1 Chapter 1: Life Experience

*Heavy Breathing

In the secluded part of the busy street, a 15 years old boy and a 9 years old little girl is hugging each other trying to warm their cold and shaking bodies.

Using the small newspaper stacked together as the bed while a smelly rags as blanket.

They start sleeping near the garbage bin.

A walking man with a gold watch in his wrist look at the siblings in disgust, while throwing the wrapper of the food he eats clumsily which fails to go inside the trashcan and slide into the little sister of the boy staining her little ragged shirt.

When the boy see this, a swirling rage start forming in his body and his breathing became hurried.

He still remember the expression of her little sister after they obtain the cute dress she found in the trashcan, she was very happy as if she found the most precious treasure.

With a ragging expression the boy pick up a stone near him and perfectly throw it into the rich guy as if he practice it thousand times.

*Woosh

The stone landed perfectly into the guy's head before falling in the ground.

*Argh

A loud painful moans escaped the guy's mouth before covering his blooded head with his hand.

After a seconds of wailing, the guy stabilize his body.

Looking at the boy still standing in front of him, a large grin escape his mouth before picking up the stone in the ground.

*Smash

The stone crash in the boy's head and a silent crack sounded in the boy's head.

The boy muffled his scream to avoid his sister walking up before he lose consciousness.

"You better hide boy, if I see you again I will smash your head again into a meat paste" the guy shake the blood in his hand before walking out in the street while the boy was still in the ground unconscious.

The people on the street who witnessed the event only pay little attention before doing their own business again.

.....

After a minute pass, in the ground, the boy regain his consciousness before he slowly crawl toward his shaking sister.

When he tried to hug his sister to avoid her from the cold air, he saw the stain in her dress which the gangster maid.

Looking at it, his hand move subconsciously before he start rubbing the stain in the little girl's dress, afraid that she might notice the stain in her dress, the boy rub hard while using his saliva as the water to clean it.

After a long minute of rubbing, only a small spot remained, it is not visible if one won't look at it carefully.

"If only we are not abandoned by the damned uncle of ours, we won't have suffer sister!" the boy murmured while he gritted his teeth and tears drop from his eyes before he closed it.

He start to remember the time when his still in the age of his little sister.

He was happy with his mother and father until the accident happen.

At that time he and his 3 years old little sister was eating cheap ice cream in the shade of the big tree, they lick the ice cream happily, ignorant of the things that happen in their parent.

After they finish eating, they head home hopping happily when the uncle of his told them that their parent is caught in a traffic accident.

The ignorant sibling ignore their uncle before heading to their room waiting for their parent to came back.

After the whole night of waiting, their eyes became heavy before they fall asleep comfortably.

....

In the morning, they was surprised to find many of their neighbors was in their house.

They was so happy until they was told that their parent already leave them.

At first they were confused until they were told how the car of their parents suddenly over turn before falling down the cliff side.

The boy was shocked and sadness began showing in his face, the boy feelings was very damage that his tear didn't stop from falling until he fall asleep while his sister who was ignorant only cry when she her parent being buried.

The boy still remember the time where they saw their parent really leaving them, inside the coffin their face was very peaceful.

.....

On the third day after their parents are buried, their uncle scold them heavily before throwing them out of the house and never let them step in the house.

They were wandered around the city starting that day before they travel for many days in many different city, he couldn't even remember how many city they pass through.

When they have no more food to eat they would scavenge thrown food just to fill their stomach just to soothe the hunger and rumbling of their stomach until his sister gotten a fever after a month of eating thrown food and wandering everywhere.

They then stop in a city with a forest in its south, they live in that city for a week just to work and buy a medicine for her sister.

Until a kind rich lady in her middle thirties adopted them.

She was very kind and righteous, she loved them even they are not her child, but the boy can really felt the love they were given but fate played in them.

Only a half year passed when the lady was killed in her home by the thief who want to stole an important documents from her business which made the lady furious, she throw her bag to the thief, but the thief got angry and stab her in the heart.

He was under the table at the time and can only watch as the thief stab the lady again and again before he took the documents away.

He can only watch as the lady struggles to breath and she smile to the boy and said.

"Leave with your little sister and don't gave up, hope is always around" she muttered to him before her breath stop.

The little boy was so sad and angry at that his small tremble from helplessness, he bent his anger in the air before looking at her sister, telling her they need to leave.

He almost lost his mind at that time and before her sister's hand touch him bringing his sanity back.

When they were outside the house, she suddenly question him why they are leaving which broke the boy's heart, he can only nod and touch the little girl's head before closing his eyes to avoid her from seeing him cry.

Starting that day, he started working non-stop, he work day and night, sunny or rainy daw, he always remember the lady's last word and made it his motivation to move forward, his hardwork might change his fate.

But even when many people saw them like this, no one help them.

Only the Church help them, they give him work every day but sometimes things will not really follow your own way.

The Nun who always help them was transferred to the other church suddenly which cut off his income.

But even that happens, he only smile before forgetting the misfortune and start finding new job again.

Looking at the night sky, he hugged his sister before falling sleep in the grassy ground outside the church.

...

Little did the boy know, the wound which he forgotten to treat swell and blood start flowing out.

His body became numb and his vitality leak away from his body, the boy's life was in danger.

Red liquid flow out from his body and a rusty smell began to spread in the street but the passerby only look at the boy once before avoiding the place they stayed like a plaque.

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