Not a Substitute

I1 Must Move to the Village

In town. In a living room in a house. There are families watching TV.

“Yah, look. They're funny, yeah.” The mother saw five children playing musical instruments together. Some play piano, violin, celo, flute and become conductors.

The father turned off the TV.

“Daddy ..” The mother and the child protested. They still want to continue watching.

“What you're talking about is very important. Ki, tomorrow you don't have to go to school,” said the father.

Kiran was happy. He did not like the school that often gave PR and held exams. “We want a vacation, Dad? Where to?”

“You're going to the village where Dad's friends are. You will stay there,” replied The Father.

“Eh? To the village?” Kiran is a city boy. In what village is there wifi?

“Dad should also be clear about Dafa,” Kiran's mother said.

“You live there and will marry Dafa, the son of a friend of Father.”

“WHAT? But Kiran is still in High School and already has a boyfriend, Dad.”

“Decide your girlfriend now.”

Kiran asks for help from her mother. “Mother ... Please me.”

“Kiran, you know for yourself if Dad is stubborn. What he wants we have to do. Father had promised his friend since they were Junior High that they would marry their son. It just so happens that Dad's daughter and Dad's friend's son's son. Would you like to see the picture?” Kiran's mother couldn't do anything.

“But now is not the time of Siti Nurbaya, Mom. Kiran does not like to be fooled.” Kiran's eyes look teary.

“Ki, I just want to keep his promise,” said the Mother.

Kiran crying. He went straight into his room. He does not want to part with his girlfriend. He called his girlfriend. “Father asked me to stay in the village.”

“When I go there to visit you.”

Kiran was happy. 

Bend day. The father and mother take Kiran to the train station. “Yes, Kiran is afraid to go alone.”

“Later there will be Dafa who will pick you up at your destination.”

“Be careful, yes Kiran.” The mother waved from outside the train.

They then split up. Kiran wants to sleep on the train but the full condition of the train makes her afraid of pickpockets. Kiran tried not to sleep.

A few hours later he arrived at his destination. Kiran went out and headed for the front gate. He looked around. Said someone would come to pick me up.

Kiran saw a teenage boy carrying a sign bearing his name. Kiran approached the teenager. “ What are you Dafa?”

The teenage boy nodded. He helped carry the suitcase and drove Kiran to her house. 

In the cargo car, Kiran was about to borrow Dafa's phone. His cell phone was confiscated by his father. He wants to check his social media. See the comments left by his followers. “Can I borrow your phone?”

Dafa gave her his cell phone. 

Whatisthis? Kiran sees old school hp that can only be used for sms and phones only. “You don't have a smartphone?”

“There is home. But can only be used sms same phone aja.”

Finally they arrived at Dafa's house. A typical country house but spacious and neat. Dafa puts Kiran's suitcase in the room and she gives Kiran a change of clothes.

“Replace your clothes with this then follow me.”

Kiran did what Dafa told her to do. He changed his clothes and followed Dafa.

They arrived at the greenhouse. “Now we will pluck the ripe strawberries. Pick like this so that the stroberry is more durable.”