UNLUCKY
Ch.423 - Charleston, Child With A Smile.
Usually Teo just relax if treated so with two brothers or plus Cain. But this time plus Osvald and Demelza, Teo felt very cornered.
"Well, just this time it feels like I'm hurt ..." Teo said inwardly.
"Then I say, Your Honor .." said Harvard wanted to flap its wings but was held back by Felix.
"I'm cold don't make it rain again!" felix felt a slight electrocution while holding Harvard's wing.
"And ... don't be noisy, please!" tan said asking not to appear again lightning and thunder that muffled the sound of the Clown and Dwarf Zewhit so as not to be heard.
"It's because they're human, so don't be afraid of me .." said Harvard, disappointed and left quietly without causing rain or lightning or thunder as requested.
Along with the sunlight that kept coming in, there was like a film being played out. Not what could be seen from the eyes but entered directly inside their heads. All the targets could only remain silent while looking at the film closely.
"The destined thing seems to be difficult to stop" Felix said seeing how Tan, Teo and Tom were targeted despite being warned and obeyed by them though, still they were targeted in unexpected ways, "I hope they're okay .. There doesn't seem to be any change in aura either, so it seems to be fine." Felix convinced himself.
"Being Meinimeirav is a tragedy, so I warn you to be careful but it's not a bad thing either, they can get experience" Iriana said.
In the film that plays directly into their heads it is like a virus that goes into the hard drive of a computer and continues to appear making everything unable to function. The three Twins, Osvald and Demelza could only remain still and not move.
First look Charleston who is about 5 years old entered the amusement park with a partner by someone older than him.
"Dad, are we going to have fun today?!" charleston asked cheerfully thinking he was brought there to play.
"No, we're here to work" replied the father, who wears a long hat and all black clothes because of his profession as a magician.
The disappointed Charleston could only refrain from removing her smile. After all it was the first time he had been invited by his father to come out together.
The father took Charleston to a room full of costumes and began to talk to someone there pointing at Charleston. Charleston can only stand still when dressed in clown clothes and makeup.
"You just have to stand here and sell these balloons, when you're done you can play the rides you want" said the father giving a collection of colorful balloons.
"REally?!" charleston said so happily.
"If all this is sold out!" the word Father emphasized but remained with a flat expression.
"At that time, I thought all the fathers in the world had the same expression as my father. The other father was so warm unlike my father who was cold" said the current Clown Zewhit.
As time passed, Charleston had been working at the amusement park for a year. It's been three months never to go home with her father. Eventually Charleston returned home to miss her mother but after arriving, not only was her mother invisible but her home was also destroyed.
Charleston ran back to the amusement park to tell her father about her whereabouts. But the Father simply replied, "Is the balloon you sold today all gone?!"
"Huhh?! that's not what's important now! mother where?! and what happened to our house?!" charleston said for the first time to get his emotions out in front of his father.
"What matters now is that you sell all the balloons I give you!" said the Father with a flat face and started to go up to the stage of the show. Charleston could only see her father smile when he was on stage trying to please the audience. Never had a smile like that come from Charleston.
The young Charleston did not know how and simply re-executed his father's orders. Selling balloons while his mind is now being filled with his mother and his destroyed home.
Years passed again, Charleston and The Father had already fully settled down to live in the amusement park. Although the employees were forbidden to stay, the father remained clandestinely living in a warehouse with Charleston.
Charleston, 8, knows what happened to her and her father. Even without finding out, everyone was talking about her and her father. Surprisingly, people talk about it behind the Father but not with Charleston.
"He's a kid, he won't understand what we're saying either" another employee said.
"What a pity, his mother was a traitor to the state and now lives with her father who is only a magician with a small salary."
Charleston just kept quiet hearing it all, "How do they think I don't understand this?! how can they feel sorry when they don't even show concern for me?! just because I was a kid, I'm still a human being who deserves to be treated like any other adult." Charleston felt inferior but kept her smile on so that someone would buy her balloons.
Two years on, Charleston is 10 years old. He and his father still live clandestinely in the amusement park's warehouse. For Charleston, he had forgotten how he lived in his former home with his mother. Now the amusement park is home as well as a place to play and work.
Charleston has memorized all the rides, the employees, whatever is in the amusement park it is perfectly attached to his memory. Even running deftly without tripping through the running rides.
"Revelation!" yell the ride controllers.
But Charleston just laughed and turned around with a big smile and greeted and did not forget to greet also the people who ride the rides. Charleston felt that he could be happy despite the circumstances that did not allow him to be happy. It is normal for a 10-year-old to feel that way, because it is still filled with great hopes and dreams.
That all changed when he was 15. For 10 years he had been doing the same job. See how other children who come to the amusement park with family, with friends after school. Charleston finally realized the harsh reality that forever she would be stuck in the amusement park selling balloons wearing clothes and clown makeup just stood by while watching everyone with happy faces enter the amusement park and go home with a happier face.
Every day, Charleston's smile faded until finally he made makeup for the color of his lips brighter and made wider to cover himself who could not smile anymore.
"Isn't that overkill?!" the father said he saw Charleston continue to make up his mouth.
"Isn't it important that the balloons sell out, dad ..." said Charleston flatly.
The father just put on his hat and left the dressing room. While Charleston in front of the mirror trained herself to smile, "Is this how to smile?! even I've forgotten how ..." he said in front of the mirror.
The day was so dark with cloudy clouds a sign of rain coming down. Very few amusement park visitors, even those who have come look prefer to go home. All the workers were daydreaming and the rain was pouring down and all the Charleston balloons were blown out. Charleston kept smiling looking at that and started laughing.
He said it was funny that all the visitors were so happy to enter the amusement park and refused or whined to stay longer even some who did not want to go home. Some even say that it must be fun to stay in an amusement park. Though all the workers there are no truly happy, "They're all fake smiles!" charleston said he kept laughing in the rain to see the workers at the amusement park.
In Charleston's laughter there was a huge explosion from behind. But expressionless, Charleston just kept laughing thinking it was just from a playground. Charleston's hands suddenly got interesting, "Let's go out here!" said The Father.
Charleston took off her father's hand, "Where?! isn't this our home."
"War seems to be happening!" the Father said for the first time with an expression Charleston had never seen before.
"Then let me die here ... at home!" charleston said walking toward the explosion was inversely proportional to the people running away from the scene.
Lots of jewelry, money, other valuables were falling as people ran. Someone who had been asked for a loan by Charleston but was rejected outright it turned out to have a lot of money in his suitcase but the suitcase was left just like that to save himself.
The warplanes kept flying in the sky and dropping bombs made all the rides even the warehouse where Charleston lived all this time was also destroyed.
In the rain, Charleston felt a warmth that had never been felt before. Hugs his father from behind, "Alright, we're just here ... at home, both!" the smile Charleston dreamed so much was painted on His Father's face for the first time.
"Because mother is a traitor, is it because of her that we are going to die this time?! isn't that funny, dad?!" Charleston with a cheerful laugh.
The father hugged Charleston, "I'm sorry you can't be a real father like any other father."
An object fell right next to the two of them. Charleston realized what it was and just hugged her father tightly, "Together the father in this house is enough for me."
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