DEAPECTRUMS
007. A HOLLOW HOPE

Jatnera went straight out of the hut when I was almost there. Jatnera must have waited a long time for my presence. I immediately gave her a bag of bread and told her to go inside the hut immediately.

"Wow. Where'd you get all this Bee?" Jatnera asked when he saw the contents of the bag I gave him. He immediately ate it with a few loaves of bread. "It's delicious, I've never eaten a meal like this. You got it from the treasure hole?"

I didn't answer because I was trying to get the gun I had stored behind my shirt into a drawer in a closet that was as tall as my waist.

"Bee, listen to me?"

"Yes I heard." I answered directly sitting beside him. "I went to the hotel where Grandma was. There can't be food like this in the treasure pit." Then I took a piece of bread and devoured it.

"You should go home this afternoon. The people in Pond Jae turned out very well then we can ask for food from there after this." Jatnera Smile.

"No." My thrill made Jatnera look at me. "They almost kill me if there's no boy."

"Boy? Did he give you all this?"

I nodded.

"Are those boys different from us?"

"Yes, very different." My speech. "Everyone listens to his words and he need not be afraid of running out of food like us."

"Bee, can we be like that kid?"

"Not knowing."

Because I was tired, I chose to sleep. I lay down on a makeshift pedestal every day, using only a piece of cloth and a pillow made of unused cloth. The pillow felt so hard but I've always loved all Isbell's work.

Although the body feels tired but these eyes are not also closed maybe my drowsiness has been defeated with curiosity about the boy.

I don't know when I'll see him again. Is it possible that if I go to Pond Jae we can meet? But it's very dangerous. I could have been caught before I met him.

The boy said that if he was sure he would see me again, did that mean he felt like seeing me again? But for sure all my life I will not forget a child as good as him.

Jatnera started singing a song that Isbell taught us, but only Jatnera sang it often. Singing is her hobby.

Instead of singing, I prefer to listen to Jatnera sing. His light voice was very good to hear. Even when I heard Jatnera sing, all the weight in my mind instantly disappeared.

For some reason whenever I felt anxious she would sing as if she knew what I was feeling. The song is called my angel.

“You're always near me

Never once away

You smile at me

Makes my heart soar far

There's no word you never said

There's no song you don't sing for me

You are always in my heart, you are always in my soul

Forever

Your holy color is shaking my heart

I won't forget you

Oh Angelku.”

I woke up when Jatnera shook my body. I must have fallen asleep after listening to him sing.

Jatnera's round eyes immediately looked at me like there was a question he wanted to ask. I rubbed my eyes justifying my lost vision from falling asleep.

"Around five o'clock." Answer Jatnera.

I instantly moved a look out through the hole in the wall of the hut. The sun was almost drowned. Isbell taught us about time counting. We'll see the position of the sun and we'll know what time it is. If our night is based on the night sky, the color always looks different every hour.

While when it rains we will feel where the wind is blowing and use our instinct in guessing the time. It was difficult at first but Jatnera and I were used to it and were good at it.

"Bee, who's this?" Jatnera showed me something he was holding right in front of me.

I noticed something in his meaning. A necklace I know. That's the necklace in the boy's room. Why is it in Jatnera. I remembered that I put the necklace in my pants pocket.

"Why did you take it in my pants pocket?" I cried with anger.

"Where did you get it?" Jatnera asked, his tone reminding me of Isbell. Every time I make a mistake Isbell will ask in such a tone. "You stole, right?"

"I took it from the boy's room." My answer.

"No. You stole it!"

"What's the difference between stealing and taking?" My protest. "If we don't do that we won't get food to live in this horrible place."

"But grandma reminds us that we can take what we need, not steal what you do." Jatnera advised me. "At the same time the boy gave us a bag of bread but you stole this necklace that was useless to us, it must have been very valuable to him."

Hearing Jatnera's words I fell silent. Everything Jatnera says is true. I felt ashamed for not thinking like he was seven years old.

Living in a place like this already made him think mature very quickly. And it must be true that the necklace is a precious object of the boy. He helped me but this is my reply to him. I'm really ashamed of Jatnera.

"I'll give it back." My speech.

Jatnera returned the necklace to me and rushed down the wooden table to pick up a bag of our food supplies and ate a doughnut voraciously.

At about four in the morning I rushed out of our residence towards Pond Jae. I'm going to return this necklace to the boy and I'm going to apologize to him for stealing it.

Somehow the response after this was to me, I was willing if he hated me and I deserved to be hated. One more thing, my decision to go to Pond Jae was also because I wanted to meet him.

In the middle of the journey suddenly the motorcade drove towards me. I'm confused how. I quickly climbed up a tree and waited for the large number of cars to pass.

But when a car in the middle of the drive passed me, I saw the figure I wanted to meet.

The boy sat in the car with a foresight. I wish he had opened his car window and seen me like that.

But that's impossible, right now I'm in a tree there's no way he can see me and the car window is closed. Without a second thought I came down from the tree so that the boy could see me, but what I did was in vain. Not even a single person in the car looked at me. Maybe because the sky is still dark because the sun has not yet risen.

The boy and his motorcade had vanished from my sight. I don't even know what the boy's name is. I sat leaning against a large tree holding the necklace I wanted to return to the owner.

Is the boy going back to his home country? Is he going back to this land of exiles? But it's impossible, if I were him I wouldn't go back to this hellish place.

If it were true, we would never meet again like he said yesterday. Thinking about it somehow my heart ached.

I really want to see him again someday. Although I am not sure but when I think back to his words about our meeting again, I feel that one day we will meet for the second time.

–NATZSIMO–

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