Odi's Story

Enam

 

The hour hand has pointed to the number three in the morning, but Odi is still trying to fill in Geography problems.

 

Odi slapped his cheek a few times. "Odi, don't sleep, please. This is your chance to be famous. The spirit!" He cheers himself.

Odi then had an idea. He got up from the study table to pick up the medicine box.

"Well, just take this." Odi took the rubbing oil with a green plastic bottle and brought it back to the study table.

To fight drowsiness, Odi smeared his cheeks near the bottom of his eyes with a little eucalyptus oil. The heat and pain of the oil were to keep his eyes open. I don't know how many times he has yawned. Tomorrow was the day he had been waiting for the past week. National Science Olympiad selection day Geography subjects.

In recent days, Odi has been trying to learn as much as possible. Odi often sacrifices his sleeping and eating time. He believes that tomorrow morning he can answer questions and pass the school selection. His dream of becoming famous will soon be realized. Over time his sleepiness was unbearable. Odi started sleeping.

Maybe God willed something else. Waking up in a bad state. His body shivered and his head felt dizzy. He's probably been pushing himself too much lately.

It was already half-seven but Odi had not yet left the room. The grandmother who felt anxious immediately checked the situation of Odi. Grandma saw Odi curled up in the cold under a thick blanket with a picture of hello kitty.

Grandma put her palms on Odi's forehead. Fever. "Darling, wakeup. You're sick, son."

"Grand, cold," muttered Odi while shivering.

"So, Grandma get me a compress and medicine, yeah."

After a few minutes, the grandmother returned with a basin filled with warm water, a small towel and some heat-lowering medication. With painstaking, grandma compresses Odi's forehead.

Grandma then left Odi for a while and returned with chicken porridge.

"In, eat first, yes."

Odi.

"Little bit. To fill the stomach and take medicine."

Grandma helped Odi sit down, then fed his granddaughter. One mouthful. Two mouthfuls. Three mouthfuls. When grandma was about to feed a spoonful of chicken porridge the fourth time, Odi shook his head. "Here you go, Grandma."

"One more time," persuaded grandma.

Although he refused, but eventually Odi ate too. After that, the grandmother told Odi to take paracetamol medicine and then sleep.

Grandma was worried and told him to rest. Odi wanted to go to school, but what power, to get out of bed he couldn't.

***

After school, Gery stopped by Odi's house.

"Where are the circumstances of Odi, Grandma," asked Gery to grandma.

"His fever has gone down and things are better than it was this morning" replied the grandmother.

"Would you like to see Odi? Just go in." Grandma offers.

"Yes, Grandma."

Seeing the state of Odi from behind the door leaf, he saw the sleeping Odi. Gery felt guilty. Because he showed me the brochure, Odi learned too hard like this. Odi is really stubborn. He was determined to defeat the popularity of Bella. Not wanting to disturb the sleep of Odi, Gery's intention to apologize to undo it. Gery's coming home, he'll see Odi when he's cured.

Grandma asked when Gery came home. "Well, how about a minute?"

"Yes, Grandma. Odi is sleeping. Gery doesn't bother. Later if Odi had woken up Gery had come here again," said Gery while kissing the hands of his grandmother and then resigned.

***

Towards the night Rani came to visit, bringing her homemade cookies. Rani is a hobby of making sweet snacks. Different types of cookies are proficient in cooking. Rani knows the habit of Odi, if you are angry or sad Odi will definitely eat a lot of snacks. Odi is often made to have a toothache due to eating too many biscuits made by Rani. Either the cake is super delicious, or indeed Odi who likes to eat. Odi devoured quickly like he could not stop eating it.

"Lo is too ambitious, eventually even become sick, right," said Rani while putting a notebook of Sociology on the study table Odi.

"Yes, I'm really disappointed, Ran," Odi stopped eating, the cake was gone.

"My business this week has been pointless" he continued, putting an empty jar on the nightstand next to his bed.

"Yes, now you don't have to think about anything else. Take a break. This Sociological task let me who fuss, you stay just copy."

Odi's previously lethargic face returned radiantly. "Well, that's great. Thanks to the lovely Rani."

Rani smiles. "Oh yes, Di. Last afternoon right back home from school, I was told by Bu Cici to gather in the PMR room, right I passed the back yard decket, I saw Bang Gery with Kak Bella."

"Huh? Seriously? You're wrong to see."

"Yes, I think I saw it wrong. I saw it again, it wasn't." Rani grimacing.

"Ah, you make me surprised. You gotta check your eyes, huh."

"Ih, but really, deh. I'm not lying."

"Yes-yes. But it is impossible that Bang Gery and Kak Bella chat, they just do not know each other. Part Kak Bella where to talk to your cupid like Bang Gery."

"Yes, anyway."

The arrival of Rani and her pastry made Odi who was sick and sad a little comforted. Angan became popular as well as the pride of the people around through the OSN road, extinct already. Maybe not enough food, he thought. But Odi doesn't want to give up. He will continue to strive to be popular in a variety of ways.

***

Gery came to pick up Odi. "In, how? Is it healed?"

Odi wears a helmet. "Russia, dong. Yuk, go."

Gery drove up his scooter. "Sorry, On. Because I gave you the brochure, you so mambis follow."

"Yes, Bang. It's not your fault, though. I am too self-absorbed. I should have been grateful to you. Because you gave me an idea. But maybe God doesn't want me to follow."

"So next year you want to follow me again?"

"It seems not, deh. I'm just giving it up. Hehe."

Gery chuckles.

"Bang, Rani's last period of malem said, yesterday you were squirming with Bella's sister in the back yard of the school," Odi's story.

Gery hastily denied. "Iy—iya is impossible, Di. I went straight home."

"Well, I don't believe it either. But he said really look lo. Uh, look around again it's not lo. His eyes are not right, though. Need glasses."

"Instead tell Rani to check her eyes."

"Yes, I told Rani too."

"Yes, Di. Don't think about it. This is your plan after failing to join OSN what? Still want to lose Bella?"

"Still. But I don't know what else to do. You give me an idea, dong."

"I said, stopping you to stop. Lupain Bella's words. You live an ordinary life."

Odi pursed his lips. "Ih, what the hell, Bang. I don't support you, anyway. Sebel."

Gery laughs. "Yes-yes I support you, really."

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