L'm... Baby Sugar
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*Flashback*

"Run.. There's a satpol PP run..."

People seemed to be running in front of me. I could only stare at them one by one who looked so panicked and confused, while eating the chocolate ice cream that was within my grasp. Suddenly a pair of hands clasped my body.

"Mba, what are you doing? whose child is this?"

"Here you go, who knows this kid is useful to me."

"Well, if his parents are looking for him? He's a kid, maybe four years old. Mba could be in a kid abduction case."

"Let's not say much, let's get in the car quickly."

I know nothing but to be silent in the arms of that woman. I tried to thrash, but the hold was so strong. When me and the person carrying me got into a car whose back was open, another woman who had been with us was caught by several people wearing green uniforms. While the car we were riding in had walked away from the woman.

"Santii... Santii..."

"Mba Lena..."

I just kept watching the woman holding me cry and kept saying no, I didn't know what she was saying, which I knew she looked so upset. I tried to hold her hand, but I could not say a word. Let alone to comfort him, just say I'm not so clear.

"Hey little boy, what's your name?"

"Ka..Ka.. "haven't had time to say my name suddenly a car horn sound so loud shocked both of us.

"Well, I'll call you Kanaya, just like my daughter who died. Now you're a good and useful boy to me."

I just kept quiet and didn't understand any of the words he said. After going through a long journey, finally the car we were riding stopped, then we went down on the edge of the road that was so wide. Around the street there is a tall building. After giving something to the driver of the car, the woman approached me.

"Kanaya, you know, this is what is called Jakarta, we are far from our hometown, now we will start a new life here."

I who knew nothing could only nod at his words. After a long time we walked, we finally arrived at a narrow house whose floor was still grounded.

"Sleep Kanaya, tomorrow we'll start making money."

I was so tired that I laid down my body and slept with a very hungry stomach. I don't know how long I slept, when I opened my eyes, she woke up and smiled at me.

I don't understand what she's saying, I just understand if she tells me to eat and calls her "Mama."

I ate the food that was in front of me, so greedily. Finished eating he took a handful of earth that was on the floor of this house and then applied it to my face and body. Then he gripped my shirt so firmly that some parts of my shirt were torn off.

"perfect."

"Let's go to Kanaya."

He then took me to walk down a very crowded highway. We stopped at a street so wide, with several colored lights alternately turning on and off.

"Kanaya, quickly go that way and sound this tool" he said as he gave me a small bamboo bottle cap and if I shake it will sound. I didn't know what it was, but I was quite interested in it which could sound loudly as I shook, so I happily pulled it out while dancing in the streets. The people who stopped under the colorful lights looked at me with an inexorable look, which I knew as I approached, they gave me things like paper and round things that I don't know what they are. After the plastic bag I was holding was filled quite a lot. I then approached the woman with me, she hid behind a wall near the colorful lights.

"Well Kanaya, today we have a lot of money. You are a bearer of luck. When I first saw you, I was sure you would give me a lot of benefits" he said with a smile.

I just found out that the thing I collected in that plastic bag is called money. When the sun seemed so stinging over his head, he took me out to eat. He gave me enough food.

"Eat a lot of Kanaya, so you don't get sick and can give me a lot of money."

I don't know what he said, which I know now I eat quite delicious food and I enjoy it so much. From then on it was ingrained in my mind if I raised a lot of money, then I could eat delicious food.

Day after day passed, I don't know how long I've had days like this on the streets. All I know is that my body is much bigger now than when I first met Mama. We moved from one street to another. She was kind to me too, although she told me to do a job I didn't like, but she was gentle and never angry with me. At least every day he gave me delicious food, that was enough to make me feel happy.

One day when I woke up, an oddity happened because in front of me there was no food I used to find when I woke up. I then approached the woman who I called Mama still fell asleep so soundly. I called him a few times, but he was still asleep. I ended up crying because she didn't open her eyes.

The people who lived around me then approached the hut where I lived because I heard the sound of my crying. A man approached Mama and held her wrist, and a word came out of her mouth.

"Innalillahi wa innailaihi rojiun."

The people who were there also expressed the same word. When confused by the people who came to my house was getting crowded. The yellow flag they put in front of the house, and there was a large object covered in green cloth in front of my house.

Mama then brought some women and bathed by them, in my heart I feel amused because Mama is big but still wants to be bathed by others. After Mama finished her bath, she still closed her eyes, even though in this house so many people gave me money. Wouldn't you love it if I could give her a lot of money. But why was it that when I could give so much money, he was still asleep. I approached him and gave him the money in a cardboard box, I showed him the money, but he still closed his eyes. Even the people around me wrapped Mama in a white cloth.

I don't want you to be needed like that, but once they wrap Mama in a cloth and put her in the ground. I could only cry howling at the body of my mother who was now buried by the ground. As my crying grew louder, suddenly a woman approached me. "Kanaya, your mama's dead. You're patient, son."

'Died? What're those?' my mind in my heart.