SEPHIRA

Chapters 4's

"Mba," call Andi to wake Fira who is still sleeping.

"Mba," called Andi again patting Fira on the shoulder.

Sunlight emerged from the crevices of the towering leaves of the tree. Fira's eyes opened slowly, rubbing her eyes. "Yes sir? Are we there?" Fira asked still half conscious.

"Yes not yet dong mba," replied Andi. "Still a long time ago" he continued.

"Oh."

"I stop wanting breakfast at the stall for a while mba, mba also if you want breakfast please I wait," said Mr. Andi.

Fira nodded, last night he only ate bread and drank to prop up his hungry stomach.

Andi opened the back door of the pick-up tub. "Later down by myself mba, I want breakfast first."

Fira came down and walked to the stall for breakfast.

"Excuse me ma'am, buy it" Fira called the food vendor.

"What do you want to wear?" Ask the seller's mother to take the plate and rice.

Fira observed the side dishes in the shop window. "Same omelet sama sambal tempeh aja bu."

The mother of the seller took what Fira mentioned earlier. "This is yes mba," he handed me the plate.

"Makasi ma'am," said Fira taking the plate llau eating it voraciously.

"Where's son? It's a shame" asked Fira to her future baby after finishing her breakfast.

"Bu. So how many?"

"So there's an extra mba?" Ask the seller's mother. "Yes ma'am, bottled water is one," replied Fira.

"So thirteen thousand mba."

Fira gaping. "Great, usually in a city of fifteen thousand or even more," he murmured in disbelief.

Fira reached into his pants pocket. "It's mom." Fira gave me ten thousand, two thousand and one thousand bills.

"Pas yes mba."

"Yes ma'am."

Fira stood up from her seat then walked towards Andi's pick-up car.

"Already mba?" Ask Andi.

"Udah sir."

"We continue the journey now."

"Yes sir."

Andi drove back his car after making sure Fira had been sitting well in the back.

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The sun is now right overhead, when the cold night weather like in an ice prison is inversely proportional now the very hot and hot weather could make the white Fira blister.

"It's very hot" said Fira wiping the sweat that came out on her forehead.

"Where is this?" Mumbled Fira looking around.

"MBA!" Yelled Andi from his car.

"Why sir?"

"Mba get off here. Fear later my wife thought macem-macem," explained Andi.

"Oh yeah bang."

Fira cradled her bag and opened the back door of the car then she got off. Fira approached Andi's pack who was still in the car. "Make it sir, ride it."

"Yes mba, you're the same."

"Yes already mba, I go first yes," said Andi who in response nod Fira.

Fira walked through the shophouses lined up around the street.

"What time is it now" he looked up at the sky, squinting.

Fira took his phone which was in the pocket of the pants he was wearing but it turns out his phone is dead because he forgot he cas.

"Can I ask you a question?" Fira patted the shoulder of the teenager sitting in the park.

The teenager looked at him. "Why is that?" Ask the teenager while removing earphones from his ear.

"What time is it now?"

The teenager opened his phone again. "Jam one past twelve minutes mba."

"Oh, makasi ya mba." Ririn lowered her head then walked some distance away from the teenager earlier. Fira sat on a wooden chair in the garden.

"Son, where are we going now?" Tanya Fira rubbed her stomach.

Can Fira make sure the place is still in the city. He planned to live in the countryside, but he didn't know where his feet were now.

"GRANNY LOOKOUT!" Shouted Fira when his gaze accidentally saw a fast-moving car almost hit the grandmother who was about to cross.

Fira then ran and pulled the old woman's hand. "Awsh," ringis Fira as her hand hit a tree.

"Yes Alalh boy!" Granny's strangling that's just been helped by Fira.

"Aren't you papa?" The old woman held Fira's hand and groped her.

"No papa kok ma'am, just a little pain. I'm sorry I pulled it too tight."

"I treat there yuk nek," said Fira pointed to the front bench of a shophouse. "I happen to have a red medicine." The two of them then walked there and Fira took a new black granny brought earlier.

"Where are you, son?"

"Jakarta grandma," replied Fira painstakingly smearing the red medicine.

"It's grandma."

"Make it, son." Fira nodded.

"This is Grandma, let me bring you. Grandma's hand was still sore," Fira bargained with the medium-sized black griddle.

"Nerepotin nak?" Ask grandma that's not good. Fira shook her head.

"Yes already, but grandma's house is a little far away jafi must ride the angkot."

"No papa nek," replied Fira.

"Angkot!" Fira waved her hand as an angkot flashed across them.

"Where are you taking this big bag, son?"

"Hm sa-I moved house grandma. It wants to be around the countryside" Fira replied lying.

"Oh yeah, come on."

***

"Where did the granny end up?" Tanya Fira started the conversation.

"Grandmother ran out of the market earlier," replied the grandmother.

"Grandmother's alone?"

"So, there are grandchildren who used to help, but the grandchildren again helped people in the market so they did not go home with grandma" he replied again.

"Oh that's it." Fira nodded.

"Whose name are you, son?"

"Sephira nek call me Fira," replied Fira.

"If grandmother's name, Uti's grandmother."

Fira nodded. "Mom's house is still far away?" Ask Fira.

"A little while back" replied Uti.

After that there was no talk until they got off at the fork in the road. Fira came down with a small bag and a big bag of hers on the left hand and a black granny Uti's new bag on the right.

"Sir, here's the money" Uti's grandmother gave the fare to the transport driver.

"Son Fira let's go to grandma's house first," asked Uti's grandmother.

"Ah yes grandma," replied Fira walking behind grandma Uti. He looked around the many houses with old-fashioned mofels that looked still sturdy until they stopped right in front of a simple house that was still cement floor.

"Look yuk nak" said Uti's grandmother after opening the door.

"Yes Grandma," Fira replied, then entered the house and sat on a wooden chair that looked old.

Fira is indeed a less capable person, but his house is more modern than the house of Uti's grandmother. But whatever it is we should be grateful to still have a protector when it rains and heat.

"Assalamualaikum," greetings a tall beautiful girl from the front door.

"Waalaikumsalam" replied Uti and Fira together.

The girl scrunched her forehead to see Fira. "Who is she?" The girl pointed at Fira.

"Here sit down first Lia," asked Uti's grandmother without answering the question of Aulia, her grandson.

Lia and Uti's grandmother speak Javanese yaw pren. Because I myself do not speak Sundanese so yes already, assume that ae uses Sundanese.okay prenku!

Lia said, she was sitting on a wooden chair opposite Fira. Lia was looking from top to bottom. "So who's she?"

"He's a Jakarta man, his name is Sefira you can call him brother Fira" replied Uti's grandmother.

"Did grandma know him?" Ask Lia again. "So grandma almost serepet car, fortunately there is a son Fira who nolongin," explained grandma Uti.

"Huh serepet? Grandma didn't papa, did she? Where's that sick?" Ask Lia streak while checking the condition of Grandma Uti's body.

"Udah has no papa, just a slight bruise on the arm," replied Uti's grandmother.

While Fira just silently looked at them cengo because they did not know at all what they said. Can Fira concluded they were talking about the matter of Uti's grandmother who was almost seperate because Fira saw the girl in front of him look worried.

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...SPOI NEXT!...

"Try now the story to us so you feel better," said Uti's grandmother. Lia was silent with her own thoughts.

"I was hamili by my own upperclassman because of an incident, he didn't want to take responsibility but instead told me to abort him" Fira explained holding his stomach. "I live alone, my father and mother died three years ago, my other family somewhere I don't know" he said.

"The cowok told me to leave Jakarta if I did not want to abort my content. I was confused what to do now Grandma" he said with tears that seemed to lolo fell from the black net of Fira.

"Have not cried, kasian same your child who is still in the womb," said Uti's grandmother calmed.

"Sister can stay here with me and grandma. Brother can use my mother's room," Pinta Lia who is adopted by Uti's grandmother.

"No deck, what about your mother later," rejected Fira.

"Same mother has been dead since I was a child. Mother died of illness and father of the accident," explained Lia to hug Fira.

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