Encounters with Him

*Chapter 1: New Setting*
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         Seeing the side of the road from the car window, you can see the green environment. There’s no tall buildings such as mall and other  commercial establishment, but just tall and gigantic old trees that seems live and survive the dangerous earth long time ago. While we’re still voyaging the long road and the car still running 90 kilometer per hour, I’d saw a signboard showing that we are eight kilometers from our destination. I’m very curious on what the place will be. I try to imagine what is the next place where my next life will be spent and wasted. But because I’m a girl that is a negative thinker, maybe I shouldn’t tell you what’s on my mind and you just don’t mind it, it’s really nothing. You’ll just got scared and your bone will chill and your body will be frozen like an old rotten corpse. (I’m just kidding, but maybe you have the idea now what I’ve Imagined.)…
I try to stop thinking on the place where will our family’s next spot be and tried to concentrate on the music on my mp4 that I’ve just downloaded on my laptop last week. But, it seems that the curiosity and excitement about my new world cover up the music that I’m trying to concentrate with. Because of that two stuff floating and disturbing in my peaceful mind, I’m not aware that I’ve already fallen asleep.


         My nanny, Mamu, beside me woke me up. We are already in our new house, a new world for me, a new place where I’m hoping a big change will happen.
         
         “Get up my dear, we have a lot of things to do”, Mamu said with a smile.

         I’ve gotten down the car and held my things out. Our house is set in a small village. The area looks as if it is isolated, now I know why this place was chosen by my father. It seems that a thick wall had been erected just this place will be isolated. The new setting doesn’t look a province at all. It looks like a city, a smaller version not like Tokyo, New York or etc. The outside of my-smaller-version-city, after the walls of it is full of gigantic trees as what I’ve seen earlier in my trip. I examine the place, the ambiance is cool because of the fresh air. The wide streets are very clean. You’ll be disappointed if you try to look for any dirt on the corner of the streets because there is totally nothing. Maybe, they’d eat the wrapper because they are idle to throw it on the garbage cans or maybe, it is just one of my another negative thoughts. But all in all, the whole setting was very awesome. It is perfect for people who is looking for peace of mind.
As I am going nearer the gate of our new house my eyes just made an involuntary movement. I don’t know what happen but it really caught my attention. I’ve stopped
for a moment and observe those girls and guys who are of the same age with me. They look like they are in the same group, and not just a group, it seems that they are in fraternity or a gang. I’ve said that because they are sort of weird in the way they dress or maybe that is the latest in fashion but who cares? I know nothing in fashion. For me, the way they dress is kinda different. Their hair has a color or I’ve should say  highlights, and their hairstyle is out of the ordinary. They have thick, black, “something” in their eyelids. Is it just me or those guys are just so “whatever” !
Here comes another guy seems to be with them, walking from the opposite side of the street. As he cross the street, a gentle touch of a strange cold wind passed unto me embracing me while he’s still crossing on the street. An odd feeling from this guy gives me an impression never felt before. “He’s kinda cool”, I whispered to my mind.
In the moment I’ll change my sight, I felt my eyes were stuck on that unfamiliar boy . I’m trying not to be caught gazing at him, not realizing that we’re looking at each others eyes.  That weird moment looking at his eyes was cut short.

         “Midori, you are stuck at that gate. Remember, we have a lot of things to do. Come on! Let’s go inside. You still need to pile up your stuff.” Mamu said, having another smile.

         “Coming!”.

While I’m going inside, I’d heard an unfamiliar voice, maybe coming from the group outside the house, he screams “Yui”, I thought he’s calling the “cool” boy, but I don’t care knowing and remembering such names of unfamiliar people. It’s not that I don’t care so much on the world where I’m living right now, it’s just I’m not fond of socializing.

         “Mamu I’m tired, where’s my new room”, asking with excitement.

         “You’ll be on the first floor, first room beside the living room. Go on dear, I’ll have your mom supported on her way to the second floor. She is sleeping so remain quiet.”, Mamu answered wearing her sweet smile again.

         “Thanks!. I’ll just call you if I need something else or maybe something to know about the house. You know, be lost inside my own house.!”, joking her as I go toward my own new room.

         I’d open the door to my new room. I was amazed even my room is somewhat empty. I have two large windows that a building could almost fit into it. The room was very radiant  The rays of the sun passed into my glass window. The fresh air from the windows circulate inside my room. I have my air-conditioning unit in the room but still, I prefer to have the fresh air from my gigantic windows. The room is big enough to have a kiddy pool. My new room is much different from the old one. Our old house, wherein my fifteen years of life was spent and two years from it was ruined, was an enormous one but is not the same as the latest. The old one didn’t have any garden and don’t have a garage, so my father always park on the opposite side of the road in front of us. That old house was self-designed by my parents when they’re still a happy couple. They are idiot, hoping that a happy family will grow inside the home they’d planned ---I’m wondering why they forgot the garage. Inside the house, the big living room is the first one to see. A big home theater set with matching big sofa is positioned. My mother and father want a big living room for the reason that they thought they’ll produce many offspring and those offspring are the one who will sit and watch horror movies, throw popcorn with each other. They are hoping that  a soccer team will be  the number of their offspring but what they’ve got is an only child and that’s me. The kitchen was also planned to be big, and so, it did. My mother planned that for her to show her skills in cooking. She designed the kitchen so she can serve us good and delicious food but it turned out to be the kitchen of my nanny, Mamu. Mamu is the one who always cooked my foods because my mother is always busy with her work. My mom is workaholic and always got overtime.  The house that they’d both planned, where they believed that a strong relationship with each family members will develop, turned out to be a house that is full of wretchedness and depressions.  The two years from the fifteen years of my life in our old house was much worst. My mother became senseless because of the everyday argue with my father. They never stop quarreling each day God made. When my mother found out that my father had a third party, everything change. I had been affected because of their everyday fight. My mother became mentally retarded  that’s why my father decided to leave us and transferred us to this new house. The ambiance of this new house is different from that old house. I hope, this will be a new start with me and my mother.
I start packing out my stuff after the sad memories passed into my mind.

         “I don’t wanna go back to that house”, I whispered sadly.
         
         After hours of packing out my things and organizing all the clothes, computer set, laptop, television set, pillows, teddy bear, my other stuff toys, books and the book shelf and other furniture, Mamu called me for dinner. She served me my most
favorite food, the beef steak with matching her sweetest handmade gravy you’ll ever taste up. After that silent dinner between the two of us, I brushed my teeth and walked straight to my room. I am going to sleep but I remember I must do something else.

         “Ooops, I must pray first!”, and I pray thanking God for the new setting He gave to my life. I never forget to pray even I am a pessimistic. He and only my Mamu are the one, who I truly know, there for me in my trying times. I positioned myself to bed and sleep soundly, getting myself ready for the upcoming challenges I will face tomorrow.


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