From Tahi So Know

The Story of An Ojek

A few days ago, Alex's days were different. Where usually if Alex went straight to class, now he was interviewed in advance by students who were curious about the words of Raisa. Not only that, they even stick a paper that says about Raisa and Alex at the school entrance.

They wrote about Alex and Raisa under various titles. Start from, “10 Facts About Raisa, Number 3 Make Shocked,” “True Raisa with Alex Dating?” “Things to Know Why Raisa Can Date Living Creatures Like Alex,” and many more. Since the incident a few days ago, the school's ivory is full of news about Alex and Raisa.

“Lex, are you really dating Raisa?”

Adit, who is now Alex Bonceng, again asked the truth about it. Today, there are a total of twenty questions that pitched the same as Adit asked.

“Gua is not dating with Raisa,” replied Alex. His speech style was a little uninspired as he grew tired of hearing such questions.

“Keep, why did Raisa say that she was dating you back then?” Adit asked back.

“Yeah, armpit salamander! Not once twice you have it the same cave, but fifteen times! Do you remember if you asked that question five times today? Tired of the cave hear it!” Alex replied with great regret. In fact, since the day that the incident happened, Alex had told Adit that it was all just a fictitious thing to avoid himself from danger.

“Ta-but, right, Raisa..”.

“Lu talking again cave down you now.” Alex cuts Adit's words. “Indeed, if the cave is really dating Raisa will make the cave in the book ‘The luckiest person in the world’. Basic damn!” Alex grumbled in his heart.

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In the middle of the night covered with cold wind, Alex had trouble sleeping. Now the clock shows at half-twelfth night. The palm of Raisa's hand when holding it at that time was really still memorized by the skin of her hand until now. So soft, naughty, that it imprints and feels special.

“Udah clock this time but the cave can not sleep as well. Does the cave have to amputate cave hands?”

All the ways Alex did to get himself to sleep. Even the metal and rock music that usually become a constant lullaby, this time not able to make him fall asleep.

“Wait-wait. I think the cave saved Raisa's contact on WhatsApp.” Alex recalls keeping Raisa's contacts on his WhatsApp that he got through his class WhatsApp Group. “Maybe aja cave can lose this insomnia after chatting-an same him. But, has he not slept at this hour? Ah, bodoamat, bye! The important thing is to try the cave.”

Actually Alex was a bit hesitant to send a message to Raisa. There were two things he would think of if he sent a message to Raisa. First, Alex is afraid that his message will not be answered at all. And the second, Alex is afraid that now Raisa is sleeping but forgot to turn off mobile data and woke up due to the sound of cell phone notifications, then sent a message to her, “Lu know not what time it is? You have no brain!” But, with a high level of courage, Alex managed to send a “p” message to Raisa.

Five minutes had passed, but the reply from Raisa still did not exist. Alex's thoughts started to get mixed up. Now Alex actually thinks that tomorrow he will be bullied all-out by Raisa for trying to do PDKT through chat.

“Sorry yes, Raisa, maybe a cave chat makes you disturbed. This is Alex's cave. The cave suddenly woke up from sleep and suddenly remembered the same disease Rabies. Pas cave nyoba nyari disease in Google, the cave even open WhatsApp and the cave instead type your name on the search key board. Understand, again sleepy wkwkwk.” Alex tries to make excuses so that the events he thinks will not happen tomorrow. Yes, although the reason is very, very unreasonable.

“Wkwkwk gapapa, really. There's-there's a lu bandingin cave name with Rabies disease. Distant know!” Reply to Raisa a few minutes later.

Alex is shocked to see a reply to a message from Raisa. If it wasn't midnight, he would've been screaming like a rock band vocalist.

"Well, how come you haven't slept? Cave bothers you, huh? Sorry for that!"

"Lu don't disturb the cave, really. Even the cave is happy there is a cave chat, because the cave is hard to sleep."

"Difficulty sleeping? You have a lot of thoughts, don't you?"

"Not really, anyway. The cave just listen to music to make the cave sleepy. Why aren't you sleeping? More thoughts too?"

"The cave hasn't slept yet because it's trying to count the stars."

"Why do you count stars? Lack of work!"

"The cave just wants mastiin if this isn't a dream, because now the cave is talking to the same special people like you."

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Because Adit sent Alex a message that he couldn't come to school today, Alex went to school today on a motorcycle. Alex went to school on a motorcycle, not without reason. He just did not want the incident when it happened again—genesis where at that time he returned home from school by himself with his motorbike because Adit was unable to attend because of following mass circumcision.

In the middle of a boring trip because he has no friends to talk to, Alex sings Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit while nodding his head and moving his hands like a person playing a guitar. As a result, because he did not pay attention to the road and his hands were still moving like someone who was playing the guitar, his motorbike actually pointed towards the carpenters cart and hit him. It was fortunate that at that moment he only damaged the cart and did not injure the person.

“Njir! Almost hit the cart of ice cream sellers,” said Alex while confirming the sitting position. Not until one minute Alex ride the motorcycle, he was already made scared.

“Hahaha, Itumah regular, Deck. Even brother can do back flip fitting slewatin police sleep.” Ojek's brother replied with pede.

“Serious you, Bang?” Alex was surprised.

The ojek brother then carried the motorbike at high speed after seeing a sleeping policeman. Seems like Abang ojekbut not messing with his words.

“Tight grip, Deck!” Ojek's brother's orders to Alex.

“WHAAAAA!”

Just doing the back flip action, the rear lights of the Abang ojek motor are actually crushed by the asphalt because the jump is too low. Quickly the ojek brother immediately balanced his motorbike which almost fell.

“Back flip tai pink brother! We almost fell down earlier!” Alex upset.

The action made a small child who was on the side of the road clap and cheered, “kren really bang action.” Alex who saw the little boy wanted it to feel like he was riding on a motorbike to feel the sensation he felt.

Although Alex has to go through a very thrilling journey, eventually Alex gets to school. His body was still shaking from the incident.

“This Bang the money, the change take for Brother aja. Calculate, make help the destroyed brother motor light.” Alex gave his fifty ribs to the Ojek brother. Although Alex was a little upset by the incident, but he felt sorry for the brother ojek.

“Sial! What say bini cave if you know the rear lights of the motor are damaged. Could-can cave not be given rations also tonight.” The eyes of the ojek brother began to glaze over and began to tug his snot slightly out.

“Loh, why can't you give me the same ration as Brother's wife? If you have a problem, tell me a Bang with me,” asked Alex.

The older brother began to shed tears and eventually told Alex his story.

“so gini, Deck. Can you see how handsome your brother's face is?” ask Abang ojek.

“bi-can, Bang,” replied Alex hesitated.

“So the story, I used to be the most popular motorcycle taxi driver in this village. I always get a lot of passengers every day. Most of my passengers are women. They really valued me—even to create a Group on WhatsApp with the name “Fendi Lovers”. Like too many passengers, I often go home at night and make my wife accuse me of being a non-no. Because my wife was a jealous person, she told me to only accept male passengers. If not, he won't give me the night ration forever. Because I love him so much, I follow him. From that time until now, I have had a ride. As a result of the quiet ride, my wife also threatened not to give me a night ration until I got a lot of passengers. So my mistake became.”

Suddenly the mood became mellow. Alex was really sad to hear the story of the ojek brother. It's not just her sad self. Students, security guards, and teachers who were outside the fence, too, were touched by his heart after hearing the story of Abang ojek.

Students, security guards, and teachers outside the fence flocked to give a little help to the ojek elder brother and hoped their help could be enough to repair the destroyed motorcycle lamp.

“Thank you for all your help. I pray that all your sustenance will be waged. Pray also I get a lot of passengers.”

“Amiin,” answer them all.