Hope? : Between Dreams and Reality

Companions

After delivering Rina, Rehan did not go straight home. He stopped by a coffee shop on the side of the road. The coffee shop belongs to a former prisoner.5 years after he got out of prison he decided to build a business and intend to leave the dirty work of his past. Mamat Kojek name, Rehan often stopped by the place to just smoke or drink coffee. For him the coffee shop was like his second home, he would always take the time to stop by the shop.

He ordered a coffee. Very bitter coffee. It appears Mamat Kojek was busy preparing Rehan's order, and was brewing water from a furnace. He would occasionally blow the fire in the furnace with bamboo. If the fire looks smaller he adds firewood and dry coconut skin to keep the fire burning.

He sometimes glanced at Rehan, saw Rehan sticking his cheeks on the table, he looked very lethargic. When the coffee was finished, he placed it next to Rehan. Rehan got up, his eyes reddened, his eyes blank. Her hair is so messy. It's like a drunk person.

“Lu why, Han?” asked Mamat Kojek who was astonished by the boy. Usually it doesn't look like that.

“Gapa, Bang,” Rehan replied. But the instant he thought of something, Mamat Kojek can certainly provide a solution to his problem.

“Bang you know Rina right? Gw's girlfriend. He's asking for marriage, Bang.”

“Ya stay married. Poor kids hanged.”

Rehan took a cigarette. He lit the cigarette and smoked it. He didn't make a sound for a moment. After a few blinks he breathed it out. Smoke seems to be everywhere. His feelings began to calm down a little.

“Not that bang, you know I'm still unemployed. Want to feed what the kids are.”

“Hadeh you are weird huh. You don't see me. An ex-con can make his own efforts. Moreover, you who graduated SMK”

“But if make a business it costs a lot.”

“Lu is a rich man's son, ask the same father lu.”

But Rehan this time did not agree with the words of Mamat Kojek. Although he was the son of a rich man, he was also the son of a stingy man. Let alone for business capital, for the monthly cost of school time alone is difficult to ask for forgiveness. He thought for a moment, Mamat Kojek must have a way to quickly get money.

“Bang, you have a way to get a lot of money in a short time no?”

Mamat Kojek is really an experienced person. He obviously knew everything. But he did not answer, he thought for a moment. Until he finally said something, though,

“Abang hates to say this, but Brother knows how. Even so Brother actually suggested that you do not do it. Because to get a lot of money quickly can not be done in good ways plus the risk of the danger can make you fate like a brother. But you know you're an adult, you know what's good and what's bad for you.”

“What are the ways, Bang?

“Mrobs”

……….

The next day, as they planned, they came to the place, exactly 500 meters from the restaurant with 2 motorcycles, where Zero had a conversation with Muslih, and Rehan brought his own motorcycle. They came right at 10. They were already very neat with white shirts and black pants, they were carrying some brown envelopes, because they intended not only to put the proposal to that place, but to some other place.

It is a very famous restaurant in the area. There provide a variety of processed chicken, the customer was quite a lot. And so does his employee. They faced him, staring clearly at a wide banner the name of the restaurant “House Feeding Chicken Baik”. They also put their feet into the restaurant.

Zero slightly stiffened his clothes, he was a little nervous. Seen several cashiers in full uniform, welcoming them.

“Welcome to the Good Chicken Feeding House. Can I help you?”

“We want to apply for a job here,” Muslih said. They try to make a good impression. With that forced impressed smile.

“Ouh good. Please leave the documents.” These three friends of ours gave the documents to the cashier.

“Wait for the next call."

We went on a trip to a fabric factory. There looks a fairly large factory with white walls with a little pattern of lines. A security guard stopped us at the door. They also offered the proposal, but the security guards immediately rejected it on the grounds that the company did not need a man.

Finally they managed to finish the application, but when they wanted to go home. Suddenly the rear tire of Muslih's motorcycle leaked. An unwanted thing, plus not visible in their eyes patch of tires close to the area.

“The powder leaked Mus?” ask Zero who seemed confused at that time.

“lo object anyway!”

“loh kok lo lalahin gw!”

“It's better we lead up to the tire patch,”ucap Rehan trying to separate.

……….

He realized that his two friends both had a strong character. Sometimes he has to separate it. Even when they were in school, they almost fought for a problem that was not really important. But it is often a fight all over the world.

“Earth is flat.” Muslih firmly said it in front of his friends in the cafeteria owned by Wa Sum.

“Tolol lu! The earth is round!” said Zero who was a bit squealing.

“What you said, you were *****! The earth is flat!” muslih said, while ambushing Zero's collar. He held it tightly.

In such circumstances Zero still does not want to lose, he still clings to his knowledge. The proof is clear that the earth is round. But Muslih did not want to accept it, inevitably Muslih hit Zero's face, until bleeding on his left lip. Under such circumstances, Rehan was the only one who could be relied upon. Only he can separate their quarrels.

“You are round or flat, that is not your reason for quarreling. You two are friends, you can't fight for any reason.”

That speech was enough to ease that heated quarrel. Both are a little calm.

But strangely, even though these two friends of ours had a fist fight, in an instant only these two friends of ours got back together. Like nothing ever happened to them. It was a relief for Rehan and the other friends.

“If you are right you will get nothing and if you are wrong you also get nothing. Right and wrong are sometimes difficult to predict,”.

But in the commotion that had subsided, someone from the end of the canteen alley was interrupting,

“The earth is equilateral triangle.”

Everyone stared at the sound. Inevitably the two of our friends directly stormed towards the direction of the voice. Followed by other friends who do not want to lose the moment.

“Hazard him,” said Rehan who is now most excited to storm him.

“Eh we can not fight with our own friends,” Zero said to Rehan.

“Emang you know him?

“Gak.”

“Judah hajar.”

That's how they are. As 3 friends who are very familiar it is clear that fights will often occur into the spice of friendship. But that is not a reason to be hostile to drag on. The quarrel actually makes them closer and more compact. Such is the art of friendship. Everything is so beautiful even if it concerns flaws.

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