The love story of life and death (On Going And Editing)

Chapter 4

June

I never like fried chicken but I got no reasons to complain
And its so ironic working at chicken king, the world's famous chicken with 11 secret herbs and spices, everything's nice here,
The owner were friendly and so the employees, its like a musical here cause the personnel are all with wide smiles they are like waiting for a production number that involves singing with trays and aprons.

"June can you clean the table 8"
"Yes sir" I replied as I walking towards the table pulling the trash can behind,
And something flashed into my mind,

"It was dad's death anniversary"  its a good thing that i didn't forget or he will haunt me, I had to buy him a cake during my break.

Before it was the saddest day in my life, but now, I don't know, sadness doesn't knock on my door this morning,
I just kept looking at the bay while cleaning the table, suddenly I hear the radio system opened,

"All the staffs and utilities, please come to the pantry, I have some announcements"

I pull the trash can, put all the cleaning materials beside it and walk towards the door to flip the closed sign and go through the pantry.

"So you guys are already here" says the manager,

All the staffs and utilities are here and waiting for the announcent,

"So there's a birthday party here around 6 pm, so I'll send you up for a early break time and we'll need to prep things for the birthday, understand?"

"Yes sir!"  we replied in chorus.
After the early dismissal, I headed down to the nearest bakeshop and buy the cheapest cake that my allowance can buy and headed back to the restaurant to have some lunch.

And after the breaktime, we started to fix the venue for the birthday party, I was asked to arrange the lounge, put some decorations and arrange the sound system.

After hours of decorating fixing old wires of the microphone,

the guest starts to come,

"Miss?"
A petite looking guy called me,

"can I sing? I'm the son of the birthday celebrant"
"Sure sir,you're free to do whatever, since you rented the place" I replied,

So he started singing a song, I'm not very familiar but it was catchy,

it was like this,

"Hallelujah! You were an angel in the shape of my mom"

I think its not a birthday song but its catchy.

Time flies, surely when your busy serving bunch of fried chicken and soft drinks that never seem to end.

And now my shifts over,

So I decided to go to the seaside, my workmates says it have the best sunset, and I'm on my way to discover it.

"And they're right, its amazing," I've never been here before, I never want to miss every part of it, it was like kissed by beauty, it was like painted by Picasso,

So I decided to sit and enjoy every part of it like I'll never wake up again,

Everything was great until the sun goes down and so my tears too,

Everything was in silence and only the sound of the crashing waves fall through my ears,

With a shaking voice I shouted through the endless void "Why!?"

there's so many questions that needs to be answered, I'm so confused,

"Why did God gave me a second chance to live?"
"Why God give this burden?"
"Why?"

My mind is in puzzled, my mind in between of the endless universe of questions,

I unboxed the cake and lit it up.
Wipe my tears,

"What's the drama?"

Someone from my back speak those words,
I don't know who is he, his face is  a little bit liten due to the lamp post,

"There's so many reasons to be happy? But why did you choose to cry?"

"You know some things are better left unsaid"  as I turn my head through my side to see his face clearly, he was wearing a black AC\DC shirt, I recognized it through the light coming form the moon

"Don't be so miserable, there's more to life than all of your struggles, look at me I'm a cancer survivor, I was in the cliff hanging between death, do I complain?" He said with a very shaky voice

" I'm so sorry, but I can't hold my tears, I was asking God but he didn't answer"

"Why asking God for an answer?" he said,

"Because He was the reason for my struggles right now,"

A soft voice came into my ears,
"God will give you clues but not the answer,You know? God will give you the promblems and it's up to you to look for the solution, and its called learning, empirically speaking"

"Just trust God's timing, he will never leave you empty"  he said,

I couldn't hold it anymore, a bunch of tears falls down through my cheeks,

I saw him extending his arms and use his thumb to wipe my tears,

"I have to go, it's getting late and you should too, good night,"  And he disappeared like the sunset, he seemed nice and he's right

"C'mon June! Look at yourself! You're crying!
You shouldn't be, God gave you a second life and you are not wasting it again" I shouted, the moon, the lamp post, the 6the street are all witness,

there's a hope sprouted in human race because of that guy, I thought everyone was distorted and dark but I'm wrong, Im just looking at the wrong side of life,

"Maybe I should go home"
I Put the cake inside the box, stood up and keep my self in place telling my self "Everything will be alright" and walk home with a smile on my heart,

This is best birthday ever, at the same time its less lonelier now,

This day was so memorable, maybe because I'm not alone