My Brother
Beautiful Story

"Assynnya!" Ibn entered the house and sought his mother.

"Wa'alaikum hail!" Mama answered while sitting in the living room and immediately wiped away the tears that fell unbearably so as not to be seen by Ibnu who just came home from school.

But late, Ibn saw a sad face and tears that wet the cheeks of the mother who gave birth to him.

Ibn kissed my mother's hand and was astonished to see the condition of his mother who was not the same as when he left for school this morning.

"Ma...! Mama why?" Ibnu dared to ask.

"Sit, boy!" Mama gently patted the chair asking Ibnu to sit beside her. Ibnu also carried out the request of mama.

"So, mama swept the house. Arriving on the terrace, she accidentally saw the little girl in her Primary School uniform sitting on the porch of Aunt Kuswah's house" Mama began to tell stories.

"After the sweep, Mama approached the girl and said hello. When I answered my greetings and looked at my mother, it turned out....." Mama's voice was cut off as her crying started to break.

"What's real, ma?" Ibn waited for the continuation of his mother's story while grabbing a few sheets of tissue and handing it to mama.

"Ga - dis i - that's a-there's I-In - bye, Huuuuuu!" Ms. Ifa was unable to hold back her crying.

Ibn could not see the woman who gave birth to him grieving, what else was crying.

She asked her mother to take a day off to accompany her younger sister Toni.

Toni slept just before mom swept the house.

When my mother was dreaming. Ibnu cleansed himself, prayed and ate lunch. Ibnu prepared his own lunch because he was used to being at Uncle Hussein's house.

After eating, Ibn sat on the porch of his own house imagining the incident that his mother had told him just now.

"If only.........." Ibnu's daydream stopped when Ika called his name.

"Ibn...., why smile - smile yourself?"

"Again in love?" Ika meledek Ibn. Understandably they rarely meet, they make the best use of time when they meet, like siblings.

Ibnu got up from his seat and approached Ika who was working on his craft.

Ibnu, who is light-handed and loves beauty, helped Ika school work to make crafts in the form of miniature houses made of ice cream sticks.

Ibnu never wasted the opportunity, while helping Ika he asked the news Beautiful.

Ika was happy to tell his friend about it to Ibn.

"I'm glad to have a friend like him, mom!" I started a story about Lovely.

"She rarely speaks, but she is loving. Every time I or friends have a problem, he is always responsive and willing to listen to our curses while helping us solve the problem as much as possible"

"Honestly, I hardly had any friends at first because I wasn't very good at it. While my school friends do not want to be friends with people who do not benefit them. If not the son of a rich man or the son of a Government Officer then they will be friends with a clever child, such as Beautiful. But unlike the beautiful, he never chose. All made friends" Ika spoke at length about Beautiful.

"What's your favorite food wonderful?" Ibnu tried to find out about the fondness of Indah.

"I didn't pay much attention to that, but what I know is beautiful doesn't really like sweet food." They are friendly, but because the distance of the house is not one village then Indah and Ika do not know each other's favorite food.

That means, Lovely likes fried rice. Yes, I also do not like sweet foods - sweet. L'm....

Ibnu's Daydream is scattered by Ika with the inscription of his index finger and thumb.

"Assynnya!" There was a girl in front of the house.

"Greetings waalaikum!" She opened the door and answered the greeting.

"Is it beautiful to be home, Auntie?" Ask Ms. Sri.

Before Ika entered, Indah was already standing next to her mother. Mother returned to the family room to continue activities before Ika came to watch her favorite soap opera.

"Now!" One word was said from Ika's lips while thrusting a small black paste.

"This what?" Indah is confused by the arrival of Ika night \- night to her house and gives something to her, because Ika is not allowed to go out night by Uminya if it is not too important and unaccompanied by her brother.

"Open it! And I'm going straight home, right? Assalamualaikum!" Ika immediately left Indah who was still busy with her thoughts.

"Greetings Waalaikum!" Beautiful answer greetings, but in vain \ - because Ika has gone and did not hear the answer Beautiful greetings.

Beautiful opening plastic given by Ika that contains a pack of fried rice favorite Indah. Without thinking for a long time, he immediately devoured it like a person who was starving when Beautiful did not usually eat after teaching in Musholla.

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"Ka, come with me yuk!" Ibnu greeted Ika who was playing in front of their house.

"Where, mas?" Ask Ibn.

"Follow me buying fried rice for Lovely!" Ibnu said with a pleading tone.

"Why should I be with you?" Ask Ika who can not guess the attitude of Ibn.

"Yes, we buy fried rice and go to the house Indah same \-same. Later you give it to Beautiful yes, please!" Ibn explained and cupped both his hands in front of the chest of the pleading omen.

"Yes, yes!"

"But Ibnu said it used to be the same Umi?" Ika asserted Ibnu's invitation on the condition that Ibnu must say goodbye to his umminya.

After saying goodbye, the two of them set out to find the most delicious fried rice. Ibnu bought 2 packs of nasgor. 1 for Indah and another one for Ika. They used Ika's bicycle, Ibnu's pedaling his bicycle and Ika's hitchhiking behind.

One hundred meters from the house of Indah, Ibn stopped the bike and asked Ika to give fried rice to Indah.

A bright morning. Lovely departs for school on foot from home with Dad, passing by Rifa's grandmother's house.

"Assalamuaikum, grandma!" Beautiful greeting when seeing Grandma Rifa standing in her Book store.

"Waalaikum hail warahmatullahi wabarakatuh!" Grandma smiled sweetly with her false teeth but still looks beautiful at her age which is no longer young.

At the door of the store, Abil was lowering his motorbike.

"What's going to school, ndah?" Tanya Abil saw his favorite nephew was not delivered by Mr. Ahmad.

"Think of walking to school, what power my dear uncle again turn on his motorbike! Hehehe......" Beautiful starts with his joke on Abil.

Abil who understood the spoiled nature of Indah, immediately drove him to school. Beautiful behavior and Abil seen and laughed at by Father and also grandmother Rifa.

Arriving at school, Indah finds Ika sitting alone waiting for her arrival.

He was curious about the fried rice Ika gave him last night. From his brief conversation with Ika before class, Indah learned that fried rice was deliberately bought by Ibnu for him.

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