CONFINEMENT

CH 30 - JEALOUSY

"Love is like the wind.

You are not able to see.

But you can feel it.

Maybe you can find a face like mine, even better.

But you will never find a heart like mine in loving you.

Don't ask me why I love you, because I have no choice.

In longing, there is no cure.

And you are the only healer.

I'm not a miss, sweetheart.

But I have long felt it drowned in my sea of tears.

So that soon you sail for me.

In the gap between nothing and your presence, there is a crack that will not return to how it was.

Broken, before it was ever me.

The mortal is time.

We're immortal."

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The afternoon sun peeked behind the mega, like a shy virgin when going to meet the puja. Cloudy somber hinted at the coming of rain but many birds chirping still hold it.

Seen a young man with a hair loop on his head, kept busy by paper and pen as if dissolved in the ocean of his mind. His thin body looks shirtless, just wrapped in a white cloth between his armpits and ribs coiled covering the bruised scars and green sarong cloth covering the bottom.

"Twoarrr"

A voice shocked the young man. He saw that four people were already beside him.

"Strong!"

"Can't use the greeting first without surprising Bli," said the man staring at one who had just come, the man was none other than Muhibbin.

"Ah, Bli aja who did not hear our steps, I've called from the front but Bli Ibbin is busy writing, write what the hell?" elak Sekar to his brother.

"You want to know!" answer Muhibbin briefly.

That afternoon the four virgins came to Surau An Nur to visit Muhibbin who is still in the process of healing due to his fight with Yanto a month ago. The four are Sekar, Disya, Diera and Puan Rizza.

"Hi Bin, how are you?" ask Disya.

He was seen carrying something for Muhibbin and was delivered.

Muhibbin received his friend's hand and placed it next to the bamboo bale he was sitting on. He took the array lying beside him and wore it over his shirtless upper body.

"It's quite good, Dis." replied Muhibbib with a smile.

In his eyes the girl was full of joy, because since the incident of an attack a month ago that hit Banjar Manguntur Batubulan village he never met this friend. His eyes also pointed at the two people beside Disya while nodding their heads.

"Oh yes, please sit down!" pinta Muhibbin while shifting his seat.

"Gek, please bring a plate in the kitchen for this fruit container," Muhibbin asked his sister Sekar and the girl immediately moved behind Surau.

"How are your injuries, Bin?" disya asked, looking anxiety on her face.

"Alhamdulillah, it has improved. Every day Jero Balian and his cantrik came here to take care of me." replied Muhibbin.

"Tumben you can come here?" ask Muhibbin back.

"Yes, the three of us had a plan to visit you, We had time to your house but said Sekar, since the incident that night and during the healing process, You asked in Surau this to your father. Why Bin, if you are there Sekar and Pak Nengah who will take care of you."

"What's Dis, I just don't want to trouble them and Surau's besides there's also no one else since Wati joined the host of the governor" replied Muhibbin.

"It's all because of that woman!" disya's face turned sour when Muhibbin mentioned Sariwati's name in front of him.

"It's not like that, Dis! his name was also an unexpected disaster. Where's anyone who wants all this to happen." Muhibbin tried to give an understanding to Disya.

"My father told me about who the woman's background is" Disya said back.

Both of his friends commented.

"Yes, actually how did it go until you got hurt like this, Bin?" ask Diera.

"Ape no help people when fighting with parents?" Puan Rizza also asked with the accent of the United States.

"Actually after I sent Sekar home at that time, I returned to Surau and cleared the debris from the explosives and the rampage of the citizens, after which I went to the beach to calm down." Muhibbin replied.

The man told the full story of the incident in his nature, until his fight with the merchant Yanto and his men and the fraudulent action of the merchant Yanto who threw sand on his face.

"It's a good thing that you will be helped immediately, if there is anything with you, what will I tell Mom and mbak yu Cahaya!" disya was full of anger at Muhibbin.

"Already Dis, I'm fine. This is not Wati's fault." replied Muhibbin.

"Yes but because of him and your hero's pretentious attitude it almost harms you" Disya replied annoyed.

"Just keep defending him, long time ago visit the witch!" concluded.

"No need to argue, we're here to see Ibbin" Diera told Disya.

"But this reckless attitude of Di, from the beginning this child if you do without thinking first!" answer Diaya back.

Muhibbin was silent to Disya's annoyance at her.

"Kite here to see Ibbin, relax and not suck." advice Puan Rizza to calm the atmosphere.

"Yes ni kak, Disya like not having breakfast, the work is angry constantly." Muhibbin tried to make Disya smile.

"Your bare breakfast!" answer Disya ketus.

Since long ago while still in the coffee plantation on the slopes of Ijen, both are familiar and friendly. Since his meeting back in the Coast Country the friendship between Muhibbin and Disya has grown closer.

On the other hand Disya himself felt guilty for the death of Mr. Ahmad Muhibbin's father when asked to pluck coconuts to make the old man fall and die. Since then Diaya promised to always help Muhibbin and his family as a regret from him.

"Hai-hai, what's wrong with you! cats and dogs always fight. Drink first so that the demons in your heads go!" Sekar came carrying water in a jug and a plate containing fruits that had been brought by his friends.

"If you still do not want to give up one, I will report to Mr. Circun and Ajik to marry you both" said Sekar again melt the atmosphere.

"Married, married. Is marriage easy?" muhibbin answered his brother.

"It's easy, just bring the penghulu and drag you two into the room, done!" answer me with a laugh.

"Unfortunately for chicken," Disya began to smile.

The atmosphere began to melt. He picked up the paper lying next to his brother.

"Weiissa, what's the poem.Who's this Bli for? for Disya or something?" goda Sekar to her brother.

"Strick, balikin!" Muhibbin tried to snatch the paper with his poem from his brother's hand.

"Cobe will look at jap ye, for aka let Sekar," Puan Rizza pinta.

Sekar who tried to avoid Muhibbin handed the paper to Puan Rizza. Serumpun State woman read the writing of Muhibbin accompanied by Diera and Disya.

"Adooiii, Elok very poetry You ni Ibbin!" said Mrs Rizza after reading the writing in her hand.

"Take your mase in Selasar lah, kite later bace together with mister Umbu," added the woman.

Disya who was curious asked the writing on from Mrs Rizza. He read verse by verse a series of words made by Muhibbin.

"Tumben, you write like this?" ask the question to Muhibbin.

"That's for Disya what's Wati Bli?" the Goda is back.

"It is definitely not for you, Gek." replied Muhibbin timidly.

Seen all who were laughing saw the behavior of Sekar teasing his brother except Disya, the girl looks unhappy to hear the name Sariwati mentioned in front of him.

"My sister's been taken by someone else, Dis!" now Sekar teases Disya who is still pouting.

"Ah this you." concluded Disya.

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