PaMud PaPa Young
Dead Lights

"My tiredness for your future and your smile is my passion."

Zainel fell silent while thinking about Yudi's invitation, Zainel felt hesitant to accept Yudi's invitation to lunch together.

"Udah don't have to think most of you mengingan you come with me to lunch together." Yudi pulled Zainel's hand to join her lunch at her house.

"But____." Zainel refused to leave the place.

"Nothing but, Come on you come with me!" Yudi pulled Zainel's hand tightly.

"Yes I'm coming, but take my hand off." Zainel tries to remove Yudi's hand from his hand.

"All right." Yudi removed his hand from Zainel's.

In the afternoon, the morning shift work is over, they are allowed to go home. They change clothes before they go home. After changing into clothes Zainel walked out of the hotel through the back door of the hotel. Zainel continued walking toward the security post.

"Sore sir." Zainel stopped walking as he arrived in front of the security post.

"Sore, before you pass this post. I have to do an examination of you." The security man came out of the post, he was already standing before Zainel.

"All right sir."

"Thank you both hands."

"All right sir." Zainel raised both hands.

"You can go." The security man checked all the pockets of the clothes and pants that Zainel was wearing, The security man found nothing and he told Zainel to leave.

Zai walk through the gate of the housing complex.

"Why did you go home first? I was looking for you." Yudi stopped his bike next to Zainel.

"I thought you were home first." Zainel stopped walking to look at Yudi.

"Let's get on my bike! anyways our house is in the same direction." Yudi told Zainel to get on his bike.

"All right." Zainel ride on Yudi's bike.

In the evening Tary was busy watching Drakor on television in the room out while lying down. Suddenly the power went out so that all the rooms in Tary's house looked dark. Tary immediately felt the side of the bull to look for his phone.

"Me too." Tary found her phone and she turned on the flashlight on her phone.

Zainel who had just returned from the house of Mr. Ustadz walked towards his house. When Zainel was near his house, he looked at the house of the landlord looking dark while in the other house the lights were on.

Toks......... Tok

"Assalamu'alaikum." Zainel stood at the door of the house knocking.

"Getishalam."Tary stood up while holding her phone, she opened the door of her house.

"Why did the electricity in your house go out?"

"Huh, what?" Tary walked out the door and was shocked to see a neighbor's house with lights on.

"Is there a problem with the electricity in your house?"

"Can you fix the electricity in my house?" Tary looked towards Zainel.

"Where's the electric meter?"

"It's on the side wall of the house door." Tary walked up to the electric amper and she pointed the flashlight towards the electric meter.

"Let me see first." Zainel was already standing in front of the electric meter, Zainel tried to reverse the amper that was on the electric meter.

"How's it?" Tary was already standing beside Zainel, Tary looked up at the electric meter.

"I can't, the amper's broken."

"How come?"

"You're calling call center pln."

📞"We will send people to check the state of electricity in sister's house."

📞"When?"

📞"Maybe midnight, because the person who will send there is still checking in other areas who first called sis."

📞"Please big brother wait for the person we sent to check the electrical and power of the house."

📞"Alright if it's like that." After saying that Tary turned off her phone call.

"What does the call center say?" Zainel turned to look at Tary.

"Wait until midnight." Tary walked towards the chair that was on the porch of her house.

"Where would I go with you here?"

"Not let me wait for myself."

"You sure you want to wait in the dark alone like this." Zainel sat on the chair beside Tary.

"Keep in."

"That means you're not afraid of the dark, that Leah is afraid of the dark. Lea would have trouble breathing in the dark." Zainel remembered Leah who was traumatized by darkness.

"So you're afraid of the dark, how can I ask you something?"

"Can you ask what?"

"Did you run away from home because of your parents' matchmaking?"

"Well, why do you ask that?" Zainel was shocked when she got a question from Tary.

"I know you're from a rich kid?"

"How do you know?"

"Your palms are so delicate and tender when we shake hands."

"I didn't run away from home."

"Keep why?" Tary became curious to know about Zainel.

"I was kicked out of the house by Daddy."

"Have you done anything wrong to get kicked out by your Daddy?"

"Before I was nonis, a few months ago my bike suddenly broke down and then I pushed the motor towards the side of the highway. Because the weather was so hot I looked for shelter in front of me there was a mosque so I pushed the motor towards the mosque that was in front there. After I arrived at the mosque I heard the voice of someone adhan there, after which some people began to arrive at the mosque. I noticed what they were doing inside the mosque."

"At that time I did not know what prayer was, so I was curious and found out about prayer from browsing on the internet. Finally I found out about the prayer, a month later in a different mosque I saw some leaks with a master teacher was learning to read something that I had a hard language to understand."

"They read the Quran."

"Yes you are right, they read the Koran which is our holy Muslim people. I am interested in learning about the religion of Islam. So I finally decided to convert."

"Mashallah so you're a convert." Tary was amazed to hear the story of Zainel who decided to convert.

"I'm a convert."

"How long have you been a convert?'

"About four months ago."

"You must have been kicked out of the house by Daddy because you converted."

"Why do you know?"

"Because most people who convert, usually his family will be angry then they will be expelled from the house by his family.

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