Painting Images With Light
Part 1's
..."If the fire burns ... If it is pierced by a thorn ... Maybe ... I can still hold ... But this hurts more ... Disappointed. Because of love.......
...Don't let me ... Ants get angry .. if it is too .. This hurts ... Than heartache ... Better this toothache ... Let's just be okay....
...... Rela, willing, willing, I let go ..."...
Already the umpteenth time the chant rhymed slowly, and the teasing of dangdut singer Meggy Z, accompanied by the sound of drum and flute, sounded out from the loudspeaker cassette tape player.
Although tired of listening to it, but the two pairs of ears that are there, still want to turn on the battery-powered obsolete tape cassette player, rather than they just daydream empty.
On the floor of the wallless garden hut that stood in the middle of the paddy fields, Bagio lay on his back, and swung his feet, which hung out from the floor of the edge of the hut.
Although never managed to get the exact amount, Bagio remained eager to count the leaves of the grass, which is neatly arranged into the roof of the cottage.
"Dung, dude! ... Dung, young! ... The tech!"
Tapping on the floor of the cottage, Kartono imitated the sound of a drum with his hands and the sound of his mouth.
Bagio and Kartono, just unwind, after a day of work in the neighboring rice fields, by relaxing in the cottage paddy fields owned by Bagio.
It feels good enough to reduce the pain of burned skin, because it sunbaked in the hot sun, during their work earlier.
And by straightening the back like that, it is enough to reduce the tension of the nerves, which are too much bending while working.
"Better toothache than heartache? Maybe the one who wrote the song never felt toothache." Kartono who had just sat next to Bagio, finally fell on his back on the floor of the cottage.
Toothache compared to heartache?
Gary has felt both. And taste? Equally painful. Different in its location.
Shimunah ... Why are you doing this to brother, deck?
Didn't you say that the moon will bring you?!
A gentle breeze blew between the long sideburns and mustaches of Bagio, because it had not been shaved for months.
A little from the tip of his mustache feather tickled Bagio's nostril.
Bagio's mouth was wide open, then ...
"Yeshaattcchiim!" Bagio sneezes with a high-pitched opening, and closes it with a jerking rhythm. "Sarimunah moron!"
His latah Bagio, attracted the attention of Kartono. "E, e, eeh ...! You still love him?"
"Yes, no! ... The only woman in this world is him?!" Deny Bagio, who tried hard to cover up his heart that was being sliced.
No one is trying to underestimate Bagio!
Who will not be hurt, if left by the lover, when will say kabul ijab?
Oho! Shaymunah ...! You really are heart!
Dating since first grade in junior high school, but Sarimunah's love is not as strong as the thread of a cobweb.
A patch of rice fields and a simple house left by the late grandfather of Bagio, also unable to convince Sarimunah, if Bagio can meet the needs of his life.
Sarimunah seemed to have forgotten the words of her elementary school teacher: "There are no farmers, then there will be no rice on the table!"
Instead of rice, Sarimunah prefers to eat fresh bread bought by Joyo, a young man from a neighboring village who works as a TKI abroad.
Finally, Bagio became a victim of sliced bread.
Due to stomach pains due to eating too much bread spread with butter, Sarimunah left Bagio sitting cross-legged in front of the penghulu.
Bagio waited for Sarimunah to return until her legs tingled, but Sarimunah's pugnacious nose was not visible.
Uh! Nevermind!
It was a long time ago, Bagio did not want to cry in front of Kartono, who became a close friend of Bagio, since they were children.
Although feeling humiliated, but Bagio has mengikhlaskan. Or not? Ckck ...!
Let Sarimunah feel the pain, when she has to stay apart from Joyo. Good old? Eat some fresh bread! But, every night could only hug the pillow bolsters.
It's all because of Joyo!
Or is it because of the unlucky Bagio?
Cahyo Bagio, a young man who is almost even 23 years old, and usually only called Bagio.
His name means 'Happy Light', but apparently, Bagio still has not found a bright spot to his happiness.
In the past, Father Bagio invited the mother of Bagio to try to find more income in the city.
At that time, inevitably, Bagio had to be left by his parents, and only grew up in the care of Bagio's grandfather.
However, the two parents of Bagio who were migrating to the city, and lived there by trying to trade chicken cut, and, suddenly, the news was heard that the two of them had died from an outbreak of bird flu.
When the outbreak struck, and made both parents were victims, Bagio was still in elementary school.
It doesn't end there.
Bagio had not had time to feel graduated from high school, but the grandfather of Bagio suddenly fell ill, and had to be hospitalized for months, until his grandfather breathed his last there.
Unfortunately again, because it is considered capable because it has a plot of rice fields, his grandfather could not get a certificate of incapacity from the village government. So, the cost of treatment in the hospital, they must bear their own responsibility.
Inevitably, Bagio, who does not know how to make money in a fast way, without having to sell rice fields or his grandfather's house, desperately asked for help from one of his neighbors, he said, to make a loan by guaranteeing a certificate of rice fields to the pawnshop.
Bagio eventually had to quit school and did not have time to have a high school diploma, so that he could work managing the rice fields to pay pawnshop bills, if he did not want the rice fields and homes of his grandfather's relics confiscated.
During this time, some of his school friends, have repeatedly invited Bagio to wander, by giving examples of some of their peers, who have succeeded in overseas.
However, Bagio was still hesitant to leave the village just like that, and it still took some time to consider about it carefully.
In addition to her having to routinely pay the debt deposit, her diploma, which is only limited to junior high school, makes Bagio feel less confident that he can get a decent job.
Thus, Bagio still survives in the village, while still managing the rice fields of his late grandfather, and participate in taking the daily wage labor in the fields owned by others.
"Aarrrgh!" Kartono suddenly got up, then shouted until the floor of the hut was shaking, because of the sound and burden of his body moving wildly.
"What's wrong?" Bagio also followed the panic, just in case Kartono saw a ghost, because the day was almost headed into the darkness of the night.
"Amut! ... Ants bite my anu!" kartono said, with tears soaking the edges of his eyes.
Kartono looked in great pain, stroking between his thighs, slowly.
"Pffit ...!" Bagio had been holding back all his might so as not to laugh, but when imagining ants tasting anu Kartono, Bagio could not hold back his laughter anymore. "Haha!"
"Why haven't you guys come home yet?" Someone was suddenly heard asking, on the sidelines of the laughter of Bagio.
Bagio stopped laughing, then looked towards the rice fielder, to ascertain who was speaking just now.
"Sir ...!" sapa Bagio's.
It turned out that the person who asked was a neighbor of Bagio, who became the owner of the rice field that had just been completed by Bagio and Kartono.
"Let's just go home, huh?! I didn't bring any money" said Bagio's neighbor, then walked away from it.
"Ready, sirde!" sahut Bagio steady.
