THE SANDWICH
Ruckus
The clock was eight o'clock and Ara was done with her work.
In order to pursue the target set by management, Ara had to overtime for three hours without being salaried.
He packed his things quickly and rushed home.
The other ones had come home from an hour ago and there was only Ara left.
Outside his office building, the road looks still crowded even though it is past the office hours.
The train he will ride until Manggarai will leave in 5 minutes. Ara sat down together with the other two people who were still dressed in office uniforms.
The three of them looked tired and occasionally yawned from drowsiness.
Not long after the train to Manggarai arrived and the three of them went up.
Ara had to transit first in Manggarai to take the next train to Depok.
Usually in the hours to go home Manggarai Station office is very crowded, hopefully today Manggarai Station is friendly and He gets a seat so he can fall asleep to Bogor.
With the rest of his strength he climbed the road at Manggarai station to get to the platform.
How Ara did not limp, the last time Ara ate was at twelve noon, he should have had dinner by this time. But because he had no money he could not buy anything.
The train to Bogor Oun came, Ara prepared to board.
The carriage that Ara rode in was not too full but there were also no empty seats. Ara had to stand up even though she felt very weak.
Arriving at Tebet Ara's head was getting cuddled with fireflies, he leaned on the car barrier near the entrance.
Suddenly a woman approached him.
"Bak is sitting where I am" I pointed to an empty chair.
" Oh yes thank you very much Ma'am "The woman even helped Ara to sit in her chair.
Not only that after Ara sat down, the woman gave Ara a hamburger.
" This I have food for Mba, eaten first mbak mumpung no more officer "
Ara immediately thought maybe this woman was a helper from God sent for her.
Ara had indeed felt an overwhelming hunger so that her body became weak.
"Thank you very much Ma'am"
Without waiting for a long time Ara immediately opened the hamburger and ate it greedily.
The woman who gave the hamburger to Ara smiled looking at Ara who was eating voraciously.
He had indeed noticed Ara from the beginning Ara entered in this carriage. It was obvious that his condition was very weak due to hunger.
He remembered the hamburger he got from his office because the leader of his group was having a birthday, so he gave the hamburger to Ara.
After eating Ara felt her body gradually become normal again and did not feel weak.
Ara remembered that He had not asked her the name of the woman who had been kind to her.
" Thank you very much Ma'am, I'm Ara" Ara extended her hand to the woman.
" Yes, I'm Novi"
Fortunately after in the West Cape Mbak Novi get a seat right next to Ara.
" Where did Mba Novi go down? "
" I got off at the cilebut "
" Oh if I'm in Bogor "
" Who's the last station, would you like to sleep? If so, I wouldn't bother you "
Mba Novi works for an Orange company known for its privileges.
" Well good dong Mba work there, he said free to take a snack as much as possible huh? "
" When it's about snacks he is free to take, but that's often really overtime "
For someone who works in a bona fide company, the appearance of Mba Novi is very simple.
Not far from the appearance of Ara, it made Ara become insecure to chat with Mbak Novi.
Amidst their conversation, Mba Novi's phone rang.
From what Ara heard, her mother told Mba Novi if her sister fell off the bike and is now in the hospital.
It was heard that Mba Novi who was calm suddenly became panicked.
After hanging up the phone he squeezed his phone and his face looked very anxious.
Ara did not dare to ask what, she just waited until Mba Novi told her.
Novi who was worried about the condition of his only brother who was in the hospital, did not realize if Ara saw him from earlier as if his face asked What was wrong?
Novi finally told me if his sister had an accident.
He was hit by a fifteen-year-old boy who arrived at high speed.
Mba Novi's sister was seventeen and had just returned from buying food for her family's dinner.
One more station their train will enter cilebut.
Mba Novi already looks impatient want to quickly get out of this train and head to the Hospital right his sister in the care.
Ara tried to calm Mba Novi, He even volunteered to accompany Mba Novi to the Hospital because Ara saw Mba Novi was very anxious, Ara was afraid why.
But Mba Novi rejected Ara's offer, because the location of the Hospital is not far from the station.
When the train entered Cilebut Station, Mba Novi immediately stood and bailed with Ara.
" I went down first Ra, doain Brother I don't why "She said while rushing out of the train car before Ara answered his words.
Ara was also worried about Sister Mba Novi, hopefully her sister only had minor injuries.
Not long ago the Ara train had entered Bogor station.
He rushed down and headed home.
Arriving at home, Ara heard a screaming voice from inside her house, It was the voice of her Father.
He sped up his pace out of curiosity as to what was going on inside the house.
When He opened the door Ara saw his Father standing in anger and his mother was resting at his father's feet.
" This is his son just to finance a little already stingy extraordinary" Father looked at Ara with an angry look.
Ara, who did not understand what her father meant, tried to find answers by looking at her mother.
His mother simply spoke "Already sir already, ashamed of the neighbors"
Ara approached her mother and helped her to stand up.
" What the hell is it, ma'am ? his voice sounded out "
" You become a child do not stingy Ara, Time from the beginning Father lives here you only give a little money to the mother, so every day Mother only cook fish and fish only. Long time you are bored" said the Father with an angry tone.
I'm still trying to calm down the father who turned out to be angry because the dinner side dish was the same as the dinner side dish yesterday.
If it wasn't for her mother holding Ara back, it would have felt like Ara was cursing at her ungrateful father.