Love for Time

Chapter 11 - The Midnight Feast

Tok...

Tok...

Tok...

Cheryl's faint ears catch a rhythmic knocking sound, bringing her back from dreamland. For a moment he drowned, looking for where the voice came from. The door? Or windows? Or maybe someone is knocking on the next room. The walls between rooms in this room are very thin, often the knock in the next room sounds like it came from his own room.

Tok. st. pssst...

Tok. st. pssst...

Tok... Cheryls...

Lho?

The knocking was heard again. No doubt, this time his name was called.

"Chery... Cheryl."

A familiar and unconscious voice made him wait all day. Since this morning, they separated and Dimitri said goodbye to Semarang, he has not appeared again. Usually at seven in the evening, Dimitri would come to take her to dinner. Or if he is working part time, then Dimitri will pick him up at the cafe. Cheryl rushed to where the sound came from.

"YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!" dimitri was excited when. Cheryl opened her bedroom window facing the front yard of the boarding house.

"PSSTTTTTTTtttt....."

A compact hissing sound rang out from behind Dimitri's back, accompanied by a murderous gaze of creatures who spontaneously told Dimitri to turn down the volume of his voice. Some students clenched their hands in the air towards Dimitri who was involuntarily already noisy.

Dimitri grinned, with index and middle fingers outstretched. Peace, man!

Spontaneous Cheryl turned her head towards the hiss it came from. Her eyes widened. Hordes of boarding children, both student boarding houses and students are gathering. Glanced at the light blue alarm clock on the study table. At 00.20? Holy hooch!

"Well?" cheryl asked quietly when she saw Dimitri gave the code not to make any noise. The silent atmosphere of the night made the slightest sound could be heard.

"Eat - eat us!" A student exclaimed in a stifled voice. His hand waved towards Cheryl, giving the code to join.

"Let's join!" the other sahut.

"Let's go for party." whispered Dimitri.

His thumb leads to a horde of children boarding students and students who are engrossed in their activities.

Cheryl's eyes widened. "That's kind of a midnight party?" His memory floated at a midnight event on the novel he had read, entitled First Semester In Malory Towers by Enyd Blyton, about bad boys in boarding school.

"Hey, Cheryl. You only live once." ledek Lianita while waving her hand.

Waw! There's Lianita. Who would have thought that Lianita who looked alim was also there. The girl was wearing long-sleeved pajamas and pinched her hair.

Cheryl got curious about what it was like to be together at midnight with friends, she bit her lips while thinking.

"Hey, have fun because today you will miss" Dimitri said, quoting a sentence from the old band Sheila On 7.

She immediately pulled Cheryl's hand and forced her out of the room through her bedroom window, which was enough to fill Cheryl's tiny body. The girl snatched the cardigan and jumped out the window.

YUP!

You Only Live Once!

Live only once, do not be wasted. All this time he continued to study and work. This time he won't let himself pass without memory! Let him enjoy his youth.

"Shhh.h..: it's cold" said Cheryl, holding her cardigans together with one hand.

"It will also be warm." Dimitri replied casually, his chin pointing towards the bonfire that was at the end of the courtyard. His friends were going around the campfire burning corn.

Cheryl first felt what is called a midnight party or what is called barbeque time by her friends.

Yep. Barbeque style child boarding, the main menu of corn and cassava purchased by joint venture. Extra menus of bread and margarine, from some children who willingly remove food scraps from their rooms. Drink warm tea and ginger wedang.

"Let's.... " As soon as she saw Cheryl coming, Lianita thrust a mature roasted kettle into Cheryl's mouth, as soon as she arrived near the bonfire.

"Dan. niezz... " Cheryl opened her mouth and flapped her hands in front of her mouth, the kettle still hot. Lianita and a few girls giggled at Cheeyl's mouth that was gawking hot.

Dimitri is silent stealing glances, happy to see Cheryl, who is notoriously quiet, has started to have friends at the boarding house. Hope Cheryl can feel at home at this hostel.

"Hey, add more of the spice!" reni's orders were slightly fat. His hand held two corns at once to burn.

"Eating teros..diet when - when." quipped a skinny tall young man with the call Acong piled firewood.

"It smells so good." said Devi as she kissed - kiss the bowl filled with grilled corn.

"Well, what else is it gonna take?" Tanya Mbak Cici, a sweet black student from Solo.

"Guitar, Mom. Come duet me." said Dimitri, his eyes twitching idly. She knows Cici has a good voice and loves to sing.

Mbak Cici turned to Dimitri with sparkling eyes - twinkle as if saying a good idea.

"Woo... Tom! Borrow your guitar dong!" Unknowingly Mbak Cici exclaimed at Toni. He forgot the rule of the gospel midnight party is not to be noisy.

"PSSTTTTTTT..... "

Hiss accompanied by a murderous gaze this time was directed towards the solo girl who had just shouted.

Oops!

Madam Cici just cupped both palms in front of her face, as an apology. The other students giggled. They are afraid of being discovered by the boarding house, but also want barbequan. They dismissed the doubts, and continued the evening activities that for them were considered adrenaline-pumping.

The voices - enthusiastic voices restrained, whispered - whispered and reminded each other not to be noisy continue to accompany the darkening night.

Silent - silent Cheryl smiled relieved, friends - her boarding friends turned out to be good children. Not like he heard when he was about to get in here. One of the reasons, which makes him rarely get along with anyone other than Dimitri who does part time work with him, and also Lianita who is friendly.

He sat on a small stool while enjoying a warm ginger in his glass and observing the behavior of cute boarding children and fun at each other.

Tomi frightened Mbak Cici by putting a dried plant root on his shoulder, until Mbak Cici was suffocated in horror. Want to scream fearfully heard up to the house of the boarding house or reprimanded neighbors. Want to be quiet, he was amused because he thought the roots of the plant were caterpillars.

His feeling warmed up. For a moment he forgot about his grandmother who was gone, no longer thinking about the continuation of his relationship with Dimitri. Let this be how it is to be happy.

"We are good children." Tau - tau Dimitri already sat next to Cheryl. He smiled and looked at Cheryl in the shade, then continued the words. "We like parties but not nar-ko-ba. We often drink - drink but only tea and ginger wedang. We don't do free s-e-k-s but yeah.we always have a party like this."

(We always party like this.)

Cheryl nodded, her eyes looking back at the excitement made by her friends. "They're all like brothers?"

Silence - Dimitri's silent hand held Cheryl warm. "Come with them, you'll know the meaning of Ohana."

Connect yes....