Black Room

Second monday

People who are in love.

Never understood why he fell in love.

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The morning sun shines brightly faster. The wall clock indicates the day is still seven minutes or less. I say goodbye to my mother after breakfast.

"Buu, kikan go first huh" said my

"Be careful" said the mother standing in front of the door.

I nodded and smiled. I realized that my mother let me go with a feeling filled with hope. Besides the smile of buk mutia. Mother was the main reason why I had to change and be diligent to study.

"Don't forget to pay SPP money"

I nodded once more. Then I went to school on my motorcycle. The Sumatran causeway is smooth as usual. Not too many and not too quiet. My school is about ten kilos away from my house. And distance is often my reason when I am late. But then the reason was like it did not work again since buk det dubbed me as "King late". Buk det says that it's too late to be flesh blood in me.

Seven o'clock past eight minutes. I parked my bike when I got the bag. The tek rida canteen is the one I used to visit since the tenth grade. In addition to complete food, the canteen also sells cigarettes. That is why visitors to the canteen tek rida is only dominated by male students. Before tek rida, the owner of this canteen was tek wen, his brother tek rida. However, in the second grade, Tek wen died of heart disease. Tek Rida continued his efforts.

"Nando just came down" said Tek rida who stood in front of his canteen door.

"Yes, bell has a sound?" I asked to tidy my hair in the rearview mirror.

"Udah, just sounded. Nando at the most also just arrived at the local" Sahut tek rida.

"Jaudah tek, the ceremony was held first" said I then ran in the middle of a former school room that was no longer used. The old walls became the separation between my school and the canteen tek rida.

Buk yana's voice was heard screaming through the microphone. I saw nando rushing into the line. I immediately ran off with a proud feeling. I am not late anymore. I put my bag behind the line.

"Wiehhh tumben nih" chirps windi when I just joined the line.

I smiled in response to Windi.

"The king is not late anymore" continued windi.

"The fish has changed" said aldi, patting me on the shoulder.

Some of my lines laughed. I just kept quiet and felt proud. I was ready to stand for the ceremony. Even though the ceremony was boring to me. My gaze was breathless towards the buk mutia who stood in the ranks of the teachers.

I can't be sure that she is the most beautiful woman. But, I admit. Among the other young teachers, buk mutia had managed to stop my gaze. Buk mutia could hold me back just to keep looking at her. I admire all the things in buk mutia.

And I also can't tell what a beautiful woman looks like. Isn't beauty relative? There is no sky above the sky. I don't know why I admire buk mutia. I've been in love since I first saw him smile in the office. However, I realized I wouldn't be able to have buk mutia.

The boring ceremony was pleasant with the presence of buk mutia. I kept looking at buk mutia. There was a feeling of happiness when I looked at him. Buk mutia unintentionally looked at me. And he saw me keep staring at him. I jerked. I immediately lowered my head. Did he see me staring at him? Gumanku's.

I just kept quiet and hid myself behind Nando's body. The large tall nando body covered me from buk mutia. I hid behind nando's body until the ceremony was over.

An hour later, the ceremonial line was dissolved. I walked in a scattered crowd to get back into their respective locale. The sunlight was already hot. My body began to feel sultry with sweat pouring down my clothes.

I opened my hat in class. Surprisingly, I was the only one who looked sweaty this morning. While my friend also complained of being sultry with almost invisible sweat. My head was cold with sweat soaking up my hair. My back is also wet. I felt my head pulsing. It was so painful that I forced myself to sleep with my head glued to the table.

My head still hurts when I force myself to sleep. Meanwhile, buk net said a greeting from the rest of the class. Aldi prepares the class members before starting the morning prayer that became a tradition before starting the learning. It begins with Al-fatiha, Al-ikhlas, An-nas, Al-falaq, and ends with the Verse of the chair. I still heard with my head down as if I was asleep. My head and eyes forced me to sleep. And the sound of the verses of the Qur'an echoed in my ears. Makes my head throb. I felt sick when I opened my eyes.

"Steady pain" said buk net by rubbing my forehead.

I don't know what he feels. Either hot or cold felt by the buk net. But my body feels cold. I felt as if shivering with sweat that spread over a part of my body.

The buk net passed and continued its learning topic. I just kept quiet with my head on the table. Shit, this must be because I slept less last night.

My head was getting more and more painful with a throbbing. I forced my eyes to sleep. The net buk was heard discussing his subject matter. After that, frenzy. Then I became deaf and dumb.

I don't know if I've been asleep for a few hours. I was woken up by nando's call.

"Dikan's. Dikan" Call nando by shaking my arm.

I raised my head. Nando stood beside accompanied by ijep. The pain in my head started to subside a little. I rubbed my cheeks that felt wet. Some of my friends were seen walking out. I quietly looked around. I saw tika, aulia, vingky and pariti carrying boukenes. I gathered my consciousness for a moment before walking out locally.

"Have you rested ndo?" I asked nando.

"He's got his second break" said nando laughing.

Ijep also laughed "Seeble review you sleep on" Ijep said

I walked up to nando and ijep kekantin tek rida. Tika and the other girls bring the boukena. In my school, in one day provide two breaks. Where the first break with 30 minutes. Starting at 10:15-10:45 and 12:30-45. While the second break of 45 minutes already includes praying zuhur congregation.

"Your friend is gone" said Nando, putting his ladder on my forehead.

Aldi, nando, and ijep are my friends in this third grade. Upon arrival dikantin it turns out that tek rida was talking about me with aldi who had been first kekantin.

"His entire life" said tek rida after seeing me.

"It's been realized he's from his coma tek" Ledek aldi.

I sat next to Aldi. I look confused. My head no longer hurts. But I felt my eyes fall because I slept for a long time.

"What dream did you have, until you had a good night's sleep?" Ledek.

I just laughed kissed. The canteen laughed

"Bagadang all night, right?" Ask tek rida.

"Yes tek, last night" Sahutku became an excuse.

I was yesterday bagadang. Not because of watching the ball. I sat in RGM last night until late at night. In RGM, we do disperse often late at night. Overnight, more wine was brought by old business guests pram who had both become couriers. Bg GM name, GM is an extension of sweet fat. Pram and GM told me about the darkness of their lives when they became couriers. The old story made us forget the clock and I came home at two in the night.

"Wouldn't eat?" Tawar tek rida's.

"There's still fried rice tek?"My toot.

"Still, deliberately etek stayin one portion to be dikan" Sahut tek rida.

"Yaudah tek, one fried rice" I said.

Tek rida copied the fried rice into the plate. Aldi keeps teasing me because all day asleep without taking lessons. My stomach feels very hungry.

"Maybe because occasionally join the ceremony yes" said tek rida by placing a plate of fried rice in front of me.

"Can be a tek" Sahut aldi. "The fish has now changed" continued aldi porch patting my undak.

Nando and ijep laughed at aldi. I continued to fill my stomach with a plate of fried rice.

This afternoon the canteen was only me and my three best friends, there were also some junior people one level below me. As usual the second break, the canteen is quiet compared to the first break which is always crowded.

Afdol, Nurfan, and some of his friends look new coming. I ordered a cigarette to the tek rida after I finished eating. Although not in school here anymore, nurfan and afdol sometimes took the time to play to the canteen tek rida.

"Have returned the brawl genji" Ledekku to nurfan.

"No, the cave is anti with vigor" Sahut Nurfan and sat beside me.

"Goblin" said Afdol to me.

Goblin is the call that Afdol gave me. That call he gave me because I used to bully him who always loved the game of COC. I'm saying that the COC game is just a fool's game. Afdol and Suhaimi always focus on staring at the phone screen and forgetting the people around him. As if it was an addiction. And since then afdol called me goblin. The word goblin afdol is a character from the game COC, a warrior with a perum sack who often steals gold as spoils of war.

Nando, ijep, aldi, and some of my juniors go down to perform the congregational prayers. My school has time for congregational prayers performed on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. While tuesday and Friday are not held congregational prayers. In the canteen now there are only me, afdol, nurfan, zico and kiki junior from the IPS department.

Afdol invited me to play futsal between school and school after school. He said suhaimi and his other friends were waiting at gor montela. I agreed to serve the afdol challenge after dapit and zico replied in agreement.

We then disperse from the tek rida canteen that was about to close. Me, Zico, and I can walk back to school. Afdol and nurfan were waiting for me to go back to school in gor montela.

"Don't be a loser ya" cried afdol to remind us again.

I just chuckled in response to afdol's speech.

"So hotshot" Timpal zico who walked behind me.

"Don't forget to take a caknun with gani ya ko" My message to zico.

"Siipp" replied zico briefly.

I walked up to the captain of the apin to meet my three friends who took ablution there. While zico deviated from the right and took ablution in wc mushola.

In the canteen, pak apin. Aldi is seen talking with buk diana and buk mutia. Also tek surti(Wife pak apin) who is frying fried to be sold.

"In, today you go home with nando ya" I said when I just arrived in the cafeteria.

"What's that?" Aldi-sahut

"Yes earlier afdol ngajakin sparing futsal home school" I explained and sat sideways next to aldi

Aldi was silent. I smiled at diana. Buk mutia smiled before I looked at her. Mutia's buk smile makes me feel gerogi. I immediately looked away from buk mutia.

"Fry the buk" Sapaku to buk diana and take the fry.

"Yes on" Sahut buk diana.

"Buk" Sapa offered to buk mutia. Buk mutia seemed to refuse with a smile.

"Are you healthy, the headache is on?" Pants buk diana.

I just smiled at the porch eating fried food.

"Aldi doesn't like futsal" asked buk mutia.

"Like buk, but people who are less clever where used by people" said aldi humbled

"Take it aldi main futsal dikan" said buk diana.

"The old man won't come along" I said.

"Yes buk, aldi is less good at playing futsal buk. But if dikan, he became the mainstay of the school in the LPI buk competition" said aldi.

"Ohh yes, every year there is a ball race between SLTA level schools as kabuhpaten mah ndg?" Ask buk diana.

"Yes, last year our school was only until the semifinals" said aldi.

"Is there a?" Buk mutia asked curiously.

"Yes, every year. It usually starts in the first semester, right?" Ask aldi.

"September begins if not wrong" said my friend.

"Wikan coming too?" Ask buk mutia.

"The mainstay player buk. The role will be irreplaceable in the school football team" said aldi exaggerated.

"Aldi didn't come?" ask buk diana.

Aldi shakes. "Only ripo and dikan are selected into the squad of core players" Sahut aldi.

"Basak yes" Buk mutia doubted.

"Well...Ibuk don't believe it. The captain of football buk"

"Not yet know buk. The competition has not yet begun" I replied immediately straightened out aldi's statement.

"Year yesterday who was the captain?" Ask buk mutia.

"Bg wanda's. He's done" my heart

Buk mutia smiled. Buk mutia looks very enthusiastic. That's what I love about buk mutia. Buk mutia was not ashamed to ask. Even though sometimes the question is just a lie from the mere joke.

"Now third grade, who belongs to the school's football team?" Ask buk mutia again.

"But do not know buk, there will be a selection a month before the start of the committee" I explained.

"Seru donk watch it tomorrow" said buk mutia.

"Watch the buk, so that someone can make the spirit" said aldi and entered the house of the apin sir.

Buk mutia just smiled. Buk diana shook her head with what aldi said. I still continue my conversation with buk mutia and buk diana. Buk mutia who is almost as tall as me is two years old from me. Buk mutia was born October 95 and buk diana a year older than buk mutia. Buk diana also made fun of me by telling me to stop by the mutia buk house sometime. Buk mutia just laughed a little. Laughing that hides his shame.

"Yu dik, Wudhu again. Azan" Ucao nando who just came out of the house, sir.

"Oh yes" I answered and opened my shoes.

"That's a big conversation from earlier" complained nando.

"Gara-gara buk mutia nih, preoccupation ngajakin be chatted" Chirps ijep.

Buk mutia just laughed in wonder. Buk diana, and bik surti also laughed. I went in to take ablution in the bathroom, Mr. Apin. Aldi, nando, and ijep already know that I like buk mutia. I came out after taking ablution. Buk mutia and buk diana were no more after I came out in the house.

"How much bik?" Ask me to be ready to pay.

"It has been paid by buk mutia" replied bik surti.

I walked to the mosque feeling happy. The kindness of buk mutia this afternoon amazed me even more.