Understand Me
Workup
The next day, at the funeral
Ursila rubbed a headstone bearing the name of Abi, Muhammad Salim. The crying did not stop. So is Umi who is very sad over the departure of her husband who has become the backbone for her and her only child, Ursila.
"YUk, let's go home", take Umi.
"No way, Ursila wants to be here just like abi" Ursila declined.
"It can't be like that darling, Ursila knows that we can't be sad that's too sad like this, kasian abi" Umi said calmly. Ursila also wiped her tears that had soaked her cheeks.
"Let's go Ursila we're home! after all, it's very late afternoon, soon after night", bring Umi back. Ursila stood up and walked away from the funeral.
*****
In-house.
This dinner was very quiet. Ursila remembered the joke that abi usually let out when we gathered at the dinner table. Ursila only looked at the rice and side dishes that the umi had served on her plate.
"La, eaten tuh!", said Umi, the sentence immediately stopped Ursila's daydreaming.
"Yes Mi", answered Ursila.
They ate without a word coming out of them.
After finishing her meal, Ursila headed straight for the room. Small and simple room. Yet here Ursila felt very comfortable and was able to bring out all her feelings of sadness. Because Ursila could not bear to shed tears once again in front of the umi. Because he knew it would only make Umi sadder.
In Ursila's room he could not hold back his tears. She's shedding her tears. He remembered every single thing and sentence that Abi had spoken to him.
"Why should abi go?", asked Ursila inwardly.
2 months later.
After college, Ursila headed to the room to hurry to change clothes, then approached Umi in the kitchen.
"have you rest, this is done anyway" replied Umi.
"Yes already, uh Mi, make tea huh. Ursila thirsty, want a tea made by Umi, because the tea made by Umi is the best", pinta Ursila with a face of weld.
"Uh umi child can only if there is a desire, yes umi makein, you sit in front of the TV" said Umi.
In the family room Umi invites Ursila to talk and express her desire to work. Because since the departure of abi, all kinds of expenses and needs on the back of a pensioner's money abi not how much.
"What does Umi want to do? where?", asked Ursila.
"Umi wants to be a laundry worker, son. Because that's all Umi can do", replied Umi.
Unknowingly, tears fell down Ursila's cheeks. Ursila grabbed Umi's hand and said, "Mi, Ursila knows Umi is tired of taking care of the house and taking care of Ursila, and it feels like Ursila can't bear to see Umi has to work hard to meet our needs".
"But how? We have no choice" Umi said.
"Umi does not need to work, take Ursila's monthly allowance for needs at home, and for the same pocket money pay college so Ursila is responsible, and for the same pocket money, it just so happened that Ursila got a job offer at the restaurant across campus", Ursila replied to appease Umi.
"Then how was your lecture, son?" ask Umi.
"Enjoy. It does not work all day, from 5 pm to 10 pm. So Ursila's lecture won't be interrupted" Ursila replied.
Although it feels heavy, college while working. But that decision had to be taken by Ursila.
"I've grown up, and how much do I depend on my parents? This is the time for me to prove to Umi that this child is an independent child" Ursila said in her heart to encourage herself.
After college now Ursila no longer directly home. But stop by the restaurant across campus for work.
At first it feels heavy because it is quite tiring to divide time and energy between college and work. But after some time it was common for Ursila to do.
