
Rose walked down the night street illuminated by the dim lights of the street lights. The girl had just come home from her part-time job, at a fast food restaurant.
Rose is not from a family, her mother is just a laundry worker, while her father does not work at all. His father could only play gambling and get drunk.
The hard life he lived since childhood. The sound of crying from his mother was common food for his sense of hearing.
However, even though she was a girl who grew up among thorny shrubs, she remained a jolly figure. Smiles and happiness always seemed to cover him.
All the problems she went through, made her a girl who could withstand the storm. Rose never allowed herself to get dissolved in grief.
"Rose, you just got home?" Ask a middle-aged man who is his neighbor.
"Ah uncle Gani. Yes uncle." Answer Rose.
"Better you go home quickly, your father—"
"Okay uncle, thank you for telling me." Rose said, she then ran away leaving the middle-aged man behind.
Rose knew what Gani's uncle wanted to say, even though he hadn't heard the whole words of the middle-aged man.
What Gani's uncle wants to say for sure is about his father who is drunk and on a rampage. The girl continued to run through the cold night wind, hoping that her father had not hurt her.
Arriving in front of the house, Rose went straight inside, he headed towards the noise in the living room.
Rose widened her eyes, not her mother who was injured, but her father was helpless on the floor of the house.
There stood two large-bodied men with tattoos all over their arms. Just one look, Rose already knew who they were. They are loan sharks who collect their father's debt for losing gambling.
"Mother!" Rose approached her mother, who was standing next to her father.
"Is this your son? That's fine." too." Said one of the loan sharks.
"What if this girl paid her father's debt to our boss?" Said the other loan shark.
"What debt? That's my dad's debt! Not debt. So my mom and I have nothing to do with you!" Rose shouted in front of the two men.
"Well, so don't want to pay the debt huh? We'll report it to the police." Said the loan shark.
Rose smiled sinisterly looking at the two big-bodied men.
"Please, take that irresponsible man away from our house." Rose said, pointing to her father.
"Rosella!" His mother's voice screamed at him.
Rose looked over, looking at her mother who was already covered in tears.
"You're his daughter, why do you say that." The mother's words interrupted her cries, making Rose feel guilty.
"You heard what your mother said, you're her daughter, so your father owes you too." Said the loan shark.
"On the one blank four five in the book of civil law, no one is obliged to accept an inheritance that falls into his hands." Said Rose, he stared intently at the two loan sharks for a moment, before finally returning to continue his words.
The two loan sharks were initially surprised to learn that Rose understood such a law. But then they laughed happily, like finding a hidden treasure.
"Why are you laughing?!" Said Rose annoyed with the attitude of the two loan shark men.
"Our boss will definitely pay off your debt, if you hand your daughter over to him in exchange." Said one of the loan sharks to Prim, Rose's father.
Rose's father, who had just come to his senses, stood up with the help of his wife. The middle-aged man then looked at his daughter, looking from top to bottom.
"I don't know if you're this big as Rosela." The father looked at him with a meaningful look.
"Bring him up." Rose's father told the two men.
"What did you say?! She's our daughter! How did you get that stuff?! You're selling your own daughter!" Mother Rose said.
"Shut up! Can you afford it?! Do you want your father's inheritance house to be sold?!" Said the father to his wife.
Rose clenched her hands annoyed at the sight of her father who was always shouting loudly and acting arbitrarily to his mother as well as himself.
"Well, you can make a fuss later, after we take this sweet girl away." Said one of the loan sharks. Then the two walked up to Rose who was still in her place.
"One more step you're approaching, I'll make sure the police are coming." Rose said with her hand on the phone raised up, showing the two men that she was now in contact with police.
Both men stopped their steps and kept a long distance from Rose.
"It's coercion, I can report you for kidnapping if you take me away from here. And dad, Rose can report dad for human trafficking." Rose said, leaving everyone in the room speechless, no one dared to reply to her words.
"Hello, we're from the emergency call, who's there with? Is there a problem we can help with? If anything happens, we'll send help from the police there." The emergency call Rose made was connected.
All were still silent, as was Rose who was still waiting for the two men to give up and leave her house.
Rose pointed at the exit with her hands, codifying the two men of great stature to rush out of her house immediately, otherwise Rose would ask for help from the police.
Forcibly, the two men charged with collecting the debt went from there, leaving Rose, her mother and her father still staggering over the influence of alcohol.
"Sorry, a stranger came into my house. But there was just a little misunderstanding. I'm really sorry." Rose answered the call she ignored long enough.
"Well, next time if it's not an emergency, please be wise to use this number." Said the man across there who then turned off the call.
Rose sighed, she was actually embarrassed and uneasy about making such a prank call. What if the number goes into the blacklist of people who like to make fun calls. The girl could only snort.
"Rose." Call mommy. Rose turned her head for a moment, she threw her smile at her mother, then walked tiredly into her room.
Visited debt collection, not just this one time, but often. But that was really the worst. How could his father have gone that far.
Rose was eager to get angry at the middle-aged man, but her mother always advised her on the things that made her undo her bad intentions. It's still your father, after all. Rose snorted in annoyance given her mother's words.
✍ This story is just fictitious. Sorry if there are similarities in the names of characters, places of events or events that occur.✍