MARY

8. Midnight Guests

Maria who was left gone again seemed to start to be really upset, really upset,

Why did everyone run away? They think I'm a ghost or what? Inner Mary,

He finally walked which was floating alone entering the village,

Seeking to find the house of Joseph, the man of his family, the,

Maria continued down the streets of the village so deserted, the houses seemed to be tightly closed,

The dark atmosphere of the village where Joseph lived of course,

There is no electricity, the streets are also not paved, the house is only made of cubicles and boards, the fence is only from shrubs, and some are from bamboo, too,

Maria looked wry, looking for anyone she could ask...

"Ssttt.. sshhtt..."

Suddenly it sounded like a voice, coming from the top of a jackfruit tree near a house,

Mary turned her head towards it, where there appeared a man standing leaning against the jackfruit tree,

This tumben does not run. Think Maria, though,

Mary came closer, and she saw the man, his face pale,

"Neazar Non?"

Ask the pale-faced man to Maria,

Mary looked at the man,

"From Joseph's house,"

Said Maria,

"Yusuf? Who works at Mr Hubrecht?"

Ask the man, too,

Maria nodded, though,.

"Know my Papi?"

Maria is happy, of course,

The man nodded,

"I used to go for a while, but moving to a landlord of my own people, unexpectedly even much more unpleasant,"

The man said, Mary seemed to smile at a glance,

"If you go to Joseph's house, it's Joseph's house, four houses from here, in front of which are small wooden cots,"

Said the man, man,

Maria nodded, then she thanked the man she did not know, the first person who was not afraid to see him,

Maria then went away to the man, and it appeared that the man nodded, then leaned back on the jackfruit tree,

Mary walked away, walking that actually drifted when seen by ordinary humans,

Until finally he saw the house in front of him there is a wooden couch measuring not so big, the house is still made of bamboo cubicles with a yard not so broad, not so large,

There is no fence like some other people's houses, the yard of the house only appears planted with mango trees and water guava, he said,

Maria quickly rushed to the door,

Where's the bell? Inner Mary cawed,

Oh yeah, forgot, not yet on the bell. Inner Mary anyway,

He then knocked on the door of the house, indeed the guest did not know himself for sure, knocking on people's houses in the middle of the night, even the debtcolector alone would not do it, he said,

But, Mary who still thinks if she is dreaming of course does not care, all she thinks is to meet Joseph and ask him quickly to help her, he said,

Geck...

Geck...

Geck...

Mary kept knocking on the door of Joseph's house, even if necessary until it collapsed or collapsed, Mary did not want to know.

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Elsewhere, the young men who were originally in charge of guarding the village had returned to their homes,

They were so excited to their families that they saw a Dutch None who was shot a few days ago,

One of them who turned out to be the shooter Maria even entered under the couch,

Making his family confused should persuade him to get out of there,

"He must have come for revenge, how is this? I should how?"

"Why you're afraid, you're saying you're fighting,"

Said his brother,

"Yes, I was fighting, because they were invaders, I had to shoot them all, right?"

The gunman Maria said but remained under the couch,

"Well, why are you still afraid?"

"But he's a ghost now, what if he demands revenge for his death?"

The shooter guy was really scared, though,

Shown again in his eyes as he shot a bullet towards the back of the Dutch None who was running towards the top floor of the house,

Ah, that day was his first day holding a real gun, and actually shooting that person to death,

Yeah, dead, and now it turns out the guy's a ghost and he's looking for himself,

The male shooter Maria instead GR thought Maria who had become a ghost in her village was to find herself to demand revenge, she said,

He did not know for sure, if the ghost of Mary was looking for Joseph,

And...

Geck...

Geck...

Geck...

"Yusuuf's...Yusuuuf..."

At Joseph's house, Mary still tried to force Joseph to get up and open the door for him,

Didn't know he was sleeping soundly unaware of anything,

Meanwhile, because Mary knocked on the door constantly, it was finally Father Joseph who heard and so woke up,

"What's up? Is there another war?"

Joseph came down from the bed where he slept,

The sleeping position of his Father Joseph who was not a room with his wife, and slept on a cot in the front room, making his Father Yusuf can reach the front door more quickly,

"Yes, just a second..."

Said his father Yusuf,

He did not hear Mary's voice, but his Father Joseph only heard the door being knocked down,

Worried if it was the fighters from his village, which he said there are some who are planning to meet Bung Karno who reportedly will soon be released by the Japanese after he was in prison exiled by the Dutch,

His father Yusuf also seemed to rush to the door, opening the lock which was still made of long wood that was installed across the back of the door,

After opening the lock, his father Yusuf then opened the door of his house,

Syuuuung...

It's blank!

His father Joseph saw nothing and no one in front of his house,

Only an unusual fragrance was smelled there,

His father Yusuf wiggled, looking for a figure who knocked on his door in the middle of the night,

A ghost? His Father Joseph,

Yes, ghosts, even ghosts are actually now standing right in front of him,

Only a meter in front of his Father Joseph, but the middle-aged man strangely did not see the figure of Mary,

"Sir... This is Maria, sir,"

Mary said to her Father Joseph, who, of course, to Mary, was no stranger,

His father Joseph was a loyal servant for his family for a long time, even for Mr. Hubrecht's family, his father Yusuf was like his own family as well,

"Sir, this is Mary, looking for Joseph,"

Mary said again,

But what was heard in the ears of his Father Joseph was just a gust of wind,

Fuuuuuh...

Like the wind that is exhaled from the mouth alone, which fortunately is not a mouth that smells of pete and jengkol,

Then...

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