhh. But if we feed them and take good care of them, maybe the chicks will grow into healthy chickens. Wellh that's how it is about.” The father replied with a slightly ambiguous face.
Too cool to pay attention to chicken eggs, Father and mother Ray forget that his daughter is still home alone.
“Uwa...” Tangis Seni from home.
Simultaneously they glanced towards the house.
“Jeez, papa forgot that your sister Art is still inside alone.” Ray's father quickly got up and rushed in to calm his daughter down.
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“Did you eat Ray?” Ask the mother.
“Not yet ma, Ray is not hungry.”
“Let's eat together, mama is afraid you'll get sick because your body is still very small.”
“In the meantime ma, Ray wants to see chicks hatch.”
Seeing the perseverance of his son who is still paying attention to the egg hatching process, he remains beside his son to accompany.
“Darling, isn't it time for breakfast?.” Asked Ray's father who was also approaching towards the two of them.
“You two eat first, later mama sama Ray will come.” Answer the wife.
“Arts want to see chicks hatch?.” Ray's father asked his daughter.
“Ayam?” Speech art.
“Ehe, how?.”
Slowly Art nodded as it was still feeling sleepy. Ray's father approached and joined them, a beautiful view of this humble family. Togetherness and harmony that cannot be seen from any family, the warmth that envelops this family is very concentrated.
“Papa?, which chick?.” Tanya Seni who had not found the chicks her father said.
“Ohhh, the chicks still haven't come out of that egg dear. Art see the egg next to the hen's wing?.”
With a funny look, Art glanced in the direction that the father pointed. Both of Art's palms touched the chicken coop's net, its position now is the same as his brother Ray who also attached the palm and his face was netted.
The momentary state of silence, only the sound of other chickens chirping. The sunlight was so bright that morning, but they were protected from the rays because the trees were quite large and with thick leaves growing behind the chicken coop.
“After the chicks have hatched, what they will grow well.” Ray asked his parents.
Ray looked at his mother's face with a clueless look. Looking at that gaze, Ray's mother smiled faintly and explained slowly.
“For the animals they follow the law of the jungle dear, where the strong will be the winner. Maybe Ray and Art still do not understand, so this is if when the chicks go somewhere alone and in that place there is also a snake, then the possibility of the chick will die.”
“Mati?, but why. Can't they be friends?.” Ask Ray back.
“Animals are usually friends with the same sex only, well. for chickens and snakes are different types so they can not make friends. After all, dead chicks are eaten by the snake because chicken is the right meal for the snake.” Answer Ray's mother.
“So snake is a stronger animal than chicken!” with a look back on the chicken eggs.
“True!, Mother's son is indeed smart.” Ray's mother said by stroking his son's head.
“Papa-papa, broken chicken eggs.” Art by pointing towards a broken egg.
“It wasn't Broken papa pretty boy?, it's his name chicks will come out of his eggs.”
Simultaneously, they all watched the egg turn into a cute animal.
“Wahhh Ray was amazed to see the finished chick. Both of Ray's eyes sparkled to see a scene that he thought was very unique.
“Cit cit...” The sound of chicks that have hatched perfectly.
“Papa, funny.” Said Art who was also happy to see the scene, He was closer to his adorable face in order to see it more clearly.
Five minutes passed after the chick had completely come out of the egg, slowly the little animal entered into the feathers of the mother who was so thick.
Seeing the incident, Ray and Art look moody. They wanted to see even longer that chick that had just hatched.
“Papa, why did the chick get into his mother's stomach?. Art still wants to see the chick, papa tell the chick out again.” Speak Art with a speech style that is so adorable.
“Have been a pretty papa boy, after all the chicks need warmth from his mother so we can't bother him. Pity that the chicks will freeze to death, Art does want to see the chicks die?. Ray's father said to his sister.
Ray's mother, who was watching, stood up and began to step in front of the house. “Let our children eat, for the chick let him be with his mother.” By showing her smiling face to her two children.
“Yahh...” Say Ray and Art in unison.
The family walked into the house for breakfast.
“But papa-mama, the father of the chick where is it?. From earlier Ray noticed there was no chicken father in the cage.”Ray asked as he walked in front of him who was holding his little sister.
“Hah? That's, maybe the chicken's father was looking for food. One must work to feed his children.”
Hearing the husband's answer to his eldest son's question, Ray's mother laughed.
“Honey, you why laugh?.” Ask her husband.
“Ahhh, it's nothing. That was a very good answer.” Said the wife who was still laughing.
“How else, I don't know what to say.”
“Yasudah-yasalah, let's eat because we've been bad luck for breakfast.”
Ray was only silent in wonder, he did not know what was funny from his father's answer earlier so that made his mother laugh.