It was an ordinary day for a family of three. But it seems like the whole neighborhood is busy, and a 10 year old child is just wandering around, curious of what is happening. Then she saw her mom talking to her friend. And from there, she confirmed that there really is something going on. A birthday celebration, with liquor and loud sounds. Seemed like a huge party.
It was past 9, and she could see her mom talking with her friends outside their house, drinking just right. She is not drunk. She knew her mom very well, and she also knows that her mom will never let herself into trouble. So she went back inside their house, grabbed some colored pen and paper, and started entertaining herself with some doodles. After a few minutes, her dad told her to go outside and tell her mom to go back home. He also told the child that there were already numerous guys outside, and it was too unethical for her mom to be drinking with them. Hurrying , she told her mom what his dad wanted her to say. But then her mom refused, knowing that this child knows nothing. She still continued to socialize with her friends. She can see that her mom is doing nothing wrong. Those guys her dad is talking about, they are a few inches away. He’s just paranoid, she told herself,going back inside there house.
Her dad, starting to raise his voice, asked her again to tell her mom to go back in. With her heart pounding, she tried her best to give it again a shot. But, just like her first try, rejection was all that she could tell her father.
There was silence in the room. A father, showing anger in his eyes, and a child with a pounding heart, expressing her fear in her colored pens and paper. After a few seconds, she heard the door . BANG! Her father sealed in the locks. And only one message entered the child’s mind. “How about my mom? “. Her father told her to never let her mom in, whatever happens. After a few minutes, The child heared her mother, knocking on the door. She turned her eyes into her father, expecting him to open it up. But instead, he told her: “Don’t you dare open that door.”
The child do not know what to do. Its like choosing who to save in a drowning ship. There was banging and begging on the other side of the door now. She could her mother pleading for them to open the door. She knows that the moment she opened that door, her crying mother will be able to go inside, but there will surely be a big chaos. And her father will surely be angry to both of them. The more her mother cries for help, the more the heart of this little child breaks. She could not hold her tears anymore. Instead, she looked at her father’s eyes once more. It was now filled with rage and anger. Then she ran into their room, cried her heart out, feeling hopeless of what is happening. Sooner then, she fell asleep.
The next thing she knew is that her mother is lying beside her. And here comes her father throwing pillows hardly on her. She was yelling at him to stop but he wouldn’t. He was telling him that it already hurts but he still continued. There were never enough words to describe the anger she saw on her father’s raging eyes. And there beside her was her weeping mother, pleading for her father to calm down. She do not know where her mother spent her night nor what her father thought to be angry that way. All that she knows is that her mother was disappointed of her. Her mom told her that it was her father that he chose. The broken heart of the child broke more when she heard that she was the reason why her mother cried that much. She should’ve listened! She should’ve opened that door! As she is witnessing that tragic happening, all she could do was to pour down her own tears, both in agony for what she should’ve done and for pity for her mother weeping ang pleading at her side.
