'Lia said you took the cat in the sewer, didn't you?' your mother asked. Lia is your younger sister who just entered elementary school. Actually she knew, I don't know she knew from who, maybe your neighbor saw and told her.
'Yes, I take care, Auntie. His name is Awan. I care about him, he almost died there,' I replied.
Your mother leaned her body forward, half smiling she said, 'Mo, you can give a new life to that cat, you can also give a new life to yourself. You can help yourself.'
You've been missing for a year, but I remember your mother's words are similar to what you said. I remember we both finished watching Avengers , then you threw the drinking plastic in the trash. Then, still carried away by the action film, I said to you, 'Whenever you are in danger, I will definitely help you.' You ask me back, 'Let me ask you a question. If, for example, we are poisoned, there is only one antidote. Who do you want to give the medicine to?'
I replied valiantly, 'To you.'
You even laughed. 'I do not want. I want you to help yourself.'
'Why?' I asked.
'Because I love you,' you say, smiling.
After one glass of water runs out, I come out from your house. Your mother hugged me tightly. She then went inside, left me, walked away from your house. I walked slowly, looking at a cloud above the blue sky.
The clouds move slowly. Blown by the wind. I squinted, today's cloud still doesn't look like a cat. However, today the cloud looks like something that has gone away, leaving behind the burden that had been stopping it for so long.
Like someone who is free again.
