Mom, I Want School
16. ARI DARLING MOM
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After so many hours and so long I waited under the Chinese wooden tree I now decided to step back home.
Now I realized that my hours of wasted time were simply enjoying every scattering of street dust and barely even getting into my eyes as the sand truck passed right in front of me, delivering orders of sand buyers used to build a house in the city center.
I typed in a step as I almost set foot on the porch of the house. I reached for a 500 retail plastic water container watering my feet after I took water from a bucket that was on the edge of the terrace. It is an obligation before entering the house I also do not want if my mother is angry if the house is dirty again because my feet are dirty after returning home.
I looked at my feet that had been clean although honestly only this time my feet were not as dirty as yesterday when I was busy playing with friends even I seemed to go home sooner than ordinarily.
"Assalamualaik."
I saluted as I entered, slowly stepping my legs into the house, no greeting from anyone here. I stepped into the house deeper into each room trying to find the figure of the mother whose existence I must see when I arrived at the house.
It feels like if I don't see my mother when I get home making me feel uncomfortable, it feels like something is stuck and painful in my heart.
My smile expands tiara tara as if I got a year-end gift when I see the figure of my mother standing while stirring a rice whose water has just boiled.
I finally saw my mother.
Staring at me for a moment and finally back up the rice.
"Tumben did you come home early today Ari? Did Ririn come back crying and the game stopped so you'd be home sooner than usual?"
I shook my feet slowly towards the wooden chair that was right near the closet.
Not hearing my answer made my mother look at me while sitting on the bench seemed to be curious.
"What's not 12:00 yet but you're home at 09:00 don't your friends want to play with you anymore?"
Ari was down for a moment moving the ends of my fingers while staring at my nails that look not dirty because today I really have not played.
"Today Ari didn't play together with friends, Mak."
Mother's forehead frowned, as if she looked confused by my answer.
"Why? you're not playing with your friends today?"
"Usually you play with them when you're the hardest to come home to."
Mom chuckled she seemed to be trying to joke with me but I just kept her flat face on, not trying to show that I am really sad but right now I do not have the spirit to smile even if only a little.
"Why don't you go play today? Is the idea of playing or the type of game exhausted or very boring?"
"No," I replied in a slightly whispered tone.
"Then?"
"Everybody goes to school. Today is the first day they all go to school usually only Angga goes to school but today Ami, Cai and Ririn also enter school it means Ari's friends are all at school."
"And they didn't go to play as usual, just Ari who left earlier and no friends came."
Silence and loneliness are now a situation that is happening at this time. After hearing that sentence my mother no longer spoke to me, she seemed silent and finally went back to pretending to stir the rice that had completely shrunk the water.
I moved my two irises to look at the figure of my mother who had turned her back as if she did not dare to show her face that seemed to have thought of my words.
"if Ari goes to school this year maybe Ari will also be at school with friends, along with Cai, Ami and Ririn."
"Ari will also not wait alone under the Chinese wood tree waiting for them all to come."
"If only Ari went to school this year would be so happy."
"But Ari will be patient, next year Ari will also go to school, right Mak?" I now hug him from behind.
I saw both of my mother's lips quivering trying to force herself to smile.
I hugged my mother tightly while closing my eyes feeling the warmth of my mother's body that really made me comfortable.
I do not understand why the figure of the mother really so has an aura that is very pleasant to me, touch and look of the mother makes this heart figure really feel happy when together with the mother.
Is this just my feeling or are you like that? The word embracing mother means embracing heaven because mother is the heaven of the world for her children. If you want to see heaven then look at your smile and if you want to smell heaven then kiss your cheeks with affection then you will feel it.
"Ari can't wait for school next year, Mommy."
"Ari will be very happy, Ari dear mother."
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