The Charm of Mas Jaka

Dribbling the Ball in Bed

"Don't Mak ever say that everything that is visible can be learned?" reply and ask Jaka.

Mak Karti nodded. "There is a will and a willingness to learn."

"Assalamu'alaikum, Jaka! Come on, singles' party!" While busy chatting with his parents, there were several young men who called Jaka's name from outside his home.

"Mak, Sir. If you meet them first, yes," said Jaka who memorized their voice, the young man rushed out of the kitchen.

"Lha, this is the one we've been waiting for. Finally .... Same as you like the three of us, Ka. Singles!" exclaimed one of the young men who was still on top of his motorcycle sport barrel, when Jaka emerged from inside the house.

"Not a blood cry, are you, Ka?" ledek another glance at Jaka and then back twirling the wheels of his matic motorcycle tire, which seems to have begun to thin.

"Not a cry of blood, he. But crying because Neng Dara's marriage was left." The laughter of the young man playing the car contact broke, which was followed by his two friends earlier.

While Jaka who had just come out met the three of them, could only scratch his head which was not itchy.

"What the hell are you guys talking about?" ask Jaka. "Sit down, yuk!" take Jaka later.

The three young friends of Jaka then followed Jaka's steps, they sat on a bamboo bale on the terrace of the simple house.

"Have you received an invitation from Dara, not yet?" tanya Joni, one of Jaka's friends, commonly called Jondil.

"What invitation?" jaka asked, the dimpled young man pretended not to know.

"Sunday tomorrow, right, Dara wants to marry Mas Bambang, Ka," said Rifa'i or commonly called Paijo.

"Cooking, anyway?" Jaka still pretends not to know about the news.

"Prophey, Ka. Soon you will be able to replace it, you will be smart," said Teddy the wisest among his two friends earlier. The young man who studied in the city, the one campus with Dara was the son of Pak Bayan.

"Or not-don't, at the boarding school there you've got a santriwati, Ka?" teddy asked.

Jaka shakes.

"Where dare he is, Ted. Jaka is the type of loyal guy, like me," said Rifa'i.

"Anyways, every corner there's a yes, Jo!" ledek Joni on Rifa'i or Paijo's, chuckling. "Basar Paijo, his college in Jogja and all the way Jogja to here, have a stopover." Joni laughed off.

"That's you, Ndil. Faithful, in every village there is," replied Rifa'i. "The proof, if the match ball to the neighboring villages, there must be your girl there," he added.

"Udah, no. You two are this, you're making a fuss yourself," lerai Teddy. "Wide playboy, no overtaking!" continued Teddy while smiling grin.

"Well, here's the expert on luck," said Rifa'i, because Teddy was also often changing girlfriends.

While Jaka just silently listened, while smiling himself. Jaka was happy because the three friends even though they were teased each other, but actually they loved each other.

"Where, Ka. Will we burn tonight?" ask Joni, parse the reverie of Jaka.

"What fires? What event is there? New year is still long? There's no more birthdays, is there?" cecar Jaka with many questions.

"Yes in order to celebrate your singles, Ka. Starting next week, right, you are officially single," replied Rifa'i while playing both eyebrows down and up.

Jaka shakes. "It's not true, I will not be single" said Jaka confidently. Tucked the prayer from her good words.

"Well, sure you are, Ka. The invitation has been spread, you know" said Joni.

"Ck, really, boy." Joni clucking. "But I salute you, Ka. Your confidence and courage must be imitated" Joni added.

"Hem, agree with my Jondil. Mr. Kades' will be fierce and double eyes, surely he's looking for a rich daughter-in-law like Mas Bambang. But you, Ka, are so brave and confidently courting Dara. It's great!" Teddy held both of his thumbs up to Jaka.

Jaka smiled widely, to show his dimples that made Jaka's face more pleasing to the eye.

"Not so, Ted. I'm brave because Dara supported me" Jaka replied.

"That means Dara, still loves you, Ka?" ask the three of them at the same time.

"I'm also not sure, read the invitation father. Cook the good Dara, married Mas Bambang who likes to shake girls people," said Joni later.

"You mean?" ask Jaka, who does not understand the direction of Joni's conversation.

"Loh, you don't know tho, Ka, the viral news in our village?" ask Rifa'i.

Jaka frowned.

"Mas Bambang' is famous for taking girls to the motel, Ka," Teddy explained.

"Well, be careful when you talk. Do not let the fall even slander because it turns out that is not true" said Jaka.

"Lho, you know, you know. Slander piye tho, Ka. Wong beritane wes spread everywhere, really. There is also evidence, Ka," Rifa'i denied.

"You remember Ratna didn't, Ka. That's Ratna's son, Mr. Kadus." Joni looked at Jaka.

The simple young man nodded. "Why him?"

"Not so long ago, she was told to have an abortion with Mas Bambang" Joni replied.

"Ratna tek dung because of frequent dates with Mas Bambang, but because Mas Bambang not really love the same stupid Ratna, Mas Bambang then paid his son Mr. Modin to want to marry Ratna who has not ori," added Rifa'i.

Jaka frowned more and more. 'It turns out, it's not just Arini who is sleeping with Mas Bambang?' inwardly Jaka wondered, the young man felt very shady.

"Ka, later in the afternoon we play, yes," asked Joni. "Play against the village next door" he continued.

"No, ah. I haven't played ball in a long time" Jaka said.

"Come, Ka. You're the only reliable striker of our village team" Teddy said.

"Yes, Ka. Your position has been replaced often, but no one is as good as you, Ka," said Rifa'i. "Let you at home, Ka," he continued pleading.

"Well, is there Mas Bambang too?' Jaka looked at his three friends in turn.

"Otherwise him! The gojegannya not so much! Where's the goal, where's he dribbling the ball? Damn him!" Joni bobbing head.

"He was good at herding his ball in bed, Jon" said Rifa'i, chuckling, to laughter from his two friends.

"Udah, no. Don't keep hounding!" Jaka ended the unimportant chat.

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