CURSE Or GRACE
Dishevelling

A busy Monday morning at Panji's. Ratih and his mother who came from far away stay at Panji at the insistence of his sister. That is the name of the village, all made brothers. Nissa's intention and purpose was to invite them to stay overnight so that their relationship was more fluid, but not what Ratna felt.

Ratna did not react at the time. He just came home because he stayed overnight. But bada maghrib he was hard to get to Panji's house and stay there. Only the Man's Banner alone in there makes him uncomfortable. Finally Panji decided to leave the house hanging out together with some residents of the complex and security until before dawn. When Panji returned to Nissa's house just finished praying tahajjud and prepared to prepare breakfast for them.

Nissa's bustle in the kitchen woke the guests up. Ratna and Ratih were seen chatting awkwardly. While Nissa and her mother Ratih chatted.

"Sir, you are beautiful, you are smart, your heart is noble, you are smart to cook again! If Gilang hadn't been that stubborn, I wouldn't have hesitated to match you up." His mother laughed.

" Yes pray Mom, I hope Gilang can change, oh yes, how can you know where my mom is being treated?"

"I accidentally saw your uncle, your mother's sister coming out of the parlour, she was also my little friend, I greeted her, we didn't talk much, we didn't talk much, but when I asked him how our village has been since my husband died he said he didn't know, he said he's been moving to Jakarta for a long time."

"Where did you go after Pak Lurah died?"

"I left home before my husband died, I didn't even come home when I found out he died. I came back when I heard that Ratih was divorced and had uterine cancer."

Nissa looked at Ratih who was arranging the dining table. Nissa did not think that Ratih was widowed, her age was as old as Ratna. He had lived a bitterly sweet life, reverberated in wealth and fiddled when his father was victorious, now suffering and living in the slurs and insults of the village. Nissa believes Ratih still has a conscience when deciding to help them solve the murder case of his father.

His eyes turned to Ratna who was making tea in the teapot. The attraction of the two women to her brother is clearly seen in the eyes of Nissa. Ratih did not think twice when invited to stay. Sedanhkan Ratna obviously desperate to stay two nights no matter the babbling of her parents. Ratna is used to being separated from her parents. When his family was still in the village Ratna had studied in Jakarta so his parents believed Ratna could take care of him. Now all the families of Ratna have hijrah le jakarta. Nissa recalled the words her mother had told her.

"Is it true that uncle has moved to Jakarta? Since when?" Inner Nissa asked.

After all breakfast and after all the dishes and tables have been clean done with Ratih and his mother saying back to their house. Ratna escorted the two to the nearest bus that drove them to the station, then escorted Panji before he himself continued his steps to the office.

Panji's lunch break received a notification from Mr. Slamet through a short message that the pancreatic cancer he suffered was gone, he thanked Panji. Panji relayed it to Ratna as they met back after work hours were over.

"Pancreatic cancer, wow! Very dangerous, especially if it's late stage, he will spread to the lymph nodes, as a result of our immune device is paralyzed, susceptible to disease even a grain of dust can make you suffer." Panji heard with astonishment Ratna could talk casually such a frightening thing.

"What causes people to have cancer?" Panji asked seriously to Ratna who was engrossed in kicking following the song while driving her car

"Usually food and unhealthy lifestyle, like you who like to stay up late!"

"I had to stay up late because there are so many women in the house, I'd rather find it safe than I have you guys at home." Panji meledek Ratna.

"Ih.. Not want! How stupid of you!" Panji laughed out loud seeing Ratna shudder. Behind her soft-spoken mouth, and careless character, Ratna is an independent and aggressive woman. He cares very much for others.Dia went straight to the road early in the morning when Panji asked for help to deliver Mr. Slamet home, even though he had not had time to sleep well. Ratna turned her car into a restaurant where young children hang out in Jakarta, Panji was astonished.

"Why are we here?"

"CRACKERS!" Ratna's eyes glared making Panji startled.

"Yes eat! Nutritional improvements for you not to get cancer!"

Ratna did not answer, she just looked at Panji with a pouting face. Panji didn't need any more answers when he saw that Nissa had just passed their car into the parking lot. Ratna's been calling Nissa to gather here. Everything was carefully planned by Ratna.

The three take a table in the corner of the room when the waiter comes in giving the menu book, Panji and Nissa just turn back not knowing what to order. The banner of surrender, he threw his possessions at Ratna.

"You're the one who ordered us, you're Jaksel's son! I don't know what food there is, no ice chirp!"

"If you want ice cincau order it, let me find it." Ratna smiled sweetly.

"You're gonna get me some lipstick?" Flowering pennant.

"No!" I'm gonna find a gravedigger, bury a village boy like you!" His face turned violent.

"Damn it!"

Back Nissa laughed watching their feud.

"Hey you son of Jaksel and you son of the village, to fight it each other, let me enjoy my dinner alone" Now it's Nissa's turn to act like Jaksel's son who finally got to throw the menu book right in front of him by Ratna.

Ratna wrote an order for the three of them. After the order came a meal table while still discussing their case.

"I didn't think they were coming! If you had seen how Gilang really wanted to kill me back then, you would have been suspicious of them."

"But you're glad he came, right? There's a flower widow coming for you, still beautiful and fresh." Ratna said with a witty.

"I feel like this room is full AC, really cold, but why is there a hot yak?" The banner rolled its eyes at every corner of the restaurant roof, Ratna pouted while her mouth was pouting incoherently.

"There's a jealousuuu, ceilee.." Nissa instantly readied her two hands in front of her face, afraid that something might be thrown in her face again by Ratna.

" That's it! We continue the language, according to the story of his mother in the kitchen at dawn, he had long abandoned them before Pak Lurah died, he did not even know her husband had died. Why did he leave his family? Mr. Lurah is bearing treasure." Nissa asked.

"Many of the factors that make women leave men, the most common are economic factors and the second is the third person factor, there are other women for example." Ratna beceloteh then, took a sip of her drink for a moment then she continued her chant.

"In addition to his wife, many left our village because the leadership of Pak Lurah did make life in our village uncomfortable. My father decided to move to Jakarta one of them because his business faltered there."

"What's the reason uncle moved? I didn't expect uncle to move to Jakarta, he still came to take my class report." Nissa looked at Panji.

"When I was in school I lived alone at home, I went to my uncle's house a few times for school, sometimes he didn't, but I didn't see Lily and her mother at home. When I asked my uncle, he just said Lily went to school in Jakarta. I see the furniture is still complete, but the house is dirty not taken care of."

" That means he wants to bother going back and forth to take care of you, maybe he promised your parents to take responsibility for you. You should thank him."

" Yes you're right, Ratna! Uncle also gave me a job in Jakarta after I escaped from Kebumen. He also gave me money for the capital I paid for the rent and ate a month."

Nissa and Panji looked at each other, there was something they were thinking about but both of them decided to keep it in their own minds.