Kosan Dwellers?

Kosan Fardan (Part 1)

📞 "Vi, kosan is empty, nih," said Ningsih across the phone that afternoon gave me info.

📞 "Well yes? Which room is empty?" Askaqua. I was excited to hear the news that there was an empty room in Belimbing boarding house, my second boarding house during college.

📞 "Wini tea room."

📞 "Huh? Where is Ani?"

I asked so because mba Ani is Wini's tea roommate. Since Wini's tea died, so Ani stayed in the room alone. And now he's moving out.

📞 "Mba Ani wants to marry, she goes with her husband," replied Ningsih later.

📞 "Oooh yes, yes."

I can only answer briefly. I was confused whether I should take that room or not. Although the late Wini tea house was my friend also at the time of ngekost, but living in his used room I was afraid too. Be me upset.

📞 "How?" Tanya Ningsih surprised my short daydream.

📞 "Hm, may I take it. Tell me about kost. That room is for me."

Kosan Belimbing is very selling. Today the room is empty, a few days later it must have been filled again. So instead of me continuing to live in the boarding house Melati who no friend was, I better stay in the former Wini tea house room first. Later if the boarding house Belimbing there is another empty room, I can ask to move rooms, be done.

That afternoon I cleaned up my luggage to be transferred to the boarding house Belimbing. Even though my rent is still less than a week away, it's okay, I have to get out of the jasmine boarding house quickly. Who is the one who lives in boredom?

So I stayed at Belimbing boarding house for only 3 weeks.

***

That afternoon I almost finished packing my luggage in room number 6, the former Wini tea house. The design of this room is different from all other rooms. The cost rooms of Belimbing are all square shaped. But room number 6 is elongated. From the door to the wall far away. The room was horrified at night.

That night was my first night in room 6. Even though I have lived in Belimbing boarding house long enough, but living in room number 6 is really not my guess.

I put my body on a foam mattress that has also been bedded by the late house. Oh my God, I was horrified. Even though the late died in his house, but still the room was his room first during his stay in the boarding house for many years.

I looked at my ceiling. On the back wall of my room was a small hole covered in newspaper. Ningsih said, behind my new room was an empty garden. That's why the hole is closed. The reason is so that small flying animals do not enter the room.

I let out a breath. It's 11 p.m. Kosan is deserted. All the hostesses have gone into their rooms and may have gone to sleep. But I can't sleep. My brain is asking me to think. I was afraid that if my eyes closed, there would be other beings greeting me. Moreover, I imagined the face of Wini tea. Oh Allah.

Hour 1.

Hour 2.

Until 3 o'clock, I haven't been closed. Seriously I'm scared. The room lights that I usually turn off at bedtime, that night I let it light up. Yeah maybe I can't sleep because the bright lights are on. But if I turn it off, I don't bother you either. Takuu.

My eyes are tired. The mattress that was originally on the wall at the end of the back of the room, now I pull my mattress close to the door. The reason is trivial, because I'm afraid. With the position of the mattress close to the door, the minimum if there is anything I can immediately run.

Yeah, I finally fell asleep that night at 3 p.m.

***

"Yes reasonable. After all, there are also users. Especially A Fardan first," said Fardan calming.

"What was it?" Askaqua.

Fardan is my friend who is far above me. Maybe he's 10 years older than me. And he used to study in Bandung. He said that when he was in college, he spent time in Gunung Batu area, Bandung.

And it turns out that Fardan who is also sensitive to supernatural things, he has a creepy story.

"When A Fardan was playing, there wasn't a single person that A Fardan knew there. The Kosan that Aa came to was rather unique huh. Because the location of the room is irregular," said Fardan began to bettales.

Yoga and I listened silently.

"No rules how?" Askaqua.

"If the boarding room in general is the number sequence yes. Suppose this is room number 1, next to it must be number 2 right? Next to number 3, and so on" Fardan replied.

I'm nodding. Because all this time the cost that I met was like that. The room numbers must be in order.

"Well in kosan that A Fardan occupies is different. There the number is random. For example here room number 1, well next to it is room number 3. And room number 2 is at the far end of the corner. Anyway," the conversation was still taken over by Fardan. We are still loyal listeners.

"Kosan Aa there are two floors. And in front of the kosan there is a large rambutan tree. Its height is almost the same as the high cost," he said again.

"Dong rambutan. If you want to eat stay pickled," said Yoga berandai.

"That's the basis of your brain! Eat mulu!"

"Maha."

We laughed for a moment and then we were silent again, ready to listen to Fardan's story again.

"Aa was living in room 4, next to A Fardan rooms 6 and 7. There the costs are mixed yes, men and women."

We were mangosteen, seriously listening to Fardan's story.

"Well, A Fardan the story has just three days there. Come the neighbor's room, call it Anggi. He came to A Fardan's room and his nanya, 'Eh Dan, feel at home not in this boarding house?' Yes A Fardan just answer me at home dong. That simple."

"...," we're still quiet.

"How many days, when A Fardan was just coming home from college, A Fardan passed the stairs at that time because Aa's room was upstairs. As he passed, asked Aa with one of his other friends, 'Eh Dan, feel at home in that room?' Aa at that time can only grimace. While still Aa answered at home."

"...."

"But long ago Aa was curious too. You see, there are three people who asked Aa about whether Aa was at home at the cost. Weird right?"

We're mangosteen. Yes it is weird. Why try the neighbors of the room to ask that. "At home aren't you at this boarding house?"

What's the matter?