Langit?

Green was still pulling Cherry away from the place, she was moved by the thought that Green was actually defending her. Cherry smiles, her pain still there hasn't completely healed. Even if what Green said was true, it would be inappropriate for her to grieve over Violet and Zein. But nothing can just happen, a broken heart remains a broken heart, unable to heal immediately with words of motivation or spiritual touch. Everything takes a process, and right now he's committed to going through it.

"Green, thank you," she said sincerely as soon as they got to the front of the class.

 "After this, you can't feel yourself, Cher," said Green like seeing the inside of a Cherry is Sera figure.

 Cherry nodded. "Thanks again, Green."

 Green smiled slightly. Class was still quiet, and the class was about to start in five minutes. Green saw Beni, the student leader in her class walking up the stairs with a laptop bag in his hand.

"You two are still here?" asked Beni upon seeing Green and Cherry.

 "Yeah, classes are coming up, Ben. You forgot it?" asked Green, looking at Beni with a puzzled look.

 "You guys are so unbelieveable, you can check out the group," he said.

 Cherry hurried to check her phone, and sure enough, there were many notifications in the class group, those were almost about the assignment given because their lecturer—Mr. Wiyoko was absent.

"Why, Cher?" asked Green whose phone had been off lately..

 "Mr. Wiyoko isn't in, he's given the assignment and it should be submitted  tonight at 11:59 maximally," Cherry lit with a faint voice.

 "You knew, didn't you? I'll go first." Beni stepped on, leaving Cherry and Green where they were.

 "What do you think, Mr. Wiyoko why didn't he come in? I was so excited."

"Cher, please don't pretend to be sad, I know you're glad Mr. Wiyoko didn't come in." Green guessed and turned out to be on target, Cherry burst out laughing.

 "Hahahahaha, you know it so well Green, let's go home."

 Cherry and Green walked along, they parted in front of the literature department building. "Do you want to come with me?" asked Cherry who did bring the motorcycle.

 "You just go ahead, I still have somethingvto do," Green said.

 "Okay, I'm leaving then, Green." Cherry waved and lost at the parking corner.

Green waved Cherry back and then walked to the front of the campus to find angkot—one of public transportations. Because today is a free class, she planned to go somewhere, on her promise to sera. Yeah, Green was planning to go to the tomb, so she accidentally brought her pilgrimage kit this morning. Green stopped red angkot, then jostled another passenger to the final home of Sera, her bestfriend.

***

After going to the tomb of Sera, Green noticed the circular clock on her wrist, there was a few more hours before she went to work. Green decided to walk somewhere where she could always be happy to see people there to be happy with her.

 After a few minutes on angkot, Geen arrived, where she could see at least 10 children gathered, there someone who was sitting, sleeping, or reading old books that seemed to have been found in the middle of scavenging, all in cardboard. They were homeless children living under a bridge, struggling to live with the opportunity God gave them.

"Kak Green...," called one of them, a long mess-hair kid run and hug Green when he saw her.

 "Kakak..." The embrace was followed by nine other children, none of whom looked sad, all are cheerful, though not knowing what to eat tomorrow.

 "Hi.. Hey, guys, what's up?" Green asked and stared each one of the boy's faces.

 The most of children in front of Green were about 6-12 years old, their fate was not like other children who were in their ages. No school uniforms, no other equipment, only used books they had collected.

 "We're all good, Kak," replied Rubi, the big plump boy with a smile, showing his rabbit teeth that look adorable in Green's eyes.

"Have you eaten?" Green asked again. The children shook their head together with their innocent faces, Green stroked their heads affectionately as she pointed out a large enough plastic bag that had rice wrapped and some snacks.

 "I have something for you all." Green gave the plastic bag to Rubi, the biggest child among them.

 Rubi looked at the plastic bag that had now passed to his hand and looked at inside it. When he knew what was inside  it, he cheered with joy. "Horeee...thank you Kak Green. Friends, Kak Green brought us food again," Rubi told the others.

They were cheering and full of joy.

 "Thank you, kak Green," they said it together."

 "You're welcome, so go ahead and eat. You all must be very hungry, right?"

 All nodded as a reply, and then Rubi shared the rice wrap that Green had given  to all his friends, they eat together heartily.

Suddenly, Green's eyes were filled with tears seing this situation, she really wanted to invite them to live together and provide an appropriate education, but what economic limitations require that she suppress her desire. Green was luckier than any of them, still able to eat well, receive an education, even go for a walk once in a while. It was from them Green learned to be grateful for what she had, because there were a lot of people who might want to be in her place.

 Green's first meeting with Rubi and his friends was a year ago when she accidentally saw one of them poking around in a pile of cardboard boxes full of old books, Green asked about their greatest wish, and almost all answered the question with they wanted to go to school. They had varied ambitions, some wanted to be teachers, doctors, missionaries, even presidents. Green was happy to see their excitement, because despite the hardships they still had a strong desire to learn and make their whishes come true.

From then on Green came at least once a week to give her storybooks, or other textbooks. Even Green had no worry teaching them, and it continued to this day.

 That's why Rubi and his friends were always happy when Green came to visit them, because besides being able to study with Green, she always broght them food that kept them full until night.

After they had all finished the food, Rubi came closer to Green. "Kak Green,  several days ago there was a man offered me and my friends to live in an orphanage. What's the meaning of orphanage, sis?" asked Rubi curious.

 Green was pleasantly surprised to hear the story, but she tried to neutralize her expression and answered Rubi question. "The orphanage is a home for you to make new friends if you live there and you'll probably go to school. If I may ask, what is that uncle's name?" asked Green intrigued.

He seemed trying to remember something that was none other than the name of the man who had visited them a week ago, he thought hard about remembering the man's name, but he failed to recall it.

 "It's okay if Rubi forgot it. But I'm sure he must be a good man," Green said with a smile.

 "He also gave me lots of new clothes, sis, now we kept them in the cardboard house."

Rubi and his friends had other dwellings besides the underside of the bridge,  that was the cardboard house. They would stay there at night, they would use the house for sleeping or simply for storage.

 Green became more and more curious about the man the story was with, and Rubi subsequent sentence answered her big question mark in her head. "Kak Green, now I already remember the name of the uncle."

 "Who is he? "asked green enthusiastically

 "His name uncle Langit."

 "Langit?"