Chương 6: Earthquake (1)- farmhouse Memory

On the way to getting to the attorney's office, I leaned my head on the window and let my eyelids shut down. Twenty minutes, we had before us to reach there and my brain began the countdown to tease.

Driving, it reminded me of that day when the earthquake shook my life and sunk everything into a dark gap. I guessed this matter would not authorize me to press the pedals or start an engine for a while.

It had arisen my memory:

The images of the abounded landscape we were driving through stretched along with the car, in my prospect; as if it was a roughcast green bubble gum. My eyes followed them until they ended streaming out and changing to new scenes.

Beef cattle and sheepfolds were pasturing and using the chance for making their stomachs full. The spring brought them delicious gifts. Indeed, a beef cattle would become so happy when you feed it but didn't know shepherds were going to butchering it. Or didn't know why they were about to make it fat!

Of course, we are not doing it for the sake of itself, but our own tummy! The van turned around on the right side in a back-road. The driver had to charge the energy cube two times. The farms were located before the forest and near the Vita River, which was streaming down from the White Mountains.

The melted snow was rushing down from that branch of high stone spikes, used to water the earth, and kept those zones always green before the autumn and winter. If artists were looking for a stunning scene, I would keenly recommend them there.

Trees' blossoms perfume and the smell of damp earth tickled my nose and in less than a second, I sneezed three times.

"Bless you!" My mom said and I nodded.

As we dropped off, I picked up two small boxes and lopped to a side, watching the road stiffly. The removal furniture blue van arrived right after us. The rail auto door rolled up and the moving staircase glided down. Two green PR2 "Porter Robot" were waiting for the driver's order.

He and his assistant in black uniforms slammed the doors and approached. They had remotes in their hands PR2's whirls attached to the staircase and they moved out. The frontiers were inside a wheelbarrow attached to their back! They were like vehicle horses leading a carriage.

As they rode near the fences, my brothers asked them to let the furniture be there. It hadn't a long-distance so three men could carry them indoors.

The men nodded and separated the attached wheelbarrows from PR2.

The machines turned and easily picked up the furniture with their strong arms and set everything on entrance cobbles.

The driver and the other man swiftly wrapped the machines up and waved hands then left. I still remember that they were spellbound by nature and that mass of green color. Two hours away from Rose Vita with an 80 EC (Energy cube)_ speed.

Passing the fences, I froze when my eyes rolled up! Couldn't believe what I saw, my hands already unclenched, and painfully stretched out of holding boxes. I sensed the shiver in my numb fingers. After noticing that narrowed cottage, I didn't feel them at all and my shoulders fell off humpy. Moving was hard enough, but coming into such a house! Repulsive, was a good word to describe that place! How could I leave my parents and Aron there as long as being so unsecured!

I wasn't able to call it house. It made the pain in my heart even worse and it rushed to my feet. The Dome village had been scenic, certainly, but the place they were supposed to stay was smaller than our previous living room! I wasn't sure it had enough space for five of us at the weekends and the other point was being very old and definitely not safe, again. Before I enter inside, I could guess what I can see. Huge spiders eating their delicious hunted insects or ambushing to each corner and ready to catch one prey, with those scary eyes welcoming me!

The lizards already concealed on the wall to jump on my head with those fat juicy tummies crawling on my face and I might not dare to scream at the possibility of it sneaking into my mouth! Yucky! If I could ignore the bugs, I deserved to win a miss universe title for living beside them! From a fancy life, it changed to a miserable oaf one.

I shattered the thoughts away, but even my legs would not want to become a succorer to accompany me forth. I got a yanked from behind that forced me to take two steps forward ahead of my previous position.

"Tania, you're wasting time here," Aron grinned, his brown eyes blazed then strode inside with a full bucket of water, broom, and a pack scourer. Before passing the doorway cried out, "help Chase to bring the rest, we must finish cleaning up here before the dark rises".

I drew my left leg up like a flamingo, rested the boxes on me, and gazed at my watch, 10 am.

"You see, I'm tied up to fingers," I pointed to the boxes and put them down. They were that much annoying but I was grumbling.

"Then shake your legs," he barked out from inside.

I was feeling diminutive. Was it depression after bankruptcy and a bad romantic breakup? Or maybe both? Anyways, I just talked to that person for about four months so I should not be sad! It was the first time and nothing happened between us!

Everything started four years ago, and that was the end. Each year shook our souls and finally, we lost everything. I was done there. The agricultural material factory broke down and left us with nothing. My father used to provide agricultural sprinklers, drip pipes, and other kinds of stuff. We were an independent company and the wrong managing system and other problems pinned us down.

Gratefully, the farm had remained for us to live. Except that, we did not know what to do. The bills already could cause another backbreaking for us. Asking for help from relatives was the last option that my father intended to pick, although there were not enough friends anymore.