The Ugly Duckling's

3

"Mr? sir? Mr?!" call me to my father who is already stretched out lifeless.

"Bus ... Mother ... Mom wakes up mom.." My tears shake my mom's body.

"What happened sir?" ask me to Mr. Kadir as our RW chairman.

"Be patient Sarah, your mother's father was a hit-and-run victim." Obviously Mr. Kadir.

"But run?! where are you from, sir?" ask me for further explanation.

"So, your father nganter mom around the laundry complex. According to the people there, there are a group of children who ride a car very fast and then it happened" explained Mr. Kadir.

Oh my God .. What else is this ordeal? why did you take my parents too? Is not enough of this humiliation that I have experienced?!! I cry sitting together.

"Sarah, now it's important that we bathe the bodies of your father and mother first" Nia told me.

I hugged her tightly, then gathered with my neighbors to bathe my Mom and Dad.

I have no relatives or relatives, but fortunately the people are very attentive to my family.

Nia was with me all day until nightfall.

"Thank you, Nia, you are my best friend" I hugged her.

"What happens to me, if there is no you." I continued.

"It's okay, Sarah, I'm so glad I could help you. You're really pretty inside." Nia's saying strengthens me.

"I can't go to school with a video like that." I complained.

"You're a tough girl, they're nobody to me" Nia said.

"Well, why don't they bother me if you're around?" my many.

"That .. ehhh .. already malem, I go home first ya." said Nia in a hurry.

"Thank you Nia." I said I felt lonely alone.

I lay down my large body by staring at the ceiling of the room.

Oh my God .. How can I pay for my school fees? How can I live? I know God can't possibly love me a very hard ordeal, but I can't stand God anymore. I miss my Father's Mother.

I cried all night hugging a picture of my late Father and Mother, until I finally fell asleep.

Cuitt ... cuit .. the sound of the song of a melodious bird deafens my ears.

I stretched my body and called my mother.

"Yes ... hoamm ... ibuk mashed not yet cooked?" I ask who is still unconscious.

I opened my mom and dad's room.

Blank.

I also remember what happened yesterday.

I sat at the dinner table thinking.

I will work temporarily, permit two-three days is not a problem right? I need money to live.

I also started by looking for dirty laundry from the neighbors, many who pity and contribute to me but I did not want to stop trying.

I pedaled my mother's bike, my mother's last treasure and relic for me. From door to door I tap to offer dry cleaning services as well as tutoring for their children at SD level.

Good for today, I said in my heart

I started washing those dirty clothes.

Apparently, this is what it feels like to be a washing worker. Very tiring, I must have been very tired at that time. I said in my heart with tears flowing.

It didn't feel like it was noon, I rushed to buy my favorite food. Chicken jumbo with a glass of soda. I loaded up my ammo, and immediately returned home.

I saw Nia's car parked in front of the house.

"Hello Sarah, I brought you a notebook today and some food" he said.

"Thank you, come on in." take me.

Nia told me a lot about what happened at school today. So excited because I did not go to school, fortunately Nia already allowed me to the principal.

"What's? you let me go straight to the principal?"

"mm." she replied with a steady nod.

"Not only that, the principal agreed to give you tuition assistance" Nia explained.

"Thank God ... Thank you Nia ..." I hugged her tightly.

"Sar .. ah .. sssu I told you not to.." said Nia brick.

"Ops, sorry for the release." Say it with a grin.

"I'm so grateful to have a friend like you Nia" I said.

"Eh, what do you want to drink?" much

"No, I'm full."

"We talked while cleaning the laundry, didn't you?" I asked who at that time had to finish the ironing that mounts so that tomorrow can be delivered.

"You're doing this?" ask Nia.

"Hmm .. Yes, I also open a dumbbell class for elementary school children. They're coming soon." I explained.

"Don't look at me like that, I just survive by continuing my mother's work" I said.

"Excuse me." the voices of some children were heard from the front of the house.

"Oh brothers, come on in."I asked.

"Hhh, tired" I said, kneeling my legs and arms.

"It was Sarah's night, I went home first." said Nia.

"Ok, I'm sorry I took care of you today."

"No, I'm glad I could help you. I'll see you tomorrow." he said.

"Eh, tomorrow if you're tired don't have to come is okay." I shouted as Nia was already in the car and waved her hand.

The ancient clock in the house shows the number 8 nights. Akupu intends to have dinner before going to bed.

This new activity has been going on for 1 week, I am getting used to it.

I decided to visit the graves of my parents before collecting dirty clothes.

"Mr, ibuk .. forgive Sarah. Sarah's a cowardly child. Sarah did not dare to go to school. Sarah can't make you proud. Sarah hates herself." I cried in front of my parents' graves.

Suddenly I saw a mound of dirt that was still wet moving, making me fall down and sit back.

Oh my God .. What else is this? in the early morning there are ghosts? off the ground again?! I said in my heart.

The ground did not stop moving, I saw no tombstones and no flowers.

I ventured to open the mound slowly.

A leg!

I retreated again, but the leg moved like someone asking for help.

I quickly dug up the mound.

An old woman with battered and extremely apprehensive circumstances came out from there.

He can't talk. I quickly carried the grandmother, I put it in a laundry basket that would still fit if the grandmother was put to sleep hugging her knees.

I paddled my bike quickly until I got home.

"Come on, hold Sarah." I said before holding her on my back.

I put it in my room. I gave her a glass of water, and then I wiped her face. Very oriental, it looks like a Japanese.

"Sir, grandma wait a minute, let Sarah cook porridge for grandma." I said.

Grandma did not answer.

I hurried to make a bowl of porridge, boiled omelet and a glass of warm tea.

"The pulp is ripe neekkk, hm smells good. Come on grandma eat a little ya." my ray.

Grandma nodded in agreement. I raised his position, then bribed him.

"Grandmother, whose name is grandma? grandma speaks Indonesian, right?" I asked in the middle of the meal.

"Don't talk while eating" said the grandmother briefly.

Ihhh the grandmother has been helped, bribed not to say thank you even angry me. My grunts in my heart.

I closed my mouth and fed it to the toilet.

"GOCHISOUSAMADESHITA" said the grandmother as she clenched her palms together and smiled brightly.

"Eh.he.he.i.iya.." answered me who does not understand Japanese at all.

"Thank you for the food" he said

"Oh, equally grandma. Grandma didn't answer Sarah's question. My name is Sarah, whose grandmother's name is she?"

"Call me Grandma Megumi" she said.

"Ok grandma, Sarah briefly boiled water for grandma shower ya." I left it in my own room.

After the bath was ready, I swept her into the bathroom.

"Grandmother want to help or take a shower?" my many.

"If Sarah wants to, grandma is happily bathed" she said.

Her smile is so sweet.

"Sir, why was grandma in the ground?"

"There's a bad guy who wants to hurt Grandma."

"Ohh, Japanese grandmother, but how can you understand Indonesian?"

"Yes, I'm a Japanese grandmother but I've lived here for a long time."

"Means grandma remembers grandma's house dong." I asked.

"Grandmother doesn't want to go home, there are still bad people" he said.

"So far, where's Sarah going after this?" ask me again curious.

"Nothing, grandma wants to sleep if she can."

"Yes, this is my mother's clothes and my grandmother can sleep in my mother's room" I said.

"Where's your mom?" tanyanya while wearing my mother's clothes.

"Mother and father have passed away." I said sadly.

"No need to be sad, there is a grandmother here" she said, patting my head.

"Grandma sleep first, Sarah wants to take the laundry." I said.