I Believe I Can See Ghosts

Starting Point

"You ever look for your father?"

Philip tried to extract information from Kala. Has Kala been looking for the whereabouts of his biological father all this time. The teenager then shook his head.

"Never" he answered later.

"If she really loved my mother and me, she would have been looking for us" he continued.

"If he doesn't know where to look?"

"Yes, she doesn't know any of her friends. And it's also impossible for one of my friends, not knowing where my mother came from. He can ask his mom's friend, where's mom's address."

Philip dropped his gaze to another corner, then sighed quite a long sigh.

"When, this is the capital. Not everyone is interested in knowing where other people are coming from. Who he is, and what business he has here."

"Can a man impregnate a woman, whom he does not even know well?"

Philip sighed again, he stuck to his own words. At the same time as himself in the past, at that age Philip also grew up as a smart child who was critical of many things. Now, it's like getting his own karma.

"Yes, maybe your father has already found out. But it didn't work."

This time Kala fell silent and slightly lowered her head.

"Did mom ever tell the same om, she was close to anyone. You're good friends, right?"

It looked at Philip, but it seemed to be a crippling poison to Philip. Kala had her mother's eyes, and it was enough to relax the entire joint.

"Yes we're good friends, but I don't know who he's close to."

Philip kept lying about his relationship with Gayatri. He wanted to know if Kala could accept, if he admitted that he was the biological father of the child.

"If so, let Kala still do not know who Kala's father is. I don't want to meet too much either."

Philip's heart was slashed like an indictment. He was rejected by his own child, before he dared to tell the truth.

"Why?" philip asked with a trembling voice.

"Make what, om?. It was late, my mother was not there. Kala has felt all the unpleasant things, which are loved by the mother's family. He's too late, if he's coming now."

"What if he never knew you existed?"

Kala looked back at Philip and again Philip felt like he was being stared at by Gayatri. This time the teenager was silent.

"Maybe your father was never told if you existed. Maybe your mom kept the pregnancy a secret, and chose not to have any more contact."

As he grew quiet, he slowly lowered his head.

"Ok, let's change the topic. Um Philip wants his name, why are you being told by your mother's family to look for him?" Philip shifted the direction of the conversation.

"Because they say, I have a friend who is a doctor who can treat the oddity in Kala."

"What's so weird about?" Philip asked again.

"According to them, Kala was weird. But Kala feels ordinary. You can see ghosts, um."

This time Philip looked at his son deeply.

"Ghost?" ask her later.

"Yes, Kala always squirms about it from small. Kala was afraid, but whenever Kala was afraid they were always angry and thought Kala was just looking for attention."

"And then?. What do they usually do?" philip asked in a voice that began to be filled with curiosity.

"They will beat or tie Kala to the front tree of the house, sometimes until morning."

"Until morning?"

It broke Philip's heart to hear all that. How could they possibly do such a thing to her child.

"Other thing, they sometimes maksa Kala take a lot of sleeping pills. So that Kala can sleep and not disturb them at night."

"Sleeping pills?"

Philip asked with a heart that was like being stirred using a knife.

"Because sometimes the figure appears when Kala already wants to sleep. Kala will be frightened and shouted, until the whole house can not sleep." he continued later.

***

The sky was suddenly gloomy, Philip stepped foot and got into the car. After a while talking to Kala.

The man's chest now feels crowded, full of anger he then turns on the engine of his vehicle. Philip was driving, still remembering all the words of the prince.

"When he was forced to sleep near his mother's grave, when Kala was little. Because Kala always cries for mother. When Kala was getting bigger, and more often came to these figures. Kala is also often not allowed to enter the house, told to sleep outside."

"Why don't you try to run away from home?. You are big."

"Ever, to sleep in the store's headquarters ever. But there is always a satpol PP or police who nyamperin and nganterin Kala go home. Every time they were delivered, the mother's family always played victim. They cry, and are very grateful. It was as if they were looking for Kala, as long as Kala did not come home. Kala is made like a wayward child who volunteers family. So every time Kala wants to go, the police and PP police officers who serve in the surrounding area have memorized the same Kala. You must be reminded to go home."

"Why don't you go to your friend's house?"

"When you don't have friends. If anyone wants to be friends, their parents will not be happy. Kala has been famous there since childhood, as a strange child. Even the teachers in the school called Kala the same name."

Philip closed his eyes. Kala's words sounded like something repeated by his mind.

While he stepped on the gas pedal deeply. His car is now speeding between sadness and a sense of heart that is like in shreds.

"Who hit you most in that house?"

"Om Sasono, her husband's aunt Galuh. Mother's sister number two."

"He's his son-in-law, right, his position?" asked Philip grimly.

"Yes, but he financed almost the entire life in that house. And everyone's pro to him."

Philip pressed his car's gas pedal deeper, never walking at that speed. But this time it was like there was no more fear, because the man's heart was already filled with so much anger.

***

"Rice."

Philip met Enrico at the hospital in a state of chaos. Enrico could clearly see the anger in his best friend's eyes.

"Lo why Phil?. It's okay to be home?"

"Ric, I have to go to Surabaya Ric. I have to make a calculation with Gayatri's family."

"Lo calm down, Phil."

"They tortured my son, Ric."

"I know."

Enrico spoke in a stern tone, leaving Philip slightly speechless.

"Don't go alone, but same me." Further again.

Enrico then grabbed the phone and called Egan's number.

"Without."

"Yes, pa."

"Where are you?"

"Still in school, why?"

"Go back to school, don't go crazy. Papa tipped Kala, because papa and om Philip have to go out of town, this is sudden and urgent."

"Oh, okay. It's money but."

"In papa's bedside drawer, there's still 1 million in cash. Also papa not long, at least two days."

"Ok pa, tell Egan if you want to go."

"OK."

Enrico then hung up. This is the affair between him and Philip.