Allow Us Smile
this morning I wake up earlier than usual, before Pak Ahmad mengumandangan adzan in surau I was up first. Irma and I helped my mother in the kitchen cooking boiled cassava for breakfast this morning, but because the night was quite heavy rain so our wooden stumps wet all, it's very difficult to turn the fire. It took a long time for us to turn the fire and then boil the cassava. Not long ago Ahmad's voice began to vaguely sound the call to prayer in the surau. Mother immediately woke the father who was still asleep on the mats weary, while me and Irma went straight to the well behind the house to take water ablution first. Father, mother, irma and I immediately walked to the surau which is located not too far from our house, to carry out the dawn prayers in congregation.
After the dawn prayer I helped the father prepare the tools to catch the fish in the river and Irma helped the mother wash the clothes at the well. That's our activity every day, it's up to me and my sister Irma no school, our family can not afford to pay for our school. Before we were only a junior high school, my brother Irma and I were not much later than a matter of minutes and that meant we were twin brothers. I remember once when we were elementary school, my younger brother who can not read and write always I teach every night with simple lighting and with the book as it is where edges have been eaten by termites. Irma is actually a smart sister, does not need a long time and he was able to read although still terbatah-batah and was able to count to 100 at that time, see the progress Irma father and mother very proud of the intelligence that Irma has.
One night the father and mother had fallen asleep in their dreams, while I and Irma still awake accompanied by the sound of crickets who had not stopped chanting his voice enough to make ears ringing. We lay a tired body on a tiakar that may have been 2 years has never been replaced, and so it is, sad. We both look at the ceiling of our hut that has been leaked and filled with dirt there.
"Kak, Irma wants to school again like Adit, Bagas and Arum. They wear nice bags, new shoes, clean and neat clothes. Irma wants to be like them kak, Irma want to succeed, Irma want to be a doctor so that later if brother, father and sick mother we do not need to hospital, let Irma take care of you. And also Irma would like to invite you, mother and sister to go to Yogyakarta where father birth, father's hometown there. Irma knows you've missed her hometown very much. "Irma wiped away her tears that had nearly fallen.
Kak Fatih sighed as he turned his gaze to Irma's face, feeling as if hearing the words his sister had just said. Kak Fatih proud of Irma, it turns out that his sister already has a mature mind, a mature mind and have a high wishes to make family happy.
"Irma, forgive my sister, forgive father and mother. We can not send you to school like Adit, Bagas and Arum. But know dik, brother proud of your brother proud to have a sister like you who have high ideals. Irma, know though you can not go to school you can succeed, success exceeds Arum, Bagas and Adit. Just pray that the eluants always get the outpouring of mercy from Allah swt. They fell asleep together, covered with the cold night.
The next day, early father was ready to go to the river to look for fish like usual days. But, suddenly the sound of the door banged by someone and it turns out it is a pack RT.
"Assalamualaikum, sir Aaron."
"Waalaikum sall