Karuhuns

(Part 2: Little Seira)

When it was the first time I met him, who was like a cat with a striped yellow, brown and black, at first glance like a tiger but with 3 patterns and a mini size, with a small color, he's circling at my feet.

I was 11 years old, 6th grade, said people around me I was a child who was good at empathy, my thinking was more mature and I was cheerful, but it was all gone when the creature came, I became strange and quiet, said my mother, I was afraid of glass, every mirror always crying roaring, I told my mother that it was not me, pointing at the glass.

“If it's not you, then who is it?” Mama asked.

“I don't know who's in the mirror, I don't know who I am either, I don't know who this is!”

I pointed at myself and roared to ask who I was, I did not amnesia or forget identity, actually what I asked myself was small is existence, what I am on this earth, who I am, what I am, what kind of man I was, only then was I only an 11-year-old and this was my first transition, from the half blind to the all-seeing looker.

After the creature was seen, everything was seen, without any barrier, my third eye was wide open, brightly lit, I saw the darkness clearly.

Those who he said didn't see why were clearly seen by me, an 11-year-old.

After that many events that made my family messy, like now, my mother who is a single parent had to go back and forth to pick me up at school because my teacher said, I again fainted, I again fainted, it's been five days in a row that I fainted at school.

“Why?” Mama asked because I was walking strangely on my way home from school, I intermittently looked back.

“That's someone following us.” I pointed at the empty street.

Mama just smiled and said, "Mak Seira is afraid?"

“Iya Ma, fear.”

“Why be afraid? It's spooky?” My mother asked patiently.

“Yes, he always whispered to me, why am I alive, It's not my hand, say, It's not my head, say learn, it's dead aja.”

Mama shut her mouth, then asked again, “She said the same thing, Ma'am Seira?”

“Iya Ma.” I whispered.

“She's male or female?”

“Female Ma, her hair is long, her clothes are white.” I explained what I saw at the moment, he was following us from school earlier.

“He's bleeding?”

“Iya, face ... Crushed.”

“Astagfirullah!” Mom screamed and told me to run.

When it was daytime, the devil said it wasn't there during the day, but in reality they showed up all the time, trying to communicate with me, the child who was always scared. At that time I did not understand why I was different from my friends, who they were, what they wanted.

“Mbak Seira, take care of ya, Mama want to work for a while, later if it's finished Mama bring good food.”

As soon as we got home Mama was ready to go to work again, my mama was good at cooking, because she had to provide for us so her intelligence was used to make a living.

Mama works in 3 places in a day, restaurants, private houses and eating places that are open at night, mama usually goes after me and my sister go to school with my sister, carrying my sister, with her, little Seina to her workplace.

At that time my sister was 4 years old, a curvaceous child who was very understanding, even though she was still a child she rarely cried like understanding that mom alone took care of and supported us. Because today again I came home after fainting at school, mama had to give me permission from work, pick me up and take me home, Seina left home with me.

“Iya Ma.” I according

“So, the door opens only if Mbak is afraid.” mama looks a little worried.

“Iya Ma,”

Then mama went to work, me and my sister in the playhouse, at that time Just our entertainment tube television, while other children already have a nitendo or the like, understand we can not afford.

As I watched something fall from outside, I turned my head and shouted, “Adek!!!” Seina who was sitting next to me hugged me.

“Why Mbak?” He was confused because I was screaming.

I looked outside again to see what I saw, the creature came again, the 3 striped cat was in front of the house, like falling from a tile and he was circling something right in front of my house, what was it, she turned to me like asking permission to enter, I looked at her and forbade her from entering the house.

“Adek here first yes, mbak out for a while, just aja.” Seina was silent, she just pulled my hand a sign of disapproval. I'm scared, but if I don't get out I feel like something bad is going to happen.

I stared at the beast so-this incident, now that we were facing, he looked at me with sharp eyes, I knelt down to pick up the thing that was twisted by this beast, a green-colored stone as big as a grain of salak, and I took a knee, I looked back at him angrily, then I threw the stone away and hurriedly ran, I saw the three-striped cat running after the stone, I closed the door tightly, then shouted, “Go and don't come back!!!”

....

Already want magrib, mama has not come home, my brother after going home from school directly to teach, he will go home together with mom, my brother is 7 years different from me, quite far, far enough, like I was with my 7-year-old sister, she was always busy, schooled and taught, said the person she not only taught but ngmu, you know, ah when it was again I was just a child without enough knowledge.

“De, Ma'am wants to take a shower, Ade wait in front of the door, can not go out.” I walk to the bathroom, we live in a rented house consisting of living room, room and bathroom, and, the bathroom was next to the living room, so as soon as I came out of the bathroom I could see my sister, I was a little scared to leave her alone, but who could see them was me, so he should be fine.

I started picking up the towel and putting it on the towel hanger, as I was about to take off my shirt I looked back, I felt like someone was watching, but when I turned my head there was nothing.

I continued to undress and bathe, as I wiggled my head, arriving2 I saw that there were grandmothers wearing grey colored kebaya flowers and wearing rags as subordinates, with messy white hair. He tried to get close to me, I was silent, my whole body was stiff, slowly with his hunchback steps he approached, his eyes were black, his lips were smiling, he started to chuckle, then said softly.

“Naaaakkkkk .... ”

I cry because I can't run, my body is stiff, I'm afraid ma, help me.

The grandmother's hand started sticking out towards me, her laughter became loud, she got closer, I saw her finger grabbing my hand, it was cold, it was cold, I was shaking, I couldn't make a sound at all, just crying in silence, she was getting closer, her face was visible, not only were her eyes black all over her black face I saw her hands not only grabbing my hands, she was starting to slowly get into my body, out of nowhere, strength from where, I could see, I hit my legs and body, a moment later this body was free from stiffness, then I took a towel and ran slamming the bathroom door.

“Nothing, De,” My breath is still wheezing. “h already to the room,” I hurriedly pulled it into the room.

Mama came home as soon as I finished getting dressed and soon my legs also came home, thankfully they came, because if I was alone or alone with Seina, those creatures would come to me.

...

I've been living with them for months, I'm getting weird, my mom says I'm being a very nice person, well overdone, mom's scared, mama, because Mama said I was a person who was free and brave, if you do not like to say no, even I tend to be fierce and selfish if behaving, even to my own sister.

but now that I'm different, I'm being friendly and quiet, you see I'm not who I am, sometimes you get scared when you look at our family members, like there's a grin hidden. you try to 'do it 'treating me', regardless of what disease, already some ustad, hajj, kiai even mama shaman come and this might be his last step at that time, now we are here.

“Name as Seira huh? What age?” The doctor asked, his hair as thick as a shoulder.

“Iya Doc.” I'm down.

“Kok his legs so?” He pointed at my feet that were going up and down like a tailor operating his machine with feet.

“Nothing Doc.”

“The leg is so if again understand what?”

“No idea Doc.” I little replied innocently, at that time I did not know where exactly this Doctor talks, Mama said I only need to meet him once a week, to chat, just, so I don't need to be afraid of this Doctor, indeed he doesn't need to be feared.

This doctor is very pretty, but I don't like the woman next to him, she's just as pretty as the doctor, but the way she dresses is weird, she wears dresses like old Dutch noni-noni, the dress that I often see on television is worn by Dutch women, at that time I thought that the woman next to this doctor might be her assistant, she said, but why did he look older and just keep quiet did not speak at all.

“Try her foot on first, tell mom Doctor how you feel if her foot is on.”

“Neasy Mother Doctor,” I continued moving my legs again after only a few seconds stopped at the doctor's order.

“You don't like talking to Doctor?”

“Suka mom, likes. Beautiful Mother.”

“If you like, why are his legs moving, it means you are nervous or uncomfortable.”

“Gugup?” I asked because I did not understand, understand again I am only a 6th grade Elementary child.

“Gugup that means there is something you are worried about, if you really like to talk to Mother Doctor, her legs do not move ya.” He ordered me once more.

“I-iya Ma'am Doctor,” I tried to follow his orders back.

“What the hell have you seen all this time? Mama said, Seira likes to see scary things huh?”

“I-iya bu Doctor.”

“What sag?”

“Many.”

“Can I explain to Doctor Mother what?”

“Ga, they don't like to be talked about ma'am, he said shh, don't say.”

“Do not say what?”

“Say that They exist.”

Then many more of our next conversations, I don't really remember, but all I know when I used to talk to him is that there's a sense of relief and comfort among all the things I'm afraid of with regards to 'them'.

After almost 1 hour I spoke to the Doctor's mother, my mother and I went home, but before I went home I looked once again at the Doctor's assistant mother, I was curious about her necklace.

“Mother Assistant, her red emerald necklace is gorgeous, Seira has seen her green color.” I asked and stared at the back of Mother Doctor, because my interlocutor was there.

“Shortly!!” Mother Doctor shouted loudly, “red emerald necklace? who's wearing it?” The doctor asked.

“That, the Beautiful Assistant Mother who was behind the Doctor,” I replied while frightened, because the expression of the Doctor's Mother changed to Galak.

Then the Doctor's mother took something from her purse and showed me, apparently she showed me a photo, there were rows of several women in beautiful dresses exactly like the Doctor's Assistant Mother.

“Which one did you see?” I was at that time confused why I should explain isn't that mother behind the Doctor Mother?

I pointed at one of the women who looked exactly like the Physician Assistant Mother who was wearing that red emerald Necklace.

“This photo mother?” I stared back at the back of the Doctor Mother and spoke to the Doctor's Assistant Mother.

“Astagfirullah!!” The doctor's mother fainted.

(BC)

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Author Note :

Little Seira is a girl whose life is difficult, coupled with the presence of those who are invisible then complete suffering, in this part there are many real things that the author mengasukan, so it happened and little Seira did exist. But the whole story is fiction.