Sweet Tears

Comfort

I receive a good news early in the morning. The story that I have been doing, typing, imagining wholeheartedly is going to finish. I am waiting to submit it to a publisher. I never felt really happy before, but now I am really happy since my novel will be published soon.

"Mama!" I shout while grinning.

"Yes, dear? What happens? Wait a second" mama answers to me in a hurry and slightly worried.

"Come on.."

I have been waiting for mama for so long and she never comes. I don't know what happens, so I decided to look for her. But there is not a single person in this house, only silence. Papa is out of town for work. Then, where did mama's voice come from? Since I cannot find the source of that voice, I get goose bumps. The entire lamps in the house is off. I cry in fear yet I keep looking around this silent house, I explore each and every room in this house in order to find mama and hope that I will see her soon. My hands can no longer push the wheels that are attached to this chair. So I stay in a small room that looks like mama's storeroom of memories. I don't think she is in here, I never enter this room. The silence and scream of fear inside of me cannot be explained. I am scared to be alone.

How can I just realize it? I just realize that I have my cellphone in the pocket of my pants. Without thinking, I call Mom which only end up as missed call. Mom makes me really worry, I cannot stay still, Roy is one of the most reliable people I know. I call Roy immediately. Finally, he picks up his phone.

"Roy! Come to my house, hurry, I'm home alone and I'm scared, I looked for my Mom around the house but she is nowhere to be found" I babble rapidly because I really am scared, and I cannot ensure whether Roy will come or not, since I end the call before he replied.

One minute..

Ten minutes..

Arghh! Who opened the door without knocking?

"Min, where are you? It's so dark, Min"

It's Roy..

"Roy! Here, the room next to Papa's workspace" I tell him immediately.

"Here you are, what is going on, Min? Can I turn the lamp on?" Hisarrival makes me relieved, but his question makes me worry about mama yetagain. I only smile slightly in response to his question to me. Roy turns thelamp on but the light is not on. So, Roy turns the flashlight on his cellphoneto illuminate the two of us. Tears that trickled down my cheeks show that I'mscared. Roy wipes my tears immediately and hugs me in the silence of a smallroom. I have been longing for such comfortable feeling, and now I find it inRoy's embrace. I feel comfortable with him so far. A wise, kindhearted guy whois way more loyal than any other guy. I miss a comfortable feeling like this.To experience such thing in the middle of a precarious situation makes meremember Martin. I'm glad Martin does not have to suffer like me. I am happy,even though Martin is the one who took me into this whole new path, I neverthink nor say negative thing, and I declare that both Roy and Martin arespecial men.