The Lost In The Nightmare

That Time has Come

...NIGHTMARE 21'S...

...That Time has Come...

"WHEN IS DINNER OVER?"

The cry of baritone sound was heard all over the corner of the villa. No exception to get into the eardrum of Rizal who is busy with his tablet. He sat quietly in the last room. The difference with before, now a pair of tangah headsets hang in both ears Rizal.

After the shout, shortly afterwards heard incongruously the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs that were getting clearer and clearer.

After the sound of people descending the stairs hastily disappeared, Rizal moved his onyx eyes to turn his gaze toward the origin of the breath. What was caught by his eyes was Kurnia right under the stairs. His breathing is roaring.

Rizal took off next to his headset. "Can you lower your voice, Kur? Even your shout managed to penetrate into my ear who was wearing this headset," said Rizal honestly. "What's wrong with you?"

"I just can't wait for our last dinner here. Know it? The food provided here is very appetizing.." Kurnia chanted at length with full of appreciation.

Since Rizal has got the core answer from Kurnia, one of his hands back to move back to put next to the headset that he released earlier.

Kurnia continued her ongoing chant, "...The food here is completely different from all the food I've tried at various restaurants. Hey, Zal! How do you think the cuisine is here?" He turned his head towards the young man—his best friend. How disappointed he was when he knew a Rizal ignored all the words he had worked so hard to string and say.

Kurnia took a deep breath. "Zal," called out to him in a usual tone of voice.

"Rizal!" He raised his tone slightly from before.

All right, now he's starting to get mad at all this. With a definite step, Kurnia walked closer towards Rizal who was busy struggling with his tablet. Next to his hand moved to forcefully pull the headset to the left of Rizal.

"Zal! Why don't you hear what I'm saying, huh?" kurnia said in a high tone. Kurnia spoke right in front of Rizal's ears.

With a reflex, Rizal closed the ear that had just been shouted at—, according to him—by Kurnia. "What are you doing, Kur? You want to break my eardrum?" rizal's reply did not accept what Kurnia did.

Kurnia. "Why are you the one who's upset? The one who's been the neglected one, isn't it me, why are you the more fierce one?" kurnia said she felt strange about their current situation.

The young man took a long breath. "Why did I hear that useless talk of yours?"

"Zal, your answer is very piercing." The gaze of Kurnia who was staring at Rizal turned stiff.

A slight feeling of guilt approached Rizal. If he thinks again, he is indeed more fierce than Kurnia, even though he himself ignored Kurnia. But, he was also innocent because he only asked for the circumstances, not offered a place to pray.

Because Rizal didn't want any trouble between him and Kurnia as two of the three people were left. He asked her to try to say sorry.

"Kurnia..." Rizal took a breath, "Kur, I..."

"I didn't expect it," as Kurnia would say Rizal's unfinished sentence.

Rizal knitted his two eyebrows. Waiting for Kurnia to finish her sentence.

Kurnia's face put on a serious look. "I did not expect that a Rizal was easily fooled," said Kurnia with a light tone in her last sentence.

As a result, now Rizal's anger can not be detained anymore and Kurnia was inevitably ready to be a victim. Looking at Rizal who was already emitting a black aura around his body, Kurnia tried to calm Rizal's already dark heart. Although he himself also knows that the percentage of success is only a little.

"Kurnia! Killed you!" rizal shouted loudly, although still a little detained.

Rizal quickly pulled Kurnia's hand and twisted the victim's body. One of his arms strangled the neck of Kurnia who was screaming unclear because it was in a precarious condition. Various efforts to escape continue to do so, hoping that there will be a miracle that comes to help him.

"Young Master, dinner is ready," said a waiter—named Rizki— politely. Various questions came to Rizki's mind when he saw what Rizal and Kurnia did there.

Hearing the voice of someone who had said this glad tidings, suddenly Kurnia had the full power to break away from Rizal. Quickly, Kurnia rose from the snare of Rizal's death. "Okay, we'll be there soon!" answer Kurnia out loud.

Kurnia's voice made Rizki aware of all the hypotheses he had. "Huh? Oh, well, I'll wait for you all in the dining room. Excuse me." Rizki turned her back and walked away from the last room.

"Hn," Rizal's response was brief before Rizki walked away from them. Then, he stood up from his seat after he turned off his tablet and removed the two headsets that were stuck in his ear.

"All right! Let's eat!" exclaim Kurnia as loud as possible. In the end, the moment he had been waiting for arrived.

When Rizal and Kurnia walked a few steps from where they were before, Kurnia suddenly remembered something. "Oh yeah, Jihan's still upstairs. Then I'll call him. Zal, you go first, yeah!"

When Kurnia was about to climb the first rung, Rizal's hand pulled the back of Kurnia's shirt until Kurnia almost fell backward if only one of his legs did not move reflexively to hold his body weight.

His heart was pounding because of his shock. "Zal! You want to kill me, huh?" Kurnia again shouted about what Rizal had done to her.

"Let me call Jihan, you go to the dining room first" Rizal orders and is given an interrogating look from Kurnia.

Jealousy—if it could be said so— enveloped the heart of the yellow-faced young man. "Should you call Jihan? I can too." Kurnia scrunched her face, not liking.

"Not so, the problem is I also want to go upstairs to put this thing in the room." Rizal showed the tablet along with the headset in his hand.

Iris Aquamarine Kurnia looked at the thing in Rizal's hand and the face of his best friend in turn. He did not find any deep suspicion. Wait, why would he be worried like this.

"Alright, do as you please." Before Kurnia turned her back and walked out of the room, she said, "I'm waiting for you in the dining room, yes! Not long!" Then, he walked while echoing the tones of his happy feelings.

Seeing Kurnia's behavior made Rizal sigh briefly and he rushed up the stairs to reach the second floor of the villa. Without stopping, his feet immediately stepped towards his room.

Arriving there, he caught a woman sitting on the edge of the bedroom window. He sat back quietly to the back. His head went out the window, not knowing what he saw.

Was he in such a position?

Rizal walked up to the small table that was right next to the mattress to put the tablet and his headset first, then after that he began to move closer to Jihan who was still sitting still not budging in the slightest.

Is he unaware of Rizal's presence?

Out of curiosity, Rizal looked for the right position in order to see the face of Jihan who was still unmoved. Stay invisible. Some strands of hair like trying to block the face hiding in it.

Rizal started to feel a little angry. But, wait. Something's wrong with Jihan. He did not feel Rizal's existence at all. Did he really sleep?

To make sure it was further, Rizal fingers were in action. He bent down, then moved the strands of Rizal's hair by sweeping them to the side and tucking them behind Jihan's earlobe.

Rizal's hand stopped moving. Rizal's heart was racing. Her onyx iris continued to look at the sleeping face of Jihan. Himself for a moment. Somehow he felt that if he saw Jihan from a different point of view, she became more beautiful than usual.

Rizal did not know what to do, all he could do was observe Jihan's face with his sculpting style. Unknowingly, his cold fingers touched Jihan's cheeks.

A shrill voice rang out from the vocal cords of the dark brown haired girl in front of him. His eyelids slowly opened revealing an iris that was the same color as the jade stone inside. Jihan was distracted from her dreamland because she felt something cold running down her face.

When Jihan turned to see what was the cold thing that made her wake up, Rizal and Jihan's eyes clashed against each other.

Onyx and emerald meet.

Jihan gasped to see the face of Rizal who could be said to be close to her and immediately refracted her head by retreating backwards. As a result, the head crowned with dark brown hair hit the wall right behind him.

Jihan grimaced in pain while stroking her aching head. His heart is beating hard.

Seeing the fast events in front of him, Rizal also realized from his daydream. "Ji, are you okay?" rizal asked in a slightly chaotic tone. Rizal extends his hand to help Jihan.

"No," Jihan replied as she parried Rizal's hand, "i'm fine. I'm doing fine. Really."

Oh, goddamn. Why could Rizal do such a thing? He felt like he was in the middle of regretting and not.

"Sorry," Rizal stood straight from his bent position, "i have absolutely no evil intentions with you. I just..." Rizal's brain spins quickly to find a logical reason, "wants to determine whether you are sleeping or not. That's all."

"Then?" ask Jihan again with a little stuttering. He felt the atmosphere between him and the young man in front of him was awkward.

Rizal folded his hands in front of his chest, trying to eliminate the nervousness that suddenly filled his head. "Since you're awake, how about we have dinner soon? Kurnia was waiting for us earlier in the dining room." Subconsciously, the look in his eyes looked sincerely at Jihan.

Jihan's heart was pounding even faster when looked at like that by Rizal, slowly her face was met with red. "Alright, I wash my face first," Jihan replied with a slight stutter at the beginning of the sentence.

"Hn. I'll wait for you outside."

Rizal turned his body. All right, this is crazy. Rizal's heart rate didn't slow down in the least. He did not know what to do, all he knew was that he had to rush out of the room and do something: clear his brain.

When the door of the room was closed, Rizal immediately attached his back to the wall just to the left of the door. He adjusted the rhythm of his messy breathing while closing his eyes and after his breathing was in order, he gulped down his own saliva.

Eyes open. Damnit.

.......

...+++~Lost~++...

.......

Kurnia continued to walk slowly towards the dining room with a faint look in her eyes. Sometimes he grits his teeth. Whether the feeling of what he was feeling, it felt like all the turmoil, disappointment, and regret mixed up in his heart. So did his mind that barged in just like that. Honestly, he didn't want to think about anything negative about what happened with Rizal and Jihan up there. Really don't want to.

He shook his head violently left and right while praying that the mind that cherished his mediocre brain would go away and not come back. Feeling confident with the positive thinking he had, Kurnia also added a hard slap on both cheeks with her own hands.

"Yes! Don't think of useless things! The most important thing is that the food is waiting for me! Come on!" kurnia shouted excitedly as she clenched her hand, then ran small towards the dining room while counting one-two-three over and over like jogging.

In the end he arrived at the dining room that had been awaited by the waiters who usually did work in the field of food preparation.

"Welcome, Young Master! Please enjoy the dishes that are already available," said the waiter tagged Zaki in a friendly voice and sounded a little carefree. "You can sit where it's available."

"Thank you."

Kurnia's legs immediately turned toward one of the chairs in the middle of the rectangular dining table. Shortly afterwards, came a waiter named Rizki approached Kurnia who was advancing her dining chair—seeking a comfortable position.

"Good night, Young Master," Chief Rizki was looking around Kurnia, looking for something, "if you may know, where Miss Jihan and Young Master Rizal are?"

"Ah, they." Kurnia placed her hands limp on the white dining table. "So Rizal went to the second floor to call Jihan for dinner. Wait a minute, they'll come."

Rizki seemed to sigh for a moment, like a relief to something. "It turns out that way."

Kurnia's eyes glared far towards her fingers. "Can I tell you something?"

Hearing Kurnia's question, Rizki felt puzzled for a moment. "Sure, what is it?"

"That's... Later we will—"

"Welcome, Young Master Rizal and Miss Jihan! Please enjoy the dishes that are already available."

"You've been a long time, Zal!" kurnia exclaimed in excitement, her smile expanding on her lips.

"No, I'm just for a minute" elak Rizal casually.

Rizal and Jihan walk in an empty chair close to Kurnia. Whether it was just her feelings or not, but Rizal felt that Kurnia's gaze was directed towards Jihan from her entry until she sat down. When she realized that someone was watching her, Kurnia turned her gaze to the food that was available on the table.

"Excuse me, Young Master, what do you want to say before?" asked Rizki again remembering the words of Kurnia who was cut earlier.

Kurnia shook her head briefly. "No, we'll talk about it after our dinner."

And of course Kurnia's words just caught the attention of Rizal and Jihan who were around him.

"Kur, what is there to talk about?" jihan asked, only answered a silent sizzle of the yellow-faced young man.

With chest roomy, Rizki understood what Kurnia said. "Alright, then enjoy your meal." He politely retreated and stepped away from the dining table.

"Kur, what's wrong?" asked Rizal in a small voice.

A smile was engraved on Kurnia's face. One of Kurnia's hands slowly pulled one of Rizal's ears and whispered something there. And he did the same thing to Jihan. After knowing what Kurnia wanted to say, they started their dinner quietly and quietly. Only the clink of eating utensils was heard in the entire corner of the dining room.

After eating the dessert delivered by the Chief Servant of Indra at the end, Kurnia exclaimed, "I am so full!" patting both his hands on his stomach.

"I told you, if you already know you won't be able to finish food, don't be forced to swallow it completely," jihan said to Kurnia while staring with pity at the condition of Kurnia's stomach which seemed to almost want to break or maybe explode.

"End of..." Kurnia drew closer to Jihan and said in a small voice, "this is the last time we eat in this villa."

Then Kurnia pulled her body back and her head immediately turned towards Rizal who had just looked at her with a deep gaze. "Oi, Zal." Kurnia coded a brief movement of the head towards the servants who were still busy talking to each other.

Rizal sighed for a moment and thought since when he became a part of Kurnia. " Indra, there's something we want to talk about," Rizal called out loudly making the noise of the servants' voices vanish with a flash.

"Yes, Young Master! Can we help you?" reply Indra while stepping forward—near the table that has been swept clean most dominated by Kurnia.

Rizal turned his head towards Indra. "There's nothing important. I just wanted to say that at exactly twelve o'clock tonight, we'll leave this villa."

Instantly, Rizal's assertive statement was able to make all the voices of disbelief the servants filled the void of the dining room.

"If you can tell, what's wrong? Why suddenly?" ask Indra with a little stutter.

Rizal knitted his two eyebrows. "Are we lazy if we leave this villa?"

"No! Not at all." Indra held his breath for a moment. "But, aren't you renting this villa for the next three weeks?"

"Yes, it is." Kurnia takes over Rizal's talks. "But we chose to check-out the villa prematurely for very obvious reasons; we felt uncomfortable with this villa after our friends died unnaturally one by one." Except for Sandi, Kurnia continued in his heart.

"But—"

"Do you mind if we leave prematurely, Chief Servant Indra?" jihan asked to confirm the incongruity in his heart about Indra's behavior.

Indra was silent for a moment, thinking hard about what she should decide. He sighed. "Well, if that's your wish. We apologize for the incident that did not wear—including the tragic incident of our butler, Deni, the former and your four friends." Indra bent his body deeply and was followed by all the servants in the dining room. Farewell.

"There's no need to bend down like that" Jihan said with an uneasy feeling. "We're just guests here."

Indra and the other servants straightened their bodies again. "It's okay, because the guest is king."

Rizal checked the watch hanging in his hand. "Alright, we will also enjoy our last time here as well as we can before we go home later, considering that it is now eight o'clock at night."

The young man got up from his chair and was followed by Jihan and Kurnia, and the three of them walked together out of the dining room. Leaving a number of servants who responded to their departure even though only limited to their backs.

"Do not hesitate to call us to help you one last time even if it only helps to lift items from your room to your baggage!" zaki exclaimed loudly before Kurnia, Rizal, and Jihan disappeared from the eye peluk.

Zaki's sentence was only responded to a one-handed rapture by Kurnia in passing.

And the atmosphere of the dining room and the gazes of the servants' eyes slowly turned into a cold, lifeless ice stone.

.......

...+++~Lost~++...

.......

A dark brown-haired girl was standing on the front porch of the second floor of the villa looking at the dark sky that was being decorated by a crescent moon and grained with small stars scattered in the sky, the mood tonight. It seemed that he was being pleased today; it was visible from his tears and clear green eyes. Well, of course he was happy because soon they would be leaving the villa.

Her sweet smile infused sincerely on her face. He folded his hands together to reduce the coldness that pierced his fingers. Water vapor shot out from his small mouth as he exhaled deeply. Very large temperature difference.

A few seconds later, he pulled the left arm of his jacket and saw something hanging on his left wrist.

"It's ten o'clock in the night."

Suddenly there was the sound of the howling of night animals from a distance, making the peaceful atmosphere of the night in an instant turn into horror. Jihan shuddered at the scary thing. He no longer wanted to remember the tragic things that happened here, and in his life.

"I'd better get to the room to tell Kurnia and Rizal to hurry up and pack the luggage" Jihan told herself.

Leisurely, Jihan also stepped her feet one by one to the villa room of her two male friends who were not far from the terrace she had occupied. Her hand held the door handle and opened it.

There, Rizal looks out the window with the window open and Kurnia who is urgently on the mattress.

"Zal, Kur, it's ten o'clock!" yell Jihan after getting into the room. The door was still left open a little.

Kurnia immediately sat down from her sleeping position. "It's ten o'clock?" One of his hands threw a pillow high up and he quickly caught it. "Finally... I finally got a job!" yelled Kurnia girang after a long time he languished in the room with Rizal— which he thought was annoying a while ago—because it is forbidden to roam considering Kurnia is the type of person who is not easy to find when needed and suddenlyit appears when his stomach is hungry.

Rizal turned his head towards Jihan who was still standing not far from the door. A gust of night wind that snuggles in and blows a pinch of bangs that are on the left and right sides.

Jihan gave a small laugh hearing Kurnia's pleas that were missed. "Congratulations, Kur."

To be sure further, Rizal's onyx eyes glanced at his own watch clock. Ten o'clock in two minutes. "It's ten o'clock now. Jihan packed up your luggage that was still here and that was in your room with Novi. And Kurnia, you're here packing your luggage with me."

"Alright," Jihan said in her usual tone and immediately rushed out towards her room.

"Yes, sir!" replied Kurnia firmly while putting her hand on the temple— forming a respectful attitude.

Rizal and Kurnia immediately rushed to collect all the goods and bags one by one and put everything on the mattress. The two of them were so busy with their own inborns that there was no conversation going on between them, which was heard only a few lines of cut-off songs that were sung by Kurnia. Describe his feelings now.

Rizal was busy folding all his dirty clothes, then neatly stuffing everything into an empty bag that he deliberately carried one by one. It was inversely proportional to what Kurnia was doing right next to her. Since Kurnia is a young man who is too simple to make himself not want to take the hassle, he put all his belongings carelessly, which is important to enter.

Iris Aquamarine Kurnia occasionally glanced towards Rizal who was still busy with his clothes. "Zal, why can't my bag be zipped? I don't add anything to my stuff. Just buy no."

Hearing Kurnia calling his name, Rizal was forced to turn his eyes towards Kurnia without stopping his hand activities to see what was really happening.

Rizal let out a bitter breath. "Of course you won't be able to zip your bag, the way you put things in is wrong. Can't you fold it first?"

Rizal's question was responded to by a slow ring by Kurnia. Kurnia's eyes looked at Rizal with a gaze begging for a hint from him.

Rizal is forced to lay off his activities when his eyes catch the glare of Kurnia's eyes which he already knows what it means.

"Take all your stuff back, I'll show you how. Follow me," Rizal orders Kurnia and immediately executes as quickly as possible because Rizal is the type who does not like to wait.

Rizal taught Kurnia slowly how to fold good and right clothes, then had the yellow-faced young man memorize them and do it himself slowly but surely. When Kurnia can do it herself, Rizal starts taking it off and reverts back to his abandoned clothes a few minutes ago.

"Zal, actually I still feel guilty for killing Sandi" Kurnia said as she folded her clothes with all her might.

"Why?" reply Rizal indifferently.

Kurnia was silent for a moment. "I don't know, I don't know either."

Rizal looks at Kurnia at a glance through the tail of his eyes, then looks back at the clothes he was folding. "It's okay, let's just say you killed Sandi's body that was possessed by another soul because she was long dead."

Hearing Rizal's reply which was able to make his heart slightly calm, made Kurnia's smile again expand. "Thank you, Zal!"

"Hn, I also want to thank you for killing him to protect me."

Not only did Kurnia express her happy expression because Rizal said a word of thanks for her, Rizal had preceded her first.

"But I was offended when you told the reverse of the fact of Sandi's death in front of the servants on the grounds that 'my face was battered and limp' which in fact was not."

Kurnia's mind drifted back to the time where she told him all her silly excuses in front of the servants. "Ah, that time... I'm sorry, Zal, I was so desperate that I was forced to say things with powerful supporting words to draw their sympathy for us."

Rizal rolled his eyeballs. "I already know. And did you know that your words still have flaws that would be fatal to you? First, there's no fingerprint password on the katana handle because you said it was Sandi who killed herself. Second, the position of the sword that pierced through the Password from behind was absurd. Where's the guy who killed himself with a katana but stabbed himself in the back?"

Hearing Rizal's explanation made Kurnia slightly shudder in fear so she stopped her activities. "Oh, right too. If I get caught going to jail, how? What am I eating there? Lalu—" Kurnia dismissed his words because he suddenly remembered something he had intentionally forgotten a moment ago.

Rizal raised his eyebrows. His head turned towards Kurnia. "Then?"

"No, it's okay." Kurnia continued the event of folding her clothes slowly. And so did Rizal.

When Kurnia was busy stuffing the clothes she had folded into the bag and picking up another shirt to fold, her mind floated between the two options. It took him a few and a half minutes until he finally took a deep breath and convinced himself.

"Rizal, may I ask you something?"

"Eh."

"Do you love Jihan?"

Kurnia's words succeeded in making Rizal stop his activities. He looked at Kurnia confused. "What's? What exactly do you want to say?"

Feeling that Rizal will not answer his question, Kurnia also changed the question he asked. "Zal, can I say something?"

All right, Kurnia's second question is getting unreadable by Rizal— as to which direction this conversation will take.

"Rizal, I.." said Kurnia firmly and loudly. His head fell towards Rizal, his gaze deep, ".loving Jihan."

...~Lost In Nightmare~...

...The To Be Continued…...