RICH MAN
CRUELER

In the room with the illumination, Bintang sat curled up in the balcony of his room while hugging his knees. It was already concerned again with his health and the night wind that roared his body. The moon did not show its light, staring at the dark sky did not even find a single star twinkling up there. The same is the case with the mood of the little girl who was sitting trying to strengthen herself.

Trying to close your eyes and hope that what is felt is a dream, but all in vain, from all the pain that feels, tears that drip. Even with memories that kept repeating like cassettes being played back in his brain, it slowly created tears that could no longer be stopped.

Tears that continued to linger every time he remembered the incident where he did not expect his happiness to be destroyed by others and now lives a memory, then the wound flows throughout his body creating new wounds, he said, especially in the heart.

"Mama, Star kangen,"

The tears seemed to have no meaning. The repeated yelling to hold someone back from leaving was meaningless, all that remained was the pain of enduring and trying to accept reality with a chaotic feeling.

"He hasn't eaten since morning, Bi?" there was a man out there asking for his news. The star never wants to eat for two days, he does not lust at all. He only misses the wholeness of his family where when his father came home from work, they will eat together in the dining room with dishes that have been prepared by his mother.

"Star, let's get out! Eat first sayan! Stars don't like house food, let's buy it outside!" That voice was so hated by the Stars, why was her happiness taken away in such a painful way? He piled his head on his knees crying, there was no one he could share the pain with now. Her mother had gone nowhere, her phone had been destroyed by her father when he was fighting that night.

Shutting himself up in the room is one way that he does not meet the man he hates so much, a 17-year-old girl must be forced to accept a reality in which she does not have to receive injuries due to parental divorce. The age at which his parents should be restrained for being a little bit incited, then he would be easily poisoned by the wrong association.

The star leaned on the balcony while continuing to cry, deliberately the lights of his room he did not turn on so that the people of his house did not have to bother to worry about him anymore. If given a choice between life and death, the Star is very eager to end her life, but she does not want to make her mother sad with her stupidity.

"Bring down the door!"

The star heard his father say, the next few seconds he turned to the door and found some people who had managed to break down the door of his room. His father came with food, the star was already in a state of chaos, the nightgown he was wearing had been stuck since he chose to shut himself up.

Everyone left and left the two of them in the room. "Star, eat first!"

The star still shook his head, given how harsh his papa treatment hit him at that time, and forced him to separate from his mother, the incident still could not be forgiven by him. Memory after memory was back again, his eyes were already very puffy and his voice could hardly come out again.

"Eat, keep looking, Mama,"

Hearing that word, the Star turned its head and looked at her papa who was lighting the room's lights, "Papa Promise, after this we look for Mama, but please eat even once, please, from yesterday you always refuse, this morning also until now you do not eat, do you not think how to worry Papa because of your actions?"

His father carried the star on the bed and sat the girl there.

"Eat first, Papa promised this time will not lie to the child, Papa. Star is the only child that Papa has, Papa does not want if Bintang sick, sorry for the behavior of Papa who was then to hit you,"

"Yes, if you want to eat first, do not ever think that Papa is not dear, Papa is affectionate with the Stars. That's why Papa wants to see the stars, don't think of anything else, baby!"

The food was also toilet, slowly his papa was leaving the hair of the Star slowly, in front of his dressing table, Bintang can see clearly the face is chaotic and also his hair is messy. "Your mom used to do this when you were little, she always combed your hair, now it's Papa's turn. Papa used to be busy and there was no time just for your combin, right? So this time papa who is doing this is the same as Papa's son,"

The star nodded, at that age where he could spend his time just thinking about the future was now shattered instantly, "Tomorrow morning must bathe, dear! Tomorrow too Papa will take you to school,"

"I need some alone time, Pa,"

"Star!" his father said slowly, but when he looked in the mirror, he relented and did not prolong the problem, "What is important is tomorrow to take a shower, how many days have not taken a bath?"

"Not knowing,"

"Have a break!"

"Kan, Papa said we'd meet, Mama,"

"See what time it is?" His papa pointed towards the wall clock in the room of the Star, the clock that had shown at eleven o'clock in the evening.

"Finding star, Mama,"

"Tomorrow, Mama where it might be the wildness of this hour,"

"What a lie again, right?"

"No, but tomorrow we will go there too, now rest Star, do not get sick. Papa does not want if your child is sick, tomorrow we will go there, anyway,?

The star went up from the front of the dresser and towards the top of her bed, slowly the girl lay down, her papa immediately raised the blanket to cover her chest. Slowly he tried to sleep and tried to calm his mind to be able to meet his mother tomorrow as presented by his father.

If hope can come true, the girl only wants happiness like before that can make her out gathered again. He closed his eyes, the kiss landed on him as his father had done long ago. It hurts to keep remembering the incident. That fact was cruel, tore his heart apart and shattered his hopes. It could not be forgotten so easily, let alone about him being struck by his Papa, it might never be forgotten by the Star in his lifetime. Again, he must endure.