The Ucup
Discourse Breakout College

"Valentine is not our culture, our culture is heavy queue and hobby debt but when charged with anger."

"If you tell a story, can you help your brother?" ask Ucup.

"Maybe I can't help you figure out a solution to your problem, but at least your brother's burden will lessen after telling me." Zai sat on the edge of Ucup's bed.

Finally Ucup told Zai about the problem of payment of tuition fees Ucup semester. Zai listened while doubting his head. He already understood the financial problems their families were facing.

"She should pray and pray for guidance from Allah." Zai stood up from his seat, he patted Ucup on the shoulder.

"Tumben you say kayak gini, you are no longer stuck?" Ucup was surprised when he listened to Zai's words, not as usual tonight Zai can behave like an adult even he advised Ucup like he was an adult.

"No, I'm going to sleep first." Zai who went from Ucup's room.

A Week Later.........

Tok........... Tok

"Assalamu'alaikum." Fiqrie and Dinda are standing at the door of Fiqrie's parents' house.

"Walaikumsalam, uh it turns out you guys." The mother who opened the door saw Fiqrie and Dinda standing in front of her.

"Mom how are you?" Fiqrie who immediately kissed his mother's hand. Then Dinda did the same thing to my mom.

"Thank God you're healthy, are you here because you're on Dad's phone?" ask mother.

"Yes, what's the matter, Mom?" Fiqrie and Dinda whose faces looked worried.

"You'd better go in first, natic in we're talking about." Mom told them to go inside the house, they would talk about everything in the house.

"All right, mother." Fiqrie held Dinda's hand while walking through the door.

They had all gathered in the living room except for Zai. Zai was in the room, the family deliberately did not tell Zai to gather in the family room. They do not want to because this problem makes Zai not focus on school so that Zai scholarship is removed from school.

"Are you telling us all to gather here?" Fiqrie who is from home is already curious why her father suddenly told her to come to his father's house. Fiqrie felt that there must be something important that they wanted to talk to Fiqrie and Dinda about.

"There's something you want to talk about" replied Dad.

"What do you want to talk about?" ask Fiqrie.

"Dad's having financial problems." Father spoke with a lethargic face.

"Did you have nothing to eat?" ask Fiqrie.

"Alhamdulillah if for food and daily needs of the father there," replied the father.

"Where is the problem?" Fiqrie who had a frown listened to father's words.

"The problem is you can't afford the Ucup semester money" said the father.

"But I'm giving you 2 million for semester money" Fiqrie said.

"The money problem is still less than 4 million again" said the father.

"Can't you borrow from our other families?" ask Fiqrie.

"Father and mother have gone to the homes of all our brothers but no one wants to borrow money." The father who spoke with a sad face.

"Even they can drive away and insult father and mother." The mother whose eyes were already glazed remembered all those events.

"Is that true, father?" ask Fiqrie.

"Yes." Yeah." The father who lowered his head felt shame towards Fiqrie.

"Tell me who did that to my father and mother?" Fiqrie was angry to hear father and mother insulted and expelled by other family members for borrowing money. Fiqrie stood up from the sofa then she clenched her hands.

"Yes." Yeah." Fiqrie returned to her seat after being pulled by Dinda.

"It's already my brother." Ucup told Fiqrie to take up the distinction.

"Astag." Fiqrie uttered an Istighfar as she stroked his chest with her hand.

"Where are you so much better?" ask Ucup.

"Alhamdulillah yes Ucup." Fiqrie who was feeling better, her emotions had already begun to dissect.

"Can I continue the story?" ask dad.

"Have you done it, please" replied the three of them simultaneously.

"Dad and mom have been trying to find a loan here and there but no one wants to give a loan, I want to ask for your opinion. Should we just sell the goats that live around?" ask dad.

"No dad." They refused to sell a goat belonging to a father who lived one.

"Why don't you guys get daddy to sell the goat?" Fathers who looked at them in turn.

"We have the only goat. So you don't have to sell it just to pay for my semester money" Ucup said.

"We'll think of another way, but don't sell daddy's goats." Fiqrie disagreed with the idea of the father wanting to sell the goat.

"Because I don't want the frangipani on sale point does not use a comma." Mother spoke with a loud voice and a firm tone to father.

"What's the other solution?" ask dad.

"Am I on semester break?" ask Ucup.

"Don't if you're on vacation you'll be lazy to go to college." Dinda who from just now was silent did not dare to open her voice, she felt afraid to express her opinion because this was the matter of the Fiqrie family.

"If you're on college leave, what do you want?" ask Fiqrie.

"I want to work, make money for college," replied Ucup.

"If you are on college leave, you still have to pay the semester money" said Fiqrie.

"Yes I know, so I want to work to earn money for college, brother," said Ucup.

"What do you want Ucup to do?" ask dad.

"Any father is halal and I can find money to pay for the semester" Ucup replied.

"You just don't know what work you want, you should think again. You look for job vacancies first, after you received a job there then you applied for college leave, how?" ask Dinda.

"It's true that's what Dinda said Ucup." Fiqrie agreed to Dinda's idea.

"You don't have to rush to decide everything Ucup," said the mother.

"You better pray Istikharah you ask Allah to guide you to give the best of the good." Father gave Ucup advice to pray istikharah asking for guidance to God.

"Well father, mother, brother Fiqrie and sister Dinda. Ucup will follow your advice." Ucup will follow the advice of his family.

"Good then Ucup," said Fiqrie.

"Dad doesn't want you to make a wrong decision, so you have to ask for directions from dad" said the father.

"Repentious soup always comes too late and opportunities don't come many times. I'm sure we've understood the meaning of what my sister said" said Dinda.

"Yes I understand brother." Ucup was shaking his head.

...~ Connect ~...