The Enchantment of the Pelintrik

The Enchantment of the Pelintrik
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Irma was pensive in the room remembering the prophecy Elz had delivered three years ago. He no longer works at a mobile phone store, but opens a grocery store at home. While her husband still manages the salon that has been their business for years.


The goddess married her lover. Elz was right, Dewi had already taken her close friend's husband. Then Nanik, in the span of three years of miscarriage twice, pregnant whose three children were born alive but died after the age of one year.


Elz's predictions on Nadia proved the most telling. In just three months since Elz's prediction, Nadia married one of the mobile phone shop workers who was not far from the location where they worked first.


Is it all a coincidence? Or is Elz right when reading someone's future?


Irma still does not believe in Elz's prophecy about her. His life has not changed. The household is adem ayem without any turmoil. For the past three years, her husband has been in good health. There was no indication of pain that could justify that she would be abandoned by her husband.


Today, the sembako stall deliberately closed early because both children were fussing over playing monopoly. Irma chose to accompany the two at home, and deliver them to sleep after they finished playing. Coincidentally his house is only ten meters from the stalls and salons that are right on the side of the road.


Irma opened her cell phone, browsing social media while waiting for her husband to come home. The new salon will close in one hour, if there are no customers, at the latest her husband until the house one hour and ten minutes.


While resisting sleepiness, Irma shifted the screen to check the price of basic food in the market and culinary in efbe. She knew that her husband was also online, probably because there were no customers in the salon, so her husband relaxed.


Irma sent a message to her husband, asking the salon to be closed only if there were no customers. After all they have earned quite a lot of money today, both from the food stalls and from the crowded salon since noon.


Her husband replied that he did not feel tired and felt sorry if he had to close quickly. Irma relented even though she wanted to be alone with her husband immediately after tired of watching the stall all day.


For the next hour, Irma saw her husband stay online. They no longer communicate via chat. Irma guessed that in the last hour no more customers came.


Irma squirms, “I'm waiting for you, Mas. Want to have dinner?”


“You take a shower first, so hot!” answer Beni. He went out of the room to clean himself up.


Irma came out of the room to prepare her husband's dinner. Her already heavy eyes grew heavier as she waited for her husband who was not coming out of the bathroom. He sat for thirty minutes at the dinner table.


Irma almost knocked on the bathroom door, but stopped her from hearing her husband speak. Irma clasped her ears on the closed bathroom door, trying to steal the conversation.


She faintly heard her husband talking over the phone with someone, in a soft and cheerful tone. Occasionally laughing crisply as if their jokes were very pungent.


Erma frowned questioningly, since when did her husband have the habit of going to the bathroom with a cell phone? And the phone in that sealed room was over thirty minutes?


Irma's mind is full of negative assumptions. The existence of other dream women who are present in his household is the main suspicion compared to other things.


Irma's heart was racing, of the many possibilities that crossed her mind, she was reminded of Elz and his prophecy.


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