The Father Boy
ALA225'S CHAT. Malay Store
"Directly out the result, Bang?" Nahda is reading the test itself.
"Yes, look at it." I exchanged my test results with him.
We are both clean, according to these blood and saliva tests. Yeah, who am I with? With Izza alone, I never hooked another woman.
"Clean ya, brother?" Nahda is still focused on reading my test results, by enjoying cold drinks canned packaging.
"Yes! Do you think I'm a jajan?" The question that came out of him was simple, but it provoked a sense of offence in me.
"Jajans? Kan doyan jajan Abang, wait for the test results already cilok, cimol, batagor and jelly drink." Nahda mentioned the kinds of food that had entered my stomach.
I let out a breath. "Yes, I also often snack in the minimarket as well." It is difficult to explain because he was so young, then he graduated High School. College, not a month.
"Battle with me later?" He returned my test results. I put these test results together and saved them.
"Battle what is it?" Already fighting alone, even though it does not know the date.
"Battle hawk, I eat everything." He showed off his teeth.
Dental veneer. The teeth are pure white, not bone white in general. I don't know what the reason for wearing veneer, maybe for aesthetic value only.
"I'm a live meat eater." I stood up from this waiting chair.
"Sop frog?" Nahda.
"You." I glanced at him and chuckled little.
"Gee! When I want to cook? Don't dong, Ayang." Nahda goes ahead.
Hey, where's his brain? I don't want to cook it either, it means that the live meat is his. He likes romantic things because of the movie he consumes, but it turns out his thoughts have not reached the adult thing.
What was I just calling it? Ayang's? I am glad I heard it. Later at home, I will protest about the call dear. My only romantic grandfather, called his wife by name only or 'deck' affix'.
Nahda was waiting in front of the parked pink car. He threw a canned drink into the trash, before finally looking at me who was walking over.
"Ngemie first, Bang. I'm hungry." Nahda pulled in, after the car could be opened.
Too frankly.
Just Jessie, I offered to eat. He could have casually asked to eat first, claiming also that he was hungry. There was no prestige for me apparently.
"Where's the badge? Don't want a padang or sunda restaurant?" I remembered my memories of taking Jessie to the sundanese diner.
That is, women are invited to eat in such a comfortable place. From the menu alone, I've felt if Nahda wants to snack at the usual shophouse diner.
"Malay shop, good tau boiled noodles." Nahda raised her eyebrows with an interest-filled smile.
Looks like this boy has imagined how delicious the boiled noodles are. But it's true my guess, he just wants to eat in a regular tavern.
"Rare you sure you don't want to be at the diner? Brother has money, Dek." I pat my pants pocket.
"I can pay for it myself too! He thinks I'm a tough guy?!"
Aih, it's a shock that I heard his words.
"Now, look. My M-banking balance." He showed me his phone screen.
Wuih, the new kid stepping on college already has a nine-digit number. It's hundreds of millions of dollars, but what's the pocket money?
"Have you got a wacko?" We're still in the lab's clinic parking lot.
"Whatis that? A gadun? Who to make bread?"
Is it true that his life is only for watching romantic movies? The term young man, does he not know?
"No! Isha! You're pretending to be stupid, aren't you?!" It's easy for my emotions to get hooked on it.
There are students like this, eh?
"Udahlah! Be done! This hot head is right, dizzy because of you." I massaged my temples, then ran this car slowly.
Haru, laugh, joke, but in fact he carries emotions too. Well, what if all my life I have to be with him?
"It's near Cani's school, Bang." Nahda pointed to the left side of the highway.
"okay." I know the way if so.
The shop in the shophouse as usual, may be commonly called warteg. But there is no oreg tempe, there are groups of noodles and also other fast food. There are no burgers either.
After arriving, Nahda immediately ordered two boiled noodles with toppings up to her. He offered me nothing, asked nothing. Like most people know my taste.
The dissolution of schoolchildren, that's the emblem of Cani's school. I didn't pick it up either. Between the two possibilities, he awaits Ra in front of the fence to go home along with an online taxi. Or, he was picked up by dad.
I kept watching the High School boys walking in groups, until our food came and finally ran out as well. Yes our spectacle is just a high school kid just out of school.
Until it was a little quiet, some student motors were jerking out slowly. The road suddenly jammed, with the sound of a simple horn.
However, I immediately got up because I found an awkwardness in the crowd. There's my sister walking alone, with a big bike following her.
This could not be allowed, I immediately got up even though my mouth was still chewing on the noodles with this many green mustard. Even I had no time to drink, I was in a hurry to save my sister who was probably bullied by the men with the same emblem as her uniform, but using the big motorbike.
I stopped the vehicle, forcing it across with the hands I put on it to become impromptu signs. Just as the man managed to block Cani, I immediately placed myself beside Cani and embraced Cani.
This bike is the same bike, when I picked up Cani and he honked himself. If not mistaken, this man is the head of his class and his classmate as well.
"You what?!" I immediately looked at the man who only had eyes, because he was wearing a full face helmet.
You wimps!
Instead of answering, he took a swing to run his bike back. If Cani's story about this man is outrageous enough, I'll come to school and talk to their homeroom teacher to reprimand the head of that rancid class. My sister may not be comfortable attending school there later.
"Did you?" Cani looked up at me.
"Where are you going?!" I scooped his face.
My mother's face was on him.
"You need some meatballs there." Cani pointed to the meatball shop that was fifty meters away from our place.
"You didn't order a cab? Ojek?" I looked at her innocent face one or two with Nahda.
"Never, want to eat meatballs first. Brother pick me up? I've WA, pick up in half an hour, I want to eat meatballs first." Cani showed me the contents of her message on the phone she held.
"No."
Right, there's a chat for me that hasn't been read yet.
"Eat some noodles, you eat there." I showed you a shop where there was still Nahda in it.
"Again the car?" Cani failed to focus apparently.
He did not seem to see the existence of Nahda, instead saw the car that was striking color.
"Yes, let's go there. There's Nahda inside, again eating the same brother." I was so excited to bring Cani across.
"Hm? The nahda?" Cani's eyebrows blend together.
"Why?" I feel like he is astonished.
What happened to Nahda?
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