The After The Rain
Disconnect

After staying at the study desk for a long time, Kinara removed the charger from the phone and turned on her phone while walking to the bed.

It is now three in the morning, the responsibility that he should go to sleep for fear that he will even oversleep and miss dawn prayers. So, Kinara decided to go up on her bed, only to check some of the messages that went into her phone, which of course was in addition to the messages sent by Dahayu and Atha.

When Kinara managed to sit on the mattress and his phone was on, Kinara found dozens of incoming messages, dozens of missed calls and several notifications from his social media app.

Kinara decided to open one by one the incoming messages, most of which came from class groups that suggested some additional tasks given by lecturers who were on leave. Then after receiving all that information, Kinara immediately left the chat room without any intention of leaving any traces there.

Thirteen other messages came from Atha, and Kinara immediately deleted them without bothering to read them first. The deletion process took almost two minutes, because apparently there were so many messages that he and Atha sent each other.

Under the messages that Atha sent, there was a message from Dahayu, and Kinara did the same. The process of deleting messages from Dahayu was not during the process of deleting messages from Atha because the girl did call him directly to chat rather than having to bother typing.

After finishing deleting the messages from both Atha and Dahayu, Kinara went to the contact list, to blacklist Atha and Dahayu numbers and permanently delete their numbers.

There was absolutely no doubt in Kinara's mind while doing so. Because from the past, he was already principled that any mistakes made by his partner will always be able to forgive, regardless of the affair. Though Atha still continues to insist on saying that she and Dahayu are not having an affair, and just accidentally made a mistake.

"Sister...."

Kinara turned her head as Lestari's hoarse voice rang out in her ears. He found the little girl already sitting on the bed, rubbing her eyes with slightly pouting lips.

"Why, Tar? You need anything?" the question, put the phone on the nightstand and then fully devote attention to Lestari.

"You go home," said Lestari, after opening her eyes despite still gnashing a few times.

"It's three o'clock, Tar. Your mother hasn't come home either. Later, yeah, it's dawn I'm anterin you go home." Kinara replied in a soft voice.

"It's only three o'clock?" ask Lestari.

"Yes, it's only three. It's still dark outside, now you're sleeping again, yeah." Persuade Kinara while helping Lestari lie back on the bed.

"It's three o'clock, but how did you wake up?" tanya Lestari innocently. Now, he was back lying down, but his eyes were fixed on Kinara who was lying next to him.

"I haven't slept from last night" said Kinara, accompanied by a ruckus at the end of the sentence.

"Why not sleep? Because there's me?"

Kinara quickly shook his head. "It's not because of you" he said. Then, he reached out, fixing Lestari's pony that had extended until it appeared to hit his eyes. "I can't sleep, I don't know why."

"Said Mom, if you can't sleep, told to count to a hundred." Lestari's advice, his gaze was bright, like trying to remember his mother's face when teaching him how to fall asleep quickly.

"You usually do that too?" Kinara looked at Lestari fixedly, absorbing all the plain sides that radiated from the boy's eyeballs for him to make a new source of energy.

"Yes," said Lestari while nodding. "But I always sleep on the 59th."

"Why?" tanya Kinara, the more she felt interested in Lestari's story.

"I like to forget that 59 is 60. So, I went straight to sleep so I don't have to repeat from the beginning."

Kinara chuckled amusedly at Lestari's words. For the size of the third grade SD child, it is rather funny to hear Lestari's confession. But, it's okay. There is never a rule that third-graders must be good at anything. After all, Lestari already has many advantages that are not owned by other children his age.

"Would you like to count to 100?"

"No, deh."

"Why?" Lestari frowned.

"You calm down, I'll wake you up." Lestari said, full of confidence.

Kinara even chuckled, making Lestari frown.

"Don't you believe me?" tanya Lestari, with pouting lips.

"Believe, Tar, believe." Kinara. After all, he also laughed not because he did not believe in Lestari, but because of the look of Lestari's face that looked funny.

"Yes, you're sleeping now." Suddenly, Lestari reached out, rubbing her head slowly just like a mother trying to put her restless daughter to sleep.

Kinara smiled, according to what Lestari ordered by closing her eyes tightly.

Lestari's small hand rub in her head was still felt, unconsciously having managed to make Kinara more relaxed until finally able to fall asleep.

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Believe it or not, Lestari kept her promise. The little girl shook Kinara's shoulders slowly just as the dawn prayer was reverberating.

"Sister, wake. You said you wanted to pray at dawn" he said.

Kinara, who was not a kebo child while sleeping, opened her eyes slowly when she felt a shock on her shoulder. Her smile broadened when she found Lestari sitting next to her with eyes still looking sleepy.

"Thank you, yeah, have me up." Kinara said, then he got up from his sleep and landed a soft pat on Lestari's head.

"You want to pray, don't you?" after setting foot on the floor of the room.

"You, but I forgot not to bring my face." Lestari said sadly. Because he was too excited to stay, he only came to bring textbooks without bringing other equipment.

"You're wearing my face, aren't you?" hail Kinara again.

"Because you're big, where does it fit on my body?"

Kinara smiled meaningfully. "I have a little mukena, which I used to wear while still SD like you."

"Seriously?"

"Yes, would you?"

"You!" Lestari shouted in spirit. The boy jumped down from the bed and hurriedly approached Kinara.

"Yes, I took her face in the closet. You go to the bathroom first there, take ablution."

Lestari nodded obediently. The little girl immediately darted out of the room to carry out Kinara's orders.

While Kinara immediately moved quickly towards the closet to look for her small face.

In the past, Kinara did not understand why Mama and Papa liked to keep her childhood things. Now, Kinara knew a little bit about the reason. Perhaps, one of them is for this, so that if one day there is someone in need, they can give it. As he currently did for Lestari.

After getting what she was looking for, Kinara put the little face on the nightstand and rushed after Lestari.

As her steps swung, Kinara spoke to herself, that from today on, she would start her life all over again. Cultivating self-confidence, that all things will go well, even though now he only has Mama and Papa as a place to lean.

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