The Terror of the Rapist

Sketch of the Face of the Rapist

Melani felt her heartbeat beating fast and her breathing gasping. Melani peeked through the window curtain. The man in a kapucong jacket stood in front of the gate looking at the house. Melani is getting tense. He closed the curtains. His heart was filled with anxiety and fear. Don't-don't that guy…? Not yet able to continue his conjecture, suddenly someone patted him from behind.

Melani was shocked.

“What's up, Mel? How come you're such a scared person?” ask Miss Marni who is standing behind her.

“Anu, Ma'am .…” Melani gets nervous while pointing out.

Miss Marni flicked the window curtain. He didn't see anything.

“That's what? There was no one outside, ” he said.

Melani looked outside. That guy no longer exists. Melani breathed a sigh of relief.

“Indeed do you see what fear is?” ask her mother again.

“There are people following me, Mom,” Melani replied.

“Not you go with Ipang?”

“Iya, Mom. But when Ipang left me and went home, I saw someone wearing a hooded jacket on the road leading up to me. I'm afraid he's the one .…”

Miss Marni smiled a little. “That's just your feeling, Mel. He couldn't have dared to come here,” he said.

Melani remained silent. Maybe it was true, his mother said.

“Already, mendingan you enter the room and rest. It was night,” said Ms. Marni then told Melani to sleep.

Melani went into the room. He did not immediately lie down to sleep, but sat pensively thinking about the incident earlier. He was pretty sure the guy in the kapucong jacket was stalking him. Is that Deni? It doesn't feel possible. When he left the cafe, Deni was still there. There was no way he would catch up so quickly. Surely that guy was the criminal who raped her. Thinking of this, Melani shuddered in horror.

As Deni suggested, he should report this matter immediately to the police. He believes that the person with the characteristics as Deni told him was the culprit. With this belief Melani can then go to sleep peacefully. However, either because of thinking too much about this to get carried away into a dream. Melani dreams that the rapist has been caught by the police. He wears a mask to cover his identity. Melani was told to take off her mask. But just now Melani's hand is about to open it, suddenly ….

“Kriiing ...!”

The sound of the alarm clock waking him up. Melani awake. Melani hasn't seen the rapist's face. Although it was only a dream, but it did not stop making him upset.

That morning Melani went to the office. As he promised Deni, he met Diah to deliver his message. Deni wants Diah to return to her and repair their broken love affair. But it seems that Diah is not ready to meet and re-establish a relationship with Deni.

“My heart is still sick by his deeds,” said Diah gave her reason.

“Deni says she is sorry and wants to apologize,” Melani said.

“For easy to say sorry. I need proof and seriousness. And again for now I'm not ready to open the door of the heart for her. My heartache has not gone away ...”

“But you still love him, right?”

Diah was still down. His face looks bad. Melani can read there are still doubts, but at the same time the anxiety on the girl. Maybe deep down Diah still loves Deni. Given that they have been in a relationship for quite a while. But a woman's heart is not like a fickle cloud. Once his heart is hurt, it takes time and the right medicine to heal it.

“Ya, already, In. I can understand your feelings. I'll tell Deni. I was also lazy to talk to him again. I wouldn't want to see him after what he did to us. But suddenly yesterday she showed up to see me. He said if he knew who the villain was,” Melani said later.

“Iya, On. On the night of the incident, he actually came here to see you, but he didn't. He said he saw people wearing kapucong jackets coming out of the building. Deni doesn't know him. But he saw the characteristics of the person there was a tattoo on his forehead,” Melani said.

“You believe the talk? Deni's a liar, Mel.”

“Yes, I didn't believe it either. But last night when I came home, I stalked people with traits like Deni.” mentioned

“Terus...?”.

“Yaa …. I intend to report this to the police. I wish the police could sketch the criminal's face like the traits Deni mentioned. I'd like to take you to the police station by noon. You want to, right?”

“Why didn't Deni report, did he see the guy?”

“Deni doesn't want to meet the police. He said there was again a legal dispute with his family.”

“Yes, just look later, Mel. If there is no work I will accompany you.”

“Thank you, Di.”

　

　

And that afternoon at lunch break, Melani and Diah went to the police station. Investigative officers received Melani's latest report. They then sketched the face according to the characteristics expressed by Melani. Not long ago the rapist's face sketch was done. Melani is then shown to be sure. For a moment Melani looked at him carefully. Instantly the shadowy prowess of that tragic event filled his memory room.

There's something churning in Melani's chest. Every time he remembered that very bitter incident, his soul seemed to be shaken violently. Melani like wanting to cry as well as yelling vent her pain. But that feeling can only be harbored. This causes hot magma in the chest. Melani tries to keep remembering, but there are doubts and worries. He was still not quite sure if that person's face was really the criminal who had raped her.

To be honest Melani never saw the face of the villain. Everything is still blurry and dark. But there is a belief that what Deni says is true. Especially when the incident happened yesterday when he was followed by a mysterious man. His figure is in accordance with the picture Deni told. So Melani thought the sketch of the face was correct.

“How, Mel? Is he really the one?” tanya Diah breaks Melani's daydream.

Melani was silent as if hesitant to answer.

“Saudari must make sure this is the real person? If yes, then we will immediately spread this face sketch and assign him as DPO,” said the officer.

“How, Mel?” Diah repeated the question.

Melani finally nodded. Diah was relieved. Officers immediately recorded and processed the new report. When Melani and Diah say goodbye, then leave the police station, Diah expresses his delight.

“Hopefully the criminal was caught immediately after the picture of his face was circulated by the police. Usually if the face of the criminal has been spread and made DPO, then just wait for the time he will definitely be caught,” said Diah sure.

Melani just nodded. I don't know if he should be relieved and happy. But there was something still stirring in his heart.