
Sari arrived home when adzan maghrib reverberated. Atmo's grandfather had even left for the mosque to pray Maghrib congregation.
In a lonely house, there was no one. Sari went straight into the room, took a shower and performed Maghrib prayers alone at home.
After Maghrib Sari walked to the dining room to see what food Bi Nunung had prepared for her. But Sari only found white rice and cold eggs.
" Did bi Nunung not cook this afternoon?", thought Sari.
Sari looked into the refrigerator, there were only fruits and eggs.
" Such nysel was told to eat at the place where Eli was even nolak, even though he had bought chicken noodles", muttered Sari, while taking an apple from the refrigerator washing it in the sink and walking out to the terrace while eating an apple, Sari planned to wait for the traveling baso seller to pass by.
" Asalamualaikum" Moses arrived earlier than usual. Atmo's grandfather had not yet returned from the mosque, but Moses had come to teach njai.
" Wa'alaikum salam, Eh ustadz is present, sorry Sari was not ready" said Sari with a grimace. Indeed, Sari still wears a shirt and pants culott, not dressed neatly to teach, not wearing hijab as well.
" No papa, I arrived earlier than usual. Is Grandpa inside?", asked Moses.
Sari shook her head,
" Grandfather has not come home from the mosque, even Sari has not met Grandpa, just now Sari returned home grandfather was not home, usually anyway to the Mosque", guess Sari.
" Why are you sitting outside?" asked Moses with a probing look.
" Sari's hungry, she hasn't had dinner yet, but inside there's just as much white rice. Sari again waiting for the meatball brother to pass by, hehehehe".
Tings...ting....ting.......
Sari immediately smiled sumringah when she heard the sound of a glass bowl struck with a spoon by a traveling meatball seller.
" Wah Brother baksonya long life, Sari pesen a little while ya Tadz".
Sari ran out of the house to stop the traveling meatball seller and bought three servings of meatballs.
" Wrap three sir, saos sambalnya in the split".
" Well Mba, do not use the bowl directly mba?, later the bowl in stay here is not papa, tomorrow will I pass again, behindin tomorrow only the bowl.
" Could it be bang?, if possible, just use a bowl" said Sari. I'll wait on the terrace, Bang, take it there later". Sari handed over 50 thousands of money to the meatball seller.
" Okay ready mba", the brother of the meatballs immediately mix meatballs so quickly. Sari walked into the house, took two glasses of water and placed them on a wooden table on the terrace. Soon three bowls of meatballs were served on a wooden table on the terrace. Also put the change on that table.
" Thank you bang", Sari immediately spiked her meatballs with three full spoons of red chili sauce.
The meatball brother nodded and resigned because he wanted to go around again.
" Come Tadz temenin Sari eat, but sorry to sit outside yes, because grandfather has not come home" Moses nodded to understand Sari's intentions. To avoid slander, if not a tandem muhrim inside the house.
" So this was a walk with your friends until the afternoon?", Moses asked in between his meals.
Sari nodded, "actually the streets just up to Dzuhur, playing to Eli's house. It turns out Eli's house is as complex as Rizal's. Sari just found out they're neighbors".
Musa recalls the complex of Rizal's house when he delivered Rizal after an interview on the radio some time ago.
" So near his house?, did you meet Rizal there?", Moses tried to investigate.
" After arriving at Eli's house, the four of us played inside the house, not out of the complex, so did not meet Rizal there".
" Right right?, I did not meet Rizal at Eli's home complex, so my words did not lie earlier", Sari's mind.
Moses only smiled hearing Sari's explanation.
" So afternoon I also had a chance to stop by Dzuhur prayer at the Great Mosque of Baitussalam. There are many High School children who stop by to perform Dzuhur prayer".
It turned out that Musa also saw Sari and the others, while coming out from inside the mosque, after he prayed in the same mosque, including seeing Rizal also there. But Moses did not greet them, as he was in a hurry to attend a seminar at the Luminor hotel.
" Uhuk....uhuk.".", Sari choked on the meatball sauce that had been added three tablespoons of sambel.
" You like to suddenly choke" said Moses, directly thrusting a glass of water that is still full, and immediately in the throat exhausted by Sari. Moses also handed over his handkerchief, so that Sari could clean her troubled face.
" Has it true, ustadz was there too?", Sari was so panicked that Moses said he saw many high school children in the same mosque. "Don't just look at me with Rizal, but why don't you say hello if you saw me this afternoon" Sari thought while wiping her face with a handkerchief given by Moses.
"Yes.., there was a seminar invitation at the Luminor hotel at 1pm, so I and Mr. Irsyad stopped by the mosque to pray Dzuhur first before going to the seminar location" Musa explained.
" Maybe ustadz didn't see me, the evidence didn't ask me anything ", thought Sari.
Sari ended eating meatballs when Grandpa Atmo came home from the mosque. His throat is already very hot, do not want to get hot if the meal is continued.
For an hour Moses listened to Sari teachi, now Sari has arrived at Jus 4, quite the longer he can read the better, smoother and faster.
Moses came home after 8pm.
" Thank you, Ustad Musa, has been patient in guiding grandfather's grandson all this time" said Grandpa Atmo as he bade his farewell and climbed on his motorcycle.
After Ustadz Musa was gone around the corner, Grandpa closed the gate again.
" You order the same baso Praise?", asked Grandpa Atmo.
" I don't know the name of the meat seller, but who every day roamed through the front of the Kek house, whose wagon was red" said Sari explained.
" Yes, he's Puji, Deket's house with Bi Nunung's house" said Grandpa Atmo as he walked into the house.
" Oh yes Sar.., grandfather was a little late coming home from the mosque because he had a conversation with Mr. Irsyad, he said that he saw you and your friends at the great mosque of Baitussalam when he was going out after the Dzuhur prayer with Ustadz Musa, but did not have time to say hello, because he was in a hurry".
Degs.....
Sari's heart instantly melos. It is true that Moses saw him with his friends, including Rizal.
" Why did I cover up what I was doing, you fool Sari" Sari beat her head.
" Well you why Sar?, Grandpa said that you even hit your head, what's dizzy?", asked Grandpa Atmo.
" Yes cake, Sari is dizzy, so Sari to the room first yes cake, want Sari to bring sleep, let her dizziness heal", Sari walked quickly to the room, and locked the door of her room.
Sari grabbed her phone and tried to call Moses, but was not picked up. Sari sent a message to Moses.
~ Ustad... Sari apologizes for making ustadz disappointed, Sari does not mean to lie, Sari just intends to keep feeling Ustadz, once again Sari apologizes ~