Chapter 8
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"What are you thinking?" Harry asked her softly after parting her hair on her cheek.
"I'm just curious, Harry. Why did you think of entering the police force?"
That's the reason why we are facing this problem now, she said at the back of her mind.
"Ever since I was a little kid that is already my dream ." Harry answered.
"Your parents didn't stop you and said it was dangerous to be a policeman?"
"They were also holding back then. They also said that there is no future for being a Police.. My future family would only be hungry. But I was thinking as I grew up. A person will only be hungry if he is lazy."
"Yes, indeed."
"Where is your family?"
"I'm the only child. My mother was dead."
"How about your father?"
"Do you want to meet him and his second family?"
"Of course? After you take advantage of me, shouldn't you introduce me to my future in-laws?"
Harry smiled at her before he turned to her and kissed her on the forehead.
"We're going there tonight. We'll stay there for three days."
"How about your work?"
"I already asked for a vacation from our Chief. I really have plan to visit my father and my siblings. And You? You also have a job ..."
"I'll just call my secretary."
It was midnight when Harry and Ava reached Vista Alegre.
Harry's father's house is nice and big. There is a mini-grocery in front of the house. The backyard is spacious with lots of trees and other plants.
Ava saw that because they knocked on Harry's backyard. It is said that the room of his father and his wife Celia is closer there.
They immediately opened the door when they heard Harry's voice. Harry's father was overjoyed to see them.
"It's you, Son." Carding said excitedly. When he looked at Ava, he was even happier.
"Did you two run-away Harry?"
"It looks like that, Dad."
Harry kissed his father's hand and also his stepmother's hand.
"She's Ava- my girlfriend."
Ava also kissed the couple's hand.
"Harry she is such a beautiful lady, my grandchildren will surely be handsome and beautiful."
Ava blushed at Carding's words.
"Celia, please prepare some food for them."
"Of course. Just a moment and I will serve." Celia hurried to the kitchen.
The couple took good care of them as well as the food. Celia just leave the kitchen for a moment as they ate and headed to Harry's room on the 2nd floor.
That was the only bedroom on the second floor of the house. Harry's stepmother arranged that.
The next day she met Harry's siblings. They are also kind and cheerful.
Mara climbed the guava tree and Ava was the fruit catcher. Ava is very happy because they've got so many guavas.
Ava grew up in the city and she can only eat fruits when she buys. Only now does she eat fresh from the tree.
"Indian mango sister, do you like it too?" Mara asked her.
"Where is it?"
"There are also here but the fruits are bigger there in my father's farm. Let's go there later."
"I want it now."
"But Brother Harry is not here. He might scold us when we take you there."
By the way, Harry and his father left. They said they will have something to do in the municipality.
"I'll take care of it. He won't scold you."
The two siblings looked at each other before they laughed.
The youngest Mara held Ava's hand.
"Come on, sister Ava. We're leaving. We've agreed that we'll run away from Mom."
"Oh, she might scold you."
"No. When we're out of sight here she knows we are in the field. One more thing, you are with us. When we are scolded we will tell them that it is you." Andy joked with her.
"You're crazy. '
Ava went with the siblings to the farm.
He was overjoyed to see the mango trees there full of fruit. Even the Indian mango. Even though Carding's staff forbade the children from picking mangoes from the tree because someone had already bought the fruits. So when the staff leave, Andy immediately turned around and picked them up. Ava and Mara also picked up mangoes too. Because the branches are so low that the fruits are almost hanging on the ground.
Mara was carrying a bag made of cloth but it was almost full of native mango and Indian mango. Andy was the one who brought the mangoes they picked.
They went to the hut that Carding was supposed to rest on every time he visited the farm.
Andy then took out the knife and the shrimp paste place in a small plastic container.
Ava sat down in the rocking chair that was there.
"Why didn't the staff of your father didn't want you to pick you up mango earlier?"
"Because someone has already bought the fruits. That's how it is. Your mango tree will be sprayed on, to produce, and you take care of it. Then when the fruits are big and about to mature, there will be wholesale of all the fruits. It is already contracted.
"Is that so?"
"YES. The only ones left are the rejects. They will not pay for it so the fruit pickers will leave it."
"What do reject looks like? Are they the rotten ones?" Ava asked innocently.
She seemed to want to laugh at herself. She thinks that she was smart, graduated Summa c*m Laude but she still did not know much about life.
"It is not rotten but it can not be exported or taken to the supermarket. For example when it is ripe on a tree or it has have a c***k. Even a small c***k is not possible."
They started eating mangoes after Mara peeled and cut the two pieces.
Eventually Ava was suddenly stunned as she watched the siblings. She wants them to be family. They are kind just like the couple Carding and Celia. Just like Harry.
When she sees such a family she cannot help but feel jealous. She was orphaned early by her parents. She was too young to feel the sadness of losing her father and mother, but as she grew up she gradually realized how important parenting is to a person.
Harry is lucky because he has a family like Carding and Celia and siblings like Andy and Mara who are with him now. But it is still not complete because he can't be with them for a long time. If he visits here it is a secret because Harry is afraid that his loved ones will be affected by his work.
Just like now.
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