Merantau To Riau Islands

Still less fortunate

Sitting in the tv room while eating the food I bought earlier. Tasty, I saw Fatih sitting on his father's lap seriously watching us eat. His father gave a piece of lontong to Fatih.

"Where, Na! What escaped?"

"Maybe not brother,"

"Patience, just once, make the motivation for the spirit again in the future,"

"Yes, brother."

After eating, I played out with Fatih, not forgetting to contact Mom and Angga. I must not contact Mother because her prayer is the sharpest weapon for her children's success.

"Hallo, Mom!

"Yes, Na, how are you? Not in there?"

"Anyday, Mom, I'm with Angga, how are you?"

'Alright, Alhamdulillah, oh, yes, Na, you are fine there yes, no need to bother.

"Yes, Mom,"

"Don't be heavy-handed, often help your sister-in-law do homework as usual that you often do in the village."

"Yes, Mom, I remember Mom's message."

"There, Fatih's Mom's granddaughter, which other one?"

"Yes, Mom, the others are inside."

"Fatih, the handsome Grandma's granddaughter.  Grandma misses Mother's granddaughter,"

"Yes, Grandma, Fatih is also missing Grandma, when do we meet?' he said?'

"When, Fatih goes back to the field, we meet!

"Yes, ready, Grandma, he said." Emot laughing.

Azan magrib reverberated, quickly completing our shocks. Finished talking with Mother and Angga, go inside, perform magrib prayers.

"What are you talking to Mom about?" 

"Obviously, Nanyain says everything, Kangen is with you, want to meet his grandson, want to carry his grandson. It's a shame you guys are taking a shower."

"Yes, it's okay, Lebaran will come home, if you already get work like you can't go home."

"Yes, it's okay Bang."

"The risk of parents having a son, has been great to leave the house either when he came home." said Bang Faisal. Yes, Minang men are adults mostly leave their homes wandering, seeking identity after marriage leave rumh and live in the house of a wife or private house that has been prepared before marriage or go to bring a wife.

"Yes, Bang, girls too." Yes, if Minang's daughter is married still live in her house, her parents' house with her suminya. Her husband also had the right to bring his wife along with him. Not strange really, who say their strange narrow mindset has become the culture and habits of matriarchal society. 

"Daughter is different for us, she still belongs to her parents even though she is married, closer to her biological parents than in-laws." said Faisal bang.

"I'm not Bang, while here, I'm closer to Brother instead of parents or in-laws." replied Brother Shela.

"You choose to migrate away from your parents until marriage is also monitored."

 We talked for a long time, also long time also idle Fatih. Ah, so pity my handsome captain. Play with Fatih until prayer time isya. Fatih is being funny, agile again. Until Fatih sleeps. The dawns of Fatih were awake. Play alone and disturb his parents.

***

"Sorry, you're waiting for me, huh, Na?"

"Yes, where the hell are you, how come it's just now?"

"Come, Mall, Thoshiba is not far from where I live, there is a job opening, I've submitted our file, sorry, Na! I didn't pick up the phone from you."

"Reply SMS snapped, just don't make me wait! Of course I'm annoyed with someone who is not on time like this, I'm the type of person who always keeps the time and most dislike people who do not keep the time.

"Yes, sorry, Na! Do you dare not travel alone? Do not yourself follow someone else where the rame there stops. Me, that's it." I never knew where he was going, but it's okay, this one time I understand, twice it's suspicious. 

"If you know you're not coming or you're late, I'll go with them."

"Yes, shit! Tomorrow, I won't repeat." I don't know, I thought, once people are so in the future too. 

"Now they want to go home, many people have gone home,"

"Pump! We go around to where the nyampe is, after that go home!

"Pump!

"Or we go to the place yesterday, want to see who passes the selection, interview and pass the work!

"Pump! Arriving at the place, we looked at the lists that passed, it turned out that we were both one step away. But, that field boy got away with it all. Who passed the interview some of those who passed the writing test. Who escaped work part of it again. The rival of the thousands who escaped was indeed 30 people. Go leave the place.

Again it's the same. Coming to the usual place waiting for hours, Alya did not come.

I saw KTI right never coming

I went to the cafe, mushola, mall indo spinach is not there.

Phone not picked up SMS not replyed.

Up to a week just waiting in SP, many people but no one wants to say hello. Wanna say hello. I just sit for free.

Up to a week. Alya has been accepted to work at the Mall where she applied for the meeting. Sunday night and his afternoon picnic seemed to have been forgotten by Alya.  Now, stay alone, I have to be smart to find friends.

Do not forget to contact Alya, if there is a vacancy, do not forget to contact me and enter the file lamarn I who is still one duplicate of him. Said, Alya, Yes."

Ok, lah. Patience, Nana.

***

The third week, set off alone as Bang Faisal entered the night. Be the three of us at home. Regularly say the same to home people.

upon arrival, somehow I found a friend, I followed the person from behind. Today was really tiring, no friends were invited to chat. There are some who open vacancies, I just enter.

"Hi! Who, name want?"  Join aja!

"Yes." Yeah."

Again the phone is not picked up SMS is not answered.

Do not forget to come to the Mall thosiba where Alya works. I asked SPG there was no such thing as, "Alya larasati. "Then where is he ?" have you been secretly accepted to work somewhere else to my knowledge? without helping?" I don't know.

"Up to this 4th month has been 1 week Alya disappeared like swallowed by the earth. I don't know where his house is. Never went to his house. Where the hell is he?"

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