The Love Story of the Dampit Family
Story of Eyang

"Juna." call Anjani when he sees Arjuna has returned from the tomb to bury his eyes.

"Eh, Jeni. Assalamualaikum." said Arjuna, looking down, with an unusual face. Arjuna is still grieving, so he has not been able to show his cheerful face in front of Anjani.

"Wa'alaikumsalam" Anjani replied.

"Hm, Juni."

"Yes?"

"Gue, I'm so sorry. Upon the departure of Eyang. Elo who is patient." said Anjani.

"Yes, thanks Jen."

"Gue was sure, Eyang Khusnul khotimah, he was a good person" Anjani said again.

"Aamiinu. Thanks Jen." said Arjuna still lowered his head.

"Ehm, yes, Jun. I want to go home first" said Anjani.

"Oh, yes. Be careful on the road, late at night. Come here by yourself?" ask Arjuna.

"However, I'm the same mom" said Anjani.

"Oh, yeah. Greetings to them" said Arjuna.

"Yes, I'm Jun first. Assalamualaikum." pamit Anjani.

"Wa'alaikumsalam" replied Arjuna, looking at the girl's back, then he turned and headed for the bathroom to clean himself.

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The next day, Arjuna still did not want to go to college, he was still a permit, because all night he did not sleep. Arjuna sat in the pendopo behind the house, staring at the expanse of rice fields outside the pesantren fence. He recalled, the last night he was with me.

"Juna" called Eyang Maryam in front of his room when Arjuna had just returned from the mosque after he had listened to his prayers.

"Eh, Eyang. Who hasn't slept?" ask Arjuna.

"Not yet, Eyang is waiting for you" said Eyang Maryam.

"What's up, man?" ask Arjuna curiously.

"Can you come with Jun first?" ask Eyang.

"It can be eyed." replied Arjuna.

Eyang Maryam took Arjuna to Eyang's room. Eyang had Arjuna sit on a chair, and Eyang seemed to take something from inside his closet.

"Juna."

"Yes Eyang."

"Do you know your real father's name?" ask Maryam.

"Sudja eyang, Erna's mom introduced." replied Arjuna.

"What's his name?" eyang asked as he walked and carried a blue map.

"Amar Ma'ruf, Eyang" replied Arjuna unsuspectingly.

"Your mother?"

"Khasanah Norma."

"If your grandparents?" ask Maryam.

"okkey. If it's your father's job, you know?"

"Father work in SAR. As a volunteer member of the SAR team, eyang" said Arjuna.

"Smart kid. That mother?"

"Said Miss Erna, once a nurse, but after a big pregnancy, she stopped being a nurse" said Arjuna.

"You remember everything, son." commented Eyang.

"Who knows too?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"And more than that, he knows about you" said Eyang Maryam.

"I mean Eyang?"

"June. Ever since you were first brought here by your brother Ilyas and Umm Ulfa, you've been looking for who you really are. Eyang ordered some trust people to find out about you, because from the beginning we met, Eyang felt, very close to you, and it felt, there is an inner bond with you son." eyang Maryam said he was just about to start the story.

Arjuna approached Maryam who was sitting on her bed. Arjuna stared into that old face. There are many rights that Arjuna wants to know from Eyang Maryam, the figure of the grandmother who loved him so much.

"It's been a long time to actually know who you really are, but, I don't think it's time you knew. However, now it feels like you have to know son" said Eyang Maryam, opening the file in the blue map.

Arjuna only saw what Maryam's eyes were doing. You take some old photos stored in a dull album.

"This, old man eyang. His name is Aminullah and Rahma. They have two children, a boy and a girl. Actually he had four children, but the two had returned to God. One was due to a miscarriage, and one was due to illness at six months old" said Maryam while stroking the old photo.

"This, Eyang, and Eyang's sister. His name is Hasan" said Eyang Maryam while showing a photo of two teenage children with ages that are not much different.

"Ehm, handsome eyes." commented Arjuna.

Eyang Maryam smiled.

"Eyang is also beautiful." continued Arjuna while staring at her eyes.

"You are, Jun. It can be." said Eyang Maryam as he brushed his granddaughter's chin.

"That was our last photo with Jun. Eyang's sister then graduated from school, asked to join his uncle to migrate to Sumatra. Because at that time, the school of pesantren, and the sister of eyang tau, if the father of the mother eyang really want to be able to go Hajj. And, in a short time, thank God, three years Hasan wander, he can send money to the father and mother, so that the father and mother could register Hajj at that time. When he graduated from boarding school, Eyang married Gus, son of the owner of the boarding school where he studied, his name was Ibrahim. Then after three months of marriage, the father of the mother left for Haji, son. Eyang was very happy, when they left, it turned out that at that time, she was pregnant. Eyang was very grateful to Hasan, Eyang's sister. Because of him, the father and mother can go to Hajj" said Eyang Maryam took a photo, where there is a husband and wife are on pilgrimage with a background ka'bah.

"MaashaaAllah. Eyang's sister, very good who." said Arjuna.

"Yes son." replied Eyang Maryam with a shady smile.

"Alhamdulillah, my father returned from the holy land in good health. And after that, because they had a son-in-law of a Gus, they wanted to establish a pesantren in his village, because this village, once far from pesantren. However, had not been able to fulfill that desire, Aminullah father died, at that time, sister Eyang came home. She was long enough in this village, accompanying her mother, because she had to live in a boarding school, where her husband lived. Until finally, Rahma's mother also followed her father, because of an accident. Hasan who was then himself, he chose to return to Sumatra, and lived there." said Eyang Maryam.

"As of now, is he still there?" ask Arjuna.

"Further down, son."

"Yes, heck."

"One year after that, Hasan told eyang that he would marry a Sumatran girl. Even come there, with a husband and an eyeang child who is only two years old."

"Hasan settled him there, until he had one son, equal to eyang, our first boy."

"Then, at the end of the fourth year, there was a Tsunami, a terrible natural disaster, only to destroy the land of Aceh and North Sumatra, where Hasan lived" said Eyang Maryam immediately his voice was choked, by crying. Eyang Maryam was crying.

"Hasan and his family had no news after that. We tried to find information about his family, but were not found. For years. E who also resigned." said Eyang Maryam with his cry.

"Innalillahi wainnailaihi Raji'un." muttered Arjuna.

The story is interrupted by the tears of Maryam's eyes. What does this have to do with Arjuna? Why did Eyang Maryam say that he was going to tell her who Arjuna really was? What is the relationship between this story and Arjuna? Look at the next chapter.😘