TINI SUKETI
12. New Enemy

Tini looked at the boy's face. He sat down on the stairs, right next to the son of Maisaroh. “Whose name are you?” ask Tini.

“My name is Ardi, Mbak.” Ardi looked at the face of the woman sitting next to him.

“Ardi, your mother is my friend. We were both waiters at the restaurant. Which brings food. Which is a guest order. Your mother's work hours are not over. It'll be out soon.”

“Can't see Dalem? I want to squirm at work,” replied Ardi, looking at Tini's face.

Tini. “No, can't. Don'tdon't. Later your mother even reprimanded with the superior. Our boss was fierce. Frequently says that my mother and I are talking.” Tini grimaced at his words.

Ardi nodded in understanding. The boy, who was seen a moment ago, would run inside and sit on his knees.

“What grade school?” ask Tini.

“I'm fourth grade, Ma'am.” Ardi answered that by just looking at Tini.

“You're hot?” tanya Tini while holding Ardi's forehead. Tini nodded before the boy could answer. His body felt a little hot under the back of his hand. Tini then grabbed her bag and reached into the wallet where she kept the money.

Tini took out ten pieces of fifty thousand bills, then put them into Ardi's hand.

“Create what, Ma'am?”

“Hold aja. Don't give it to anyone here. If there's anything you can do, tell me your mom's coming soon. That's money for medicine, for good food. You eat a lot, buy fruit too. Your mother works in Dalem. Another one's gotta be out. Just waiting, yeah. Don't go anywhere, you know. I go in first,” explained Tini while getting up from her seat.

“Whose mother's name is? My mom will be from where.” money is Ardi looked back at the roll of money that was within his grasp.

“Wah, you are this. The money even calls me, Mom.” Tini.

“So, Ma'am?” ask Ardi plain.

“Mbak. I feel younger.” Tini sniggered for a moment. “Say to your mother, accompanied by a mother friend who often jokes in the bathroom. Your mother would know. Yeah, had. Go in first, yeah. Be careful here.” Tini then waved and went inside.

A few days later, Tini had forgotten about the incident about meeting with Maisaroh's son. It works as usual and comes in as usual. Keep meeting Mr. Alie and focus on adding to his money coffers.

Apparently, Maisaroh did not enter for several days. Mr. Binsar said that Maisaroh had permission to care for his sick child. And two days later, while Tini was dressing up in the bathroom, he saw Maisaroh enter through the reflection of a mirror.

Tini was silent, not asking the woman to talk. He focused on finishing his makeup. While scratching his eyebrow pencil to thicken his thin eyebrows, Maisaroh turned to Tini.

“Not how it makes. Can be too thick. Moreover, his eyebrow pencil the color of the item. Why not buy markers?” sumpul Maisaroh, took an eyebrow pencil from Tini's hand.

“Yes, I usually like gini. If you want to teach, yes, teach. Don't mock,” Tini.

Maisaroh clucked, then took the wet tissue from inside his bag and removed Tini's thick black eyebrows like leeches attached.

“Let the height be flat, you should measure using your eyebrow pencil first. Keep track of point.” Maisaroh tilts the eyebrow pencil from the top of Tini's ear line, to the top of the corner of the eye.

Tini silently listened as Maisaroh tilted his head and gave a dot at both ends of his eyebrows, left and right.

“What are you wearing powder?” ask Maisaroh.

“But if it's dry, your face is dappled like a zebra. There's money, buy real cosmetics. Let me teach you how to dance,” said Maisaroh.

“I don't choose it. Don't understand,” replied Tini. Maisaroh's hand drew slender, proportioned eyebrows to form Tini's facial features.

“You want me to cementin?” ask Maisaroh.

“Mau, if not troublesome.” The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him a friend.

Tini feels better close to Maisaroh. Someone he did not know, then became an enemy, then became his friend. Compared to a friend who was so close, but only overnight became his enemy.

“Day Sunday afternoon, I asked you to buy makeup. Let me choose a suitable and not expensive,” said Maisaroh.

Tini cheered in heart. Although yesterday he did not like Maisaroh, but Tini did not really hate the woman.

For Tini, he had no reason to hate Maisaroh. He has no personal business, other than the business of wiping the phenomenal Pak Ali bird.

That night, this face looked different. Her makeup looks over ‘kota’. Maisaroh put on a little powder and put his lipstick on Tini's lips.

Tini stared at her face in front of the mirror with a dumbstruck look. She feels so beautiful.

“That's maximal. Your face so much as it happens,” said Maisaroh.

“You want to help people but don't forget to insult, yes.” Tini glanced at Maisaroh who immediately laughed. “Ardi is healthy?” ask Tini.

“Already. He asked me to buy a toy from the money you were packing. He said from Mama. No one wants to be called mom.”

Tini and Maisaroh exchanged glances through the mirror. The two women then laughed out loud. Starting that night the friendship between Tini and Maisaroh begins. No doubt, Tini is getting comfortable working in karaoke. His work hours are erratic. He can come in the afternoon and come home at nine. You can come in at nine in the night and go home at midnight.

What Tini did, it turns out to attract the attention of one of the residents of the boarding house located opposite the room Mak Robin.

Often coming home at night, Tini's waking hours become more daytime. He spent most of the morning sleeping. At ten in the morning, Tini opened the door with a cup containing tea in hand. He pulled out a plastic chair and sat in front of the window in Mak Robin's room.

Ten o'clock usually Mak Robin will come out and leave the child to Tini. The woman will cook or wash clothes, while Tini is like having to hold and hold Robin who is active.

The woman, who was about older than Mak Robin, came out of her room holding a child. Tini just saw that, it turns out Mak Robin turned out to have a rival. Women who are old, but have small children.

“You turned out to be the new kid here, huh? Rarely seen. What work? World night?” The woman suddenly walked up to Tini and said a surprising thing.

“Iya, world night. Wh why? Mother in the world morning?” Here asked back.

“Crafts aren't real. Shouldn't I be looking for a real job? What in the afterlife? Life is full of sin,” said the mother before him.

Tini who felt her life had just gathered and the tea she made had not yet been gulped, felt her emotions rise to the top of her head. Mak Robin saw the strange gelagat from a distance. He hurriedly came over and took Robin from Tini's hands. He was worried that Tini would use Robin as a weapon to throw the woman.

“All men, yes, sin. If you are sesame, it is onde-onde!” sergeant Tini.

To Be Continued