SLANDER

4

Dusk is already residing in the western horizon, its beauty will always spoil the eyes. Sayup-sayup heard the voice call of Adhan Magrib from a distance, Nur was increasingly curious about the person who had dared to come out when the day had begun to night like this. It had been two times of prayer that he heard the Adhan with the same Muazin voice, at dawn and this Magrib.

"Sir, we pray in surau yok." Pinta Nur to her mother. The forty-year-old woman stared at Nur sharply, is her daughter unsure of the terror of Aidah at night?

"I don't want to, after coming home from the sun it's dark and everyone will lock the door tight." Ijah said in a stern tone, hoping that his daughter understood his fear

"But the one who is the Adhan is not afraid of Mak."

"He's a new person in this village, he doesn't believe in the sightings people see." Ketus Ijah passed to the bathroom to take the water

"He who is Mak?!" Nur cried behind his mother

"He was the son of the late Haji Bakri, his name was Firman. You know him, right?"

Nur mangosteen, Firman peer with Nur and they are close friends when Junior High School and High School first. They had established monkey love and was discovered by his father Firman during Junior High School. When entering High School, they are not as close as before, because Haji Bakri strictly forbids his only son to be friends with lower class people like Nur. Nur retreated and continued away from Firman until they finished High School and finally Firman sent his father to the city to continue his education.

"Look, hurry wudhu! Don't daydream!" Ijah flicked his daughter's ear making Nur reawaken from the bitter lumanannya. Poor people like his family are strictly forbidden to hope in the rich, especially the person looks arrogant and arrogant. Although the late Bakri animates a haughty nature, but his nature does not decrease in his son. The fruit fell not far from the tree was not applicable to everyone.

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Geck! Geck! Geck!

The sound of knocking on the door made Nur and Ijah immediately stop the dinner activity. They looked at each other, this one Sunday no one dared to go out of the house at night, who were they knocking at their door?

"Let Nur open Mak." Nur stood up and went towards the door, but his hand was pulled straight by Ijah. He was afraid it wasn't the person who knocked on their door just now.

"We saw the glass first Nur." Whisper Ijah to his daughter. His heart was already beating fast for fear that what he was thinking was right.

Nur peeked out from behind the curtains, the chicil-sized glass windows neatly lined up making it difficult for him to see clearly let alone the lights on they had just broken off. He still did not see anyone there and finally pulled the curtain wide enough so that the light could come out

"Abkkhhh!"

Nur cried when he saw the terrible figure with eyes glaring at him was already behind the glass. Ijah shouted hysterically as well as Nur, he pulled his daughter's hand violently towards the room and immediately locked the door.

Nur's body was already weakened by what he saw just now, while Ijah hugged his daughter tightly with tears. Their bodies were both trembling and their heartbeats were already racing fast

GECK! GECK! GECK!

The knock on the door sounded again, this time the sound sounded like a bang. Ijah hugged his daughter's body more tightly while Nur tried to close his mouth so as not to make a sound. Just this time he saw such a terrifying figure, eyes that were about to pop out and a face that had already been smashed blistered as well as gore that kept coming out from the holes of his face.

BRAKK!!!

Silence, there was no sound anymore, but the embrace of the two had not yet loosened.

"Mak! Nur!" Shouted a man from outside the room

Nur knew that voice

"You are inside, it's the Word!" He shouted and knocked on the door of the locked room from inside

Nur inched from his mother's embrace, he saw a tingle under the door of the room. His feet were up and there were sandals attached as well. Nur ventured to open the door while Ijah was reluctant to see what his daughter was doing

"The word!"

Nur hugged the man, Firman greeted him and returned Nur's embrace. Nur quickly took off his embrace when he realized what he had done just now.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Nur looked down with cheeks already flushed in embarrassment

"Mommy, come here." Pinta Firman on Ijah who is still sitting on the floor of the room. Ijah ventured to see the origin of the voice and at that moment he felt relieved, not that horrible figure they saw anymore.

"Mother." Say the Word while taking Ijah's trembling hand and experiencing it

"Sirman, didn't you see something just now?" Ijah's eyes were looking for something

"No Mak, when Firman came home from Surau, Firman heard a scream, all the houses were closed except this umak house. I'm sorry, if the Word has gone in without excuse."

"No, um very grateful to you." Said Ijah invite Firman to sit on a bench made of woven bamboo in the middle room of his house

"Why do you look scared?" Ask Word. He felt that there was something strange about the two children and the mother

"So someone knocked on the door of the house bang, when Nur saw from the window suddenly appeared a strange, terrible creature behind the glass. Umak pulled me into the room and hid there, not long after that the door opened was heard. That's when you came and knocked on the door." Nur explained everything with a hunting tone of voice, he was afraid that the creature would come and disturb again

Firman enthusiastically listened to Nur's words just now, when he entered this house only the fishy smell that smelled everywhere and he had not seen anything since.

"What does this mean by the terror of Aida?" The question escaped from Ijah's mouth making the fur of Nur's nudge instantaneously bristled, the night wind that entered from the open door began to touch his nape.

Faintly from a distance there was a dog barking like a scare accompanied by the cry of a lost baby arising carried by the night wind. Nur and Ijah looked at Firman together, hoping that the young man could do something.

"Are you not afraid of the Word?" Ask Nur to the Word who had looked calm. There was no fear from the man's face and instead smiled at Nur's question

"Hmmm... Maybe for now I am not afraid, but there are times when our fears dominate us and make us forget about God himself. My faith is still very weak, when I was in your position I could have been scared or just shocked. I've heard a lot about the creature from the residents, but something stuck in my mind why suddenly the creature appeared in our village?"