
" Come up the mountain." a man's voice from behind his back,
" Ahmad?" Wulan was surprised, her eyes looking at the man before her sparkled with joy.
" what's here?" asked Wulan not believing they could meet,
" I work here." replied Ahmad smilingly,
" really?"
" yes. I've been here 5 years, before I was in kalimantan.."
" ooh. deserved, I never saw you.."
" you're not in town either, are you? I heard from a high school alumnus that you became an extraordinary woman, whose office is lan?"
" I work outside Java." replied Wulan short,
" what are you doing here? with your son's son?" ahmad looked around.
" No, I'm on business here, tomorrow I'm back.."
" means I'm lucky.. " Amad laughed, though,
" i've actually seen you since then, but I'm afraid I'm wrong to say hello, you're so pretty, you're not the tomboy you used to be.."
" actually still.. " Wulan smiled faintly.
"Want to have some tea? I'm taking a break.." Ahmad offered,
Wulan was silent for a moment, as if in doubt.
" We drink in the gazebo alone,
under the banyan there. far from the crowd.." pointed Ahmad as if understanding Wulan not so comfortable with the crowd, of course he understood..
the two were once close during High School, and several times hiked together because they were in the same community.
Ahmad brought two glasses of warm tea, in his hands, he also brought a bag of tea made by the factory where he worked.
" Drink.and take this, often drink tea if your mind is not calm.. "
ahmad said while sitting not far from Wulan,
Wulan just smiled, he sipped his warm tea while enjoying the scenery around, his eyes just kept watching the green tea plantation.
Not to mention one gallant mountain framed into the background of the plantation.
From a distance, the fog began to fall, bringing a piercing cold.
" It seems a little cloudy." murmured Ahmad,
" when is not cloudy here." said Wulan.
" How are you? why are you alone here without a son or a husband?" ahmad asked unceremoniously, because he could clearly see the burden in Wulan's eyes.
" It's so polite of you to meet just asking like that.." Wulan frowned,
" we're old friends. Did I just think that?" Ahmad drank his tea a mouthful.
" I'm here looking for calm.Go away if you want to increase the burden of my mind by asking questions of sorts." replied Wulan, answer,
Ahmad kept silent and watched Wulan for a moment.
" Tell me.. What's pressuring you?" tanyanya then,
" the past.." Wulan finally answered even with a heavy voice.
" The past?" Ahmad tilted his head, looking at Wulan again nicely.
They didn't care about the thin fog that was starting to fall.
" How bad are you doing now?"
" my condition is not so bad.. "
" hemm. so it is difficult to escape the past.. " Ahmad took a cigarette out of his pants pocket, and burned it.
" I don't know what your problem is, but I've lived like that..
struggling in the past..
I can't forgive myself..
even I thought about dying." said Ahmad while smoking his cigarette and exhaling the smoke slowly.
Wulan looked at Ahmad with a heart,
" don't make a point just to calm me down.."
" no." answered Ahmad quickly.
" my wife died 8 years ago.died right in front of my eyes.. "
Wulan lowered her gaze instantly, she felt unable to hear all of this.
" I can't hear it" Wulan said,
" you must listen well when your old friend is telling you about the bitterness of his life,
it's rude of you to run away when I cook for you on the mountain.."
" so you want a calculation with me now?"
Ahmad laughed, though,
" look at the fog already coming down, they're greeting you.." Ahmad pointed to the fog that began to fall enveloping the garden.
" How did your wife die?" tanya Wulan ventured, braving,
" my mistake" replied Ahmad, throwing his gaze towards the sky for a moment.
" your mistake?"
" we were in an accident, my wife died on the way to the hospital.." Ahmad smoked his cigarette again,
" how come I'm still alive and just a light wound.funny isn't it.."
ahmad made Wulan bowed in.
" I tried to kill myself a few times and I can't live.."
Wulan was silent, really silent to hear it.
" but I've realized for a few years that if I act like that, maybe my wife will be sad,
for years, I cried without thinking..
will he be happy to see me slump like this..
or just sad.. "
" then what changed you? why don't you mourn him again...?" ask Wulan after Ahmad told a long story.
" My mother took me to the clerics, they advised me a lot..
then one time, when I came home from a routine event at the school I dreamed, I,
wife comes..
he told her not to cry anymore..
she said my crying made her suffer there, my inattitude tormented her..
I don't know if it's true or not..
maybe I'm hallucinating because I miss her..
but clearly, he didn't want me to lament him anymore..
alhamdulillah's chat..
after that my heart improved..
although sometimes still left bitter, but I've mengikhlaskan it.."
Ahmad smiled calmly, though,
" lying I do not cry, I still cry, but it does not contain lamentation, but a good prayer..
l loved her..
I want his happiness..
then he must be so for me who is still alive." added Ahmad, who is still alive,
without realizing Wulan's tears dripping, there was pain running through his heart,
" is my mother and my son also tormented every time I mourn and weep for them." he asked inwardly,
" I don't know how big your problem is, but trust me,
when you think things through sincerely and kindly..
eating goodness will follow..
it was proven to me ", said Ahmad assured there was his old friend.
The characters stand before the glass, tidying their hair and uniforms.
" no need to jog from now on." said Aksara to his wife who was opening the window so that the morning air into the room.
" danger, just stay indoors." he added, Rania was silent not to answer,
he still feels the hardness of the script that has not been lost.
Rania could only stroke the chest looking at such a childish Aksara attitude.
" Later if you go to work, just lock the fence from the outside." said Rania calm, he took a wet towel Aksara.
" why is that?"
" yes so that I can't get out, and so that no dog can get in..!" rania replied directly through the room.
A silent character, he just stared at Rania's back that disappeared behind the door.
Rania hangs the Aksara towel with a little annoyed, he is really confused with the behavior of the Aksara which is like looking for a cause because it continues.
" How can such a small thing be magnified." - grumbled inwardly.
" I'm sorry ma'am, you asked for a lock on the fence.." the housekeeper walked over to Rania,
" what's it for?" Rania frowned, though,
" he said make a fence padlock from the outside.."
Rania was wide-eyed, like something was rumbling inside her chest.
" goddessa...?!!!" rania screams gnashy,
" Stying character!" she was very upset with her husband's behavior that was not in accordance with his age.
Though Rania originally spoke so out of annoyance, how can Aksara take it seriously and really will lock the fence from the outside.