In six siblings in the house I was the second born of our mom. I had an older brother and next to me was also a boy and so I grow up like I was also a boy, though I was eventually the first Princess of our own palace.

My older brother was a quiet stubborn. He never listened to our father nor to our mom. He always do whatever comes to his mind. He always does what our parents prohibited to us. He was also the trouble maker in our school and so our mom is always present in the principals office because of him.

One day we had a visitor's at home and one of our visitors was my older brother's godfather and he owned a pedicab ( pedal cab).

Way back 1990's until today this is still one of our transport there in our province.

My big brother was just ten years old that time, though he knew how to drive a bicycle he haven't tried to drive a pedicab like this and so our father didn't allow him to borrow it from his godfather when he tried to ask our fathers permission. But my older brother was really stubborn, and so it didn't stop him with his plan.

He sneak the pedicab from his godfather and when we saw him he allow us to ride with him. Together with our younger brother and with our other playmate's and without our parents consent we left our house riding the pedicab.

We we're all excited while laughing as we successfully left the house without the notice of anyone. We are all jumping with joy while my brother was busy pedaling.

I thought my brother would only drive the pedicab inside our area. Our house was far from the main road and so if you're going to walk it would take you 10-15 minutes before you arrive the main road. But to my surprise my big brother went straight to the main road without the fear of any danger.

At first I asked my big brother to go back home, as I got worried that our father will get mad if we continue riding the pedicab in the main road. Second I also get worried that we might get into any accident as there are so many vehicles are passing in the main road and that may lead us to any kind of incidents. But my older brother didn't listen, he only ask me to seat as he was busy pedaling the pedicab. He even say's that we only get into any accident if I continue to distract him and so I just sat down and fucos to the main road.

Watching some big vehicles coming and goes from us was literally scaring me. My excitement turn to worry. I wanted to ask my brother to stop but I can't as he was enjoying the ride.

Suddenly a speedy motorcycle come and the speed of it startled my big brother. He lost his control and he don't know how to stop the pedicab and so the pedicab went out from the main road and fell into a different direction.

I saw that my big brother was in panicked, he really don't know what to do, until the unexpected incident had happen.

Since my brother can't control the pedicab we accidentally hit the innocent child and bump into someone's house. All of us was in shock. We don't know what to do. I felt panicked, scared as we hit a little kid and at the same time I feel regretful with what we did.

We all went down from the pedicab. We are all speechless.

We suddenly saw the other kids run to the kid who was laying in the ground unconsciously. I was shaking, i was scared, did we just kill a kid?

Suddenly the parents of the kid came and hurriedly pick up their child from the ground. The kid was still conscious, it still didn't respond to her mom's call. My heartbeat was beating so fast. Until I cried as I was afraid that they might bring us to jail. I don't wanna be in jail. I still wanted to go to school. I'm really nervous, while my brother was still speechless.

I heard the father of the child came, he was very mad while asking what happen to their child. Then he says he really wanted to see our parents. The more I get scared as for sure our parents, specially our father will get mad to us. We also broke the pedicab, I was really thinking that our parents will surely punish us.

How I wish I didn't go, how I wish I just let our father's know what my brothers did, and how I wish I just tried so hard to stop my brother for not going to the main road. How I wish there's no accident 😭 and how I wish the child was still alive. I really had so many wish that time but I really can't skip the fact that all things that had happen was the result of our stubbornness.

The father of the child asked his wife to bring their child with us. They will come to our house and let our parents pay for the damage that we made specially to their child.

My chest suddenly tightened with fears.........

To be continue......

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Realization;

Your parents might be so strict but above all, they know what's best for you. As a kid you should follow and listen to your parents, as all their concern was your own safety. If you follow your stubbornness, there are things that might may happen and you can't afford to pay what you did and so it's your parents who will suffer from the damage that you've done. It is more unmerciful if there's an innocent victim of your stubbornness.

Not at all times it's the parents whose the one to be blame as sometimes they are also one of the victim.

'til next time and thank you for reading.

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