The Winter Promise

Chapter 55: The Disruptor's Return.

Right now I was in front of my house and looking towards my house with a heavy feeling of entering that house. As you know, today my sister has returned home and maybe now she is at home with my family. I can confirm it from my father's car parked in the garage.

After taking a long breath and making myself calm, I began to enter the house slowly.

“Assalamualaikum.”

I opened the door slowly so as not to make a sound that could attract attention. As much as possible I want to go directly to the room to get ready to go to the mosque for prayer tarawih.

Am I doing this because my sister has gone home? One of the reasons is because of that.

Maybe you think I'm overdoing this. Let me tell you something, my sister is a hassle compared to Miyuki. When he was at home, he always came to my room to play there, even though he had his own room. Besides, he always borrowed my stuff and didn't know when he was returning it. Actually I had no problem with it, it was just that I couldn't handle it when he started asking me something.

My sister is very smart at school. Unlike me, she always gets ranked in school. Although not always ranked first, but he was always in the top three. My mother used to compare me to her when I was lazy to study, but it never affected me. Because from elementary school I have a principle that grades are not everything.

Actually it's just my reason for looking cool, hahaha...

“Waalaikummussalam.”

Ah, I seem to have to go to the living room.

Reply to my parents who came from the direction of the living room. I went to the living room to see them, because it would be rude to go straight to the room without greeting them when they found out that I was home.

When I was in the living room, I saw my sister sitting between my parents.

“You've come home Brother, how are you?”

He greeted me with a smile on his face.

“I'm fine, you alone?”

“As you can see, I'm good.”

My sister's name is Nadira Humairah, her age is only one year below me. She looks like an angel and is cute as a child, but despite all that, she has the same cunning thoughts as me.

There may be some people who say that the sister will tend to follow her brother. Yeah, maybe it's my fault for teaching him how to prank his friends.

“Where did you Mar?”

My mother, who saw me, stood up and gave me tea.

“I've broken open at my friend's house.”

“From home Riki?”

“That's.”

There's no way I told my mom that I just came from Miyuki's house. First, my mother doesn't know who Miyuki is. And secondly, my mother likes to stir herself if I go to a woman's house. My mother used to be excited when I went home from school to Rina's house first before returning home, but at that time I only gave the day's duties to Rina, who was the only one of them, because I was told to by my homeroom teacher.

“I want to go to the room first yes, I want to get ready for prayers tarawih.”

I also went to my room to change my clothes with cocoa clothes and use a sarong. Because for a minute

azan Isya will reverberate again, I too soon to go there, because the time lag in my mosque between azan and ikamah is not too long, especially during Ramadan like this.

“Kak wait!”

When I was about to leave the house, Nadira told me to wait for her. It seems he also wants tarawih prayers in the mosque as well. Though I think it does not matter if he prayed at home, especially he just arrived in Jakarta.

“Sorry long wait.”

“Come to leave.”

“Hum!”

Finally I went with Nadira to the mosque. During the trip, I tried to speed up my steps because I knew that when I was together with him like this, he would definitely ask me various questions.

“How is your school, sister?”

Tuh.

“There is nothing interesting I can tell you.”

“No way, surely you have one or two things that you can tell Kak.”

“Indeed there is nothing else I can tell you.”

“Then what excrement did you enter Kak?”

Here it is, the second question.

“I get into exkul rohis.”

“Rohis!?”

Nadira was shocked after hearing that from me.

Is a person like me inappropriate to enter into such a religious society? Why is everyone surprised when I say that I went into spiritual exculpation? I don't think that's surprising and common.

“I guess you will get into literary excrement.”

“Why literature?”

“Of course, a lazy person like you is unlikely to get into an exkul that gives off a lot of energy.”

Look, he's pretty shitty, right.

“Did you forget who used to cook food when you were at home?”

“Hehe... But why did you choose to go into Rohis Kak?”

“I'm just a little interested.”

“Good as it is, I am quite happy to hear it. What about Rina? Where is she at school now?”

Why are there so many questions you can ask me, you chose that one instead.

“Rina attended the same school as me, but she was in a different department.”

“How is your relationship with Sister Rina? Have there been any changes?”

“Care are you asking like that?”

“Not her sister Rina likes you.”

Heh!? Where does she know that, I don't think I ever told her anything about Rina. Did my mother tell you that? But it seems impossible.

“Since when did you know that?”

“I already knew this when I first met with Kak Rina. I knew for myself that I used to play with him in the mosque. When we were talking about you, her face was always flushed red and she became nervous, even she was often misbehaved back then.”

“Heee... So you already know yes.”

While we were in the middle of the road, we met Riki who seemed like she was heading to the mosque as well. Wearing a cocoa shirt and a sarong that she had sown on her shoulder, she walked over to us.

“Hai Nadira, how is it?”

“Alhamdulillah good Brother, Riki's own how?”

“Alhamdulillah I'm good too.”

Hey, why are you smiling like that Rik? Do you want me to report this to Kirana?

We immediately rushed to the mosque and performed prayers isya followed by prayers tarawih.

After performing the prayer, I immediately went to the house and headed to my room to rest

playing with my phone. I also hung my cocoa shirt and holster on the hanger behind the door. Then I lay down on my bed and started playing with my phone.

When I opened my phone, I got an incoming message coming from Misaki. He seemed to want to invite me to play together again. Well then, after all playing games with friends is fun compared to playing alone.

Geck... Geck... Geck...

I heard someone knocking on my door.

“Who?”

I'm still focused on the game I'm playing.

“This is me Brother, can I come in?”

I thought it was Nadira.

“Do what I answer it. Even if I say no, you'll still be in my room, right?”

“Hehe... Excuse me.”

Nadira opened the door to my room and started walking towards me. He also had a chance to see some trophies and medals in my room. Indeed I kept medals and trophies in my room, because my mother liked to be too excessive in my pride for others. I don't really like that. Henceforth

I only gave one medal to my mother for her to put on my picture in the living room.

“Do you not want to continue your career in basketball? Weren't you talented enough at that. I love it when I see you play basketball, you look so cool.”

I slightly turned my attention to Nadira who was still focused on paying attention to my trophies.

“I'm done in that, if for just sports I still do it, but to compete it doesn't seem.”

“Have you not forgotten your childhood friend?”

Hearing that made me a little speechless and because of that, the characters in my game died.

“What is your purpose for going here just to ask that? If that's all you want to talk about, you better get out, I don't want to talk about it.”

I also tried to refocus my attention on the game I was playing. But for some reason when Nadira said that, I had a little emotion hearing it. I was also confused as to why I became such an emotion, when I found no clear reason for it.

Nadira sat down on my bed and fell silent, as if she knew I was angry with her.

“I'm sorry, it seems I was too tired to get carried away by emotions earlier.”

“No Brother, you are not wrong. I was wrong to ask you that.”

I don't feel good when I scold him like that. Although I thought Nadira was a troublesome and annoying figure like Miyuki, but I never scolded her or yelled at her for anything. I was basically never angry. But I felt unbearable when I saw my silent sister after I scolded her.

“Select the school you want. I think mom and dad don't have a problem with that either.”

“What I am ***-“

“Hah?”

Nadira was silent again. I also breathed a little bit to see that. I put my phone down and sat right next to it.

“What's the problem?”

“I'm confused as to which school to go to? On the one hand, I don't have a school I want to go to.”

“Did your father and mother say something to you?”

“No, they gave the decision completely to me.”

As I expected of them, they never wanted to take the bother about this. Actually from their unwillingness to bother it makes us become independent to determine our path later. They also never argue about this, as long as the decisions we make are good then they will not dispute it.

“Is there any interest you're pursuing?”

“No.”

What did you do in the pesantren. Don't tell me you're there being an anti-social person.

“Then I can't give you input.”

“Now I'll ask brother. Why did you get into the multimedia department? I've never seen my sister do anything about multimedia.

“Recommendations from my school recommended the school and the major to me, so I took it so as not to have to study again for the entrance exam.”

“Entah why that reason doesn't help me at all.”

Nadira looked a little disappointed with the answer I gave. At first I didn't know I was going to go into multimedia. My art and computer grades are a little high, but I didn't think it would get me into multimedia.

“Because now there is still one more year to determine, you better think about it first. No need to rush.”

“Good.”

It seemed like he was done with his question, and now he might be going back to his room.

“By the way has brother not dated also with Kak Rina?”

Shit! Apparently he's still asking again.

“Pesantren children talk about dating. No, dating is forbidden in religion. That adultery!”

It seems like the knowledge I got from Ustadz Adi was useful at such a time.

“I just felt that it was very annoying to be lectured by you.”

“That's how I felt when you started talking.”

You know for yourself because Nadira was studying at the boarding school, most of the lessons there were related to religion, he always lectured me when I did a little wrong. And at such a time, I could not at all refute him or reverse his words.

“Just I thought that it would be a pity if brother would look at Kak Rina like that. Sister Rina is a beautiful and also good woman, she must be anyone's dream woman.”

That's how Rina is, she is anyone's dream and therefore many men who like her say that I'm stupid for throwing away her love. Huh, sucks.

“Rina has already expressed her feelings for me after the National Examination.”

“Really? And how did sister answer back then.”

Surprised and curious now mixed within Nadira's current mind. I knew that from his eyes that were looking at me right now. When I saw her eyes, I somehow remembered Miyuki who was equally annoying if she was curious like this.

“I turned it down.”

“Hah!? Refused him. Why did you reject him?”

Nadira couldn't believe my answer at the time.

“I don't want to be tied to something and don't want to deal with anything illogical afterwards.

“Why can I have a brother as stupid as this.”

Nadira began to sigh very long and looked at me with an excited limp.

“What is your business about this anyways. How are you yourself? Hasn't anyone in your pen that expressed his feelings for you?”

“What brother forgot that in my boarding school the building and dormitory for his male and female students separated very far, even in a different city.”

“I just found out about this.”

Because I never joined my parents when driving Nadira to the cottage, so I did not know that the dormitory and building between male and female students separated like that. If apart I already know, but I did not expect to be different cities like that.

“Why my brother can be this stupid right now. Though I am happy when I know people like Kak Rina like big sister.”

“It looks like you really like Rina huh... Did he ever give you anything until you were like that?”

“In my opinion, Brother Rina is a sister who Nadira is proud of. She is kind, beautiful, and very reliable.”

“Sorry if I'm not good and unreliable.”

“Then how was your relationship after you rejected her statement?”

“Our relationship is still ordinary, even he went to SMK Sawah Besar because of me too.”

“From where your confidence comes.”

Nadira looked at me with a look of disdain.

“Indeed that's what happened.”

“Sister Rina turned out to be more stubborn than I thought, but I like that. I'm glad to see the struggle of his love for my stupid brother.”

“Today you're so happy to say I'm stupid.”

“Indeed you are stupid.”

Huh, it turns out that his annoying nature still hasn't gone away either.

“I'd love to see you like you used to, Kak.”

I also stroked his head.

“You don't have to worry about something unnecessary like that.”

“You're right, it seems like what I did was very stupid.”

Nadira stood up from my bed and went to my desk. I also started playing my game again, when I saw my phone had a lot of incoming messages from Misaki who invited me to play.

“Kakak..”.

“Hmm.”

“What does this mean?”

I turned my attention away from my phone and saw Nadira holding a love letter that Yoshida had given me. I still keep it because it's not good to throw it away.

Why would he find her? I had forgotten where the letter was kept.

“Listen to me Nadira, it's not what you think it is. It was hany-.”

“I don't care what I want to ask now, is this name real?”

“Iya, that's his real name.”

“Where can you get acquainted with Japanese people?”

Looks like the question this time will be more troublesome than before.

“Begini-gini my connection is also extensive.”

“It seems like lately you are a little famous too yes.”

I took the letter from Nadira's hand and put it in my closet again. At least only Nadira knows, I don't know what if my mother found her. It would be much more troublesome to explain it.

“Did you also reject that woman?”

“He's gone before I answer him.”

“I can't believe it.”

Whatever, I'm tired of explaining it to this one human being.

“I hope you don't stay like this, brother, someday it could turn to you.”

“Just calm down, in case that's the case. That is my destiny.”

“Nobody knows how our respective destinies.”

“Iya.. Yes..”

“Amar! Nadira is inside! You two do not sleep at night, it will be difficult to wake up to sahur.”

My mother rebuked me from outside my room. It seemed like we were both too noisy to bother them.

“Thank you for the suggestion kak.”

“Yo.”

I also returned to playing my game.

“AMAR SLEEP!”

“Iya!”

the End Chapter 55