TUMBAL NURSING HOME

CHAPTER 3 THE MYSTERY?

The six students returned to their rooms. Dina was still upset and slammed the door hard. Sintia who did not want to interfere with Dina's affairs was silent, while Widia tried to calm Dina.

"It'll be twelve o'clock soon, don't make any more noise. Do not know why I feel there is something strange in this place, maybe what mom said was right that around this place dangerous. There are no fugitives hiding near here." Said Widia while closing her seat to Dina.

"Have nothing to think about what happened outside the home. I will try to survive in this cursed place, as if I return to get good grades. I want to sleep!" Dina laid her body on the bed, and completely forgot about the cell phone problem that she had been fussing about earlier.

Time passed quickly, after five o'clock in the morning the elderly who were there were already awake. They need help from those students to clean themselves and so on. Sintia who first woke up had helped Nek Siti, then invited her to sit in the backyard. Most of the parents who are there do not really like to be in the light let alone the hot sun. So they will just sit on the backyard terrace or living room only.

"Mom why don't we just sit on the front porch. Isn't the garden in front cooler and shady. Grandma can get some fresh air in there." Sintia said while giving the drug to Nek Siti.

"The front door is always locked Sin, no one can get out without Mariyati's permission. We're also forbidden to go out around the park, just this backyard where our parents sit relaxed when outside the house." Nek Siti sat staring at Sintia's face without blinking, then she gently rubbed Sintia's cheek.

"What's wrong, Grandma? Why did Nek Siti suddenly become moody?"

"It's okay Sin, Grandma only remembers someone."

Suddenly Mariyati came, she came to Sintia and Nek Siti. It seems Mariyati knows that Nek Siti is hiding something from her.

"Sintia go to the kitchen, help Widia to prepare the food. Because Dina is helping Grandma Seized and Grandma Windu take a bath." Mariyati orders with sharp eyes.

After Sintia left, Mariyati had a serious conversation with Nek Siti. He warns Nek Siti to remain silent, and not to talk about things that he has forbidden.

"But Mar, they're innocent. Why do you have to do all this?" Eye of Siti's Gazey Nek.

"Who has the right to decide whether they are guilty or not? Only I can make a decision, and you also know very well what we've agreed to before!" Mariyati then left Nek Siti alone in the backyard.

While in the next building, where the men live there was a commotion. Because Beni and Doni are not good at taking care of the elderly they care for. Grandpa Bimo and Grandpa Dodit slipped out of the bathroom, and the two were forced to sit in wheelchairs. Mariyati who saw the incident was upset, and intended to punish Beni and Doni. But Riko and Grandpa Ridho who know the real events, tell if everything is just an accident. But Mariyati still kekeh in his stance, if Beni and Doni should be punished so that they do not care in guarding the elderly.

"Later in the night you're not allowed to sleep in your room! You two must bear the punishment for neglecting to look after these two Grandfathers." Mariyati said before stepping away.

Grandpa Bimo and Dodit smiled happily to see that the two young men would be punished by Mariyati.

"But Don, said Ms. Mariyati of this place that the night was a bit dangerous."

"Don't make a fuss anymore, quickly bring the two Grandpa to the dining room. We should have breakfast too, lest Bu Mariyati get angry with you guys again!" Riko said while helping to get Grandpa Ridho to walk.

On the first day they helped there, there was still no strangeness or things beyond reason that happened. They do things like people do in general. Sintia was asked to go to the market to buy the necessary groceries. But he ventured to ask, because according to him there are usually those who do the task themselves. But in the Panti it has been a long time no one has done it, because some employees many who resigned because of financial factors. That's what Mariyati explained, only he is a person who takes care and takes care of the elderly there.

"The elderly parents who are here have been abandoned by their families. And no one is financing them anymore, only I am still taking care of and fighting for them all. Of the fifties only the six of them left, I was hard-earned to take care of them alone. And now is the time for them to be able to live more decent lives, of course with the blessing of all of you. All the elderly here can enjoy the feeling of coming back to life and being more useful than ever."

Sintia felt that something was awkward with every sentence Mariyati spoke, even she muttered in her heart.

"Why did Mariyati choose the words it felt like coming back to life, as if they had just risen from the dead. Maybe because they've been abandoned and unkempt for a long time." Inner Cynthia by hooking her two eyebrows.

"Why is Sin really dumb?" Widia asked as she elbowed Sintia's arm.

Mariyati immediately set her eyes on Sintia, then she smiled obliquely by rounding both eyes. Just contact the fine hairs on the body Sintia bristles. He rubbed the back of his neck and shuddered.

"Gue it's okay Wid, you sent me to the market. I'm afraid to be alone!" Sintia said complaining.

"What are you afraid of Sintia? As long as I protect you, nothing will happen to you. Go to the market yourself, because Widia has to help look after Nek Siti while you're gone."

"But ma'am, didn't you ask me to buy a sack of rice for supplies for a few weeks. I'll have trouble bringing it myself."

"Alright then, you can go with Riko. At the end of the rolling road there is the usual delman. Take the delman with Riko, ask the coachman to wait as long as you shop." Mariyati said while calling Riko who was busy cleaning Grandpa Ridho's dinner plate.

While Sintia and Widia are busy with shopping notes, Mariyati takes something from the back of her hair. He pulled out a few strands of hair that suddenly became several hundred thousand bills. Without Mariyati realizing it turns out Dina saw what she just did. Dina looked aghast, she opened her mouth wide as she walked backwards. Dina was terrified to see the magical thing that she saw accidentally earlier.

"Actually that's who Mariyati's mom is, why she can do that. Is he a magician or a shaman of black magic?" Dina's heart was filled with question marks.