Healing
148. Shopping

Shaka pov's

Finally the time I was waiting for has come, the day I managed to become a general champion at graduation this year. It is not strange if I become a general champion, because every year I am the champion. But this is my graduation year, I'm trying really hard to get back to being a general champion, because actually maintaining it's harder than winning, that's for me personally.

My goal is none other than for me to easily get into any college, with good test scores. For a long time I was worried about deciding where I would go to college, taking this and that into account. I finally decided to go to college in Chicago.

It is not an easy thing to be accepted at my target university, maybe I am among the lucky people because I can enter the university with a track of achievement, so that tomorrow I can take care of something else after submitting the requirements files that I have sent an email some time ago.

I immediately went to Jogja the next day after the announcement of school graduation, in accordance with what I had planned in advance.

Maybe when I was in elementary school, I never imagined I would live my life as it is today. Going to another city to go to college, because of his mentok-mentok, if my life is still as it used to be, maybe the same as Kak Juna who can only graduate High School, and will work in a factory or PT. Because that was the life I imagined.

Now I have to start making new plans for my life. I'm gonna leave home, and stay away from my family. I always hoped she would find happiness wherever she was.

May your love for your mother never fade. I hope you will always be warm and prioritize your mother as she has always done.

After school, my mother took me to one of the large malls in our city.

" Because tomorrow you immediately go to Jogja, then we have to move quickly, shopping for your needs there, I'm sure you do not think to do this. First we buy the toiletries, then the cutlery".

Mom immediately took a shopping cart and invited me to choose a variety of my needs, according to my taste.

Bath soap, detergent, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, face wash soap, deodorant, and various other personal needs.not to forget Mother also bought a set of cutlery equipment.

" We buy cutlery only one set, which is important for you, so not most luggage, when there later if you have eaten directly in the washing of cutlery, let it fit to be used again is clean".

Mom kept talking telling me this and it was all sorts. Though I also already know all those things, indeed I have never been sniffing, but I understand what I have to do later.

But I let mom keep talking, maybe this kind of atmosphere I will miss when in Jogja one day.

After shopping, my mother invited me to eat at one of the shops that are still in this mall, we entered the fast food store, because it is 2 pm, my stomach has started to rumble, my stomach has started to rumble, it didn't feel like almost 1 hour we were shopping for my needs.

Mother invited me to sit on one of the empty tables near the wide glass window in the shop, there were still many vehicles passing by out there. It is indeed the hour to go home from school, so it is only natural that traffic is more crowded.

" Raya... Isn't this Raya?".

Suddenly one of the visitors in the store greeted my mother.

My mother and I looked together at the puffed-up woman who had just greeted my mother. She seems to be in love with mom, maybe her childhood friend.

But the mother seemed confused, and stared for a long time at the woman's face, and it seemed that she had not found an answer.

" I'm Kiki, when you forget, Junior High, we'll be leaving almost every day and returning with Ra...".

She looked at the woman from top to bottom.

" Kiki Amelia?, sori sori.. I really pangling see you now" said the mother greeting a woman named Kiki and they both hugged each other.

" But naturally, we have not seen how many years try?, last I saw you when I play at home, when you say you want to stop school first, it looks like almost 20 years", mummified aunt Kiki.

" 18 years, which is 18 years we have not met" said the mother with great confidence.

Maybe my mom quit school because she was pregnant with me. It's only fitting that all this time the mother did not have many friends, the two deliberately closed themselves from the environment.

" Want to eat too?, here sit here with us, know this my son", mother introduced me with great confidence. Though it means this is uncovering what he kept secret from his friends all this time.

" Oh yes?, so you married young Ra?, sorry yes I do not know any news since graduating Junior High I immediately followed my parents to Kalimantan, they both received employment in oil palm plantations, and they both received, that's why I lost contact with all our friends".

" Are you married to Yoga?, or were you married to another man?, wasn't the last time we met you said you two had broken up?", ask Aunt Kiki while sitting in the chair next to mom.

Mother just nodded. " He is indeed his son Yoga, and now I am his wife Yoga" replied the mother without hesitation..

" Waaah... This is really cool Ra, I already feel anyway if you two are fooling.the Yoganya do not really like you, you, the proof is that you guys have dropped out he still often comes to our school, surely nyariin you tuh, I'm sure, end want to know who else, only you know him in our school".

I deliberately cleared my throat so that Aunt Kiki did not continue to reminisce with mother.

" Oh yes, hi handsome guys, can yah Raya make children look very much like Yoga like this, very cute. Dear daughter Aunty new 8 years, if the age or at least a distance of 5 years, surely you Aunty asked to be a daughter-in-law Aunt".

I just smiled at Aunt Kiki's joke that I kept talking.

Fortunately, food and drinks came, so we ate lunch first, at least the atmosphere became a bit quiet even though only a few minutes.

" You didn't take your son?, I mean you came here alone?", asked Aunt Kiki.

" Yes, I came here on purpose to find furniture for my new home. We just got back two days ago from Borneo. I got a Borneo husband, but now he's moved to a central company in Java, so we all moved, so we all moved, and I asked to buy a house in this area that is close to the company and close to my parents' house first. I hope to see my childhood friends again. And sure enough, I met you" said Aunt Kiki so cheerful.

" When you stop by our house, I'll give you my home address, because Shaka, my son is already going to Jogja for college, maybe I'll be lonely and need a friend to just talk".

Mother patted my arm as if very proud to tell me if I was accepted to college in Jogja.

" So you want to go to college?, how many of your sons are you?, I think I just want to go to high school, I already graduated?".

I almost laughed when Aunt Kiki said that if she thought I had just graduated Junior High School, would my face still look that young?, like a unstable ABG who does not have a ID?. Though I was 18 years old, when compared to my father, at that time I already had a son who was 4 years old when I was my age.

" I do have a very young son Ki, the story is long, anytime the story, now I'm the same Shaka want to go home first, we've been here long enough, we've been here, not to mention that I left the house since this morning, attending the guardian student meeting at Shaka school".

" Worried that my daughter was looking for me, I already had two children, one was only 4 years old, I did not invite, at home with my mother".

Kiki nodded in understanding, "I'm also pregnant again, it's time for my daughter to be loved by sister, it's 8 years old and can be independent, eat your own bath, it's time I added momongan", said Aunt Kiki while giggling.

" See you at a later time, Ki, greetings to your family at home", said mother.

Aunt Kiki also said the same thing, send greetings to father Yoga and also to mama papa.