
Bram terangu looked at Aisyah who was busy slicing the beef into medium thin pieces. He had already tried slicing it and as a result, his left index finger was sliced accidentally, although small but bleeding quite a lot.
Aisha was so anxious that she forbade Bram to do it again.
"Let me, Bram just sit down."
"But how can I help you just look?" Bram felt bad, now he was troubling Aisyah twice.
"Bram did not have to help anymore "Aisyah said with a forbidding look when Bram was about to take another knife from Aisha's hand.
He never thought it would help cooking it was not as easy as he had expected. Women seem so easy to be in the kitchen, a few hours later delicious cuisine will be available on the table without him knowing how to process. And things aren't that simple.
"I promised to help you..."
"Mas Bram doesn't have to keep that promise."
"But."
"Mas Bram, I've asked Toto to call Mumun and Mbak Retno's mpok here, next door neighbor, to help cook here. So, Bram doesn't have to worry."
"Well, I'm so bad."
"It's okay. Mas Bram never does kitchen work like this, so I get it. So, Bram should sit sweetly with his brother in the living room. I'll make coffee later."
"Oh, it's getting more and more troublesome." Bram shook his head.
"I'm gonna sit here? can I?" Bram asked as he sat cross-legged on the mat in the middle of the kitchen, while in front of him their groceries lay untouched except for the meat that is now being sliced Aisyah.
Abah who just finished bathing and dressed neatly with his black peci looked at Bram.
"We'd better sit in the living room, Bram. There's fried bananas ."
"But, Abah.I promised to help Aisha..."
"Let Isah take care of cooking. Women are used to kitchen affairs."
"Yes, Bram.It's best to wait in front." Chirps Aisyah.
"All right then." With a heavy heart Bram moved, then followed Abah's steps.
Aisyah said she would make her favorite meat opor with vegetable pontong, not to forget the jengkol stew, the most delicious menu because at the time she was still living in the Asniah pesantren every Friday after she prayed, because she was very happy, under the hood of food from the rattan it will be available a bowl of jengkol stew with salted fish sweet acid.
Therefore Abah could never miss the jengkol stew because it reminded him of his late wife who had died.
As Bram sat with his brother in the living room, two women greeted him at the wide-open door.
"Assynthet..."
One of the young women was probably only a little older than Aisyah entering, she was dressed in a kind of long negligee with a tapered face and long curly hair. The skin is ripe sapodilla, the face is sweet black. And the other was a middle-aged woman with a veil in her loop, she looked much older than the woman next to her.
"Wa'alaikumus Salam Warahmatullahi Westarakatuh..." Abah and Bram said together.
"The promise exists? Tito came to our house, he said Aisyah needs help cooking today."
"Some, please come in for Retno, mpok Mumun. Just go straight back, Isah is there." Sahut Abah's.
The two women glanced at Bram, eyes that were a little kepo and somewhat astonished by the presence of a handsome looking foreign man with slightly blue eyes.
In the past, Bram was a striped-nose man who could not see the little woman acting in front of him immediately responding, but now different, Bram was calmer and no longer interested in the temptation.
Mr. Sharif or now the person he called the brother has changed quite a lot of views and ways of thinking even Bram way of life.
The two women immediately entered to meet Aisyah who was waiting, they seemed excited to immediately scrape information about the presence of the man who looked macho and mature.
"That's ready, Sah? Gimane you know men? Where's the clear-cut balloons in the obok? demen mpok see it, adem it." The mumun who was cherry-picked immediately poked Aisyah who was still slicing meat.
"Yes, Sah.baru see I'm the one. Often see his car in front of the mosque. But, fittingly seen close, oalah Sah, wong lanang kok handsome kebangetan." Retno's mother blinked her eyes at Aisyah, looking very curious.
"Abah's friend. His name is Bram." Aisyah answered slightly wrongly with the enthusiasm of her two neighbors. Although these two like to be excited when they meet but they are people who are very quick to intervene to help the neighbors if asked.
"Kok, iso yo Abah has such a wonderful theme." Retno immediately sat on the mat while starting to disassemble Aisyah's groceries which were partly still in plastic.
"Well, this old mpok eyes feeling so kinclong aje nggeliat nice-nice. Demen. Not your boyfriend, is it, Sah?" The Mpok Mumun looked excited.
"No, Mpok.temen Abah only."
"Waaah, I grinned. Hello iso opo ora?" Retno's mom nudged Aisyah's shoulder. Intung alone Aisyah was not slicing, the knife in her hand was just released.
"It's a girl, Selow a little tape, Ret? Don't just flirt by talking. The origin of the title tetip tetep, jaim dikit can not? Just saw it straight away like that, embarrassed to hit the horror. Ntar in jande gatel people, egalmosquito, even though they are nervous..." Omel mpok Mumun's.
"Well, padlock. But that's wong lanang emang handsome, mpok. Now if the slow do not move, can miss the train, hunt in the embat people, mpok."
Aisyah pretended not to hear the chatter of her two neighbors, her ears felt red inside the veil.
"By the way, what's this cooking, Sah?"
Fortunately, Mbak Retno immediately focused on his goal, after being reprimanded mpok Mumun who if the negur likes ugly but real it.
Aisyah briefly explained the dishes planned for her birthday banquet, before then she brewed coffee and drove it in the tray.
For some reason, he was a little nervous to the living room, meeting Abah and Bram.
But, then Aisyah frowned looking at only the abah who was sitting there facing the plate of fried bananas that had been cold because it was there from morning.
"Well, where's Bram?" Ausyah asked awkwardly as she lowered the tray onto the table and placed the coffee cup in front of her.
"Busan just came home." Answer Abah short.
"Kok home?"
"His ex-wife called, so Bram's son came home first he said there's something to take care of, later in the afternoon God willing to come back again"
Abah's answer made Aisyah stunned, she felt her heart beat strangely when she heard Bram coming home because he was on the phone by his ex-wife.
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