I Can Hear Your Heart

25. Chaos on the Street

Me and the angel are sitting in the highest tower tower in the city. If anyone sees us, we might be suicidal. After calming down we got down from the tower. Ride my car and drive back to the hotel. I left my car window open, opened my well-rolled hair with a hairbun and let the wind play tricks on my hairdo. Back when I was in college, I used to let my hair run down and fly in the wind. My mother and my lecturer always nagged me so that I began to learn to be a neat woman, tie my hair, style my dress and for the sake of values I began to change into what I am now: my: Emely is neat with hair that is always smeared. I'm still driving, driving I'm breathing a lot of air because I know after tonight I'm most likely not going to breathe it again.

The flashing red light forced me to stop my car and then I saw the figure among the hundreds of cars that stopped. A figure I knew very well, was driving a red sports car with an open roof. I was just about to call him, but the red light turned green.

"I saw Alex!" I screeched loudly and found the angel's face beside me looking at me seriously. "Could it be that after plunging into the demon's pit Alex is still alive?"

"Alex?"

"He's a ghost in my room." Pause a minute. I remembered something. "You said ghosts wouldn't be able to enter the Royal Garden Hotel, but Alex could enter it." I saw Mr. Mario's angel's face paled.

"I need to get to the hotel."

"What's wrong? I'll speed up my pace." He asked me to get out of the crowded streets and enter the deserted alley without even answering any questions from my lips. Then he jumped from the open door, his body rays dazzling both of my eyes. I could only see a kind of blurred shadow with a light so bright as if a figure in a movie. He flapped his wings so wide and flew so high. He won't wait for me.

My heart was covered with a thousand question marks, it took me some time to get back to my normal vision. My eyes narrowed a little - still sore and glare, but I began to push back my car. I want to get to the hotel soon. My human intuition says Mr. Mario the angel is hiding something from me about Alex. Does he know who Alex is? With that paled human face, what does Alex mean to be feared?

Alex told me once: I should be afraid of him because he's a boy and he's a ghost. He can get into me. But I don't believe it and after what he did to me I'll never believe Alex is capable of hurting anyone.

Look there's an angel.

Yaya I know. My face is like an angel.

It's not you I mean, it's really an angel if you're not an angel, but the devil knows.. The devil who always tempts me to fall into sin.

Then the woman with the inner voice giggled.

What ever, but you like this one demon?

Pocong, Dra!

You mean.. Me? Ihhh, choose choose when to cook my name is the same. Is there anything cooler?

Not you. It!

I can imagine how the girl then pointed in a direction then...

Set...set...title!

They're hysterical. And then there were more voices of mass hysteria. I brushed my car hard as some road users crumbled suddenly and pounded with their bodies shaken violently. Many hysterical road users saw the incident. A few seconds later, however, the same incident occurred. Some were floundering on the streets or in cars. Some jump high like a predatory animal. Some jump like a pocong. They're possessed. The orderly path changed violently with this incident.

Someone then jumped hard on the engine stamp of my car like a tiger. His sharp, red eyes were staring blankly at me from behind the car window that limited our distance. He groans. I hurriedly pulled back my car. A loud bang due to the hard brakes made the creature fall. He shouted and chased being followed by almost as great as those who had been possessed. I drove my car even faster. Damn they are everywhere. On the road ahead, behind, on the right and left. I feel like I'm in a zombie movie. In the film, the main player will hit the zombies with his car to survive, but they are not zombies - they are just possessed by demons, all they needed was someone who could cast that demon out from within them. I was just about to call the police when I saw some people with the uniform in the crowd trying to chase after me.

Isn't it still too late for the astral creatures to arrive? We thought the creatures were going to attack the Royal Garden Hotel, but they showed their power by attacking more humans. I don't know what happened at the Royal Garden Hotel. Nothing is in line with predictions. I pulled back my car, something hit it - demon, I strengthened my heart and chose to turn to a small alley in the North, hoping that no one would be possessed there.

They're still after me. I had been in the alley long enough when I realized that the alley was not flat the more it got into the street the more it narrowed and finally my car could not go anywhere anymore. They're still chasing me back there, though, inevitably I chose to get out of the car from the window of the car that I opened then I climbed onto the roof of the car and down the bumper car to then be on the other side of the alley. I ran out of that alley.

I had to run even faster because I chose to open high-heeled pantofel shoes that hurt my feet more and slow down my movement. At one intersection - a hundred meters from the Royal Garden Hotel I met Iptu Candra who looked overwhelmed by the creatures and finally chose to run away with me.

We arrived at the Royal Garden Hotel when two hotel guards had closed the hotel gate high enough.

"By the day, open the door!" I shouted from a distance, Mr. Hari quickly opened a small part of the gate for me and Iptu Candra and quickly closed it again. "Where's the general manager?" I asked with breath still panting after running one thousand and five hundred meters, this was the first time I had run that far after the race I had followed in college.

"He was busy dealing with the hotel staff and guests and even some of the hotel managers who were possessed in there, Manager Li." I ran into the hotel. Sure enough I could find the hotel staff and guests lying on the hotel floor and throughout the hotel room from the lobby to the room corridor.

My pace accelerated when I saw Mr. Mario fighting with someone with Alex's face in the corridor of his study. He raised his sword, a sword that he should not be allowed to use, using that sword meant...

"The sword.. How are you..???" We did not care about the question of IPTU Candra who was definitely in shock at how the sword disappeared like a magic trick before her eyes. I called Alex-or the guy with the face of Alex, but that guy doesn't even care about me. He ran into the General Manager's office. I chased. And the general manager is after me.

"Alex!"

There was nobody in that room. Alex or the man with the look of Alex has disappeared somewhere like swallowed by the Earth after he was right in front of the angel sword display cabinet.

"What's going on? I'm sure you know what's going on. Where'd Alex go?!" I screamed at an angel. Forcing him to speak.

Mr. Mario or should I call the guardian angel silent for a moment then as if he had no choice he spoke:

"That thing isn't Alex, it's got her body. The Alex you call that is Ralph Lauren. He is one of the owners of Galaxy Hotel and also the owner of Delicious Restaurant submit. Too long to tell, but for some reason Ralph Lauren's spirit has parted from his body and the power of darkness, now wants to use that body to twist creation: the: making the invisible visible visible and the visible invisible."

I felt the horror just by hearing that sentence. I can't imagine if that happened. Then will the humans become ghosts and the ghosts will become like us?

"What story is this?" IPTU Candra seems to dislike this conversation that she does not understand. "I just need to know if any of you know what's really going on out there?"

"Does that mean Alex.. I mean Ralph Lauren's alive?" I ignored Candra's IPTU question for the umpteenth time.

"Yes. The only reason he could enter here was because he was not a spirit that escaped from the Angel of Death and he was not a person who touched the power of darkness. When he became a spirit he still guarded his heart. And that's what I'm afraid of..." I don't really care what Mr. Mario says, what I think is the sentence: he's not a spirit that escaped from the angel of death. That means there's a possibility for us to unite? My chest was pounding at the thought of that. Is this love not impossible?

"Where did he go? Where did the creature go?" I asked enthusiastically.

"I can't tell you. The living are not supposed to be there." The general manager stepped up, I chased him.

"What do you want to say?"

I gotta get out. Guard them. Don't let anyone see my change.

He let me hear his inner voice so Iptu Candra wouldn't even wonder.

They will not die without your sword.

Reminded him.

And you used that sword last night to save me. Instead of driving them away you can scare my people out there because of you and shoot you.

He chuckles.

Do you think I'm gonna die by a bullet? You watch too many American or European movies. It deeply disrespects my pride and my people. They believe Superman is bulletproof, but they think creatures like us can die in a man-made bullet.

So you're not gonna die? That's relieving.

I'm telling the truth. He who was still walking towards the lobby door paused for a moment.

Only you can deal with it. We can't and can't hurt much less kill an innocent human like Ralph. It would destroy the rules of creation, but the same consequences would occur if he used those demons to kill my people. We will perish together.

Silent again.

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He went back to using his strange language, but I can understand it. He took a big risk to be punished for leaking the angels' secrets to me. I nodded before he passed. This is a fight between angels and humans against demons. As she looks after us, I promise to look after her family too. Alex or Ralph won't touch his people because Alex will be facing me. At dawn, everything will start.

Creation must remain within His rules.