SPIRITS

Episode 8

The hallway to the discotheque toilet looks dim. Jounatan meng angrily suppressed his feelings that began to imagine the no. As he was about to push the toilet door, he heard the sound of someone walking behind him. Jou hurriedly looked over. Blank.

“Nay.”

There's no answer.

“Pak Narto.” He called the security guard. Silent. “Kak Bram.”

Brak!

Someone slammed the door. Jou who stood staring at the hall quickly turned to the toilet door. He had not been able to push the door, just touched the surface, before hearing someone walking behind him.

Jakun Jou.

The lights are getting dimmer. Jou's nose smells foreign. Smell like a flower. But it smells fishy too. With some hesitation and trembling hands, Jou pushed slowly the toilet door. The atmosphere inside was as dark as the hallway. Jou opened the door wider. There is no one ready. Silent. He hesitated to step. Her left hand still held the uniform that Bram had given her, while her right hand touched the already open toilet door.

“Hai, why?”

“My Lord!” Jou jumped. The uniform on his left hand fell off.

Nay looked at him confused. “Elu why, anyway?” Nay grinned, holding back a smile. “Don't tell me you're che messing with Leo.” Nay looked at Jou fixedly.

“Ngaklah.” Jou quickly picked up his uniform in lan tai. “Elu appears tibatiba, make shocked. Thankfully I am not jan tungan.”

“Appears tibatiba how.” Nay cringing. “Gue open the pin to the girl's toilet and call you a dumbass like a bego man in front of here. You kesambet?”

“Huuss! Indiscriminate by the way.”

Nay was unable to hold back the laughter. “Gih, you change clothes there. Hunting at four. The more we finish work, the sooner we go home. Well, you look like you're really sleepy. Your eye circles are black. Kayak panda eyes.”

“Ya. I change clothes first.”

Jou immediately stepped in, the toilet door closed automatically. He put his bag near the sink. In a bit of a hurry, he changed his school uniform to a work uniform. He kept his school uniform in his bag and put the chocolate thing in its original place.

Jou looked at his face in the mirror. Nay is right. There were dark circles around his eyes. It's still faint, but I'm clear when viewed from close range. His eyes are also slightly red. He turned on the water tap, then washed his face. The water that entered the eyes slightly made his eyes sore. Jou straightened his back and slightly grimaced. Achy. He pulled out a tissue rik that was stuck to his right wall.

Face while looking at her reflection in the mirror. The sharp hides look more pointed since this month.

Jou tidied up her slightly messy hair. At that moment, his heart stopped beating. He saw something strange in the mirror. Shadow of his hand but not his hand. Jou gulped. Heart's thumping. Very slowly, Jou slightly tilted her body in order to see the figure hiding behind her.

“God!” Jou almost screamed stifled when he found wa jah pasi behind him. He immediately turned around and held on to the sink.

Jou's eyes moved wildly. There's nobody in this toilet. There really isn't anyone. The rumbling on Jou's chest began to muffle.

I have seen it wrong again.

Jou looked in the mirror. That figure is gone. He glanced at the clock on his wrist. The silver clock pointed to the number four. He also rushed out of the toilet. Just leave the bag on the edge of the sink. When Jou disappeared behind the closed door, the bag fell down, as if someone had pushed him.

The first floor of this discotheque was wide open, there were only a few sets of si curs near the door and the bartender table. While the middle is empty, at the end there is a higher floor, like a podium. Jou guesses that's where the DJ acts every night. While the toilet is at the end of the hall after passing the stairs to the second floor. On the second floor there are only two rooms. One room Bram and the other Jou don't know yet. While the other part contains a brightly colored soft sofasofa with a round wooden table. For a guest drink, guess Jou again.

Nay is seen wiping the bartender table and the glass on it.

“Ngepel and nyapunya aja.” Nay spoke while continuing to wipe the glass. “Gue think it is better to clean and ready the glass, only then we nyepu and menggepel.”

“OK,” Jou replied briefly and immediately joined Nay.

Both work without sound. Actually, there are many things that Jou wants to tell Nay, especially about the apparition that terrorized him. He wanted to ask Nay for his opinion on what he should do. But Jou pondered, what will Nay comment later? Coward? Primitive man because in the digital era ka yak gini still superstitious.

Jou did not say a word. In silence, he watched Nay. When Nay tidied up her hair. When Nay wiped his nose. When Nay smiled at him.

There was an odd feeling growing on Jou's chest, but she liked that feeling. Jou imagines them watching a movie together, holding hands. A romantic date that will end with dinner and a quick kiss....

A kiss?

Jou felt his blood rustle. But he's smiling.

“You how long the glass was wiped? If over time, later ka can be thin, continue to break.”

Jou is already XI class, she has never dated, let alone kissed. Back in Junior High he had a crush on a girl in his class, but only a crush and never dared to express his feelings until they graduated. This is the second time he has liked someone. But it looks like it will end the same as the first one.

“Hei! You why, anyway?”

“Eh, what, Nay?” Jou gagapan's.

Nay sighed. “Today it's like you mostly bengong.”

“Bengong?”

“Elu have any problems?”

“Not there, Nay.” Jou wrong way.“Nothing, kok.”

“Carely want a story?” Nay corrected his du duk position and looked at Jou. “If there is a problem, just tell me. We've been together a long time, Jou.”

“Truly, nothing, really. I just sleep less.”

“Or garagara bullied ghost?” terka Nay's. Jou grimaced. “Who said?”

“Ngaklah. I'm just tired.”

Silent moment. There are only a few more glasses that have not been cleaned and cleaned.

“Eh, Jou. Can I just do something, right? But you answered honestly.”

“Bby. Ask aja.”

Jou squeezed his own hand, somewhat damp. He guessed what Nay wanted to ask.

“You do not feel that what Leo said could be be nar.”

Jou frowned. “Means?” He shakes his head.

“Maybe you know this makes no sense, but..” Nay bit his lower lip. Jou waited, tapping his right index finger onto the surface of the table.

“Gue feels this discotheque emang serem.” Nay's voice fell flat, he looked to the left. Maybe make sure that no Bram or anyone else hears their chat.

Jou's blood flowed more profusely. Brushed kudukannya. But he tried to calm down. A shadow of the strange events that began to happen to him also lay in his memory.

“Kok you can say that?”

Nay bit his lower lip again. And look at ka nankiri again, then whisper towards Jou, “Tadi in the toilet I heard the sound of a cry.”

Jou gulped. “Salah denger. If not just feel you.”

“Not only that, Jou.” Nay's voice still sounded soft. “So right I saw the front hair mirror sink, I squirm someone else. I thought maybe the employee got this discotheque, but when I searched, he was missing. Though I'm sure very much he went into one of the rest rooms.” Nay's face looks pretty.

“Elu believe there are curious spirits in this world?” Jou asked back. He could not resist the outpouring of his own feelings. Although it could be that Nay is just testing his courage by telling stories like that.

Nay hush. He seems to think. “Entahlah. Between believing in disbelief.”

“It looks like we terrorized our own feelings, Nay.” Jou tried to sound relaxed. “There are no ghosts. There are no curious spirits. It was just a hallucination.” Jou made a suggestion.

Nay wants to answer Jou's words, but undoes the intention. His ears caught something. The sound of feet slowly walking towards them. Nay gulped. All in all, the fur stood up. Nay felt as if someone was stalking him and Jou.

Brak!

“Aaakkk!”

Nay jumped. So does Jou. The two hurriedly turned to the origin of the voice. Nay's face was a bit deathly, but it turned back to normal when he knew the source of the sound.

“Hai, Jou. I came to help you.” Melody stood on the wide open door. He walked over with a cheerful smile towards Jou and Nay. Seeing who had appeared, Nay frowned slightly.

Why the hell is he coming here?

“Elu must be tired, right? That's why I came. I also brought a drink, because you must be thirsty. But I forgot that

Nay also went to work. I only brought two bottles. Very good, Nay.” Melody put on a sad expression.

It must have been intentional.

“Nothing, Mel. You can drink toilet tap water, kok,” as well as Nay. Laughter scattered. Jou glares. “Home.” Nay grinned.

“Gue helpin, yes.” Melody immediately took the lap in Nay's hand and immediately wiped off the remaining one glass. No heed to Nay's jokes.

“Ya, already. I nyapu first. That's done mopping.” Nay leaves behind Jou and Melodi.

“Gue tagged, Nay. The glass is one. Melody can nyele sain.” Jou put a lap on the table and followed Nay who was walking towards the second floor.

“Hei! How am I left, anyway?” Melodi looked at the back of Jou and Nay who had already climbed the stairs. He quickly took off the lap in his hand and rushed over to the two of them. But his steps came to a halt when he was already on the second floor. Bram was already standing in front of there.

“What are you doing here?” Bram crossed paths, looking at Me lodi sharply.

“Bantuin Jou and Nay work,” Melodi reply with en teng.

“This is not home. Also not a place to play.” Bram turned towards his sister. “Now you go home. Brother don't want you to disturb workers here.”

“I just want to help, really. Not wrong, right?” “Melody...” Bram's voice rose an octave.

Melody whining. “I don't want to go home. If necessary, I also work part time here.”

“Melody...”.

“So much to say what. I don't want to go home. Point!”

Melodi steps past Bram, walking towards Nay and Jou. Unchallenged, Melodi grabbed Jou's arm. “Come. Start nyapu and mengepelnya in which part?”

Bram turned around and was only able to gape at his sister's behavior. Jou looked at Bram, as if asking for an opinion. Bram could only nod lightly, in response that he ended up not bothering with Melody's behavior.

Bram stood looking at the three teenagers. As an adult male, who is single, he realizes what happened. It makes him mired in the past, into the past thirteen years. In a love triangle that ends tragically and leaves wounds also tragedy.

In the corner of the discotheque, the most dim part, without Bram noticing there was a pair of eyes staring at him sharply. From his body I netes red water. The figure growled. Howled. Painting on the wall tibatiba fell. Bram, Jou, Melodi, and Nay are all out. The four of them were glued to look at the painting glass that was splashing on the floor.