The After I Die

First Death

The sun still did not reveal itself behind the lush forest that surrounded the village of Damung, the dewdrop still felt touched the body wrapped in a white cobbled jacket, Kina stepped towards the house with a limp step, so she stepped back, his eyes looked out at every corner of the village street he went through, his feelings were restless, what he was afraid of, this was the first time he had gone through the night in someone else's residence

Will his mother know? will I be sworn again?

Along the way home he continued to be prejudiced and anxious

Kina let out a long sigh, intensified Dayuti's jacket wrapped around his thin body, as long as he walked towards his house there was not a single citizen he met on the street, there is no sound of crowing chickens that are usually crowded in the morning, there are no farmers or herders who will usually go down to the fields or fields in the morning blind

Cold, cold, his footsteps grew heavy as he approached his house, soaking behind the lush balrangeran tree towering on the side of the road he heard a groaning sound, he was glued and glanced there, there was nothing in sight except the balranger tree

Kina was silent for a moment, her eyes catching something flowing from the tree falling towards the lower streets, a thick black liquid that smelled foul

Kina gasped, immediately she ignored the moans and stepped quickly towards her house which was starting to be seen from a distance

His mother was waiting for him, standing at the door, sitting on his porch, sitting and sipping his coffee in a relaxed manner

Die me, mom is really angry

Her feet had entered the front yard, Kina glanced at the wonder of her mother's cooking stall, still closed and there was no Ci Dawi who usually lit a stove to cook rice

Kina broke out in cold sweat standing before her mother who was looking at her sharply, her father not commenting anything, walked into the house while carrying his coffee

It's too early to put a curse on him

“LAUGHTY BOY, WHERE WERE YOU LAST NIGHT!?“

Her mother shouted, had issued her vow of absorbency, her eyes bulged, Kina just looked down in fear, rolling up the end of the Dayuti jacket she was wearing

“DUMBASS, YOU THINK THE ROOM IS MADE AVAILABLE FOR WHAT IF NOT A BREAK? IT WAS BEDTIME THAT NIGHT! NOT AN OBSCURE WANDERING LIKE THE GIRL IN TOWN ! YOU ARE A VILLAGE BOY!!“

His mother's voice was shrill, there were no punches or slaps, just enough to make her sick to the bones

Kina was unable to hold back her rushing tears, her nose even started to drizzle

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN A CITY LIKE THIS TOO!? HAPPY TO BE OUT AT NIGHT?! WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE!“

Kina bit her lips to hold her crying out, it was still morning and still at the door, her mother's horrible voice was unmitigated, making some neighbors come to see, just curious, just curious, but the embarrassment that Kina got was enough to make her face and ears red

I'm ashamed mom, please stop

Had it been, her mother asked gently, or cried worriedly, as her aunt often did when Kina was late to return home, perhaps Kina's feelings would have warmed, perhaps, but something like that might never happen

Her mother was silent for a moment, breathing in, Kina still did not dare to look at her mother or just muttered an apology, she still bit her lips, crying in silence

The neighbors began to move back into their own affairs

The sound of bells roared from a distance, twice, his mother let out a long sigh, rubbed her chest, and fanned her red face with her hands

“Quick change your clothes we must skip“

Said her mother coldly, Kina raised her head, only to realize that if her mother had been dressed all in black and also her father who had just come out of the house, Kina rushed into her room, did not dare to ask anything even though he was curious half to death

Kina bathed and wore black clothes that were seen available on her mattress, she did so quickly fearing her mother waited too long

Afraid of being yelled at again

Ten minutes, it took only ten minutes he had followed his parents' footsteps towards the funeral home, some of the neighbors he had met on the street were silent, with flat faces, they stepped silently, they stepped silently, all village activities are centered on one place, a funeral home that is decorated with black cloths in each corner

The house was the home of Eda, her childhood friend, as Kina remembered they were good friends before Kina joined her aunt to the city

Since a month ago he arrived, Kina had not yet met Eda to just exchange news

Eda is a man with a thin body with an oriental face but brown skin, he is a little quiet and difficult to guess, from the first he often wore glasses with a red handle that is always hung on his neck

But this time he saw another figure from Eda, the man was crying roaring, not in front of the body of his father who was lying stiff in the middle of the room, but in the corner of the room near the window, he screamed while muttering why at the wide open window

All the mourners ignored him, Kina tried to do the same thing, she sat by the door of Eda's room, they began to recite the prayers quietly, accompanied by sobs of Eda, sobbing, but they were not at all disturbed and continued the prayer

As the funeral process continued they took him to the village public cemetery, with a prayer procession along the way, nothing came out of their mouths other than those prayers, their faces stiff and cold, similarly to his parents, they walked towards the end of the village road, a little into the forest, past the house of Niba's grandmother, the atmosphere was sacred

Kina looked at the house, the big wooden house was tightly closed, there were no signs of life, she wondered where and what Nukas was doing now?

They arrived at the public cemetery, Eda stopped crying he was silent and just stared blankly at the tomb of his father who had been covered in the ground, he was now a kara, his mother was long gone

One by one he began to leave the cemetery when the burial process was complete, as well as Kina, he followed behind his parents, he glanced back at a glance, Kina, Eda was still standing there as if knowing that Kina was watching him, the man raised his head and looked at Kina with a hateful look

Whahuh?

Kina flinched, wondering in her heart what mistake she had made that her little friend looked at her hatefully?