The After I Die

Child and affection

“Child satan! it's been a fight for a day!? it's stupid, slow, can't be anything anyway. What do you want to be ?! dishwasher?!”

His mother threw the letter Kina had brought from school right in his face, his father sitting on the porch saying nothing, letting the wife vent her anger at the child

“Ci Dawi!"

His mother shouted to the old woman who worked as a dishwasher in their shop, the woman came with half her clothes wet, her hands clutching napkins.

“Start now let Kina do the dishes ! Ci moved cook"

“But.. Kina is still a little buk, how about the plate breaks”

The woman said softly, she could not bear to look at Kina who kept her head down from now on, the daily dishwasher was always on the mountain, she was sure that the small delicate hand would not be able to

“It is precisely this demon child must be in ajar”

Her mother stood up leaving Kina with Ci Dawi, Kina raised her head with a red face holding back tears, she took a napkin from Ci Dawi's hands and walked towards the dishwasher, where she was doing the dishes, there was a pile of dirty dishes waiting for him, he took a deep breath

The son of Satan cannot be weak!

He continued to rub the plate in a slow motion, not because he was lazy or meticulous, just that Kina's mind was sometimes out of place, his mind floated considering the events at school earlier, making his heart upset

Almost four hours after she washed the dishes, the customers of their stalls had begun to decrease as dusk was approaching, Kina stretched her hands, took off the gloves and aprons on her clothes, on the side, put them on the side, walking out, he could see Ci Dawi sweeping the floor and tidying up the plastic chair near the table, his mother was in the kitchen, while his father was counting something with a calculator in front of him

He sat on the chair, listening to the radio broadcast on the top, his hand moving to tidy up the napkin on the table, afraid that his mother would rebuke him for doing nothing

His mother came out of the kitchen with a small bushel in her right hand, on the table, before long came a boy wearing a shabby oversized shirt running around. His eyes were round clean, his hair a little messy, his skin was white clean

“Aduh Nukas do not run-run“

Ci Dawi followed the boy inside and approached his mother who was wrapping a cloth, The woman smiled as Nukas handed her a piece of money, she rubbed her head slowly and gave Nukas candy, making the boy laugh with pleasure, Kina fell silent at the sight, she never saw her mother as soft as it was to others, even her mother never rubbed her head in remembrance

The boy took the bushel carefully, the candy that Kina's mother had given him had entered his mouth, he shook the hands of his mother, his father and Ci Dawi, he said, then walked towards Kina, extending her hand

Kina was a little clumsy at the salami all of a sudden, she was a little curious because she had never seen Nukas in her village before

“Whose son are you?"

But the boy instead gave a wide grin and spread his arms, hugging him while muttering indistinctly, he looked at his mother with a questioning look

“He's Mr. Mursa's son, drive home, it's almost tonight, pity alone”

“I didn't know that Miss Mursa had a son laklaki”

“Not Mursa's son, the other child”

The woman said briefly, he left Kina for the kitchen, Kina was silent, it turned out that the rumors were true, Mr. Mursa had a second wife in the city and this was the son of his second wife

He stood up, holding Nukas' hand out, the boy hummed cheerfully, occasionally running past Kina to pick up a stone and throwing it into the pool on the side of the road

“Kakak what is his name?“

For the first time, Nukas opened his voice, but he just nodded, shook his head and laughed, his voice was so childish

“Kina”

“Kak Nana”

“You want to go there?”

Kina wished that Nukas was just idly pointing there, but she was wrong instead the boy nodded and pulled his hand there

“We can not go there, later bu Mursa angry“

The house was the home of Niba's grandmother, an elderly woman who was almost a century old and had no relatives, so Mursa and Mursa's mother took care of him, he was very old, he was very old, her body was unable to move anymore, so Kina almost never saw the old woman out of the house though

He remembers with his friends playing hide-and-seek in the yard of Niba's grandmother, Mursa's mother came like a doorman while holding a broom stick to drive them away, he said, it always happens if someone plays in the yard of Niba's grandmother, since then no child has dared to set foot in the yard of the house

Nukas ran up to the front porch, Kina followed him back nervously, she glanced around timidly when Mursa's mother caught him with a broom, but there was no one, no one, only the sound of the twilight wind was heard.

He saw that the boy took the key in the flower pot, turned the key deftly, as if he were used to it

“Kak nana enter yuk"

He opened the door wide, and Kina was a little surprised to enter the house, in her shadow, in the house filled with dust and garbage everywhere, but it turns out that in it is very clean and neat, – items in the house do look old, but it still looks like it can be used

Wait, something's weird

Kina did not have time to think much when she saw Nukas' tiny body move to pick up the bushel and bring it to the table, open it and take the spoon, Kina thought Nukas would eat it, and she said, but he took the bushel and spoon to a room

Kina followed behind silently, looking an old woman lying on the bed, her gray hair unraveling, her body extremely thin, like skin wrapped around a bone, her breathing very slowly, that old woman was Niba's grandmother

Nukas lifted the woman's head then supported her with a pillow, again the impression of the movement made by Nukas is very deft as the activities he usually does every day

“Grandma eat yes"

Nukas spooned the rice in the bushel and fed the old woman with great pain, the woman had her eyes empty, her eyes may have faded with age, Kina was sitting beside Nukas, she was curious about Nukas' relationship with Niba's grandmother

“Nukas is a pity for grandma huh?"

“Yes, because grandma no one loves"

Nukas without turning his head, the woman chewed the porridge she ate slowly, seemingly unaware of Kina's presence there

“Wah, Nukas the good boy. Where's mom?"

Nukas was silent for a while, then looked at Kina with a huffed look

"Mom sleeps again, sister Nana"

Kina nodded silently, could it be that Nukas and his mother live here? maybe Mursa's mom didn't want to stay home with Mursa's second wife so they stayed here, considering Nukas who looks very familiar with the place and Niba's grandmother

“In room yes? where's mom's room?"

Kina asked again, he was curious about the face of the second wife of Mursa, maybe he could meet his mother Nukas to just say hello

Nukas shook his head, his eyes moving agitatedly to and fro as if afraid that anyone would hear or see Kina's whereabouts here. He pointed towards the window, which was given an iron trellis outside, and saw an old well complete with pulleys on it

“Disana. Mama slept there “

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