Black Room

Misjudge

People care, they don't really have a heart.

Those who claim sympathy, are judgmental.

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Tek nett is crowded by men who celebrate Sunday nights without women. I went through the keramain after coming home from the haircut. A group of young men parked their motorbikes on the road boat. Vehicles that traverse in front of the garnet of a technical speed should go slowly. Some friends say hello. I said hello without stopping. Warnet tek lik memamg a gathering place of my peers.

"Belan" Shouted someone

I turned my head after passing the keramain where the tek lik. Bang pram waved his hand to call me. I turned around and approached the bang pram who was sitting alone in front of the house bang eldam. I smiled at bang pram. It's been a week since I've been hanging out with friends at RGM. Bang pram will definitely invite me to gather. But I've thought of an excuse to reject his invitation.

"Where from?" Ask bang pram.

"Hair trimmer" I replied "Which other one?" My toot.

"Home huddled. Get there yuk" Take pram

"Next bang. I'm not" I told a lie.

I have a marijuana password that mom has returned. Sandi no longer wants to deal with drugs after the incident and bang dedek. Therefore the password gave me the reward.

"One by one we'll be apart. Whether it is as a victim or indeed a suratan fate. But the most tragic thing is when we split up because one of us went to jail" Password messages one day.

Being caught by the police is a risk to humans in the dark. In my village, it's famous for its drug villages. There have been seven muaro bodi arrested by police in the past three years. Some residents also began to fret over the sloping news regarding drugs. RGM is also a major topic in village news. People look badly at us. The villagers cast us down like a destroyer of nations. We just do what we love. And finally I understand; people sometimes prefer to look for someone's faults rather than justify them.

This past week I have rarely been out of the house and only smoked marijuana in the room. I refused to go out in a hot market. I prefer to keep myself in my room. At least, I feel happy with me who no longer hang around and hang out with people in RGM.

"You're forbidden to play with your mother" asked bang pram.

I'm shaking. Although bang pram is right. I don't want to bang pram to think that way. After all, it's not just mom who's the reason for me to lock myself in the house. Even further, I felt uncomfortable getting out of the house.

"You haven't been with us for a long time" said bang pram.

"The busy school is now bang. It's third grade. It's no longer time to mess around"

"Tomorrow is a holiday"

"Continue the bang" I said.

Bang pram breathed. Looks disappointed. His eyes were wildly watching the crowd in the fry shop across from us.

"What's the fuck in here?" I asked to shift the topic.

"Take a look at the barn" Take another bang pram.

I'm laughing a little. Bang pram's speech is like forcing.

"This was just last night. The other kids are waiting for you at the farmhouse" Take a bang pram.

I thought for a moment. There's no harm in me regrouping with humans in the dark. Anyway, tomorrow's holiday. I finally agreed to bang pram's request. We strayed to the right at a place not far from my house. The roof of the house that melonjong after the crossroad. The empty rumah gadang looks crowded by my friends who sit at the gate of the house. I parked my bike on the side of the road. The cheerful cheers of my friends welcomed my arrival.

"Look, the prodigal son has returned home" said bang dani.

"I've redeemed him from hypocrisy" Sahut bang pram.

They laugh. I laughed too. Bang eldom, bang gates, bang febi, and bang reno were sitting in front of the gate of the rumah gadang. While bang deni and bang dio sit on the stairs. Bang dio palaks also joined the RGM. I greet them one by one.

"Where are you going to never gather again? Ask bang eldom. His hands are busy rolling marijuana.

"Regular. Busy school. He wanted to be a professor" Bang pram replied.

Everyone laughed at the bang pram.

"Goodoo. Fortunately tomorrow can be achieved" said bang eldom

"Yes. So professor of marijuana" said bang pram.

We laughed out loud. Bang pram is ridiculous with his jokes. Bang dani and bang gate started to burn their twisting. They also asked for permission to burn first. Like habits and pleasantries.

"School is right. Don't let us be the ones who don't want to go to school" said bang deni.

"hey are. Where may stay that is mandatory for the sake of the sunnah" Sahut bang pram portico poured the wine into a plastic glass.

Bang pram gave me all the wine. I accepted it without speaking. Bang pram poured the wine back into a plastic glass.

"Wait a minute" said bang pram.

I looked at him silently not understanding. Bang pram took me toast. The lips of the glass I was holding collided with the lips of the glass held by bang pram.

"Let's celebrate togetherness before time again separates with busyness"

I drank the wine until I left the dregs in the glass. I felt like throwing up with a bitter wine. My friends laughed at my expression of wanting to vomit. But I withhold.

"You again?" Ask bang pram.

I shake my head to refuse. Bang pram laughs. I don't like wine. Besides the bitter taste. It smells bad too. Just smell it I want to puke. Especially drink.

"Dikan" Call bang dani by rolling her wedge to me beyond gates.

"Wasn't gates?" My toot.

Bang Gates showed me a bar of marijuana he hadn't burned. Bang gates began to apply milk to the earlobe so that it can last long. I received a rolingan bang dani. And suck as deeply as possible.

"Dikan, you know not" said bang deni after sipping the wine.

I looked at bang dani.

"Bang pram you're here every night asking me how you're doing. He thinks you've escaped because you've never been seen again" The expression bang deni.

"The school's cave bang" Sahutku

"Yes my brother knows. But bang pram you've always missed you" said bang dani.

Some of us laughed. I also laughed at the bang pram who missed me.

"If you don't believe me, you ask your brother. Ask away. While he's still here" Sahut bang deni.

Bang Deni gulped back down a glass of wine. I'm gushing marijuana to bang pram. Bang pram sucked it up and no longer commented.

Sunny sunday even though without moon and stars. Several vehicles passed by on the jambak road. Not as many main roads made of asphalt. The paved road made of concrete is only passed by people who know this road.

The conversation turned to discussing the villagers who often gossiped to us. Not only gossipy mothers, but also mamak fathers and niniak. I am no longer surprised by such a thing. Many people know us. They even think badly of their own thoughts. We were wrong with what we were doing. But they misjudged us more and forgot to reflect. Like the fathers hanging out in the coffee shop not far from the cafe.

They are right about speech that says we sin by what we do. But they would rather deal with our mistakes than embrace us and advise us. At the end of the day, those who act as if they care have no heart or conscience.

"God, they are no different from us. They think themselves holy. Look at those who gamble. Every night playing domino and koa" said bang pram.

We laughed and agreed to the pram bang. A coffee shop not far from the cafe. The tek yas shop is a gathering place for the fathers and important people in the nagari. They play dominoes and koa every night. Ah, it is true that the saying minang said; tunggou across from the lawik is seen, elephants dippedupuak mato indak seen. We can see the mistakes of others even if they are small. And forget about our mistakes that are so big.

The motor stopped in front of us. Momon came with plastic. It seems momon got the job of buying food. Momon put the plastic in the middle of the circle and joined sitting on the stairs.

"The fathers of the tek-tai are already troubled with us. They say we're useless people" said bang gates.

"Who said it" asked bang pram.

"Father of pakor" Sahut bang yuda.

"She again" said bang pram indignantly "What does he think he is god? He could have said we were useless" he said.

"Why is that pakor's father hates us" asked bang deni.

"Either. Though we did not ask to eat with him" Bang Reno also said.

"Actually he himself is useless. It's usually just looking for someone else's fault" said bang dani.

We agree with bang dani. Mr. Pakor often gossiped us as humans in the dark. It is only natural that he hates us who live in a black world. But it is no longer natural that hatred is transmitted to others with skewed talk about us. Mr. Pakor seems to have forgotten, his hatred for us has caused sin against him.

"It is good that people are no longer useful than useful people" said bang febi.

We laughed out loud. Where are the good people who are useless? With a moment of tension about the father of pakor melted with silliness bang febi.

"Where's the good place to be a useless person?" Ask bang pram.

We laughed. Bang febi started to empty.

"If a useful person is busy because he is useful. Good is a useless person. Can relax at home" Sahu bang febi.

We were laughing even more. Bang febi is weird. No one wants to be useless. But bang febi wants to be a useless person. Indeed empty.

"Bi, no one is useless. Even crazy people are useful. How we can distinguish sane people from crazy people" said bang pram.

"Yes cave likes to be a useless person" Sahut bang febi.

Laughing broke again. Bang febi is stubborn. Even bang febi will stick with its stance even if others consider itself ***** or empty.

"There are no useless people in this world. Febi's life needs to eat, right? Well, even though febo is just relaxing at home, febi is still a useful person. The use of febi to spend food" said bang pram.

We laughed again. Bang pram is right. There are no useful people in this world. We kept chatting through the late night. Momon came home to fill his empty stomach.

The conversation started to tell horror stories. Bang Dio told me that he had been bullied by a ghost right where we were sitting right now. Pram has a more sinister story. Bang Gates curled up to hold back the fear. Bang Gates is a phobia with horror stories. In the past, the Gates house was once a murder case. And since then bang gates began to be afraid of ghosts.

My blackberry reads incoming message sign. Fiona's. I forgot that I promised to eat meatballs with fiona. I heard the story of bang pram serambi replying to fiona's message. Apologized for letting her wait and I didn't come. But fiona understood my reasoning.

The night is getting late in the dark. There was only half a liter left. We have finished the marijuana we suck. Bang pram managed to persuade bang gates to open a package of marijuana he had. Bang gates is now the right hand of the city of marijuana in the body.

"Dikan, make it" Ask bang pram.

"Continue bang" I said

"Where further? Solok, padang?" Bang pram joking.

Some of us laughed.

"Make it, brother has long not felt the twisting of your made" said bang pram.

"Kangen yes same sister" Bang deni chimed.

Some of us laughed. I finally complied with bang pram's request. I started rolling marijuana that Gates gave me. Bang pram tells the story of a landlady who became the city of shabu. Bang dio also shared the story because bang dio is also close to the landlady bang pram. Shabu and marijuana remain in circulation despite the three people caught this year.

"Burn first bang" I said after rolling.

"Continue"

I burned marijuana and smoked it deep. My head began to clink as a sign of marijuana had affected my consciousness. Bang pram still tells me about the shabu and the landlady. Bang pram works in a sand port located in the panombun-rubber area of muaro bodi. Bang pram gets a landlady a shabu town. Almost every day before work bang pram is given doping meth by its landlady for work encouragement. Bang pram told me so enthusiastically. As if that was the life that bang pram wanted.

I dredged marijuana to bang pram who still told me. My eyes are starting to feel heavy and soft. The cold also began to feel up to my body. I drank the wine that was dropped by bang deni. My body feels warm after drinking the wine.

On the road, Momom was walking towards us. Momon walked with a carefree step. His thin and thin body looked very flat, like a walking hunchback.

"Where else is kanslay" said bang eldom.

Some of us laughed. Bang Pram was busy telling stories. Momom stood in front of us staring at the talking bang pram. Bang eldom, bang gates, bang febi and I laughed at momon's behavior. I don't know what Momon was thinking so much that his focus was staring at the pram bang.

"Bang pram's. Disperse us again" said Momon

We laughed out loud. Momong empty. New coming momon already advised to disperse. Was the meeting from home just to ask us to disperse. We kept laughing at the silly momong.

"Lu came out just to tell us to disperse mon?" Tanya bang dani laughed.

"Why is mon still out? Why did not immediately sleep earlier" Bang pram also chimed.

We keep laughing. All we said was momon empty. The incessant chatter blasphemed momon by discussing all the follies of momon. Gates is the most famous. Momon just fell silent and heard all the facts that were pressing on him. But momon will hear with right ear and out left ear. All the talk of people will not be thought of. Especially being empty like this.

The night is early morning. The cold night wind was warm after I drank the wine as the end. My head's pulsating. Pram forced me to spend half a liter of that wine as his last wish. We finally got home after the blackbery showed at one in the morning.

Later, I heard the story that we in RGM were divided and no longer gathered. Bang dio who instigated bang reno and bang febi to no longer gather at home gadang. And the second problem caught wet my friends at the godang house by linmas nagari.

I slept with my head and eyes heavy. Tonight turned out to be the last night I was sitting in the house.