Daggers in our Heart

Twenty-Fourth

Twenty-Fourth

"Pst!!"

I am sitting at the bench while having my face crumpled. I am so bored, I wanna play but I don't have someone to play with me!! What's wrong with people?

"Pst!!"

I heard another callings that made me glance to where it is coming from. There I saw a boy, just about my age smiling at me so wide.

"Why is your front tooth missing?" I asked while pointing at his mouth. His smiles suddenly vanished as he frowned at me.

"You're rude!! I just wanna make friends here!!" He complained but still, he sat beside me. I just stared at him and he just stared back at me. We just stare at each other, not bothering to speak.

"What's your name?" He asked suddenly after a few while.

"Nai. What's your name?" I asked, maybe he wants to be my playmate? He'll be my friend now!!

Even if he's thin and has an ugly tooth, I think he's good. We can play muds and toys together in our backyard!!

"Hmm I have a lot of names. You can just call me.. Deejay" he answered and smiled again showing me his incomplete teeth.

It made me laugh while pointing at his teeth but instead of feeling bad like how other kids will feel, he just laughed with me.

He.. laughed even if I badmouth him?

"Do you wanna go to our house? Let's play in my house. I have a lot of toys and our backyard is full of soil, let's play muds!! My mother is not in our house, no one will scold us" I immediately stood up from sitting so we can finally play but he remained seated on the bench.

"I can't. We just visited my grandfather over there, we're going home in a bit" he answered and both of us pouted, he looks like he wanna play in my house too.

"Then, do you want to play here instead? There's a lot of soil here too and there's water right there. Let's play muds like the piggy I watched yesterday" I asked again and he nodded.

Together, we both use our hands to totally mess the soil. It's a chocolate river!! So this is why pigs love soil? It's like a chocolate!! I wanna be a pig now so I can eat chocolate mud.

"Look!! I made a hot chocolate!!" He cheerfully cupped the mud using his hands and acted like he's going to eat it. I laughed and did the same.

Our shirt and hands are now full of muds but we still continued playing. I sometimes intentionally put muds in his white shoes and he is doing the same in my short. It's messy!!

Suddenly he stood up and walk away, nearing our water supply. I immediately feel bad. Is he mad because I always throw mud at his shoes?! But he puts mud in my shorts too!! It's just fair!! He can't be mad at me or else I'll be mad too.