The Empty House

Chapter 5 Where am I?

Sintia was somewhere she was not familiar with. The place was full of big trees. This place is new to Sintia, so she doesn't know where she is.

"Where am I?"

"Eat and don't talk too much!"

A voice shocked Sintia.

"Si...who are you?"

Are they human or ghost?

"Seehi...hihihi....."

A woman came down from the top of a tree by floating. His hair was falling to the ground. Her clothes were white from her neck to cover her legs.

Did he step on the ground?

Sintia is getting scared.

"I want to go home?"

"Hihihi...hihihi....home? Where to?"

"My house.." replied Sintia trembling.

"Mother. Get me out of here....."

Sintia increasingly frightened bketija to see the dishes served.

"Doc...."

"That's not noodles. That's maggots....!"

"Seehi...hihihi.....!" The woman in white only laughed gigglingly seeing Sintia terrified and trembling.

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Elsewhere, Rangga shouted and called out to Sintia.

"Synthia! You where? Get outside! Don't hide! Not funny to know! It's night....!"

Rangga continued to scream and think if Sintia was hallucinating again and play hide and seek with her.

His mother also searched upstairs and downstairs.

"Sintia. It's night. You haven't eaten since,"

Pak Karya also went to look for Sintia around the house.

"Where sir? Have you met?"

Pak Karya seemed to shake his head in a doldrums.

"It's already night. Where did the boy go?"

Mr. Karya was completely confused by this situation.

"It's night, sir. Sintia is also new here. He has no acquaintances or friends. I'm worried about his departure,"

Suddenly Rangga also came down from the stairs and looked at his father and mother.

"How's gang? You found traces of your sister?"

His mother was very anxious and hoped that Rangga would know where Sintia was.

Rangga shook his head slowly and his face was also sad.

The three of them gathered and thought. They remembered where Sintia had gone.

Two hours have passed. The cooked food was not touched at all.

They were all not hungry when they were hungry before. All the hunger was gone because just thinking about Sintia alone.

"Where did the boy go?"

His mother came out and stood at the gate of her new home.

"Sir, I'm going to the people's house. Who knows if anyone saw Sintia,"

"Yes already. Let's go over there! The ladder! You stay home!"

Pak Karya and Bu Ratih then went out and would find Sintia to the village and ask some residents.

"What a lonely yes sir," said Mr. Ratih as she walked with her husband to the village.

"The name is also kampung bu. Same thing in town. This hour they're in bed...."

"What time is it, sir?"

Tanya Bu Ratih turned to her husband's wrist.

"Four ten Ma'am...."

"Mom's just getting worried, man,"

"Relax Mom.we're trying to find Sintia. Or hopefully he's home,"

"Yes sir. At home there is Rangga,"

Rangga sat in the guest room alone. He wishes Sintia home before her mother's father returns.

The sound of wind gusts whispered between the friction of the sound of leaves. Suddenly I heard a whistling from the top of the cliff.

Rangga turned his head there and observed who was whistling earlier.

As Rangga stood, the gate opened by itself.

Kreeekkkk!

"Who's there?"

Rangga stepped up to peek out of the window. Maybe it was the father or Sintia who came.

As one of his hands slowly closed the window, someone stood right in front of him.

"Geez!"

He was shocked and retreated until he fell.

"What was that?"

He had not yet gotten up, suddenly a plastic chair floated towards him.

"Viiiii!"

Rangga held the chair with his one hand.

He stood up and walked to the bathroom.

"Who's got this water? Mother nih. Must've forgotten the tap water,"

Rangga then turned the faucet water and now the bathroom lights suddenly died.

"Woiii! Who turned the lights on!"

"Ehh, why am I yelling! I am the only one in this house. Sintia does not exist. Mom and Dad too, ah shit!"

Crews!

When Rangga was about to open the door, suddenly the bathroom door could not be opened, as if locked from the outside.

"Who else is ngunci nih door!"

"Dad! Mama!"

There is no lawfulness.

Even the loud music in his room now sounded like someone was dancing there. His voice is so noisy.

"Who knows the music. Is Sintia home,"

"Sinthea....! Open door! I'm in the bathroom! Scribbles!"

Rangga shouted from the bathroom but his voice was drowned by the loud sound of music.

"Synthia! Cepetan bouquet! It smells!"

The music and some of the voices of the children were heard on the upper floor.

"Who's there! That's a lot...."

Rangga still does not understand who besides himself is in this house.

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Sintia is under a shady tree and surrounded by supernatural beings with various appearances.

"Go you guys...don't bother me...."

Sintia was getting scared but the spirits were laughing as if he was a toy to them.

A disembodied hand walked towards him and lifted the plate from the plastic containing the maggots.

Hiiii.....

Sintia grimaced in disgust.

"Hem, eat. It's delicious!"

One of the spirits spoke to Sintia with a sharp look at her.

"Related! Go all of you! I don't want to eat...!"

He wanted to run, but his feet felt so bad.

He looked around only dark and full of trees.

He also realized that he was currently under a large banyan tree.

Sintia would slowly lift her legs to run, but suddenly a living root wrapped around her legs.

"Let go!"

The roots had already tied his legs. Sintia can't run anymore.

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Mr. Karya and Mr. Ratih spoke to a man named Mr. Bayan.

"I and the people will help find the mother's child. Now we have to find him, too,"

"Yes sir..mari...."

The residents and both Sintia's parents used torches to search for her whereabouts.

"Synthea!"

"Synthea!"

They walked down the path to the river. Some are looking towards the forest and some towards the river.

Pak Karya and Bu Ratih also come with them.

Now they are down the slippery road to the river. On the bank of the river was a large banyan tree.

They're heading there.

"Let's go there!"

"Synthea!"

His mother screamed to him. And Sintia was aghast. He who was already very desperate now felt relieved.

He heard his mother's voice calling him.

"Mother.....!"

Sintia yells.

And the ghosts suddenly disappeared from before him. There are no ghosts left.

"Mother.I'm here.....!"

"I heard the voice of Sintia!"

Madam Ratih stopped her way. The people stopped too.

"Mom.I'm under a banyan tree!" Sintia shouted again.

He also tried to untie the tree roots at his feet. And when he was released, his mother and the citizens were walking towards him with torches.