Sidewalk

Chapter 107

Dirga went through his usual routine, hearing a special ringing sound, Dirga immediately grabbed his cellphone. It was a message from the Dirga cctv who lived in the Shafi village.

A picture message came in, Dirga opened the contents of the message, it was very clear it was a photo of Romi.

"Rome?"

Tink!

This morning, the man came to the shafi shack, they talked for a long time on the terrace, but the Shafi looked very angry, and the man also went straight away.

Thank ye.

Dirga just replied to a message with that word. If the phone were like paper, it would turn into a paper ball, because the owner of the hand re-mas the phone so strong.

Dirga was very upset with the action of Romi, 2 weeks he could be happy, because he could monitor the activities of Shafi through video calls himself with his Shafi neighbors, Shafi, all the little happiness that Dirga felt threatened vanished again.

Dirga immediately contacted Romi.

"Rome! Why are you bothering the Shafi?! Whoever comes to him will get nothing, which is Shafi's anger at me even greater!" Makian Dirga instantly loose when the call is connected.

"Where do you know that I met your wife?" 

"You think I can live my life so easily without seeing her? 2 Weeks ago I found a man who would work for me, he's a Shafi neighbor who wants to be a living cctv for me."

"What?" Romi was shocked by Dirga's confession.

"Every morning, when the Shafi drama pretends to be talking on the phone with me, I enjoy it. Neighbor Shafi fakes a video call with his lover on the porch of his house, but he turns on the back camera so I can see what the Shafi is doing."

"Because of your coming! Shafi starts packing! I don't know where he's going!"

"Where can you volunteer cctv walk?" ask Romi.

"From Adian, he's one of the TAG workers who was there, he's quite memorized to the Syafi village, and he's got a cousin who lives across from the Shafi's house."

"I'm sorry, Dirga, I'm just trying to help the Shafi get back to your arms" Romi said.

"Sam I have rebuked him not to bring his messenger to approach the Shafi, because the woman is very high alert if there are strangers around."

"I'm sorry, because I failed to persuade her, and I instead made her go from there and you have no way to see her."

"When are you back?"  ask Dirga.

"Tomorrow morning, because I'm still tired, so I'll be back tomorrow, now I'm in a taxi to Banjarbaru."

"Tomorrow I'll go to the airport to pick you up, you're still recovering and you're traveling a long way."

"For your sake."

"Shafi is different, approaching him is difficult, it's my fault let me bear it myself."

Dirga and Romi stopped their phone calls.

Dirga's concentration for work was slumped due to his cctv report. 

Tink!

A message came in.

I just asked, Shafi wants to go where, he said he wants to go to his grandfather's village, the village in the far corner, even the signal will be very difficult to get.

Dirga hopes to see the Shafi every morning. Dirga wastes his breath violently. His intention to look for Shafi 3 or 5 months ahead became vague, because he did not know what plans he would arrange to come to Shafi.

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The Syafi Village

A 9-year-old boy humming while running around, he was so excited to approach a Shafi aunt who was still engrossed in her activities.

"Mama Nura …." Call her.

"Silay …." When he saw his son's friend approaching.

"Mama Nura, I want a story, but it's a secret, because Vita's word is a secret." The little boy pressed his voice.

"Sir Vita that every morning video call-an same husband brother Syafi, when I ask why, said brother, sister Syafi same husband fight." The little boy so innocently told his sister's daily life to Shafi's aunt.

"Suami kak Syafi ask kak Vita recamin activities kak Shafi if outside the house, and many brothers get wages. I bought new clothes yesterday."

Shafi's aunt just kept quiet hearing the story.

"Mama Nura promise ya secret."

"Yes mama Nura promised this secret."

The little boy just passed by after sharing his sister's secret.

Aunt Shafi immediately finished her activities, finished engraving chisel eyes on each rubber tree trunk, she immediately went home and took a bath.

In his house, Shafi still stuffed some clothes into his tote bag.

"Where's Dirga going?"

Shafi was surprised that suddenly his aunt was in this house.

"He's working."

"What work does work?"

Shafi.

"You lied to auntie all along? You came home because there was a problem with Dirga, right? Not because Dirga's out of town service and the reason for the little guy?"

Shafi is still at home with his silence.

"So his sister Vita came, the story is all, if Vita got a job to be the eyes of Dirga, Dirga misses his wife so much, to pay his wife's neighbors only to find out the latest news of his wife."

"Tell the whole thing to auntie!"

Shafi starts to open his mouth, telling of Dirga and Lala's marriage. Also told what the business of the male guest who came this morning.

"I'm sorry Dirga, she's not married to hurt you."

"Sorry bi, I can't." The Shafi closed the zipper of his bag, and immediately set foot leaving the house full of history.

"Thank you bi, for helping the Shafi a lot almost a month ago."

His aunt was silent, and looked at the back of the Shafi who was getting away from the sight of his eyes. The Shafi outside the house said goodbye to his neighbor.

"Not had 1 month, already want to go home again."

Shafi only smiles, the reason Shafi told his neighbors she had to go back to her husband's city.

"Where are you going, Shafi?" 

A Shafi neighbor named Vita approached.

"You're coming home, your brother Dirga misses me, but before I go home, I want to go to my grandfather's village first."

Vita just silently heard the story of the Shafi. After shaking hands and embracing the Shafi, Vita immediately sent a message to Dirga.

"Syafi told the villagers that he was going home, whether true or not, which is clear he said before going home he wanted to go to his grandfather's village first.

Shafi also left his village on a motorcycle taxi that picked him up.

Dirga was already in his room, it felt like the idea for his work evaporated just like that, not a single file he touched, his mind was just Shafi.

"Shafi never told his family or his neighbors about our problems, he always tried to seem happy, I'm sure it's just a shafi's excuse, he still doesn't forgive me, how could he possibly want to come back here."

"But I will ask Sam's men to monitor the airport, who knows Shafi understands my difficulties through Romi's story."

Dirga told Sam everything, if the Shafi left the village, and say goodbye to his neighbors and family if he would return to this city.

"I'll send my men, to monitor at the airport, who knows if the Shafi really wants to come back to you."