I SMILED WHEN I SAW Leo's happy face and said, food was delicious. Here we are at a famous fast food chain and I just brought my siblings here. It's good and I'm well paid now so I can feed them delicious food like this.
"Sister, the food here is delicious. Then there's a playground inside," said Leo happily, his nose dirty from eating spaghetti. So I took a tissue and wiped his nose.
"Leave it, 'your sister is hired at my new job, I will always bring you here, " I said to him with a smile.
"Really!" he said so I laughed and looked at Cathy who was just munching on the food while seeming to be deep in thought.
"Cathy, are you okay?" I woke it up and it sighed.
"Sister, I don't want to come home to us anymore. I'm afraid that Sister Ria's boyfriend will do something to me again," she said while still bowing.
I took a deep breath because that's what was bothering her. I can't blame her because even I still have anger in my heart, but I just want to forget everything that happened for a while.
I felt my phone vibrate in my pants pocket, so before I responded to what Cathy said, I took out my phone. When I opened it, I received a call. I immediately answered it and put it in my ear.
"Hello?"
"yes , I'm Max."
“Oh, Max. It's you, " I said smiling.
Finally! Here it is and I can already feel the good news he will tell.
"Yes, I contacted you because. I have news about what I recommend to you."
"What's up? Has your boss agreed that I will take care of it?"
“Yes. Tomorrow, too, you have to come here."
"Tomorrow soon? But what about my siblings? I said and looked at Cathy who was looking at me in surprise.
"Don't worry, if you want you can go to the orphanage now. Tomorrow we will just meet there so I can pick you up," he said.
Suddenly my heart was heavy because I was going to be separated from my brothers.
"Does the orphanage know we're coming today? " I hesitated to ask because I was shy.
“Yes. I told Sister of orphanage before I called you. You won't have any problems because your siblings live for free. And I'm sure they will be well taken care of there because Ma'am herself instructed Sister."
"Oh, it's embarrassing for your boss. They are very attached. They really fell from the sky," I said making him laugh.
"They are really kind, but it's difficult "when they angered and fought against their family," he replied.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
“Nothing. So, see you tomorrow? Spend some time at the orphanage first so that you have time to spend with your siblings. I'll text you the address and I'll call you tomorrow when I pick you up,” he said making me faint deeply.
"All right. Thanks, Max, huh? What you did helped me a lot. One day I will really get back to you, " I said to her with a heartfelt thank you.
“ It's okay.... You were a good friend when we were in elementary school. I also want to be able to do something for others so that I am not the only one blessed with a blessing in my life," he said making me smile.
"Thank you, Max." That's all I said about his goodness. A wellspring of gratitude in the heart.
"You're welcome," he said and we said goodbye to each other so I hung up.
"Sister, what are we going to do at the orphanage?" asked Cathy.
"Don't you want to go home?" I asked her smiling and he nodded while looking at me in surprise, "Yes! We have a place to go where you can live. You won't go hungry there and you won't experience being hurt by other people," I continued.
"Just us? Are you going to leave us at the orphanage?” she asked and suddenly his tears fell to the side so I held his hand, but she withdrew his hand and tilted his seat so that I could not see his tears.
I sighed and moved to the seat next to her. I grabbed her by the shoulder to make her face me
"Because I have to work in Civic center, Cathy, you can't be there because you don't want to be my boss or. But don't worry, I will visit you on my day off. Besides, I will not leave you at the orphanage to be adopted. You will just live there because I don't want to leave you with Dad. Max told me that Sister will look after you while I'm not by your side. "Don't you know that nuns are kind?" I explain here so that she can understand the situation.
I don't want to leave their side that they are confused and might even resent me.
"But Sister, I am afraid that I will experience in the orphanage what I experienced in our place. And maybe you won't come back to us," she said and hugged me.
"Cathy, can I do that for you? I can never do without you back. You are my only family and you are more important than anything else. Then in that orphanage I will make sure that you will be fine. Even if I call the orphanage every day to find out about your condition, I will do it. Besides, it's only six months and when my contract is over, everything will be fine. You will never experience hunger because I thought of starting a business so that the money I earn from working there will go somewhere. And I will also rent a proper apartment so that we don't have to worry about a father who can hurt us. I wish you will understand. I'm doing this for you, " I told her.
It didn't say a word and just hugged tightly. I invited Leo, so he got off the chair and came to us. I also hugged him and closed my eyes because I'm sure I'll miss them a lot.