My boyfriend's a Vampire

Episode 59: Terror

That Sunday morning, the air was so cool, dew dripped on the leaves, the rainbow parrot was chirping merrily in the cage. Maya was busy drying her hair with a towel and approached the mama who was busy making breakfast in the form of sausage fried rice for the two of them.

“Mama open laundry not today?”

“Open half day. Let us still get money,”sahut mama while continuing to stir with her spatula.

“Ma..Maya got a text from an unknown number last night. Asked to come to the bridge near the school at one o'clock in the afternoon,”

“Udah don't you serve a prankster like that! Afraid of kayaking first again.”

“List,Ma. Only Maya is still curious who the sender is.”

“Udah..Let's not be curious. You delete the sms. Berse pas.”

Maya nods, right said the mother, assume that it never happened, out of things.

Maya sits at the dining table in front of her, enjoying a plate of fried rice and a glass of fresh orange juice.

“Mmhh..Enak really fried rice made by mom. Why don't we sell it, Ma?”

“Mama no time,May. Do you think selling food is not a hassle? Laundry has been bothered.”

“Iya,Ma. Maya understands kok.”

Maya sits by a window near her porch typing fullpaper papers for her upcoming scientific contest.

“Drrt...Drrt.

A message came in, glimpsed by a cell phone lying on the table.

“Whatssup from Ryan,”gumamnya.

Maya immediately poured out her heart regarding her grief after receiving a dark text from an unknown number. The girl sent a screenshot of a mobile number with the prefix +1, America.

“Not necessarily from abroad,May. Nowadays outside numbers have been widely traded here,” Ryan explained through whatssup.

Ryan secretly kept the phone number of the terror sender and investigated it with his other mobile number.

Ryan called him, nobody picked him up. He repeated the call, now the phone is diverted.

“One more hour is one noon. Bridge near the school? Not that the place is a little scary because it barely taka da housing residents near there?”

Ryan is intrigued by the threat to Maya, then he secretly pulls his car out of the garage and drives it to its intended place.

Exactly at one or less ten minutes, Ryan was still silent in the car in the condition of the car engine was still on. The guy plays a game on the phone to ward off fatigue while waiting for the sender of the text to Maya.

“Jam one minute later,”batin Ryan while glancing at his watch.

“Bener-ener prank.”

Ryan prepared to approach the bridge to investigate if the man was hiding behind the tall grass that lay there.

Just as the man opened his car door, he was startled by someone standing behind him, raising his hand.

“Den...Asking for money to eat,” he said while mimicking the movement of people eating by putting hands in his mouth.

“Nih...Gue love you a hundred thousand,” Ryan said while thrusting a red color banknote.

The beggar did not look too old, but his hair was dreadlocked and his clothes dirty. He was soaring with joy when given a hundred thousand dollars.

“But I asked you to stand on that bridge. Look who's there.”

The beggar laughed, revealing a row of his yellowish teeth untouched by his toothbrush and toothpaste. He nodded while running happily towards the bridge. From a distance, Ryan watched her from inside the car. He seemed to be walking around the bridge and researching what was there according to the instructions of the giver of money.

Twenty minutes had the man been waiting for news from the beggar, but he had not yet returned from the bridge. Ryan was worried that nothing would happen to the beggar. Open the car door and lock it. He walked towards the bridge, saw the beggar was even engrossed in looking for a large brown grasshopper or commonly called praying mantis, and put it in a plastic bag of white crackle.

“It did what,Mas?”

The beggar was still crouching and kept looking for the praying mantis. Ryan just picked up the mangosteen and inserted the latest information he had just heard into his brain imagining what it would be like for a grilled praying mantis.

Ryan's eyes were scattered all over the location around the silent bridge, with no humans crossing it. In his heart he thought to himself, what would the bridge be made for if there were no humans passing through it at all.

“There's nothing here. That means it's a prankster's number. Or is that person just acting for Maya? But do what? Innocent girl has no enemies,” muttered Ryan while turning towards the car.

“Please...please..”.

Suddenly there was the cry of the beggar running towards him. Ryan stared at the plastic package that was now empty plastic.

“Where is the trunk,Mas?”

“Fall all. It exists..It exists..”.

“What's up.Mas? Speaking of which slowly bit.”

The beggar pointed his hand towards the tall grass that stretched wide on the right left of the bridge. Ryan followed the beggar who was walking while continuing to show his index finger with his right hand up. In Ryan's heart was also a little anxious, his heart pounding harder, about to witness something that terrified the beggar to the point of letting go of all the praying mantis he had painstakingly caught.

The beggar crouched down and opened a pile of dried teak leaves, a corpse of a black cat rolled helplessly with its head almost severed.

Ryan's blood gasped, his bloodthirsty instincts peaking, yet he had to temper it.

“The blood is fresh. It means someone killed him intentionally. It can suck its blood, too. But who?”ryan murmured as he spread his gaze around, there were no suspicious human steps.

“The blood is fresh. It means that he was killed not long ago. If the killer's path must have gone down this road, too. Unless he can fly,”batin Ryan who immediately raised his head to the sky.

“Judah,Mas. Help bury the cat first. I first grab the white cloth in the dashboard drawer.”

Ryan ran towards the car and came back with a piece of white cloth.

“This,Mas. Please help buryin.”

The beggar looked lazy and raised his hand as if asking for more money.

Ryan took out a hundred thousand note and handed it to the beggar. Sonta Kia is very agile and eager to dig a hole using the pieces of wood he found there.

“Udah done,Mas.”

The beggar stood up and picked some wildflowers there and sprinkled them over the grave of the black cat.

“Still,Mas. I'm back,”

The beggar laughed and ran around while carrying a dual embar of red banknotes.

In the car, Ryan is ready to launch, and he wants to give news as soon as possible to Maya. He called the girl.

“Surely he was busy making a paper. So long ago newly appointed,”gumam Ryan while raising his head.

The clear sky turned cloudy, it was soon time for rain to fall.

“Halo...What's Ryan?”sahut Maya with her distinctive voice.

“I'm near the bridge. There's a black cat corpse with the head almost severed?”

“Hah? Have you been buried?”

“Udah. There was a beggar passing by. That number is blocked. Afraid people want to be evil again.”

“Oh so. Okay-okay,”sahut Maya.

Little heart Maya says there are outsiders who want to exterminate her since the girl was close to Ryan.

“But who? And what's the reason?”thought Maya while putting down her mouse.