The Gem of the Heart of the Former Thug

clean after flooding

The night has passed, the cock-piggling welcome morning. Budi began his morning with a grateful, still given a chance to live. Same with Mrs Ratih.

Although in his heart he admitted that his rest tonight was uncomfortable, but he remained grateful, still awakened. No different than the princess. Although he was still pensive when he looked around his room, but in his heart he continued to say, thank God.

Bersamaahpun morning prayers they still do, even with conditions that are not as comfortable as usual. Precisely at a time like this, all three felt a higher pleasure when prostrating.

The sun is still shy to show its form, but Budi has sweaty moving things in the house.

He regularly placed the items on the porch and in the front yard. One by one the bed, the cupboard, the table, and the furniture that covered the floor, he took it out. The princess is in charge of pouring water on the floor, and rubbing it clean.

No neighbors came to help them clean the house. Naturally, each also has the same interests in their respective homes.

In his heart, Budi actually needed help. Until he wondered, there was a factory man who came told Mr. Paul to help him.

Not yet finished he was wondering, he saw a car passing in front of his house at a very low speed. More than that, the car stopped in front of his house. I still feel foreign to that car. From the car, a woman came out. If this woman, she is no longer a stranger.

“Assalamu’alaikum” sapanya.

“Wa’alaikum salam” replied Budi and Putri together.

“Ya Alloh Bud, in what room, um?” someone else got out of the car and immediately asked.

“Sedada, mbak” replied Princess, preceded her brother.

“Tumben per car is the same as Erika, from where?” ask Budi while greeting his guests.

“Emang want to come here”

“Hem?”

“Pak paul, I told you to make your nengokin. He can not come here, again to LN” said Erika.

“Oh. The relation?”

“Pak Paul nitip something with you. But I love what it would be to be alone. That's why I invited Marsya” replied Erika, while greeting Budi.

“Mebel anyway, still intact all, mbak. What's in bawain? Rules, kolor” seloroh Budi.

“Not furniture, Budi” exclaimed Marsya, while shaking hands with Princess.

“Ha ha ha ha. Yes times, bring furniture with a car beginning” said Erika while greeting the Princess. He laughed while shaking his head.

“Eh, there are guests” exciting bu Ratih. He just showed up from the house.

“Assalamu’alaikum, Mrs Ratih” greet Erika. she went forward to greet Mrs Ratih.

“Wa’alaikum salam” replied bu Ratih while shaking hands.

“This?” ask Ratih ma'am.

“Marsya, mom. Receptionist kantor” Marsya replied.

“Oh, greetings, mbak Marsya”

“Salam also knows Ratih”

They talked about the disaster yesterday. About the functioning of this family, about Adel who gave food aid, but instead joined as a refugee because of the flood. When Erika asked about Adel's parents, Ratih just smiled.

“Oh yes, ma'am. We got a drop from the office. First of all, from our superiors, Paul” said Marsya.

Seeing that the host was not willing to answer Erika's question, Marsya took the initiative to change the topic.

“Oh, yes Alloh. Kok bothered everything. Ditengokin aja, mom already seneng, mbak Marsya” said bu Ratih.

“The name is trustworthy, it is mandatory we run. Right, ma'am?” erika Sahut.

“Ya Alloh, alhamdulillah” says bu Ratih again.

“Come Yes!” bring Erika.

“Yes, mbak” Marsya replied.

They came down from the porch, and came to the car instead of pulling out a package of crackles, ala-ala help, but they instead took out something bigger.

They remove a foldable mattress. Initially, both Budi, Ratih, and Putri were stunned by the goods brought by Marsya and Erika. But then, Mrs Ratih ordered Budi to come help. Three single-sized mattresses, finally landed at the destination.

“Ya Alloh, how do you guys bring him a mattress anyway, nduk?” ask Ratih ma'am.

“Waduh, we just run errands, ma'am. If he does, it's just the boss who knows” Erika replied.

Marsya still returned to the car and picked up a medium-sized cardboard box. He put it on the porch, on the Princess's study table.

“Bud, which is that I am not strong” said Marsya.

“What's the end?” ask Budi.

“Beras” Marsya replied.

“Oh”

Budi followed Marsya's steps back to the car again. He picked up the sack of twenty-five kilos of rice alone.

“Mbak Rika, please express our gratitude to Mr Paul! May he always be given health, safety, and smoothness in every activity he”

“Siap, mom. Rika sampein” Erika replied.

“Oh yes, Bud. Can we help you?” ask Marsya. Make all eyes on him.

“Eeem” Think for a moment. What he really needs is man power.

“Assalamualaikum”

A greeting distracts them. Three men entered the grounds of Ratih's house on foot.

“Wa’alaikum salam” answer them.

“Is this really his home Budi Utomo?” ask one of the three.

“Iya right. With my own” replied Budi, while walking down approached the three people.

“Oh, thank goodness. Meet too, finally” comments that person.

“Sorry, with whom if I may know?” ask Budi.

“I Santo, this is my friend, Bayu and Dani” replied the man introduced himself and his friends.

Budi scrunched his forehead. He felt unfamiliar with these people. He tried to think more deeply about whether there had ever been an encounter with them in the past.

“We are, the man mbak Adelia Fitri” continued Santo.

“Adel?”

“Betul, mas. Ma'am Adel, can not come here to help mas Budi. Therefore, Mbak Adel asked us to come to help mas Budi clean up the remnants of the flood yesterday”

“But coke..”

*Huwannuru yahdil kha irina dziyau hu*...

His phone suddenly rang. He played his Eyebrow, as was about to say, ‘pucuk loved ulampun arrived’.

“Halo assalamu’alaikum” sapa Budi.

“Wa’alaikum salam” reply who is across the phone there.

“Bram” further across there.

Elsewhere, in his home, Adel was shedding tears. He feels very sad. He still remembered once, how his parents insulted Budi's family to such an ugly extent.

He had predicted, if Budi will face the insults of his parents. But he did not expect at all, if hinan from both parents was actually out at the time Budi and his family were being hit by disaster. Especially in front of their neighbors.

“Sorry father same mother Tata yes, Bram!” pinta Adel's.

A gentle breeze on the balcony of Adel's house, waving her hair. The cold air this morning, seemed unable to shed the embers of sadness that was in Adel's heart.

Moreover, the insults that were thrown so loudly yesterday, it was not enough for his father. Not long ago, his father still add to him with anger while badmouthing his lover's family.

“Iya, Ta. I was forgiven. Don't cry dong!” reply Budi.

Adel could not hold on any longer. Her cry broke, while listening to the soft words of her lover. His tone sounded as if he had never happened. For a while, Budi let Adel spill his grief by crying.

“How can you be that patient anyway, Bram?” asked Adel a few moments later. Her voice is raucous.

“The height of mount everest, already many who reached the top. But inside the mariana trough, only a handful of people who reached the bottom”

“Means?” ask Adel. He could hear a strange analogy.

“Yes. That order is basically a mariana trough, make abram. Abram was grateful, only three people were there. It wasn't strong for long either. From that short time, the fight was not about. Abram wants to make a palace under there” replied Budi.

“Ha ha ha” Adel chuckled again at the increasingly unclear answer.

“Mother how are you, Bram? Mom angry huh, same Tata?”

“Alhamdulillah, healthy. Not angry even worried about Tata”

“Kok even hawatirin Tata?”

“Yes, afraid of getting slapped, same father Tata”

“Ya Alloh”

Adel cried again.the person who should have hated him after yesterday, even worried about him.

“Please until Tata's apology, Bram! Tata is ready to be reviled, but Tata is not ready to be hated by mother”

“Iya Ta's. Entar abram. Mother people also nganggepnya the same really, Tata is basically a trough of mariana”

“Ha?”

“Udah very reasonable if nyelem there meet sharks, whales, rays, petromak” fish

“Where is there?” suhut Adel while laughing.

“That's got lights”

“Ha ha ha. Yes not petromax too, Abram” said Adel anxious.

“He he's. Yes that is the point. Macem-macem terrible creatures are in sana” replied Budi.

“But for mom, who was yesterday, new fish layur” he continued.

“Cuman layur?”

“Yapc. Cuman layur. Teeth are tajem. Abram often stabbed, know where he never brushed his teeth, mrenges mulu. Aduh”

“Ha ha ha ha”

“Mommy is ready. If you have to meet the most bar-bar sharks though”

“Ha ha ha. bar-bar” Adel laughs again.

Unknowingly, he was carried away by the atmosphere that Budi was trying to wake up in. A cheerful atmosphere, full of laughter. Life is hard, but it will feel light if we can laugh. So thought Budi.

“Udah first, huh? Abram is back. Hunts noon”

“Astaghfirulloh. Bram, I told people to help abram. Udah dateng/yet, ya?” sahut Adel's.

“Who?”

“Pak Santo, Pak Bayu, mr Dani. He's a former employee of the father. Just because they are not in line, they rewind” replied Adel.

“Oh, okay. Got the picture?”

“What does Tata make of their photos? less work”

“Hmpf. Ha ha ha ha ha. Yes, too, yes. Adeh, bego banggu”

“Hi hi hi hi hi. There's kok. But don't be jealous, Bram. Tata selfi same them, just make ajay” confirmation

“One doesang, right?”

“Yes yes, lah. How much, um?”

“Yes, send to Abram, yes! that, they again copy”

“Oh, have you nyampe? okay deh. Tata share yes fotonya”

“OK”

“Sorry yes, Bram. Tata can't helpin”

“Iya. Thanks, I sent someone to help Abram”

“Same-sama, bram. Assalamu’alaikum”

“Wa’alaikum salam”

After the phone connection was interrupted, Adel immediately sent Budi the photo he meant earlier. Don't forget he gave each man his name. Still staring at the screen of his phone, Adel got up from the balcony chair. He intended to go back to his room.

“Ha”

He's surprised not to be a bitch. Right in front of him, stood a figure who had argued with him last night. He was silent, not knowing what to do.

*mom? When did you stand there? If it's been a long time, it means my mother has been horrified all my conversations are the same abram. Yes Alloh, what other drama will I live in*?

Adel has resigned. He prepared himself to receive the next tantrum this morning. But when he was ready to heart, it turned out that what happened was different. Ms. Lusi just kept quiet, then turned right and walked away from her. He walked up to the stairs, and went down to the bottom floor. Very strange thing he thought.

*Alloh Masya. Are you really trying to change, right? From the look in her eyes, I think my mother has heard all that I obrolin abram same. But my mother was not angry. Yes Alloh, what should I do, Alloh? I beg your guidance, Alloh*.

Inside his house, Budi immediately opened a message from Adel, and matched the photo and name in the photo. From here, Budi became convinced, that the three people were the ones who asked Adel to help him.

“Sorry sir, yes. So wait a long time nih” chirped Budi.

“Actually, no papa. Our people are waiting for him to be entertained, too. Ha ha ha ha” replied the Saint, joking.

“How did you, mbak Adel already told you about us?” ask Bayu.

“Already, sir Bayu” replied Budi.

“Terus, how is mas? What can we help you with?” ask Dani.

Be smiling. He invited them to enter the house. There were two cabinets left by his father, which were too heavy for him to slide alone. Because it is made of real teak wood. He laid out his plan, from the beginning, to the end. The three people nodded in a sign of understanding.

Four, Budi felt his work became much lighter. Moreover, Erika and Marsya also helped the Princess mop the floor. In no more than two hours, the floor of the house was completely clean from the mud left over by the flood. They went on to clean the furniture. Adhan dzuhur has not yet reverberated, but they have finished cleaning the furniture. I even finished putting it in the house again.

Erika and Marsya had laughed out loud, when Putri told me about Budi's bicycle, which was propelled by his father, so he could not turn. He told me the funny thing that Budi had revealed when he wanted to ride a bike with Adel.

After the Dzuhur prayer, Budi actually allowed the three people to go home. But because they have been paid for a day, they even fear that they will be caught coming home early.

They instead offered to clean up the mud that covered the front yard. Be smiling happily. In his heart he was grateful, because it turned out they were people who could keep the trust.