Maura: The New Year Tragedy

The Pesantren Part 1

One of the modern pesantren cottage which is the flagship cottage in the city of M on the eastern island of Java.

Hundreds of santri putra were seen coming out of the mosque area after the prayer and returning to their respective activities. Some went back to class, some took a break, some returned to memorize the Qur'an and many more they did.

Among the hundreds of santri sons, there was a grown man who was walking with one of the sons who was about twelve years old. Both of them walked to the back of the mosque. I don't know where the two of them are going. The others are not going that way.

The two of them continued to step their feet away from the mosque and stopped at a pond containing carp. And not far from them stopped there was also an even bigger pond containing tilapia. The two walked over to the hut not far from the pond and sat there.

Rendy, that guy is Rendy. The husband of the late Mutia who went missing without news after several weeks his wife was buried. It turned out that the new widower was hiding in one of the boarding houses in the city of M. Though many think that the new widower had ended his own life after the departure of his soul mate.

And for santri who looks handsome and has a westernized face is also still a child? I don't know, nobody knows who he is, except Rendy, God and Author. Only they know because they have not been explained.

"Uncle why bring Rafa here?"

Seen, the little boy who called himself Rafa asked Rendy. He stared fixedly at the adult man sitting next to him with such high curiosity and so admired him. A man who teaches martial arts to a son who really wants to learn martial arts.

The man she said would adopt her after two months Uncle was living here. And that means he will now be adopted and become the adopted son of Rendy Yudha Pratama. The man he helped and found was lying by the roadside robbed and beaten. Is this uncle really going to adopt me, he thought.

Rendy glanced cynically at the little boy and pulled the boy's neck with her hands until the boy's head slid right on his sweaty armpits and definitely smelled, because Rendy did not wear deodorant. There was no money to buy it and he only used bar soap belonging to other students which is certainly one for all.

"Once again you call 'uncle', I make sure you will be a gourame meal." threatened Rendy who was so furious at the little boy who always called him 'uncle' and did not want to call him 'papa'. The reason is only one, because he has not legally adopted Rafa.

With his courage, Rafa pinches Rendy's waist to be free from Rendy's hand. Rendy's armpits smell sour, so Rafa doesn't want to faint just from smelling underarms. How not to faint. The smell of Rendy's armpits is really like an anesthetic that can make people instantly faint instantly.

"Uncle does not shower how many days? it smells so bad." Rafa is seen fanning his nose with both hands to eliminate the smell that had arisen in his sense of smell. He was even seen to throw a rough breath a few times.

"Three days." ketus Rendy with a snort annoyed at the smell.

Rendy sniffed her body odor for a while to make sure that her body and armpits smelled anything. "No smell!" rummage Rendy slowly. "But the armpits are a little smelly." added Rendy in the heart because the armpits were not using deodorant.

Rendy glanced at the little boy sitting next to her. Rafa, the boy is seen no longer telling or mocking him anymore. Rafa looks silent just staring at the fish pond in front of him.

"Uncle! Rafa came back first. Rafa wants to memorize Rafa first with Ustadz Ramli before tomorrow come with Uncle home."

Rendy nodded and let Rafa go on with his activities. Yesterday he had told Rafa that he would take Rafa home for a short week, because Rafa had to go back to study at the cottage.

FLASHBACKS

Either because he no longer has the spirit of life anymore or indeed he was so devastated and unwilling to leave, Mutia the wife. Rendy drove his vehicle not necessarily the direction of his destination until the speed of the vehicle that Rendy was driving at that time could get away from where he lived and ended up in a city that he had never visited at all.

Maybe because of fatigue or indeed lazy to fight and live. When he was robbed by a herd of robbers, Rendy looks silent and resigned so that the car and all the valuables he has are taken by the herd of robbers.

Rendy who was unconscious because of the robbers was found by a little boy named Rafa. A santri in a cottage not far from where Rendy found her unconscious.

Rendy opened her eyes slowly, twitching a few times. He frowned when he felt pain and a little dizziness on his head.

Ishh

Rendy grimaced when accidentally her hand formed a wound on her temple. Wounds that have been treated and bandaged.

"I where?"

Rendy's eyes scanned the place she was currently occupying to lie down. A room measuring about 3X2 meters with a single bed and a one-door closet is also a bookcase.

He heard the voices of people teaching from outside. I don't know where he is at this time, because it is rare for him to hear people teaching in a clear voice like today.

Rendy immediately got off the bed slowly as she felt her crumbling body crumble. It is his own fault that does not fight when beaten by a herd of robbers. Finally his body was all bruised and felt sore.

Rendy frowned, she also squinted her two eyes after opening the window. He looked at the room he was in at the moment. He saw so many people in a mosque and not infrequently there were also people passing by around the building of the place of worship.

"Is this a boarding school? Why are they all men? There's no woman?" muttered Rendy who had just seen no woman wandering around.

Rendy was pensive to hear the chanting of the holy Quran which so calms his heart and mind. He hadn't read the book in a long time. Even during Mutia's marriage, she and Mutia never touched the scriptures. They only pray as a duty of those who are Muslims. There is still a hole, incomplete.

"O Allah, what, because I have always ignored Your commandments, makes it difficult for me to recapture what You have taken back from me. Is there still a chance for me to become a much better person, a person who always attach more importance to the afterlife than the world?"

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