Ice Cream
SELF-WORTH

Ryan Alfarizi lived like a teenager in general, he went to school to complete the mandatory nine years of study. Not bad value, the face is also quite handsome. He's not arrogant, big-headed, what else a great pretent. Daily Ryan who diligently helps parents, diligent learning, diligent cleaning, diligent saving, diligent giving, diligent smiling, diligent bathing also really become a good child.

There is nothing wrong in life for Ryan to live, he has to work harder than other students in the study period as a 2nd-semester high school student.

His family is poor, underprivileged, cliche about the economy or something. Where income is less than expenditure. While the mother became a single parent with all-expensive living costs in the city of Jakarta, working as a paid plastic factory worker under the UMR standards of government determination.

But the problems that revolve in the middle of Ryan's family life, are nothing more than a debt at the stall, paying it off when payday comes. The electricity bill is almost broken then he paid, or asked for a correction of Augustusan dues even though it is still March.

Not expecting anything to guarantee the life Ryan has, even if it is social assistance from the government, the problems in his family's life will not change.

For Ryan, a physically and spiritually healthy High School boy, Ryan works to help the family economy, even if it's not much, ryan's intention is just to lighten his mother's burden after spending years living a life that isn't okay.

But this life has become rotten.The poor is not a destiny, but those who are rich have the power to always demean the poor. And so do the poor, still enjoying their poverty by spending money even though the electric sirens have been loud.

That is why, poverty is difficult to eradicate because they like to be poor, without trying to change fate. When prices start to rise because of economic inflation, the poor are blaming the government's incompetence. What an irony.

Until that afternoon....

The song 'Indonesia Pusaka' began to be heard when the time had shown at one noon. The sound of a drowning woman reverberating through the class speakers and so melodious in the ears of the students, because it is a sign that the lesson hour has been completed.

Yet every student in the school whispered to each other to talk about the hot news that had just happened....

"Hey... Do you know Ryan's an IPS class kid, he beat Sano and his friends to the hospital."

"Yes the cave is tenacious, but instead of Sano looking for trouble, he wants to do something that is not the same as Ryan's girl."

"So cute girl, even though she herself wants to join Sano. Basic latcur."

"The cave just pity Ryan, but the cave knows Ryan is a good guy."

"But how else, the Sano family is really in charge."

As said in the chat the students in their class, because inside the principal room....

Ryan stood upright in silence, the atmosphere of the day making him angry, he could not fight, or try to defend himself. When all the faces looked with eyes of hatred, all the faults were pointed out to him.

Poverty is the culprit for a mistake Ryan didn't commit. The rich are always in power and throw all their anger.

Bad luck was before him now, what trials he had not tried at the moment, the bittersweet life he lived and Ryan swallowed without drinking water. The problem stuck in the throat, now out with the rest of the dinner and breakfast just pass by.

"Look at this, what you taught your son was a latcur woman, he beat my son unconscious in the hospital, we should have reported it to the police." Threaten one person loudly.

Ryan looked at him with sharp eyes, at the bespectacled puffer, his suit and tie, revealing that he was a man of power and office. Maybe even the stomach is only filled with money-money corruption, or saturated fat carrier of cholesterol and heart disease.

The mother's voice answered with a sobbing..."Please don't do that sir, Ryan my only son, please forgive my son's mistake."

Ryan saw how his mother was on her knees apologizing for all the insults she shouldn't have received. Standing tall Ryan tried to defend the self-esteem that was looked down upon by all of them in this room.

"Mother don't humble yourself in front of these people, I'm not wrong, Sano and the other children tried to vindicate Isna, I just defended..." Strictly speaking Ryan who does not want to consider himself wrong.

"Don't say too much, son of a bitch*alan, do you think your words can be evidence." The puffer guy didn't give Ryan a chance to talk.

Ryan still remembers, the reason why he had to beat up Sano at that time, even five other children who tried to contribute to the hospital.

"Yes... Isna, he can tell the truth." Ryan answered to correct his mistake.

It wasn't long to wait for Ryan's hopes to be shattered, when a beautiful girl coming from behind the door showed a complicated face.

Word after word, Ryan heard a lie coming out of Isna's mouth.... "Ryan he just vented emotions and beat up Sano."

Ryan doesn't want to believe it, but in fact, Isna turned the facts upside down, Ryan was betrayed even by the lover he loved.

"Haha... It's a lie, isn't it?, you why are you saying that." Shouting loudly Ryan with all the emotions he could no longer bear.

Everyone's faces smiled, Ryan felt his heart break and was trampled by such a painful humiliation.

This was real for Ryan, when he saw that there were tears streaming down Isna's face...."I get it, now... Yes I understand!!!, you forced him to say that I was wrong."

"You said what boy, this is the truth, you're wrong, and you have to pay for it."

Ryan could not stand it anymore, all the disgusting faces were shown, laughing out loud like he was watching a funny show, because he and his mother were just poor people, without being able to fight them.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa." Without even needing to hold back, one punch he slammed into the face of the puffer man who was laughing out loud.

Ryan's feelings are now much more painful than seeing Isna being forced by Sano. His pride is trampled, his mother must cry for mistakes she did not make.

Ryan was immediately detained by the people who obeyed the old man's orders, trying to escape but Ryan was clearly defeated.

"You dare to do this to me, should be a delinquent like you in prison, but I still have a heart... I want you to get out of school and leave without ever showing yourself."

It was light, because Ryan knew that if he tried to take the police, his son would get in trouble, because the real thing was their son's fault.

But in the end Ryan and his mother had to accept the consequences for the mistakes he did not make. Self-defense just being nonsense, self-esteem doesn't guarantee anything, Ryan is angry, he ends up as a loser, even in this life.