Jogja At A Time
22. About Honesty

At nine o'clock in the morning the Wirobrajan house was crowded. Joe and Doni scrap the moldy bathroom wall. Patches porous parts with waterproof putty. Seti prepared the paint while throwing garbage into the garbage hole that he dug earlier.

From the front yard, Wirobrajan's house looks neat and restless after the entire floor is dipel and the wall of the board is re-plitur. Leaf waste and unused items have been collected all in the garbage hole.

While waiting for Silence and Yuni to come home from the market, Seti burned the garbage, then to the kitchen boiled water to make coffee.

At twelve o'clock Joe's turn to open the stall. Tomorrow Silence and Yuni return to Purwokerto. So today Wirobrajan's house is at least finished and neat bathroom.

Denok's voice shifted Seti's gaze from the stirring coffee he had just made. Approaching Silence and Yuni then help lower the groceries they bring.

The awkwardness of Seti and Silence has begun to disappear. The talk of each other's heartbreak about distance and time ended with Seti's straightforwardness relieving the two. There was nothing more to hide about Asri. Each has understood it.

"Would you cook how much ?" Seti jockeyed while receiving a large bag of groceries from the hands of Yuni who hugged Silence.

"Fried noodles equal ca kale," said Yuni.

"You're still craving noodles, aren't you Set ?" Silent seduces Seti after parking the Denok.

"Still ... let alone your making," Seti said from the kitchen while putting the Silent and Yuni groceries.

"Make me or Asri ?" Silent seduces Seti again while putting two packs of cigarettes for Joe and Doni on the table.

"Cie cie cieeee .. who is dating secretly," Joe suddenly followed the bulldozing of Seti and Silent while taking paint in the living room.

"Your girlfriend" Seti replied as he could. Don't want Silence to tease him anymore.

"Yes Joe, .. The Seti has fallen to his knees in love with Jogja. Nyesel I didn't go to college in Jogja," Silent eyes blinked at Joe with a smile.

"If I had reminded you of Hen .. basic play boy aja he ... all want to be healed," Joe broke open and then fled to the bathroom carrying paint.

Seti just grin, move to the middle room table sipping coffee is still hot. Then I went to the bathroom and brought Joe and Doni some coffee.

"Hihihi .. who is not struggling to be discovered," Yuni nyeletuk from the kitchen.

The Wirobrajan house is crowded with jokes and mutual ridicule. Of course, each without anyone offended, all of them have understood the closeness of each. The laughter and jokes of Yuni and Silence that began cooking from the kitchen were unpretentious with Seti, Joe, and Doni from the bathroom.

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By twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the busy Wirobrajan house paused. Yuni prepared lunch at the middle room table. Silent and Seti was still busy measuring the kitchen sink in the corner of the kitchen. Joe and Doni sat bloated in the front row chatting what merchandise Joe should prepare after lunch at the Malioboro lap.

'Daladh dab, '" Yuni approached the passage.

Joe and Doni laugh at Yuni's accent trying to say a meal in Jogja slang.

"Yo mbak," Doni who was still open to respond to Yuni's invitation.

Joe as usual started to fad. This time he used a rice centhong to take a kale ca in front of him. Just because Silence glared at him, "Keep ngawur aja Joe.. others take what rice use !"

"I'm sorry unintentionally..," Joe even replied to the Silent Plot by using the rice cothong to take fried noodles near ca kangkung. Silence increasingly fierce glaring at Joe who instead began to eat without feeling guilty.

Seti who has understood the behavior of Joe let the two argue. Take a tablespoon and take the rice to his plate. Doni and Yuni accidentally look at each other when they almost simultaneously take rice. "You used to be Yun," Doni pulled his hand from the rice pot.

"You're Don, I'll take it, "" there was a red hue on Yuni's face avoiding Doni's stern look in her eyes.

"Poros Jakarta-Jogja is connected again. but this time another car," Joe kumat again his fad. This time responding to the momentary awkwardness of Doni and Yuni in front of the table. "Be careful not to sift the old car," he continued, insinuating Seti.

"Yes Joe .. lousy not strong panjak," Silent this time laughing. Glanced at Seti who pretended not to hear Joe's words just now.

"It's just an anti-climb car," Doni received a plate of rice that Yuni extended. Keasasi looked at Yuni, he did not realize the plate of rice he had received.

"Pantes strong nanjak.. portion of overtime portion .. full fuel," Seti laughed at Doni who was confused with rice taken Yuni. Like not liking him to have to finish the rice Yuni took.

"Most Don's ?" Yuni drew closer to the Doni arh, realizing that the rice was being taken too much.

"Indeed, if anything else is interesting .. forget what is being done," Joe glanced at Doni, "The roommate is forgotten...look fresh and beautiful forget there are hungry," she said again while taking rice in the pot. Joe is really hungry. He ate very quickly and would add his rice when the others had just eaten.

"Woy don't wear that centhong again !" Silence grumbled towards Joe who would scoop the rice with the rice cothong earlier, which had been used to scoop ca kale and fried noodles. "Here I wash first .. quickly stale later rice," Silent snatch the rice centhong from Joe's hand.

"Get me dear dong .. kayak Doni was taken," Joe laughed back at Silent grunts.

Still grumbling, Silence picked up rice for Joe with another tablespoon. "It's like it's a new car, too," this time Seti teased Silent who was still grumbling to take rice for Joe.

"I'm ready Set .. only the artist of the capital seems not to understand this executive car," Joe widened to see the silence that increasingly nagged.

Lunch at Wirobrajan's house is increasingly exciting with their respective closeness. It seems that Doni is getting closer to getting to know Yuni.

Last night after Wirobrajan's house, he would like to know more about Yuni through Seti and Joe. He thought they both knew more about who Yuni was.

It was only after Seti and Joe told me that they had only known Yuni after his arrival in Jogja with Silent, Doni tried to get to know Yuni in his own way. The Wirobrajan house at least became a foothold to greet each other more deeply.

Finished cleaning and cleaning dishes and dirty glasses, Joe bamitan went to the Malioboro stall, "It seems I have to find money for us to coffee and snack later tonight friends," Joe starts a conversation in the basement of the Wirobrajan house. "It's not good that tomorrow the artist of the capital who wants to go home does not bring souvenirs from me," he said again as he stood ready to leave.

"Bring the Denok Joe, we'll follow up if the bathroom is in order," Seti held out the Denok's key to Joe.

"Well, you guys in this house .. don't be indecent without my knowledge," Joe received the Denok key while glaring open to the yard of the house Wirobrajan invited the Denok to the Malioboro stall.

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Seti and Doni continued painting the bathroom shortly after Joe left for Malioboro. Silent and Yuni flipped the curtain clothesline and bed linen in the courtyard of the house that was washed this morning.

Some neighbors who passed by, glanced towards the Wirobrajan house that had changed to be more fresh and pleasing to the eye. The color of the hubcaps which confirms the green color of the mahogany board wall moss and the combination of dark brown frames and door leaves and windows make anyone who passes by to glance at it after years of empty no top-notch.

"Si gondrong seems to be interested in you Yun," Silent glanced towards Yuni who was inserting some small curtains that had already dried up.

"Hihi .. why if she's interested in me ?"

"No, I just met you here too. Looks like a good guy,"

"So you mean Doni's better than your Seti and Joe ?" Yuni was still laughing in response to the Silent chatter.

"If Seti and Joe, I know very well, they are very good to me, especially Seti. Only Doni seems different,"

"Keep ?"

"Yes who knows you can get closer .. hihihi ..." this time Silence laughed.

If Doni tried to figure out who Yuni was through Seti and Joe, last night Yuni tried to figure out who Doni was through Silence. It seems that they were both interested when they first met in Malioboro.

"Ah man .. later the end of the kayak already ... ," Yuni laughed trying to forget the chatter with silence last night.

"But you kept asking all night about Doni,"

"Ah ntar aja want how, .. you alone with Seti also the end is not so,"

"Bedah .. we stay close. At least I was relieved to hear his confession. If you don't force me to take you to Jogja, it could be that the longer I'm in his shadow. Besides, he made it with my sister's husband mbak. tomorrow in Purwokerto I introduce to Asri. His son was cool too, we used to have one class and he sat down with me,"

"How do you relax after knowing Seti's story ?"

"And I learned from you and my mother .. hihihi ..." Silently looked at Yuni. Her smile came off after the relief of her relationship with Seti became apparent.

From the story of Bening and his friendship with Yuni, he learned a lot about feminine things that do not have to be just covered in unrequited love stories.

Moreover, the straightforwardness of Seti finally made him understand about a choice. The story of the honesty of men in the home Wirobrajan increasingly imprinted in his heart. Grown her femininity becomes more and more rigid and understand the meaning of love.

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