BUNCHES

CHAPTER 15

The atmosphere of the dining room still seemed dark and very quiet, very different from usual. Cici was still staring at the old grandmother who was still standing in front of him, resting on a branch that looked very shabby.

In Cici's view, he saw the old granny very really standing before him. A gaze that led in one direction, with a sad and mysterious gaze, he begged the old grandmother.

"Please give me back my husband, Grandma...!" Cici came back crying as she pleaded. 

"Apo are you ready? Untuak masuak kaalam indak samo jo nature are you now?" (Are you ready? Entering a realm that is not the same as your current nature?)

"My labyrinth raised from the one that's stricken on your son's deck! Come on, mato you, son! Ambo's gonna move your son's pancalia." (It's scarier than your son's ever seen! Close your eyes, son! I'll move your son's vision senses)

Cici nodded, in her head only wanting Akmal to return. Whatever he does, he will do. His belief about Akmal having died was brushed aside by the heart and feelings of the woman who had had the little princess.

Slowly the old Grandma closed her eyes, approaching Cici who was still sitting at the table eating. Closing Cici's eyes with her wrinkled palms, it even gave off a very different scent. A truly very distinctive aroma, yet it cannot be expressed in words.

"Have your mato! Maybe you'll be the one who's on your son's deck!" (Open your eyes! Maybe you'll see what your son sees)

Cici slowly opened her eyes, how surprised she was when she saw a very creepy figure in her residence.

The figure of a beautiful woman who used red kemben, there was even a female figure that resembled a human but had a shattered face, like having one tragic accident that made her face shapeless.

Cici's breathing felt very tight, his face turned pale, his tears flowed back, his right hand squeezed firmly the glass on the table.

"Sir, is it true that this thing Mira saw my daughter?" Cici's question made one of them approach her, standing behind her smelling Cici's body, making her hair bristling with fear.

Cici shivered, a creepy fear made her close both her eyeballs.

The old grandmother whispered again, making Cici's hair again bristling.

"Take nine, jan until the end of the day." (Go to the ninth mistake, not to pass from the seventh day)

The old Grandma's voice turned back away, even Cici's body was still shivering in fear.

"DIE...!!"

Luqman's hand touched Cici's shoulder, making the frightened-looking woman jump as her first brother actually stood beside her making Cici soar in shock.

Cici's sweat was like feeling a strange feeling that he did not believe but now clearly visible before him.

"Abang... We have to go nine now! Ci, sure can bring Brother Akmal back...!"

Cici came back crying at the table, lowered her head, getting more goosebumps as her inner eyes opened.

The feeling of being haunted was even followed by an invisible creature that had since blown cold air in Cici's ear.

"Yes, we're leaving today. Have you finished your breakfast? From earlier we saw you like scared, even very creepy!" Luqman stared strangely at Cici.

Cici rubbed her face rough, unstable emotions made her look like a woman who lost her direction. It was even more precise not being able to accept reality calmly.

What made her husband taken by an invisible creature? Did Akmal ever make a mistake in that area? That thing that always dwells in the mind of Cici, making the woman only have the hope to take Akmal back with her as before.

The sentence that suddenly came out from Cici's lips, greatly surprised Luqman who was standing beside her.

"Yes, Akmal is alive! Now we go find a way, how to bring Akmal back safe and not one less. You believe in me!" Luqman reiterated to Cici.

Cici turned to Luqman with a cynical look, "But why did Brother tell all his co-workers that Akmal was dead? Even with the heart you put a yellow flag in front of the house! Don't you have any pity on Mira? He's like being haunted every day, for losing his Abi."

Luqman let out a long sigh, not wanting to continue his debate with Cici the younger sister who had the exact same stubbornness as the Mother who had abandoned them a few years ago.

Dean who heard the two men's debate in the dining room, just patted Luqman on the shoulder, "We're leaving now? Everything has been prepared by Oneng."

Luqman nodded in agreement, rushing out of the house, which lately had a hotter air, thus making the conditions inside the house not as friendly as before.

Luqman pulled Dean's arm, "We have to take Akmal home, whatever the circumstances."

Dean nodded, looking up at Cici excitedly, "Are we sure we can bring Abi Mira back here?"

Cici nodded with confidence.

"Whatever it is?" Dean swallowed his saliva, hesitating a little.

Cici nodded again, "If Akmal dies, Ci will bring his body back, but at this time Ci believes Abi Mira is still alive. It's just that he doesn't know how to go back."

Dean stared at Luqman, nodding in agreement, embracing his sister who was very confident that her husband was still alive.

They enter the car, departing for the turn nine, accompanied by Dony who was given permission by Pak Sukoco to continue escorting Akmal search.

Dony is with Cardo in a different car, while Luqman and Dean take Cici and Oneng along with Mira Akmal's daughter.

Two cars, enough to bring Akmal back to Cici's arms. Do not forget Luqman locked the main door, turn on the porch lights so as not to look dark at night.

As they were about to pass, the knock from the windshield of the car, sounded extremely loud. The closed car glass is knocked, but they can not see anything, but can be glimpsed by Cici.

A beautiful woman, standing next to him, stuck out her tongue, even laughed so hard that Cici covered her ears with her palms.

"Khiiik.. khiiik...!!"

Cici tried to strengthen her heart, without feeling afraid anymore, she just lowered her head, without looking again, but the sound of Mira crying again. Oneng calmed the little girl down, so as not to cry, but Mira still continued to cry.

Mira seemed to be at a loss for something, yet could not express in words. She was just a little girl who found it hard to explain what she had seen all along. While living in that house.

Cici recalled what Ustadz Imam said, to immediately leave their residence for a while. But it is very difficult for Cici, because it is impossible to leave the house when Akmal has not returned.

"Pig... Ami will bring Abi home! Ami is sure, Abi is still alive, still missing Ami."

Cici took Mira from Oneng's lap, clutching her daughter's petite body tightly.

"Pregnant... Abi... Abi, H...!!"