
“Where are you going?” Agni was still curious.
“Lu will know soon, soon we arrive,” Elisha still pulled Agni's hand without looking at Agni who followed him limping.
Agni was silent, she jumped because there was a puddle of water in front of her, she almost stepped on the puddle. He cursed at Elisha who was still pulling his hand a little rough.
They arrived at a small pendopo, the former home of someone who was torn down to make pendopo among the small tenement houses.
Agni noticed there was a rolled up mat there. There's nobody there. Elisha invited him to sit there. Then he stood up Agni was about to stand up.
“Sit down first, I want to go to that house for a while!” Elisha told Agni to sit down again.
“Where to?” Agni was confused as to why she should sit there while Elisha had to leave her. Agni has had a real picture since Elisha bought a magazine and some books and pen in the bookstore flea. But finding the little pendopo uninhabited, he became confused again.
“I want it to the mother who lives in that house, where the children who usually study here!” Elisha pointed again at the house not far from where he was standing.
“Oh, ok!” Agni now understood Elisha's intentions, secretly admiring Elisha's good intentions, though the money also had to buy gifts for the children whom Elisha meant.
“Wait here yes, don't be afraid, people here are fine!” Elisha caught the signal from Agni's doubtful face.
“Oh, ok!” Agni could only say that, as if she did not want Elisha to know that she was uncomfortable if she had to be left there alone.
Agni saw Elisha approaching the house she had pointed to earlier, then a mother came out of the house after Elisha knocked on the door, they seemed to talk for a while. Then a little boy came out of the house and ran out of the dark alley.
Elisha came back to the pendopo. She smiled at Agni giving a good signal to Agni, she wanted Agni to also feel the relief she felt.
“Where?” Agni asked.
“Aman!”
“What is safe? From earlier we are not safe huh?” Agni's confused.
“Not, the children immediately gathered here, we wait for them for a while,” Elisa sat beside Agni.
Agni glanced for a moment at Elisha who was smiling widely.
“Thank you yes!” Elisha held Agni's hand.
“Why? Because of getting truant with you?”
“Hahaha, no!”
“Continue? Because of that money?”
“Not!”
“Keep why?” Agni is getting dumb.
“Because you want to stop by here!”
“Not want gw!” Agni did not glance.
“Yes, at least you want to be forced, hahaha!” Elisha hugged Agni from the side.
“Basic, I guess where to go!”
“Gw said, not to hell, kok!”
“Iya, but..”
“Yes, do not need to be extended, such is the fate of the poor, must accept the situation!”
“Gw thirsty!”
“Oh, thirsty, kirain!” Elisha smote his body against Agni's.
Not long after that mother, whom Elisha was talking to came to bring sweet hot tea from his house.
“Well, shoots loved, ulam also arrived!” Elisha shouted a little, as if he wanted to tell the mother if her best friend was thirsty.
“Aaan anyway?” Agni shy.
“Not to be shy here!” Elisha knew that his best friend was ashamed of the mother who brought the tea.
“Please drink de, can only love this!” The mother placed the cups in front of Agni and Elisha.
“Iya alike! Hello de, I am Hanum,” Bu Hanum extended his hand to Agni.
“Agni bu!” Agni was about to stand in Hanum's head.
“Sit down, mommy goes home first, there's little I have to do, I stay first ya Sa!” Ms. Hanum left the pendopo.
“It seems, you are already familiar with the people here!” Agni whispered to Elisha, because Ms. Hanum was not too far away from them.
“Hehehe, so!” Elisha smiled at Agni.
Not long after Bu Hanum entered the house, there were some children running towards the pendopo. There were 11 people, they immediately greeted Elisha who was standing, followed by Agni who stood up, greeting those who had just arrived.
Uncommanded, all the children were seated in a circle inside the pendopo, Elisha and Agni were included in the circle. They waited for Elisha to speak, some whispering while pointing at the parcel in front of Elisha and Agni.
“Good, today..” Elisa opened her voice and stopped for a while. The whispering children were silent and noticed what Elisha was about to say.
“...we have a new teacher, this brother will teach you today..”.
“Horeeee!”
Elisha had not finished speaking, the children were already shouting in joy. They are compactly raising their hands up.
“Ok, we give our brother time to introduce himself first yes, want to know his brother?” Elisha shouted, like a salesman who wanted to excite his audience.
“Mauuuuuuu!” as the children answered Elisha and waited for Agni to make her voice, they really wanted to know who was in front of them right now.
“Ok, please brother!” Elisha looked at Agni.
Agni threw a smile while taking a breath. He saw the faces of the children.
“Good morning all!”
“Again, kaaaak!” again, the children answered Agni's greeting.
“Are they always that way?” Agni whispered to Elisha.
“Halah, wear it, they are waiting for you to introduce yourself!” Elisha whispered to Agni again. Although Elisha knew that his whisper could be heard by children.
“I, Agni, her friend sister Elisa!”
The children were still waiting for his continuation, as was Elisha, but it seemed that Agni was done with her introduction.
“That's doang?” Elisha elbowed Agni.
“What did you say again?” Agni retorted, elbowing Elisha.
“Ok, well, last month we learned what?” Elisha asked the children.
The children are silent, they don't remember what they learned last month, they haven't studied for too long. Elisha taught them less and less there.
“Well, it's okay, we humans sometimes forget!” Elisha continued his sentence.
Agni chuckled, she was about to ngakak but held back her laugh.
“Now we will be taught sister Agni how to count, want yes?!”
“Mau kaaaaak!” The children answered Elisha's question.
“Ok, please brother!” Elisha looked towards Agni.
Agni still held back her laughter. Seeing that Elisha again elbowed Agni so she immediately stopped holding back laughter and began teaching the children to count.
“Oh, yes, before starting, David, here, for pens and books for your friends!” Elisha called a child to come to him and handed him books and pens to share with the children.
After all the children obtained one pen and Agni's notebook began to teach them how to add and subtract.
There are two children who still do not understand how to add and subtract, Agni and Elisha teach the concept of adding and lacking in the two children, and both children, while others do the problems given Agni to train their skills to increase and reduce.
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