I'm the Son of the Prostitute
1. Shouldn't Meet
One twilight at a small city terminal, a freight car was waiting for its passengers to fill up. A beautiful girl, sitting at the back of the wheel. From the outside, came a skinny man with a shabby appearance, ran and then entered the parked car.
The man took out a bottle of mineral water and drank it. Suddenly he was stunned when he finished drinking and was about to close the bottle. His eyes were fixed on a long-haired girl, whom he felt had known him.
"Rani? You're Rani, right? Sister Hari teacher Junior High?" The man pointed at the girl, until she turned her head.
"Yes, who are you?" His tone was haughty, his back was upright and his eyes were squeaking from top to bottom, the man who greeted him was.
"I Parto. The one you used to laugh at?" The man named Parto was trying to remind the girl about the time in school first.
"Ha..ha...ha....are you Parto? I swear, I don't remember you." Rani laughs crazily remembering the skinny little boy who she used to laugh at because of his name.
"He..he..he. You were the only one laughing at me at the time. After all, who doesn't know his sister's teacher?" The skinny man replied in embarrassment.
"Where are you from? If I'm from town S, I'm going to go back home." The slim girl asked the man who turned out to be her schoolmate.
"I work at B." He answered briefly.
"Well, what a coincidence, I'm going to town B. Go on vacation and meet a friend there. Can I have your number? Who knows if you have time to be my guide?" Rani is happy, because there are friends that she can rely on when she plays in the city.
Swapping mobile numbers also happens. Arriving at the sub-district city, the girl stopped and gave the fare to the freight kernet.
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After the spread, Rani who had bought a train ticket, went straight to the city station. He who likes to travel, really enjoys his journey.
The airless economy class train was traveling at its normal speed. At every station that had a special meal, the girl always bought it. The rice field, the back of the house and the forest he had gone through in the light and dark days of the night.
Until the cold came, the iron carriage arrived at station R. The girl immediately called her friend. Long wait, finally the man introduced by his friend came to pick him up.
"MAD..." Rani widened while covering her gaping mouth with both of her palms. The figure that was seen was completely different from the older brother of his friend's husband. Very far from expectations. Her clothes were shabby, her skin was in debt, and her eyes were glaring.
But the girl still gave the man a chance to get close to her. Rani was shocked again, because what was presented was very disappointing. The man only brought a pancal bike.
"Yes God. This era is still a bonce with a bicycle?" The beautiful girl kept trying to cool her heart following the man on foot to his boarding house.
"Oh my God, what kind of rent is this slum?" Rani is shocked to see the state of the room as a box that is stuffy, dirty and smelly. The place was just a thin sheet of mattress, with pillowcases and dirty bed linen. "Look Ran. This is Mas Joko's rental room. Don't go out and buy you rice." He went again on his bike to the stall somewhere.
"Hoeeeek..." Rani could not take it anymore, then chose to go outside the room and sit on a wooden bench in the boarding area. From far away, the man had returned.
"It's on, eat it." Joko drops a paper pack on Rani.
"Ha..what is this?" Rani continued to mutter in her heart when she saw the contents of the package that she thought was Padang rice, it turned out to be only white rice and tempeh. The girl who was used to eating well, was very surprised to see the things she had just met.
"Hello, yeah. I've arrived. Ja. I'm going to go there. Wait a minute." Rani pretends to receive a phone to avoid lingering with the rancid-smelling man.
"Mas, sorry. I gotta go. My friend is waiting in Indoapril in front of the station." Joko was stunned to see me immediately go carrying a travel bag without eating the rice she bought.
"Yes already. Monggos." He watched Rani avoid him.
Under the blazing sun and dust and smoke in the streets, the young girl stumbled towards the station. He opened his phone and sent an SMS to Parto. "Are you in Bandung?"
In a spacious room, Parto, who heard her phone ringing, immediately picked it up. There was a message coming in. "Ha...Rani?" He then replied, "Already. I'm working."
"I'm also in Bandung. At the R station. Finished work, can you please take me looking for cheap costs near the city? I'm gonna find a job here." Rani plans to find work alone in town B instead of going back to her hometown. He felt alone there.
"Yes.Wait there." From sebrang, Parto replied to her friend's SMS.
At 17:00 it turned out that Parto kept her promise to meet Rani at station R. He sat next to her. "In what order did you come here?"
"I found the guy my friend introduced. I thought he was as handsome and wise as his sister. Turns out what I met zonk. He's ugly, item, smelly and plonga - plongo. It's so sad about his life." The beautiful girl told the chronology of her arrival until she stopped at station R.
"Well, you're weird. Determinedly. Yeah, what do you want to do?" Although upset at bearing his son's people, Priyo still wants to help find him kosan.
"It's easy to accept, like a maid. So I don't have to go to town. Find me a boarding house that can be hired last night. Tomorrow drop me in elite housing. I'm gonna find a job there." Rani, who is a kepet residence and money, forgets her undergraduate education.
"alright. About kosan, you were hitching a ride at my girlfriend's boarding house. Tomorrow won't take you to luxury housing here. Now we go to the warteg, fill the stomach first." Parto offers a solution to a friend from her hometown.
'Alhamdulillah. Appreciable. In warteg there can be vegetables and delicious side dishes. He will pay. My money is reduced. Can for a hold." Rani gives thanks in her heart, because 1 problem is solved. After finding the stall, they immediately ordered food and drinks. The girl from the small town, greedy to eat warteg rice whose rice he usually considers jumbo, but turned clean was not left at that time. Because, all day he had not eaten due to the incident of the wrong meeting last afternoon at station R.
Flickering - the flickering lights of the new city B stepped on by Rani and then the tares of the vehicle, making her forget the tiredness of her soul and body today. Until Parto stopped his motorbike at the cost - a tenement room in an urban village.
