
Chapters 18.
Morning time.
Ms. Diah who saw they had not yet shown her nose was worried, let alone seeing the lights of the house in a state of outage and garbage scattered in front of the house finally decided to see their condition.
Arriving in front of his second house, he was silent for a moment to see the surrounding situation that looked messy.
Geck.. Geck.. Geck..
"Assynolt..,"
The quiet atmosphere of the morning made his hearing function sharply. Not far from behind the tree beside the house was secretly a figure of the owner of red eyes who was busy watching.
"Not a word, huh? Did something happen to them last night? May they be well!"
Ms. Diah took the initiative to surround the house in the hope that there were signs of their existence. Moreover, in the backyard, he hoped to find them were cool bathing.
Nil hope did not produce an answer, the person sought was not in the bathroom. Sayup-sayup from a distance looks something familiar to him. Something that was not strange to the women seemed to be lying next to the trash can.
"Who would dare to throw away the former pemb4lut so carelessly? What is pemb4lut? Or maybe just misguided?" said Ms. Diah guessing from afar.
Although it was morning, but somehow he felt his nape felt goosebumps like being watched by many pairs of eyes. Because of the growing fear he did not dare to approach and preferred to return to the front.
While Riska was awake, she was silent for a moment gathering awareness. Recalling all the events they had experienced before. After remembering everything he let out a heavy sigh.
Then he hurried to wake his friends one by one until he woke up. Then rushed out of the room to look at the clock, shortly after opening the door came a knock from the outside.
Geck.. Geck.. Geck..
"Assalamualaikum..," said Bu Diah back after surrounding the house.
Riska immediately turned on the light switch of the house, then accelerated the speed of her path and immediately opened the front door.
"Vaalaikumsalam.. Uh Mother?! Oh my goodness, please ma'am come in first. Let's talk inside" Riska replied after the door opened.
"Not bother so. I was just worried, seeing the lights go out the same messy front yard. Did something happen last night? " cerocos Bu Diah was worried, his face that looked anxious now looked relieved after seeing Riska.
"It's just a little, Mom! It's nothing, really. I'm sorry to make you anxious,"
Ms. Diah smiled hearing that, then nodded slowly. "Thank God! You guys had breakfast?" he added.
Riska shook her head, because they had not had breakfast. He could not lie because his mind was busy looking far away.
"It just so happens! Better now you guys clean up first, we'll have breakfast together at my house, okay?"
His eyes looked at the black shadow behind Bu Diah to the point of making his focus crumble.
"No need, Mom! The plan is I want to cook this instant noodles," said Riska felt bad.
The black shadow did not appear again after he squinted his eyes back at Ms. Diah.
"It's not good that early in the morning, I just don't accept rejection, huh?"
Hearing that he could no longer refuse other than surrender. Sinta who had been thinking about something finally remembered that she had not moved her former pemb4lutnya last night.
With a hasty step he got off the mattress and immediately picked up a towel and other toiletries in the next room.
"Gue take a shower first huh!? We'll hang out in the living room, okay?" he said as he walked towards the back door.
Anisa and Indhi looked at each other and spread her shoulders clueless.
"Now is he any different? Rich hiding something from us? Not feeling it anyway?" ask Anisa.
"Hmm, yes! But if you think about it again the wealth is not possible, where dare he play hide-and-seek with us. Don't think about it" replied Indhi doubtfully.
Shortly after that Riska came to see them, after finishing talking to Miss Diah. Then he told them about the arrival of Miss Diah.
"So Madam Diah told us to make breakfast together at her house, I also tried to refuse earlier. But he did not accept rejection, he said. How's it?" ask Riska after telling her obrolan with Miss Diah.
"Maybe, but what was last night's problem? What's the story to them?" sahut Anisa's.
"How good will it be! Now we are also not okay with this. Where's Sinta? How not to look?"
" He took a shower first he said, now he's weird. I wonder about him!"
"Hm!"
He also felt similar to his friend, but because he did not want to add to the burden of the mind. I prefer silence not responding.
***
At exactly seven o'clock they had spent breakfast together, while they were busy chatting they occasionally fell silent because they breathed the smell of jasmine flowers mixed with the smell of blood. But because they do not want to ruin the moment finally try indifferent.
A sense of family warmth they can feel at that time, even they also tell all the strange events last night to Mr. Sam casually no pressure. Then the warm atmosphere suddenly subsided after Mr. Sam asked something.
"Did you do something strange before it happened? I mean, are any of you trying to break the rules? Try to remember," asked Mr. Sam while staring at them one by one.
They looked at each other in surprise, then shook their heads. But it is different with Sinta.
From the beginning of breakfast Sinta looks unwilling to stay still and avoid direct eye contact with others. He also looks strange because he is not active as usual.
Sam thought, hearing that. Because the previous victims were a group of naughty people who broke the rules. But in this case he felt very awkward.
Miss Diah who listened then made a sound after remembering something.
"So if it's not wrong I saw the former pemb4lut in the trash can next to the bathroom? Is that your ex?" ask Ms. Diah full of search.
They were astonished, then the focus was on Sinta who had last night to go to the bathroom. Sinta who felt awkward because she continued to be stared at finally quibbled.
"What's? I don't know ya! Last night I was in the water just a toothbrush doang same wash face, it was so doang no more. Don't be so bad thinking about me!" elak Sinta with a high tone.
They gasped at it, and they did nothing but stare at it. Because they did not want a fight between them, finally Bu Diah was forced to give up and did not intend to continue.
"It's okay. Don't have to continue! Maybe it's the pemb4lut former next door neighbor who is a prank, we forget it and pray a lot that last night's events do not happen again" said Ms. Diah, smiling kindly.
Shortly after that Mr. Sam resigned to resign because his friend had arrived and took him to the garden. Likewise with those who rush to participate in the excuses to prepare first to go to the waterfall.
"alright. You guys stay careful, huh!? Keep safety safe wherever you are. Try to go home before the sky gets dark, do not break it if you want to survive. Yea?" Ms. Diah closed the conversation and responded with a nod by them.
***
Around one o'clock in the afternoon they were preparing to continue their journey towards the waterfall. The cloudy weather that afternoon did not make them tremble to cancel the departure.
Walk through every tall bush here and there. The towering trees were neatly lined up, forming like a labyrinth.
At one end of the road they were confronted by three roads. It looked like a dark tunnel that was each side bounded by another tree in a thicket.
"Where's this? Which way do we take?" ask Indhi who knows who.
"Cockfighting! How could we forget it. Where it's far away again" said Anisa
"We went back, my feelings were not good. Tomorrow we'll be here again for anther, Mr. Sam!" answer Riska.
Not caring about Riska's words, after a few minutes out was an adult man from the road on the left while carrying a hoe. With a happy heart and a wide smile Anisa immediately intercepted the adult man to be questioned.
"Mas.. Mas.. Wait..," called Anisa to the man while running small towards her.
The grown man stopped and looked towards Anisa. He answered after confronting himself.
"Yes, why?" he said to Anisa.
"Sorry before I was disturbed, I just want it if the way to the waterfall take which direction?"
His forehead looked wrinkled and then answered. "It's cloudy weather like this sure you want to go there?" ask the man.
"meaning?"
"You better turn around tomorrow if the weather is good. Now it's cloudy, it must be scary there."
"So.. Where's the way to the waterfall?"
He did not heed the man's words, he thought that all men were merely modellers.
The man breathed heavily and was forced to answer. "Take the right path if you want to go to the waterfall, and take the left path if you want to go to the garden. If you are in the middle, you better not go there. Because it is the path to the forbidden forest, anyone who enters it can very rarely return safely. Don't forget! You have to go home before nightfall, if you want to be safe."
Simultaneously the breeze from the west blew, gently sweeping the man's skin. His neck creeped up to shudder rubbed him several times, then he decided to just leave without looking behind him.
Anisa who no longer cares looks indifferent and puts her two shoulders bodo very.
"Where said?" ask Riska after Anisa's back.
"Right to the waterfall, left to the garden and the middle to the forbidden forest. And if we want to survive, no one ever tries to get into the forbidden forest and go home before nightfall. Understood?" anisa.
"Kok same rich message Miss Diah! Go back again, continue tomorrow."
"No need to make it up! Come on, walk,"
With a heavy heart and a troubled mind he hurried on his way. They are blocked by a narrow road like a rice field road. Anisa who leads in front of them runs lengthwise and ends with the position of Sinta at the end.
Sinta's eyes heard a voice calling her name. The rustling sound of the leaves rubbing against the wind made the exclamation sound overlapping indistinctly.
"Love.. Here.. "
"Come on.. Come here.. "
"Love.. "
The sound just keeps popping up disturbing his hearing senses. Out of curiosity he stopped his steps and looked back.
"Here you appear! What do I think I'm afraid of!?" cetus Sinta's.
"Si4lan!!"
His gaze shimmered around every corner of the forest filled with tall trees, then he turned back after not finding anyone.
"God.. "
He smothered his mouth wide open, his eyes seemed sparkling to see something in front of him.
Seriate.