My Big Brother and His Little Sister

Mother's Day

This chapter is requested by my good friend TheoDora55555
She's so curious about what AB and Me did for our mother in the last Mother's day.

So here it is.

I can't remember everything, Dora. But I'll try my best.
Hahaha. XD

I bet every person has different way to show their love towards their parents.
Maybe they show it by giving them what they want, maybe by presents, or by being in their good manners and be the greatest kid in the world.

In my case, unfortunately, we only can do it to mom.

Father left us when I was four years old. He had a heart attack.
Just one day after being hospitalized and he's gone.
I didn't know what I did when AB and mom cried for him.
And I never asked.

Never.

It makes me sad every time I come to know I wasn't old enough to know him better.

I wish he had more time.

But that's not how the world works.

The most important thing I keep until today is a trust that he loved us.

This fate directs AB and me to pour all of our attention to mom.
Until today, she has fought for us to get the best.
That's why her happiness is what matters.

I think I can do anything she asks me.

Okay that's enough for the touching moments.
We don't want me to end up by crying and cancel writing this chapter, right?

Back to the last Mother's day.

AB and me never made the same celebration each year.
But first rule you should know if you want to give my mom present is NEVER GIVE HER A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS.

Trust me, you better don't.

My mother loves them being planted on the ground.
Seeing them in the banquet to finally die will give you a minus mark on her eyes.
XD

Second, just make sure there's food among the presents.

Just like AB and me. She ❤ foods.

On Mother's day three years ago, AB and me cooked dinner for mom. Most certainly it failed because we both tried the new recipe from the Internet. The only thing that worked was the cupcakes. Mom kept trying to eat the food but in the end we ordered pizza.

Maybe that was one of my reason to improve my cooking skill. LoL. XD

Two years ago we bought her scarf and a cake and pink and black balloons.
Yep, you read it right.
Well, the balloons were more like for decoration purpose. Mom still loved them though. XD

For last Mother's day, we did something different. No celebration at home. Instead we brought mom outside.
We took her to watch movies.
AB and me had saved our money about a month for this and we thought the result was more than enough.

Mom is pretty rare to go to the theater. So that was a good plan.
At first, mom hesitated to go with us. She said she is too old to join the teenagers but we begged her so much and said we already planned all of this.

At the theater, we let mom picked the movie she wanted to watch.
It's so amusing when mom asked for all the movie titles and their summaries to AB. My brother explained them patiently.
In the end, since mom didn't understand English too much, she picked local movie.

We bought two huge size of popcorn with us and three milkshakes.
And a bottle of water. In case mom wanted it.

I sat between AB and mom.
Actually, it's mom who's going to sit between us. But when a stranger from nowhere suddenly winked at me, mom and AB moved me to the middle.
Hahaha. They had strange teamwork for something like this.

After the show ended, we brought mom to eat at her favorite place.
A restaurant that served Indonesian traditional foods.
There, AB and me gave our present to her.
It wasn't a fancy gift but seeing the inside of the box made mom drop one or two tears.

I cried as well but quickly brushed them off.

AB didn't. But he almost gave up as well. His eyes had turned red and he purposely looked around him, averted his gaze from us.

We gave her a sketch of us. Mom, AB and me on frame.
It was made just from pencil. Just black and white but I swear it's awesome.

Until today, the sketch was hung in my mother's room.

Mom didn't say anything beside her gratitude.
But the way she said it....

Gosh!!!! She would make you believe you just did something great! Something that made her proud.

That day went well. We were so glad mom enjoyed it. She deserved it.

Remembering this event makes me harder to leave Mom for college.
She already gave me her blessing to continue my study outside our town but my heart is so heavy to go.
I don't know. I still have a little time to decide it.

Whatever it is. I hope God help me to make it the best way for me.

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A/N

Hey, guys!!!!!

Glad finally able to make an update.

All is good.

I've told you about the piles of tasks of mine, right???
I hope they'll be done by the end of this month.

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Love ya,
17/03/2018