There’s an Earthquake Last Night

“Daddy, come daddy” A 4-year-old little girl, Tibby already wore her pajama and called her daddy from under the dining table.
“Yes dear, what is it”? Tibby’s dad answered his little girl without knowing where his daughter is.
“Come here daddy, comeee, there will be an earthquake, we have to stay under the table” she panicky called her daddy.
 

With a heavy move he come and try to calm Tibby down, “there’s no earthquake, come dear?”  He opened both of his arms and asked Tibby to move from under the table.
“Nooooo, there’s an earthquakeeeee” Tibby scream paniktly.
Tibby’s dad: Sigh…
Ingnoring Tibby’s screaming, he picked her up and carry her, Tibby then cried out loud, her legs kicking.
“Noooooooo, nooooooooo” Tibby kept crying screaming.
“Sssshhhh… Quiet dear, it’s late already, I’ll be in big trouble if your mommy found you crying”.
Knowing that she in a good position, Tibby then look around from the corner of her eye… (Loudest and highest voice of a 4-year-old girl revealed).
 

Tibby’s dad realize he is not in a good position.
“Well… Now what do you want, Tibby?” Tibby’s dad surrendered and Tibby won the game.
Tibby pointed to under the table.
“Well…” said her dad with a straight face.
He put his one and only little daughter where she wants to be, “At least we’re close enough to food”. 

He said to himself.
 

***
 

“Daddy, we’ll sleep here tonight” Innocently Tibby smiled to her daddy.
“You’re not serious, are you?” Now he panicked.
“It’s okay, daddy”
“What’s okay???”  He said at his wits’ end.
“Daddy, I want my blanket and pillow”
Tibby’s dad:“Oh Tibby…”
“Well here is your pillow and blanket dear” He set everything for her daughter to sleep.
 

***
 

Last night, Tibby slept on her daddy’s chest. He could smell his daughter’s long hair, and her daddy’s heartbeat became Tibby’s lullaby. In a few second, Tibby fell asleep with her baby bottle still attached to her mouth.
“You know how to create a beautiful moment with your own way, kid” He said to her sleeping daughter, and then smiled.
 

***

“Wake up dear, you don’t want to miss your favorite cartoon on Sunday morning” Tibby heard her mom’s voice and start to open her eyes slowly.
“Mommy, is there still an earthquake?”  Tibby’s voice sounded hoarse and sleepy, but she still remembers why she slept under the dining table last night.
Mom smiled hearing her daughter’s first question after waking up.
“The earthquake is over honey, come, let’s take a bath with mommy”.
Tibby crawled, and then mom picked her up from the floor.
“And daddy, could you please come out of the table?”  His wife asked him softly.
He stared at his wife’s face, and looked at the way she talked to their daughter, “Hmmm, what a warm face” He thought.
 

***
 

Tibby’s dad went upstairs to their balcony; he burned his cigarette and enjoyed the view. He picked his phone, and send his wife a text;  

“You are the most beautiful thing that I’ve seen every morning”.
 
He then continued to smoke. The atmosphere of Sunday morning is always calming.
 

*Incoming MMS*
 

“What about her?” 

Tibby’s mom sent him a picture of their daughter, with a towel and wet hair.
 
Tibby’s dad smiled and replied,

 “Well, at least I saw you first before Tibby”
 

*Incoming SMS*
 

“What about the earthquake last night?”
 
He smiled and stared at the sky for a while and replies the message.
 

“Wasn’t that hard, but I bet it’ll be much harder if the earthquake happen between me and you “
 

*Message Sent*


(Edited by : Masyitah Arifin)