The Child Of A Maid
Chapter 3
After school when the rain fell, Rilia played with her friend to the river near her house, happy she immediately jumped towards the river, the river was only knee high but the current was not too fast, Rilia was the only woman in the area.
They play in the river so happy, he also uses banana midribs as a medium to float it, slowly the water land began to get deeper because of the rain that continues to fall and fill the river.
"Hey!!! let's go!!!".
Suddenly a mother came wearing a capil to go downstairs and carrying a broom in her right hand, she shouted to Rilia and the others, the mother was Rilia's aunt as well as the mother of one of Rilia's friends.
"Come!!! there's haguu....". Shouted Rilia.
Hearing Rilia's screams made her friends immediately run as fast as possible and away from the mother's mother, as well as Rilia. They ran to the middle of the rice field to be able to avoid the mother, but soon they returned to pull over because suddenly lightning came to snatch the empty land.
The lightning that arrived made Rilia and the others feel so afraid that they decided to return to their homes, when Rilia got a scolding from her mother, but Rilia only responded to it with a smile as if it was nothing to fear.
Rilia immediately took a bath and changed clothes neatly and warmly, her mother had made Rilia a bowl of instant noodles that had been cooked, Rilia enjoyed it while it was still warm and it made her feel so happy.
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one day when it was raining heavily, Ega, Dita, and Rilia were playing in the back yard of Rilia's house, they made a small pool for them to swim in, they were so happy to be able to play mud and water, until finally the three of them get a blow from their parents.
finally they went home to each other, to bathe and change clothes, after which they re-assembled at Rilia's house.
"Eh Rilia, what should we play next?".
"I have an idea, how about playing in my room?".
"Main what but?".
"Just come along".
"alright".
The three immediately rushed to enter Rilia's room, while Rilia took out some blankets on the dialmarinya to make a tent in her room, seeing the idea made Ega immediately help her to make the house home.
Suddenly the lights at Rilia's house died, because the electric extinguisher, Rilia was so afraid of the darkness that she shouted arrived when the electricity was out.
"Mother!!! I'm afraid of the dark". His voice called his mother.
"mom here son, don't be afraid". Sahut Mother.
His mother immediately came to him while carrying a candle that if it could illuminate Rilia who was crying in fear, Rilia immediately came to the place where the candle was, she immediately hugged her mother.
Hearing Rilia who was crying made her friend ask her permission to go home, Rilia looked at the candle with pleasure and occasionally played by sticking her finger to the liquid wax that had dripped, and the liquid will dry up in Rilia's hands.
That night for Rilia was a long night because the lights of her house were never lit, Rilia slept in her mother's arms because she was so afraid of the darkness, Although Rilia had closed her eyes but she could not sleep at all, the one in Rilia's mind was only a monster looking for prey, a ghostly ghost that floated around, and also something so terrible.
Rilia's body continued to tremble because of her fear of the darkness, it made her mother hold her tightly to calm her child, so that Rilia was able to fall into a deep sleep.
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After school Rilia played with her best friend, not long after a junk seller who brought some ducklings, Rilia immediately came to the person and asked how much the duck was worth, while the person said that the price was so many and so, Rilia could buy it just by selling inorganic waste.
Rilia was silent for quite a while hearing that, she immediately came to the place where her best friend was, Rilia gave them such a crazy idea, so she was very crazy, after that Rilia went home to pick up some empty bags and gave them to her best friend.
"What should we do Lia?".
"Then what's the point with this bag ha?".
"You really gave this to me".
His best friend began to express his feelings to Rilia, no matter what kind of idea Rilia was thinking, seeing her friend standing up while carrying a sizable bag made Rilia laugh.
"To pick up trash, then what else". Rilia replied briefly.
"WHAT!!!". His three friends shouted together.
"But Rilia I can't, it's hot anyway". Complain Vina.
"No papa, let's just say we're at work".
Finally, the three friends followed the instructions of Rilia, the four of them immediately went around in the village while looking for used bottle garbage, their behavior so caught the attention of the villagers, the village, because no one has been able to do such a thing all along.
"Good!! keeping clean".
"Our village will be clean this way".
There are so many expressions given to the four, Rilia and her best friend continue to walk around the village despite the fatigue and heat of the fourth feel, it is not easy to be able to collect the garbage, the scorching sun continued to burn their skin mercilessly.
Can be seen Vina who is very unable to stand the heat of the sun, Vina occasionally shelter brought by shady trees on the side of the road, there is a lot of garbage they collect in the scorching air, and, so the four began to sit carried by a tree.
"It's also a pain to be like this". Complain Nadia.
"Yes, it's hot, too, then what about people who always work to raise money like this". Answer Vina.
"Aaa.. I don't want to eat like this anymore". Shouts Sacred.
"If the spirit, when else try to see this village clean, anyways no harm right". Rilia cengengesan heard their complaints.
They continued to chat over it brought a mango tree that was so shady that it was so cold, until the junkyard passed in front of them, Rilia immediately stopped him and exchanged the trash she and her best friend had gathered with the duckling the seller had promised.
Rilia and her best friend were so happy when they received the result, but only one duck they got because the garbage they collected was less, so they decided for Rilia to take care of her, who was looking after her, they immediately took the duckling to Rilia's house and prepared a used cardboard to put it inside.
"Son, where's this duckling from? where are you guys taking it?". Asked Rilia's mother who was panicking when she saw the duckling they were carrying.
"From the results of picking up the trash, keep selling it, then get one duckling". Reply Rilia.
Rilia's mother was so relieved when she heard the honesty of her son, at first she thought that Rilia and her friends were stealing another man's duckling, but after listening to Rilia's explanation made her mother proud of what her son was doing.
His mother immediately picked up a warm rice and given a little water and immediately gave it to the duckling, the duckling immediately ate it voraciously until his stomach bloated from fullness.
Seeing a duckling who is eating makes them feel happy, whether there is happiness in itself when seeing animals that are eating voraciously like they are currently witnessing, they said, rilia's mother smiled at Rilia as well as Rilia smiling back at her.
Rilia held the feather quietly, the duck feather that had not grown so soft and smooth, and the occasional duck opened her mouth suddenly and made Rilia feel surprised.
"Funny, how about Titi?". Ask Rilia.
"Can". Answer them in unison.
That afternoon they felt so happy to be able to play with the ducklings, until the time to separate them, they immediately went home to prepare to go to school before the parents shouted angrily because they forgot their salary.
Njai is their daily routine, because today is Thursday then they are not in the mosque with the kyai, so they leave before the ashar adhan reverberate all prepare for the ashar prayer.
Unlike the usual day, they will teach when they go home from school after the dhuhur adhan at their home, but on Thursday they are directed to teach some kyai masjid.
There is no reason for them not to teach, because their kyai and also their ustadzah are very strict with the name of teaching, when they do not teach once they will be punished by their ustadzah, they will be punished, therefore, the children in the village are very active to go to teach.
Because the house of his three best friends is in the south corner of the village while right they teach there in the north corner of the village so that Rilia who came earlier to the place of teaching than his three best friends.
After they all gathered together and finished their prayers, the kyai immediately began their studies, Rilia and the others heard them carefully once in a while understanding what material they were getting, this time the material is about the service of children to their parents.
Although Rilia did not understand correctly what Kyai was saying, but Rilia listened to him very carefully so that there were no misunderstandings that she caught in the material.
After a long time of teaching they finally finished as well and immediately went on to pray magrib after they immediately went home so that their parents did not look for them because they were late coming home from teaching, Rilia immediately went inside her house and watched the tv.
"Mom, when I graduate Elementary I want to go to school". Rilia said arriving.
Somehow Rilia was very anxious to go to the cottage, as told by Pak Kyai about the world of the cottage, in the cottage they were not only taught about reading the Quran but many other things, as well, Rilia desperately wanted to go to the cottage to study.
His mother could only agree that however she could not let go of her son to go to the lodge, there was a sense of unwillingness in her heart when Rilia said such a thing, she said, but anyway it is the dream of his son that he must realize, moreover the dream is so good that it requires knowledge from the kyai.
Rilia was so happy when her mother agreed to her wish, until finally the happiness was lost when her brother took over his favorite TV show, there was a quarrel between the two because of the fight over TV shows, and the, until finally Rilia cried because of her brother's actions, it made her mother scold her brother for making her sister cry.
"Adek can't watch old TV for a long time, Monday tomorrow will be the test of class". His brother reasoned.
"There's still a long time, and there's still tomorrow".
Rilia was so upset with her brother, finally they continued to fight and pursue, seeing that her mother just kept watching a movie that was so real, until finally Rilia fell and cried.
His sister immediately helped Rilia to stand up, and tried to make Rilia speechless from her cry, if there was only Rilia and her brother at home then a fight between a cat and a mouse was inevitable.
