Step out my feet and approaching to the opened slide door. Benson is grabbing the a piled of secured-fasten baskets of cabbages and holding up. Straighten his body before he is walking inside the building. My body instantly takes action after he left the space. Eye searching for the basket of cabbage but they are all gone. After the departure of the cabbage, there are boxes of white plastic with tape with a few baskets of white long radish and fresh coconut. Although they are all related together as vegetable, cabbage are the only one being taken inside by Benson.
‘Are these supposed to go in as well?’ Asks in a loud voice and wait patiently.
Silence in air conveying my volume in voice did not reach to Benson’s ear. Therefore, decided to wait patiently until he comes out for another round of transportation. Eye upon the sky above the van. It is brilliant with wind passing by. Messing up with hair. Below sky is a round street that we have just drive in, with closed double doors showing there are other shops operating with us. Feeling the sense of human existence and turning back to the opened door. Benson comes out and grabbing my suitcase down from the van.
‘They are going to main shop. Your room is here. I will show you now.’ Benson said.
His word wakes up my mind from instead of transportation of goods, my backpack on the passenger needed to be transport as well. Therefore, my mouth begins to open while my feet moving with my body turning to the back. Leaving my suitcase standing next to Benson.
‘I am going to grab my backpack.’
Pacing quickly to another side of the vehicle and grabbing my heavy backpack with my right hand. Left hand shutting down the door strongly and securely with one push for preventing any chance of strangers. Sourness coming from heavily lifting of the backpack in my elbow. Making sure both shoulders are carrying the backpack equally while on the way back to my temporarily abandoned suitcase with Benson.
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Benson begins his steps to the building with dragging my suitcase beside him. Closed slide door speeds up my journey to the room for any food stealing from unknown people around us. Bright white light helps me to see the new environment and absorbing as much as information since new to here. Limited space are separated by two fridges and shelves on each sides. Shelves are fulfilled with various coloured and labelled bottles. Door on the fridges are closed which cannot leak out any information of products inside.
Giant white bricks wall covered the majority space of the incoming road with a rectangular shaped hole as gateway for separating inventory and the shop in front. Benson is dragging my suitcase up on the blue two-steps stairs. My instantly reaction is assist him with my hand dragging lower part of the suitcase up and lifting it on the upper surface. He looks at me and stop me verbally.
‘Do you mind to shut the backdoor for preventing anyone come?’
His word changes my destination of my empty hands from the suitcase to the backdoor behind the shelves and me. Gain my first self-taught lesson here with locking the backdoor. Instantly understand to lock the door by switching button around until sound comes out. Then, following Benson’s path toward my room while he enters a wide space via a side door of bar desk.
Narrow space within the wall and the side door of the bar is pushing out my suitcase from Benson’s hand . Benson rolls wheel of the suitcase to make the suitcase move out smoothly from the side door. Me at the back, following the Benson’s way and arriving the shop via the side door. Shelves are located on both side of various goods. As short as dwarf freezers in the middle of the road as well as below the shelves, where Benson and I standing next to. Counter for cashier are staying opposite of the cooling fridge with glass window of door as entrance.
There is a girl sitting behind the counter, concentrating on her phone while Benson opening the door next to us on the other side. He did not let the suitcase chasing him beside so my body instantly reacts by pushing suitcase toward the opened door. It was the moment that understand why Benson is holding the door without dragging the suitcase with him. Coming into my viewport of moving my head from suitcase to upcoming scene, my body is catching up gradually with my head’s action.
