Don't Want to Be Pathetic: NIGHT BUTTERFLIES
Section 7
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An hour's drive. Tracing the coastal countryside. The wind from the fast of the vehicle in addition to the sea breeze not only makes the clothes become shabby but the skin feels sticky.
"Ki in the front fork turn right is eating meatballs I laper first."
"Yes the worm in my stomach is already on the demo." Iki smiled back.
"Still mending the demo as unwilling as to yell is the worm in my stomach already on fainting so my body lemes."
"Aren't there people who fainted because of laper haha?"ask Iki while laughing.
"Don't know anyway. But if there's any shame, right?"
"Pas asked why he fainted? it was because of Laper Hahaha."
"Gue never ate anything a day last night his intention wanted to pass out so that there are house people who worry."
"But you drink?"
"Yes hahaha."
"Lo stomach to fill. But you fainted?" ask Iki again.
"No Hahaha laper did not pass out Haha my hands nyampe shaking my body lemes but not fainting."
"At last you'll give it up?"
"Yes I eat Hahhaha" Ira laughed.
"Haha lo crazy."
Their laughter stopped because of the place they were going.
"Kitt!" motor stops.
The two of them got off the bike entering the meatballs' place.
Adhan Maghrib reverberated fortunately the place was not far from home. Maybe in about 20 minutes they'll be there.
"Bang bako two servings of one mixed the other vegetable meatballs. Drink some orange ice!" Ira ordered.
They both sit in the back corner. People must have thought they were lovers. Even in school they are called the most romantic love duo. Ira dared to be as close and intimate as that to Iki because she knew that iki was a little like a woman and was too picky on women, so nothing made Ira feel awkward.
The orders arrived and they ate.
A few minutes passed and they were done.
"Go home it's dark!"
Iki woke up and walked out.
Finished paying Ira after Iki who was sitting waiting on the bike.
"This gass?"
"Yuk ah?"
They went back on their journey. The situation was silent, some of the doors of the house were closed because the time had shown at 18:25.
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Iki turns her motorbike towards Ira's house from a distance and looks like Ira's grandmother and two sisters are sitting in front of the house.
"Steak?" two sisters say hello smiling.
The motor stopped in front of Grandma's house. Iki brought the cardboard that Ira's father gave her to Grandma.
"Who is this from?" ask Grandma.
"From dad."
"Tetuh from dad? Ko didn't say." said Sindi (1st brother)
"Let's go home?"
"Yes, I did first. I'll pick you up tomorrow." Iki drove with his motorbike.
"So Ira went home from school straight to my dad. His intention was to ask for money for school" Ira explained to grandmother.
"In love?" Grandma asked.
"It's definitely for doang gasoline!"
"No money for Sindi tea?" ask Sindi.
Sindi and Hesti (2nd sister) open a cardboard box containing rice and snacks.
"Why not ask your father for more?" said Grandma.
"If he can't give you money for school fees and your sister's snacks, at least ask for a lot of rice to eat your sister" she said.
"Maybe grandma already knew, before I explained about the situation here and asked something stepmother already explained first if the situation there is difficult!"
"Surely so that I don't complain much and ask father." continued Ira.
"Not your mother, your father has all forgotten the responsibility of not paying the slightest attention to his own son!" said Grandma a little angry.
Ira just smiled. In his heart he knew that there was one truth that hurt him. He used to think this was a nightmare that wouldn't happen.
One thing that is feared is when the mother and father marry again they will be happier with their respective families and ignore their responsibilities as parents who have children in the midst of 2 families (family after divorce and family after divorce). But unfortunately that nightmare life even happened.
"Your mom's coming home, cape's going to take a shower!" Ira walked out of Grandma's house.
Actually there was money from the rest of Ira eating meatballs earlier but he had not paid for iki motor gasoline so he did not give it to his two sisters.
In this modern era, what can 100 thousand dollars do? Grandma said that 5 thousand dollars could go to the market and bring home a bag full of vegetables and kitchen spices.
But now it's so much different. Indeed, lack of money is the main problem because in this modern era, money is the one who rules over everything. Let alone the needs and desires of even a woman's body can be bought with money. Everything will be easy with money. Money and money.
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"Tok tock Tia?" Ira knocked on the door calling.
"She just got home from school?" open door.
"He just got home from dad." opened up his shoes and went into the room.
The youngest brother closed the door and went back to his room again.
Ira immediately brought a towel rushed to the bath because it was night and the air was getting colder.
Finish bathing and getting dressed.
"Bruugg!" the woman fell on her bed.
Looking at the phone there are already some unopened messages and missed calls because in the area his father lived there is no network signal for ira card and along the way he also did not use a mobile phone that's why all the new messages and calls are coming in.
The woman simply left it without reading the message. Sometimes he is like that. Because he knows how many messages and calls go to his cell phone still all they will ask is Ira has free time or not to meet them (the men live striped). Ira did not even know and did not find out where the men she just met once already had her mobile number.
Similarly, he rarely contacted his brother, Ira always met him or kaka who suddenly came home. Because they think the meeting is news.
Closing my eyes came a sound from the living room.
"Where did Tia's new school start coming from at this hour?" ask her mother Tia.
"From his father he said."
"Ko did not change clothes first came home at night wearing a neighboring school uniform that was not unexpected." continued his mother.
"Do not know, ask yourself!"
After that, no more talk was heard only the sound of tv.
Life in his house is like that until now Ira is still wondering why things became like this? ever since she married again, she rarely spoke to Ira. Though his stepfather was not at home he sailed in Korea. Ira wouldn't answer if no one asked her so did her mother.
Staying in the house was just like contracting in a boarding room. She rarely eats rice at home and rarely talks to people at home. Comfortable, isn't it?
At first life in the house was ordinary. Even ira was close to her stepfather, but after her stepfather left her mother was getting different. He never offered her a meal when it was time to eat. Her mother never asked her how her days were. His school life costs and needs. Never asked, Ira finally confined herself to her mother.
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It didn't feel like 23:00 at night Ira woke up. He went to the bathroom to pee and wash his face. His stomach is hungry. In the room always provide a lot of food and snacks. He brought instant noodles and went to the kitchen to light the stove for cooking.
*Trreek!!* Turn on stove.
The water had already boiled the woman opened the packaging and boiled her noodles.
About 3 minutes have matured keep it on a glass bowl and stir. Ira opened the back door of the house. It is quite scary because the surrounding house is filled with coconut and bamboo trees. But because Ira is used to the darkness and always alone makes her no fear at all.
He brought a bowl and a bottle. Sitting on the chair the woman enjoyed eating instant noodles alone in the middle of the night in the cold and windy air.
After eating, he got up from his seat and went to the room with his roko and cell phone.
*Click* the sound of the lighters.
The woman sucks her skirt. He sat back and stared at the dark sky as only a few stars could be seen.
The night made her comfortable, but made her uncomfortable as well.
Enjoying a lonely night alone is a simple way of self-healing. But Ira also felt that the thick of the night always gave a gap to remember the miss that has not been said and all the problems that arise.
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