Buntara Rindu
Section 5
Reyhan's phone rang, the man reached into his pants pocket, took the device he had been cantoning with since. Reyhan saw the name of his brother who since yesterday asked him to immediately return to Semarang.
"Damn, Bah. Reyhan will be home. But yeah, not anytime soon, Bah. Reyhan is still a lot of work" Reyhan explained to his brother from behind the phone.
"But ojo suwe-suwe. This is your soul mate also may not wait for you long, he has graduated from college, just returned from Malang last night."
"Yes, Bah. Reyhan understands. Rumiyin, njih, Bah. Reyhan wants to go to class." Reyhan closes Kiai Ma'ruf's call.
Both of his parents remain adamant to match Reyhan with his brother's son who comes from Demak. The girl is the best graduate on her campus. He was happy, and certainly ready to get married. However, Reyhan did not want the girl at all. In his heart has been inscribed the name of Long long since long ago. He wants to ask Miss, but of course all that will be difficult to materialize, Miss is not from blue blood, even though the war shows she is a classy girl from Java. Moreover, his family is in a mess, making Abah and Uminya no longer need consideration, will definitely reject the girl raw, even though Missing one of Nyai Ima's favorite Santri, he said, umi-nya Reyhan because Nyai Ima only has three sons without any daughters who decorate the days of Nyai Ima. Upon seeing Miss the middle-aged woman began to like the girl. Moreover, the background of the girl who never loved her parents.
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Miss walking towards the field alone, a white hijab and a black skirt and a shirt with colors in line with the hijab.
Today Jakarta is quite hot, but this morning the sun did not show its existence, until the light was defeated by cloudy clouds and drizzling rain.
Reyhan, who was also watching the path of ospek, seemed to keep watching the girl. When Miss passed right in front of him, the man called out to her.
"Mother... Here sek!"
"Jam, Gus. What's up?"
"More... Orange juice. Richie you're thirsty." Reyhan offered a bottled drink that he had bought in the mini market earlier.
"Thank you, Gus." After saying thank you, Miss immediately walked towards the line with still holding the orange juice that Reyhan had given her.
His heart beats twice as fast. Only one man can make a Miss so like this, knowing the man since from Junior High makes Miss feel safe if with the man, although the two are rarely close together, only when teaching or memorization, because when Reyhan is not in college, he is the one who helps Kiai Ma'ruf and Nyai Ima, just to keep an eye on the memorization of the students.
From afar without them knowing Saka was watching the two. I don't know why there is a sense of slicing that seems created just like that when you see the smile of Missing created for other men.
Saka chose to leave, to avoid the deeper pain.
The man was looking for the whereabouts of his two best friends who were already in their Faculty canteen.
"Where are you from?" asked Oki, sipping the cigarette he had clamped between his fingers. Saka sat with a disheveled face, looking at how the man looked at his two best friends.
"It feels like someone's crush is gini-rich, huh?" The compact two young men sitting in front of Saka immediately turned to each other.
Intentionally Dika stick the back of his hand to Saka's forehead, making the man immediately brushed aside with the rough hands of his best friend.
"Ah... Not hot?" Dika glanced at Oki who was also confused to see the behavior of Sakas.
"Lu didn't pass in the haunted bathroom of the Faculty of Medicine, did he?" seloroh Oki's.
"What's wrong?" timpal Dika's.
"Yes, this time it was the child who was waiting for the bathroom," said Oki, giggling mocking Saka
"Rese you on! I'm serious!" grunts Saka, reached into a pack of cigarettes in his pants pocket, then ignited the fire and burned the cigarette, to be wiped.
"You serious?" Oki immediately looked at the oriental face of Saka who looked confused.
"Yes, I see he's the same other guy. Don't know, my heart hurts."
"Jeek... Rich ABG you!" cibir Oki followed by laughter from Dika who was seen laughing loosely.
"Thou art on not cool to confide in!" saka's hiss is upset.
"Lu think we're Mama Dede ready to hear your story from heart to heart?" oki protests.
"Who are you taking?" Dika started to wonder. He knew very well that Saka never played around when approaching girls. Even though he was dating, Saka only considered them all just entertainers when he was bored. "Don't tell me that white veil chick?" ask Dika again, full of probes.
"Well, let me go back!" Saka stood up from the chair and was ready to leave Oki and Dika from his place.
"Eh... Oppa! Don't stay with us!" Dika followed Saka who started walking away.
"Yes... I just follow the younger brother who likes to call you Oppa. In part they are not very clear, the face of the Korean artist spec called oppa-oppa, even though you have not grayed!" seloroh Dika's.
"Grandfather!" Oki pushed Dika's head. "Oppa is Mas for Korean men."
Saka let his two best friends who were fighting, such as Oki and Dika, they rarely get along, and will fight only for small and even trivial problems.
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"Lu's dating that handsome lecturer, huh?" tanya Raya while tearing the torn bread she took from inside the bag and then ate it slowly.
"No... Just deket aja," replied Miss smiling shyly. "Eh... I got the rest of the market junk, you want to?"
"Where?" Sofia looked enthusiastic when Miss took out a snack containing lempers, arems, and spring rolls from her bag.
"But you guys know, Rin. Lu is pretty polite, the Lecturer is handsome, and richly he likes you too. I saw him richly watching you continue, until it melted me." Raya back to speaking.
Misses a thin smile. "If I liked Gus Reyhan or vice versa, we wouldn't be a match." There is sadness in every word that is missed.
"Well... Ken?" timpal Sofia's.
"Said Gus Reyhan, he's been betrothed to another woman." Longing to keep his head down hid his sadness.
"Busetl... This modern age! There are still fools." It looks sewot.
"Stupid it is commonplace among students especially Gus Reyhan is the successor to Pondok Pesantren Abahahya. Surely his parents wanted him to be a match for a woman."
"Well... Sad ending before you start your story, Rin."
"Ah... No papa, mate in God's hands, right?"
"Well.that. Lu should be optimistic, Rin," replied Sofia the three laughed in their own style.
People say that, love in silence is very painful. Moreover, having to advertise, it was an agonizing feeling.
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Missing to walk home, this time Reyhan did not deliver it back to the boarding house, besides the cost-an miss not far from the campus area. The sun is almost slipping, as if driven by the moon, which is ready to display its best light.
"Mr Misses." The familiar voice shocked the girl. Miss immediately turned her head, seeing Saka running in the afternoon.
"Mas Saka? Sport, Mas?" tanya Rindu with a smile that always makes Saka's heart beat twice as fast.
"Yes, Mother. Be healthy" he replied.
"Mr...."
"Yes?"
"May ask, no. But rather personal, anyway. If it's deigned."
"What's up, Mom?" tanya Miss curious.
"That lecturer named Reyhan, your girlfriend?"
Longing to stop his steps when Saka asked about Reyhan. Because he was sure to only tell about the man to two friends who he believed were not familiar with Saka.
"What's the matter, Mom?"
"Your rich are deket. " Saka scratched her head that was not itchy from feeling awkward.
"Oh... No, my Mas. He is the son of Kiai who I used to go to Pondok Pesantren."
"Oh.." replied Saka. It was almost as if his heart had exploded from happiness after hearing the longing confession. Now he has gained clarity about the relationship between Miss and her lecturer.