LIGHT

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Dark sky.
The wind was blowing hard.
Rain water fell heavily.

A dark room with no light, all lights off, War sat back on the sofa with his legs curled up to his chest.

Staring out the window, watching the raindrops sticking to the clear window with a dreamy gaze.

“I'll have to clean that window later” he thought.  The clock shows 7.15 where he must be ready to go to work part-time.

'What should I eat today?', no ... that's not it, the correct question is

'am I going to have dinner?' yes … That's the correct question.

Today is Friday, War just finished his class at 5 o'clock this afternoon, his plan after finishing class he will go home to take a shower and clean up his house before that man comes home, after that he goes to work.

But after he took a shower, it turned out that it was raining very hard, different from what the forecast had said this morning.

War still has to go to work for buy books if he wants to finish the project one of his courses that he can't ignore because if he wants to get out from this house, he has to pass with perfect marks,
...for his future.

“I have to go now.” War took the one and only umbrella he had and went to his part-time job.

♦️

“You're going home now?”  War glanced at the wall clock showing 4am.

“Yes Uncle” he reply with a small smile looking at the middle-aged man.

“Have you eaten yet?” ask the middle-aged man who was none other than the owner of the old restaurant where War work 2nd part-time after he finished his first part-time job at 11pm.

“Eat…?”  War can only mutter silently.

War has been working for about 5 months in that old restaurant, so Uncle feels and can understand what War is like, even though War is quiet and doesn't talk much, but he knows War is a good boy, works hard and listens to all Uncle's words carefully.

With his small body. Uncle always asked himself.  Has War eaten?, that's why Uncle always gave him 1 portion of Thai minced chicken (Pad krapow).  Of course War always refused, but Uncle insisted on the excuse that all was leftover food and finally War accepted it, only for that reason War would accept food from Uncle.

“Thank you, uncle” War greedily ate it without leaving the slightest bit, making uncle smile seeing it.  Afterall War hasn't eaten all day, Pad krapow is his first meal in the last 21 hours.

♦️

War glance at the clock, it was 4.20am, he had to go home soon, he only had 3 hours to sleep before 9am his morning class.

“Sleep huh?”  War could only sigh, yeah… He wanted to sleep, his thin and tired body was not suitable for his 20 years old, he had to suppress his intention to sleep.

War saw the room of his house hoping that man was not at home, after walking around and that man was not at home, War sigh with relief

'at least he's not at home, I can sleep after cleaning everything' he thought.

7.55am
War wakes up even before his alarm clock goes off, making him moody

'oh, come on, 5 minutes?  Even before the alarm clock goes off, tsk.' He complain.