Riz lean back to the
seat and glanced to Angela and Damian, who is sitting next to him just by the
window. Damian seems to be taking an evening nap, while Angela was yawning as
she start to nods off. Riz smiled and pats her, as he know that she is trying
to hold back from sleeping off. “Don’t worry, I’ll wake you up when we arrive,
okay?” He said with a smile.
“But Angela not
sleeeepyy…” She said and yawned again. She cover her mouth when she yawned, and
she shake her head and pinch her own cheeks a few times and puffed them, trying
to chase away her sleepiness.
“Now now, don’t force
yourself.” Riz pats her more and smile. Though in the end, a few minutes later
she also snoozing off. Riz took out their small blanket and cover them and with
that he then took out his mobile phone and play with it.
An hour soon passed
by, and then two hour more passed. The train has passed by a lot of stations
and now they were already out of the town. The town where they live at before
are full of green trees, huge and tall, giving one a calm feeling whenever
someone came by. It is full of tranquillity and this were shown by the people
whom are living there. Those people were gentle and calm, no matter what the
case were, they does not become aggressive or anxious.
While now as they has
come out from the town they lived, Riz can see that the number of trees are
decreasing, and now they are entering grassy area, where it seems like a
endless grassy field. Riz close his eyes to take a nap.
.._..
After half a day, they
finally arrive at their destination, so Riz wake Angela and Damian up, as he
take their stuffs to get off from the train. It is almost night time when they
arrive, but there is a young girl around the age 16, waiting at that station
and she called them over with a smile. The young girl have a medium length
hair, and her black hair look healthy and glossy, matched with her oval face,
not too big bright eyes, and a thin lips, makes her look like an matured elder
sister.
Riz and the two kids look
at her and then went to her, and they ride a public bus together with her as
the lead, and they soon get off in front of a hotspring inn front gate. The
gate looked a bit old as if it was there for quite a long time, and the road
after the gate is all paved with stone, surrounded by a lot of flower vases.
Angela tilt head and
was the first to walk through the gate with an excited manner, because the
little flowers in the vases look so nice, making her want to go pluck all of
them. Damian followed her while holding a book, he also look at those flower
without blinking, showing that he also liked them a lot, and the two of them
run from vase to vase to see those colourful little flowers. Riz smiled and shook
his head upon seeing them behave like that.
“Well, Riz, it’s been
awhile,” The girl said with a smile, “Anyway welcome to our little inn, we can
take care of you for this end year break, but it’s going to be a bit busy so I
hope you are okay with this.” She pats Riz head and chuckle.
“Um, well, big sis
Lina, thank you for letting us stay here.” Riz said politely with a bit blushed
cheek, he look up to her and was happy to see her again. Lina is one of his
neighbour, she and her family stay the house opposite of Riz’s house. Lina’s
father is an acquaintance of Riz’s mother, so when Riz was found in the
mansion, Lina often came to their house to interact with Riz because based on
the other doctor suggestion, they said that someone young may be able to help
Riz socialize better.
So due to that Lina
are just like an elder sister to Riz, and even after Lina’s family moved away
two years ago, their two families still keep contact with each other. Riz and
Lina even add each other as friends in facebook and Instagram. So they are able
to keep track of each other news, and as two years passed by, they got much
closer and there are almost nothing that they keep out from each other now.
Lina also know that
Riz’s parent just passed away not too long ago because Riz contacted her few
days after that. And she comforted him almost every day since it was close to
end year exam already, she does not want to see her little neighbour fail the
exam because of that.
Riz and Lina then walk
to the inn together while Angela and Damian follow them happily. In Angela
hand, there is a bunch of the little flowers that she plucked randomly, and she
smiled happily with looking at them. Lina only laughed seeing Angela like that,
Damian walk next to Riz while holding Riz’s sleeve, and Angela was walking too
fast at the front due to her excitement.
.._..
Lina’s parent welcomed
them warmly, and her mother gave Riz and the two kids a hug, and smiled as they
bring them to dining hall first to eat dinner together. Angela ate without any
reservation, while Damian looked at the food and then at Riz, since the food
served here look different than the usual food. They were used to eat spaghetti
and salads, while here they serve chicken curry with white rice.
Riz ruffle Damian hair
and he then feed some to Damian, and he also show how to eat these so that
Damian can eat by himself after that. Angela blink blink when she see Riz feed
Damian, so she puffed her cheek.
Lina and her parents
smiled seeing the three sibling behaviour. And so after dinner, Lina bring them
to a guest room that they have prepared for them earlier.
“Big brother! We stay
here?” Angela asked after she look around, her big eyes sparkles and she run to
the window to peek outside. She throw her bag at the side and then run to the
sliding door, and she tilt her head again.
Riz smiled and
answered her, “Uhu, we’ll be staying here until next year.” He said as he take
her abandoned bag and also Damian’s bag to put them into the closet. Damian
stayed close to him despite feeling as curious as Angela.
“Ohhh kay” Angela then
continue explore the room, she turned on the tv when she found the remote, then
she open the sliding door, which cause the futon to fall. She panicked a bit
and tried to push the futon back inside, but with her little hand, she failed
to do so, and she gave up and next went to the cupboard. She open the cupboard
door and can see a small fridge and some plates and cups.
Riz shook his head
seeing the little mess that Angela did. Tomorrow he will tidy up, since at the
moment he is hanging their clothes and put in the closet nicely and it is also
already night time. He is doing this because they were going to stay there for
quite a long time.
Since it is already
late night, he lay down the futon and also their pillows. Damian pick the
blanket he liked first, and Angela soon took one and also bring one for Riz.
The run to the bathroom to take a bath first, then after they are done, it was
Riz’s turn. The two of them lay on the futon as they wait for Riz to finish
bath.
When Riz is back, they
then turn in for the night and slept together, with Angela hugging Riz’s right
arm, and Damian sleeping very close to Riz, and they all then fall into the
dream world.
.._..
The next morning,
after eating breakfast with Lina’s family, Riz bring the two of them around the
inn to sightseeing since the place around it is big. There was a pond full of
carps, where the two kids almost run to jump into them, but luckily Riz managed
to stop them fast. After a while, they continue their walk and arrive at a
place full of small temples, and they can see there is a lot of small locks
being hung at those temples.
Angela and Damian
tried to see some of them, and can only see a few because their height are not
enough. But from what they can see, all that was written on them were either
their names or wishes, which make Angela and Damian tilt their head, curious
why people hung their wishes and names there. Riz ruffled their hair and then
took out two flower and heart shaped lock along with a permanent marker pen.
“Big bro? Lock for?”
Angela asked while blinking as she took one of the lock. She turn the lock
around and can see there is nothing on it yet.
“Lets write our wishes
on it, then hung there too.” Riz said as he pats them, and Damian then take the
other lock after what Riz said. He nodded a bit as an okay, while Angela hopped
a bit with sparkle as a yes. And so Angela wrote down her wish fast then ran to
the small temple as she jumped a bit, trying to hang it at the highest part.
While Damian is
writing, Riz went on and help Angela by lifting her and lending his shoulder so
that she could reach the part she wanted. Just after they are done, Riz can
feel someone poke him a bit, so he turned and can see that it was Damian, and
he is done now.
“Damian.. done too..”
Damian said with a mumble and then look up at Riz.
“Alright, lets go hang
them.” Riz pats him more and Damian while holding to Riz’s hand lead Riz to a
small temple farther than other temple. There it was a bit desolate and there
are not that many lock that was hung there. “Over here?” Riz ask, with Damian
nods as a yes again.
And so, Riz lift
Damian up too as he then let Damian hung the lock to the chain. When that is
done, Damian smiled and get down. Then the two of them play hide and seek there
for some time with riz watching over them as usual.
Riz could not help but
laugh when Damian lost each time he become a seeker, Angela was too good in hide
and seek, making Damian search for her become very hard. She always pick the
weirdest and unthinkable hiding spot each time it was her turn.
-To Be Continue-
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