LAKE TOBA
One
upon a time, in Sumatera Island, there lived an orphan man named Toba. He spent
his daily life by fishing in the lake near his house and being a farmer. One
day, he was so tired of his daily job. He wanted to find refreshment and do
something different. So he decided to take a nap that day.
He
slept peacefully. After an hour he slept in his old house, he suddenly awaked.
“How could I dream of a beautiful girl that would be my wife? It was such a
dream that will never come true!”, moaned Toba. He daydreamed, kept on thinking
about his dream, and hoped that it would come true. “I even have never seen
such a beautiful girl in this island. She was such a beautiful angel. Ugh~”,
sighed Toba.
He
stood up, took a bath, and tidied up his house. As he cleaned up his house, the
thought of that beautiful girl was still in his mind. He couldn’t get that girl
out of his mind. Her face, her beauty, her smile, and everything about her was
still in his mind, exactly same.
“I
think I am too tired these whole weeks, that’s why I dreamed something that was
so impossible to happen.”, he said. After Toba cleaned up his house, he had a
dinner, and went to the lake to fish again. He met his friends and had a simple
conversation while pushing the boat to the lake.
“Hey
Toba! Come here and see this! My new boat with gasoline and you don’t need to
push it with all of your strength. I’ve just bought it this noon !”, shouted his friend.
“Wow!
So amazing! How much does it cost? I would like to have one either. So I can have
another job in the nights after I farmed.”
“You
wouldn’t have enough money to buy this boat. You’re just such a poor
fisherman.”
“Shut
up! I’ll show you I won’t be a poor man anymore! I will have a harmonious
family with a beautiful wife and handsome son, and of course, I’ll be rich!
Wherever I go, there will be gold in my pocket!”
“HAHAHA!!
I’m watching you dude! A man like you won’t be able to marry a beautiful woman!
She is blind if there’s a beautiful girl that wants to be married by you, poor
man!”
“Be
careful of your words! I am not that poor! I will work harder and show you I
won’t be poor anymore!”, shouted Toba angrily.
As
he pushed his old and traditional boat to the lake, his friend was so busy with
his new gadgets and said, “You even don’t have any smartphone, how could you
know the latest trends and compete me. You are nothing, dude. How could you be
so out of date? Even the poor people out there at least have mobile phones, but
you? Ugh~”
Toba
was so angry that night. He spent his night in the middle of the sea and
fished. But unfortunately, he was not that lucky. After he spent more than two
hours in the sea, he didn’t fish any fish. But he didn’t give up, he waited
again, and luckily, his fishing hook suddenly swing. The fish approached and he was so happy. But
when he saw the fish, he realized that was only a toy fish that was broken. He
was disappointed and decided to throw that broken toy back to the sea.
Surprisingly,
he heard noisy sound and he was so frightened.
“Please,
please don’t throw me away. I will fulfill what you demand me to. Please?”
And
he turned his back, but no one. He looked to the right and left, but no one. It
had been so late in the night.
“Who
is talking to me? Where are you?”, he shouted afraid.
“I
am the toy fish in your hand.”
He
looked to the toy fish, “Wh..who..who are you? Wh..why you can speak?
A..ar..are you a ghost?”
“don’t
be afraid, kind man. Bring me back to your house and I will tell you. But
promise me don’t tell about my identity to anyone else.”
“Umm..okay
I will.”
He
went back to the edge of the sea, and run home quickly. He entered his house,
and closed the door.
“Now
tell me who are the real you!”, Toba demanded.
“Put
me into a piece of blanket, and you will see who I am.”
As
he put that broken toy fish on a blanket, the broken toy fish become a
beautiful girl, even the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
“The
girl in my dream!”. He shouted shock.
“Yes,
I am. Thank you for helping me. Thank you for saving my life, kind man. Now I
will fulfill your demands. What do you want me to do?”
“Umm..
I actually don’t know what I am going to ask, but I want to be rich and get
married to a kind woman soon.”
“Here
you go. For the first demand, I will give you gold each day, and you can sell
it.”
“Thank
you, umm..sorry, What is your name?”
“Call
me Jessica. And what’s yours?”
“Toba.
By the way, you can sleep in my room tonight, I will sleep in the living room.
Good night.”
“Thank
you so much Toba.”
In
the next day, when Toba woke up, he saw everything was prepared. The house was
so tidy and the breakfast was so delicious. Toba tried to find Jessica and
thanked her. And Jessica said that she would prepare everything for Toba
everyday. After few months passed, Toba
purposed Jessica and they got married. But Jessica requested a demand to Toba
before they got married, that Toba mustn’t told anyone, and if they had
children, their children shouldn’t know who their mother were. Toba agreed and
they got married. Everybody was so surprised that Toba’s life really changed in
sudden. He got richer and richer. He married to a beautiful wife that even the
richest man in his island couldn’t have. He lived happily and had a son, his
name was Samosir.
Samosir
was a kind son and loved playing games. His mom loved him so much, and whatever
Samosir wanted to, Jessica would buy it for him. Different with Toba, Toba was
kind of a decisive father. He wanted Samosir became an independent man that
could live without his mother.
One
day, Jessica asked Samosir to deliver a box of lunch for his father. But
Samosir denied it. He was too serious with his gadgets and chatted to his
crush. His mom told him that he was free to do anything, but after he delivered
the lunch box to his father in the farm. With forced, Samosir stood up and took
his new motorbike and went to his father farm. But he drove his motorbike while
playing with his gadgets, and he fell. People in the street helped him, some of
them went to Toba’s farm and told Toba. Toba was so angry when he knew the
details of the story and mocked Samosir.
“Stupid
child! Why did you play gadgets while driving motorbike? I’ve told you for
hundred times!”, Toba mocked.
“I
am not stupid, Dad! I’ve told mom to deliver it by herself, but she forced me
to deliver it. I am busy with my job.”
“Job?
You said job? You even can’t work. What job you are doing, huh? Chatting with
your crush? You are only a son from a toy fish woman!”
“What?
You said I am a son from a toy fish woman?”
Samosir
was shocked and went home. He told his mom and Jessica was disappointed.
Jessica told Samosir to go to the hills in the middle of the forest and never
turned back to the island. Samosir listened to his mom’s advices and went
there. Toba went home quickly and begged for a sorry. But it was too late.
Jessica was mad and angry enough, Jessica cried and meditated. The storms, the
lightning, and it rained heavily. After an hour, the entire island was full of
water and it became a lake with a little island in the middle of it. The little
island named Samosir Island, the hills where Samosir saw everything that
happened that day. The lake was named as Lake Toba, and it killed many people
because they were drowned by the promise that Toba broke.
THE END
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