The Winter Promise

Chapter 50: The Month of Ramadan.

Ramadan is the ninth month in the Hijri calendar. In this month all Muslims are required to perform fasting from sunrise to sunset. This month is the month I like the most than any other month. Because this month there are so many fun things you can do.

Like doing a sarong war after finishing tarawih prayers, playing firecrackers, ngabuburit, and many other things that can be done. In addition, usually in this Ramadan, school entrance hours are delayed and the return hours are advanced, the school will also be held half a day only, and the school will be held, plus we get the Eid holiday in one week before Lebaran and one week after.

Right now, I was waiting for the bus to head to school together with Maul and Riki. Although the entrance hour at my school was pushed back to seven and half, but because the distance from my house to school was so far away, I still had to leave early in the morning to get to school on time.

“You look sleepy once Mar?”

Riki who was standing right beside me asked me.

“From sahur until now I have not slept again, so that's why now I am very sleepy.”

I yawned and closed with my hands.

“I also haven't slept again after sahur, but I don't feel sleepy at all.”

Riki showed me how mediocre he is.

“That's because you're a monster.”

“Maybe last night you slept too late Mar, so now you are still sleepy.”

Said Maul who was still busy playing her phone.

“Could have, yesterday I kept playing my game because there was a Ramadan event. Then when I saw the clock in my room, it was already one night.”

“You should reduce that habit Mar. If it's not Ramadan, it might not be a problem for you to play games late. But because now there is suhoor, so we have to wake up faster than usual... If this continues, then you can lose concentration while studying in class.”

Riki advised me.

“Iya yes... I won't repeat it again... Maybe.”

Then while we were waiting for our bus, Rina came to us.

“Good morning everyone.”

Lina greeted us all.

“Again!”

“For Rina, tumben once you were here? Didn't your dad drive you anymore?”

Riki asks Rina because usually Rina always goes to school with her father. When he got home from school, he just left with us.

“I want to try to go to school by bus, I don't want to bother my father because I have to take me. Lately, the store has been crowded... I'm sure he's also busy taking care of the store.”

Rina's family runs a chicken soto restaurant beside her house. Soto chicken lamongan sold by his family, Rina is already famous for being good in the area around my house. Even my mom used to tell me to buy it if she was lazy to cook.

“Do you also often leave together like this?”

Rina asked us back.

“If I'm with Amar already from the first day of entry to the school has departed together, while Maul has only recently.”

Riki answered a question from Rina.

“It looks like I will also leave with you guys as well.”

“Woah is great, the more people will be more fun.”

Riki looks very happy because the more people.

“Do I need to take Miyuki as well?”

As Lina said that, everyone fell silent and looked at me. I looked back at them in wonder.

“What's with all of you?”

“...It's okay, usually if there is something about Miyuki, you are quick to answer.”

Riki was astonished by my attitude of not reacting with the question from Rina.

“Are you okay Ar?”

Lina was worried about my situation.

“At the moment I don't want to talk at all. I want to save my energy. Even though school is only half a day now, the journey home from school to home is exhausting. Not if at school later something troublesome happened.”

“So I thought you weren't feeling well... Oh yes Ar, why do you often go to the multimedia lab? Are you having business there?”

Lina asked me about it. Indeed, after I got a job from Mr. Febri, after returning home from school if there was no exculpation, I always went to the lab to meet with Mr. Febri. Whether it's just to do a task, get a job, or play a game.

“Sometimes my homeroom teacher gives me a job, and I earn money from the work I do. That's why I go to the lab so often to do all the work. Because I don't have a laptop or computer in my house, so I can only do my job at school.”

“Why didn't you ask your parents to buy Mar a laptop? Don't you need it most now to do your job.”

“Not like that Mul, I've lost it if I don't want to ask my parents for more money. Anyway I've raised money to buy a laptop later.”

“Indeed how much money has been raised?”

Maul asked me again.

“Perhaps about four million.”

Riki and Rina were surprised to hear the amount of money I had. If Maul looks ordinary, it seems like she has often gotten a job that is higher paid compared to my pay.

“Why can your money be that much Mar?! Is the payment from the work given by Mr Febri really that big?”

Riki looked surprised at the money I had.

“All that money is not just money from working. But my pocket money was last month and now it's there too. Since entering SMK, I did not use my pocket money at all because it always brought supplies and money that I used for the cost of my trip to school was given again by my parents... Besides that is usually what I have, I spend it playing at the cafe. But because now I can play the game for free in the lab, so I've never played in the cafe again.”

I explained it at length to all of them.

“Enak once you Mar can have that much money.”

Riki was envious of what I had.

“Better now you just focus on your excrement. Later if your excursion schedule is not as crowded as it is now, I will share his work with you.”

“Is that Mar?!”

“Of course, after all the work given by Mr. Febri is very much. I have often rejected some of them.”

“Thank you Mar, you are indeed my best friend.”

RIki looked really happy after I promised her that.

“If only my productive teacher had something like that as well.”

It turns out that not only is Riki envious of my work, Maul too.

“What money do you get from your current job is still lacking?”

“That's it, because I'm going to make the drone I said it was. I need more money now... Just so you know, the price of the drone is not cheap Mar.”

“Drone like what Maul wants to make?”

Lina who didn't know anything immediately asked us.

“So the drone that Maul wants to make is..”.

And Riki also explained to Rina about it.

“Maybe you're less familiar with your prolific teacher Mul. If you were familiar, there might be one or two people offering you a job. I heard from Mr. Febri that many productive teachers RPL who have side jobs as well, even the work I do some of them come from them.”

“Can be Mar, maybe I'll try to familiarize myself like you too.”

“It was nice new.”

“Spiritual Ar... But don't push yourself too much. I heard from your mother that you've been staying up late. That's not good for your health Ar.”

Rina encouraged me and gave me advice.

“IBU?!”

I was shocked when I heard that my mother said something to Rina.

Wait wait wait... Since when did my mother get along with her mother Rina. I do know that my house and Rina's house are still in the same RT. But I didn't think my mom would get along with her mom. Because my parents were always at home for Saturday and Sunday to rest after a full week's work.

“Your parents are already familiar like that, why don't you just be there. I'm sure you both have the blessing of each other's parents.”

Maul mocked us after hearing that.

Rina's face turned red after being lashed by Maul like that.

“You are Mul! Stop talking a no-no.”

“I forgot to ask this Ar... Is there something between you and Nakashima?”

Lina came back like everyone else and asked me.

“Nakashima?”

Hmmmm... I think I've heard that.

“You mean Takeshi?”

Said Riki quickly after hearing the name.

“Ohh, so Takeshi... I don't think there is, why?”

“After the LDKS event, Takeshi still thinks that you were the one who committed the theft. But because you're not suspended at all, so he thinks you're doing something with the OSIS. Because Takeshi knows that you are a crafty person.”

Huh! I can't believe I have to deal with that guy again. I have lived a peaceful life here.

“It looks like he still can't forgive you about the incident back then Mar. Hmmmm... If you remember it a long time ago the incident.”

Riki closed his eyes and his head slightly pointed towards the sky. It seems like there are memories of Riki from that incident.

“What really happened between the two of you? I know that your relationship is not so good when you are in Thousand Islands, but I did not think that it got this bad.”

Lina was still asking about it.

“I'm lazy to tell you, you better ask Miyuki later.”

Because I want to forget that incident as soon as possible.

The bus we were waiting for finally arrived and we headed straight to school.

***

“Mar, would you like to come with me to the DPR?”

Riki who had cleared his desk was getting ready to leave. The DPR that Riki just mentioned is an abbreviation of Under the Tree of Leaves. We named the place we used to occupy when resting by that name. Because it is located near the tree and the tree is shady, so the name is very suitable. By the way who gave that name was Riki.

“No, I want to sleep only.”

“Indeed you didn't bring Mar?”

Kichida is also preparing to go to the House of Representatives.

“Kan is now Ramadan Kichida, so we are both fasting.”

Riki told Kichida about it.

“Sorry, I forgot about that.”

“You don't need to apologize.”

I started folding my jacket to make a pillow.

“You want to eat where Kichida is?”

“I want to eat together with Yoshida in the usual place. He said Miyuki and Rina also want to come there even though they do not bring supplies.”

“Then I come with you, it looks like Maul and Rian will also go there when it breaks.”

Riki finally went with Kichida to an ordinary place. Since the LDKS event, Rian so often gathered with us in the House of Representatives. I don't know if he's really meeting with us. But it seemed that approaching Rina belonged to one of those goals.

I looked around my class and found that all the boys were in the back of the class, wondering what they were doing, I went there to see them. When I got there, I saw that they were sleeping in a crowd using a large banner as the base.

“Who brought this banner?”

I asked Akbar who was still awake there.

“I brought... Because yesterday I heard that the others wanted to sleep while resting, so I deliberately brought a banner to school. I happen to have one big one at home.”

“Great once you Bar, your idea is very genius once.”

I also praised Akbar with the thoughts he had.

“If you want, you can sleep here too Mar. Coincidentally there is still a lot of space left.”

Akbar offered it to me.

“Alright then, I'm very grateful once.”

I picked up my jacket on the table and immediately found a room for me to sleep in.

Uch... So much fun. This is what the school is called the second home. If it's like this, I don't think staying up is a problem anymore.

Not long after I fell asleep, all of a sudden my sleeping classmates also woke up. Of course it woke me up too. At first I thought that there was a teacher or student who entered the classroom. After my consciousness gathered, it turned out that there were only Miyuki and also Rina.

So it's just the two of them, I better get back to sleep. It just so happens that the clock is still long.

“Mar, Don't sleep again!”

Miyuki prevented me when I wanted to put my head on the pillow I had prepared.

“What are you two doing here?”

“Riki calls you to come immediately to the usual place.”

Said Rina to me.

“Hah!? Didn't I tell him I was sleepy... Never mind, I want to go back to sleep.”

“Ar...”

Lina said nothing and just looked at me. From there I knew that something wrong was going on. Finally, I don't want to go with them to the House. During the trip I asked Rina about what happened, but she just said to wait for her to get there.

When I got there, I saw Takeshi and his friends arguing with Maul as well as Riki. I also saw Rian who seemed overwhelmed to separate the two of them.

“Finally you came too Mar!”

Takeshi immediately greeted me when I just arrived there.

“What's up? You just interrupted my sleep.”

I also felt dizzy in my head which started to appear. I'm sure it's because I was shocked when I woke up.

“Stop Mar's pleasantries, I still don't accept what you did when LDKS. I'm sure you did the theft, right?”

Oh so it's still a problem about that.

“Do you have any proof? If not, I want to go back to class to sleep again. Mumpung break time is still long.”

“Proof?... You must be in cahoots with the OSIS right! I have investigated it and not a single student has been suspended since the LDKS event was completed.”

“Great once you get to investigate.”

I also applaud Takeshi.

“Then... What do you want to do? Is this a problem for all students? I'm sure no student would listen to that. What else all stolen items have been returned.”

“I want to challenge you to play basketball. I did not accept my defeat during that orientation. I want to challenge you to play one-on-one.”

Takeshi also posed a challenge to me.

“Really! If you lose don't cry yes.”.

the End Chapter 50