ALPENIA (The Cruel Small Town)

Protected Forest

"Udah, asa. Nothing, it doesn't hurt, I can walk on my own" pinta Annisa so Ikbal let go. His legs were a little pained, but only for a moment, now it was not too felt.

Intan hastily aligned himself with Ulfa and Renaldi, unwilling to walk in front alone when entering the dense forest of trees. The protected forest belongs to the local government. It is rarely entered by humans, although there are paved paths that enter two cars in opposite directions.

The nine people entered the forest area simultaneously. Just entering, the aura was already different, from what was once light when outside, it was now a little dark. The sunlight was blocked by the dense thick trees.

Not only that, the cold air also burst out, piercing their skin, making the atmosphere even more strange. Finally, they close the distance, reducing the silence.

"Guy! I want to apologize. All this time, my attitude was not good. Especially in Annisa, Ulfa, and Iswanti" there is no wind, no rain, Ikbal break the silence with things that are contrary to his stereotypes so far.

Intan, astonished, finally asked, "all right, Bal?"

"Lo himself said, I have to change. It's time, and I'm trying to apologize. Because there are people who make me realize how important an apology is to the people we have hurt before it's too late!" obviously Ikbal. At the end of the word, his eyes were clearly staring at Annisa.

The girl who caught the gaze, replied to Ikbal with the warmest smile. Relief smile.

Intan was proud. It's good to see his twin brother being more mature. And those Ikbal apologized for volunteered to forgive.

Things have improved, even Faisal and Salman also expressed their apologies. Maybe their hearts have been knocked out anyway.

"Everything's better. Good job!" intan said happily.

"But, I don't remember, you're sorry about us. Wait, you've never apologized!" canda Naya chuckled.

"Clearly! I never regret anything. Remember, i'm a Queen," Intan replied with complete confidence, making everyone smile.

They know that behind Intan's sometimes annoying nature, the girl has a sincere heart and feelings. So, every word that is not pleasant to hear, they often consider kidding.

"Ouch. It was cold, yes" Intan again voiced with complaints while hugging herself.

"Didn't it get cold, didn't it get hot?" ejek Naya's.

"Gue wants to cool. It's not cold like it's in the gini fridge!" reply Intan sebal.

"Ribet deh lo, Tan!" reprimand Annisa chuckles.

"That bucket has become a part of me" Intan said, not ashamed to admit it.

The journey they took was already far into the forest. The deeper, the colder, and the scarier.

"As a new person in this city and the first time to play up to this forest, I was amazed. On the highway, there are a lot of motor cars that pass by, but no tablets from earlier that pass here. It's a shortcut" Annisa said, trying to break the curiosity.

"Lo wonder, or fear?" Sahut Ikbal who was beside him.

"He's not afraid, so am I. And people may also be afraid, so do not go this way. After all, who would choose to enter the ghost tunnel of a kayak gini? Right, we," Intan said did not keep his words, until ngalor ngidul not clear. "Wait, I feel stupid!"

"So what you say! You don't know what, the waiter here is easily offended!" whispered Naya to Intan, meaning joke.

"Waiters? What waiter, who?" Tanya Intan took Naya's joke seriously.

"What you said earlier. Ghosts. No, ghosts I mean, here there are many, my mother never told me when I was a kid. There is a wobble in the tree, there is a frenzy in the road, there is a headless, there is a skinless, there is a faceless," said Naya took the opportunity to scare Intan. Rarely does he get this kind of pleasure, bothering Intan. Usually, he is disturbed.

Unknowingly, Intan held onto Renaldi's arm tightly. Naya's joke scared him to death.

Naya stared at the unpleasant sight, and felt the weapon eat sir. It is even her who is disturbed now.

Now, Naya is increasingly uncomfortable, because Intan never let go of the hand link of the young man she likes, and Faisal even dirty-minded.

"Your mind is just about that!" sahut Naya is upset with Faisal.

"Now dong. There's you in my head, too" said Faisal. As always.

"Gue doesn't want to be thought of. Especially in your mind a lot of slovenly things!" Tandas Naya is still upset.

"You are so cute" Intan said, smiling at the interaction between Naya and Faisal.

"We too!" timbrung Renaldi on Intan. Makes the girl realize that she has been holding hands that are walking next to her for a long time.

"No! Keep your distance there!" intan said as he removed the link of his hand, and moved to a walking position near Annisa, far enough for him to reach the young man's hand. Again, his feelings were made uncalled for. All wrong. It's getting less clear

"Salman, you said the car you were following was suddenly gone. Where exactly?" asked Ulfa after a long silence.

"Before a moment, from here it was seen. The one near the stump of the banyan tree" Salman said, pointing to a large diameter tree stump. "Come on. Let's keep going!"

Iswanti who from earlier was equally silent felt the most strange aura, because she was sensitive to mystical things. Screaming, his hair stood up, feeling a tremendous dizziness from the moment he first set foot in this forest. Heat and cold came to his body in turn.

"Well. We're there!" salman said after a while they walked, holding the banyan stump he mentioned earlier.

"Hey. Don't hold it!" iswanti's rebuke to Salman panicked a little.

"Why?" Salman Yeng heard the shouts of the glasses girl stunned in shock and immediately released her hand from the top of the stump that was as high as her pelvis.

Iswanti. Unable to answer. He also did not know the reason why forbid Salman to touch the tree. Seplah, the ban suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Iswanese. Lo why?" asked Ulfa who was standing beside him in surprise. It was rare for him to hear Iswanti speaking in such a high tone.

Saying nothing, Iswanti suddenly lost control of her body. He fell into Ulfa's lap, unconscious.

Everyone immediately panicked, and took the girl aside, propped up right on the banyan stump.

"Clix.. Don't get into trouble again!" intan said sebal as well as paranoid, causing Annisa to nudge his shoulders slowly, telling him not to say strangely.

"Iswan, Wake!" said Ulfa tried to resuscitate his friend by shaking his body.

"Why him?" faisal asked a little worried.

"Maybe he forgot breakfast?" salman answered a little more than reasonable.

After a few minutes, Iswanti then woke up. However, like a confused person, he asks and does the absurd, "the question where?" Iswanti rose with her limp body.

"Hey guys! where're you?" he continued to scream, leaving his eight friends astonished. He ran ahead alone.

They're right behind Iswanti. But the girl did not seem to see them.

In astonishment, the eight friends slightly watched from a distance away, looking at Iswanti who was talking to herself. Of course they don't want to get anywhere near that weirdness.

Suddenly, the glasses girl fell down again, unconscious. And everyone dared to approach him. Increasingly anxious and not understanding what is going on.

"Gue doesn't like this!" intan said while holding his back neck, because before his fear was only a little, but now it is getting bigger.