The Winter Promise

Chapter 52: Ngabuburit.

Lebaran holidays have arrived, after attending school approximately three weeks during Ramadan. We finally got the holiday that I was looking forward to. Right now I am in my house alone waiting for the time to open. Today the plan, Miyuki invited us all to open up together at her house.

“Amar!”

I heard Riki's voice calling from in front of my house. I went out to greet him and he was there with his motorcycle.

“What's Rik?”

“Ngabuburit yuk!”

I think there is no harm in ngabuburit while waiting for breaking time rather than just watching television.

“Come!... We're just two? We're not bringing Maul?”

Ask him.

“Maul there is work that is due now. He said he wanted to finish as soon as possible so he could open it together at Miyuki.”'s house

“Oh so... A minute.”

I went back inside the house to get my keys. I locked the door and the gate of my house.

“So where to go now?”

“We went to Rina's house first yes Mar. Earlier before leaving my mother told me to buy soto there for dinner later.”

“Ok, I'll come with you.”

We went straight to Rina's house. Because the distance of my house with Rina's house is not so far away, even by foot we can get there quickly. Riki and I got there.

From outside, I saw a lot of motorcycles parked in front of the store. Looks like the visitors who come to his shop today are very crowded. Indeed, the place to eat during Ramadan will be crowded during the opening hours because a lot of people who hold a meal together whether it is with family or with their friends.

I also saw Rina who was busy helping her parents serve existing customers. Riki and I went to him at the cashier table.

“Hi you two!”

Lina greeted us immediately when we came to see her.

“Tokomu crowded once yes.”

I looked at the visitors who were there.

“Alhamdulillah, because fasting so many people who come here to hold open together.”

“Will you open together at Miyuki Rin's house?”

Riki asked Rina.

“Of course I'm coming. After helping my parents, I will go there... So what's your order?”

“I don't want to buy, I just drop off Riki.”

“I order two packs of soto to eat at home, don't forget to wear the plug.”

Riki also gave his order to Rina.

“Two packs of soto with plug... Everything so twenty thousand.”

Rina recorded Riki's order on a paper she held.

“This is the money.”

Riki gives Rina some money to pay for the food she ordered.

“The money fits yes... Both of you please sit down while waiting for the handling I prepare.”

Rina also provided us with two chairs. We immediately sat on the chair that Rina had provided, and Rina went to prepare an order from Riki. When we were waiting for Riki's order to be ready, the grown man came out of Rina's house, he was Rina's father.

“Eh no Amar same Riki!”

Her father Rina greeted us kindly.

“Good afternoon om!”

We also returned his greeting with a smile.

I actually already know his father Rina while sitting in elementary school because I often buy soto here, but our relationship has been getting closer since her father Rina found out that I was her son's classmate when Junior High.

“You two also went to school in SMK Sawah Besar too huh? One more school means the same as Rina huh?”

“Iya om!”

Answer us with his compote.

“That time was also shocked when Rina said she wanted to try the entrance exam at SMK Sawah Besar, even though she had gotten a recommendation at SMA Cibubur. Because he looked like he wanted to go to that school. Yes, let it be.”

Her father Rina immediately told her about it.

“How was the response when Rina decided to enter SMK Sawah Besar? Was om not angry that Rina gave up her recommendation like that?”

Because I feel bad about both of Rina's parents when I find out that her son wants to go to SMK Sawah Besar just to tear down my idealism.

“Om is not angry with Rina, so is aunt... As long as Lina enjoyed her school life and studied earnestly, wanting to go to school anywhere was not a problem. It's just that we are very sorry because he rejected his recommendation, even though there are so many people around the house here who want to enter Cibubur High School but are not accepted.”

I just nodded a little listening to that.

“Nby the way... How was Rina at school? Does she have a boyfriend?”

Her father Rina was a little closer to us both.

I can't answer that... I leave that to you Rik.

Riki slapped my back very hard.

“AW! What are you doing Rik?”

“Why om ask that?”

Riki asked back to his father Rina.

“At first om and aunt thought that Rina entered SMK Sawah Besar because her boyfriend was there. You see, I never accidentally saw the screen of Rina's phone at a glance. There he saw on his screen there was a picture of him with a man. But because om only saw it at a glance, so om not really know who the man is.”

After hearing the explanation from her father Rina, Riki just looked at me and smiled at me. It really makes me very curious. If Rina still likes me, the man in the picture should be my photo. But when do I take a picture with him alone.

“Rina does have someone she likes om, but her love is unrequited.”

Said Riki to his father Rina.

“What!? There are men who dare to approach the child om!... And again he ignored her feelings! It seems like he has never felt the heat of the soto gravy while it is boiling.”

I also got a little creepy when I heard that. What would happen to me if he found out I had rejected his son, I would be watered using boiling soto sauce?

“That's right, even though Rina used to be the target of all students at SMP.”

Riki is becoming.

“Rina is a good and beautiful child. He likes to help people when they are in trouble. I'm not willing if there's a guy approaching her.”

I also saw Riki who was very compact with his father Rina. Riki is the type of person who can blend in with anyone. There was only one person he could not approach... These are smart people. According to Riki, smart people are too boring and the conversation is always taken in a serious direction. So he

I don't like talking to him. But in reality, Rina and Miyuki are also among the smart people she wants to avoid to take the plunge.

“This Rik order is ready.”

Rina also gives Riki a plastic bag containing her order.

“Because Rina has arrived, om stay first ya.”

His father Rina also returned to his place to make orders for customers.

“What are you talking about? I saw it like you guys had fun earlier.”

Lina was curious about what we were talking about.

“Lightweight talk only.”

Riki said to him. Because Riki's answer was unsatisfactory, Rina looked at me.

“That's.”

“Sorry Mba, I want a message!”

Someone from one of the tables waved their hands and called out to Rina.

“Sorry Yes Mar, Rik... I have to go again.”

“It's okay, anyway we want to go too. Isn't that Mar?”

“Iya.”

After getting an order from Riki's mother. We went to Riki's house to deliver the order. When I got to his house, I was told by Riki to wait on the bike. I also waited for Riki to give his mother's order on the motorbike parked right in front of his house.

As I was waiting for Riki to return, Riki's younger brother came out from inside the house.

“Yo Bang Amar!”

He greeted me familiarly.

“Yo Ram! Where are you going this afternoon?”

His name is Ramadhani Isaac, I often call him Rama. He is still in fifth grade SD. If

playing to Riki's house, I often play games with him.

“I'm going to Bang mosque, brother himself go where?”

“I want to go to my friend's house to open with.”

“I would also like to open with my friends at the Mosque. Mr. Ustadz said today there is kebuli rice.”

Rice kebuli!? Looks delicious! Uhh... I want to open it in the mosque.

“Oh so.”

“Yes already Bang, I want to go first. My friends are waiting.”

Rama went to the mosque on his bicycle.

“Come Mar!”

Riki was also done with his business inside the house and we immediately went to visit Miyuki's house.

Ngabuburit is an activity carried out by people to wait for the time to break. Usually they do a variety of things, whether it's just a walk, looking for free takjil, going to the park, chatting with friends, visiting the food bazaar that is usually held during Ramadan, and there's so much more. In addition, there are also those who do ngabuburit with religious activities such as

tadarus or listening to lectures in the mosque.

If the usual ngabuburit me and Riki do is just around the house until the time of breaking has arrived.

“You don't want to learn motor Mar?”

Riki asked me.

“I can drive motor.”

“Really! I rarely see you riding a motorcycle alone.”

“How else, I never went to a place that requires me to use a motor. Most if you want to go to a new market I use motor.”

“Oh... Lebaran will you go home Mar?”

“Iya, on the second day of Lebaran.”

“Where are you going?”

“If my father said yesterday, I will go to Tasikmalaya.”

Tasikmalaya is the village of my father. There I still have my grandparents and grandparents who are still alive. We often visit them during holidays like this. Because my father was his only son, so inevitably he had to visit his parents. In addition, usually when the end of the year we just went to the hometown of my mother who was in the Yogyakarta area.

“Means that you are still in Jakarta?”

“Iya.”

“Let me stop by your house at lebaran.”

“Ok, later I also stop by your house after.”

Because usually Riki's parents gave me THR money back then. But whether this year I will get a lot of THR money like last year. Considering I've entered SMK and its yemen I'm an adult now. Yes.. Literally I was a teenager.

“You yourself did not go home to Rik?”

“My village is in Jakarta, at most I will only go to my uncle's house in South Jakarta to gather with other family members.”

Oh yea... I remember something.

“Oi Rik, do you want to join the lightning boarding school?”

“What's tuh?”

“Yesterday during the last exculpation, my mentor in the rohis exkul invited me and Rian to come to the lightning boarding school held by him at the mosque near his home. His house is also near the school. Rian was definitely on the show, and my mentor told me to take his friend if anyone wanted to... Do you want to come?”

“When is the show?”

“Days twenty-eight to two nine ramadan.”

“Only one day only?”

“The name is also pesantren lightning.”

“I'm coming with Mar then, I happen to have no show at my house at that time. Anyway the show was just one day today.”

Riki also accepted my invitation. Means only Maul who I have not invited.

“I also want to invite Maul to the event, can she yes?”

“If it's better you ask Maul directly, he usually goes home if lebaran.”

“Then I'll ask.”

While we were walking, we saw a crowd of people on the side of the road. Being a little interested in it, we decided to pull over and see what was going on there.

I also saw that there was one woman sitting in a chair with her right leg full of blood around her calf. And also near the woman there are two people who are bickering because of something. Looks like they'll be fighting soon.

“What just happened Mas?”

Riki asked someone who was next to him.

“So there was an accident... There was a person discharged out of that alley, continuously accidentally bumping into another rider who was passing right in front of him. Then the person who was hit lost his balance and made him fall from his motorbike with someone who was being rammed. If the driver is healthy, but the piggyback is injured.”

That man explained it to us.

“Oh so yes Mas.”

“Kalo naek motor pack eyes WOi!”

“Lah ga cave on purpose!”

//I purposely use language like this to be more pervasive.

And the two people who were bickering were almost fighting each other. Fortunately, there were people who separated the two.

“Hahahaha... Interesting once.”

“Why are you laughing Mar?”

“This is what makes me happy living in Indonesia, every behavior of the community never bored me... Things like this are trivial problems and as said by mas-mas earlier if the bumping is also unintentional. Finished with a cold head should be enough, especially when this is the fasting month. It is better if we restrain our emotions so that our fasting is not in vain.”

I also noticed two motorcycles near them.

“Where do you know that it hit accidentally? Doesn't the only one who knows it is the one who does it.”

Riki said to me.

“Then looking at the wound that the woman had, it seemed that it came from rubbing against the asphalt, not from being hit. If hit should be the woman bounced or at least suffered a fracture in the part that was hit. From there I thought that the person who hit it might not be so excited... After all, when viewed from the damage possessed by both motorcycles, there is nothing severe at all, there are only traces of scrap.”

“Great once you Mar, at a time like this you can have such an assumption.”

What's so great... Things like this are not something that is difficult to think about with deep thought. We just need to listen to information from people and see the facts that happen on the ground. That is enough to get that kind of knowledge.

“Indeed you didn't hear the two men's debate. The person who hit him also said that he was unintentional, meaning that he was unintentional. After all he had ventured to stop and apologize, it had already proven that he had indeed accidentally done so. If if he was intentionally, I think the injuries that will be suffered by the woman will be worse than this.”

“True yes..”

“Already, better now we go to his home Miyuki.”

“What time is it?”

“It's five o'clock past dikit.”

I also showed my watch to Riki.

And the two of us went straight to Miyuki's house to open up together.

the End Chapter 52