The River House

25. Disputes

At 2 pm, the sky began to show its blue color. Rainwater leaves a fine drizzle drizzle and muddy wet soil in the yard. Everyone gathered in the living room. Bayu, Ellie, Hendra, Iva, also Denis and Norita who came last.

"You guys are so old?" Iva grumbled annoyedly at Denis and Norita.

"The name is also the missing person's name, yes long ago," Denis replied casually.

"Nori, what's wrong with you? How do you look tired?" Ask Ellie wonder. He noticed Norita's sluggish attitude.

"What is it. Tired anyway," Norita smiled at a glance.

"You met Mella, or maybe you found something?" Bayu asked full of questions.

"No," Denis shook his head quickly.

"Okay, here's to you guys who just came in, Denis and Norita. We just made the decision to no longer be a leader among us, give instructions, organize our activities and so on. The point is we're free to move on our own" Hendra glanced at Bayu at a glance, then turned to look at Denis and Norita.

"Well agree anyway. There is no reason to panic. Dipta could have been killed choking, right? Wasn't he still avenging WA mu Hen this morning?" Denis asked Hendra.

"Oh, Ah. .iya anyway, right," Hendra seemed to remember.

"For me it doesn't matter, whatever you want to do, just do it. Self-safety is the responsibility of each now," Bayu chimed. He felt cornered by his friend.

Bayu stood up from his seat, then stepped away towards the front door.

"Where are you going Bay?" Ellie asked.

"I want to find Galang," Bayu answered briefly, then immediately stepped out of the house.

After Bayu, the living room feels quieter. No one talks to each other, busy with their own thoughts.

"Is he offended?" Norita asked after a long moment of silence.

"See," Denis shrugged both of his shoulders.

"Denis, aren't you one of the people Bayu suspects?" Ellie asked Denis.

"Ah yaa, I'm under suspicion for finding Dipta's body. Also because I wasn't with you when the host emerged from his room. The time that Yodi disappeared from the guest room" Denis said, scratching his eyebrows. He clearly seemed uneasy about it.

"I thought it was baseless suspicion" Norita said, trying to defend Denis.

"Bayu, by the way, is actually also a person who deserves suspicion" said Hendra casually.

"Can't you?" Ellie frowned.

"Yes yes dong. He's the one who checked the Creator alone. Asking us not to come closer. He said in Dipta's mouth there was a pandan steamed cake. No one knows what the truth is? What if he's lying? What if Bayu knows something and doesn't tell us? I could never believe it," Hendra seemed fiery with his words.

"alright. Why don't we try to check the body of Dipta to prove Bayu is lying or not?" Ellie gave advice.

Denis and Norita look at Ellie's question.

"OK, come on," Hendra looked excited.

"It's lunch time. Cook the hell we wanna see a corpse? Appetite can be lost later," Norita grumbled disapprovingly.

"You have eaten first. Let the others examine Dipta's body" Hendra chimed in.

"You can be alone, right? In the kitchen there is Mak Ijah. I wonder about it. I was the first to find the body of Dipta. But I didn't get to see it and check it out" Denis replied. Norita pouted, her lips looking manyunly irritated.

Hendra, Denis, Ellie and Iva head upstairs. Norita was left alone in the living room. Striking her feet, Norita walked towards the kitchen. He was really upset, especially with Denis.

Hendra, Denis, Ellie and Iva got to the top floor and headed straight to Dipta's room. Hendra opened the door of the unlocked room. The body of Dipta still remains in place. Nothing had changed, the condition of the room was exactly the same as when they left it this morning.

Ellie, Denis and Iva approach the body of Dipta. The body of Dipta begins to undergo decomposition or decay process. So that began to arise the aroma of unpleasant aroma.

Iva held her nose. In his heart he confirmed what Norita had said earlier. She should have just gone with Norita to the dining room. Curiosity in his mind led Iva to check on the body of Dipta. And that decision he regrets now. His stomach feels stirred. Dizziness and nausea feel excruciating.

And when Dipta's body was examined, in fact Bayu did not lie. A piece of green cake is at the tip of the base of the Dipta's tongue. Some flies have gone there.

Denis and Iva could not stand it, immediately took a few steps back from the body of Dipta. While Ellie still survives observing the corpse of her classmate.

"Why are you Hen? Don't you see?" Ask Denis to Hendra who had just drowned next to the Dipta bed.

"You have seen. I'm enough of a witness, anyway" Hendra reasoned.

"The wood is not lying. There is a piece of cake that is still intact at the base of the Created tongue. Cakes that are not chewed. Obviously the cake was stuffed into Dipta's mouth when she was dead. Which means that the Creator did not die of choking, but because of other causes that we do not know" Ellie assures.

"What do we do now?" Ellie looked at one by one her friends who were now standing.

"Hendra, you were the one who strongly criticized Bayu. You are also the one who invited us to examine the corpse of the Creator. Now that you're silent, you're not making a big wig," Ellie looked at Hendra with a piercing glare.

"Why blame me? Yes now it's up to each dong to how," Hendra defended himself. 

Hendra was still occasionally in a daze, like he was looking for something. Then he came out of the room without speaking a word.

"Fuck, he's gone, '" Ellie grumbled furiously.

Denis, Ellie, and Iva leave the room. Ellie closed the door again, leaving the body of the Creator as it was, not knowing what to do. 

"Pity Created. Shouldn't we bury him properly?" Denis. He looks concerned.

"Our position is wrong. If we bury what if the family does not accept it later? It is not clear what he died for. Perhaps the most correct thing is that we contacted the health department, or the police to get them to come here" Ellie murmured.

"Yes anyway. But how to contact parties out there, when the wifi network is off is not clear" Denis said.

"Some one should get out of this house, go to the village, seek the help of the citizens. Or we'll just go home this afternoon together" Ellie said.

"Huh? Wait for tomorrow, and we'll just go home. Tomorrow there are people coming here" Iva chimed in.

"Yes Ell. I don't agree with your idea this time, '" Denis refused.

"You're more concerned with 200 million dollars apparently," Ellie said cynically.

"Yes, that's not Ell. We can't go home today. The terrain that we have to pass is too difficult when heavy rain has just flushed. What about Mella anyway? A yodi? They haven't met, have they? Do we leave it without clarity? We better wait for the villagers who come to deliver the money tomorrow" Denis reasoned.

Ellie sighed. A sense of annoyance, annoyance, and helplessness raged in his mind. It may be true what Bayu said that everyone who came to this house deserves to be suspected. Because for them the life of an old friend is not very important. The most important thing for them is money.

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