Dollar Girl

Chapter 34 Incident Arrest

Yati and Wijaya are still staying for a few more days, they are exemplary employees especially Yati who rarely takes leave. This opportunity they used to gather together, after the grandmother healed Wijaya gave the idea to eat at the family restaurant Jimy.

Yati who had not relaxed for a long time agreed to it, the arrival of the Amus family surprised Jimy's parents. They did not expect to get that special guest, Jimy provides good service while showing his expertise in managing the restaurant.

"This is the dish you ordered, please enjoy" said Jimy put the food on the table.

"Thank you" Yati replied.

"Where are you going?" grandma asked to hold off Jimy's departure.

"Back in the kitchen"

"What's your job a lot?"

"Um not really"

"Why then leave? sit here and eat with us" said the grandmother.

"Thank you for the offer, but I have to be professional. Grandma is now my guest and I'm a waiter, it's inappropriate to have to sit with grandma"

"Well..so soft is your tongue! so this is your nature when you become a servant" said Amus.

"Don't insult me, here I'm at work" Jimy replied upsetly.

"Ah, then I beg you to resign" he continued in a sweeter tone.

Amus enjoyed the dinner, finally he felt normal life like other children. Yati asked a lot about school and her friends, that question made Amus suddenly become a chatty child.

Until they finished eating Amus was still happy to tell his hobby in the field of football, that's when Jimy and his parents came to join.

"Hey tonight there's a music show in the town square, you want to watch it?" ask Jimy.

"Come"

"Go away" said Yati who heard the conversation.

"Enjoy your holiday, no need to worry about grandma. I will take good care of him" he continued.

Amus seemed to think, considering whether he would go or not. On one hand he still wants to hang out with his family, but on the other he also wants to spend his vacation time like the others.

"Is it really okay if I go?" ask Amus.

"Why still ask, you rarely go out to play if you don't play ball. Now there are your parents who accompany grandma" replied grandma.

"Alright, I'll try not to come home too late" he said happily.

"We go first" Jimy said goodbye.

They immediately ran away from the restaurant, although the night wind was quite cold but the hearts of teenagers who were struggling did not feel the cold. It did not take long for them to arrive at the location, the hustle and bustle of people who live music brings a cheerful atmosphere to them.

Unknowingly Amus also jumped into the crowd until hours passed and thirst attacked his throat.

"Master, are you thirsty?" tanyakanya.

"Lumayan, want to get a drink?"

"Come on!" bring Amus.

They walk a little far from the crowd, looking for fresh drinks that are not too queued because here and there the tavern is crowded until the queue is long.

"Look! how about we just buy juice" said Jimy while pointing at a nearby store.

"May as well" replied Amus.

They immediately went to order.

"My mother ordered guava juice without milk one and mango juice one" Jimy said.

"Ready! in wait ya mas" replied the waiter while turning his back.

"Master!" call Ratna in shock.

"Rabra!" reply Ratna.

Hahaha

Unable to hold their amused laughs made some of the customers there astonished.

"Owh, so you work here" said Amus.

"Yes, what are you doing here?" answer and ask back.

"We're watching a music show, where's Ardi?" ask Jimy.

"He's in juicing, I'll let you know after writing the order wait a minute!" answer Ratna.

Amus and Jimy were waiting in the chair that had been provided until shortly afterwards Ardi came to bring their order, because the customers that night had started to decrease so Ardi could relax while the work was taken over by Ratna.

It was only after ten o'clock that Hamdani closed the shop that was assisted by Jimy and Amus, and met as his employee friends.

"It's Saturday night Sunday, some places are still open so after this we go where?" ask Jimy.

"Let's go, I go where you go" replied Ratna.

"Then we go back to watching music, how about it?" amus Proposal.

"Can any band perform?" ask Ardi.

"There are many, many Republicans, Sheila on Seven, Seventeen" Jimy replied.

Still excited the four teenagers rushed away, even though they stood quite far from the stage and could only hear the song without seeing the band playing still they were happy.

Until without feeling the time to show midnight, the music show has also entered at the end of the event.

"Ah...are you hungry?" ratna asked while stroking her stomach.

"Why?you hungry?" ask Amus.

Ratna nodded her head, though Amus was already the grave of the night but as the others were also feeling hungry they finally decided to buy some food.

There were no food options in the middle of the night, the only food stalls there were only fried rice cooks. Without thinking they sat down and ordered four servings of fried rice, after a while waiting for them to eat the dish.

However, just eating a few mouthfuls of bribes suddenly sounded a commotion from afar that was getting louder and louder. Some people then appear to run past them and there is even someone trying to hide behind them.

"Where are you running?" asked a policeman who suddenly pulled Amus's collar.

There was no time to run or think, seconds later the police arrived and violently led them into the car.

"Amus what is this? why are we suddenly taken?" ratna whispered clearly in fear.

"It looks like there's been a riot, it's just a misunderstanding. You take it easy, soon we will be released" replied Amus.

But Ratna remained unsettled, the hard faces of the officers and their loud screams made their guts growl. Only Amus was still sitting relaxed as if nothing had happened.

After arriving at the office one by one among them in interrogation, many were unable to answer correctly even some of them were only able to cry.

"Who's your name?" an officer asked in a high tone while another officer examined Amus' body.

"Amus sir" he replied firmly.

"What plot are you from? I think we met" asked the officer again.

"Not from anywhere sir, me and my three friends are having dinner after work"

"Don't you dare lie, how old are you?"

"Fourteen sir"

"You?" the officer pointed at Jimy.

"Sa-sama sir, we're schoolmates" Jimy replied nervously.

"You guys are underage already dare brawl, would you guys grow up later huh?" snarl the officer.

His loud voice again shook Ratna's heart, this time he could not stem the tears of great fear. Without making a sound he cried, making the officer hand him over to a police officer.

"Why are you crying?" ask the police officer in a firm tone.

"It's okay ma'am, I. I'm just scared" Ratna replied honestly.

"Why afraid? you're making a mistake?"

"No ma'am, I swear I didn't do anything. I just got home from work and just got to eat" she replied quickly.

"What did you do until you got home last night?"

"I work in a mom's shop, selling juice. My father knew that too"

"Can you call your father to come here? just call me and let him pick you up."

At first Ratna hesitates to tell Sapardi, fearing that her father will be enraged or at least disappointed if he finds out his daughter is dealing with the police. But with the insistence of the policewoman, Ratna finally wanted to inform Sapardi.

Receiving the news was immediately shocked Sapardi and had thought badly, pontang panting he went to the office to fulfill the call. As soon as he saw that so many children were receiving punishment and were being examined.

"Dad!" call Ratna.

Sapardi quickly ran up to his daughter and immediately embraced Ratna with relief, although he saw clearly her daughter crying but he knew Ratna was fine.

"Dad I didn't do anything, we were just eating suddenly the officer brought us here" Ratna said.

"Father please sit down first" greeted the police officer.

"Good ma'am" Sapardi replied.

He was immediately questioned about Ratna, he confirmed that Ratna was working and had obtained permission from him. Not only that, he also guaranteed Jimy, Ardi and Amus to be brought home by him. After a question and answer process that was quite time consuming they were finally released and only got an appeal.

"Dad, I'm sorry" Ratna said on her way home.

"There's no need to apologize, I'm sure you're not wrong" Sapardi replied.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault. If I hadn't invited all of you this wouldn't have happened" Jimy said regretfully.

"Have we not received permission from our parents? all this is just a misunderstanding" said Amus.

"You know how I still feel guilty, I'm sorry uncle! because it's been a hassle"

"Forget it, for teenagers of your age things like this often happen. The important thing is not to make the delinquency worse to trouble your parents"

"We understand uncle" they said together.

Arriving at their homes separated and returned to their homes, Ratna seemed lackluster to cry and scared since then. As soon as his head touched the pillow he immediately fell asleep and woke up in the morning with a fresher body.

He did his usual activities as if last night nothing happened, so out of the house to work he passed by Amus who was also out of the house.

"Where are you going?" ask Ratna.

"Front, mom told me to buy oil"

"It looks like your relationship with aunt is getting better" Ratna commented.

"That's how, he's getting open to me"

"Thank God, I'm glad to hear that. Does he know what happened last night?"

"No! I didn't tell her because if she knew I was afraid she'd be mad at me again"

"You're right, but.. I wonder why you were so calm last night? I see other children who are bigger than you are just scared" asked Ratna curiously.

"That's because I'm used to it" Amus replied with a mischievous smile.

" sthat mean?" ratna asked even more.

Amus also started the story of his hobby that likes to play ball, because of that hobby he also likes to watch football matches let alone go to the stadium. Ratna recalled meeting for the first time after five years of separation, when Amus had just returned from the stadium.

Amus told how his story when he first joined his friends to go to the stadium, it was the moment where for the first time he was also arrested by officers for participating in the tragedy of the riot.

At first he also felt afraid especially when he was only first class Junior High School, but the cries of officers who reminded him of Yati made him even stronger and slowly he was able to answer calmly.

Now, when he was fourteen years old and ready to enter High School there was no more fear in him when dealing with officers. If he does nothing wrong as long as he answers calmly and follows the officer's instructions quickly, he will also be released.

"You're so great" praised Ratna, who liked Amus even more after realizing how mature Amus was.

In her small heart she actually wanted to say thank you, but Ratna's sweet smile caused embarrassment to hold the word in her throat.