
A week has been Baras hanging on the road, every time Laras asked for help to people to be delivered to the place of Ariel and Luna, in fact none of them who want to help him, he said, they seemed reluctant to help Laras and even impressed away from him.
In that week, it was not easy for Laras to go through everything. He was tired of crying, but no one had any compassion for him. Finally, in order to survive, Laras was forced to beg. Once he asked for a little food at a roadside stall, let alone in love, he was even kicked out of there.
The barrel finally took food from the garbage, which is still worth eating. Disgust, certainly. But he also did not want to die of hunger, especially there was one life that he had to fight for.
In the evening, Laras walked along the road and when he saw the river under the bridge, Laras chose to go there. Not to commit suicide, but to wet his body soaked in sweat, he wanted to cool his body with the river water. Not too clear, the water is brown, but at least it can be for him to bathe, urinate or defecate there.
The barrel takes the leaves and puts them on the ground, under the bridge. He chose to sleep there. Scared, certainly. Who is not afraid, sleep alone under the bridge. He slept in a wet shirt because there was no change of clothes. All night, he shivered in the cold, but he also did not dare to undress, afraid that there were bad people who wanted to harass him.
Laras could only cry lamenting his fate, he did not expect, in the end he would become a vagabond in the city of people.
While Luna and Ariel might sleep in a deep place, she even slept on the ground in a wet shirt. There are many mosquitoes that cover their bodies. Sometimes he regretted running away from home and stealing his mother's money.
While at home, he still sleeps on a mattress and can eat rice, although rarely in the side dishes but at least he can eat a good meal, he said, not a former person who has been dumped in the trash.
The next day, his clothes had already started to dry, although not one hundred percent dry. The barrel immediately washed the mukany, with river water and gargled. No soap, no toothbrush and no toothpaste. It feels that his mouth is already uncomfortable because from keren he is not brushing, especially his face is also like greasy. His skin had turned brown due to the sun.
After finishing washing his face and gargling, he sat in the sun which was still warm, because it was still morning. He sat there to dry his clothes. Only then did he go upstairs to beg. Yes, forced to beg to be the only way to be recorded in order to have money and can buy food and drinks.
Selamma one week, that's the activity carried out by Laras. Begging to fill his stomach. Then at night he slept under the bridge. And during that one week, Laras had never changed clothes. His body began to smell, because indeed he only bathed in the river, without using soap, especially he did not change clothes, of course anyone who was close to him would feel nauseous.
"What should I do now? I want to see Mas Ariel, but why is this my fate? How can I go to Luna and Mas Ariel's house if I don't have the money to go there, no one will help me. No one pityes to see me hanging out on the side of the road. I can't be a beggar forever, let alone my content has grown, I can't give birth to my son on the side of the road. OH Lord .. Help me, I have to how. I want to contact Mas Ariel but I don't have a HP, nobody wants to lend me a phone because they I want a criminal in the beggar's pose. How am I supposed to do?" ask Laras with flowing tears. Right now, he was really like a madman, a tangled and smelly shirt, even very dirty, tanned skin, a face that was squishy and pimpled, hair that was disheveled, who would have thought he was still sane.
Maybe people will think, she's a crazy woman who's pregnant because it's on perk*sa.
"I'm tired of God, you can't bring me to a good person. Someone willing to help me? I'm tired of living like this. I'm tired of living on the streets" Laras murmured inwardly. He was sitting on the side of the road by a red light. When the red light comes on, he will stand up and walk and ask the motorcyclist or car who stopped at the red light. Some are grateful, some are just silent as if they do not see themselves, some are scornful, some are giving pennies, whether it is five hundred rupiah, one thousand rupiah, two thousand rupiah. At the most he got five thousand rupiahs. A day he will get twelve thousand, sixteen thousand, sometimes only seven thousand. And the money was only enough for one or two meals.
At the time, Laras was hanging on the road. Rahman and Sari were at home, irritated and angry, because they had been distracted. In the morning when the adhan dawn arrived, they immediately prayed. Then finished praying, Sari wanted to go out of the house to go to the market. When he took the pigtail from under the pillow, but the key was not there. He's looking down, maybe who knows fall. Unfortunately, there is also no.
"Mas, what door lock?" ask Sari.
"There is under the pillow as usual," replied Rahman who was teaching.
"Nothing, Mom," he said as he continued to search.
"Find the real thing," he said.
"There really is nothing, try to help me run," he grumbled.
Rahman stopped his salary and helped his wife find the key and sure enough, the key was lost.
"Where did I, when last night, I put it under my pillow" Rahman said.
"You may have forgotten, who knows the key is at the door. It used to be that cake," Sari scolded and went to the door, but at the door there was also no key hanging. When he opened the door, he couldn't. Because it's locked. Unfortunately, Sari did not know if the door was locked from the outside.
"Aren't you?" asked Rahman from the room.
"There is no, Mas" said Sari who returned to Kamr.
"Try waking up Barrel, let him help us find the key. What time it is, I haven't woken up yet. Emang do not want to pray the prayer, what will be the child, is an adult, but to pray the morning prayer, must be built like a child," Rahman grumbled annoyed.
"Mas ... Mas here, Mas," he yelled.
"What's wrong, in the morning has been yelling, not good with the neighbors," Rahman said as he walked towards the room Laras.
"There's nothing, Mas" he told me.
"What's wrong?" he asked while looking around the room, but did not find Laras there.
"Maybe in the bathroom." Rahman tried to think positively, but still, nothing.
"Don't take the key Laras, Mas." said Sari guessing.
"He escaped?" ask Rahman.
"Maybe. It's key is not there, Laras is not in his room. He must have escaped last night, while we were sleeping" Sari replied.
"Based on the boy, make it a shame. Fuck*n. But he can't go to Jakarta, right? Hpnya I have slammed and he also did not hold a penny because the ATM and cash had been confiscated. Except for the ID."
"Don't ...." Sari suddenly remembered the money in the closet. He immediately went to his room and looked for the money, and sure enough, the money was gone.
"Mass?" call Sari again and Rahman approaches the wife.
"What else is it?" rahman asked annoyed that Laras managed to escape from him.
"I don't exist, my money's gone."
"How much?"
"I forgot, but it's like seven thousand queens if it's not wrong."
"Surely the Laras stole it. He must've taken the money and ran away."
"Where is dong, Mas. Are we taking Laras to Jakarta?" sari asked, she was afraid that Laras would make a scene again and embarrass him and his family more.
"Well? Never mind, let him take care of his own life. I hope he gets unlucky on the road, so he can't get to Ariel and Luna's house. Let's know the taste," he said annoyed.
"Don't dong, Mas. However she is our child," said Sari who does not like the horror of her husband praying bad for Laras.
"Who said he wasn't our son? I'm tired, Sar. Tired of having a child like Laras, his taunya makes me dizzy. Make proud, no. Shame, yes. Never mind, don't keep taking care of the Laras. We still have one child that we must educate hard, lest he follow the steps of his brother who makes parents ashamed. Baras' problem, it's up to him what's out there. I'm tired, may God love him a valuable lesson, let the old how to appreciate the parents, and the people around him. He was stubborn, willing to win by himself, regardless of what his heart was made of. If he can't learn a valuable lesson, forever a useless child, he knows it's just annoying people, and doesn't know the true meaning of life."
"But what if Laras gets to Ariel and Luna's house?" ask Sari.
"They won't be that easy to forgive Laras, let alone see Luna hating the same Laras. Which woman does not hate, if her husband is seduced. It's been helped, in love, uh even saw the Laras. I was just so his Father was Shy with Luna and her parents. If Laras really went there, I'm sure Luna would have kicked him out. I'm not sure Luna's husband wants to be the same as Laras. Luna is beautiful like that, while our son, even his envy, is still bagusan the Luna. There is no way that Luna's husband will love the same Laras, even I'm not sure she wants to be the same Laras, if not our child who itches and continues to tease her, he said, he also couldn't possibly look at Laras. Anyway if her husband Luna was thinking about the baby in the womb Laras, she would have been here to take responsibility. Butwhat? the proof for months, there was no visible trunk of his nose. Even Laras aja who is nervous wants to continue to meet him. Whether it is made of what his brain and heart are, there is no shame at all," said Rahman while sitting on a guest sofa chair.
While Sari who heard it can only be silent, and justify the words of her husband. She who is a woman is also embarrassed to think Laras who continues to pursue the husband of people.
Since then, Sari and Rahman have not discussed Laras. Rahman was also forced to break the door from the inside to get out, then pick Lestari from her grandparents' house to return home. Laras also does not exist.
At first Lestari is confused, seeing Laras is not home, but after her mother tells her that Laras ran away from home and stole her money. Lestari could only be silent, whether she should be happy or sad. Happy because Laras finally managed to escape from his parents, sad because of fear if Laras why napa out there, let alone Laras went pregnant.