Healing
151. Bonus Chapter

Shaka POVs

" Since when was Kak Juna close to the girl with the contact name 'Bungaku'?, which person and what is his real name?".

I deliberately asked a question that had been curious enough for quite a long time. Because since a few months ago, when Kak Juna came into my room and slept with me. At that time, Juna was sick, but Mama Vienna and Papa Tono were performing umrah, so Kak Juna who was not feeling well chose to sleep with me, rather than sleeping alone at home.

It's just that I deliberately set aside my curiosity with something else, because lately I've been busy studying and continuing to study, so that I get the best score on the graduation exam results.

All the effort I put in was not in vain, as I managed to stay in first place at graduation yesterday. I was already a proud son of father and mother yesterday. That's my main goal.

Today is a day that makes me sad too, because I have to go to Jogja and part with my family. Dad and mom haven't been able to drive me because dad is busy with his work at the office, their weekend promises to come to Jogja and see how the new boarding house is.

" Where did you know there was contact with the name 'Bungaku' on my phone, did you open my phone when I slept in your room?".

Kak Juna did not immediately answer, instead he threw a question for me with a slightly accusatory tone. It seems like Kak Juna is reluctant to tell who the girl with the name 'Bungaku' is. Because if you do not try to keep it a secret, of course Kak Juna will immediately answer and tell a long story about the girl he likes. Because that's what happened before.

" Never have I opened my sister's phone, anyways I don't know her password, so how could I open your phone".

Brother Juna seemed to nod his head. His gaze was still focused forward staring at the streets that were quite crowded because it was time for people to leave to do their activities and work.

" Why did you know there was contact with a name like that on my phone?".

I tried to arrange the sentence so that my answer would not make Kak Juna angry.

" I accidentally saw a message coming in from a contact with the name 'Bungaku', which is why I asked him. Since I think Kak Juna has never told you about the girl named Bungaku, do I know her?, or is she a florist?", I asked again.

Kak Juna shook his head again, but still Kak Juna did not try to explain who 'Bungaku' was'. Yes already if it wants to be kept secret, anyway soon I stay in Jogja, will long not meet with Kak Juna, Kak, so maybe I no longer need to discuss about something that Kak Juna does not want to discuss.

" Later if before arriving at Jogja kak Juna feel tired nyetirnya just say, let me change the driving" I said to change the topic of conversation.

" Do you have a SIM ? if we don't have to rest later if I feel tired or sleepy, you've never brought a car before, I don't want to blame mama, papa, papa, or Kak Raya if something happens to us on this journey" said Kak Juna.

I immediately took the wallet in my pants pocket and showed the SIM A I just made about two weeks ago. After I finish the exam on the last day. I did go home early and deliberately went straight to the satlantas office to make SIM A, all this time I was secretly learning to drive a car without anyone's knowledge.

Even my father and mother have not told me about me who already has a SIM A, either, actually, I just want to be on guard if at any time and have to bring my own car when in Jogja later.

" Well...when did you make that SIM?, did your mom and dad know?".

I shook my head, "Nobody knows, after all when at home mom has not allowed me to bring my own car, everywhere always delivered the family driver, so I still keep this a secret, so I still keep this matter, to keep mom calm".

Chat after small talk continues to flow along the way, so that makes me and Kak Juna do not feel the usual drowsiness in a rider with a long distance.

" Because the others have sent you messages, now as a brother and uncle, whether you want to think of me as what I am, which is clearly my position and my age is older than you. Although I'm not an educated person, but I've eaten more of the salt acid of life than you".

" So I just said, take care of yourself, keep the trust that your parents gave you. I know you know best what it's like to be a child with a status like you in the past, so don't let there be another version of little Shaka you've created".

" When in Jogja later, maybe life and its environment will be very much different from where we are. As a decent looking man, you have to sell more expensively, there will certainly be many sorority friends or even boarding neighbors who have a crush on you, and will probably willingly give up everything for you. Then you must keep on remembering the Lord, remember the family at home, you have a mother and a sister, do not hurt another woman".

The message from Kak Juna was the strangest I heard, but probably because he understood best what it was like to be a young man living overseas and away from family.

" Is it because Kak Juna also experienced something like that when he was still working in the region?", I asked while handing coins through the car window on the buskers who were busking in the quarters. At the moment the traffic lights are red, and the queue is snaking so long because the traffic is getting heavy, it's time for school children to go home, because that's why the streets become more crowded.

I was curious and wanted to know why Kak Juna gave me such a message.

Brother Juna nodded, "Of course, if not because I remember what your mother's life was like, maybe I've slept with some girl who purposely came to my contract and offered herself willingly".

I was a little surprised by Kak Juna's answer, is it as bad as living in a big city?.

" Would it be the same life in Jogja and in the city where Kak Juna wander, obviously this is different city", I just did not expect life in such a free city.

" Not in a big city, where we are there are people like that, which is clear everywhere. Just how do we react to it".

I swallowed my saliva more and more hearing Kak Juna's words. Maybe because all this time I live in a safe environment, have good neighbors, and I rarely hang out and hang out with school friends, spend more time at home with family, that's why I've never met a woman who volunteered as Kak Juna told me.

But after I stayed in Jogja for a few months, I confirmed everything Kak Juna said. There are some boarding neighbors who often bring their female friends into the boarding room, and only alone in the room with a long time.

Strange and disgusting sounds are also often heard in the room next to me. I'm not familiar with my right-hand room neighbor, just familiar, and all I know is that she's studying in a different department, and more senior than me, maybe in a moment she'll graduate. All I know is that the girl he brought into the room wasn't the same girl. I myself sometimes made my own goosebumps with disgusting voices heard from the next room.

It's not that I don't know what they're doing, I'm not an innocent kid, I'm almost 19.

It's just that I'm lazy to interfere in other people's affairs, anyway they both of course do the forbidden thing because they like each other, anyway, so I don't want to be a saint and lecture people who obviously don't want me to meddle in their affairs.

Maybe next month I will look for new boarding houses, find a quieter place and not have to listen to the voices of******* and moans from the next room. I'm looking for a comfortable and quiet place .

Actually, I was just worried that I would fall into doing bad things if I lived in a bad neighborhood. Because I realized I was just an ordinary human being who would have done khilaf often. I am not a saint who has no faults and sins, I just want to keep watch so that I do not disappoint my parents.

For several months of college here, there have been some female friends who expressed their feelings openly to me.

I do not deny that there are those who attract my attention, I am a normal man, and some of those who express their feelings towards me are indeed beautiful and have a good nature, he said, maybe someday I will accept one of them, when I am really ready to establish a relationship with the opposite sex of course, but not now. I still have to learn to be a man who behaves and thinks more maturely.