Anna the Poor Girl
A Piece of Watermelon
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Back again on the streets polluted with the rising sun. Hero walks down the path while thinking about what Anna's fate would be like after her mother gets all of Hero's savings.
Stupid .. he forgot to ask where the boy's home address was. A ray of taste and hope appeared in the Hero's head. She hopes to meet the little girl once again to make sure her mother keeps her promise not to abandon Anna again.
And today, he again did something no less stupid than that time. Hero accidentally skips school just to visit some elementary schools around the park. He was looking for a new boy whose face resembled that of a kumel. Today, he attended three schools. Result nil. Hero can't find Anna at all. Either his mother sent the boy to school where, annoyed Hero earlier.
Hero decided to go home because he was tired. He took his footsteps to a stop, then took a mini bus towards home.
"Where is that kid actually?" muttered Hero while throwing his body on one of the chairs.
The car started to go at normal speed. The pensive young man stared towards the window where Anna's extremely seedy face flashed in the glass shadow. Because thinking too much about the Hero seemed to see the child was nearby at this time.
"It looks like I'm crazy! Why do I think of that ugly little boy?" He turned in the other direction, and was surprised not to play while staring across the other street.
The deg!
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His heart pounded strongly when he saw the figure of the little beggar wearing a shirt that was as seedy as the one Anna was wearing back then. Hero does not know exactly his face, but he memorized it once with a shabby red shirt that Anna wore last week. Exactly the same as what he sees now.
"Isn't that the kumel?"
At every step, the boy prayed that what he saw was wrong. He wished the beggar little girl wasn't Anna. And when Hero had reached the other side of the road, he was immediately inflamed as soon as he saw Anna again begging with increasingly tragic conditions.
It turned out that Anna's mother lied like a bad premonition that Hero felt. Anna was still begging as usual. It's just that the location was moved so that Hero did not suspect the barbarous mother's doomed behavior.
Hero pensively for a moment. He looked at Anna who seemed sad to be in a new place. That little girl must have been very afraid of being in a new environment all by herself.
After arranging his heart and controlling his emotions to stabilize, Hero ventured to approach Anna.
"How come you're still begging here? Didn't I tell you kids shouldn't beg on the streets?"
Anna was surprised. His eyes are made to be patterned when he sees the Hero coming back like a hero.
"Do you know where I'm from?" Trembling in fear Anna asked.
"Of course you know. Tell me why are you still begging?" It turns out that Hero can't stem his anger. He looked at the little girl a little upset. For whatever sake Hero is not willing to spend money on his savings to finance the girl's life while the girl is still told to beg by her mother.
"Sorry, Brother." The little boy looked at Hero a little unpleasant for breaking a promise. "Mother asked me to beg again, If I don't want to be a beggar, I can't sleep at home. I was afraid to sleep outside. It's dark and it says there's a wolf." Little Kumel looked so serious and scared when he told the story.
There was a piece of watermelon given by a pedestrian in his right hand. The kumel girl ate it voraciously until her skin was no longer red.
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