When Kalbu Tells a Story

7. Unforgettable

I'm a stupid girl, a girl who shouldn't have to interfere with other people's affairs that can never change or harm me. I shouldn't have to follow Resa and her friends to the warehouse, I shouldn't have to know their business while inside the warehouse. I shouldn't even need to know what they're going to do, they're indeed sneaky girls who can only reverse a fact and a pretty insulting word.

When I tried to get out of the barn, they always held me so tightly that my hands flushed slowly because of their hard grip.

"Resa, let me get out of here! My hand really hurts, why are you so mean to me? What am I wrong?"

"Gue won't let go of your hands, until you can shut up not to report the three of us. If you still keep reporting us, you will be able to spend your whole life! If for example, you ask what is wrong lo-I will answer."

"Gue is evil, because I hate you! Because I don't like to see your face that's ugly, ugly, and poor."

"So, just because of my circumstances you have to hate me, how despicable is my poverty? Is this how bad I am?"

"Well, you're worse than anything."

"AstagfiraAllah, to me a situation I have is not contemptible, poor or rich in the eyes of God we remain the same. We are both human, we are created from the same God, we are both created from the ground - for what is to boast of something that will never be our right, for what to hate something but not to hate. Precisely the humiliation comes because our hearts are always filled with idiosyncrasies, those who often insult someone because of a situation, actually they are more despicable than those whom they have insulted."

"So you mean, I'm worse than lo!"

"Yes, you are worse than me! When you insulted me and my family, you were insulting yourself and insulting your family. When you hate me, you actually hate yourself. So that you take it out on someone else, I already know all about you."

"Haha.... Over time your words made my heart grow angry!"

"Sorry Resa, I didn't mean to break your heart! It's just that I want you to better understand and appreciate someone's differences. I want you not to keep comparing someone to your wealth or to something you have. After all, we were created by God to respect and honor each other."

Resa still persists with his stance," Kalbu, I saranin equally lo ya! All your words will not work in my brain, I will not accept or can melt my heart. So it's useless you say a lot, but I can't take it! Bes..... Hempas all your words far away!"

"I am a fool, speaking to a man who is filled with anger in his heart, like a jug that runs though many times carrying water in it, the water will slowly fall and will never be full. Like you who will never be able to accept every word of mine that slowly throws it out of your brain."

Prok prok's....

"Kalbu, the wise girl! The girl who always makes Resa's heart angry, the girl who always wants to look cool." Resa took off her grip while turning her body for a moment, and gave a clap that made my heart not proud at all. I was still silent holding my red hand, enduring the pain from their scars. Maybe one day the red in my hand will disappear, but the scars will never disappear and I will never forget.

Resa slowly awakened my sleeping soul, a soul that had only been silent and not wrinkled at all, a soul that could only give up when they tried to harm me.

"Resa, today you can be content to laugh! But someday I'll be sure - if a laugh you make me, it will be a cry caused by your own actions. So I suggest to you, stop now not to hurt someone, before you regret later."

"There will be no words of regret in my dictionary!"

"Then let me just destroy your unqualified dictionary. So you can regret and feel what I'm feeling."

" If anyone tries to destroy my dictionary, then I'll go back to destroying it."

There was an unconsciousness that happened to me, when Resa and I threw a word at each other, it turned out that the two friends had gone out to call the principal. Resa deliberately invites me to argue, to turn my eyes away from the bad plan.

I put my soul back to sleep which only rose for a moment when the headmaster came to the warehouse with Jelita and Loli. The headmaster who is quite disciplined, has been wrathful to me.

"Kalbu!"

"I... Mama!"

"What are you doing here?"

"A... L'm... "

I couldn't speak much, suddenly my mouth was stiff, unable to twitch at all.

"Kalbu Jawab! What are you doing here?"

I tried to explain what I saw earlier, it would still be an explanation I did not accept. Because Jelita and Loli have poisoned the mind of Bu Anggun and the headmaster.

"Theresa! Is it true that you smoke in the school shed?"

"No ma'am, my friends and I don't smoke! Actually, we're the ones who saw Kalbu smoking. We peeked at Kalbu smoking behind the door, then we went in and stopped Kalbu from smoking. But Kalbu was angry and threatened us."

Big liar, Resa keeps cornered me he keeps flipping my every word so he's good in Bu Anggun's eyes.

"That's not true ma'am, I didn't do that!"

Suddenly Bu Anggun saw a proof of a lie, a proof that would incriminate me in this matter.

"I should be the innocent, you should be the guilty ones. Why is the universe playing me? I'm really afraid of God!"

A high note Bu Anggun gave me, " Kalbu! Let's say! Did you really do that?"

"I didn't do that, mom!"

"Then, I want to see your bag!"

Bu Anggun opened my bag, when in a small part of my bag Bu Anggun found a cigarette.

"Kalbu now you won't be able to dodge anymore, you have to account for your mistakes. Now you come with me to the office!"

"Mom, but it doesn't belong to Kalbu! It's theirs this must've been their plan, ma'am! Kalbu please believe the same Kalbu, mother do not easily trust them. They're big liars!"

"Have stopped, I didn't expect a student as smart as you to be like this."

"Mom, by God I don't smoke! If you can't trust me, then I hope you can trust God. "

Along the way I kept saying and defending this innocent me, trying to convince Graceful Lady not to punish me.

"How can you trust me? While the witness alone was not there, mother already did not want to argue anymore. You better come with mom to the office. "