I'm the Son of the Prostitute
2. The Good Lina
"Tok...Lin." Parto knocked on a boarding room door outside her tenement location. Just walk, it's been there for a while.
"Eh, um Parto. What's up, mas?" A crazy white girl, opened the door for them.
"I picked up my friend iki nginep last night. He's looking for work here." The man asked permission to his friend in Bandung to board Rani goods overnight.
"Oh, yes. No pa pa pa. Mbak. Sorry, the place is narrow. Call me Lina." The white girl invited Rani to enter with her travel bag.
"Yes, I'll go home first. Thanks to Lin." Prapto said to go back to his own boarding house.
"Oh yes, mas. Please." Lina then closed the door and tidied up the floor mattress and some less neat stuff.
"Sir, let's get the stuff. Not on the floor. That's enough. If you want to drink, take it. Sorry, I don't have any snacks. Understandably, nomads should be sparing. I just eat rice, the side dishes are sober.It's still there mbak, can be eaten. I cooked by myself. The bath is outside. If only last night, usually not visited by the mother kos. But if it's more than 2 days, aampuuun..wara - wiri him." The renter of the room told the state of his boarding while lying down.
"Thank you mbak. Hopefully we can get a job quickly. Oh yeah, I ate at the warteg, still full. Thank you so much, I've caught it." Rani refuses her offer to eat, but thanks to her, tonight she can sleep in a comfortable place without having to pay.
"Oh, yes, that's it. Breakfast first tomorrow morning. We cook ourselves. Don't buy, let's save. Where do you plan to work? What was the school up to?" Lina kindly made her new friend comfortable in her room.
"Yes, I didn't help the cooking. I finished S1. In order to directly work and there is a place to live plus free food but can earn, besuk I want to find work so nurse only. May care for infants or elderly. Not through the agent. Done and get a pay cut. I'm gonna go look for it in luxury housing. Usually there is an impromptu job that may not have time to find workers. Let's be sure, I brought a photocopy of alias that has been legalized by the campus. Also I have SKCK and real KTP. May he believe." Rani tells a series of activities that she will live tomorrow.
"Oh, yes, mbak. I-i understand. Actually, unfortunately, the scholar became a maid. But how else? Is life hard for those who are not wealthy? Mbak spirit. Moga besuk accepted. But once accepted, do not immediately work. The bag was left here first. Ma'am bring my spare key. Sleep here again last night, let's not be surprised to do his new job. I'll be back in the house again tomorrow morning. Moga can't get a good employer." Lina supported Rani's decision, because all she could help was a place to stay and eat potluck for a few days. Working in a factory like him, could not be directly accepted. Take time. While Rani, needs food, shelter and a fast salary.
"Aamiin YRA's. Thanks mbak. Yuk sleeps." Rani is grateful, overseas to meet good people, although this afternoon she had time to meet prospective girlfriends.
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It's still dark. City B whose cold air was bone-chilling for newcomers, he ignored. But, Rani was used to getting up early. He should immediately prepare himself for today. When he was shitting, he saw that the bathroom was dirty.
"Hoeeekkk..." The girl who was accustomed to cleanliness, immediately took Lina's deergen, sprinkled on the walls and closet, then brushed it with a brush in the well area and in the bathroom for WC.
"Srek..srek..lk....byuuurrr..." Within 10 minutes, the bathroom was clean. Gegas Rani all bathe and wudhu to perform dawn prayers.
"Wow, it's neat. Thanks to you, ma'am." Lina, who had just returned from shopping at a stall near her boarding house, was happy, finding her room was clean and tidy.
"Pean shower only mbak. Let me cook. The rice's not steamed, let anget make breakfast. I already ngecopne rice, so if the pean comes home, there will be rice. So just eat. Next month, after getting a salary, InshaAllah I play here." Rani offers cooking assistance, so that Lina does not rush to work on her morning shift.
"Yes mbak. Thanks to ya." The owner of the room immediately went to the bathroom while carrying his toiletries. Back he was stunned, when he saw the toilet from seedy to kinclong.
"Srength..sreng..sreng..." Rani lightly sauteed the seasoning, then put Slada Air into the pan. Fragrance of the spice invokes the sense of smell of the occupants of the cost. At 05:00 they started to scatter out of the room.
"Mister, new occupants?" Asked a petite girl as she passed by in front of Lina's room. Oh yes, the tenement room has a terrace as wide as 1m throughout a patch of room. Lina ordered a cupboard that she could use to store cooking utensils, condiments, stoves and gas locked. So he's not worried it's stolen while he's at work.
"No. He's my friend looking for work here." Lina who had finished bathing, suddenly muttered behind Rani who was heart - heart poured stir fry into the bowl. Hearing Lina's short answer and a little jutek, made the girl's room neighbor pass to her destination, the toilet.
"Mmm.the delicious food mbak. Balado cob of mantab. Here, wrap this rice paper. Sautees and balladnya put plastic into 1, so the rice does not have to gravy. Don't buy rice later. Bring drinking water too. I'm also ready for lunch. This is the boarding address. Just ask the store owner about the angkot to this house. If to a stranger passing by, he is afraid to be buried or used." Lina told Rani to bring supplies when looking for work later, so there is no need to spend money, except transportation. He also details what Rani should do while outside.
"Yes, mbak. Thanks a lot." Rani is deeply moved by Lina's kindness towards her.
"Ran, are you ready?" From the outside, Prapto called his teacher's sister to prepare.
"Eh, mas Prapto. Nih, mbak Raninya is ready. Come in, have breakfast?" Lina hastened to answer the call of the other cost neighbor of the house to Rani.
"Thank Lin. I ate Kupat Tahu, just now." The man, who was also preparing for the job, refused the offer of his neighbor because he had bought breakfast in the alley of the village.
"Sir, I'm leaving first." Rani hugs Lina with dewy eyes.
"Yes. Heart - heart. Good luck, get a good boss and welcome back here." Lina was moved to see the struggle of her new friend to be independent.
"Aamiin YRA." Rina solemnly accepted the prayer of the factory worker who had given her a ride to sleep and eat.
"Ngeeeeng..." The Supra Fit motorbike drove away from the village and split a large road that was already crowded then iron horses and large vehicles.
