The River House

42. The foreign room

GLODAAKKK

A body tied to a wooden chair fell to the floor. A pair of eyes blinked, watching his surroundings. An unfamiliar room, with gold colored wall paint and some beautiful ornaments attached.

Mella curled up, feeling pain in her left shoulder. The temple was sore and sore because it had just hit the marble floor quite hard. He wanted to scream, but his mouth was clad in cloth, and was glued with black duct tape on his lips.

Mella tries to move her hands and feet, but it's free. His entire body was full of rope tied tightly to a wooden chair that was now lying on the floor with him.

Mella still has a hard time remembering what happened to her. Because he had just woken up when the sound of the door being pounded from outside. He tried to remember what had happened to him, and where was he now?

Mella composed one by one the memories in her mind. After walking down the street with Ellie and Iva she decides to return to her room. While Ellie and Iva at that time said they wanted to go around looking at the river.

Mella enters Zainul's house through the back door. And when he reached the front hall of the bathroom, he was smothered from behind. Mella had no idea who the person who was embracing and smothering her so tightly. The cloth with an intoxicating aroma was also coagulated on Mella's nose and mouth. He eventually fainted, unconscious.

Mella doesn't know how long she fainted and where she is now. Clearly, he is currently in danger. Someone kidnapped him, for what purpose.

Mella doesn't want to just keep quiet. However, he must try to escape from the bond. Body squirming. Mella moved her bound leg. But free, the rope on his hands, waist, knees and ankles using a dead knot that is really tight.

Mella's breath sounded heavy. The sweat washed his body. His stomach suddenly felt sore. Mella thinks she might have fainted all day. Because thirst and hunger are so pronounced. 

What time is it now? Is it morning, day or night? Mella really doesn't know the time. And it is human nature, ignorance always raises anxiety in the heart. 

In anxiety and confusion, Mella can only cry, lamenting her fate. He remembered his life far from perfect. When his old friend was married and married, he was still friends with solitude.

Being alone and lonely is not an option. Even if you can choose, Mella also wants to be like her other friends. But in fact, as hard as he tried and tried in fact the soul mate never came.

There's a lot of mouths out there that say Mella's too picky. In fact, he has failed many times in a relationship. Everyone who has ever approached him, in the end always leads to separation. Mella is not a voter, but she never had a choice.

Mella meets a simple young man. A traveling greengrocer whom he knew while shopping at the parent market of the city. A pretty handsome young man though not yet established. She is younger than Mella, who has reached three heads. Mella and the young man decide to start a serious relationship.

Unfortunately, it cannot be denied, profit cannot be achieved. Mella comes to meet Zainul's invitation, for the promised money. With the money, she plans to prepare a proposal until the wedding. Because waiting for his partner to be ready materially, in fact, is quite difficult.

And that plan, instead, led him to danger. Mella is now bound and gagged in her mouth. In a helpless state, he could only pray, pleading for salvation.

Mella tried to shift her body. He was trying to look towards the source of the sound. But it's quite difficult. The wooden chair was very heavy on his body. 

After several attempts, he finally managed to shift the position of his body. He's facing the other direction. And the corner of his eye saw a terrible sight.

The male figure, shirtless was tied up and his body was spread out in a corner of the room. It was clear that his upper body was full of burns. There were tens or even hundreds of cigarette marks on his chest that were full of sweat.

Mella watched carefully. The man who was tortured was Denis. His mouth was also stuffed with black plaster. His arm looks full of cuts. A thick red liquid dripped from the injured vein.

Denis, the local selebgram as well as the reliable musician looks helpless. The look in his eyes is sweet. The light of life has faded. There was no hope in his face anymore. Mella knew Denis had given up on the pain she felt.

The breath that Mella heard earlier, was the last sound of Denis. Slowly his chest puffed up and shook. The next second his head was down, no more movement. His diaphragm and stomach were no longer moving to pump oxygen.

Mella was crying so hard. He tried to scream, and scream. But for nothing, his voice could not come out. His mouth was tightly closed. Constantly forcing to scream can even endanger himself. He can choke and have difficulty breathing.

At the same time, Bayu sat in the corner of the bed. He became a prisoner of his friend. The room is locked from the outside, also the suspicion of some people, making Bayu choose to be silent and not move.

Although as if he resigned, Bayu actually did not give up. Currently he was writing down on the notebook, what strategy should he do next. He had begun to guess who the villain, who had killed one by one the invited guests of the Rich Man.

There is evidence, but it still feels weak. Bayu has also completed his analysis, how Yodi and Dipta were killed. And if he didn't hear wrong, the guy outside the room was arguing about Tia's death. 

Bayu sighed, closing his notebook. He switched, picking up a dark red-coated book. A shabby book lying on the bed. Bayu grabbed it, and opened the first page.

"Sow harvest. Everyone will get a reward according to his actions," Bayu read the quote on the initial page printed italics.

Bayu closed the book in his hand.

"Everyone was killed, as they had done to Zainul. Yodi is locked in a closet. The one who choked on a piece of bread. Tia was bitten by a stray dog. That means most likely Denis will die with a cigarette on his body. Then the others? That is. . .," Bayu muttered to himself. He did not continue his sentence.

Bayu was silent, his mind was distant. He is the one who believes in the law of cause and effect. Everything that happens in life today is always caused by past actions.

Connect___