Characters in this would be 2 boys (amil n boboy) and 3 girls (bibi, mun & tasha)
Bibi was telling us her stories of how she was bullied when she was younger by the cousins, we knew that she was being bullied to a certain extend but we didn’t know most of the other stories, and we were laughing like mad when we heard it from the victim bibi herself.
You see, bibi was very irritating as a child and she constantly seeks for attention from our parents, we really didn’t like her, she was ‘the reporter’ in the family which even made it difficult for us to like her. When we balik kampong (that’s where she stays with my aunt and family) during the holidays, my family & cousins family would normally stay in a hotel and she would try her best to get herself invited to the hotel by asking her mum to talk to our parents to take her in, we hated her that time, get it? So she wasn’t at all welcomed there, which made the younger cousins (which was her age group) furious and thus did the following to her, I tell you, they wouldn’t even remember it after 20 years, but bibi has it fresh in her memory, she must have been traumatized!
Incident 1: In a swimming pool, amil actually pushed her into the deep pool, knowing that she didn’t know how to swim! But of course pulled her out a while later…there was this time, while she was happily playing in the not so deep area, he pushed straight into the deep area, she wasn’t aware and of course panicked! He did this many times!
Incident 2: this was in Klang, boboy and her was on a bicycle, of course boboy was the one pedaling and bibi at the back, suddenly he told her to get down “for a while” and he rode off, guess what, there was a huge dog behind her and she didn’t notice it as she was getting down, apa lagi kena keja anjing lah bibi! Boboy just rode of as fast as he could, he told her to get down so that he could make the escape from the dog faster!
Incident3: There was this time when my aunt told boboy to climb tree to pluck the mangoes, so he told bibi to stay down and as he was throwing the fruits down, her purposely threw it at her at every possible opportunity! At first she thought it as an accident, but when he kept on doing it, she got the picture! (kena rejam dgn buah tu!!) Very bad boboy!!
Incident 4: I can’t remember it was boboy or amil, but there were suppose to again climb the tree to get some fruits, and when they saw the tree was full of huge ants, he happily instructed bibi to climb and get it, she being obliging and trying to win her cousins hearts I guess, actually did it when it wasn’t her job in the first place!
Incident5: This was in my aunt’s house in KL, mun, tasha, boboy and amil were playing cards or some board game, bibi came into the room and wanted to join, amil instructed her to make milo “bibi, aku dahaga lah, hang pi buat milo sat”, so she did, then when she came up with a mug, boboy went” bibi, aku pun dahaga lah, aku nak jugak”, again she went down and made him a mug, while they happily enjoyed their game without her, then she came up, mun wanted a mug too & then followed by tasha…not that they really wanted it, they were trying to get rid of her! And she remembers it!
Incident6: This was during a cousins wedding, we were in a cousin’s photo session, and amil was the last to join into the picture taking, and there wasn’t enough room, so what did he do? “Hang tepi lah” he said…He pushed bibi away and took her spot!
Incident7: The four of them were playing mercun during raya, and of course bibi wanted to play too, amil and boboy were handling the mercun, amil delegated the activities, nat and mun play the bunga api while bibi was told to hold the candle, he said this “hang amik lilin nie, hang pegang”, yeah that that was all she did, holding the candle throughout while this people enjoyed their session…
Incident8: this happens all the time with mun, when she is alone with bibi, and have no other cousins around, especially if her family were to arrive first at the kampong, she would be happily playing with bibi like she was her friend and didn’t have any dislike feelings, but as soon as the cousins arrived (amil, boboy and tasha) she will immediately ignore bibi and play with the rest!
Incident9: this is what bibi remember tasha as, she always was just showing sign of hatred i.e jelling, muka menyampah and saying harsh things etc all the while when bibi was in the room, she and mun are both a follower of the amil and boboy, they are the ones who set the whole hate game!
I'm sure there were more incidents, but these is all I remember from her stories...
We the elder cousins too didn’t like her at that time, but she doesn’t remember it as we don’t do things like these monkeys did to her, we just didn’t like her for the reasons above but we never did anything to outright to show her that, but now we are all ok I guess, she can openly confess all these things which most of the cousins have forgotten in our session at rasta last week, well we have matured and she has too, she even said “I’m no longer the bibi you people use to know” then I ask, “what bibi was that”, and she said “the reporter”, and I thought good, at least she knew why she wasn’t liked at all those days.
But really amil & boboy, I didn’t know you guys were mean!! mun and tasha, I knew they were followers, there were incidents involving these four until tasha got slapped by my dad and boboy or amil got hit with a wooden stick until it broke by their parents as they were the uncontrollable type that defies the parents rules! Yes you people were!!