CHAPTER 2: Don't worry about me

The school bell rang which meant exam time was over, the teacher told all the students to stop writing and put the pen on the table. Ashly goes out of the hall to go to find Sulli and Meng. She stops for a couple of minutes and looks at a bird on a tree. And from behind Sulli and Meng approached her then Sulli put her arm on Ashly's shoulder. They smile at each other and continue to walk. They sit at the canteen and Sulli start to complain about the exam and then talked about their memories of school because that's their last day. Sulli wants to be a professional female boxer while Meng wants to be a businessman like his father. Meng asks them if they want to go to college because his father can be the sponsor. Sulli starts teasing him,           ` it's easy for you to have a rich father. Everything you can get, I think if your father doesn't carry your beg you don't want to go to college.'        Ashly starts to laugh at Sulli's joke while Meng starts bickering with Sulli. They stop bickering when Ashly said          ` I don't want to leave my house, my bakery. So that means I'm not going to college If I go to college who's gonna take care of the bakery? I'm not gonna leave it.'           Sulli understands because that's what her dear friend choose, she says,         `who knows if your bakery going to be famous one day.'      Meng continue said,         `of course, her cake is the most delicious cake that my parents and I ate. Ashly on her way to go back home stops at the park and then sits on a bench. Ashly looks at the playground that she and her little brother used to play with. When Ashly gets home, she changes her cloth and helps Aunt Chin and Sister Jun in the bakery. Brother Han continues to study at The Police Academy because he wants to be a policeman. Ashly starts to arrange the cookies but Sister Jun stops her because now Ashly is the owner of the bakery, Sister Jun told Ashly that she will do all the work and Ashly just needs to stay at the counter like a boss. But Ashly is stubborn, she still wipes the tables and says            `if we do it together it will be faster '           with a smile.  Like always, Sister Jun was lost in her cuteness. A few years have passed, and Brother Han already graduated and be an officer. The happiest news is that he married Sister Jun, and Brother Han proposed to Sister on his graduation day. They manage to keep the secrets that they were dating for a long time from everyone including Aunt Chin. They have been dating since 2 months they met each other in the bakery. And now, they live two houses away from the bakery. One day, Ashly goes to the market to buy something. She go out of the car and saw 2 boys carrying a bag like just running from the house, standing in front of the fried chicken shop. She goes to them and asks if they can join her to eat fried chicken together. Ashly lied a bit and said she and her friend want to meet there to have a meal together but her friend can't come. The older brother wants to refuse but seeing his little brother was so hungry, they join her. They eat with gusto and smile. The older brother's name is Lan (17 years old) and his little brother's name is Leo (14 years old), their father died in an accident at his workplace while their mother died a couple of days ago because of cancer.They were chased out by their uncle and now they are homeless. Ashly asks them to sleep in her house tonight. Lan still wants to refuse but after she said only one night he agrees. At the Ashly house, Aunt Chin welcome them with a warm hug. She leads them to the room for them to sleep which is Ashly's little brother's room. Leo was so happy and he said         `it's been a long time since we sleep on a bed.'        Ashly feels throbbing in her chest after hearing it. She said        ` You can have it if you stay here.'               Ashly shows Brother Han's old room to give to Lan. But he said that they only sleep for one night, but he lost after Ashly said     `both of you have a bright future if you want to leave this house you need to get married. If you want to get married you need to have money, if you want to have money find a job, if you want to find a job you need to study if you want to study you need to go to school and if you go out of this house right now that's mean your future not gonna be good and you need to sleep outside in cold weather. If you got sick you don't have money for medicine. So, stay with me and I'm gonna be the one who takes care of the two of you from now on. Ok? I know it's not easy to lose your precious one. I lose my family too and I feel lonely without them sometimes. Now, can you guys help my loneliness? Be part of my family? '              Lan feels grateful while his tears drop, and he says yes. Ashly hug and told them to call her sister, she feels so happy because it's been a long time since someone called her sister. Now she has two little brothers. Dao  comes to join the hugging session.  From that day, they live like real siblings. Ashly takes good care of them, registered them for school, and buys new clothes. And they will go to the park together including Dao. Sulli and Meng still contacting Ashly and will come to the bakery when they have free time. Good news comes, Sister Jun is now pregnant for 3 weeks. Everybody was so happy about the new family members. Ashly goes to the living room, she sits on the couch while staring at her parent and little brother's photo, she said `... Don't worry about me. I'm ok now, are you guys happy there'.