SPIRITS

Episode 11

Twenty times Nay saw a clock on his phone. And the time-pointer numbers there keep moving so fast. It's 17:35 WIB. But when she glanced at her phone again, Nay choked. His eyes were round, as if almost jumping from their sockets.

Suddenly the clock on the phone changed color. From white to red, then the number melts. Completely melted, flowing to the bottom of the phone. Nay lifted the five-inch sail. Red water dripped and hit her marinya. Nay rubbed it with his index finger and thumb. Leng ket's. Wetter. Nay. Instantly he swallowed.

Amiss. Bloods.

Face deathly. Hands shaking. He immediately turned to Leo who was sitting next to him. And Nay almost suffocates when he realizes that Leo has disappeared. Nay stood up from his seat. The overcrowded Kopaja was turning quiet. There was no one but him. The seat was dull, scribbled, rusty, and as if it had been loosened for decades. Nay's knees are shaking.

He spread his gaze to the window of Kopaja. The noisy road had now turned silent. There's not a single human there. Rusty old cars are abandoned in many places, motorbikes that live skeletons are scattered just like that. Dry wind blowing, blowing paper and plastic. And there is no sign of life.

“Jou.” Nay hurriedly stood up from his seat and walked over to lo rong Kopaja. Trying to determine if he is truly alone.

Is this a dream? Where are Jou and Leo?

Five minutes ago they were sitting together in this Kopaja, Leo beside him and Jou in front of him. Nay bit his wet lips, trying to ward off the anxiety that was just nesting.

“Leo.”

There is no lawfulness. Nay moves towards the wide-open door of Kopaja, intending to go down and look for Leo as well as Jou who has been swallowed by the earth. Yet....

Brak!

Nay jumped back. The door of Kopaja tibatiba closed by sen himself. One second late, he'll be hit by the iron door. Nay's face grew stifling and his breathing stinged.

Sreth!

He hurriedly looked back, towards the origin of the voice. Nay se gera clung to the rusty backrest of the chair as soon as she realized there was a foreign figure in the back of Kopaja. The figure was shoulder-haired with a T-shirt and torn jeans. Nay retreated per field, the blood-stained shirt and the knife glistening in the figure's hand made his knees go limp.

The figure continued to move towards Nay.

“Who are you?” Nay's voice was shaking. The figure did not answer, but continued to move. “Elu want what?” He wanted to cry for fear of dying.

Cras!

Nay jumped up immediately. That figure took his knife. Nay's eyes glared. Almost any. If he didn't dodge immediately, the knife would tear his chest apart. But Nay was cornered, unable to run. The space of Kopaja is very narrow. He was pushed in front of the exit. He tried to pull the door, but it didn't open.

“Please!” Nay screamed as he might pull the door of Kopaja. The door remained unmoved.

The figure is getting closer. Nay's panicking. The flashing blade shot up into the air.

Cras!

“Aaaakkkk!”

“Nay! Elu why?” Leo shook his shoulders. Nay was jak. As her eyes opened, she sat with Jou who was already half-standing from her seat. Nay spread his gaze, all the Kopaja passengers turned towards him. He grimaces. Resist shame. Withstanding pain.

Sick?

His left shoulder attached to the wall of Kopaja feels good. Nay pulled her body. And only being able to grimace also gulped when he realized the shoulder part of his shirt was torn, blood dripping slowly.

“Your shoulders are bleeding? Why?” Jou pointed at Nay's shoulder. Leo quickly pulled Nay and fell silent when he saw the blood on Nay's shoulder.

“My clothes stuck, like there is a part of this Kopaja wall whose iron pokes. So the shirt is torn and I wound.” Nay lied. He himself was not sure what happened to him. It might be true what he said, his clothes got stuck in the protruding iron gian ba and it just so happened that he had a nightmare, so it felt rather real.

“What time is it?” ask Nay, switch the topic of the chat.

“Jam half six.” Leo looked at his watch. “Kak Bram must be angry because we are late.”

Nay snorted while trying to look out the window of Kopaja. “Macet really, anyway. What's up ahead?”

“There was an accident, Neng,” the conductor standing in the middle of the hallway Kopaja said. Nay sighed in annoyance.

“Elu already SMS Kak Bram, right?” ask Leo.

Nay nodded. “Udah.”

“What's the answer?” Jou asked.

“Wait until six in the afternoon. If it's late, we're fired.” Nay scowling.

“What if we ride ojek aja?” leo's proposal.

“Where to find his motorcycle?” Nay's face is getting tangled up and into the sal.

“Ya, out there,” says Leo.

“Where, Jou?” Nay looked at Jou without blinking.

“Your shoulders don't know what?” Jou asked that.

Nay glanced at his slightly sore left shoulder. She shook her head. “Nothing, really. Just a little wound. Entar in the discotheque I clean using alcohol, let the germs die.”

“I don't think we have any other choice. We have to go up ojek.” Leo went back to straightening their conversation. Jou just nodded small. Nay is standing up.

They jumped down from Kopaja. The sound of horns and smoke of the vehicle instantly greeted them. Jou grabs Nay's hand, taking him looking for a gap between the car and the mo tor to get to the curb. Leo followed from behind. I see Jou holding Nay's hand, Leo's heart aches.

“You should take a leave of absence from the basketball team, Jou,” Leo said, racing with the noise of the vehicle. “Or compromise just the same Alex, let your training schedule only up to an hour, not two hours as usual.”

In addition to dealing with Ibu Diandra and the BP teacher who made them late to Block M, Alex also forced Jou to train. The team captain will forgive Jou if he practices this afternoon. Jou had no chance to explain everything to Alex.

“Entar I compromise to Alex,” Jou replied. The three were already on the sidewalk and looking to the left, looking for a motorcycle taxi driver.

Right at six in the afternoon, when Nay, Jou and Leo set foot on the Lipstick Diskotek terrace, Bram was standing while decking. Face bent. While Pak Narto and Melodi stood quietly beside him.

“Telate in five minutes. You two I fired,” welcome him.

“Sorry, Brother. There was an accident on the road. Hence severe jammed.”

“I don't need that reason.” Bram looked at Nay with a ga rang. “Already know Jakarta is jammed, your working hours start at five in the afternoon. You should have left early. Macet is not a reason.”

“We're sorry, Brother. This is the first and last event. We promise.”

Bram. Staring at Jou. They look at each other.

“OK,” says Bram. “You guys forgive. But I want all the work done before ten o'clock. It's up to how. I don't care. I just want to know that the work is done and we can open as usual.”

“Siap, Brother,” Nay said.

“I'll help them,” Leo chimed.

“No problem.”

“Me too,” said Melodi tibatiba who made Bram me noleh. “Abang just said no matter what Jou sells, as long as all the work is in order. So don't care if I want to help them.”

Bram dead fleas.

“Already, yuk. Don't waste time. Let's just start,” Melodi's greeting makes Nay, Jou, and Leo immediately turn right and bu the bar to start their work.

Jou and Nay don't change uniforms first. Jou me asked Nay and Melodi to prepare glasses, wipe the table, and make sure cigarette ashtrays are available at each table. While he and Leo will clean all the toilets. Do not know why, considering the toilet alone has made the hair of Jou standing upright without being prevented. The shadow of the rikan that terrorized him for more than a week made his thoughts and feelings a little chaotic.

But Jou tried to act as calm as possible. He didn't want to scare himself and Leo of course. Especially when you remember Leo who had run away when he first came to this place. He said Leo heard a mysterious cry.

“Where do we clean toilets first?” Leo aligns the steps with Jou.

“Toilet guy,” Jou says. “Entar I dumped the trash into the back. You clean up first. I'll just be a minute, all right. The back of the disc is very dark. I forgot to keep asking Bram to give you lights.”

“Oke.”

Both are no longer covered. Jou immediately pulled the plastic bag that became the basic container of the garbage box. He tied them one by one, then put them together. He did the same thing with the contents of the litter box from the girls toilet.

“Gue is only five minutes,” he said as he said goodbye to Leo who took the carbolic to clean the toilet standing in the guy's toilet.

Leo nodded. The toilet door closed when Jou disappeared. Leo reached for his phone. He turned on the MP3 and a hit song from Rihanna immediately filled the toilet. While rinsing the first closet and Rihanna's song will switch to Selena Gomez, her MP3 rhino dies. Leo stopped his hand rubbing the WC cleaning brush. He took off his rubber gloves, grabbed the phone from his pants pocket, then pressed the button. There's no sound. Leo kept pushing. The sound of MP3s is not heard.

Someone pushed the toilet door. Leo dongak.

A white-clothed woman with long hair past her shoulders barged in and rushed towards the restroom whose door was open.

“Mbak!” Leo called her half screaming. The girl did not turn her head, instead continued to walk towards the open toilet door. “This toilet boy. The girls' toilet is next door. Mbak wrongly entered,” Leo.

The girl stopped her steps. Leo smiled. “There is a sign on the door, really. I think Mbak buruburu and salah.”

Silent. That girl flinched.

“Sorry, I just told you that...”.

Sretti. The girl looked. A pale face with dark circles around his eyes. Leo's body was instantly stiff. His head was gripped by a chill that spread to his chest. Sayup heard a crying voice. Leo is still petrified. Then, the crying voice grew louder and louder. Leo still could not move his legs in the slightest. His mouth cannot scream. And suddenly the sound of crying changed into the sound of a shrill laugh. The laughter that builds up the feathers. At the same time make Leo jerked and finally can move his legs. He almost peed looking at the figure in front of him.

Leo ran towards the toilet door. He grabbed the doorknob. Damn, the knob was so loud. Leo couldn't push him. The laughter grew louder.

“Please!” Leo banged on the door and kept pressing the knob. There is no lawfulness. The door remains unmoved.

Crick.

Leo heard that, like the sound of a bone crumbling. She's looking. His heart slipped when he saw the neck of the pan-haired figure was broken. The figure whimpered towards Leo, and walked over.

Leo was panicking. He banged on the toilet door getting into race.

“Please!” his screams. “Jou!”

Leo turned his head, but just pintupintu koom washroom rattling. Under his feet, the floor shook. The fishy smell filled the room. Leo pressed the doorknob as hard as mung kin.

Then the mood turned silent. The sound of crying, laughter, and the crackling of the door vanished. But something made Leo hold his breath. Something as cold as ice touched his shoulder. Leo closed his eyes. His body began to shiver. He looked slowly. And....

“Aaaakkkk!” Leo screamed as hard as he could. On his shoulder, there was a pale piece of hand with my nails blackened. Ha his hand. Just a piece of hand.

I heard a shrill laugh. Leo felt his life would be uprooted right then and there.

Brak!

Someone pushed the toilet door as hard as he could.

Jou!

Leo almost squealed happily to see who had appeared behind the door leaf. He immediately rushed towards Jou who was aloof and circulated his gaze to the entire toilet.

“Leo ... What's up?”

“A .. a.. no ghosts, Jou.”

Leo stood with trembling legs. He held onto Jou's shoulder. Face deathly. His eyes were moving wildly. His lips looked pale and trembling.

“Su .. su ... swear! I'm not lying,” he said in a stammered voice. “Gue see for yourself. Ghost girl.”

Jou immediately dragged Leo out of the toilet.

“Why?” Nay appears, followed by Melody behind him. Ken tara was so worried about Nay's face.

Jou glanced at the confused Melodi looking at the lung-lai Leo.

“So the toilet lamp suddenly turns itself off,” Jou lied. “Leo dark phobia.” He saw Melodi stumping a smile, as if to laugh. Maybe in his heart said, today there is a guy who is afraid to die of lights?

“Mel, please grab a drink, yes,” pinta Jou.

“OK. Wait a minute.” The melody immediately turned around, dying her three friends in the middle of a dimly lit toilet hallway.

In the corner of the hallway, in the darkest part, a shoulder-haired figure stared at them. He growls. Drops of fishy water continued to fall from his clothes. He looked at Jou with red eyes and full of flames.

Natali listens to all of Jou's stories without even once interrupting. Silence ambushed the two of them after Jou ended his story. Jou waited for the reaction of his only puppet sister. If necessary, Jou is eager to hear Natali's laughter spurting and stripping while pointing at Jou's face. How Sturdy turned out to be a conservative and primitive because he began to believe in ghosts and their jokes. But Natali's unmoved.

“Gue don't know, Brother, how do I shatter a ghost? Moreover the evil ghost like that.” Natali looked at Jou with a guilty look. “But I promise to find out. Brother calm down. For a while, brother's mind don't be empty. Strong ghosts and neror if his opponent is weak.”

Jou nodded. He did not know what else to comment.

“If Kak Leo's story is real about the spirit of Budi Lu pus, you have to find out first what the actual story is like. From there, we can find a way to stop him terror.”

“Kakak already searched on Google, but the story is almost the same as Leo's story.”

“Yes don't search on Googlehelah, Kak.” “Terus?”

“Search to source directly.” “You mean?”

“Try the people around Diskotek Lipstik. If possible, ask Bram. I'm sure one hundred percent that her brother, sister Melodi, must know something. It's a lie that he doesn't know anything about his discotheque.”

Jou agrees with Natali's proposal, but how can Bram tell her story? Jou grimaced. It seems very difficult to extract information from the owner of the discotheque itself.