Sidewalk

Chapter 3 Uhuk

The Shafi repeatedly caught his breath. To stop laughing. Whether ... if with Mayfa even though he only saw Mayfa's thumbs it felt like his laughter could not stop. I don't know why it's so funny.

"Yes ... here's the word .. You ask permission from Je, if your room is in place for your Dad, well. You sleep in my room. If your father moved into my room, I'd like to ..." Oceh Shafi.

"Catian because your room is dirty?" ledek Mayfa's.

"It's not .. kasian that your father can't wait to marry me, charmingly I'm amazing." Shafi put on a pretty face.

"Astaghfirullah .. Your friend is rare, Fa …." Mr. Said shook his head to see the behavior of the Shafi who pedenya altitude.

"Don't look long Dad .. If Dad is in love, Dad is bothered. Mama Mayfa's blessing we haven't got." Shafi slapped his face on the table. Being satisfied made Mayfa upset.

"Mahrp!" Mayfa strangles Shafi's neck.

"Uhukkk! Stepchildren have no morals, now stepchildren who torture stepmak not stepmak who torture his son!" shafi whinek.

"Modern stepchildren, yes gini .. is still your interest to be a stepmother of the cave?" Mayfa removed his hand from Shafi's neck. "My holy hands are tainted." - Mayfa.

Shafi justifies her hair that is ruffled because of Mayfa. "When did you take your father to the boarding house? Ask permission first. If the parents who come mah must be given permission same ma'am boarding."

"Now, my father must be tired" said Mayfa.

"Sana, you ask permission from Ms. Erli" suggested the Shafi.

After obtaining permission from the restaurant owner. Mayfa and her father went to the boarding house that Mayfa had occupied. Luckily the hostel has a large parking lot. So Mayfa does not need to bother thinking about parking his father's car. Both of them did not get out of the car.

"Have you been hiding here all this time?" Mr. Said's hand was still holding the steering wheel of his car.

"Sorry Father .. Mayfa could not accept the match. Mayfa hopes you understand. Mayfa's wedding will be hers, not Dad." Mayfa got out of the car immediately. He stepped quickly towards the special residence of their hostess. Jaenab. The familiar one called Je ma'am.

"Assalamu'alaikum." hail Mayfa.

"Wa'alaikum salutations." A beautiful woman came out holding her three-year-old son. "Mayfa? Tumben himself, which shafi?"

"Syafi is still working mom. I came home because I asked for the same permission, Miss Je."

"What adultery?"

"Include me, this is my father ..." Appoint Mayfa to the man beside her. "She just came from Banjarmansin city. I asked permission, so my Dad could stay a few days at my boarding house. I'll move to the Shafi's room while Dad stays here."

"You take care of the permission of Mr. RT first, if at the boarding house, as long as it is a family member I will give permission," said Mr. Jaenab.

"Dad ... Dad sit here first, herein KTP Dad, I want to go to the house Mr. RT first." Mayfa held out her hand waiting for the thing she was asking for. After getting the object he meant, Mayfa immediately went to the house of Mr. RT taking care of his father's stay permit.

"Sir, I'm inbound clearance yes …."

"Please, mom. I sat here waiting for Mayfa" said Mr Said.

Almost 30 minutes waiting, Mayfa finally reappeared his nose. Seen carrying a white sheet of paper. "Look Dad ... come with me, this is permission already in the can."

"Hemm, don't you. Looks like the hostess's mother, riweh, just here to ask her permission."

Mr. Said immediately followed his daughter's footsteps, until they reached a two-story building. Passing through many lined doors, until reaching the very end of the door.

"This is my room, Dad. Dad take a break, I want to work again. I'll be home tonight bringing you dinner for Dad. The bathroom is all complete inside."

"During this time you worked as a waiter for a restaurant?" The sadness is clearly visible on Mr. Said's face.

"But I'm happy Dad. I have a friend here who doesn't care who I am and where I come from. One more ... I won't be able to accept an arranged marriage, as long as Dad doesn't cancel the match, as long as I don't go home." Mayfa wiped the tears that had already dripped again. "Assalamu'alaikum, Dad. I'm back at work."

"Wa'alaikumsalam." Mr. Said chose to enter the Mayfa boarding house. It feels like his back is sore, for 3 days traveling through the Middle River Hulu. Hope to find her fourth child. Finally his hard work for 3 months has paid off. After his search from the city province, Banjarmasin, until he reached this small town. "Alhamdulillah O Allah …." All thanks are always spoken from the words of Mr. Said. Very happy to find Mayfa who became a family for three months.

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After leaving his father in the boarding house. Mayfa ride an online motorcycle taxi to the restaurant. Once there, things started to look crowded. Because of this hour to Ashar, the restaurant began to fill the high school children who had just returned home from school. They gather together just ghibahin endless schoolwork. Sometimes Ghibah how handsome their teacher is. There are also those who do their group work.

"Where's Mayfa from?" The greeting caught Mayfa's attention.

"Sister went back to the boarding house," replied Mayfa.

At the other end, Shafi was busy sharing the juice in the messages of the students who occupied the table there. "More handsome you are Ilham .." praise Syafi. The one praised only carved a smile on his face.

"Sister is more convinced of this. Sis singles because they wait for a brother's soul mate to process into adulthood," seduced Syafi. "Awh!" The ringisan escaped from the mouth of the Shafi. Yet Shafi's resignation is forced to follow a pull centered on her hair ties. Shafi hugged the empty tray he was holding. "May ..." the screams.

Mayfa removed his grip from the Shafi's hair. "Fiy .. pleas lessin!" mayfa pinta.

"I'm sorry, I can't …."

"Tu son was a child, your time gombalin also ...."

"It's a big age, not a small one."

"Pleas Fiy, less! You're a girl, I'm afraid that one day people will lower your self-esteem because of your pranks." Mayfa was very upset when he heard the scolding of people on the Shafi.

"I am a lowly, lowly person. I'm not sad. We can't force people to like us, let people argue with their own minds."

"I don't like Fiy .. Because those who value you are ugly, they don't know who you are yet."

"Let me be myself. I choose to enjoy life with a smile and happiness. Ogah ah if confused and sad. Because happy and sad are both free!"

"Yes greetings ... bonus break time from me is still lacking huh? Feelings at the restaurant, or at your hostel ghibah .. mulu! There's no end to what your ghibahan materials are?" tegur Erli, the owner of this restaurant.

The two girls immediately did their job.