3 A Friend

20 April 1889 small village in Australia

     A Nurse staring a cute baby. "Hei, look at your baby, he so cute. He going to be a big man someday."

     "Sure, he will be a great man, right Alois?" said a Mother of the baby.

     "It is, he going to be a good man because he was my son. My little Adolf Hitler."

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14 years later

     "Father gives me back my painting," said Adi--Hitler nickname.

     "No Adi! How many times I should tell you, you can't be an artist, you should be a great soldier," said his Father.

     "But Father, I really want to be an artist."

     "Enough of this bullshit." his Father out from the room with the painting and so Adi, he following his Father.

     His Father went to the fireplace. "I told you many many times Adi, you should be soldier, not this bullshit." His Father throws the painting to the fireplace.

"No ...! Father ....!" Adi crying and his Father just ignored it and left him from the room.

     Adi crying while staring at the burning painting and someone comes from the door, and it was Edmund, Adi little brother. "Don't be sad Adi, I believe you are going to be a good artist.

     Adi wiped his tear. "Sure Edmund, and you are going to be the witness of my greatness." Adi hugs his little brother.

     Adi wiped his tear for the second time and went to the door of the room.  Edmund holds Adi's hand."Where are you going, Adi? Don't leave me."

     "I just want to find fresh air." Adi stroking Edmund's head and continued his feet to walk out of the house.

     When he in the outside of the house, he started to walk again, he walked to a place, a place that usually he comes to when he sad. He walks and walks, and finally he arrived at the place, a quiet lake and beautiful, so enjoyable to staring at. The mist of the morning made it much more beautiful.

     Adi sitted on the near of lake, he enjoyed the beauty of the view. Adi looked at the right and he saw a shadow that covered by a mist on the other side of the lake, it's like there is someone there. And slowly the mist disappeared and someone is just seen by Adi, it's a boy, and looks like the boy has the same age with Adi.

     Adi staring at him and the boy staring back to Adi and suddenly the boy looked to other side. Adi so curious about that boy, he comes near to the boy.

     When Adi is in the front of the boy, he greets him. "Hi, are you new here?" And the boy looks so nervous and he said, "Agh ... ya, I'm new here."

"Oh ... nice to meet you." Adi sitting beside the boy. "Where are you from?"

"I was from German," said the boy." Adi looked to the lake. "So what are you doing here?"

"Oh wait ... You can speak English?" said Adi.

"Ah ... Yah ... I know a little bit." Adi looked at the boy and said, "Well that's pretty a lot of a bit."

     The boy smiling a bit, and then Adi asked, "Why you here? In the lake." The boy asked him back. "Why you in here too though?"

     Adi smiling. "I'm here because this place is so quiet. I love a quiet place, so calm."

     "Honestly I'm here because I want to be alone." Adi looked at the boy with a frowned face. "Did you want me to leave?"

      The boy smiled a bit. "No, I just kidding. Then Adi asked, "So what made you come here? To Australia?" And the boy answered. "My Uncle has some business here, so he invited me to join him, to know the world he said."

     "So you know about the Australia lake, congratulations." The boy smiled again and said, "I just so hard to make a friend with other people."

     "You are pretty good for me." Adi grabbed a stone in the near of him and threw it to the lake and said, "Did you believe in destiny?"

     "Destiny? Hmm ... yeah, why?" Adi asked him again. "You believe if God decides everything you do?" The boy frowned his left eyebrow. "If the God decide it, so we are the God."

     Adi starts thinking of something. "So you mean God can't decide what we should be?" The boy answered. "Why the God wants to?"

     Adi smiling again. "You are smart boy, nice to meet you." The boy smiled back. "You are the one hundred two people that said if I was smart."

     "One hundred two people's!? Who is all of one hundred one people's?" And the boy answered, "my Mom." Both of them laughed hardly.

     "Ha ha ha, I thought you just an arrogant and stupid kid." And the boy said, "Well you got point on that, arrogant may make you stupid."

     "So how long you will be been here?" asked Adi. "Pretty long, about five minutes."

    Adi surprised and asked, "what!? Really? But we just met." The boy's face becomes sorrow. "Yeah, about five minutes my Uncle going to pick me up."

     "Really!? I just happy because  I have a new good friend." And the boy answered, "Me too, I never have a friend like you before, but I promise I never forget you."

     Adi smiled and suddenly there is a voice heard from the distance. "Hei kid! Time to go!" The boy looked at the voice came from, and he looked back to Adi. "I gotta go, that's my Uncle."

    The boy runs to the voices came from and Adi yelled. "Hei! At least tell me your name!" When the boy running he turned his head to the back and yelled. "My name is Einstein, Albert Einstein!"

     Adi yelled back. "My name is Adolf! Adolf Hitler!" When Adi yelled his name, the boy is no more seen, he disappeared from the mist.

     Adi walks back to home, he was so sad now, even more sad. He even doesn't know if the boy knows his name or not. He just acquired happiness and now it's become a sorrow.

     He starts to remind that five minutes meeting, precisely five minutes.

     Albert Einstein ha? German? That's sound cool, maybe I will going to the German someday.