
Today Hanum is not as usual, his body feels pain coupled with his dizzy head making anything he sees look amber.
"Gosh, it's hot" Hanum said as he touched his own eel to check his temperature.
"It seems like I can't work today." muttered Hanum who then painstakingly reached into his phone that was lying on his bed.
Hanum compartmentalized his cellphone to look for someone's contact, once he found it he immediately pressed the button with the phone handle.
"Halo Mbak." said Hanum in his weak voice.
"Hanum? what is your voice?" mak Susi asked from across there who looked surprised at the sound of Hanum.
"Yes Ma'am, this is me not feeling well Ma'am." replied Hanum.
"O Allah Hanum, then check it out. Today you don't have to go to work first." replied Susi from across the street.
"I.iya Ma'am, I also wanted to ask permission if today I can not enter work" said Hanum told the original purpose of calling Susi Mbak.
"Yaudah if that's the case, I also understand and give you permission to take a day off until your condition really recovers." replied Susi with a thunderous tone from across there.
"Thank you Ma'am for your understanding" Hanum said with a sincere heart.
"It's the same if that's why you should take a lot of rest, I also want to go to work" replied Susi from across there.
"Jaudah ma'am, be careful." replied Hanum who then immediately ended the call.
"Haaahhhh." said Hanum's breath after disconnecting her phone. He closed his eyes trying to enjoy the pain all over his body, had crossed his mind to tell Anton if he was currently sick. But he said because he did not want to make Anton will instead leave his job just like that, after all Hanum pain is also not a severe pain so it will soon heal by itself.
Trying to gather all his strength, Hanum moved from his lying position to fetch some drinking water. This surefire step is always applied by Hanum, because he will drink as much water to reduce the pain a little.
Tuuuttt....tttuuutttt...tttuuuttt arrived Hanum's phone turned on, because the distance is quite far, so Hanum could not see the name of the contals listed on the screen of his phone. Finally, Hanum limped back to try to walk back to his bed and took his phone that was still ringing.
"Mother?" muttered Hanum read the name listed, there was a bit of surprise in his heart. Why his mother had to call right when his condition is not good, although not seriously ill but of course his mother there would be worried if she knew if she was currently in pain.
Hanum took a deep breath, trying to regulate his heart rate so as not to degrease anymore. Slowly Hanum's finger began to slide the green button on her phone.
"Assalamu'alaikum?" greet Hanum for the first time after picking up her phone.
"Waalaikumsalam num." replied Miss Lastri from across there.
In Hanum's heart he prayed that his mother would be unaware and not have a bad feeling about him, so that he did not need to search the vocabulary of words in his brain to lie to his mother.
"Same mother how are you?" ask Hanum base stale.
"Alhamdulillah num, I'm the same father is good." replied Miss Lastri from across the street, if heard from her voice it seems her mother is in a happy condition there.
"Hud? Mom why call Hanum in the morning gini buk?" asked Hanum who immediately asked his mother's purpose to call him.
Suddenly there was a sad feeling that just entered through Hanum's heart, deep in the heart of Hanum, the deepest Hanum is actually not willing and powerless if you see his parents have to help make a living slamming bones to meet the needs of the day.
""Ke...why do you want to open a small shop?" asked Hanum who seemed very curious about the reason behind his mother's decision.
"Yes, I've not helped you work in the rice field anymore, so that's why I don't know what else to do. So yes I think that I have a small shop even though it is small but I have activities that are num." replied Bu Lastri at length from across there.
Hanum sighed while closing his eyes for a moment, trying to find an answer that did not offend his mother.
"What is buk?" ask Hanum.
"I mean Hanum, do you agree that it's not the same mother's idea?" again, she clarified her first question.
"Emmm, if you say soh it's up to you" replied Miss Lastri, somehow the look of the face that Bu Lastri was pointing at was across there. But what Hanum can hear is that his mother breathed a heavy sigh as if it would be difficult in making this decision. Although only a small shop, but of course his mother will be much busier than the main tasks that have been carried out so far mhlai from nyapu, cooking, washing clothes to do other work. Then what if later his mother will instead focus on the store?
"The decision is in the hands of Mother, if Mother feels unable should not be necessary. Hanum is afraid that later Mother even soybean, then who will take care of the Father?" ask Hanum.
"You are calm, the affairs of the Father of household affairs will still run as usual. So all that will not make Mother forget the main task of Mother." replied Miss Lastri with a very convincing.
"Then Hanum permits Mother, as long as you don't cape. If you have cape rest." reply Hanum. agi.
"Yes, my mother's son is really chatty right now?" wonder Miss Lastri is bobbing her head across there.
"Yaudah if that's why I close the phone first" said Miss Lastri later.
"Yes buk, Wassalamualaikum." greetings Hanum to end today's call.
"Waalaikusalam wr.wb." replied Hanum who finally could breathe a sigh of relief.
Hanum closed his eyes while stroking his chest elus, several times Hanum did this before Hanum then laid his body back on the bed.
Hanum looked up at the sky in his room, trying to gather all sorts of good memories that made him feel better.
..............
Did not feel the time passed so quickly, making Hanum who had just been lying down immediately in drowsiness that made him return to his dream.
"Hello, what's wrong?" ask Anton to someone from across the street.
"...."
"What?" surprised Anton.
~ This life is only once and that chance is also once emergence, both of them did not come twice.~