PART 08

Potential

It’s been three months since I found Dallen. First no one can talk with him at all. Fortunately, he just won’t talk but understand what people say.

Even though he won’t to talk but he good at listening to an order. He also know how to eat properly, know how to take a bath but somehow confused how to used the toilet and shower. At least he know what he should do and what he shouldn't do.

He never tantrum. Not even craying. He just so quite and oftentimes space out.

So I call Julian to check on him.

Julian speculated, the reason he won’t to talk is many. It could be he still shock, it also can his vocal chords broken or anything else.

So today Julian bring a professional to help him. Julian said Dallen need a psychologist for children.

After threety minute check on him. The psychologist has a result about Dallen have some trauma that cause he remain silent or called Elective Mutism, just like previous result. The psychologis didn’t say about his amnesia but it might be realeted with that trauma.

What made me and Julian more shock is, Dallen know how to read and write. He also know how to calculate numbers. Cause that’s the way the psychologis do communiting with Dallen during his consultation session.

Day by day have been pass. After three section consultation with a psychologis, Dallen start to talk.

“Hei.” That’s how he called me from the first.

I try to communicated with him more often after that. Sometimes he answer me but sometimes he just give me nod.

“He quite smart.” Julian made a comment while watching Dallen play with count puzzle.

“I know right?”

“I guess he must have gotten his basic education before.”

“I thought so.”

“What you will do?”

“Take him to shcoll.” Julian didn’t respon to me and just staring with his shcok expression.

“Not now. Besides he still in trauma and can't talk much. Lets try first to give him some lesson. We start from entery level and looks how he deal with it.”

“Wait, I don’t understand why you should do so much things for him? Don’t you said want to give him back to his family?”

“But we didn’t find them yet. We should do our best to take care of him before he find his family.”

“I don’t think you should do.”

“So what you want me to do? Just let him playing while you said he is quite smart? It’s called wasting human resoucres.”

“Hm, look at you now. Sounds like an owner one.”

“I AM.” I glare at Julian.

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