
The fasting month arrives, one day before the 1st of Ramadan the santri are closed for the next week. However, there are some students who are not allowed to go home because they have to help the cook in the pesantren kitchen to prepare a notch that will be distributed in the streets. One of those students was Fazila.
"Good luck with the onions" Anggita said, waving after saying goodbye to Fazila.
"The chariots are not really onions," Andin protested.
"Huwaa, you have once left me!" Fazila looks pouty.
"Well what do we have to do?" qiana was confused.
"Don't go home, accompany me here!" fazila Whine.
"Chila, who is given the task you are the same manager, as well as some santriwati who served in the kitchen. What if we want to be here?" anggita Protest.
"Yes, it's okay to come help, later I say the same Nyai. He must have taken it."
"No need, I've missed my home, family, and neighbors, too" Qiana said.
" Cieee .. kangen the neighbor! No one is being targeted" Andin licked.
"Know you are Din. Gini Chila, I'm stuck here all the time, need refreshing."
"Yes," said Fazila resigned, it is also impossible for him to force his friends to stay in the boarding school while the holiday time is indeed a moment awaited by the students.
Andin who saw the look on Chila's lackluster face felt pity.
"Yes, I've been staying here for Chila's nemenin" Andin said.
"Really?" ask Fazila enthusiastically.
"Yo'i lied time anyway!"
"Thank you guys" said Fazila with a fluffy smile.
"It's good if you don't go home so Chila has a friend in the room. Now we can go, right?"
"Yes, it's gone!" throw Andin out and laugh.
"Assynjetoy!"
"Wa'alaikumsalam warahmatullahi wabarakatuh."
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In the afternoon, Fazila and Andin entered the kitchen, but they did not help with cooking but instead helped move food from dishes on trays to other containers.
"Where is this food from Mak?" fazila asked, looking at the many trays lined up on the floor.
"From Chila's neighbors, they often inter-deliver food before the evening of Ramadan 1, so yes quite we do not need to cook for dinner."
"Chila can have Mak's fruit?" ask Chila again when opening the cover cloth of one of the trays and see a plate of fruit there."
"May take it, Miss Nyai has given this to us. So, yes free we want to eat anything as long as you think of other students."
"Wah fun," said Fazila then grabbed a green apple on the plate.
"You want Din?"
"Lazy I eat fruit today, unless it's made juice."
"Ah, you even want to add to the work," complained Fazila then moved towards the sink and washed the apples in hand and then immediately bit the apple.
"Oh yes help Mom later to give food to students who have not returned this afternoon."
"Okay, Mak, are you coming, Din?"
"Wherever you go I'm coming, now I'm following you" Andin said, chuckling.
"Curly oxtail, let's go to the bathroom and have a bowel movement!"
"Dispose."
"Yuk help mom," said the kitchen officer as he lifted the tub filled with food.
"You guys please, please,
bring a side dish, chili and a plate of fruit!"
"Good Mom."
Andin, Fazila and one of the santri who served in the kitchen carrying food were ordered by the middle-aged woman.
"Oh yes Tin, why do you want to work in the kitchen every day, is not tired?" fazila asked the girl to go hand in hand with him.
"No" the girl answered smiling.
"Actually these people who work in the kitchen can eat for free every day. So, their parents do not have to pay for food to eat at pesantren. Most of the people in this kitchen are santri who are orphans or who come from families that do not have."
"Oh so, Mama?"
The woman he asked just nodded.
"Yes Chila, I don't have a father. So by helping in the kitchen, can lighten the burden of the mother because it can be free of food and cottage money. So you could say free school here," said Tina.
"It is very good Nyai program, in addition to helping parents santri, also train the tenacity of his santri in struggling with the ingredients in the kitchen."
"Truely Chila, during my stay here I was able to cook and make some cakes."
"God, how wonderful you are, Tina."
"It's Chila's custom."
"For me it's amazing, I also want to cook like you."
"Then tomorrow can begin."
"Oh yes, my mother."
"Izzam call your friends to eat!"
"Good Mom." Izzam also called some of his friends who were still in the pesantren and invited them to eat.
"Chila I want to talk" said Izzam, moving away from friends who were eating.
"What's Izzam?"
"It's about tomorrow's show."
"okay." Fazila sat on the floor and immediately chatted with Izzam. After he finished, Izzam went back to his friends and ate.
Andin, Fazila, Tina and the middle-aged woman who served in the kitchen waited until they all ate. When finished they immediately brought the containers and dirty dishes back to the kitchen.
Until there some food that is still left in the kitchen immediately warmed to eat sahur later tonight.
The first night of Ramadan the pesantren was not so lively because there were only a few santri who prayed Maghrib congregation followed by prayers isya' and tarawih.
"I guess I won't be suhur deh, lazy," said Fazila as he laid his body on the bed.
"Well, how come Chila isn't? remember we are busy tomorrow so if there is no energy, after all sahur is the law of the sunnah. We can reward it by eating."
"Lazy ah, I don't like dinner. No need to build me up tonight!"
"Keep if Nyai asks what should I answer?"
"Say I ate first, ate the bread well, was well," said Fazila then closed his eyes.
Seriate.