Chapter 7 (1/2)
“Ooh, Wah-a! Oh, oh, oh, I am faster than Penny!”
“Woof!”
I kicked my tongue while watching Cabel running far away today. Oh, it’s hard to play. Come and stay away for as long as possible!
However, because of my lack in arms, the ball flew in a parabola and began to fall closer than before.
“Good job!”
“Wow!”
Oh, but this time the second brother’s hand touched the ball first, but instead of being caught by Cabel, the ball hit his finger and bounced off.
“Woof woof!”
“Penny, well done. Good child, pretty.”
The ball bouncing over the grass. It was Penny again this time. I complimented
Penny’s wonderful golden hair with sloppyness.
“Oh, um! This time, I could really win!”
Second brother. Oh, no matter how hard you tried, we already have the end game.
“Throw one more!”
“You just decided to do it ten times.”
“I haven’t done it ten times yet!”
Did you know that I gave you five more times because older brother started yelling?
“Oh, I don’t know, I don’t know! I don’t know ah!”
The second beother tried to swarm. Not this one!
You’re a couple of years old now, and you’re lying on the floor, like struggling with toys to mom! Can’t you see they’re staring and looking around at us!
“I didn’t fill it ten times. Alas!”
“Woof!”
The second brother then thought it was a new game. People’s attention was more focused now. Ugh, why on earth is this shame on me!
“What did I say if my brother kept crying so much?”
I whispered at the two dogs lying on the
grass.
Then Cabel, who was struggling, scratched himself for a moment, and after a while, he stood up without saying anything.
“Oh, okay! Okay, I’m not crying right now. So you can’t say you’re not playing with
me!”
“Why would I say that? I’m having such a wonderful with brother Cabel!”
“Hung, I was great!”
My compliment without a soul, but the second brother accept it well. I stroked Cabel’s head just like I did to Penny.
Then I pretended not to be younger than the second brother, and I shook my head
inward. Oooh ooh. So, did you want to be praised, our second brother?
Now, listen to me like this and I’ll pat your head like a penny. Seeing that I pushed the barrel directly to me, I wanted to make a significant change in the past year.
Then I should give him more praise.
“Wow. What kind of brother is a brother who does not bother his sister and listens
to his sister? and doesn’t this brother is really well?”
“Right.”
“And brother Cabel is the coolest brother I know!”
“Yes, yes, I’m cooler than that han-han”
No, you’re not. No matter how nice you are than Johannes. Still, I decided not to break the illusion of the second brother.
“Penny, why are you doing this on the floor!”
When I was training the second brother, the voice of the third brother came from not far away.
“I want to stand up, support me.”
Cabel said, still lying on the floor, Erich panting and running towards the penny looking up at us. Penny, who saw Erich, woke up on the spot.
Hmm, shake your tail like that and then going to the third brother, I also see Penny’s true love to Erich.
What’s more, Erich’s true love is also a penny, when he sees her, he’s holding onto the floor and hugging Penny without hesitation.
He said with caution, as if the second brother and I had stolen Penny.
“Now I’m going to give Penny’s food.”
Hey, that third brother. Oh, I’m trying to stop playing now even if you don’t hide Penny in your arms.
My wrist would be more small if I played more ball here.
“You guys, come and have lunch.”
said Eugene, who came to find us with Erich.
“Wa! I’m hungry!”
The second brother, as soon as he heard it, jumped as if he was excited. We moved
towards where the Ernst couple was waiting.
Where we are now was the scenic field of La Sousse, where the annual flower festival is held.
And Ernst’s family decide to all came here today to spring outing together.
In Arlanta this is a fairly large flower festival, so there are many other tourists here.
Bam! Ugh, I was terrified at the end of my word as I bumped into the person passing by. Oh, it’s only a shoulder. But my
where’s my manner!
“Are you okay?”
“There are too many people here.”
I used to play here. And they weren’t many people in this place, different from right here under the flowering trees.
“Yeah?”
But right then, I had a warmth in my hand. I looked down and found Eugene’s hand holding my hand. Shortly after that, I was a bit embarrassed.
“Erich, Give Penny to me. I will hold her.
Cabel, because there are a lot of people, hold your hand to Erich. And come here, hold another one of Hari’s hand to your hand, and don’t let go until we get there.”
“Okay!”
That’s how we got into. Eugene led, then me, then Cabel, and finally Erich, and we started to walk hand in hand with
each other.
So, why I am feeling so embarrassed? The other brothers seem to have no idea, but why am I in this situation right now?
“Yeah? Why are you fidgeting? You don’t like this? Hold, don’t be picky.”
As I was uncomfortable, my second hand shook my hands again, and this time Eugene made an unnoticed side talk.
“If you lose one another, it’s hard to find,
so if you feel uncomfortable, just bear a little.”
I looked up at him with a slightly strange eye as he hold my one hand.
Another winter that I spent in Ernst has passed, and the sun has suddenly changed and it has become spring.
I am now 9 years old, Eugene is 14 years old, Cabel is 11 years old, and Erich is the same with me. Together we became
9 years old.
Eugene, who had left my hand on a cold street on a winter’s in my seven-year-old, was looming in my head, but the after image disappeared by the pink petals spreading in front of my eyes.
“We almost there.”
I looked up at Eugene’s side with a penny in one arm. Then he looked down and at our forehanded hands, and after a while he grasped his hand very gently.
“Hey, did you guys worry about being late?”
That new person is growing like this. From now on, we should make sure that there
is no scattering.
A little more walking, we were able to find our destination not too difficult.
The Ernst couples who were seated under
the flowering trees welcomed us. We ate the 7-tier lunch box prepared in advance, and sucked the dessert lemonade all the way.
“Say it honestly, did you want it too?”
“Hah, don’t be funny. You’re bothering me too much, so I’m holding on to it now.”
After a while, Erich and I were sharing the balloons I bought from the merchants one by one.
It is a balloon with magical power, and, surprisingly, it floated in the sky by itself, unlike a balloon that usually blows air.
So, I had to hold the balloon’s entrance part tightly with a thread, but since it was
a very expensive balloon, if I pulled the thread down, it even flashed brightly from the face.
So all the children who came to the flower
festival could not take their eyes off the peddler selling magic balloons.
“I can’t believe that you’re this childish. I’m 9 years old and you still like this or that.”
Ha. He pretend not to be interested. This
Erich.
“Look at the fire that coming out of my deer horns.”
Of course it’s funny to be like this at this age, but… What should I do, though?
Ugh, actually, when I was a child, I also wanted this balloon, It feel good that I can only fulfill my wish after sucking my finger every time.
“Try it too! I want to see your bear’s nose light up!”
Then Erich pulled the thread held in his hand a couple of times under the expression, ‘This childish thing is not my taste, but I can’t help it because I don’t want you to bother me.’
Flash!
“Wow!”
Then Erich’s brown bear, floating on the
wire while connected to the thread, glowed in his nose. After that, the
thread in my hand was pulled down.
My balloon was long, so it was shaped
like a sad-approved deer, but it started to glow in the horns of the deer when I pulled the thread. Wow, cool!
It’s thrilling the day comes when I have this magic balloon like this!
But maybe it was because I was so absorbed in the light of the balloon. At some point, my deer did not shine from the horns anymore.
“Eh?”
“It haven’t been in thirty minutes, but you already use up all your horsepower. Are you stupid?”
Is the horsepower already exhausted?! On the side, Erich laughed at me whom feeling frustrated.
Indeed, as he said, it seemed that my balloon consumed magical power at a high rate and did not shine anymore.
Ew, you can only stay calm before your balloon falls after the horsepower is
completely exhausted…
“Why are you staring like that?”
And I started to aim at Erich’s balloon. Of course, it wasn’t even worth a thing, but the magic balloon was the thing that aroused my greed like that.
“Did you not say that you don’t like that balloon?”
The third brother began to avoid me with a bit of caution in my greedy eyes.
“No!”
As he heard the words of Erich and me, the Duke of Ernst, who looked at us warmly, politely and replied,
“Would you want to buy one more?”
I hear this is quite expensive. It was a waste.