When love is blind
there was once a beautiful girl living in a city. she was known as shinta, a nice and friendly girl. She studied at a popular senior high school in the city. She always followed the trend of young people life style. She got dressed as how the trend was at the time. In idea, western modern life was the ideal model for all people . she thought that everybody should be free to do anything he or she liked.
She had a hand some boyfriend, deo. Having a boy or girl friend was like a must for the young people in the city. Parents’ advice to get away from western culture was considered old-fashioned.
Shinta loved her boyfriend very much. On Saturday evening they made a date, going to a theatre, café, or party. Shinta’s parents were worried about her. They have warned her but she ignored them.
She thought, “though my parents don’t agree with me, the show must go on. I love him very much. Whatever happens to me, I’II face it.” Yes, love was blind. She got blind. Since then, she often quarreled with her father and mother. She became uncontrolled. She went out more often at night with her boyfriend. But, her parents could do nothing but only wait, see and pary.
Days went by. One morning, shinta got a serious stomachache and wanted to throw up. She got dizzy. She went to the bathroom and threw up. Sinta was very worried. “Am I getting pregnant?” she she asked herself. Her worries grew stronger until shock! The tester showed a positive pregnancy. Shinta fainted in her room for some minutes. She was very afraid her mother would know what happened.
Shinta tried to hide her pregnancy. Her face got pale every day and looked unhealthy. She tried to contact Deo. Knowing that her girlfriend got pregnant, he was also frustrated and didn’t want to admit that he was the father of the baby. He tried to avoid meeting Shinta. He was not responsible for the consequence. He asked her to abort the baby, but she refused.
The stomach became bigger and bigger, but she was successful to hide it from others’ sight. She was very depressed, more and more. Four months later, in one evening, when she could no longer keep the burden, she decided to do abortion. In her bedroom, she took a chair and jumped from it to the floor. When her feet touched the floor, a bloody clod of a red fetus covered with planceta was dropped, cried and moved several seconds, then stopped moving. The blood was running out of her skirt, making the floor wet, Shinta could see what happened in front of her eyes but didn’t know what to do. She tried to stand up. But then she go unconscious.
The text day, in the morning when she didn’t get out of the room, Shinta’s mother called her name several times. No answer made the mother open the room door and looked inside. She saw blood everywhere in the floor and walls. The horro was shocking her when she found her daughter lying near the dead small fetus. She was upset but could control herself.
Shinta’s mother quickly took her to the hospital. But, it’s too late. On the way, Shinta died before she got a help. On the same day, the news about Shinta spread throughout the city. The news made the citizens knew one more thing.
Sumber : The bridge English ( Yudhistira)
