CUTS
Breuh Island...

The situation outside the building leaves Khalid cornered so his intention to take Cut away to his planned place must be delayed. By nightfall, he returned with a pack of rice and drinking water for Cut. He was more cornered when Cut had to go to the bathroom like now.

“Dek, if you still love Abu, Umi and Rendra then you must be calm.” Slowly though frightened, Khalid opened the bonds one by one.

After finishing from the bathroom, Cut was presented with a package of rice that he had brought. With a voracious and very hungry, Cut enjoyed the packaged rice without waste. Khalid smiled happily at the girl in his heart right before his eyes.

In a room in one of the buildings that has not been used for a long time. They spent the day waiting for things to calm down. The day changed without feeling they had spent three days in the building. Cut still refused to open his mouth. If anyone speaks, only Khalid himself pours out his heart. While Cut remained silent without the same word as when with Rendra.

Khalid who knew of Cut's condition from Doctor Widia also did not force Cut to answer what he asked. As of this moment, Cut woke up in the middle of the night after having a bad dream. Khalid, who never sleeps at night, is shocked when Cut groans like a sick man.

“Cut....Cut....wake!” that's how Khalid woke Cut while patting him on the cheek.

His breath went up and down like a man running far away. In his silence, he only looked at Khalid occasionally as if he wanted to say a lot of things.

“What are your dreams so bad? You can tell, Brother is ready to listen.” Cut still remained silent, Khalid gave a glass of drinking water that was immediately drunk in that second as well.

Khalid rubbed Cut's shoulder slowly, “Sleep again! It was just a dream.”

Cut turned his back on Khalid, who was still sitting there. Her tears fell slowly. Her dream was so bad that it frightened her to the point of crying in silence.

The next day, Dr. Widia accompanied by her husband had to undergo an examination at the husband's office. His actions helped Khalid turn out to be long-tailed. The husband himself cannot do much because this is purely the fault of his wife. Because of her ties to state rebels, the husband was also examined to find out the extent of involvement of Doctor Widia's husband in this case.

After answering all the questions, Dr. Widia and her husband were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. For three days, they had to be under security surveillance on suspicion of aiding the rebels.

The reason Dr Widia helped Khalid is of course not to be taken for granted.In today's age of conflict, anything can happen. There is no real trust because in fact many TNI members or police who choose to defect for various reasons.

Anyone can be a defector from the military, officials and civil servants. There are many civil servants who secretly provide assistance to the rebels.

The end of duty is approaching but Rendra has not yet received good news about Cut's disappearance. Khalid's existence is still a mystery, especially no one knows for sure what his face looks like. Until good news came from the intel unit. Based on the picture obtained from Dr. Widia. They managed to make an illustration of the face of the rebel who had been sought throughout Aceh.

Two weeks before the end of duty, Rendra continued to monitor Khalid's search from various sources. However, the results were still nil until a clue pointed them to one of the long-empty buildings. The old building of the Hajj dormitory is a building that is rarely visited by people. Especially in times of conflict like now. There are no activities to do there.

The soldiers immediately moved quickly surrounded the building and barged in right then and there. After an hour of combing every corner of the building, the soldiers again had to swallow a bitter pill. The person they were looking for was no longer there. The building was empty and only the ashes of mosquito repellent, rice packets and cigarette butts were scattered.

“How?” ask Rendra through HT.

“Kosong.” Reply Revelation.

Elsewhere, a woman was enjoying a gust of sea breeze hitting her face. The blue sea lay wide in front of him at this moment. Last night, he and Khalid left the building that they had lived in several times. After feeling safe, Khalid took him away last night, only to follow in silence. His physique is too tired. He was ready when death would bring him.

Every now and then, he closed his eyes trying to enjoy the sea breeze and the blue sea water that was quite soothing when viewed by the eye.

Khalid smiled slightly as he saw the girl he loved was enjoying the current atmosphere. Although a little noisy with the sound of fishing boat engines that carry them. Their journey did not take long, an hour later they arrived at a small island.

“Thank you, Sir. May Allah bestow his provision on the Father of the family.” Khalid said as they arrived.

“Sama-sama. Take good care of his sister. May he recover quickly.” reply the fisherman.

“Amin, thank you.” Both left the fisherman on the beach.

Khalid walked followed by Cut down the path of the island. Breuh Island is one of the small islands located around the waters of Aceh. The island community mostly works as fishermen and salt farmers. The inhabitants of Breuh Island are not up to two hundred people. They are residents from the island who are reluctant to move to the city of Banda. There are also many coconut plantations that become a source of income for local residents. Khalid brought Cut to the village chief's house after earlier asking the residents.

“Poor once Deck Cut had to experience such a bad event. For a while, just stay at my house. Incidentally, my son is studying in Banda City. On his new semester break he came home. Sometimes not coming home because of a lot of activities on campus. This house is too big for the two of us plus two younger siblings.”

“How much a month, Sir?” ask Khalid hesitatingly. He doesn't have enough money to spend. During this time he lived off some faithful people who gave him help. People who know who he is.

“Already, no need to pay. You just help me out in the fields. I can't take care of it myself. Little children I could not have told to take care of the fields. How?”

“Thank you very much then, Sir.”

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