Jogja At A Time
4. Proximity in Jogja

Mbah Jum praised Seti who looked neat and dashing. Levi's pants, long-sleeved blue shirt. Eiger's outdoor shoes are neatly tied to Seti's feet.

"Where is it good ?" Tanya Mbah Jum wants to know.

"To my friend Mbah," replied Seti who as usual went to take a glass, put a spoon of sugar and two spoons of coffee and brew it.

"Mest wedok your friend hehehe..," Mbah Jum chuckled.

Seti smiles ... Stirring a coffee glass in front of him while sitting in a bale-bale corner of the stall tasting hot coffee from his spoon.

Mbah Jum stalls are starting to get crowded. One or two children boarding around Samirono began to eat dinner there.

Seti was waiting for Muji who wanted to hitch a ride to the Royal cinema. He said he wanted to watch his latest movie Yeni Farida hot, throw mumets out of the heaping translation tasks.

Muji is a big fan of Eva Arnaz, Yeni Farida or Eni Beatrix. If the movie that there is a hot star it goes down the screen from the cinema Senopati. I can't wait for Muji to air at Royal.

Muji's friend from Wates is working at the movie theater. So with just a cigarette, she could swoop in watching Eva Arnaz, Yeni Farida, or Eni Beatrix' thighs as much.

Many times Seti invited Muji to watch there. But it has never been accomplished. Seti is also curious about the story of his favorite cinema Muji ... The lowest class cinema in Jogja ...

Muji finally nongoled as Seti spent the last gulp of his coffee. Approaching sat Seti.

"Have you eaten Set ?"

"Not ... Waiting for you from earlier." Answer Seti.

Both then stand up. Each took rice and vegetables, sambal and two pieces of tempeh.

"Where is Dibyo ?" Mbah Jum asked the invisible Dibyo.

"Went back to Mbah ... It's Saturday" Muji replied.

"Oh malem Sunday. Pantesan Seti dandan handsome ... Must be dating .. hehehe ...,"mbah Jum chuckles at Seti again.

"Yes mbah. Same date Muji .. hahaha ..." Seti laughed loudly.

"Oh, it's so big." Muji replies while laughing.

Chatting each other's Sunday evening events, Seti and Muji shortly bid farewell to Mbah Jum after finishing his dinner. This time Muji insisted on paying him. He said he got paid for tutoring at Stella Duce Middle School.

Then the two of them flocked familiarly towards Solo street with their respective goals. The night in Jogja began to squirm after Seti dropped Muji in front of the Royal cinema.

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Seti replied via intercom when asked who by his interlocutors at the Mantrijeron boarding house. Seti guessed that Yem asked. It sounded from his taut tone.

Seti was still sitting waiting for Asri on the front porch when the white Corolla DX sedan entered the courtyard of the boarding house.

A tall man was seen coming down from the car. Just passing Seti. Then I pushed the bell.

"Asri there's mbak ?" Sounded clear by Seti the male voice answered intercom.

Seti's heart pounded hard hearing Asri's name called the man.

Passing through Seti once more, then sitting not far from Seti, still invisible familiarity of the man's face. The two just kept quiet.

Before long the door opened. Asri was surprised to see Seti and the man.

"Night mas Sigit," Asri rebuked the man first. Letting a moment of Seti who was still wondering inwardly about who that man was.

"Night of As." The male flirtatious voice teased Asri who then sat down before him.

Seti let the conversation Asri and the man first. It seems that Sigit the male name called Asri was trying to get close to Asri ... Seduce him to invite Asri to go outside.

"Sorry, I made a deal with my friend ... Can't accompany me." Answer Asri firmly, ... His tone sounded less like Sigit's slightly pushy invitation.

Sigit looked towards Seti. Both looked at me long enough. There was a look full of dislike towards Seti.

Asri was silent between the two men who were staring at each other.

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Sigit was Asri's senior on his campus. Since seeing Asri in Ospek. He tried many times to get close to her. It is sought that Asri is always nearby in various ways.

Sigit had come to the Mantrijeron boarding house many times before Seti stopped there.

Asri's femininity that felt Sigit's attraction to her made her try to appreciate it with proper familiarity. Familiarity is limited to juniors and seniors on campus.

Asri did not want to get too close to Sigit. There is a sense of unease every view of the flirtatious Sigit who always skin the tip of the hair to the tip of his foot.

That night apparently Sigit again tried to seduce Asri again. Come to the Mantrijeron boarding house to take him around Jogja. And accidentally met Seti.

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The roughness is seen when the Corolla DX gas is pounding hard in front of Seti and Asri. The car then drove away.

"Sorry Set." Asri opened the conversation slowly ... His heart was not afraid to see each other face Seti and Sigit ... Remember the gaze of Seti first during a fight at the house jengki.

"Why do you cancel if you have made a pact to go with him ?" This time there was a hint of anticipation from Seti.

"Not what you think Set is. Suddenly he came here without me knowing. I thought you were with Joe." Asri tries to explain about the arrival of Sigit.

"I don't mind that As. Just don't like his behavior. There is absolutely no respect for others. He looks like a rich man's son." Seti expressed his dislike of Sigit.

"Ah, let's not talk about it again. He's already gone. " Asri tried to secure Seti's heartbreak.

Seti smiled hearing Asri's words. Don't want to linger with his guess.

Asri returned Seti's smile. Both of them had returned with a mood of closeness as before.

"Take me to Set."

"Where is it ?"

"I'd like to see the Square ... He said every Sunday night a lot of people try to get through the banyan twins."

As Seti had expected. Asri took her there. Asri's desire was spoken when Seti and Joe first to the Mantrijeron boarding house. Want to know what is the reason for the crowd of people in South Square around banyan twins.

"Yuk... If that's what you want .... I've never been there either." Seti looked at Asri, his face looking happy.

The two rushed over to the Denok parked near the terrace. Do not want to delay enjoying the atmosphere of the night in one corner of Jogja which is famous for its legend stories.

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Seti clasped Asri's hand tightly while crossing the ring road that surrounds the Kagungan field of Dalem Kraton.

When parking the Denok earlier. The gazes of some men around the place were seen looking at the envy of Seti who was holding Asri tightly.

Asri's height which was only slightly shorter than Seti was striking in the crowd of the Square. Somehow the two are compact wearing a similar suit. It's just that Asri wears black sneakers, making it easier for him to walk on the dusty dirt.

A boy approached Seti and Asri who were approaching two pairs of twin banyan. Offering blindfolds for rent doing masangin.

Dibyo said, masangin started when Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono I ruled. Her daughter got a betrothed from a man.

Unfortunately the princess did not like her future husband very much. Finally he posed a challenge to the man to walk with his eyes closed to the palace pendopo passing Kyai and Nyai Daru, the name of the twin banyan tree.

If successful, the princess will accept the proposal. The man failed. And the Sultan said that anyone who can pass the challenge must have a clean and sincere heart.

Such is the origin of the masangin myth that is still believed.

"Want to try As ?" Ask Seti to Asri.

"How is it ?"

"Look on." Seti pointed to a young man who tried a masangin ritual.

Somehow his steps even moved away from that pair of banyan ... The one watching cheered laughing at that

Asri laughed. Looks more beautiful in the middle of the excitement of South Square. Unable to be arrested, he invited Seti to try to do the masangin.

"There must be a request in your heart if you want to cook." Seti remembered Dibyo's words.

"Should ? I thought it was just a regular game." Answer Asri Heran.

"Let's just be fun."

"What do you want Set ?" Goda Asri ... His eyeballs implied a fiery curiosity.

"It has to be in the heart. Yuk try. You or me first ?" Follow Seti with a smile.

"I was. But don't fight it." Pinta Asri later.

Seti laughed at me. Her hand was pairing the blindfold from the back of Asri ... Asri's naked nudge with fine feathers that he accidentally saw enjoyed really ...

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*Good language: handsome boy in Javanese.

*Wedok: female in Javanese.

*Bluffy child: crazy child in Javanese.

*Kagungan Dalem Kraton : owned by Kraton in Javanese.