PECAH

Mawar: Kau mengajar diriku

"I don't really like Wani."

I should've known, Melur must've wanted to talk to me about Wani. There's pretty much no other reason why she would want to hang out with me. I don't even want to talk to her right now.

"Oh, you mean the sleepyheaded shit?" I say after taking a sip of coffee

"Damn, a bit harsh, but yeah, her."

"What did she do now?"

"Ever since the end of RUMAH, she's pretty much ignoring me, and she's just bitchy. I don't even know why she's like this now."

"That's all?" I ask, while trying to hint that I don't want to hear her bullshit.

"Yeah, really. I mean, just because she's smart, doesn't mean she can be a bitch about it."

"What makes you say that?" I ask while my mind starts drifting off to the memory of being a highschooler.

I wasn't smart, and I was kinda mean to others. I did meet a few friends and changed my attitude towards others. I was starting to be liked, and the other students started accepting me as a friend.

But sadly, my grades kept dropping. My father would often cane me for getting C's and D's. My mother just sat there, watching me cry beacuse my father kept yelling at me with each whip of his cane. I can see the look of pity in her eyes, but she couldn't even move a muscle to help me. God bless Orkid, for she has suffered through watching the hell her daughter was facing at school.

At one point, I stopped hanging out with my friends, and my grades went up a little. It still sucked, but at least I stopped getting D's in exams. After school, I went straight home to study, leaving all my friends who wanted to go home with me. Eventually, we cut ties with each other, but my grades are going up.

I missed my friends, but it was worth not being yelled at.

"Are you listening?" Melur asks me. I shoot her a look of unsatisfaction, but her ignorant ass doesn't notice it.

"Yeah, I'm listening. Go on."

"Back in RUMAH, you always told me that intellingence is worth nothing if you didn't have any manners."

"Do you want to hear a really sad truth?" I ask her, stressing out the word 'truth'.

"What is it?"

"That was a lie made by parents to comfort their stupid and weak children who can't realise that the world doesn't revolve around them."

Melur seems a bit startled.

"When your mother told you that, it meant that she knows that you're too stupid to survive shit, there is no more hope for you to become a better person and the least you can do to benefit the world is to donate all the spare change you've collected from your job as a beggar on the street to the poor man living under the bridge moments before you die from food poisoning from eating all the scraps at the shady restaurant for 7 years."

Okay, now Melur looks VERY startled. Well done Mawar, you've roasted your daughter from another universe.

She gets up and leaves. After she's gone, I drink my last sip of coffee and checked out my "script", a.k.a what Orkid told me back when I was 13. I'm pretty proud of myself. I somehow managed to memorise all that she said back when I was a kid.

Thanks, Orkid, my dear mother, for telling me the truth.

I love you, mom.