P'Morning - Novel No. (11)

Drug addict

"Big sister, I think we'll be back after sunset. It's hot, too. I'll go swimming in the pond next door," he said in a pleasant voice, and with quick, light steps, he walked down the stairs from the house.

"Go under the shade of the palm tree, don't go out in the sun, and don't stay too long. If those girls come, you'll get fat."

"Susu...don't laugh, what should I be afraid of? They're just like Susu."

"It's just a job."

"They are the elder brother, the elder sister is the mother . My daughter is still young, so I have to listen to them."

"I haven't given them any influence yet because I'm too strong to listen. They just give me away. I don't know what they think of me."

“What do you think, Mom and Dad are not the same? It’s just that I’m cool. If Mom and Dad don’t want to take care of my younger brother, they’ll take care of him.” “Does treating me like a fool and being angry when I get angry count as being a form of care? No one takes care of me, I take care of myself.”

"Don't say that, my daughter. You're young. They should listen to their elders. They're just telling you this because they want you to be well."

"It's not because I want to be nice, it's because they're clever. They've made a fool of me. I'm crazy, I don't know what to wear or what to eat. They're clever, they know how to dress and eat, and I can wear their clothes."

"My daughter is different from other girls. They think that I don't want to be beautiful because I don't do makeup. I do. I know that I want to be beautiful and they should take care of me."

"Yes, I'm different from other girls. I hate boys who mix with them. I don't like men like them. I hate men," she said, and went down the stairs, turned into the back yard, and left. Soon, she heard the sound of a swimming pool, the phone ringing.

When he returned home after a while, he found that Saw Tin and Saw Yin had just returned from the banquet.

Saw Tin..“Look, Mom, you just let this girl go without saying anything. I went swimming in the hot sun, my face is red and sunburned.”

Saw-rin.. “Yes, ma’am, ma’am, she didn’t say anything either. When will she die after getting hot?” Saw-rin pretended not to hear what they were saying and pouted, “I swam with my body, my hands, my feet. What happened? Did I borrow their hands to swam?” ​​He pouted and silently walked through the front room with his wet body and water dripping from his shirt and into the bathroom.

"Look, the whole house is ruined. I'm so sorry I told you so much. Don't you want to tell your daughter anything?"

Saw Khin, while changing his clothes in the shower, said, "If it gets wet, just lick it off with your tongue," and as soon as he heard her words, he glared at the bathroom door like an enemy.

Saw Khin was only seventeen years old. His elder sister Saw Tin was twenty-eight years old. Saw Yin was twenty-five years old. They were all young and beautiful, and they were always trying to impress each other by attending all the parties and gatherings they could get. The youngest sister Saw Khin was still young, so she had plenty of time to get a husband, so they ignored Saw Khin as if she were an unnecessary item in the house. When Saw Tin and Saw Yin had finished talking about Saw Khin, they went into the room and changed their clothes while talking.

"If you go and meet Maung Khin, is it okay?"

Tin.. “Okay, okay. We both have to get a man, okay, I’ll get one. If we get one, that’s it. Others think we can’t get a husband.”

Tin.. “Nyeum will come later, I am the eldest. I will take it first. After I get Maung Khin, I will marry Nyeum to his younger brother Maung Kim.”

"Is Maung Tin as handsome as Maung Khin?"

Tin..“My friend is handsome. He has a slightly darker complexion than Maung Khin.”

At that moment, Saw Khin listened from near the door, smiling to himself, thinking, "Oh, he's so smart, let him take her. If Ko Maung Khin and his friends are so smart, then Ko Maung Khin will step on his head. What kind of person is this person? I would never want someone they like. Someone they like is not someone who will show off."

If... "What if Ko Maung Khin likes me but not Nya?"

"If you like Nya, take Nya. If you get Nya, you have to marry Nya and me."

"If you like my music, that's fine."

"If you don't like me, do you still want me to cry?"

"Oh, try to get just one girl," he said, and the two of them went outside. Saw Khin was listening in and out. Saw Tin said, "Saw Khin, what are you doing here? You're just listening in. You're a very bad girl, a very bad person. Look at how you act. Do you know that this kind of behavior is the behavior of very bad people? Go. Don't stay here. Your eyes are burning." He said and left.

Saw Khin didn't say anything in response, but instead held her hair and wrapped it around her beautiful head.

Saw Tin: "Why don't you tie your hair up? It's so curly. People will think you're crazy if they see you."

"This isn't anyone's hair, it's my hair. I'll finish it if I want to," Saw Khin said, pouting.

"My face is all burned from the sun, my nose will fall off the next day."

"My nose is clean, it's not anyone's business," Saw Khin said, then went outside the house and sat in the garden, thinking.

At that moment, he saw a little rose flower swaying and playing in the air near him. Then, Saw Khin, who was alone and had no companion, looked at the flower and said, "Yes, they are very fat. I don't even want to live in this house. They are not healthy." He stared at the little flower with thoughtful eyes.

Then she continued, “Yes, they say I’m stupid. And I’m not as pretty as them. They are pretty, and I think pretty people want husbands. I don’t want them, they say I’m different from other girls, they don’t know if other girls are good or not. I don’t want to dress like other girls, and I don’t like any of the boys I meet. I don’t think they like me either. That little rose, you’re lonely like me, do you have a boyfriend?” she asked.

The little rose shook its head in the wind.

“Oh, no, if not, then I’ll be the same as you. A man named Ko Maung Khin will come. If he comes, don’t like him. I don’t like him. Ko Maung Khin is a relative of ours. What taste would it have if we brought him a relative? He would be like the pickled cabbage grown in our own garden. What taste would it have if we bought Thai food? It wouldn’t be as good as buying bread made by ourselves,” he said.

After a while, the sun reached the western sky and bathed Saw Khin's face and the entire garden in golden light. Saw Khin sat on a small stool, resting his elbows on his thighs, wondering if it was in the west, and smiled to himself.

Sometimes she heard laughter. At that moment, she got up from her seat, thinking that she would go into the house and watch the shooting. At that moment, she saw her mother coming out, wrapped in a blanket, and asked, “Where are you going, Ma?” She said, “I am not going to Ma Nan’s house in the west. Please call me a horse-drawn carriage, my daughter.” Saw Khin ran to the road and called a horse-drawn carriage.

Soon, seeing her mother leave, she came to the house and was about to enter, but then thought, "I won't go in. It's a coincidence. They'll probably think they like her husband," and sat on the brick steps.