To the person....
who helps me to grow,
who helps me to realize the reality, and
who wakes me up from my naivety.
Thanks a lot, pal.
Ever since, my life has changed....
Here is a story of a little boy,
his life was good,
friends around him,
teachers liked him,
he actually lived in happiness and it seemed he was going to have a wonderful childhood memory for the rest of his life,
until........
K appeared.
He and K became good friends in a short while.
Nothing's wrong between them and everything seemed just normal.
They chit-chatted, laughed together, joined some competitions together and of course, having fun together. Really, everything seemed so normal.
This was what the little boy thought of.
How naive is he....
Things changed after the 1st year of friendship.....
Just he thought he could finished his primary education in joy, or maybe in peace,
*puff* - an annoyed wake-up call woke him up from his sweet, chocolate dreams.
Teachers started to look at him differently, as if he did something bad. Not one, but a few teachers.
The little boy, naively thought that maybe he was just being over-sensitive. Everything was fine. Things come to the worst when he was accused of something he had never done.
Being called into teacher's office - "ok....maybe teachers just want him to do some tasks. No worries." he thought.
1st expression from the teacher - TROUBLE!!!!
1st word came out from the teacher - MORE TROUBLE!!!
Accusation of being unfair, bias and prejudice,
Accusation of the incompetence and incapable of being a leader,
blah blah blah.......
But, all he could think of was........NOTHING!!!
His mind was blank and totally lost.
Helplessly, he cried and explained. And he knew, the teacher was never on his side. So, he ran out.....
This is the moment, the little boy understood the feeling of being accused of something he had never done. The feelings of being set up, or to be precise, betrayed. He never, ever thought that he would face this situation here, and at this age.
What happened actually???
Oh, it started just because of a stupid and meaningless basketball friendly match between opposite sexes. Girl's team scored 1 point but K and his friends denied it as it was said to be fault. To avoid conflict, the little boy stood up and clarified that it was actually not a 'fault'. And due to his "kepo-ness", story begun....
Silly, isn't it? A "friendly" basketball match = A trigger point of "betrayal"?
How amusing.....
"It's ok, Maybe this is just a misunderstanding. He couldn't be so bad and he will never do this type of things," silly self-calming methods done by the little boy.
Stepped into the class, K started to laugh at him. Together with some of his friends, they insulted and mocked him heartlessly. The rest of the classmates seemed started to believe the accusations and looked down on him.
"What happened? "
"Why they knew?? "
"Why everyone despite me???"
"Why my friends do this to me????"
NOW, only he realized, he was wrong all this time. K, a good friend??? Nah....wake up, dude!
Thanks to K, little boy broke down.
He cried for 2-3 days. He really did.
A kid, 12-year-old, breaking down and crying for 3 days.....Cool....
And that time was near final exam,
as a result, he did badly in his final exam.
Bad enough to let others look down on him again.
Bad enough to despised by his classmates.
Bad enough to let teachers feel that he had become a bad boy.
Again, he cried.
How on earth can K do this??
Does K know that the little boy cannot take this type of joke at the age of 12??
Does K know that friendship means a lot to the little boy??
Does K know that the feeling of betrayal hurts??
Does K know that this will break the little boy's fragile heart into pieces??
Does K know that this will leave a scar on the boy's heart, permanently??
Apparently, K doesn't know. Perhaps he doesn't want to know.
Thanks to K,
An innocent little boy changed drastically overnight.
He is unable to befriend easily, as he used to.
He lost his ability to talk heart-to-heart to his friends. Everytimes, when there is a chance to open up his chest and have a soul-sharing session with his friends, he shut it up. He is still harrassed and haunted by his past. An unforgettable one.
He is having difficulty to trust his friends whole-heartedly.
He sometimes, contrastly, will believe his friends until even being bullied, he endured it and keep telling himself, " maybe friendship is like this?"
He lost his confidence and had chosen a path of being coward. Hiding himself away from reality. Hiding himself so that he won't be hurt again.
Do you know the feeling when you are really scare of being betrayed again, but still, you need friends in your life and this leave you no choices but to trust your friends, even just for once. Complicated. Confused. And, it is struggling.
However, thanks to family's supports and some true friends the little boy made from that incident, he learnt to 'recover' from his past and move on. Little by little, step by step and he believes, one day, maybe one day, he could walk away from the dark clouds, away from the past and stride towards the rainbow after the rain.........hopefully.