Vanila Coklat
Short Short #2
"Ecah!"
"..."
"Hey Ecah! I know you're listening to me."
"I'm warning you, don't call me Ecah!"
"Ecah! Ecah~ Oh hoiii Ecah!"
An eight years old Amir chuckled to himself upon seeing Ecah directed her deadly stare to him and ran away from her once he regarded his mission as accomplished. He had no idea why he loved making her angry so much. He was easily amused whenever he saw Ecah became mad.
He has been accustomed to exchange banters and bickers with Ecah since he was in his tender years of age since they both grew up together due to their parents who were best friends of each other. They grew up together, yes but they were never best friends. They were more of foes because Amir loved to tease Ecah and Ecah hated him for that.
Just like Ecah, he would rush to finish his meal early during recess everyday due to different reasons. Ecah did so so she could self appoint herself as a prefect, guarding the disabled children from being teased, ridiculed and make fun of by the normal school children of her age, or older. As for Amir, he did so so he could follow and observe what Ecah would be doing.
Their primary school was kind of special since they have special classes for disabled children, too. By sharing the same school compound, it sparked the curiosity within the normal, curious young kids of their age that often lead to poking fun on the special children and Ecah totally hated that.
Although the normal children's and special children's recess time were different, that didn't stop the naughty students from visiting the block where special classes were situated and making fun of the innocent children from outside of their classes when their teachers were not around. Ecah would often ran after those good for nothing naughty students and gave them a lesson or two. She was fearless and fierce and Amir often found himself smiling upon seeing her fierce self from afar. She was fierce, but he knew her heart was actually soft, like velvet.
There was this one day when there was this one big bully in school came to the special classes' block and tried make fun of the children from outside of the classes. Ecah stopped him from doing so and a fight broke out between the two. As the kid was taller and bigger than her so Amir decided to meddle in.
It turned out that it was rather a bad decision since he was easily knocked off by the kid and was badly beaten instead. Ecah came to his rescue instead by putting into use the taekwondo lessons that she learned and in the end, the big bully fled from the scene, crying.
Ecah sighed upon seeing his wounds and started nagging at him on how he should not have tried to meddle in the fight earlier. He pouted and had his head hung low. Despite of the nagging, she surprisingly handed him a bar of chocolate that she fished out from the pocket of her pinafore to thank him. She suddenly chuckled at him and Amir's face went red due to the embarrassment.
It was a rare sight to see her laughter and her being kind towards him so he was rather delighted to receive that bar of chocolate from her.
They smiled sweetly at each other but after a moment of realisation that they were actually being in good terms for the first time, they quickly moved inches away from each other and pretended that it never happened.
"If you don't wish to have the whole school and our parents knew about the earlier incident, you better be good towards me and stop calling me 'Ecah', Amir"
Amir froze for a few seconds upon listening to the blackmail by Ecah but he just couldn't stop the urge to tease her, like always.
"Well too bad the big bully probably tell the teachers and schoolmates about it already by now. So in your dream, Zara...Ecah!"
"My name is Zara Aishah, you good for nothing Amir! It's Zara!"
He stuck out his tongue at her and ran away with the bar of chocolate that he received. He did stop calling her Ecah afterwards because she tattletale about the matter to their parents and he was later scolded about it. But he can never stop teasing her because it became one sort of entertainment in his life.
He never told anyone about this but he actually developed a soft spot for chocolates because of the one she gave him, and also secretly developed a soft spot for her ever since.
...
"What did you dream of, Amir? You were smiling throughout your nap and I find it rather weird."
Amir opened up her eyes and his sight was being greeted with a beautiful view that was his beautiful wife. He smiled, and took her hand and placed it on his chest.
"You."
She laughed over Amir's cliche and cheesy answer but smiled happily nevertheless. She never told anyone about this but she had once, albeit very briefly, developed a soft spot for Amir when he tried to fight with the bully on her behalf when they were kids.
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