Contoh Cerpen - Short Story Example

Fire & Ice

By Irliany

"She's lost her sense of light..

 She might not make it home tonight..

 Either fire or ice, to be straight"

Word depression is probably the proper nickname to describe a doughy- pasty-chalky girl at class B on my Senior High School. Elena, as always, looks down while walking and sits right at the corner when studying. No friends, no socialization, not even a boyfriend involved. At school, she tries to push away all people who care and look after her. This certainly brings up everyone in the similar question "What's wrong with her?". Same old, same old. Honestly, it is not school that makes her wrong. The words "H O M E" which bothers her all day long.

People-talk represents Elena as a broken girl of parents divorce outcome. Some of them also connect the melancholy Elena with child abuse. Well, it all true, for the fact. All of the gossip can be proved by the appearance of scary wounds in the face that covered with hair and in both hands, behind the bracelet. I saw those injuries last week. She knew what I exactly looked at, then she just turned away and disappeared. Even the sores can describe that it all came from big punch with hard object for many times. Poor Elena..

Not merely enough on physical scars, the torment by whoever did that to her, it also imprinted directly on heart and mental injuries. She becomes an untouched-temper girl and her problems at home created a bigger problem at school. Once, she yelled in a high volume to a student who trying so hard to calm her down when saw she crying. And then, she hit the student exactly on the face and make the student bleed because touching her hand. This accident brought her in a serious case at headmaster room. For the worse, I saw no parents came to the room, except the student’s parents who absolutely pursuing a justice over Elena’s conduct. Because of this incident, every student stepped out and get away from her. Either scared or no longer care.

This morning, we learnt something new on English class. Poem by Robert Frost titled “Fire and Ice”. What a miracle! This poem can make the looked-down Elena straights up to the board and focus on each rhyme. What does she think about? Why she looks like a person who finally get the answer of problematic and complicated math question for years? Not mean to accuse, but the teacher told us something about suicide things behind the poem. Whatever the implicit meaning of that poem, it drew something bad to her expression when the bell is ringing and make her disappear so fast.

        I knew it! I knew she planned to kill herself. I followed her to an empty room behind the school, besides the place for burning trash, which used to be a shed. It seems like a familiar thing for me, seeing her inside and accompanied by burning charcoal and woods. Took much time to try to break in the door, but I need to be hurry. Because, she won’t make it for another ten minutes. When I made it, I knew she is on the step of half-collapse. I brought her out and said..

“You should be smart, choose Fire and try to do a brain-damage is not the right choice to escape from the pain. But, Ice will. Cause, forgiving and moving on are the right choice to release the pain. I’m here, ready to help what I’ve been through last year.”