SEBERANG VILLAGE
Chapter 10 - Mas Ilham
The inspiration of his name, a young man who was so obsessed with the figure of Endah long ago. He always tried to grab the attention of the woman, but the woman always rejected all the affection she gave subtly. That makes Ilham so upset that he always interferes with the life of the love story between Endah and his future husband. She also avoided Endah's future husband so that the elderly from Endah did not approve of their marriage.
But Endah still had a way to resist and fight it, so that Ilham who was furious did things that should not be on Endah. That day, she invites Endah to meet, saying she will apologize and give her a final gift before Endah has a husband. The unsuspecting Endah finally agreed to the invitation from Inspiration. But who would have thought, his encounter with Inspiration was the last day he saw life as a human being.
On that day, Ilham felt himself venting all the frustration over all the rejection that Endah did. The inspiration of that day had been blinded, so that while she still heard the refusal of Endah to marry her after being cornered she decided to throw the weak girl into the river, and she decided to throw her weak daughter into the river, Endah's weak body was dragged when it was night, thrown at a very heavy river current at that time.
Soon he forgot about the day and acted as usual the next day. Not caring about the news of Endah's disappearance, he decided to ignore and act as if he did not know anything. But it did not last long, his calm was again disturbed when the figure of Endah entered in his dream, disturbing his deep sleep and making his food unpleasant.
A few days after the incident, Endah continued to haunt him. The figure always appears in his dream even not infrequently appears to Inspiration who is doing activities at night. Like this time, after Endah's body was discovered he really couldn't sleep. The voices of Endah who begged for mercy and asked for help to him continued to be stirred in his head.
"You're dead, you shouldn't bother me."
Ilham muttered with the face he covered with a pillow, sleeping face down on his bed. Yet who snagka that voice actually stopped after he said so. Inspiration then opened the pillow that covered her face and began to slowly lift her face. He saw nothing but the walls of his room, a sigh of relief could be heard from his mouth.
"Mas Inspiration."
Ilham reflex turned his head back, finding Endah with a creepy face staring angrily at him. The figure's clothes were wet, with long hair dangling over the face of Ilham. Inspiration could not move, he was still fixated with the sinister gaze that Endah had laid for him.
"Please, Mommy."
Again the cry was heard so as to make Ilham jerked from his silence. He immediately got up, running away from the figure as quickly as possible. He continued running, ignoring the few residents who were still outside the house staring strangely at him. He kept running while rummaging, occasionally looking back and finding that Endah was still chasing him.
"I'm sorry I was wrong, don't bother."
The Ilham run led him towards the river, without paying attention to the road and just focusing on the figure of Endah who was still chasing him made Ilham splash into the river. It made him realize, the figure of Endah who had been chasing him had also disappeared and Ilham could only breathe a sigh of relief because of it. He walked to the riverbank, rubbed his rough face and stared at the surroundings filled with darkness.
They all looked at him, casting angry gazes at him in fear. Inspiration does not know what to do and like before he just ran, but fateful. As he walked along the dark edge of the river, his legs slipped which made him daze and fall with his head hitting a large rock behind him. Blood seeped out, and the breath of Inspiration immediately came to a halt. He died in an open eye and blood was still seeping out of his head.
The next day, one of the residents who was about to throw water was surprised by the discovery of the body of Inspiration there. Blood had already filled one of the stones that hit the head of Ilham, and finally the citizens quickly executed the body of Ilham. Many residents then wondered, how could after yesterday the body of Endah just buried now Ilham also died.
Many people think it is strange, especially the people who saw the incident last night when Ilham shouted and ran in solidarity towards the river. The cries of Ilham's parents can not be contained anymore, that day also the body of Ilham was finally buried.
"Yesterday Mas Ilham in pursuit of Mbak Endah, like Mbak Endah still do not accept deh," Dekka told Bertan and Kek Retno after the funeral. They are at the Retno Kek house right now, sipping coffee which of course Bertan made at his house. Kek Retno simply nodded and confirmed, whereas Bertan only rounded his mouth to understand.
"But it's not that he can't even see Mas Ilham in prison huh?" ask Dekka.
"People have their own way of revenge for Dekka. Later you will find something more extreme than this, and at that time you should not be afraid."
"Udah Dekka, you do not have to interfere again with the ginian thing," said Bertan.
"That's his destiny." Cek Retno reply.
"Grandfather always talks about Dekka's destiny" Bertan replied.
"But I was curious about one thing: the sudden death of my grandmother, whether Kek Retno knew the cause, and also the reason I was not allowed to attend the funeral?" ask Dekka. Bertan nodded, still curious about the death of his grandmother. Retno's cake shook her head, she didn't know about it but maybe she knew it had something to do with that past.
"Only your grandmother and God know Dekka, and perhaps one day you will know it too. Go home, instead of asking this old man better ask your mother."
Kek Retno drove the two away, and Dekka too Bertan could only nod. They both thought of the words from Kek Retno who said someday maybe they would know. So when he got home, Dekka decided to call his mother, asking about secrets she might not have known.
