PERFECT FAMILY'S
CHAPTER 39 “BACK FRIENDS?”

POV

For 7 years I was a Rapunzel girl, who only lived in the house. At the age of 7 this year, my parents took me to a castle in the hills with a very beautiful view, I was very, very happy, for the first time I breathed air other than the air in my house. Both my parents allowed me to play freely.

I walk while humming, I have loved music since childhood, I walk alone while carrying a white teddy bear. My small legs occasionally jump around when I see a very beautiful sight.

When I was walking around and my dolls were talking, I had no friends, my friends were just music and toys that my parents always gave me.

I saw the shadow of a person under a big tree, me and the shadow of that person were quite far away. I approached him out of curiosity. The handsome little man who was drawing on a drawing paper, he looked very charming to me, his lamb bangs fluttering from the wind of the hill. The little guy was the first person I saw in person.

My leg involuntarily approached her, "Who is that?" he said when I stepped on a tree. My heart was pounding fast when I heard her voice, I was confused as to why my heart could beat like that. Usually if my heart beats when I'm holding my laptop. It's weird, isn't it? But it feels good.

The little man looked at me, I was silent. He wants to come closer to me, I too while looking down will approach him.

"Sir Aron," there was a white-eyed and narrow-eyed girl calling the little man. The man turned his body away from me, I hurriedly looked for a place to hide.

The little guy was named Aron, just found out his name I was very happy, what if I could hug him like the girl who was hugging him.

"I want to be in the position of the girl." I said softly, I was glad to see the man laughing happily, he carried the little girl on his shoulder.

"I want to be like them!" I said, I left the two people joking around, seeing them the more I knew I was a lonely rapunzel girl.

I walked up the river to my castle, before opening the gate I displayed a smile as sweet as possible. I wanted to make my parents not worry about me, I wanted my parents to just look at my smile, I knew my parents had been very difficult to hide my whereabouts.

***

Every day I came to the same place when I first saw that man named Aron.

Today is the 4th day, I wait for him while sitting on a rock. "Lily, why she never showed up again, I want to see her" I told my beloved doll, which I named Lily.

I was tired of waiting, I intended to go home, when I was coming down from the rock...

"Aaauu." I fell because I stepped on the ringed stone.

"Hey are you stupid, huh? There are still many places you can sit, why sit on the stone." said Aron, I was surprised to see him who was nagging.

"You're talking a lot, help me stand up!" I said, he helped me stand up.

"Your face is a flower, but your behavior is like a man" he said, which made me upset.

"Thank you for helping me, I went home first." I said, I actually still want to be with him, but it was late in the afternoon I didn't want to make my parents worry because I didn't go home.

I walk with my left leg limping, "Get my back! I'll take you to your house." Tell Aron he's been squatting in front of me.

"Road up! Before late night." I got on his back, my wish has been achieved.

His back is as comfortable as my papah.

"Whose name?" tanyakanya. "Call me Thata." There was no more talk, the atmosphere was very quiet but I did not feel as lonely as usual.

That afternoon Aron drove me to the front of the castle.

***

2 Days later, my legs are healed, I go back to my usual place, I want to thank him. I brought a box of chocolates that I had made with my Mom.

I'm waiting for him, "Hey what do you want to come here? You waiting for Aron's sister?" said the little girl who was with Aron the other day.

I smiled at the girl who looked so adorable, just in case Aron looks like her.

"Yes I'm waiting for him I want to thank you, because yesterday drove me home."

"Include my name Thata, who are you? You look so pretty." My hand stalled in front of her.

"That's for sure, I'm Aron's beloved, Aron's sister won't be here anymore, so you better not wait for her anymore" he said, making my heart ache.

"Well I won't wait for him anymore, I'll just leave this alone! please give this to brother Aron as my thanks." I brought the box I was carrying.

Instead of receiving the box, the girl threw it in front of me, the chocolate I had made so hard to scatter on the ground, and in her inattentiveness the girl trampled on the chocolate I had made.

"Hey why are you throwing away my chocolate?"

I crouched down, I picked up the chocolates, and accidentally my hand touched the girl's leg.

"Get rid of that filthy hand of yours!" He held my hand and he said using his hair clipper, he kicked me too.

Just now I wanted to avenge him, my hand was already very close to him, but he suddenly fell down.

"Sister Aron please! he pushed me, brother." said the little girl crying.

I was silent, I hadn't touched it at all. "What did you do to Clarissa?" asked Aron angrily, I bowed in fear. The gaping wound on my hand I hid behind my back.

Aron helps Clarissa wake up, he also cleans the soil that was in Clarissa's body. "Aren't you papa?" aron said he loved Clarissa.

"Sister Aron, he's evil, I want to offer him chocolate, but he's throwing my chocolate away brother, look! All my chocolate he smashed. He pushed me too." Clarissa said as she pleased.

Aron looked mad at me, "I didn't do it..."

"There is no thief who claims to be a thief" he told me.

"Don't you ever look that face at us again!" Aron took Clarissa away from me who was still silent in that place, my eyes seeing them until they were completely gone, before they disappeared from my sight, Clarissa smiled mocking me.

The wound on my hand was not as painful as compared to the one on my chest after hearing the man's words.

***

The next days I saw them from a distance, I saw them carving their names on a big tree.

When they finished carving out their respective names, they left the place. I walked up to the tree, I saw the carvings of the two of them, my hands touched the carvings.

"I want my name to be here" I said, the tears that I've held for so long, now come out without permission.

In the afternoon I sat down to hide my face on my hands resting on my knees. I cried loudly accompanied by the rain that soaked my clothes.

1 week went by I always came to the same place, but Aron and Clarissa were nowhere to be seen. Maybe they're done with the holidays, I thought.

3 Days later, today I will leave this area, I did not see the two men. I approached the tree that became the center of the area, I saw their carvings are still clearly visible, although the color has adjusted to the tree trunk.

I took a sharp branch, I carved my name on Aron.

My hand felt sore from holding that uneven twig.

"Done," I said.

I touched the engraving that read Aron, "May we meet again later, I want to make a story with you" I said with a smile.

I left that place, and I don't know when I came back to that place.

Pov.

***

"It turns out that since I lost to Ron, he's always been your number one." Thata's hand touched the trunk of a large tree that still clearly visible three words engraved there.

"Do I have to give up on my feelings Ron?"

"Why do I remember you when all this happened, Ron, you know? I feel as if nature has shown me that I was created for you just to be a backup person in your life" Thata said.

"I know now why I can be so mad at you Ron, I've felt the same way, but it hurts Ron more. Don't you remember me? the little girl you used to take him home with her leg hurt?" Thata smiled faintly while recalling the incident.

"Hahaha, of course you don't remember. All you remember is your memories with her, right? Stupidly I wish for you if you remember me. Maybe if you remember me you'll hate me, I'm the one you used to equate with a thief."

Jederr.... The sound of thunder rumbles, raindrops fall on the ground, Thata refuses to leave his place, he is still cool to reflect on his life story that is so soothing.

"Lord I'm tired, I wonder, what did I do until you made my life like this? I've done what wrong to God?"

"What do I do now?"

Nature knows what Thata is feeling, Thata's desperate screams are accompanied by the sound of lightning, her tears blending with the raindrops.

Seriate...