
(Faraz Flashback: 10 years ago)
Faraz never expected, the story of one night with Ani in pustu (Integrated Health Center) in a small village called Puruwian, in a small village of Central Kalimantan, ended with him in 'tumbur' villagers and customs.
Ani, a widow with a 7-year-old son, was a midwife who worked there.
Faraz himself lived in the mining company's camp where he worked as a technician not far from the village.
Actually, if mine employees are sick, they can seek treatment at the company's clinic. It's just that to reach the office where the company clinic is located takes an hour's drive from the field where they work.
A small village in the area where the mine is located adjacent to their camp. In fact, actually the land that is now in the mine actually belongs to the villagers at first but then sold to the company.
Ani, her profession is actually a midwife. But due to a shortage of medical personnel, Ani ended up not only being a midwife but also a nurse for the village where she served.
Some time before, Faraz had suffered from malaria, and was treated by Ani, from where their introduction began.
Initially they were just a relationship between patients and medical personnel, Ani was also a good woman.
They talked sometimes when Faraz came to check on him.
"Bang Faraz is married?"
"Yes, I'm married. I have a ten-year-old daughter and a wife."
"The wife bang Faraz must be beautiful."
"Yes, she's beautiful."
The small talk often colored their meeting either because accidentally or indeed because Faraz had an interest in the pustu where Ani worked as a community servant in the small village.
"What happened to your previous marriage?"
"We're divorced, bang."
"Why? Why did Adka's father divorce you?"
"I asked for a divorce."
"Why?"
"I can't live always by my in-laws. Everything I did was wrong."
"Just because of that? Divorce only for reasons of in-laws' interference."
"Actually...I couldn't stand it more because of his rude attitude."
"Rude how?"
"He used to beat me up a lot, and he even knocked me unconscious in front of his own son."
"What made me choose to divorce, my in-laws always blamed me. Even though I once woke up in a hospital ward after being hit, his mother kept defending him."
Never had Faraz been so sympathetic to a woman because of the violence she experienced in her relationship with the man who should have loved her.
"I couldn't stand it. That's why I chose to part ways and take Adka with me."
Faraz becomes gentle with Ani, at least she wants the woman to feel different after the violence she experienced in her marriage before that.
During the fasting month, Ani often delivers food to break the fast for Faraz and his friends even though he is actually non-Muslim.
Faraz and Ani were really just friends, for half a year they knew each other nothing strange happened.
Ani is as kind to Bino, attentive to Ganda, as she is to Faraz. They are only nomads who complain of fate in the land of the people.
But, maybe the old saying is true, something can be comfortable because it is used. Faraz was also a normal man, although he would return to Surabaya in three months to see his wife and little daughter.
They became often together, because Ani often asked Faraz for help, and then bought his medicines and medical supplies if he did not have time to the city which was about 40 Km away from their village.
One night, Faraz had just arrived from the sub-district town where their company office was located and Ani sent Faraz to buy him some cotton boxes, cassa cloth and medicine from the pharmacy.
It was raining that day, almost midnight. Faraz parked the company's operational cabin car right in front of the Pustu building where Ani and her son live.
He didn't want to wait until tomorrow because, early tomorrow he was scheduled to mine, there was a broken machine and he was told to fix it immediately with two friends of one shiff. Usually such work can take a day and night, if the damage is severe enough.
Faraz was afraid that if he delayed it, Ani was in need of the ingredients he brought to serve his patients.
GECK! GECK! GECK!
"Dik Ani's...!"
There's no answer.
Once again Faraz knocked on the door and called Ani, against the sound of rain.
And...
The door opened, Ani with her hair and body drenched in welcome, the wet cloth on her body clinging to form a silhouette, accentuating her crazy and dense curves.
"Bang Faraz, thankfully you came..." Ani's pale lips were trembling. It was like he had just been rained.
How about the next story, let's follow Faraz's life until then he must be on the banks of the river Jagir😁 (catt: The time of the river has not been arranged, if now it is good😅)
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