9.NEW DATE, A MAN BROTHER I LOVE

I also continue my activities. Fina and Maria practice marching, they don't have the talent to dance, it's different with me, Nicky and Tika, while the sporty gilr Catur is practicing Tai Kwon Do, with Yeni and Yayuk.

 For me dancing is fun, it can make me feel calm and happy. I started dance lessons since Elementary School. Learning the Menjangan dance and the prayer dance from his first origins. Now I am exploring typical Lampung dances, including the Bedana, Bedana Lunik, Sembah dances and Melinting dances. The name of our dance teacher is Sri Wiji, she is very kind, friendly and gentle. In the future, we will appear at various school events such as farewells or dance competitions between schools, isn't that exciting? After dancing, we gathered to go home from school, only Fina was not walking together towards my daddy's office, because her house was in the opposite direction to us. I, Catur and Maria purposely drove by daddy's car, saving money. We hang out, under a tree with a long bench. While sitting and confiding, waiting for daddy and Agung to finish playing badminton, hopefully he will win.

Ten minutes later, we saw Agung and his friends come out of the match hall.

"Hi Gung."

"Hi Sin, haven't you come home this afternoon?"

Agung walked towards us.

"Not yet, here we are waiting for Daddy, and we go home together."

"Oh, yor Daddy. Do you work here Sin?"

"Yes Gung, how did you win or not?"

"Crying, I only got third place."

"Well, that's not bad, rather than not being a champion at all, Gung."

"Yes, you really said Sin."

There was a sad face from Agung. Maybe he hopes to win first place.

"Yes Gung, sit down first, rest, do you want to go home?"

"Yes, Tur, I will continue to go home first, sometime we will go out and chat again."

"All right Gung, be careful."

Agung also left us, while waiting for city transportation in front of my daddy's office, he kept looking at us, Ups, I was embarrassed, and could only blush. He got on the public transportation and waved his hand.

"Ehmmm, it is fun to look at it."

"Ehmmm, Maria, when are you looking for a boyfriend?"

"I did not think, you are just a person, huh."

"But the butt is out, let's get in the car."

"Yes Tur, let's go home."

Catur and Maria sat in the back, and I sat in front to accompany daddy. Mom came home early today, she has brought her own motorbike for several weeks. Because we are busier than the early years of school. My finger is in charge of changing the cassette as desired. Today we want to listen to a cassette from Melly Guslow's Potret again. Until the contents of one cassette we memorized by heart, we were so excited.  Mely's songs really touched our hearts. Daddy, it's used to hear us prancing and screaming singing in the car. One word for daddy, which is important, Happy children is enough. It's different with me, wanting to see daddy get well and healthy, that's enough to be a hope and happiness for me.

Finally, I felt dating again, even though I had a boyfriend of someone we didn't have a crush on and we crave, of course. Yes, what can we do, people we have a crush on do not have a crush on us, or instead just make me a friend, but it's just as nice and the most passionate in our hearts often end up going out with my other friends. Patiently listen, see and have to be together with them on a date. This afternoon, I'm going to go out with Miftah's, last afternoon he called me, just wanted to invite me to walk, have lunch and shopping, He said while washing her eyes. Okay, I got ready. Looking for my cute school bag, socks, clean shoes and trinkets of my favorite accessories. Maybe my hair if broken down will look more mature, and Yupp this little butterfly-patterned clip will be pretty leaning against my hair. Don't forget, we put baby powder and perfume in our school bag first, we have to keep it smart, sometimes our teacher gets our bags in examination.

I walked around, with a smile on my father's car, I wanted to take this two weeks for my mother to join my father and also go to teach at the same time, maybe you are worried that you see Daddy driving his own car, afraid, if suddenly the pain relapses on the way. Actually, my heart is very sad, my daddy's health has deteriorated, he checks to the doctor almost every week, almost once a month is hospitalized.

"O Allah, I hope Daddy Sintia is given a long life, is always healthy and can accompany Sintia to adulthood if necessary until he has grandchildren, as well as my mother, Amin."

I prayed to myself, when I saw the condition of my father's body that was getting white because of the paleness, and the more he took care of it. Heart abscess pain is eating away at my daddy. Daddy's liver cancer is ready to take his life at any time, like a pain I am sad to think, there is no cure, just surrender to the miracle of God's power alone.

In school.

Daddy always drove me to the school gate right, it was hard to imagine daddy's disease, I was waiting for dad to turn his car in front of my school gate, I looked at the speed of the car, imagined the other day mom's words, daddy's disease can't be cured, we just surrender to fate alone. And who knows how long, we can enjoy this togetherness. I stepped my feet slowly into the area of my classroom. Still quiet, daddy was absent from the office at 7, while we arrived at 7.30 sharp. Never mind, I just sat in my school bench. Not long waiting for Catur to come, he sat next to me, and looked at me in silence.

"Sin, really frown."

"Yes, I used to be sad. I thought this was the pain of your butt."

Catur hugged me tight, and I couldn't help shedding my tea.

"Hey ... why are you oranges and hug oranges?”

"Ah, here Fauzi, just follow along."

"Want to know, please Sin, Tur, if there is a problem, it will quickly disappear, right?"

"Yes, Sintia is sad, thinking about her butt disease."

"Be patient Sin, here Cave, Darzuli and Khairul are the same, Daddy. We have both died, pray that Sintia Daddy will be healthy and have a long life."

"Amin O Allah, it's not easy for you Fauzi to say what you are saying is true."

"Well, this one.."

"Lol."

"That's right, Sin, if you smile beautifully, how can the greetings from Ponang be answered or not?"

"It's not up to date, Sintia has already dated, Sintia has a new boyfriend."

"Wow, really?"

"Come on, be serious."

"Well, there's a broken heart here."

Yes, that's how embarrassed you are with being called a Play girl, if those who are after it, how about it, it's wrong for them not to act fast, instead they are comfortable just having a relationship with friends but intimate only. Good Iwan, Agung Kindergarten, Agung Pekalongan are now only friends but intimate. They are my ideal man, but it is impossible for me to express love first. It has never happened, and may never be able to say love to a man first.

After my school.

Finally, Miftah seemed to pick me up, not too long after only half an hour after returning home. We made an appointment at the city terminal, the location is more strategic than our school. Miftah is one year different in age from me, this year she will have her final exam. We walked along the sidewalk at the side of the terminal.

"Sin, what are you looking for?"

"Whatever Mif, what do you want to treat Sintia?"

"Like Sin noodles?"

"Really like it Mif."

"Is there a favorite place here?"

"There are several, there are rose noodles, Ling-ling or Pak Kumis noodles."

"Today, let's go to Pak Kumis noodles, I'm curious."

"Ehmmm, the taste is almost the same, only this is the traditional Javanese aroma and taste that is thick and coincidentally, it belongs to Sintia's friend, let's go to the right side, okay?"

"Come on, watch out for crossing Sin, watch out for your fall."

Miftah took my hand, I was shocked, this hand was rarely touched by a male friend. It turns out like this, I'm going out, but it's also embarrassing if you still wear white and blue clothes like this. What does the world say, oops, just ignore it, the important thing is that I'm happy for a moment.

"Mif, do you like music? I heard you are in a band?"

"Yes, with Erki, if he is the vocalist, I play the drums."

"Drums, how cool is that Mif, Sintia wants to learn and can."

"You can do it sometime, if we practice or have a gig, you can watch and try."

"Is that true Mif? Oh yes, what kind of music is it Mif?"

"Underground."

I also thought for a moment while enjoying my noodles.

"Do you know Underground?"

"Have you heard Mif, yes, the current models of music, such as black metal, punk, rock like that, Mif, lol..."

"Yes, if Underground is still similar to Rocks and pop music, there is little merging."

"I see, keep screaming, okay?"

"Yes, for you, you keep beating the drums, you want to see the drumsticks, coincidentally you bring them, the ones whose voices like to run out, Erki.

I also took the drum stick that Miftah showed me."

"Wow, it's cool."

"You are, really innocent, okay? We'll learn sometime."

"Let's go to the Mall. Who knows if someone wants to buy with you."

"Yes, that's fine."

Maybe he wants to find something, okay, I'll deliver. We continued walking to the Mall. He is busy choosing bags.

"How about this, Sin, like?"

"Good brother."

"How about this one? Like it?"

"But that's a female bag, Mif!"

"Yes, it is a bag for you, I want to buy a bag for you."

"But Mif."

"But why?"

"Later Daddy and Mom will ask, where do I get a new and branded bag from, whose money? How about Mif, sorry, Sintia is scared."

"Okay, if you don't want to, choose, what do you want?"

"Yes, may I want to buy a planner?"

"Yes, let's take what you like, so you can use any stationery."

I also switched to the stationery shop, I'm looking for a cute pink agenda, but unfortunately none of them are pink. Alright red color.

"Here, Sis, there are pearls of wisdom, love poetry from harvest, you choose for you, okay?"

"Yes, maybe Mif, wow I'm trying to learn poetry, Mif."

"Incidentally, let's buy it."

I smiled happily, that's right, Miftah is kind, even she offers me a lot of things, but I'm not the type of girl, even though she says take it easy, because her pocket money is the exchange rate in dollars, her father and mother work in America I don't really know whether on a ship cruise or restaurant, I'm reluctant to ask.

Miftah even took me home, only to the fence of the house, oh, I have not had the confidence to bring a male friend home if I am alone without any other friends. Can you run it out later with mom and daddy. Fortunately, Miftah understood and was not angry. My first date with Miftah ended sweetly today.

Tonight, for the first time, I wrote my love story and my daily life using Miftah's agenda, and I read many times the love poems she bought for me, there were three of them and they were very romantic. Looks like I can smile to myself, while making my own love poetry on my new agenda. Ehm, I hit the stone, it seems that I'm starting to like Miftah.