MOON IN PESANTREN
Andra
Zafar Candra Manaf, that's your full name. Zafar which means victory, Candra in Javanese is moon and Manaf which means high. That is what Andra told me that his grandfather gave him a name that has the meaning of the victory of the high moon. Hm, me and Andra both have the meaning of the name contained the word 'Moon'.
Andra was my friend from the beginning I entered this boarding school. I like the way Andra thinks and the way he responds to problems. Although there is one thing I really don't like about him, which is none other than his playboy attitude. It's clear I don't like her attitude like that because which woman likes a guy like a land crocodile? I have never met a woman who likes a man like that, or maybe 95% of women in this world do not like that. I don't know.
After the events of Andra 10th grade was punished by the upperclassmen for requesting the structural signature of 3rd grade nisa, we accidentally met in the cafeteria after school.
I saw Andra was eating lunch with five friends, I went to him without thinking long after I said goodbye to Rina.
"Eh, Andra." I immediately sat in the front seat of Andra which made them surprised.
Andra's friends were staring at Andra at once, as if I was embarrassing Andra. Ah, I'm already here. When I suddenly left? I have something to ask Andra.
"Who, Ndra?" ask one of them.
"Temen," he replied briefly as he continued his feed.
"Oh. What's name?"
I immediately replied. "Sley."
After swallowing the food in her mouth, Andra asked me, "Well, Cell?"
"Again eat. Noh." I pointed towards Rina who was sitting alone while eating her food. Rina looks relaxed because she is used to everywhere herself here. Unlike me who has to invite friends if you want to go to the cafeteria, shop or anywhere.
"Breaked you, you're eating alone anyway," said one of those who looked the most handsome after Andra.
"Yes, that's why I want to spit. Andra, how could that be punished?"
Andra laughs. "Yes, this morning I went to the cafeteria because I ran out of food at the diner. I know it was bad luck, but from the laper school, yes mending broke into the cafeteria. And unfortunately, I again wear gray pants there because my item pants forget to wash. The most punishments against Hafidz are against Ghani."
His friends laughed and so did I.
"Wouldn't there be any more trousers or minjem items?" ask again.
Andra shakes. "My item pants are all dirty and Males wants to find a pinjeman."
"Finished ask for a signature, Andra hours of rest send nyepu along the corridor of the 3rd floor ruby block he."
"Good there is a good teacher, so the rice can be directly eaten during lesson time. If I don't eat first, I can't eat that much alone, Cell."
During the tenth grade, Andra still often got punished. However, Thank God he has succeeded completely to eliminate his bad habit of smoking. Andra's classmates and roommates are mostly old children so they do not smoke and have a positive effect on Andra, although it may be during the holidays they smoke. But the point is they bring Andra to be better.
Andra is given advice from her friends to increase exercise because it can improve mood and help take your mind off cigarettes. Regular exercise also makes the body more energized so that it does not cause the need to smoke again. Andra also immediately followed many sports activities in the boarding school until almost every afternoon he was on the field.
Actually Andra had difficulty in the first 2 to 3 weeks. He experienced drastic mood changes such as irritability, irritability, impatience until he had a fight with his roommate because of a small thing.
Then, there was one of his roommates who found out that someone who started quitting not to smoke did experience it. Since then his friends have understood Andra's attitude. However, not with the upperclassman who continued to give punishment to Andra.
One day I came to school and saw a piece of paper in my desk drawer. I opened the paper and there was an inscription with the name Andra on the bottom of the paper.
...Cell, tell me what makes the mood better?
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Without a second thought I immediately replied to Andra's letter because I had long known what made my mood improve.
...Browner.
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I folded the paper and put it back in my desk drawer because maybe tomorrow morning or the day after Andra will pick it up when santri nisa no one has come to school. Because the majority of santri rijal eat and walk fast, then they are faster until school, in contrast to santri nisa.
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After the physics teacher came out, I immediately threw my head on the table. Physics lessons are one of the lessons that I do not like, so when the end of the lesson hours is the thing I am waiting for. I usually perform Dhuha Sunnah prayer during rest hours, but because today I am idle then I intend to sleep.
I just closed my eyes, suddenly there was a figure of Vira in front of me. "What's up, Vir?"
Vira smiled wily. "Relope. Yuk's stories." He shook my hand.
Oh God. I've been really uncomfortable with Vira's attitude lately. No, not that I did not want to share my knowledge of Andra with him, but that Vira did not understand my situation. He didn't understand that I just wanted to sleep, my mind.
"About Andra?"
Vira smile.
With a heavy heart, I woke up and Vira occupied the seat in front of me.
"Andra will often give you chocolate. When does that start?"
"Surely this abis you want to ask why Andra can give me chocolate, right?" my continue.
"You know, Cell."
"So, Andra's 10th grade time to me what can make the mood improve. Yes I answer chocolate because from a small I always eat chocolate kalo kelo or sad. Because Andra's mood began to improve after following my advice to eat chocolate, she finally gave me chocolate once a week as a sign of gratitude."
I didn't tell Vira that one of the reasons Andra asked me was because she wanted to normalize her emotions by quitting smoking. Every time there is a desire to smoke, Andra always eats chocolate and Alhamdulillah during the holidays he did not smoke at all until now when we were in the twelfth grade.
I now really feel that Vira likes Andra from the look on Vira's face in everything I tell you about Andra. Even when I told you that Andra gave me that much chocolate, Vira looked sad. However, what I don't like is that Vira and Andra are dating because it's clear that it's a sin.
"But, class 11 until now Andra gives him only 2 weeks once or once a month. Thank God, try once a week. Very wasteful Andra," I said adding that Vira did not think badly.
"OKAY. Thanks, Cell story. I went back to class first. Drug." Vira also immediately went to her class with a slightly moody face even though there was still a smile that he always threw.
"Something's wrong with what I said earlier, isn't it? Afraid of Vira's pain, but I told her the facts and Andra also gave me chocolate because she knew I liked chocolate from childhood. Not because of anything else" I murmured.
I immediately threw my head back before the break was over.
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After the bell rang a sign that the class hour had ended making all the students in the school building aliyah madrasah cover to the restaurant, including me and five roommates.
We queued up to take the rice and side dishes at the front of the restaurant. The queue is quite long plus the atmosphere during the day that is so hot makes me can not stand it, want to feel back to the dorm and not so eat. But it's impossible because my stomach has been screaming since school because it's really hungry.
After a few minutes of waiting in line, my friends and I occupied a table with 10 seats around it.
"I don't want the vegetables to know," said Syilla when he occupied one of the seats.
"Why did you take that, Syill?" ask Iffah while chewing rice along with dried orek tempeh equipped with vegetables.
Syilla cut vegetables from her toothpaste into my toothpaste because she knew that I liked vegetables very much. "So forgot to take it. For you, Cell. I know you like vegetables."
I just nodded slowly and continued to devour the lunch in front of me.
"Well, come back" asked Aidha when I, Syilla, Iffah, Dilla and Nisa had finished our meal.
We put the toothpaste in place and did not forget to wash our hands before leaving the restaurant.
On the way to the dorm, I saw Andra walking in front of me and my friends with a father who I thought was Andra's father. All this time I only knew Andra's mother and sister because it seems like Andra's father rarely came here to visit Andra or maybe every time I was invited to meet with the Andra family was at the time of father Andra's not coming here.
On the whim of my friends just calling Andra's father.
"I'm sorry, abi's father Andra huh, Bi?" asked Iffah who immediately made Andra and her father turn to us.
Andra's father smiled kindly. "Yes. You're Andra's friends, aren't you?"
My five friends agreed.
"This is Andra's father's cell."
"Yes, Cell. Salim dong."
"Do you know me, Cell?"
This oath even embarrassed me. Please do not take me, my mind is upset.
"My son-in-law's candidate is here, huh?" ask Andra's father who suddenly made my friends more excited. While Andra was just silent while smiling a little because she seemed to be holding back the shame.
"Yes there, Bi. This one, Bi. Her name is Seli." Iffah pulled my arm.
Astagfirullah, watch out, Fah. Your hand will not be separated from my pinch later, I grumbled in my heart.
"Oh, that's so pretty."
I don't think Andra's father likes to joke too when viewed from his face quite looks fierce and serious.
We split up at the fork in the road because my friends and I went to our dormitory while Andra and her father went to the dormitory santri rijal madrasah aliyah. Don't forget to say hello to Andra's father.
Andra and I are often told by friends that we like each other but I don't know if she likes me. All I know clearly is that I like it. I admit with a heavy heart that I like him, like a playboy like Andra.
I started to like it when we were in the eleventh grade. At that time we often met because every mother and sister Andra came here, I must have been invited to chat with them. I just love her, not love her. I was amazed by him always trying to get better and one more, because he was also handsome. HAHA.
I'm saying Andra's playboy is when Andra hasn't gotten into this pesantren. Andra used to tell me that she had a lot of ex-boyfriends, I don't know exactly how many. In addition, when I idly open photos on social media Andra is indeed a lot of photos with women during her Junior High School. So I taste it like that. Astagfirullah.
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