Why Should I..?.!?

Onde-onde

What a beautiful morning. Dew spots still wet the grass around the house. Orchids in front of my house are also in full bloom. The chirping of the birds flying over the rice fields sounded so melodious. This kind of atmosphere I will miss later. It felt sad but also relieved because soon I will start my long journey. A journey that might not be easy for me.

"Sister, not saying good to Zidan?", Fani's words surprised me. The millennial is about the same age I would not if I live far away?. Haha. Amusingly.

"What the hell is a deck. Ngagetin. Brother already saying goodbye to father, same mother, why did you say goodbye to brother Zidan too?", I said while tying my shoelaces.

Fani stepped up, came closer to my ear, then whispered, "Say Brother Zidan if sister Anya does not fare well next week she wants to suck up big brother loh."

"What..?!?", I said in shock. What the fuck is it, people. Played the threat through my sister. Look out yeah!.

"Sister! Ngagetin tau", said Fani while stroking the chest. "So how? Want to say no?", Fani asked again. Wonder. Nih boy is given what the hell is the same brother Zidan really want to nyampein his threat to me.

"Okay," I said briefly.

Fani gawking. I stepped slowly past him, but until the fence of the house he suddenly chased after me.

"Aren't you saying the same to me?" he protested, grabbing my right hand. Salim. I'm moved. Didn't expect my chatty sister to act sweet to me, either.

"Later if you come home want to be brought by-by what?", I asked while ducking towards him.

"Emmm what is it?!? Onde-onde aja kak, the big ones are a lot yes..!" he said with passion. Makes me speachless.

Whats? The onde-onde?

"Dek here has a lot of onde-onde sales, why ask for onde-onde souvenirs as well?"

"ih, big brother doesn't understand. That's a big onde-onde loh kak whose middle there is a vegetable there is a tomato there is meat," Fani explained with annoyance.

Astarghfirullah's.

I patted my forehead slowly. "That's the burger deck, haduh, make brother so think, can you this." I said while shaking her hair.

"It's onde-onde sister. There is sesame on it. but the bread is big and the filling is different." said Fani more upset, the more funny in my eyes.

"Yes yeah..big rounds, okay?" I said while holding back laughter.

"OK, brother.."

I stepped away from Fani waving her hands at me. Big onde-onde. Haha. There's-there's just a boy. Good thing not to ask for pizza or steak. about two foods he named what later if I bring?. Just thinking about it made me laugh amusedly all the way up to Kia's house.

Fani-Fani, that's so funny.

"Eh Anya's. Where are you going to bring all the backpacks?", asked Ms. Wati when she met me in front of Kia's house. Ah, I'm so lazy to serve it, but it's okay, let's just say it's the last meeting, tomorrow or the day after. Haha.

"You're looking for Kia's cooperation" I said briefly. I saw Kia and her father come out of the house and come straight for me.

"Come on. Let's mom" Kia dragged me away from Wati's mom. He has memorized the behavior of Wati who always sneered at me. I don't know why my existence is always wrong in his eyes.

"Your father is coming?", I asked to distract him from Ms. Wati.

"Yes, we can't be the same" whispered to me.

We walked steadily towards the angkot stop. Lucky because there is an angkot waiting. We went straight up, Kia's father was sitting in front with the driver while Kia and I were in the back. We enjoyed this trip. After disembarking at the terminal we boarded an intercity bus. It's exclaiming. Passing through some cities for the first time for me without a mother.

"His, if we are not accepted for work what?".

"We are accepted. Positive thinking is. Don't worry about it." My words calm Kia down.

To be honest, I was worried about our fate there. How will our boarding place be. How our workplace. How's our new friend. Our environment.

But again, this is my decision. This is my journey of life. I should be able to fight. I have to be able to deal with whatever happens later.

3 Hours drive we passed with anxious expectation. Kia's father asked us about Anis.

"Anis just chat said she just got home from work. He's waiting for us at the boarding house" I said.

"That's His no yellow angkot. Come on.", Kia with a spirit of attracting me.

In the angkot we sat with people in blue and yellow uniforms. Maybe it's the workers who want to go or go home. It's an industrial estate, so maybe they're employees of one of the factories here.

We're down at the junction near Anis's cost. I saw that he was already waving his hands at us.

"Yet you finally arrived. Come along to my boarding house", Anis directs us to the boarding place he occupied.

We entered a small alley, walked straight then turned the second corner. Kos Anis is third from the end of the last turn.

"This is RT. 13, the right side of this house is also the cost of the princess, but the left side of this house costs the son. Take it easy, be safe. Oh yes from here quite a 15-minute walk has reached the factory. Come on in," said Anis casually.

We take off the shoes.put them on the side shelf of the door. The house is quite clean, there are 7 rooms on the left side, the right side there is a central room for guests and watching television, then the kitchen and 2 bathrooms.

"Son Anis, father of nitip Kia and Anya yes. Please teach them how to live here" Kia's father said as we were just sitting in the living room.

"Yes sir. God willing, Anis will take care of them" Anis said as he placed a drink near us.

"Nis don't bother," said Kia.

"No hassle, just plain water.. Oh yes, you guys have a job application letter, right? Same map Stamp also already?," said Anis.

"It has. So when can we apply for Nis's job?", I said passion.

"Tomorrow at 7 am you leave. Later in the afternoon I show you the way, tomorrow I work sif morning so can not nganterin you guys." said Anis.

"So we're here, Nis? Is it okay?, asked Kia, worried.

"It's okay, relax. Most of my roommates are sif at night, so tonight you can sleep in my room." Say Anis casually.

"The cost here one factory is all the same you are not Nis?", I asked slowly. There are 4 people who just entered the boarding house, their uniforms are different.

"Mostly the same, only 4 people are different. They work at the Dealer near the first roundabout of the same hotel near roundabout 2" Anis told us.

"Temen lo Nis?" said one of them.

"Yes, this is Anya, this is Kia,".

"Hey. hello know ya. I'm Hilda, this is Meta, that's outside of Ida and Rina. Hope you feel at home here. Let's sir.", greet Hilda kindly then she and Meta step back.

"Then you go home son, be careful here, if there's anything directly phone dad yes.", pampit Kia's father to us.

"Yes yeah, be careful,"

We drove Kia's father to the front of the boarding house. Kia glazed over as her father's back was no longer visible at the end of the alley. Anis and I stared softly at Kia.

"Udah come on in." Said Anis disperse the reverie of Kia.

"Come on Kia.", I said directly holding his arm. I saw him rub the wet end of his eyes.

I know his sadness. Away from home has indeed been our choice, but still, it feels lonely even though we are now in a crowded place. I know how empty it is. Without the mother's attention, without the father's soothing words, without the sister's babble. That's what we are now, being in a foreign place in search of new experiences. Facing the world of cost. Work world. A new world that could change our personality and way of life.

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