Short Story (Cerpen)

The Terrifying Singing

category: horror pen

Name gw Rizka, I am a high school student at one of the High School in Purwakarta. Do you know where Purwakarta is? Yes, in West Java, where you can not date past 21:00 WIB. That violates? His sanction was forced marriage. I have a hobby of singing, I live in a boarding house right behind the school gw, and the model of these boarding houses is quite good because it is shaped 1 house with 5 bedrooms, and the model of this boarding house is also quite tasty because it is shaped like a house with 1 bedroom, 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom, so we feel at home.

No wonder if you do not know 3 good friends Iw, who are they? Okay, I know one by one for you.

First, his name is Syafira. She is beautiful anyway, her body is shorter than gw, the combination of face with eyes and lips along with the right nose makes her look very beautiful not to mention she is white. He also has the same rich hobby that is singing, he is also very very parno and most afraid of the devil.

The second one, called Rhasya. He is the same, more or less the same, our height is the same, our nose is pointed to the floor, our eyes are slightly charming and lips are thin, and the skin is exactly the same. He has a hobby of reading novels, his work every Saturday-sunday definitely to Bandung to buy novels.

The third one, his name is Ayu. She's the most different one among us, she's the most beautiful not to play. Naturally he became a prima donna in this generation. But he never dated, he said he was afraid of heartache. She has the most graceful hobby, which is cleaning the boarding house and continuing to cook and take care of her face every morning and night.

That's 3 good friends Iw, my best friend from the era of Junior High who finally we four can one school and class even sekostan. Aaahhh is like an earthly paradise. But not an earthly paradise for students who can not get up early, we have to wake up at 03:00 am every day, and we enter school at exactly 06:00 AM local time. A sadist? Ah not really.

A little story, I was always the first shower among the 3 friends. I woke up at about 03:00 and took a shower without thinking. Wh why? Because I am most kebo if it is already in a state of males, so before the males I take a shower first.

As usual, I always sing and take a shower. I don't know why, it's definitely a pleasure for me. But because of pleasure Iw that makes one of my friends is always frightened syafira. According to the myth he was horrified and he believed it was not allowed to sing in the bathroom because it was the same as calling demons to come out of the nest and show themselves. Continuing to be added to the habit of teaching gw, he said he was pamali but ah I do not believe that.

Also as usual Ayu again cook for breakfast all of us, while syafira ya sing in the room and the Rhasya again cool read the novel. And everything goes like this every morning blind every day, already 3 months we ngekost kaya gini and means 3 months also I do ngelakuin habit I sing and ngaca in the bathroom but never any ghost tuh dateng. 

Ah myth, not important anyways. Okay, after I take a shower then it's Syafira's turn to take a shower and then change Ayu and finally Rhasya. After everything has taken a shower and has dressed up like a school prima donna we have breakfast together, too,

Again fun eating breakfast, as usual Rhasya nyerocos mouth continues to talk about the novel he read. Said “ih romantik” or “ah I want to have a rich guy gitu” and the most gw malesin is “if I was rich that. I'm lucky to have such a rich guy”. Huuftt was a single fantasy, and he always said rich whatever novel he read, I hope he will not say rich so if he read inspiring novels rich “Chairul Tandjung the Son of Singkong”. If if he read the novel and he continues to talk like what is usually, it could be dangerous, there is no connection either.

Bathe already, dress kebaya already, book also already, breakfast is also already, then it is time to leave. (syuuuuttt syaaahhhh angina blowing make hair fly like a movie) the four of us walk to school with the position of ala-ala girlband and while spreading the charm even though no one sees. Okay, when we arrive in class we also directly rumpi the same other students. There are others, usually we negosipin our handsome OSIS chairman, but do not know why today we talk about ghosts.

The story is that Sylvia tuh was fit again sleep tuh tukuh. Do you know what is tiredness? It's kind of like a sleep disorder so it's like we wake up from sleep and try to scream or move but it doesn't happen. Okay back to the story, so, Sylvia here she dreams again momotoran alone. 

Well when he passed the school he was horrifying the sound of a creepy laugh “hihi” then he increased the speed of his motorbike and looked back but there was no one until finally suddenly his motorbike slipped and he fell off his motorbike, which was when he opened his eyes (woke from sleep) to see his dark room but the lights on the study desk were still on. 

He still heard the sound of laughter and he tried to get up from his bed while shouting “Mamah! Mamah! Mamah! Mom!” but in vain, his body could not move and his voice was absent. As if he was unable to do anything, then finally he tried to calm himself and closed his eyes again to go back to sleep. That's when he seemed to dream that he was seriously injured and mobbed by the surrounding community. 

And when he heard “neng! Neng!” he also suddenly woke up from his sleep with a sweat and also the heart that was still pounding as if something had happened and his feelings were still shocked so he moved to his mama's room and narrowed to sleeping there three (father, mother, Sylvia).

But I'm in my heart when I hear that story I'm not sure, I don't believe the supernatural can do that, and I'm sure it's not the result of an supernatural being like what Sylvia and her three friends believe. Because I don't feel sure so I choose to hang out in front of the class alone. “Hai rizka” That's when there is a man, he is handsome according to me, and honestly I have a heart to him. His name is Adam. Gw bales greeting “hai dam” with mixed expression gw. “diem aja, usually huddle. 

Where's your temen?” Ask Adam to gw, because I did not dare to look at his face if I had a chat while squirming to the basketball court below, “owh they were in class, again talking ghosts. Males. Lah you really do not tumben ggebasket clock this way?” (iya I'm calling Adam use “kamu” because I hope the same he) “gak ah, mending here, menggeliat amazing sky, let alone both equally lu” . 

ahah! I melted ngedenger he said “let alone both equally lu” OMG!!! What do I feel?? I can't reveal it, I replied with a small smile. And the unlucky thing is that the entrance sign bell rang, yap means it has finished the mode gw to him. And we go to our own classes.

In class, there was no teacher, I was alone thinking about what had just happened. I went to the bathroom to let go of my taste, I jumped alone and I sang there until satisfied. The bathroom I use is on the 3rd floor and the bathroom is right at the end and in the corner of the school so it is quite quiet right. When I was busy jumping and singing, suddenly the bathroom door on the floor was like someone was knocking. 

The feeling was I was alone, there was no one in the bathroom other than me. Curious, I tried to open the door, but failed because the door was locked. I try to squirm the bottom of the door because there is a gap, but, no one in the dalem then I stay because I don't care but when I wash my hands suddenly the door opens so hard that it hits the wall, spontaneously I was surprised and shouted “aaaw!!!”. 

Because I was surprised and panic I immediately rushed out of the bathroom. My heart is still beating because I was shocked. And when I told Rhasya, and Ayu instead they laughed and did not believe and left me, except Syafira.

Syafira with his bravery actually said that it happened because I sing in the bathroom, the demons are uploaded to come because they feel invited or called because of the song. And Syafira suggested I make it to smart people so that the demons no longer bother me for ever, forever, because if I do not do that then the consequence is that I will be terrorized continuously because of the habit of singing in the bathroom. But because I don't believe it, so I laughed a little and told Syafira that all of that I won't do and I don't believe the same thing. Then the teacher came in and taught the class.

When the break bell rang, as usual, we huddled with nyemil. And as always, I buy risoles and chocolatos, but the strange thing is that the risoles that I put under the table are actually missing and there are many pieces of paper under the table where I nyimpen risoles it. Well, maybe there is a jail but I don't care, I still have this one and also still have chocolatos. We used to talk about that handsome head of OSIS, his name was Rayhan. 

Again busy chatting, there is an important announcement that brings happiness to us, namely we have a 4-day holiday starting tomorrow because of the activities of teachers outside the city. Just sober we all rejoice and forget the chairman of OSIS and turn into composing an event to fill those 4 days. We finally agreed to play in the hostels and go around Purwakarta using the car of Rhasya's parents and we will also use the Rhasya personal driver to travel around Purwakarta. Then we continued the KBM at school as usual until returning home.

Yep, the sound of the bell home has been rang. Instantly also our thoughts are usually “tag” to “Ready for party”. We do not go straight to the hostels but we go to play first to the hangout that we usually visit if there is free time, a bakery called Tokomi. 

Actually we have more free wifi minjem than the snack, because the price of bread is quite exorbitant with the calculation that we are 10 days in a row snack that means we are out of 1 Million. Yep, once our snacks always abis 100 thousand per person. The trip is quite time-consuming from school to Tokomi using a blue Carry aka you can call ANGKOT, throughout our journey like can be girls who chat and chat continues throughout the trip, like a rapper, start chatting unimportant things rich gossip continues OSIS chairman and guy up to the important things rich in cosmetics and lessons.

“Kiri mang...!” shafira shouted, because we have reached our destination. We each pay Rp2000, cheap right? Okay, we cross the band while holding hands like a girlband but do not know why I feel strange, suddenly the look of my face changed from good mood changed to a face that looks rich in fear. “Rizka! Oy! (nampol face gw)” and I suddenly realized and showed a confused face, huuufftt ach the Syafira play nampol face gw. 

“Look don't be late! Our place is still empty tuh” invite the Rhasya who feels Iw anyway he wants free wifi toys for browsing novels. Because there is actually also the same thing that is said by the Rhasya, we also directly mesen bread and occupy the place we usually hang out and ‘menggelelelar’ stall for free internetan. Again the fun of free wifi toys while chatting gossip is not important, I suddenly thought to search about the myths believed in Syafira, Shafira, just directly without thinking longer I directly search “Mitos sing in bathroom”. But I am more interested in an article from kompasiana.com where I began to believe that the myth as Syafira believed was just a nonsense myth and I can release the worries and anxieties Iw. 

“fir, here, you see this” call me to Syafira to show me that interesting article, the expression on his face still showed pleasure but he was still determined that the myth he believed was really there. By having evidence of this article that explains in fact, I am stronger to hold that the myth that is believed syafira is just nonsense. Because I do not want to lose, so I continue to browse and download my favorite movies.

(tinit tinit, tinit tinit) the sound of the watch alarm indicates we have to return to the boarding houses because it has shown at 17:50 or already maghrib. Hurry up we clean our stalls, and go home using angkot. Here, if already maghrib the sky has begun to dark and the atmosphere of the streets a little gripping especially if the parents say the hell “If maghrib, many demons roam outside” so I have a little suspicion of fear, so I am afraid, in the angkot during the trip home as usual we chat but do not know why I became afraid when squirming the driver of the angkot from the middle mirror. Looks flat expression, like a cold person, and his behavior continues to squirm forward without squirming the rearview like most other angkot drivers. A little explanation, I sat right behind the driver's seat or was right in front of the angkot entrance. 

This freight is traveling so fast and as if no other passengers will ride besides the four of us who are already in this angkot. Arriving near the school, we go down and pay the money, again a strange game driver makes me creep. Wh why? When we pay the freight, the driver does not look at us at all and continues to look forward as if with an empty view.

Walking us down the alleys to the boarding houses, the sky is dark, the atmosphere turns a little gripping coupled with gentle breeze that continues to blow small to make the feathers gw creep. When the four of us who can not be in them suddenly feel a different feeling and do not wear, and we do not talk at all until arriving at the boarding houses. Because tired, I immediately fell asleep while the three friends Iw they again prepare themselves for bathing. 

Once tired of this body feels, the eyes seem heavier to open but the lighter to be closed, do not feel closed eyes but as if the view remains awake. I felt that I was awake, preparing myself for a bath. Take a towel, prepare the clothes to be used, then I come into the bathroom. 

When I was taking a nice bath, suddenly I felt something strange, my mind recovered and immediately thought where are the 3 best friends? Didn't they prepare to take a shower first? And why is the atmosphere so quiet? But it was not too bad I think, when the shampooing suddenly the sound of falling objects was heard, the mirror in the bathroom suddenly fell and broke with the shards hit my legs that immediately bloody violently. 

I tried to wash it using water instead of more blood, the floor was covered in blood, the walls, even the roof of the bathroom also shed blood. “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!” loud scream I let out, suddenly heard a song, it seems familiar to me but what song is it? With lyrics in Javanese, high-pitched by changing the atmosphere to dark and gripping. Well, finally I know, it's not wrong anymore is the song Lingsir Wengi. The song is believed to bring kuntilanak, the song sounds louder, louder, suddenly someone fell from the roof covered with blood, immediately the bathroom was full and dirty with blood, and there was a lot of, it's like this bathroom got hurt. 

The bathroom door that I lock suddenly twisted and opened a little, I saw a figure that is not so clear, booom! Suddenly I woke up from sleep with so much sweat, I saw the clock and it was 19:29, long enough I was asleep. Seeing that I woke up from a sudden slumber with a lot of sweat and a frightened expression with a pale face, Syafira who was next to me followed in shock and asked what had happened, because it is still so shocked, I answered with a nod and gave it a glass of water to calm myself.

“riz, you why the hell? Sleep ngigo continues, wake-up rich abis pursued scavenger. Atuh” story with the talk of the Syafira was a little strange, Iw so many think what I sleep while ngigau? But because the shafira continues to force then finally I try to tell it slowly to Syafira. “Ahhh!!! You don't believe me the same as Riz. Cepet-cepet deh lu to the people pinter let it say terror! Or want to use an acquaintance gw?” suddenly Syafira nyerocos continues and continues to blame me for my habits and unbelief the same myth that he believes in. 

But I still do not care about the same rich thing and I still hold fast that the rich myth is just nonsense. Because my body is full of dry, then I decided to take a shower, and, when I want to go to the bathroom somehow I have a negative feeling and make me seem afraid to go into the bathroom but I strengthen myself to not feel afraid. 

Just this time I took a duck bath, just stir-fried water into the hands, face, feet, continue to soap and toothbrush. Not because it is cold but because there are still suggestions that bring me fear in this bathroom, indeed this bathroom is outside the room and right at the end of the house, because his position is at the end of the corner and pretty dalem makes the haw even more creepy. I took a duck bath only took 7 minutes and seemed very afraid, because I was afraid of cold then I went straight into the room and put on clothes.

In the middle room, the three friends I was cool again hanging out in front of the tv while chatting and while huddling. But because my feelings are still not good, I decided to stay in the room alone while chatting with Adam. I told Adam everything, I told him everything, I told Adam. And the Adam just gave 1 suggestion that ruqyah in one of the famous pesantren in Purwakarta, the cheap tariff (seikhlasnya) makes the addition as the best advice from Adam. 

Adam was so sure that ruqyah could also produce other benefits but he did not say the benefits what else he meant and even though I had forced him to tell but still he did not say and move the conversation to another topic. The day is getting late, the clock has shown at 21:45 and I have started to get sleepy and invite Adam to sleep also because the day is very night. Yep, he wants to sleep on the condition that I also sleep, I agree and he gave a speech that is so long that the point is to say good-bye and there is listed emot love a lot and he sent a sticker with the sentence “Good Night”. 

Aaahhh seems to have forgotten the horror story I have today. Just a few minutes I slept, all of a sudden the three best friends I nagged into the room while screaming indistinctly and it turns out just want to show a video clip from One Direction. The natureak! Overall, but a little amused by the appearance of the One Direction, but I always keep telling them to come out of the room I and I continue sleeping gw.

(tok, tok, tok, tok) there was a knock on the glass of the room, at that time I just about 10 minutes closed my eyes to sleep but aaahhhhh!!! What else is this?! Devil's nuisance again?! I try to open my eyes and look at the glass to make sure what is there and turns out, about 8 meters from where I saw there was a woman who wore a long white cloth to cover her legs and hands with a hollow part of her stomach, next to him was a pocong with a flat face and bulging eyes. 

These legs were as if numb, the gazes of the two figures were so sharp looking at me, I was shaking so fast! All of a sudden Syafira opened the door and mumbled to make me even more shocked so that I jumped while shouting “AAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!” and Syafira was shocked. He talked to me if he wanted to sleep with me and I replied with a nod, when I looked in the direction where the two figures had seen that they were gone.

I went back to lying on the mattress with a state of shock, but the newly arrived syafira was already asleep, dang w followed him by calming down and back to sleep. I think there's enough terror today to haunt me. On a clear day, we plan to go to a fairly popular tourist spot, Situ Wanayasa using his father Rhasya's car and his personal driver. 

Rushing we get ready with the makeup that he seeks as beautiful as it is, especially Ayu who wears this cream - it let not the items and pretty settings he said anyway. At exactly 08:12 we leave for Situ Wanayasa, along the way we continue to chat while holding the smartphone we have, emanating happy faces as bright as the sky at that time. The journey that goes up and down, meandering, the road is quite steep as if it doesn't matter to them except me. 

I have become a lot of inconsistency, as if there is something strange along the way, like someone watching on the side of the road where there are many trees. I tried to focus my gaze on the trees but there was nothing, so I sit back and relax enjoying the trip with a good view as if refreshing the mind from the sumuknya days with the task and finally I fell asleep in the car slowly without I realized.

“Build shucks! Woi!” there was a screaming voice telling me to get up, slowly I opened my eyes and it turned out that ah Rhasya who shouted woke me up because we were already there. Aaahhh the cool air here, because I am still just waking up ya understand it gw little mager and not too agile rich three friends Iw it. 

New also nyampe, they have been ngajakkin play duck boat, yaudah we rent 2 small size duck boat which 1 boat can be 2 people. Gowes continues, turn here and there, leleus sumpeh, leleus, but because around here many trees also do not know why I always look at the trees because I feel there is something strange there as if again paying attention to what I do but I keep enjoying it maen with Rhasya who is a boat together gw while racing the same Syafira and Ayu in the other boat. 

We actually have fun, laugh, until we finally finish playing and relaxing while eating one of our favorite foods, namely grilled corn with spicy seasonings, here do not bother to shrill because many are selling but we choose one trader because the lapaknya delicious can while drinking tea and other hot snacks so as to create a cool and cool atmosphere there being warm in the body while comforting yourself while talking. After that we continue to walk around like buying clothes, seeing cute animals, buying typical snacks there and much more.

Not because the hour has turned on at 13:20, lunch time and we choose to eat satay that is quite popular there, and we choose to eat satay that is quite popular there, we take place at the top so that there are 2 sights that we can see the forest (right in front of the eyes gw) and the scenery was where the wanayasa itself. Angina blows so softly, so cold here makes us feel at home. While we are busy talking while waiting for an order that never arrives (maybe because of the many visitors as well) I again feel there is something strange in the forest there, like someone watching me from a distance so make myself this as if I want to go there and continue to look at him. 

Honestly, this time I feel so depressed that I invite Syafira to go outside for a while with me because there is something I want to talk to him about the ghosts that have always terrorized gw. I'm telling you everything, he looks as if he's worried about being read from the look on his face, when I revealed everything at that time he admitted that all this time he was also concerned about my situation and he also admitted that he had felt what I felt all along. He also told me everything from the beginning to today.

Ah, heart beating gw. It turns out from the beginning when I found a ghost in the school bathroom, daydreaming when crossing, suspicious angkot driver, nightmares when coming home from play, ghosts who knocked on the glass of the room, and, it turns out everything he felt and he told me. When I found a ghost in the school bathroom according to Syafira was the beginning of terror, when he was interested in my story and from that moment he continued to observe me. Then when daydreaming when crossing why the Syafira who tried to resuscitate gw is because Syafira know what happened the same gw. 

Then when I felt the angkot driver was strange and suspicious at that time Syafira knew that I had disturbed his thinking and Syafira felt that the driver was not a ghost. Then when the others take a shower while I fall asleep and have nightmares, the reason why when I wake up there is Syafira besides Iw is because he knows that I have terror again. Then when someone knocked on the glass room and the tone of 2 ghost figures out there but Syafira actually came is because he knew there were terrorizing so he tried to help ease the burden Iw. 

And the last is when I feel there is something strange throughout the day is a tree that seems to pay attention to Iw is indeed true, indeed, there is a figure of a pocong of every tree that observes the gw and that is an explanation from Syafira. He also claimed that he had the expertise to see ghosts and even see the future, or called Indigo children. All this time he tried to help me fight against the ghostly terror with his strength but seemed to fail because of my own mischief which actually makes the terror even stronger. 

And in the end I agree that I will do what Syafira told is to ‘pintar’ people but I prefer ruqyah like what Adam suggested to gw. At that time we go back to the top and eat the satay that has been ordered. After we finish eating, I contact Adam to contact people who can do ruqyah. He found the doctor of Soleh in one of the famous pesantren in Purwakarta, when contacted apparently tomorrow he can not do it and the day after the new can do it then I agree and we make an appointment at exactly 08:00 am.

“dah full all? Yuk ah back, keburu kesorean ntar kecapean especially Rizka again need rest” said Syafira invites home. “ayok oruh if you want to go home mah” said Rhasya. Then we got out of the dining room and headed for the car to get back home. Everyone was tired and fell asleep in the car, except. Somehow I feel from all directions like someone is watching especially on the shoulders always like someone touches soft when behind I have no one. All over the body goosebumps all but I try to calm myself. 

**again a fad for a novel but don't know why I have an idea for a horror novel

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