Black Room

Hope early year

Later, I'll understand. Love is a test of faith.

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Simpang muaro bodi is very crowded with vehicles. Two lohan cars with a load of coal parked on the road boat. The street vendors coincide with the Isya prayer congregation. I turned right into the street of tuo hamlet. Bang pram advised to keep the secret so that the other friends were not sensi because me and bang pram had swept.

Bang anes' house is crowded. The bonfire looks big in front of the saung. Bang anes and bang dani are fanning the embers in the furnace for roasting chicken. The wife of bang anes sits at the edge of the porch holding a child just her wayang. While bang eldom and bang reno are in charge of making a bonfire. Bang pram put down three bottles of red wine wrapped in black plastic. I immediately joined bang anes and bang deni who were burning chickens.

"Where can you get red wine?" Ask bang anes

I'm nodding. Bang dani is putting chicken into burning iron. Some chicken pieces look seasoned. The chicken that was burned was the chicken bang anes that he brought from his wife's village.

"It's rotten" Tanya bang anes

"Yes bang"

"The store near the field is dik" continued bang deni.

I nodded once more.

"It is usually complete liquor" said bang denis.

"Near field?" Ask bang anes don't know.

"Yes, there's a stall selling drinks. Behind the workshop" Bang dani explained

Motor lights and sounds came to us. Bang Gates hugged Mila who became his lover. Bang pram welcomes bang gates with a welcome message. Shortly after the arrival of the bang gates. Bang Febi came riding a woman and two more women followed behind him on different bikes. I don't know who brought bang febi. We never knew that bang Febi had a boyfriend. The woman introduced her own name. Yola is a woman who was hounded by bang febi. While the other two girls are friends named yola ribbon and flowers. The two yola friends were very familiar with the reno bang and the eldom bang. Apparently they already know each other.

"Still school deck?" Ask bang pram on one of the girls.

The girl just smiled and hid her face behind the back of the bang febi. He looks shy asked bang pram. Bang pram laughed at the behavior of the woman who said boyfriend bang febi. Of course it's just a playful boyfriend.

"Still bang. We are still in his third school" replied a girl named Pita.

"Still smp?" Ask bang pram.

The girl nodded. Bang pram shook his head in disbelief. As if he was surprised by his three friends who were dating a girl who was far below their age. Some of us laughed as if to understand what the head bobbing bang pram meant.

"You're just jealous of pram" said bang reno

"Not envious of no. But you don't deserve to be dating a girl who is as old as the cave scene" Sahut bang pram.

"You say that because you're still single. Our people like each other" Sahut bang reno "Yes right deck" Bang reno asked for approval.

The girl named the ribbon nodded. We all laughed at the wordless pram bang.

"Pedofil" said bang pram shaking his head.

We laughed. Bang anes started dividing the chickens each we got one. We sat down to enjoy the delicious chicken with chatter and laughter. Red wine and marijuana became complementary on the night of the turn of the year. Bang pram again told me about his past held captive for two years. Occasional cuteness bang pram about her experience giving birth to laughter.

It's been a good night. The sound of fireworks was heard from a distance. His wife and son bang Anes also set off fireworks. The eruption looks beautiful in the distant sky. We cheered cheerfully enlivening the alternating nights of the year with a toast to each other. Bang Anes went into the house to bring his son to sleep. Shortly after that bang anes came out with a guitar. Guitar quotes bang anes add to the atmosphere. The song iwan false titled demigod humans melodious. We sang together by surrounding the campfire. What a beautiful night.

My blackberry rang mengerdunya humming tonight. I took it out of my pants pocket. Mutia's name is visible on the mobile phone screen. What did mutia call me? It's not like he's celebrating the new year with his college friends. I'm a little out of the loop to pick up mutia's phone.

"Well, what" I answered after picking up the phone.

No answer from across there. Mutia remained mute even though I had called her name several times. I'm walking a little bit maybe a less good signal.

"Where are you?" Mutia asked just answered.

"Get together with friends. Are you not enjoying the new year with your friends anymore?"

"Not so" Mutia answered briefly

"Why?"

"Males I'm coming"

"So he said he wanted to go to the new year with the putry"

"Yes not so"

"Why not be"

"I told you I was lazy"

"Now that. Though this afternoon you were eager to go to siti nurbaya bridge with putry" answered me.

"Males I'm coming" replied mutia sounding jutek.

"Where are you now?"

"Dikos himself. Nuna also goes with the putry"

"So much more than that, you're doing it"

"Watch the film dilaptop. The people next door are also on the go of the year just now. I was alone in the room"

"Because why don't you go with the putry"

"Udah I said I was lazy" replied mutia cynically.

I exhaled a rough breath. Mutia looked so bored that she acted like a bitch to me. I have to be patient so that there is no quarrel just because of trivial problems. Further away. I understand that women are more relatively like to be understood without wanting to explain. And I understood that mutia was missing me.

"I'm waiting for you to talk to me. But from the magrib there is no message from you" mutia said.

"You're the one who said you wanted to go with putry last year. Yes I am talking to you because I don't want to disturb" I replied.

"What's wrong with you chat even though I'm the same putry. That's a sign you care. It's not. I waited for your news until I finally got bored and decided to call you first"

I went back to exhaling a rough breath. This is the true nature of women. Selfish. Whatever excuse I'm about to give won't be able to calm mutia's ego. But women use their feelings more than their logic. Mutia will melt if I apologize.

"I miss" mutia said after I apologized.

"me too. You are patient" I replied.

"I didn't go with Putry because I miss you. Yes I thought, if you were here surely the turn of the year would feel perfect" mutia said.

I was silent for a moment. Mutia's honesty touched my heart. I felt guilty that I was not with him to accompany him on the night of the turn of the year. Where many couples make this night a romantic day with the hope of a new year.

"I'm patient even though you've got a lot of news"

"You if you're kangen nyebelin again yes" I said trying to melt the atmosphere.

"Biarrin. Even though I'm cheating, but I'm ngangenin"

"Yes too"

I was shocked when someone called my name. Bang eldom walked up to me. Bang eldom held his heavy head for drinking.

"Well, you're there" he asked.

I shook my head as nothing. Bang eldom stood beside me by unzipping his pants. Urinate.

"You don't want to send flowers home. Brother's head is dizzy" said bang eldom.

"Not bang. Antarin is the same brother" Sahutku refused.

"You go with febi and reno. You can also play with flowers if you want"

"No ah. There is-there is this brother" I refused.

Bang eldom laugh. Mutia asked me who the flowers were. Bang eldom back into the circle after you have finished urinating. Mutia was angry because I didn't answer her question. Bang eldom made it harder for me to end the phone with mutia.

"My friend's boyfriend. It's nobody. You don't need to be suspicious and angry"

"She asked her boyfriend for anterin with you"

"His head is dizzy because most drink"

"You're there drinking shit"

My forehead wrinkled. I regret what I just said. My consciousness that was already affected by drugs and alcohol made me out of control.

"No. He drinks here. He just came" I told him I had to lie.

"Dikan" Shouted bang reno from a distance "You're taking care of a woman far away. Come here for a drink, I'll get you a woman" he said.

My friends chuckle with a drunk bang reno speech. I snorted in annoyance. Mutia must have heard what bang reno said. I'll definitely get in trouble for lying to him. Mutia was silent. I don't know what else to say.

"Mutia" Call me.

"I ask you to go home" she answered mutia across the street.

"But I'm gathering again"

"I don't want to know. You should go home"

"You can't do that. I'm meeting up with friends again. It's not good if I go home first"

"You don't want to talk to me"

"You're being selfish, gini the hell"

"I'm selfish for your good too"

"What good is to curb that kayak"

"How good are you to drink. Whatever. Anyway I'm asking you to go home"

I snorted in annoyance. I was very worried about mutia's request. I was reluctant to come home from the society before the year changed. However, if I were to follow mutia's request for sure this would be a big deal.

"Judah I'm home"

"It's better. Why are you there" replied mutia jutek.

"Yes already. I'll call home again"

"Not to be obeyed"

"I want to go home first with my friends mutia" I said a little annoyed.

"Yes go. But the phone doesn't have to be obeyed"

I walked over to the group feeling annoyed. The song of iwan false titled umar bakri is playing melodious in togetherness. Bang pram smeared a glass of red wine to me. I had to drink it and drink it to the bang febi next to me. I have to wait for the music to stop before I go home.

"Bang, I go home first" I said after the music stopped.

"Well, what a hurry you're going to get dikan" said bang anes.

"Yes bang. Mom's alone at home" I said.

"If it's about mom, we can't ban you from dik" replied bang deni

"There's nothing like that. He told his girlfriend to go home. If you do not go home broken up" said bang pram.

Some people laugh. I also chuckled with the bang pram accusation being on target. Laughter and the teasing of my friends accompanied my steps home. I drove my bike away from home bang anes.

The door wasn't locked when I got home. I still watch her favorite soap opera. Still at half-eleven o'clock on the wall. I put my bike in the house.

"You don't go to the new year" said the mother who sat in front of the tv.

"Mother's upset me?" My answer is to close the door.

"Tumben you won't go home in the morning" said the mother with her eyes that did not switch from the tv.

"My new year's night is boring" I answered opening the door.

"If you want to sleep do not forget to use soffel. Now again the season of bloody thugs" Shouted mother.

I answered my mother's words and closed the door. I went through the night of the change by calling with mutia. The hopes of the new year are born from our conversation tonight. I can't be sure that mutia is the soul mate God sent me. I can only believe all hope and work with prayers to be granted. However, the real answer is still stored in the secret of destiny.

Mutia has returned to her college. It means the days we go by beating the distance. And mutia says the most important thing in a long distance relationship is news and commitment.

I am a loyal man. I always learn to be faithful. Whoever I'm in a relationship with, I swear I don't want to be double. I want to live with one love, one woman. I learned not to be like my father. For me, love is perfection. And you have stained that perfection with self-hypocrisy. But someday I will understand. Love is a test of faith.