The Winter Promise
Chapter 58: The Eid Challenge.
This morning was a bright morning, the sound of takbir echoed ceaselessly from yesterday night in the sky of Jakarta. After the dawn prayer, Riki and I stood guard at the entrance to direct those who wanted to perform the id prayer.
This morning, I was still very sleepy because last night after reading the article, there was a friend of mine who invited me to play the game first and the results until this morning had not slept at all. My mother was suspicious of me when I woke up because I woke up faster than usual.
While I was on guard with Riki, Nadira and my parents came there.
“Happy eidulfitri Kak Riki.”
Nadira immediately approached us while our parents went straight into the mosque to look for shaf.
“Happy holidays too for Nadira.”
“Your face this morning is very gloomy, Brother, did you come home last night at what time?”
“I'm still sleepy once, last night I came home at one o'clock for helping Mr. Ustadz to prepare everything.”
“You must be excited Brother, do not show that face, especially when in front of Kak Rina.”
It's so noisy this woman. Whose sister is it?
“True Nadira Mar said, you should be even more excited.”
Why are you following Rik too!
“It is better that you go directly to the shaf woman.”
“Then I go first Kak.”
I can finally calm down again.
“Your sister is as cheerful as ever yes.”
“Yes, she is always cheerful at all times.”
Right now, I'm not just keeping watch with Riki alone. But there are some mosque teenagers who help us direct pilgrims who want to carry out id prayers.
“Bang Amar!”
While I was watching, suddenly there was a little boy looking after me. I clearly saw the boy and he was Misaki. I immediately looked around, because if Misaki was here Miyuki wouldn't be far away. It turns out my guess was not wrong. Right after Misaki greeted me, I saw Miyuki and her family coming to the mosque and this was the first time I met Miyuki's father.
My thoughts on Miyuki's father... Yep... He looks like... The Japanese.
“Misaki, how are you?”
Riki immediately greeted Misaki in my place. Right now I don't want to talk at all. My head is dizzy and my eyes are heavy, I must go to sleep immediately after this prayer.
“Amar, happy birthday eidulfitri.”
Miyuki with a white robe came to me and this was the first time too, I saw Miyuki wearing a hijab.
“Happy eidulfitri for you.”
I replied to her words with no excitement.
“What happened to Amar Rik?”
“She just got home from the mosque and one night, then she continued by playing the game until this morning. He has not slept at all.”
Thank you Rik for explaining it, I'm very helped at the moment.
“It looks like later when the lecture I will fall asleep.”
“It's not good Mar, you have to listen to it well.”
“If my eyes can compromise well with my brain, maybe I will listen to it well.”
“Nak Amar, how is it?”
His mother asked me directly.
“Alhamdulillah good bu.”
“Then, we first yes Nak Amar.”
“I first Mar..Rik.”
“Dadah Kak Amar.”
Miyuki and her family went to the mosque.
“That's who Rik was?”
When Miyuki left, all the mosque teenagers who saw Miyuki talking to the two of us immediately started asking about Miyuki.
“That's Miyuki, SMKKu's friend.”
Riki answered questions from them.
“She is so beautiful, where can you get acquainted with her?”
“Looks like his family is close to you Mar, what's your relationship with him?”
Come on, why does every Miyuki talk to me should this be the case? Can't you guys just calm down a little. It's just Miyuki, a lot of beautiful women like her out there. So don't overdo it.
“Quiet friends all, let me answer your questions one by one.”
Huhhhhh... Fortunately, I have a reliable friend here. Next time I'll treat him to something.
Bilal also began to proclaim the sign that the prayer would begin soon. Riki and I along with the mosque teenagers who were on guard went directly to the shaf to participate in the prayer. This time the priest was Mr. Ustadz himself.
Finished performing the prayer and listening to the sermon, I waited for my family at the exit. Actually, I was just waiting for my dad because he usually carries the keys to the house.
Then from a distance I saw my father walking out of the mosque with Nadira walking beside him, my mother was there too. But I saw a familiar figure walking beside my mother. Yes that person is Miyuki's mother along with Miyuki and the others.
At that time I did not want to think of anything, at this time all I had in mind was my soft mattress. I want to go to bed quickly.
Seeing me who was waiting, Nadira immediately ran over to me.
“Kakk.. Older brother... Listen to this-“
“Shut!”
I closed Nadira's mouth with my index finger to keep her quiet.
“I know what you want to ask. You must want to know what my relationship with the woman who was there is, right?”
“Great once you can know it Kak.”
Like I thought.
“Before that there is something I want to ask. Who is the woman next to mom?”
“Women who are beside the mother turned out to be her mother when SMA time.”
Hearing that only made me shake my head. I don't know what else to say about this and everything that's going to happen in the future. Everything related to Miyuki I can't guess.
“Then what is your relationship with that woman Kak Amar?”
“I have nothing to do, she is just my schoolmate.”
“Masa? I heard the story from her mother that you guys were so close. What's-her-name... Oh yes, Miyuki. It seems like lately you are so famous that such a beautiful woman approaches you.”
Nadira spoke incessantly. My head is dizzy because I have not slept more and more dizzy to hear his chatter.
When my mother got near me, I immediately approached my father to ask him for the key.
“So Amar is your son?”
“You know Amar?!”
My mom seems surprised that Miyuki's mom knows me.
“Who is she bu?”
“It's Dian Mar, temen mom when SMA. My mother used to be very familiar with him. We haven't seen him in a long time because he went to Japan for college. Finally now we meet again.”
“Hee..”.
What a coincidence this is!
“Oh yes how about you guys come to my house? It just so happens that my house is not far from here.”
Please Miyuki's mother, please refuse my mother's invitation. At this time I want to sleep and if there are guests who come to the house let alone the guest is a close friend of my mother, I must be told to wake up and be in the living room.
“Alright, anyway we haven't met in a long time.”
Ah shit! Goodbye my sleep, it looks like I should stay awake even longer.
When I was at home, I wanted to sneak into my room because my mother didn't realize it, this was my chance to sleep. But when I reached my room, I saw my father who was there. I'm sure he told me to accompany him because he didn't know what to talk to Miyuki's father about, let alone Miyuki's Japanese father. I'm sure he's afraid of speaking in front of him wrongly.
“Why Sir? Father told me to accompany because I do not know what to talk to the husband of his friend mother?”
“As I expected from my son, it turns out you can understand your father yes.”
This family is easy to read.
“Alright, I will accompany you there.”
“Thank you Mar, later the THR money will add double.”
Should I be happy with this? Maybe if I was normal, I would have been very happy because my THR was doubled. But now that I am so tired, I have no spirit.
I went to the living room with my dad and sat down on the sofa.
“This is my husband Kagaya, we met while I was in college in Japan. He used to be my upperclassman in a community on campus.”
Miyuki's mother introduced her husband to us.
“I Kagaya.”
Miyuki's father immediately extended his hand to my father. My father was nervous when he put his hand out like that.
“Quick handshake, do not make the atmosphere here awkward.”
I also touched her a little with my hand.
“I Syarif, her husband Sarah. Nice to meet you.”
“And this is our first child Miyuki, maybe Amar already knows. When fasting yesterday he has gone to our house to break it there, later if you want to come to my house, you can ask Amar to deliver it.”
I immediately broke out of my head with cold sweat. I looked at Nadira who was looking at me very sharply and if from her gaze she asked me to explain what happened.
“I Miyuki.”
“Wah! Your daughter is as beautiful as her mother.”
“You could have Sarah.”
I'm not strong anymore, anyone please get me out of here.
“This is our last child, his name is Misaki. Misaki introduce yourself.”
“Mah I'm bored.”
Misaki also whines to her mother.
Good Misaki, keep it that way. If you can get your mother to end this conversation and go home, I will help you move up to number one.
“Sabar Misaki, after this you can play with Amar.”
“Is that Really Brother?”
“Iya.”
"My name is Misaki, I'm still in elementary school."
You insolent Miyuki, you made my golden opportunity disappear.
Then it was my mother's turn to introduce her family to Miyuki's family. After that, we just listened to my mother and Miyuki's mother tell me about her youth. None of us tried to join the conversation because we didn't know what to talk about.
“Mar, you already have a good talk to talk about no?”
My father whispered to me, it seems like he has given up too.
“I don't know either, I just met his father Miyuki.”
“Ano... It's a nice house yes.”
His father Miyuki suddenly fished for a conversation.
“Thank you.”
“Do you like fishing?”
Miyuki's father saw a picture in the living room. The photo seen by his father Miyuki is a photo of my father while fishing in the sea and get a big catch of fish.
“That's how, almost every holiday I go with my friends to the sea to fish.”
“Really it! Can you take me if you want to fish again. I also love fishing.”
“Then when fishing again, I will report. How about we talk on the back porch?”
“Good.”
Then my father and his father Miyuki went to the back porch of the house. I am grateful that Miyuki's father is not a difficult person to talk to and also fortunately Indonesian is fluent, otherwise my father may not know what to talk about anymore.
“Oh yes, at that time Amar once invited Miyuki to go to Mount Prau Loh!”
I was shocked and panicked when Miyuki's mother talked about it. Since no one in my family knew that I was going with Miyuki, I was only allowed to go with Riki and Maul. I had no idea Miyuki was going on that trip.
Then Nadira and my mother looked at me sharply.
“Can you explain about it Mar?”
“Iya Kak, I happen to want to listen to him too.”
Then get rid of those gazes first.
“I did go with Riki and Maul, I didn't know that Miyuki was also invited on that trip. Riki planned it all.”
“Is that true?”
“True, I didn't lie bu.”
“Who are the women who took part in the trip?”
“There were Rina and Kirana, my underclassmen when at SMP.”
Nadira looked at me with a suspicious look.
“Stop suspecting your own brother, have you ever seen your brother lie?”
“By the way it's a medallion photo, whose photo is it?”
Miyuki also tried to change the subject.
“That's a picture of Amar when he won the basketball championship when he was still in SD. He was so excited then.”
“You are so great, Son Amar. You have a great son Sarah.”
Amar's mother also praised me and praised my mother.
“Then in SD, Amar often won championships like that, most medals are equally trophy he kept in his room. Though I want to display everything in the living room, but Amar always forbid it.”
Now I get two suspicious looks. Previously from Nadira who is currently still not missing and now from Miyuki.
“It looks like ransacking your room is the best way.”
Please, until when does this continue.
“Kak Amar, let's play the game. I can't wait to play with you, last night you didn't answer my message.”
“I'm sorry Misaki, last night I was busy helping at the mosque.”
I also invited Misaki to sit on the sofa in front of the television to separate from the talk of mothers who were there.
I saw Miyuki trying to talk to Nadira, but from a distance I saw that Nadira was trying to keep her distance from Miyuki. I don't know what made him behave like that.
Ting... Kegs...
My doorbell rang too.
“Let me open it... A minute by Misaki.”
“Iya.”
I went to the front door to see who the guests were. It turns out they are Riki and Maul.
“You two have arrived.”
“Of course, there are still many homes I want to go to.”
Said Riki who was neat with his batik shirt.
“Ya already, just go in.”
I told them to come in too.
“How many sandals in your house, have you had a guest?”
Maul noticed the neatly arranged sandals in front of the door.
“That's.”
I think let them see for themselves.
When the two of them entered, they were shocked that there was Miyuki and her family there.
“What happened Mar? Did you finally realize that you liked Miyuki and took her and her family with you so you could quickly marry her?”
“What kind of thought is Rik... The reason Miyuki is here is because my mother and Miyuki's mother turned out to be friends from High School. That's why she was able to be here because my mother took her when she met during the prayer id earlier.”
“It looks like you and Miyuki are indeed bound by fate.”
“Stop that Rik, it's very annoying.”
“Hai Miyuki! We meet again.”
Riki immediately greeted Miyuki who was there.
“Hai Riki's... Maul's... Happy Eid al-Fitr yes, sorry to be born and inward.”
After Maul and Riki shook hands with my mother and Miyuki's mother, I invited them to go to the living room where Misaki was waiting for me.
“You're playing that game as well as Misaki, I'll come play with you.”
“Come bang Amar fast.”
“Iya.. Yes.”
I also played with Misaki and Maul. While Riki was talking to Miyuki and Nadira near where I am sitting now.
“Oh yes Mul, later sometime deliver me go to buy laptop yes.”
“Your money already exists?”
“Already.”
“Ok, then we will buy it when we go home from school. Coincidentally the shop is close to the school.”
“Ok.”
“Where's the money you got Kak?”
Nadira who heard my conversation just now directly asked me.
“Actually Amar the-“
“Wow!”
I kept Riki's mouth shut so he wouldn't talk about it.
“You don't talk about my work in front of Nadira. If he knew I had income, he would have asked me for THR money, and after that he would have always asked me for a treat. So don't let you tell him.”
I whispered to Riki.
“Good.”
“What do you guys whisper?”
“No.”
Riki looked nervously stared at by Nadira.
“I'm suspicious of you two.”
“All of you, we eat ketupat first yuk. Coincidentally mom made a lot.”
My mother also invited everyone there to eat ketupat. It also makes Riki free from the gaze of Nadira. Without further ado, we headed straight to the dining room to eat the rhombus there.
“Do you at home also make ketupat also Miyuki?”
“Of course Mul, now it is a holiday, surely my mother made ketupat as well.”
“True yes.”
“Oh yes Mar, why is Rina not here?”
“Kak Miyuki knows Kak Rina?”
Nadira asked Miyuki, I think she was a little surprised that Miyuki knew Rina.
“Of course, Rina is a good friend of mine, and also now I am a classmate with her.”
“If Lebaran in her house Rina is very crowded with her extended family who come to her house because her father Rina is the oldest child in her family.”
I explained it to Miyuki. Why would I know that, of course, because my mother told me.
“Miyuki, does your home eat ketupat with chopsticks?”
What is the question, Mul? I don't think that's a question that needs to be answered.
“No, we eat ketupat by using a spoon like people in general.”
“I guess you guys will be a little different.”
“Mar, after this do you want to go around with me?”
Riki also invited me to go around. Indeed, every year Riki and I always go around one RT to be in touch with my other friends.
“It looks like for this time not Rik, I am very sleepy once and want to sleep first.”
“Honey once.”
“Already let's eat first.”
And we ate the rhombus together. In the end, I was only able to sleep when Miyuki and the family returned home when the azan zuhur reverberated. After the prayer, I immediately slept in my room and my consciousness just disappeared when my head just touched the pillow.
the End Chapter 58
