21 Days With The Motherfucker
01. Rentiers
" Tok tok !!! ."
" Who ?." Sahut Ashalina," Mak! , already yes call her first, someone ngetok my boarding door ." Ashalina said to her mother across there . " Ashalamu Alaikum mak ! " Ashalina hung up her phone .
Ashalina stood up from her single mattress where she laid her tired body.In the city of Batam she lived alone in a small rented room measuring only 3×4 m, 3 , have a bathroom inside and a place to cook . Very small , but how else to live alone in the area should be able to save money .
Ashalina who comes from an underprivileged family, he had to send some of his salary to help his parents' lives in the village . The salary of a worker is not large, so Ashalina must be smart to divide money for her living expenses and set aside some of her salary for savings . Because Ashalina is only a contract employee, if when her contract expires, she must have money for living expenses before she gets a job back .
Ashalina also had to prepare for her old age . because not forever she would work as a laborer, she also had to think of getting married . And to work as a laborer in this screwdriver tea city too, there is a maximum age restriction accepted to work .
And because a month ago, Ashalina's father's conviction got worse and had to undergo surgery . By forced Ashalina to borrow money from loan sharks and spend all her tabunagannya money, to pay for her father's operating expenses .
" Boy sister Renti ! ."
" I'm here to collect your loan installments and interest, today is the date you pay the first installment ."
" Sister I can only pay the interest first, for the installment I have no money . a week ago I ran out of contract from where I work." explained Ashalina
" When can you pay anyway? ? , you know this I won't give you a loan . The money you borrow is a lot, I also need capital to play money . if you only pay the interest how much it is ." Omel Renti, the loan shark
" When I'm working again, I'll take it out . This is my money only my last salary left over for the same meal pay the rent . Last night I just sent money again with my family , to pay for the tuition of my sister who had missed 5 Months . "answer Ashalina said .
" It's a pity for your life 'look at your body is already thin dry because you keep thinking about your family 'n years you worked but to keep it quiet yourself you can't . " said the Renti , ' said ,
" How else sis! , I am the oldest child , My father of the last five years is sick and can no longer work, My mother is also only a farmer . From where my mother can meet the cost of their living in the village . Make a meal, school fees my two sisters, not to mention the father's disease that often relapses . " said Ashalina with glassy eyes .
" It's too bad you deck..!" Speak Renti, rub the shoulder Ashalina .
Finally Ashalina shed her tears , As long as the five knew she was working overseas 'she had never had a good time with her friend . every month he always sends some of his salary to help the economy of his parents in the village . so he is not enough money to just pamper himself the way to the mall, watch the cinema, go kesarokean , nyalon, or just tasting food at a restaurant or hanging out at a cafee like a friend's habits at work .
" If you want to deck ! in order for you to be able to pay off your debt, I have a job for you, the salary is quite large, but not here . "proposed Renti
" Where is sis ? "Ask Ashalina wiped away her tears .
" To Singapore ! ."
" Singapore! ." repeated Ashalina
" Where you work as an art , the salary is good enough, there you will be paid with Dollars . 70 to 80 Dollars per day , just multiply 12thousand times 70 or 80 Dollars per day , just multiply 12thousand times 70 , times you are there 21Day or three weeks, it can pay off your loan principal . " Obviously stop again
" so there it's only 3 weeks ? ." Ask Ashalina
" So there I find my own keja sak? , I have never been to the kitchen, the way there I do not know , I also do not have a passport ." said Ashalina
" Yes looking for work alone, but you are calm, I have friends often go back and forth singapore . he said his employer's husband friend needs art to clean the apartment . about the passport tomorrow I want you take care of the passport , a week he said can be ready .and my friend is ten days away just leaving , so still had time .
"But I'm afraid brother! , it's outside the Negri , I'm afraid of the same fate as the one on tv , accused of stealing by his employer continue to be imprisoned . And only then did I hear that someone came home from Singapore to get an employer who is temperament , likes to play at ." Ashalina shuddered in horror
" you want not? , I just pity seeing you , so I help you provide solutions . " Ashalina silently thought
" If you want to let me call my friend! , don't think for long , because many people who struggle want to get the job ." said Renti again
" I.iya sister, I want to." replied Ashalina although she was still hesitant .
" It dong! , not good what else I become a loan shark, I have loaned my money to the same people , this I find again you work ." praise yourself the loan shark named Rentiana butar butar it .
" then I go home first , don't you melow anymore . 'cause I thought you were my sister , pity I saw you without your brother in this Batam . tomorrow morning come you home , let's go take care of your passport, all of us to the house of the person who will take you " said Renti, then leave the Ashalina contract
" Yes sister Renti! , thank you .. ! ." Ashalina Reply
Ashalina closed her rented door again after the loan shark left . laid her body back on her thin mattress .
" tok tok !!! ."
" Yes, brother ! " sahut Ashalina, straight up to open the door .
" ck ! " Ashalina clucked to see who came knocking on the door . He thought the loan shark was coming back to know the little guy who often disturbed his calm .
" Ask for cayenne pepper 5 seeds brother! ." said the guy next door neighbor nyengir .
" Every time you want to cook instant noodles you always ask for my cayenne pepper 5 seeds . a month you spend a dus of instant noodles or 42 packs . You multiply 5 seeds times 42 packs, 42 packs , how many seeds have you spent my cayenne pepper, again with a year , two Years , three Years . " Omel Ashalina gave the cayenne pepper a rough hand to his neighbor's rancid sicowok .
" Thank you kaka pretty if angry! , later if I have payday, I treat meatballs to the stall pakde maman ."
" You will also be the payday that you remember your yellow-haired girl, forgetting you returned my cayenne pepper . "reply Ashalina was upset .
" this time I will never forget again, promise!." The man who was three years under Ashalina was also making his hand form his finger letter V .
" There you are ..! , no need to promise because of a bowl of meatballs , I still have money to buy it . " Ashalina instantly closed the door rudely .
