I do like animals.. but only the cute ones. I hate hate hate bugs and insects.. my most hated one is cockroach. I thought every animals was created to serve a purpose.. but up to this day, can't think of any purpose of a filthy-ugly looking-disgusting-cockroach. I used to hate mouse and rats too. But living in a family where my dad is the only male member of the house, I was forced to be brave in handling that specific mammals.
I can say my house was renovated in such a way that its mouse and rat free. But living in Indonesia means rats everywhere. So once upon a time, I was sitting in the living room with my sisters, my mom and dad was in the kitchen, when suddenly I heard my mom screamed. There was a break-in .. by a mouse. My sisters both jumped up, one to the sofa, the other one to the piano chair. I was about to do the same when I saw my dad's face, he hated it cos he knows he has to deal with it alone knowing all of us were scared. So I went to get 2 brooms, one for my dad and the other one for .. me.
The mouse was hiding behind the TV cabinet and I told my sisters to watch and my dad was at the one end of the cabinet and I'm at the other end. After moving the cabinet a little bit, I saw the mouse ran towards my end, I was swearing my heads off at the mouse (quietly of course!!). there was 2 ends and it just had to choose to run my way (damn you mouse). I blocked the mouse with my broom hoping that my dad would come to my rescue and kill it but he didn't, and the mouse almost got away pushing through the brushes on the broom.
I raised my broom and quickly hit it before it got away. My hands was trembling so bad and I had goosebumps all over me. I had full power as the broom lowered towards the mouse but I couldn't do it, so I sort of covered the mouse with the broom. I think it got scared and it just stopped and stayed there, I hit it again (very slowly), then my dad came and caught it.
I saw the little mouse before I hit it the second time, it looks so little and its covering its eyes or something. I fet so bad throughout the night, I was praying hoping it didn't die.
I think I just commited a sin.
