My class just finished. I rushed to leave. I got to meet my sister at the schoolyard. As usual, A, my sister, had to wait for about 2 hours so she could leave the school together with me. She was at her 1st grade and I was at my 4th. The 1st grade students finished their class earlier than the other classes.
"Pol", she said to me once I was next to her, "Mom said there is no need for us to go to the farm. Let's go home. Mom is at home now."
I didn't trust my sister. Mom said to me before I left to school, "After school, you come right away to the farm!" It was a morning routine for me to hear that from mom.
How come mom said another thing to A, my sister? I trusted my mom more than trusting my sister. If mom said so, why my sister didn't join her classmates to go home? She had some classmates who were our neighbors in our villages. She could walk home with them. Why she needed to wait for me?
That was what I thought at that time. Only now, after 7 years, I am aware that my sister seemed to decide to wait for me so I didn't go to the farm, right? Also, most likely, if she went home without me knowing, I could feel confused since all the time, she and I walked together to the farm, after school.
At that time, I tended to not trusting her, that was why I couldn't see her true motive. I thought, she probably wanted to stay at home after school, no need to go to the farm. We did enjoy and were okay that we went to the farm right away after finishing our school every day. However, we liked it too when once in a while, when our parents were not at the farm since they needed to take care any kind of errand or attending any event such as Adat-events, we were asked to go home after school instead of going to the farm.
"Mom said to me that we got to come to the farm", I said to my sister, and asked her to not wasting time arguing and we better started walking, leaving our school.
We walked at the left side of the main asphalted road for about 15 minutes. There were houses along the road at the left and right sides. A church stood at the right side not so far from our school on a higher spot.
Soon, we were to leave behind all the houses at both sides and entering a fork at the left side, Dalan Gareta[1], water buffalo chart road.Â
There were still a few houses along Dalan Gareta, but soon, after a few minutes, it was going to be quiet with only bushes on the left and right sides of the road along with hilly and valley of expanse farming fields.
Once we got ourselves into Dalan Gareta, I noticed that a grand mix pick up (a kind of medium truck) with few secondhand stuffs in its rear, came along behind us. Within seconds, I knew it was parbotot's truck. Â
