SHACKLED IN LOVE IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY

Christmas Tree

SHACKLED IN LOVE IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY

Marry Christmas and happy new year

Today is December 24, 2014, where another day the people who are Christian celebrate Christmas. The rainy season at the end of the year makes me lazy to go out to work, it's good to cuddle with a bolster pillow and blanket.

Christmas trees are already standing flat at home, at work, malls, cafes, night clubs, tourist attractions, roads, beaches and more. Flickering lights shades of Christmas at night spoil the eyes.

Many foreign tourists come to this country to celebrate Christmas and new year. The store is getting more and more visitors. Even though they have a shop of a Muslim aceh from Indonesia, still their tolerance run by putting trees and Christmas shades around this.

I put up the Christmas tree well. Although I've never done this before. But, I often see on television beautiful. Although I am a Muslim but I care that it is important that I am not asked to do anything beyond religious approval. Society here religious tolerance is also high, according to any story religion, race and wherever they come from, if they have become citizens of Malaysia, they unite to build a developed country.

I am not at all comfortable working, my stomach is often cramped as if there is a pressing under this navel. The noise of the visitors increasingly makes my head dizzy. I take tranquilizers and cold medicine so that the headache and stomach heal. I didn't know the drug was safe for the fetus either.

"Why you? I see you're lethargic for his work. Hey, don't do it! Later in the top bunk and in the boss reprimand!" Said shelin one of the employees of aceh store.

"My head and stomach hurt," I said, kneeling my temples and stomach.

"You got in the wind? it's like you've been taking medicine."

"Yes,"

"Yes, already. Rest in the back! do not get caught by other employees! They are sensitive, like to complain about the no-no. After a while, continue the work!" Shelin is one of the superiors that can be called attention. If I wasn't pregnant, I would be working. Haizan, that guy is a jerk.

***

It's a little mengingan it feels like I'm out, I see his work is not finished. They still put up flickering lights in the cafe. A little late but that's okay, said the boss rather than not at all.

"Diaha! Take a lamp like this in the barn, yeah! bring everything!"

"Yes! Ma'am," the boss' mother told me to pick up some more decorative lights in the barn. Arriving there, the warehouse is cleaner than my cost. I check one by one it can too. Bring it forward hand it to the boss.

"It! Ma!" I handed the decorative lights to the boss. But, ma'am boss took it roughly, I handed it over nicely. What the hell is going on?

"Hey! The boss is so. Don't take heart" said Shelin.

"I'm okay. People like them mushroom out there."

The clock has shown at one in the morning I am already sleepy, even though twelve o'clock has gone home. I wanted to run away, but I didn't want to take the risk.

"Shelin up! What time do you come home?"

"A little while."

"Yes, what time is it?"

"Please wait again." Shelin get away from me to whom do I ask? People who are Christmas and new year, we are busy Muslims, our energy and time in the procession. That much salary.

"it's coffee for you! let your sleepiness disappear!" Shelin handed me a cup of coffee. "We'll stay here until morning."

"Well! that right? Oh, I don't drink coffee." Here until morning? Does that mean I won't sleep tonight? I feel tormented again.

"Drink a little, it will prevent your sleepiness. It feels good, sweet try it later you get used to it too."

"You're like a young pregnant man."

Deg, where does shelin know I'm pregnant? Just let anyone know my true condition.

"Ah, you are there. I didn't drink the colored ones, never tried them, because I never had the money to buy them."

"I just heard this time that someone who's sick smelled coffee."

***

"Huek, what's this?" Shelin forced me to drink his coffee. It feels weird to make my stomach nauseous again. I went to the toilet and vomited all my stomach contents. Shelin followed me to the back. Another employee noticed that someone asked us why? Me why?

"Shifa why? I think people are pregnant." Shelin.

"You why? how tense is that?"

"Daddy, shifa! you're not pregnant, are you?" Said one of the employees making another employee surprised to wonder if I was really pregnant? it's bad if I get caught, I could get fired.

"What! Shifa's pregnant?"

"Correct?"

"Diaha! Answer dong!"

"I'm not pregnant. I'm getting acid reflux doesn't fit for coffee."

"Oh, that's it." Some believe some don't, some want to complain to the boss for the boss already home."

"Shelin up! You're fuckin. I told you I don't like to drink coffee, I can't be forced to drink it, "It's remembered that night of the curse, Haizan forced me to drink alcohol which made my head ache and collapse.

***

Who says we're gonna be here till morning, in fact in an hour. Shelin lied. This is because, given me about that night and that day, Ella and her friends locked the door and didn't let me in at all. How about seeing them again? I don't know what I should do.

I hope Indri doesn't do something like that to me. Desperate to leave me outside at night did not occur to them we are both women. Just imagine the nights living alone beyond what danger. Thankfully I am still safe.

Tok tok tok tok

"Austria!" Hey, indri's not home yet. Where is that kid? Is it still working. I call indri not picked up, wa not reply.

I took off my shoes and socks, cleaned myself out of what virus was brought from the outside. Looking down at the ceiling of my bedroom I was traveling to Jambi. How are mom, dad, and Royan. Why have they never contacted me? Don't they feel like they lost me? Has the other family never asked where I am?

Let them not be grateful that I am not incriminating them anymore. Oh, dad, mom, I never asked to be born to you. If I can choose, I want to be born from a rich and distinguished family.

"Diaha! You daydream, I call many times not nyaut."

"Eh, indri! you're home!" I sit on the bed. "Old time to go home?"

"Boss told us to prepare a Christmas tree at work."

"Oh."

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