BUNCHES

CHAPTER 8

Cici repeatedly looked at the circular watch in her right hand, repeatedly asking Cardo, "Still far away, Do? Still long?"

Only that question can come out of her thin lips, while her right hand searches for her brother's second number. According to Cardo, it is better to tell the family before anything happens.

After passing through a winding journey, through high and towering hills and trees, Cici arrived at turn nine. Seen there already looks the car of the police and Team SAR to search for the whereabouts of her husband.

Rushing Cici opened the door of the car parked beside the three-quarters bus carrying her husband, looking for Dony's whereabouts.

Seemed Mr. Sukoco who experienced swelling in his knee, due to gout that relapsed, making it difficult for him to move towards Cici.

"Where's Dony, sir?" Cici looked panicked even her eyes were still searching for Dony's whereabouts.

Mr. Sukoco who was still holding his knee, slightly grimaced pointing outwards, a nine-tailed angle. The stairs that become the path to go towards the river.

"Oogh, all right sir! I'm looking for Dony first!"

Cici leaves Pak Sukoco, looking for the whereabouts of Dony or other colleagues, who are busy looking for Akmal's whereabouts.

From a distance the voice of Akmal's friends cried out to her husband's name.

"Akmaaaaaa....!"

Cici went down the stairs, when she was surprised by the serenity of the place that became the center of attention of people in search of the whereabouts of her husband.

"Sister, careful!"

Cardo, who had followed Cici's footsteps from behind, again surprised the beautiful woman when she walked up the mossy stairs and felt slippery. The smell of damp and cold, making the feathers of Cici bristling.

Cici saw Dony sitting on a large rock, curled up and carrying Akmal's hat in his hand.

Rushing Cici approached Dony, looking at Akmal's hat, making his heart cry again.

"Don, how's Brother Akmal?"

Cici's presence startled Dony's daydream that looked exhausted after conducting an all-night search.

"Y...! Akmal is again in search, because we did not find its existence at all. Sony's hurt, leg's broken. We just found Akmal's hat!"

Dony gave Akmal's hat to Cici, standing back in front of Akmal's beloved wife.

Cici saw a very scary atmosphere for a woman like her, "How could Abi possibly be here?"

Only that question came to his head, given that it was a haunted place and very creepy. Forests with rocks covered with moss, even only a steep path to climb, but rarely passed by humans because it will not be possible to climb by humans.

Rumor of a twisty nine is not a new thing to hear Cici's ears. There are a lot of strange things that happen there. Death, to the loss of one of the families for violating the prohibition in the area.

The events that had been heard in Cici's ear, became a big fear for him. Imagine the death that is always associated with the arrival of the carriage kencana, the residence of the missing victims there.

The voices of relatives, the police and the SAR team, were still heard from the direction of the river. The search was carried out to a distance to find Akmal's whereabouts, but there was no sign of Akmal's figure, alive or lifeless.

Cardo and Dony are still looking for Akmal, around the river area is very heavy.

Cici was still crying calling her husband, "Abiiiiiii.... !!!!"

Cici's voice sounded hoarse even very heartbreaking.

Cardo and Dony approach Cici who is still lamenting the loss of her husband, while smelling a hat that still leaves an Akmal scent for Cici.

The police approached the beautiful woman, "Good afternoon, ma'am, we searched along the river and around the forest, but could not find where Mr Akmal was! We will continue to conduct the search, for three times twenty-four hours. I hope you stay calm and keep praying."

Cici returned to crying, hugging Cardo who was standing next to the beautiful woman.

Cici mourned the loss of her beloved husband, who for four years accompanied her heart-wrenching and soul-searching niche as a wife.

Cardo calmed Cici down, continuing to gently rub the beautiful woman's back, "Silent Brother, we will definitely find the whereabouts of Brother! Brother calm down, yeah."

Cici averted her eyes, looking at the figure of an old grandmother standing behind Dony. The old granny, who only used tattered camping clothes, grasped the branches of the tree, even looked very scary.

"Don...!"

Cici rubbed his eyes many times, again convincing the view for the figure of the old grandmother who showed his form.

But the old grandmother, who was standing behind Dony, suddenly disappeared.

"What Ci?"

Dony noticed himself, even goosebumps with Cici's voice calling his name.

"Who is that?"

Cici only asked inwardly, but could not convey what she saw to Cardo and Dony still noticed Cici with a slightly curious and increasingly confused face.

The SAR team again approached the family, who were still waiting in the riverbank area with a slightly worried face.

"We didn't find anything there, sir!" appoint one of the chiefs to the police commander.

Cici again approached Cardo, crying in a very loud voice.

"Where is Brother Akmal, Do! Why did he leave Brother!!" Cry crying.

Dony can only calm Cici, "Patience Ci, which must be the police continue to search, we wait for ya."

Hearing the narration of all parties who participated in finding Akmal, Cici increasingly kalud.

"Help Ci, sir! Cici doesn't know how to! Where is Brother, Don....!" cici's roar is increasingly echoed in the dark forest, because the weather is cloudy and has been downed by rain spots.

Cardo tried to think calmly, even though his mind was not calm, but he could not express to Cici, because he saw Cici's increasingly fragile condition.

Cici's roar rang out again, screaming her husband's name.

"Abiu..... Abii.... Ami here Abii...! Ami pick up Abii...! Where's abii? Don't leave Ami, Bii....!"

The sound of sobs Cici became a separate heartache for everyone who was there. How not, the loss of a beloved husband is a hard blow for a wife.

"Abiii... pity Mira, Bi...!!!!"

The last sentence of Cici, increasingly makes the atmosphere gripping. Lightning boomed, the wind blew fiercely, even the rain fell more and more profusely soaked the forest where they stood.

Rushing Cardo and Dony brought Cici to go up, with great care, because the road is increasingly slippery because wet with rain that is getting heavier.

Back Cici saw the figure of an old grandmother, on the edge of a small staircase that was not ignored by anyone who passed through it.

Cici who was embraced tightly by Cardo back goosebumps when he again saw the figure of the old grandmother who disappeared.

Dony looked very tired, even all the local residents helped in the search process Akmal which until now has not been found.

"Who is that old grandma?" Cici was again confused over what she saw in the search for her beloved husband, but was again pushed aside because only Akmal was in her head at this time.

"Where's abi? Don't leave Ami, Bi...!"

The sentence came back out of Cici's lips, and again sounded very slicing the hearts of the mothers who were at the turn of nine.