Shrubland

Episodes. 4

Malampun. The wind was sounding so softly behind the dorm window. The wind blowing ashore brings a million hopes and dreams incarnate wishful thinking.

I'm still here. In a dorm full of question marks. The clock on the wall still shows a time of 20.00 wib. After praying, I put my body on the bed. Look at my bedroom ceiling. The wind was blowing so hard it seemed outside. I was still sitting on my bed.

"Jhen, sit on yoks' balcony"

Andini made me get out of my bed. I opened the balcony door. I leaned my body. We talked about our daily lives. Interspersed with a little laugh and a little joke.

"Jhenta"

I turned my gaze immediately towards the tree. That sound sounds familiar to me. This is not the first time I've heard of it. But then I went back to our conversation.

"Jhenta, you're jhenta right"

That voice again. I got up from my seat, staring deeply back at the thickets of Trees and shrubs in front of us.

"Why jhen? " ask andini

I was still focused on the lush trees that were only illuminated by the moonlight that night. My eyes were only fixed on one point. A path in the middle of a tree. I don't know when that road existed. It might seem obvious because my room is on the third floor of the dormitory.

"Yourself! "

I didn't heed your call. Suddenly my eyes focused on that path. I looked, vaguely, so faint. There was someone like him standing in the middle of that road. I looked at it really. Actually people or just the reflection of moonlight.

It seems like people. Men seem. Usually women are female. It's a male, meaning not a ghost donk. The question is people or individuals.

"Here, here. Let's see, it's the man or the moon's reflection". I said to andini.

"That's..! " i said while pointing to that road

"There's nothing jhen. " said andini

"Look at the real thing, there's that standing up. "

Andini looked deep down the path. But he saw nothing. Many times I pointed in the same direction, many times he replied that there was nothing. Instantly my hair stood up. The cold wind blew slowly and the figure was still there motionless.

"Come in, it's late. Maybe it's just moonlight. "

Ask Andini to open my eyes. I stepped in and realized that it was just a reflection of moonlight. But sometimes I do lyrics. He was still there, silent without movement. It means it's moonlight. Fix, so that tonight is not imagined. I closed the balcony door of my room. I lay my body on the bed, hoping that the night will soon change with the warm sunshine. I closed my eyes slowly. A moment passed, the wind was no longer heard, only footsteps were heard in the hallway.

"God!!! "

Suddenly I realized, it's midnight. Midnight footsteps in the dormitory corridor. My eyes were wide, my fur was standing, my back was cold. I was silent without a word. That move is no longer heard.

"Jhenta"

That voice again. Calling me wept. It seems like this time it sounds so close, so close. New wall clock shows 00.10 wib. Just past 10 minutes midnight. Damn, I thought I couldn't sleep.

"Jhenta"

The voice was heard again and again tonight. It keeps me awake from my sleep.