Commensalism

New Life….

The sister hugged tightly as Agustina welcomed her sister who just left the prison…

“Come….” Said the big sister, after she asked the taxi driver she rent to opened the baggage and put all the belonging of her little sister and then asked the driver to go away from the prison…

Despite her happiness to leave the prison and being with her sister, but still, with every meter the taxi drove farther from the prison, Febri’s face becomes gloomier, the images of her father already filling her mind, fear and hatred intertwined….

Where are we going…? She thought as she looks through the window….

“Where are we going, Sis…?” Asked Febri when she realizes that the taxi, they were in, headed a completely different direction from the hell she used to, unfortunately, have to stay and called home, that she gladly left for the last six months….

Agustina smiled and answered with only a simple sentence….

“You’ll see….” She said, and when the taxi takes another turn, she realizes that they were going to the area she familiar with….

“Isn’t this…?” she asked, surprised that the taxi stopped at one SOHO, right beside another SOHO that was used as a garage shop owned by Ryan…

“Yes… it is…. Come…” said Agustina, smiling at her little sister who still confused on what is going on, but still followed her big sister entered the SOHO….

It was obvious to Febri that the place went quite a renovation done recently, she can even smell the fresh paint off the wall….

“What is actually going on, Sis…?” Aske Febri, as her sister takes her to the second floor where the living quarter was, and went into one room, filled with brand new furniture….

Taking her sister and they both seat at the new bed, Agustina then said to her little sister….

“This where we live now, Bi…” said Agustina, looking directly at her little sister who still looked confused….

“What are you talking about, Sis…?” Aske the girl who absolutely shocked and stunned with the sudden development….

Live here…?

She lives here…? With me…? Us…? Together…?

Is she being serious….?

Febri still cannot believe the thing her sister said…

If she said that it was her live, so she was away from their father, she will believe it….

But her sister lives with her…?

I need to know the truth….

“Tell me what happened….” She asked….

Knowing that her little sister will not stop until she got the whole truth, she then tells the story….

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“IF YOU CARE MORE ABOUT THAT DEVIL MORE THAN ME, THEN YOU BETTER GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE, RIGHT NOW….!!!! WHAT A WASTE TO RAISE A BRAT LIKE YOU!!!!”

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“He said what….?!” Shout Febri, furious to hear how her father called her bib sister like that, and casted her away just because she shows compassion…. The very thing her father lack off…

He can hate her, but not her big sister….

“It’s okay, Bi…. It was all for the best… Besides…. Don’t you want me to have me live here…? With you…?” said Agustine, calming her furious sister, that looks like about to storm out the place and will definitely run to their father house and will cause problem….

And hearing her bis sister last phrase makes her anger vanished like fire sprayed with water….

She then hugged her sister and said…

“No…. I do want to have you here, live with me….” She said with softer tone, but still trembling, shaking with anger….

“Fortunately, Ryan expanded his business, and he offered me to help him out, so, here we are….” Said Agustina, smiling….

Febri hugged her big sister, and they both crying, weeping, sobbing….

“Why did you waste your life on me, Sis….?” The girl sobs in her sister’s embrace….

“I’m the one should be apologizing, Bi…. I should have done this long ago…. I am sorry….” She said, hugging her little sister, and they both cries, releasing all tense in their chest….

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They both exchanged stories, even during their meals, until late night where Febri, feels all the adrenaline she was bursting during her time in prison suddenly evaporates, leaving her feel drained, and she suddenly feel tired…

“Rest, Bi…. I’ll be here…” Said Agustine, with teary eyes as she put a blanket over her sister who still having trouble adjusting with sleeping in bed…

Six months in prison, and mostly being in solitary makes her used to sleep in floors or hard bed….

Not wanting to wakes her sister, Agustina slowly leaves the room, looking at the girl who sleep soundly at the floor, and went to the shop next door….

*****

“How is she, Tina…?” Asked Ryan to the girl as they both sit at his dining room, and handed the girl a warm lemon tea with a hint of ginger, as she likes it, and her relief sigh makes a good sign for the man….

“Still adjusting to sleep on the bed, Ryan…” She sighs… “She even looked for her dipper, like she did in the prison….” She continues, massaging her sore shoulder….

She too feels the pressure and tension for the whole six months, how much her effort to make her sister sentence not extended because the brawl she had inside…

“Let’s just hope that she willing to go to our psychologist….” Said the man who raises one leg of the girl and started to massage the girl’s sore calf….

Suddenly the girl stands up and pulled the man’s hand….

“Satisfy me, Ryan…. Please….” She said in trembling, lustful tone….

And the man obediently followed the girls to his bed and give what the girl wishes for….

*****

Enjoying her freedom, Febri who had her hair now, cut in pixie style, travel throughout the city and wen far out to the outskirt of the city where there she saw it….

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Ryan chuckled to see Agustina groans and facepalm her face when she hears her little sister want to buy the old motorbike, yet she did it anyway, and see how her sister getting serious when she grinds, smooths the engine block, cleaning all rusts which covered most of the motorbike…

She saw how her little sister, days and nights, day by days her sister pours her effort, her thought, her soul, on the motorcycle which finally returns to its original form….

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“Congratulation, Bi….” Said her sister, with one hand carrying a baby, the proof of love she has with Ryan, who now married to her….

Her free hand hugs her sister who finally finished her high school, through a home schooling….

And when she was accepted at the university….

“You can look after our house over there, while you are there, okay….?!” Said her sister which obviously she can’t deny, argue, and said no….