REPLACEMENT MEN Season 2
MY LOVE IS FAR AWAY IN PAPUA

Maira's been so excited all day. He just fell in the room while playing a cell phone. Oza is like that too. The boy just paced back and forth from his room to Maira's room. No desire to play out with his friends. While Lina's tea has been home. The housework is done all he does.

"Mother, have you called yet?" Oza looked at the door of the room.

"No, Honey. Maybe you haven't reached Jakarta yet."

Oza's head disappeared from the open door.

Treeet ... Kree ... !

Maira's phone vibrates. Video call from Janu. The woman immediately lifted him up.

"Assalamualaikum, my dear."

"Waalaikumsalam, dear." Janu's smile. The man was standing in the middle of the runway. Behind the other members of the army.

"Have you reached Halim, Mom?"

"It has. Here we are again loading the goods." Janu turned the camera to a row of Hercules planes parked on the runway. There are three planes. Looks like people in strip uniforms are going in and out of transporting things.

Maira gulps. Bitter, as bitter as his heart.

"Where's the place, Dik?"

"In his room. I'll call you for a minute."

Not yet had Maira moved out of bed, Oza's head was poking again behind the door. "Dad called, Bun?

Maira shrugged her phone "This, it's."

"Yeey ...!" Oza jumped in excitement. He immediately took the phone in Maira's hand. Then a moment later he had a good conversation with his father. The boy was very enthusiastic when Janu showed the Hercules plane that would be boarded. He asks so many questions that Maira has no chance to chat with Janu.

"Oza, I want to talk to you first, yeah."

"When did you leave?"

"Awhile more. That's why I want to change talking to my mother, hunt in the plane later."

With an unreserved look on his face, Oza gave Maira a mobile phone.

"I'm sorry, honey," said Maira with a smile, trying to ease Oza's disappointment.

The boy nodded, then walked out of the room.

"Darling, I'll be on a plane soon." Janu spoke with a bit of uneasiness. Several times he looked back, looking at his friends who started to line up next to the plane.

"Yes, Mum."

Janu's camera is moving. The man was busy fixing the backpack on his back.

"Honey, remember yes, do not forget the content control schedule. Keep health. Don't work too hard!" Janu's breathing gasps. Apparently the man was VC while walking towards the line beside the plane.

"Yes, Mas. You're careful too, yeah!" maira's message, whether it sounds or not. Janu was busy putting down the backpack after entering the row. "Wait for home, Mas," continued Maira lirih.

"Darling, I decided first, yeah. We want to get ready for the plane. Already, yes, I love you, mmuach!" Janu hurry.

Maira nodded at the screen of the phone that no longer showed her husband's face. The woman's eyes returned to tears.

***

"Where, Mai, mas Janu has reached Papua yet?" ask Ms. Kusno, her mother, tonight.

I don't know how many times Ms. Kusno called today. So did Ms. Hartini. They were both busy monitoring Janu's news through Maira.

"Already, Mom. But not yet reached the task location. Just got to Sorong."

"Alhamdulillah. She can call you?"

"Just wa. Said Janu was busy, didn't have time to call."

"Yo, wis, nothing. Sik important to get there. Trus, when is the plan to the assignment location?"

"No idea, Mom. Maybe tomorrow morning. The plane, which was brought by Janu, continued to Sentani. There they will just go down and proceed to the assignment location.

"Hopefully healthy, selamet ...!"

"Aamiin's."

"You're the same Oza, Mai. Healthy?"

"Thank God, be healthy, ma'am."

"Aren't you going out there tomorrow, huh?"

"Don't. Father, I have not been on leave. If you want to come here you should both go. Don't leave him alone at home!"

"Godly, even though your father can also if only take care of yourself!'

In the morning, a message came in from Janu. Reported that the troops had shifted to Sentani after dawn in eastern Indonesia. Maira tries to reply to the message, but Janu is already Offline.

Maybe it's in flight, inner Maira.

By noon there was a call coming in, from Janu. Maira hurriedly lifted him up.

"Hello, Mum!" yells.

"Assalamualaikum, dear."

"Getishalight." Maira could not hide her relief. Waiting for news from Janu the last few hours feels like centuries. Maira misses the sound of the baritone. "Mas, how are you? Healthy, right? Where is the position now? Hasn't the assignment yet? There is a signal there. There is, huh? Good signal?"

Scattered questions slid from Maira's mouth. Janu just laughed, confused about which answer.

"Kok even laugh, anyway?"

"Honey, which one was it, which one to answer?"

"Ih, Mum!" murmur Maira. "Can't be VC, huh?"

"Well, that hasn't been answered yet."

"Yes, yes ..., where is this Mas?"

"Still in Sentani, Dik. Waiting for delivery to the assignment location."

"Away, Mas, from Sentani?"

"Lumayan, Mother. At the pioneer airfield inland area. We'll have a squad there on guard duty."

"Where else to go?"

"Same, Sister. Here, there are many pioneering airfields. Later each team will perform security at each airfield."

"In the place where the mas will be on duty there is no signal?".

"He said it was hard, brother. But don't worry, once a month we have a change of guard. We had a week of rest in Sentani. Well, by then we can settle for the calls."

"A once a month?!" peekot Maira's. "The long bangeeet ...!"

"What time is it waiting for you to be my wife, huh?"

"Lt!"

Janu laughing. "O yeah, where's Oza?"

"Still in school, Mom."

"Yes, yes, it's still morning."

"Mas has lunch yet?

"Yet. Still waiting for the rations, huh."

"Eat a lot, yes, Mas. Take care of your health."

"Ready, Honey!" janu replied with a laugh. "How dikandunganmu. No problem, right?"

"No, Mas. She's fine inside."

"I'm afraid last night I saw her too fast" joked Janu.

Maira's chest is pounding. Janu's joke reminds her of the warmth of love her husband left behind, the night before leaving for duty. Maira bit her lower lip.

"Don't ngereesss ...!"

Oops!

Janu seemed to know what his wife was thinking and feeling.

"What the hell, Mas!" murmur Maira.

Fortunately only chatted on the phone, so Janu did not see Maira's red cheeks. But it seemed that the man could guess, his laughter breaking upon hearing the grunts of his wife.

"Eh, I'm an apple in the afternoon, yes, Dik," said Janu when he had let go of his laughter. "When I get a chance, I'll call again. Take good care of yourself, yeah, honey. Greetings to Oza. I love You, mmuach ... mmuach .. mmuach ...!"

Maira did not answer yet, Janu had hung up. Maira sighed.

A month without word from Janu, how will it feel?

Suddenly Maira ciut guts.

(connect)

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