SHORT STORY

A LETTER FOR MOM

Mother day is come, and I still can’t get any idea what will I give for mom. I just can
think a present that can make she happy and know that I really love her. Since three days ago
I’ve thought about it. I know at mother days, every children will give a big best present for
their own mom. But I don’t know what kind of present I’ll give. About everything what kind
of things my mom likes is too much. It’s impossible I can buy all of them. When I asked
about it to my big sister she said “you are stupid, you don’t know what you will give for
mom! You have to find it by your self! I don’t want to help you!” really I’m a stupid, why I
have to ask it to her, sure she would say that! Haaaaah I’m confused.

“heeeeeeey, what are you doing there dony? Downstair quickly! The breakfast has
served!” it mom calls me, huah I feel so lazy to go to school! Why the mother day have to at
Monday “yeah I’ll come mom” said me. I downstair and I find that I see it! She, my big sister
she give mom a present! Akh shit I lose to her! Look at that the present is big! In
kitchenroom, she give it at the kitchenroom, haaah she is sly sister for me.

“woah, thank you Lisa, you are kind daughter”

“of course mom”, why! why when she said that it seems like she is underestimateing
me. Her gaze such say that look at that my little brother, mom more love me than you!
Aaaaaakh. I’m in hell now!! But although it just my mind. But it was like to be real.

“hah, what are you doing there dony, go down from stair. And sit here” said mom.

“yes mom.” I go down and to the kitchenroom, sit beside my big sister, I really hate
this.

“hey you, my little brother, did you see that? mom more love me than you” oh no she
wishper at my ear I really feel like in hell.

“what both of you doing ? why you whisper?” ask mom, “oh no mom, it just a little
problem, it is right, my dear dony?” she said that and hold my hand, she hold it hard.
“o,o,o,of course, it is right mom!” akh I can’t win, she likes a devil girl from hell. “ooh, well
you have to eat the food and go to school!”

“allright mom!” said Lisa. “hmmm, about mother day, what will you give for mom
dony?” oh no again, she asked that to me. I can’t answer it. God please help me. Tin-tin-tin
“oh the bus was came, both of you go to school quickly”said mom.

“right mom” said me, oh God I safed. Thank’s God. I run away to bus quickly. I’m
glad that I’m not in same school with her.

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“hey Dony!” called jhon to me. I see he sit on behind chair. And beside him there is
an empty chair. I feel so lucky today. “hey jhon, thanks for the chair, you have prepared it to
me.” “no problem, hey you have gave your mom a present for today?” ask him. “Of course
not, I still didn’t know what I will give to her!” I said that sigh it. “haaaah, you like a stupid
person! Why you don’t give your mom a goods she likes!” “I have tried it, but the goods she
likes too much, it’s impossible.”

“you can choose one of them, can’t you?” ask him to me.

“if I can!”

“Well what’s the problem?”

“I have no money to buy it”

“what! Hahahahahahaha”

“what are you laughing at? It is not wrong right! I’m just a 9th boy. I have no much
money!”

“Yeah although it is right, why don’t you collect your daily money from your parents
or you collect it with your sister!” “you can say that like there is no wrong with it!” “but it is
right, isn’t it?!” “yeah up to you!” what jhony said it’s true, but if I see the fact it’s
impossible, my sister is really horrible and everyday my money always used up. Haaaaah....I
really have no idea!

In school, every children always speak about it, About the mother day. And when
ceremony the headmaster also spoke about it. Untill the bell of break time ring. “hey why
don’t you go to canteen?” asked jhony in front of me “I’m trying to collect my money to buy
a present for mom” “what? You just have five thousand rupiahs, What goods can you buy
with that money?” “I don’t know!” “haaaah, you are really stupid! Here you are!” “what is
this? Why do you give me money?” “buy me a bread!”

“what?”

“I’ll give you my some money, if you buy me a bread to the canteen. Do you need
money?”

“I really don’t understand you”

“well, do it quickly, I hate to wait for a long time!”

“fine, but thanks jhon” I never thought he is a kind friend, but I was really helped by
him. So I run quickly to the canteen but when I passed the teacher room, “hey, Dony!” my
teacher called me, in my mind I said why now! I have to buy a bread! You know that! “what’s
wrong miss?” “akh you wanna go to the canteen, don’t you?” “ah, yes that’s right mom!” I
absolutely can know, what she will say after it, she will say “I want you help me to buy some

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bread for me, can you help me?” yeah right she will said that. and I will say “of course miss, I
can.” akh no, if I can say NO but in fact, it’s impossible! I’ll die if I say NO.

“so this the money, please”

“yes miss!” I walk to the canteen, I walk and not run like before, I walk very very
lowly! In my mind I say you such a little stupid boy, dony! You have losed from your big
sister and now you like a stupid idiot waiter , oh my God....

“umm, miss I buy some bread this the money!” I give the money and I look the face
of the seller. Why she laugh at me. “there’s something wrong miss?” “no, you buy many
breads, your friend ask you to buy them?” you mean I’m a waiter mam! “yeah my teacher
and my friend asked me. “Thanks for the breads!” said me, akh now I have been
underestimated by a seller, it is very funny.

“miss, this your breads!” said me to her, “oh thank you Dony, you are a kind child!” I
don’t know I feel so happy heard that. I hope my mom will said that too when I give her a
present.

“Dony, have you given your mother a present?” asked her to me. “not yet, I still
confused about it” “hmmm, may I give you an idea?” “excuse me?” “well, you have helped
me and now I help you, may I?”

“ummm, of course”

“so, why don’t you give your mom a letter.”

“a letter?”

“yups, a letter, in letter you’ll write all your feeling about her, maybe you can give
your mother a big best present, but the real present is your feel to her, how much you love
her, how much you really care about her, a mother will happy when her child say I love you
mom. Therefore a letter from you, is the biggest present for her, right?”

I think that everything she said was right. Now I’ll make a letter and on letter I will
write all my feeling about her how I love her how I care about her. I’ll decide that.

“thank you miss, I’ll do it!”

I run away to class and prepare the paper and pencil, “hey jhon, here your bread and
your money” “what’s wrong with you, did you said you need money, didn’t you?” “that’s
right, but now I change my mind, I’ll give my mother a letter”

“what a letter?”

“yups, so now you don’t distrub me!”

“haaah, you are really strange!”

Well now I get a good feeling, I write it and wait the school end.
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When the school end, and the bus has arrived at my home I run to my mom, and hug her.

“mom, this is for you!” I said that and give the letter to her, I see her face seem so
confuse with the letter I give. “it’s for you, today is mother day and I make it for you. Please
read it”

So she open the letter and begin to read it, and when she read it I see her tears is
fallen. “mom why are you crying?” ask me “no, your letter is great, you are kind good great
son”. When I heard it, I was very happy. “mom, may I read it twice for you?” “why not?”

For mom, from me...

I love you mom, I really love you, maybe I can’t give you a good present in this mother day,
but one thing in my mind, you are my best mom that I ever had. You make me happy, you
keep me till now, you teach me to be a good child, your love is the best and is the most
important. Maybe I can’t give you a big present like sister. But with this letter I will say I
love you...

And untill I stopped to read this letter, mom she still keeping cry. She hug tightly and say
“what everything you give to me is the best for me, because whatever will happen you are my
honey dear kid.”

And this is the end of this story, I hope you can take the important thing, that you can
give your mother everything, don’t care whatever it is, the all thing you give to her is the best
for her because it is from the deepest of your heart, make her know your feeling for all this
time, show her how much you love her, because she is your best mother you’ve aver had.

*THE END*

Name : Fadhilah
Class : X6