HELGA ANABELLE SERIES: Soul
SCENE 7: Forbidden Games
"Hi brother, what's wrong?" I asked Priatna's sister who was busy watching the house assistants. My brother looked relaxed with a blue and white stripes shirt whose buttons were accidentally not put on, showing his plain white shirt, and black pants.
"What do you mean, Helga?" Said Priatna, looking really astonished. "Sister college friends want to come home tonight to have fun."
"Can I come, brother?" I asked expectantly. It would be nice if I was allowed to party with Priatna's friends. But it doesn't seem to be possible because Priatna's sister doesn't allow it.
"No, you're still a kid, Helga. It doesn't feel right to be in the middle of an adult like us!"
The kid? Priatna said I was a kid? Is a person like me still worthy of being called a child? I have been thirteen years, you know (based on the calculation of the earth inhabited by humans)! Stop calling me a boy!
"I understand" I said as I passed away. I smiled miris. Understand what? I don't even understand anything. Even I don't understand the reason why I can be here to become a spirit purifier.
As soon as I got to the room, I closed the door hard and threw my body on the bed. After all this time, I can finally know what it's like to have the person you call 'sister'. But why is the nature of Priatna so different when Mama and papa have been going abroad for a long time, huh?
Shortly after, I woke up to the laughter of many people downstairs. Looks like Priat's brother has already started a gathering together. I huddled under the covers, trying not to be distracted by the commotion below. I let out a breath. Down there, the people were having fun, while I was sleeping curled up in the room. I know I'm lonely. Living with humans and living life like ordinary people makes me a different person.
The plan is, I want to continue my sleep. But urung when suddenly the sound of a chicken in my stomach rang. I hungry. I remember I haven't had dinner yet. Lazily, I turned my originally sleeping position into sitting, curled my hair originally, flicked the blanket, and left the room.
I was disappointed when I didn't find food in the cupboard and refrigerator. Must have been transported all the same brother Priatna to serve to his friends.
"Lho, Non Helga? Not dinner yet, huh?" Bik Leha asked when she saw me in the kitchen, closing the empty refrigerator door. Actually there's food, but I'm lazy to cook.
"Not a bik, hehe." Honestly answered.
"Yahh, not Helga. All food has been transported to Priatna for guests. Non wait a minute, yes, auntie will prepare food for Non Helga!"
"No, Bik. I'm just going back to the room." Reject me while I go. But not Bik Leha his name if he let his master's son die of hunger (yes, not to die too many times).
As I climbed the stairs, I looked at Priat and his friends. I was immediately upset when I saw that there were girls my age in the middle of them. Priatnaaa~ himself said that children like me do not deserve to be in the midst of adults like them. But look at the boy. He seemed familiar with all of them, especially with Priat's brother. Just make me jealous.
A pranggggggg!
I gasped in shock when I found out I had hit the handle of the stairs very hard. I'm so sorry I saw the closeness of Priatna's sister to that damn child. Foolish with those who look at me. I stared back at Priat with a difficult look. Then just walk away.
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A pranggggggg!
"Who was that, Na?" Tanya Fatia Utamy, one of my friends back when I was in college. In this living room, there are Fatia, Reza, Sham, Arjuna, Faruk, and Kristy Arjuna's sister who is the same age as Helga.
"She's Helga, my only sister," I answered briefly.
"Kok he didn't get together with us, huh? It would be fun if my sister had a friend!" Arjuna. Fun at you eneg at me.
"Eh, we're playing that, aren't we?" Ask Faruk, reminding.
"Yes be! It's free for me to bring the tools if we don't play!" Sahut Arjuna, he showed a dipper made of coconut shells that have been dyed in such a way.
Yes, the plan, me and my friends want to do a forbidden game that is often played throughout the archipelago to call the spirit of curiosity. The forbidden game we call JELANGKUNG game.
Exactly eleven o'clock at night, the lights that illuminate the living room were deliberately extinguished. Replaced by a candlelight placed in the middle of the carpet. My friends and I went around the candle. Arjuna and Faruk are in charge of holding the dipper of a coconut shell, while others cast spells. We all read spells.
After we said the mantra (singing more precisely), nothing happened to the coconut shell. I who can see ghosts do not see any sign of the presence of the creature in our house.
"Kok nothing happened, anyway?" Kristy asked, disappointed that there was no Supernatural activity in my house after we sang the spirit summoning spell.
"Well, people are wrong!"
Syam Idham Samawi, he's my only friend who is very fanatic with mystical things. I think he wants to exemplify how to play jelangkung properly. I thought that he should be better suited to be a psychic or a shaman than a doctor.
Twelve o'clock exactly. After Sham finished performing the ritual of seance through the medium of coconut shells, there began to be oddities in my house. I could feel a wisp of evil energy suddenly filling my house. And something we didn't want to happen, Kristy and Faruk fainted when the evil figure appeared to all of us. Arjuna, and Fatia shivered in fear. The worst thing is Reza, my friend was possessed by the evil creature.
"Shyam! Who did you call?" I asked Syam who was dumbfounded to see this chaotic situation.
Sham looked at me. Guiltfully he mentioned a name to me. Damnit damnit! Damnit damnit! Damnit damnit! Why would Sham even invite a creature like him, anyway? If it were this, I wouldn't be able to stop it myself. It will be hard for me to bring out the creature that is possessing Reza's body!
Gosh...What should I do now? I have to ask Helga for help in returning this creature that seems to be very sticky to Reza. Helga was a child, it would be difficult for him to do this not easy thing.
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