my own short story

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim 

In the name of Allah, the most Merciful and the most Gracious

Best regards to all the participants and readers.

Thanks for reading and  I beg your pardon, cause I know there are many mistakes in this writing.

 

Preface

            “Life is beautiful ”. But, only very few people are aware of it. They think, really beautiful life is to become a rich man. Whereas, it is not the only guarantee that it will make life more colorful. The real happiness is depends on what we have done and how the way we deal with something. (Buniarti)

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nce upon a time, there was little girl called “Angi”. Her parents have died since she was 6 years old. Now, she lived with her Grandma. Her Grandma was very old, and cant working anymore. That situation make Angi should looking for money by herself. Two years after death of his parents , force her  should become independent woman. When she saw peers go to school she only can cried a little in heart. Her intention to attend school was  very large but she could not do anything she must find the money to pay for the treatment of his grandmother. Always excited to work in order her grandmother can be cured. As dishwasher, apparel washer, gives food for cattle also. Her fate extremely wretched not such as other children. Though she never feels educational sense in the classroom, but she's good at reading and writing extremely fluent in because her father always taught her while in childhood. She's very good personality, if her friends mocked, he never felt ashamed moreover hate the situation of her life now. 

However, there was something strange about this girl. Since the death of her parents she rarely laughed,  joking with friend, even very difficult to see her smile. Besides, think of circumstances her grandmother that never healed. She also  puzzled “why I can’t remember father's face, although a cursory ?”, whereas her father died not quite long. Its hard to imagine one let alone the dream about .  Then, she have no a close friend to share what she feels. At one time, she went to the beach in order to pour out her heart and calming the mind. She told all the complained and problems with wrote on the  leaf and after that immerses into the sea. That activity was done repeatedly for over many years. And when he wanted to do the same thing, suddenly she found the same leaf that she always used for writing all she want to write. She tried to more close with the leaf and read it carefully. Just one sentence that is

“Dear my lovely daughter, I hope you was your face before you go to bed  with water in small wells behind our house and you will find the answer from all your questions that you has sent ”

She could not believe what happened, she tried to rub his eyes multiple times. Afterwards, she running fast and hope the night will come soon.  Night finally came, she was makes food for her grandmother, and bribing her with love and carefully. After that she rushed to the well at the back of the house to washing face and then go to sleep.

            Next day, she was awake and tried to remember her dream last night. she dreamed of meeting her mother and told to find a needle of gold hidden by her father and if it is found, the needle must be destroyed. Of course, she did not know where the needle was hidden. She also remember that her mother said “The last time  I saw the needle was held by your father while in the room. Precisely, before the killing your father done by a group of the messengers of the kingdom. From that statement she got an idea, for searching the needle in the room where her grandma lie down. But, It is very small thing, how can found it in a big room like this. She never give up and tried to find it continuously.

So many days has passed, until now she cant find it.  She felt almost desperate and had wanted to forget everything. But when she saw her grandmother who is increasingly weak and never healed from the illness, his spirit appeared again.

            One day, she intends to tidy up her grandmother's room, from unpacking the contents of the wardrobe and 

try to fold it neatly, swept the whole  room, including cleaned windows and ventilation and then drying mattresses 

and pillows. Her eyes fixed on a pillow that her grandmother always used and never replaced and plans to open a 

seam cushion, then remove the contents because the pillows were old and looked very shabby at all. After finding 

 

a  pair of scissors she began to open up the pillow stitches one by one. then remove the contents of the pillow, she 

suddenly felt his hand like a punctured something. carefully what he was looking for it. After a long search, he 

finally found a small iron. Precisely it is a golden needle she began to think, this thing that I sought, isn’t it ? 

 From then on it was the first time for Angi smiling, even more than just smiling because of what he had been seeking all this time she finally able to get.

After getting the gold needle, Angi returned to the room to keep the needle. She opened the door and she did not see her grandmother there. She was scrambling, where her grandmother go? Grandma was not unconscious, how her grandmother could walk ? she also ran out of the room to find her grandmother. When she entered to  the kitchen, she saw an old woman who wanted to wash face and she admonished her. "Who are you, how dare enter my house? the woman had turned her face, smiled and said "my granddaughter, if grandmother could tell you to discard the needle gold in pillow, we have been able to interact like this!

            Angi was confused, why her grandmother could speak and even said like that. Angi asked to her grandmother to tell the origin of a needle story that has made his life miserable during this time.

Her grandmother said "I'll tell you tonight, when you go to sleep”. “why everything should be done before going to bed, why not now grandma? Angi replied. she just smiled and rubbed with her granddaughter’s head and not saying anything

            Now, grandmother's time to tell the secret behind the needle. First of  she asked Angi “Dear, have you ever heard stories of people here, about the death of the king of the island there? Angi replied, “yes grandma, I've heard, the story was terrible and scary? where, all the inhabitants of the palace unnatural death, and small freckled all over their bodies and blood and pus discharge is foul, right? and even, until now no one knows the cause. “Yes true, and that spots, connected with this golden needle”, answer Grandma while began to open up the story. And with a sense of curiosity, Angi kept asking her grandma to be told. “Quicly, Grandma! Open the secret ! and old woman began telling “ Angi, your father was just a poor farmer, but because of his sincerity in the work he also managed to become a distinguished man of this village. One day your father wanted to go to the fields, suddenly there is something punctured your father's feet. Your father was looking for it, turns out it was a golden needle. Then he came home and told your mother about this needle. For the first time, you’re mother did not believe it, she thinks this is just ordinary needle, even want to throw it away. But, your father always stop and tell your mother to store the needle in a glass. A few days later, father asked you’re mother to take the needle. Suddenly you’re mother shouted, and your father immediately approached her. It turns out, the needle is inside the glass to expand and increasing. Thus, fulfill even exceed the capacity of the glass. Your parents were very happy, and from then on family life increasingly more wealthy and finally the secret of the golden needle was widespread up until the kingdom. It makes your parents’s life very miserable, for always being chased chase people who want to steal the needle. At one time, troops from the kingdom came to this house, and forced to give the needle. Of course, your parents still refused, and at that time your parents are stuck in this room, where you take care me, this is where they were killed. But previously, before your father dead, he hides the gold needles inside this pillow. And at the time of the incident, I only dare to hide and hiding you behind that window. I do not want you will have the same fate like your parents. Another one, that I wanted to tell you, your dad had said, anyone who stepped on a needle or where we save it, will  exposed to death and will be transmitted to all their faction, and anyone who touched the needle or place of storage with no use of his legs, then he or she will fall asleep like he or she  was sick. Therefore, one of the soldiers stepped on this pillow, which is the storage place of the needle. From then on, she was in pain like needles and eventually spread to all the inhabitants of the kingdom and eventually killed them all. And the same thing with what I did, one day I forgot and then I lay on this pillow. and finally I fell asleep like the dead and can not be woken, before the needle was removed from the pillow as you have done my granddaughter “, clearly she tells her granddaughter.

Angi wept to hear her grandmother stories, and excited to destroy the needle. Because the needle was the cause of the death of his parents. The next day, angi trying to throw the needle into the sea, oddly enough, the needle does not sink. Then she tried again with burn the needle, yet not too burnt. This is the last way, she places the needle back where it came she tried to plant it in the rice fields, where the needle was found. After she jabbed the needle to the ground, little by little part of the needle was annihilated and destroyed, until the needle no longer exists.

            Finally she could feel a quiet life with his grandmother. She no longer works as hard as possible and more exciting anymore, now she could imagine his father's face, even dream about.

The end :)