GROWINGS
11

"Yeeeyyy, school...!!"

If Dafa is happy and happy, it is not bad because finally this morning he can see the outside world, as well as attend school.

Not with Anindita. Since last night he had arranged for his men not to take his eyes off his son.

"Relax Anindita, Dafa is just a school. And in the afternoon, he'll come back to this house."

"I can't relax, Mom!" Anindita came out of her son's room. Away down the hallway. "What if they learn of Dafa's existence and snatch it from me?!!"

"Anindita, Martin Luther's school is the best school in the country. Almost every corner is cctv mounted. The gate was guarded by more than 5 people." Danu stared fixedly. "Added to your people and mine too.."

"But Mas Danu, I know them very well! They will definitely do various ways to snatch Dafa from me!"

"Hey--" Danu stroked Anindita's cheeks gently. "I swear I won't let that happen."

"Om Danu, let's go...!!" Dafa appeared in his white ash uniform. His appearance really makes pangling.

"You see how he looks now..?"

Anindita nibbled on her thumb nail. Anxious and panicked strokes did not disappear from his face either.

"I'm pretty sure they won't be able to recognize Dafa now."

"Mas Danu's.."

"Give it all to me. Okay..!"

Now Dafa was sitting sweetly in his car. But he could not see anything, because the entire glass of his car was painted black.

"Dafa want to be in your car or in Om's car?" Danu asked who was immediately welcomed by Dafa.

And this was his first time -- - after ten more years confined within his house - - he could see the sky and feel the warm morning sun, hitting him.

His eyes are full. What he saw was never imagined.

"God...!!"

He ran over to a big mango tree that was fruiting. Pasting both of his palms on the trunk of the tree, which was large and rough.

Then he touched the green grass that was a bit wet and cold.

"Kerenn..!!" Enthusiastic words. "Mbok, I can hold the grass and the ground...!!"

"Come on Dad, I can be late...!" Kinno shouted from inside his car. As a result of his sentence that is still running, he is still not allowed to bring his car or motorcycle alone.

"Hello, Kinno!!"

Kinno rolled his eyeballs. It is better to listen to metal music than to listen to the loud and crisp sound of Dafa.

"Are you all ready?"

"Already, Om!! Let's go now to study...!!"

Danu waved her hand at Anindita before getting into her car, and began to start the engine.

"Om Danu, open the window..!!"

"What a noise!!"

Danu stared intently at the boy.

Dafa poked his head out the window. Waving a hand at mom, Mbok Parni and Mr. Popo.

"I'm going to school first, mom!! Mbok Parni with Mr. Popo keep the house so that thieves do not enter, okay!!"

"You entered the thief must have thought too times. The walls are so high, how would you jump him.."

"That's...!" Danu sizzled at his son who could not keep his mouth.

"If ninjas could sneak through the shadows, Kinno! They can also fly and disguise. Sophisticated thief that.."

"Yes-yes, whatever you think.."

Starting from Anindita's house, Danu's car position is in the middle. Flanked with two cars of his men and Anindita.

Along the way this morning, Dafa was incessantly chattering about this and that. Responding to large city buses that sometimes spray thick black smoke from the exhaust.

"Why doesn't anyone ride a bike, Om?"

"Because this is stupid Jakarta! The bike is for people in the village!"

"What does that village mean, Kinno?"

"The village means countryside, Dafa." Danu took over the conversation. "In the countryside the streets are still deserted. The air is very cool and beautiful. Many shady trees on the right and left of the path."

"I want to be in the village, Om." said Dafa accordingly.

When Danu's car had to stop at a red light, two shabby-clothed children tapped on the windowpanes.

Dafa watched the two little children who had not spoken anything, because he could not hear it.

"Om Danu, they're talking to me again. But I can't hear it. Can you open the door, the end?"

"Sir, for the money dong. We hungry. We eat belom."

"Why haven't you eaten yet? Where are your parents?"

"After work, you're also a sweeper."

Dafa took the money out of his uniform pocket. But just as he was about to hand over that fifty-thousand piece of money, Kinno hurriedly prevented it.

"Are you stupid or stupid?! They're just pretending to be pitied!"

Danu let out a short breath. What Kinno said was true. He just doesn't like the way his son does.

Dafa was still looking at the two children who were still standing near Danu's car.

'Allah, are they pretending? What if they are hungry? O Allah, may others be kind enough to help them.'

At 6:45 a.m., Dafa finally arrived at his new school. His eyes twinkled at the school gate that stood towering and very majestic.

Get down in a hurry, then notice dozens of other children who are also wearing the same uniform as him.

"Hi..!! Oh.hoo..!! Good morning...!!"

He greeted every student who passed by him. His feelings burst with excitement, because he could finally go to school like other children.

"I'm first, Dad." Tukas Kinno and he just passed by with a cold and haughty face.

Danu approached Dafa, asking her to go to the foundation's headroom to report her arrival this morning.

But in the middle of the journey, apparently two men and one woman had blocked his steps.

"Good morning, Mr. Danu."

"Morning, Mr. Martin."

"This is called Dafa.." The old man with his chains on his glasses greeted Dafa kindly and warmly.

"Good morning. My name is Dafa."

"Well, Dafa - Mr. Martin Luther is the founder and owner of this school." Danu.

"Good morning, Dafa. It's great that I, in particular, can accept another talented student like you."

Dafa blinked at Martin Luther with his confused face.

"Dafa why?"

Dafa looked at Danu. "Mbok Parni once read a storybook while I was going to bed. There is a man in the book called Martin Luther. He was a very fierce old man and owned a small bakery."

Martin Luther flinched not playing. He also seemed to remember one thing, when his eyes tried to catch something from the blue eyes of the pale white teenager.

"Ohh, it's hot, Om."

Danu only realized that Dafa's face was now turning red and wet. His lips also turned pale.

"If Dafa is sick, he is immediately taken to the UKS, Mr. Danu." Said Mr. Pangaribuan. He's the principal at the hotel school.

"Dafa is not sick. He's just not used to the hot air." Danu said slowly. "I'm sorry, I think I should take her to class immediately."

"Then I'll drop you off, Mr. Danu." Said the fat and rather short woman with her firm voice. "Let's Mr. Martin - Mr. Pangaribuan."

As the three were about to climb the stairs to the third floor, Dafa's attention was distracted by the partially demolished wall.

He paused for a moment. Look closely at what's on the other side of there, actually.

"Come on, Dafa."

Dafa nodded. He continued his steps back to his classroom.

But for some reason, his mind just kept focusing on what he saw earlier. A group of people who were also both wearing white ash uniforms like the uniforms he was wearing today.

"Let's all the kids sit down...!!" Said the woman while hitting the blackboard with a marker eraser.

The class became very quiet. Their attention was immediately centered on the figure of the boy who was standing in front of the class with a plain face and like a confused person.

"Kids, this morning we have a new friend. His name is Dafa."

A student raised his right hand. "Bu Sisil, Dafa is not a native Indonesian huh?"

"Why not just ask Dafa?" Bu Sisil said as he patted Dafa's shoulder gently. "Now, I invite you to meet your friends."

Dafa nodded once. But until a few minutes later, his mouth was still locked tightly. What he is doing now is paying attention to one by one the faces of his new friends.

"Becch..." Danu's voice from the front of the door blew his daydream.

"It's okay, Dafa." Ms. Sisil again rubbed Dafa's shoulders.

"Bu Sisil, they are so many. How will I remember their names one by one...?"

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