The Young Child

Part 2

April 13, 2013.

"Neng, I don't have the money to buy a new school uniform, yesterday the money kepake to pay for the Isma Tea exam, for school tomorrow, you use the former Isma Tea uniform just yeah, still good ko,"

"If you have money, you buy new clothes." The sentence nine years ago is still clearly imprinted on Halwa's memory.

When his peers smile cheerfully, wearing new uniforms on their first day of elementary school, Halwa actually smiled cheerfully because it could school, waiting and prayers for two years finally materialized.

Yes, Halwa had to "go away" two years because her parents did not have enough money to send Halwa to school at that time. The first year, their savings money was already there, but there was a disaster in the form of Isma sick, he had appendicitis and had to be operated on.

Year two, the day before enrolling Halwa to school, Hamdan came home from school with a letter of reprimand because it had not paid SPP money for five months, then Halwa also still had to be patient at that time. So this year Halwa is really happy, even though only using used clothes whose white color has begun to fade to yellow.

***

"Huh? Halwa's? Halwa!" Anggi was a little screaming at the end he said.

Srap!

Like being struck by something Halwa's consciousness returned to her body.

"Iy-iya, what's up Anggi?" Halwa's focal point was irregular, she was drowning like a dazed person.

"You tea, what's the problem? oruh the same story me, yesterday when coming to the house I also you cry, now in class you daydream." As Halwa's best friend, Anggi knows very well that her best friend is facing a complicated problem, but, that's Halwa she is most hesitant to tell about her personal life. He was quiet, even though people assumed that if Halwa was a jolly child, a smile was always imprinted on his face.

Halwa smiled, precisely the fake smile that she gave, "That's nothing, just yesterday there was a small problem, but now it's finished ko."

"Ekh, later in the day we want to see Yuyun, will be born again, you want to join?" Ica brought one plastic lilok that was quite red because of the sauce, she sat facing Anggi.

Our Yuyun, the dimple girl who always smiled, now that she was already a Mother, she was the same Yuyun I remembered, Yuyun who aspired to become a teacher.

His parents did not have enough money to put Yayun into Junior High, eventually he was betrothed, married at a young age. Thirteen years.

Yuyun's noble dreams did not stop, only that God granted in another way, now he would become a teacher, becoming the first school for his son.

"You want to, but I have to go home first, we'll meet at the T-junction to Yuyun's house just fine." Anggi nodded, while Ica chose to focus on inserting a circle of aci with spicy spices in her mouth.

***

"Ekh, there's a pretty Ade, where's the deck going ?" A group of high school teens head off Halwa midway.

There are actually two roads to Halwa's house, there is a highway and a small alley road. Halwa more often pass the small road because it will be faster to get to the house, if using the highway is longer, it will be faster, there are also many street vendors and buyers who make the road a little congested, it is a little dangerous because wheeled vehicles also pass through the road.

Unlike this small road only occasionally someone passed by.

"You're coming home, brother." Halwa was about to turn around, but one of them blocked Halwa's path.

"Sweet deed, for money dong! our money's already for buying cigarettes, we want snacks, laper." Teen hairy gondrong holding hands.

"I don't have a sister, I want to go home, excuse me!"

"Eits, where are you going? you must be lying." One of them forcibly snatched Halwa's carry-on bag, giving his female companion a search.

"What else are you doing ?" Halwa knew the voice behind her, it was Hamdan's.

"Eits, there's a school boy next door." Their focus shifts to Hamdan.

"A, Hamdan?" Halwa rushed to the back of Hamdan's body.

"Oh so this is her brother ...." The long-haired teenager approached Hamdan, followed by his friends.

"Awas, we're going through. It's a public road, not a hangout." Wanting to pass the group of teenagers, Hamdan's steps stopped because the teenager named Dika turned Hamdan's body, hit him suddenly.

"A, Hamdan!" Shrieking Halwa, she hoped that someone would hear her voice.

Not accepting what Dika made, Hamdan punched Dika in the stomach, not until there even Dika's friends also attacked Hamdan.

Ironically two female friends Dika just casually watch the fight as if watching television. Unlike Halwa who screamed several times to see Hamdan hit, to help even he could not.

Bugh!

Bugh!

Bugh!

Srak!

"A, Hamdan!" Halwa screamed to see Hamdan impaled by a knife on his back.

"Ekh, what's the stab at him?" Panicked to see Hamdan begin to bleed.

"Take it off, let's get away!" said the teenage girl who panicked.

Halwa approached Hamdan who was sitting limp, "A, Hamdan? how'sthis? astaghfirullah," Halwa was more confused to see Hamdan's blood growing.

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