Cempaka Bride

Boss Memories

"Cunaon, Ja?" encep asked who was confused to see his friend standing.

(Why, Ja?)

Jaja did not answer. He turned his body back to level with Encep.

"At the back, there's ...." Jaja could not continue his talk. His eyes were perfectly rounded as a creature appeared to drift slowly from his right.

Encep was suddenly silent as his eyes collided with the floating figure.

They both can't run. Feet as if stuck in asphalt. The body shakes with teeth. Sweat pours out of every pore of the body.

The figure floated around the bodies of the two several times, before finally stopping. Displaying the original figure with a wide grin.

Blood seeped from his stomach. The lower dress immediately changed color to red. The bouquet of flowers he held slipped off. Showing a rotten flower.

Face changed. Bulging eyes. Protruding facial lines add to its sinister impression.

The figure of the woman stretched out both her hands towards Encep and Jaja.

He advanced quickly and pierced through the bodies of the two while giggling.

Then it disappeared behind the darkness of the night. Leaving two bodies lying helpless in the middle of the road. Fainted.

***

Two black cars passed slowly in front of Rima's parents' house in Kedunghalang, Bogor.

The first car stopped near the fence at the left end. The second car stopped in front of the first car.

The glass on the passenger side seemed to open slightly. A pair of eyes looked at the mansion with a sad look.

The greatness of the events more than a year ago repeated itself.

Those pair of eyes started to dew. However, quickly the owner of the eye shrank the clear fur that was about to decay with the back of his hand.

"Boss, can we walk?" ask Rey from the right of the man who owns the pair of eyes.

"Yes. Come on, let's go again!" the boss's answer at once.

The driver quickly ran the car back. Similarly, the car on the front is now back as a car in second place.

A few minutes later the two cars stopped at a cemetery at the end of the road.

The passengers got off, but not both drivers. They stand by in their respective positions.

Two guards walked first. Rey and the boss in the second row. Behind them were Calvin and Amanda, and two more bodyguards.

A middle-aged man immediately approached the entourage with a body that was bent repeatedly. In his hands was a large umbrella that was opened to protect the guests from the sun during the day.

"Come, I'll take you, sir," said the man, pointing out the way with his right thumb.

The group walked quickly down the road that is not too big, until finally they arrived at a tomb with a white fence.

The middle-aged man opened the gate quickly. The two bodyguards in front spread out on both sides of the tomb.

Rey, the boss, Amanda and Calvin break into the very clean fence of the tomb. The two additional guards stood near the gate.

Boss and Amanda crouching. The boss's hand rubbed the tombstone with a look of longing.

Amanda plucked out some grass strands that grew in the middle of Rima's tomb. In his heart he solemnly prayed, so that Rima could be calm in the afterlife and would forgive his cocoon.

Dozens of memories of Rima flashed again in his mind. The woman's face, her voice, her carefree laugh, and her efficacious attitude that made the man truly fall in love. Too much love to be blind.

"Boss, we can't stay here for long" Calvin said slowly. Since then he had been watching some of the surrounding residents who looked curious about their presence.

"Koko, let's go" Amanda asked, holding her cocoon arm.

The man did not reply, he immediately got up and stood upright at the edge of the tomb. A snap of his finger made Rey nod in understanding.

Rey pulled out a white envelope and handed it to the middle-aged man, who continued to thank him while bowing his body.

The two guards in front of the fence immediately tightened the ranks. This time those who were the road openers of the group returned to the car park.

"Don't forget the bouquet" said the boss to a nodding Calvin.

A bodyguard lowered the wreath and gave it to the middle-aged man, who promised to put the flower on top of Rima's grave.

***

The atmosphere is quiet on the front road of the two-story house in Cijeruk, increasingly quiet in the evening before.

Two bodyguards, named Uky and Diran, were seen going around every corner of the front yard. They watch every move that might happen. The cold wind that blew since earlier made the two even more close the jacket they were wearing.

Meanwhile, in the CCTV control room looks Calvin and Rey are sitting in front of the screen. In their hands, there is a bowl of instant noodles plus meatballs, which was made by Wendi, a thick-bodied man who served as a chef there.

In the back room, the boss was sitting by the window. His gaze glared through the dense foliage of the water guava tree in the backyard.

In his hand was a glass of sloki containing a red liquid. The glass shook him several times, before he finally drank the contents bit by bit.

The tall man placed the sloki glass on a round table behind him. Then he grabbed the phone from the pocket of the pants on the right.

Tapping the phone screen twice, then opening the video storage. Play one by one the video with Rima, as they recreation at mount Tangkuban Perahu, four months before Rima's wedding.

"Sorry, Ko. It looks like this will be our last meeting" Rima said. The woman who owned his heart looked serious with her talk.

"Why?" ask Eric.

"Because my wedding will soon be held."

Eric snorting. Clenched his hand and hit his right thigh in annoyance.

Some swearing in the ancestral language flowed out from his thin lips. His face was hardened. His eyes stared intently at the crater which gave off a pungent smell of sulfur.

"Coko, don't curse!" rima Hardik.

Eric fell silent and turned his gaze towards Rima.

Rima's two perfectly rounded eyes with sharp delicacies, able to make Eric unable to speak anymore.

The handsome man stretched out his right hand and tidied up some strands of Rima's hair child that flew in the wind.

"Forgive her, and marry me," said Eric gently, trying to seduce Rima.

"No way, Ko. My family won't accept our marriage!" rima Strictly.

"Don't mind them! We will move from Indonesia and will settle in another country!" eric replied no less.

Rima is getting bigger. His hand gripped Eric's left arm until his knuckle turned white.

Eric looked at him sharply. They stared at each other for a few minutes before finally throwing their eyes away in the other direction.