THE UNIVERSE IS FOLLOWING US
CHAPTER 53

Dira looked at the sky which would soon be dark. The breeze he rarely met while in Jakarta. In his life was deep air that greeted his face. The thought of what he had just seen was about to be thrown at him. His glance turned to the wall clock in his rest room.

"Sorry, mbak Dira. Tonight I slept in my same room. Let Jimmy sleep with the Clouds" Naura said at the door.

"Yes, thank you. Sorry if my arrival was troublesome. But what about your husband?" ask Dira.

"He's out of town, ma'am. He said he wanted to go to Lembang first to carry goods." said Naura while smiling.

Dira's feet had stopped when he heard the word Lembang. Is her husband going to meet her mom and Ayu? Dira assumes if they meet and mama Salma does not tell him it means they conspire. So strong negative thoughts that overshadow the mind of Dira.

Naura leaves Dira who is still in Jimmy's room. Long she stared at the woman who was believed to be her husband's other wife. Dira's hands clenched tightly while her next hand held back the tightness.

The sneaker that wrapped his body no longer felt warm. But Dira remains Dira, whatever the feeling still beat his stubbornness.

Divorce! that's what I'm thinking about right now. As Cloud said, do not easily decide something with a hot head. But what Juna does can be tolerated. For Dira no! it's the same she didn't learn from what happened to her mother. It was the same as him falling into the same abyss. Dira doesn't want anything like that anymore. He must rise.

Dira went out of the room and mingled to see the familiarity of Clouds and Jimmy. The woman was sitting on a long chair made of bamboo. His face looked at the expanse of rice fields that were beginning to turn yellow. Some residents passed by carrying ontel bikes. It seems like it's time to go home.

Dira let go of his head and then walked across the big road. Where there is a vast expanse of rice fields stretched out.

"Tante, come in has started magrib. Pamali!" call Jimmy to Dira.

"Bentar Aunty wants to see the sunset first. I think it's cool to see the sunset in the rice field." Dira walks out of Naura's house.

"Non, magrib!" call Clouds.

Dira kept walking regardless of the Clouds scream. He turned to the clouds and walked back to the rice field. Like a child who gets a new toy, Dira walks while singing a song that suits her heart.

"Non," the sound of the Clouds still sounded.

Dira guessed the man must have been chasing her. His hand waved as if to signal that he was fine. His brown eyes winked towards the Clouds, in a frame with black and bushy eyebrows.

Dira doesn't care about the call of the Cloud. He still recklessly walked towards the rice field that was in front of Naura's house. Without footwear Dira also stepped into the rice field area.

About 10 meters of travel did not make Dira realize that it was far from housing. His feet stopped when the sunset began to descend to the back of the mountains. His smile expanded as the sun began to dissipate.

"Goodbye Arjuna, thank you for giving me such a wonderful story in my life! Thank you for keeping me up with stupidity! Thank you for making a wound that I will never forget!" Dira squealed in the middle of the rice field releasing all the pain she had just met.

Dira twisted his body looking around him. After removing all his uneg-unegnya in the middle of the rice field. Dira was relieved, although there was still something he had to finish. For a moment he realized where he was. His hands scratched his head that was not itchy. "So where's the first street, huh?"

"Oh yes, the clouds! I need to call the clouds!" Dira reached into his pants pocket. Only then did he remember his phone must be in a bag.

"Gosh, I have to do this! I forgot my way home!"

Dira heard the sound of Adhan reverberating. Signaling Magrib has arrived. Dira confused looking for a place to stop, the netra turned to a hut on the edge of the rice field.

"Non," a male voice sounded closer.

"Wan, good thing you came. I'm kayak keres. How do you know I'm here?"

"I will follow the path of non Dira earlier. I'm sure how far non-turn around here. Just keep coming back here. Gini-gini I'm also a village boy. So understand the flow of the location. No, we're in people's place. Don't be shy, non, people here are critical."

"Well, I'm not weird. I just want to take a walk. Can't you? you've gone home first. I can .... Aaaaaaaaaaan!"

Dira in the Cloud's sling is like rice. Dira hit Cloud's back to ask to be lowered. Unfortunately that doesn't change the decision of the cloud.

The clouds lowered Dira in a highland place still around the rice fields. In reply to the murderous gaze of his young master. Cloud explains that Dira is his responsibility.

"Sorry, non. I was forced, because I was assigned Mr. Burhan to guard, non Dira. Even a moment of non-stepping has become my responsibility. I'm also afraid that non Dira killed herself." The clouds showed a large tree five meters away from them.

"Non know, I heard from Jimmy, that tree there was a woman who committed suicide because her husband married another woman next door." Dira glared at Awan who seemed to scare him.

"You want to take me?" Dira tracing waist glaring at Clouds.

"Whatever, Non. If you don't believe it already." The clouds leave Dira. From behind Dira kept making fun of the Clouds. The man only smiled slightly looking at the attitude of his superior.

" It's only been a couple of days of work. Jaka aja not kayak gini." Inner Dira.

They arrived at the Naura residence. Naura and Jimmy are already wearing mukena to go to the mushola. Naura and Dira walked together towards the mushola. They were more silent to each other. Both of them felt awkward after knowing their partners were the same person.

While in a small shop there were two men sitting. Enjoy a cup of coffee provided by the shop owner. After a few hours they traveled far. And suddenly had to go back to the Onion Bone. One of the middle-aged men who was about 50 years old sat leaning his body on a bamboo chair. Seats are available for long trips.

TING!

💌 Jimmy

When will I come home

💌 Passwords

It's on its way home. Jimmy wants what?

💌 Jimmy

Jimmy doesn't want anything. Jimmy wants me home safe.

Jimmy misses dad.

💌 Passwords

💌 Jimmy

Mom said, is he just like mom?

💌 Passwords

Son, continue again. I want to walk again.

💌 Jimmy

okay, Dad. Be careful on the road.

Sandi shut down her communication with Jimmy. There's a heavy sigh, right now he's trying to be a good father to Jimmy. But for Naura, she had yet to feel any vibration on the woman.

"Who, Di?" ask Mr. Galih.

"Jimmy, Pak." replied Sandi while putting her dress in the bag.

"Thank God Jimmy finally felt he had a real father. Since Naura was pregnant, a lot of bitterness she went through. It was you who ran away from your marriage. Naura's mother dropped and eventually died.

Naura was kicked out of the house, I excommunicated the whole village. Even when she was about to give birth was only helped by your mother and Ajeng. Naura's father was still hard-hearted at the time."

Mr. Galih still remembered how Naura suffered at that time. I excommunicated his family and where he lived. Naura spends more time with Sandi's family than her family. Once upon a time when Jimmy was sick, Mr. Rohim borrowed a motorcycle to take Jimmy to the midwife of the next village. Because midwives in their area rejected Jimmy for fear of bad luck.

"Am I being so mean?"

"Come, Di. I can't give you an opinion on the two of you. I just want to order with you, the key to all these problems is just you, son. You can't bear to see Naura and Jimmy. It is impossible for the father who married Naura" said Mr. Galih.

"Thank you, sir, for Naura and Jimmy's attention. I'm sorry that all this time I've embarrassed one village. I didn't expect it to be big."

"Say you don't remember anything? do you still have a little memory left. Usually, if the person is amnesiac, has a flash of memory in the past. Is there any memory you have?"

Last night he had a strange dream. A little girl approached a boy. The little girl ran crying. Tell him that something is bothering him. The boy quickly protected the little girl. People who annoy the little girl.

"Who is that little boy?

why did he call me brother? what is Uti?

but if you look at the neighborhood like in the city. Did we ever live in the city?"

"In, let's go again. But I'm sorry I can ask you to help me drive. I feel less healthy. Can you?"

"Could, sir. Yuk gas keun .. It's going to be dark." Sandi also moved from the stall followed by Pak Galuh who looked pale.

Mr. Galih sat next to Sandi. Tender his head on the back of the chair.

"In, let's go."

Sandi's hand felt trembling holding the steering wheel of the car. The creepy shadowy trajectory came back to haunt him. Breath is intermittent. His head suddenly dizzy.

"In, Sandi, what's wrong with you?" Sandi kept holding her head like she was in pain.

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"Sir, this is a call from Mr. Galih!" call Ms. Halimah when she finds her husband's phone ringing in the room.

Mr. Rohim is still struggling on the porch with his cock. Chicken bought a password for cattle. The 55-year-old left the porch and met his wife.

"Now, sir." Ms. Halimah gave her husband's phone. She was confused as to why Galih had contacted her husband several times.

"Mom" my voice sounded panicked.

"Yes, sir. What's wrong?"

"Where's that?" ask Rohim.

"Uti was with an Islamic teenager at the mushola. What's up?"

"You've been looking for Inggar" said Mr. Rohim back into the room.

"What's up, sir?"

"Password..password said Galih, he dropped. Like his head hurts. They are also less healthy. Let me tell Inggar to catch up with them. Because now they are on the border of Mening Agung and our Village. You go first, Mom."

"Yes, sir be careful."

"O Allah protect my son."