What a Beautiful Divorce
4. Lightning Gets Right in Front of Silvi's Face

Before returning home from the restaurant, Nimo offers Prapto to join her village, as she will take a week off. Nimo will stay in his village for three months.

For three months Nimo promised that he would bear food, drink, and shelter for his boss. Prapto did not promise to Nimo that he would join, but Prapto stated that he was interested.

On the way back to his house, Prapto saw Silvi was busy chatting while laughing at a cafe with a man. Prapto. He could guess that the man who was eating with his wife must have been the man who sent SIlvi the message yesterday. Prapto's heart is getting stronger for divorce.

***

The rain fell so heavily that it hit the city of Jakarta tonight. The sidewalk was quiet, only a few people were walking with umbrellas.

The people who carried the umbrellas appeared to be people who had just come home from work, or people who wanted to go to the minimarket to buy cigarettes and groceries. Who would go out of the house just to throw garbage when it rains like this, right?

Jakarta is a place where many people come to complain about their fate. But unfortunately, the fate they fought against was often lost. Many of the plaintiffs eventually returned home with their heads bowed while carrying a bachelor's degree in their hands.

Many of the fate claimants got jobs, but soon they finally went home too, because the salary they got was not enough to support the family and send the children to school, go to Ancol and Dufan.

Actually not a wrong fate, because fate is not a provision. Fate is the product of human creation, the result of human effort. Jakarta is also not to blame, because Jakarta itself never invited the fate claimants to come.

Jakarta has never offered, let alone promised them wealth. The complainants themselves who come to Jakarta full of hopes and dreams of becoming rich.

If someone is to blame, then, maybe the education system is the one who is guilty of the fate of the victims. Hownot? Since school the students are always asked, "If you have finished later you want to work where?"

Why are the students not asked this way, "If you finish school later you want to open a business what?" Both questions when thought through deeply will produce very different answers and mindsets.

Furthermore, the students will be directed by teachers and their parents to study, so that in most community environments, college has become a prestige. Those who attended college were considered to have been surely successful, and those who did not attend college were considered to be living in a bleak economy.

But in fact, college still does not guarantee economic welfare, let alone guarantee the happiness of life, absolutely not.

It is also the educational system, especially lectures, that makes feminist women spread their false ideas, so that today many households are chaotic, because most wives no longer respect their husbands.

Feminist understanding is increasingly rampant in the world through most films and love novels sold in the market, where in the films and novels the men lower their self-esteem so that women will accept their love. As a result, the polarity of the masculine energy and the feminine energy becomes reversed.

The rain is getting heavier. Prapto stood on the balcony of his room as he stared at passing cars and rowdy people walking on the sidewalk. Prapto then saw a green frog who seemed to be late to the nest.

The green frog was drenched while continuing to jump around. Prapto was relieved when the frog finally jumped into the pavement hole. He was glad the frog was not rained anymore. Prapto lit his cigarette.

Prapto had told Mang Kari and Bi Asih when he came home earlier. Prapto told them that tonight he would divorce his wife and would move to a village. Prapto greeted Bi Asih and hugged Mang Kari. "This is my new mobile number, Mang Kari. Don't tell Mom and Dad, yeah!"

***

"Darling, what's wrong? Tumben you didn't invite me to chat on the balcony?" silvi asked after entering the room. He just accompanied Prapto's mom to watch the soap opera.

"It was a shock to have a conversation with that man, Silvi," said Prapto laughing.

Silvi was silent for a moment. "You were at that cafe, Prapto?" tanyakanya.

"No, I'm just passing by. Listen, Silvi! I love you, but I don't like your personality, your attitude, your principles and your perspective. And ... You're not loyal to me," said Prapto smoothly without stuttering in the slightest.

Silvi looked at Prapto deeply. She was terrified at the words of her husband, a fear she could never have imagined as long as she was dating and married to Prapto. Silvi's tears fell. "A ... What do your words mean, Prapto?"

Silvi is a smart woman. He knew where the Prapto discussion would lead. Silvi did not want to hear her husband say the words she did not want to hear, the words that suddenly made her very afraid. Prapto looked completely different in Silvi's eyes tonight.

Prapto was no longer a man that Silvi could threaten or reason her husband not to protest and submit to her. Prapto is no longer a weak man that Silvi can control. Prapto who was in front of Silvi now was Prapto who looked so assertive and had a personality stronger than a rock.

Slowly Silvi's respect for her husband appeared. Then that respect makes Silvi's love for Prapto also appear. Silvi wanted to apologize to Prapto, but he withheld those words of apology from coming out of his mouth.

Silvi is a feminist woman who does not want to be inferior to her husband. Silvi is a modern woman who does not want to be led by her husband. Because for Silvi, the position of husband and wife in the household is 50:50. However, even if Silvi's words of apology were to be spoken, Prapto would not give him the slightest apology.

Prapto grinning. "I mean ... I'm divorcing you, Silvi," Prapto said firmly.

"You're a smart woman, Silvi. So, there's no way you don't know what's wrong with you" Prapto replied briefly and left.

"Duarrr! The duarrr! Duarr!

Lightning seemed to strike four times right in front of Silvi's face. Silvi's cry became more and more until it was heard by her two in-laws. Prapto's father and mother went straight to her son's room to see Silvi. Silvi told everything to the in-laws, and her two in-laws also sided with SIlvi.

Prapto had just finished stuffing his suitcase into the trunk of the car to immediately go to Nimo's place, when both his parents came out of the door of the house while running small.

Prapto's mother said, "I told you, Prapto, that your thoughts and principles are ancient! This is modern times! You'll regret divorcing Silvi! Go back inside and apologize to her! Otherwise, we won't admit you as a child!" The compression of Prapto's mother was accompanied by a nod of his father.

Prapto stared intently at his father and mother. "I, the son of Father and Mother, feel that Bi Asih and Mang Kari are my main parents, because you prefer to be busy chasing the sparkle of money rather than taking care of me. You're selfish! Fuck Silvi! I'm saying yes, Dad, Mom."

Prapto's mother and father fell silent. They could no longer say anything to Prapto, for their son's black sedan had darted in the darkness of the night and in the howling sound of the song of the rain.

***

Nimo was astonished to see his boss coming night and night in the pouring rain. After Nimo serves coffee, Prapto tells him that he has divorced Silvi and has been saying goodbye to his father and mother.

Nimo surprise. Although Nimo was happy with the cool decision made by his boss, he still did not expect. Nimo then lit a Prapto cigarette. After Prapto exhaled his cigarette smoke, he stared at Nimo long ago.

"Why, Boss?" ask Nimo.

"My savings aren't too much, Nimo. And my resignation money is not too much either. Aside from being my guy in the office when I was working, you were my best friend. How old are you now?"

Nimo scrunched his forehead. "What's up, Boss? Tumben Boss said this. I'm twenty-three, boss."

Prapto sipped his coffee. "I have an offer for you, Nimo. But this is not an offer between a boss and a man, it is an offer of a friend. As for your age, I just wanted to ask because I forgot, " answered Prapto laughing.

Nimo stared at Prapto for a moment. He tried to guess, but Nimo still had no idea about the boss' offer. "What's your offer, boss?" ask Nimo.

Prapto said, "I want to be like my grandfather, Nimo. Even I want to surpass Grandpa. I want to have a farm and a large farm. Therefore, I would like to invite you to work together. Do you want to stop working for the company and become a farmer and rancher with me?

"The system is revenue sharing, and you just need to capitalize on how much you can. Maybe our starting salary is much less compared to the salary in the company, Nimo. However, if our efforts go forward, we can be rich."

"Again," continued Prapto, "the wealth to me is not important, Nimo. The important thing is we can meet the needs of food, clothing, and home. farming and raising it must be very fun and make us happy."

Prapto. Nimo has not given an answer yet, he first asks Prapto, "Where is the place, Boss?"

"I'll see your village first, Nimo. If your village is suitable, then I will buy a large enough land there. I'm hitchhiking at your house, yeah, until I have a house."

"Berez, Boss. When do we leave?" nimo asked as she raised the coffee glass.

"Tomorrow morning, Nimo. Tomorrow morning we go to the office first for you to resign and then we'll go straight to your village."

The coffee that Nimo had gulped gushed onto the floor. Prapto laughed to see it. "Why so suddenly, boss?" ask Nimo.

"I don't want both my parents or Silvi to find me, at least until I have land and a home later, Nimo. Wh why? You can't leave tomorrow?"

"Oohs. Can, Boss. Let's go tomorrow! I was just shocked." Nimo took his coffee back.

***

After Nimo finished taking care of his resignation from the company, they darted towards Nimo village which was far from Jakarta. On the way they chat while listening to rock songs.

Prapto told me that he wanted to be single to death, because according to Prapto in this day and age there are no more criteria for a wife that he is looking for. In his heart Nimo was grateful that the boss and his best friend finally went to his village. The plan is to help Prapto run smoothly.