WOMEN AND GRAVES
ARE YOU REALLY A GHOST?
“So, your father used to be a guardian and grave digger?” ask the beautiful ghost while hovering in front of Kumal.
Kumal nodded in confirming. Hem, somehow the two of them got along so quickly. In fact, Tadi Kumal was so frightened that it was not the power to stand up again, and the beautiful ghost also tried to play tricks on the young man who had just opened his inner eyes.
“You must love him very much. Hem, I want to see your father.”
“My father is dead,” replied Kumal quickly. He lowered his head and looked sad.
“I'm sorry,” that pretty ghost feels guilty. “I don't mean to bring up that problem.”
“It's okay, Miss. Anyway, in a minute maybe I'll meet him.”
The beautiful ghost floated up and approached out of curiosity at the Kumal remark. “Meet? Is your father a ghost like me”.
“Didn't my inner eye have opened, so I can see the father again even though he's dead.”
The beautiful ghost patted the eel, forgetting that Kumal had just opened his inner eyes, which meant that the young man was still a novice. Beautiful Ghosts are encouraged to explain the ghost in more detail. He felt that it was important for a beginner's inner eye opener like Kumal.
“Listen to me carefully.” Beautiful Ghost floated up and sat on the gravestone on the Kumal side. “Not everyone dies will be a ghost, O Boy.”
Kumal gasp. “You mean, I won't be able to meet you? Wh why? Why?”
“Listen to me first, boy, don't argue before the adults finish talking.”
“I don't like you calling me a boy,” Kumal said so annoyed by the call ‘Bocah’.
“Why don't you like me calling a boy, aren't you still a kid?”
“You don't see, we're flat. Why would an obnoxious ghost like you behave as if you were older.”
“Hem,” Beautiful Ghosts think for a moment. “How old are you?”
“Two three. You?”
“If you count any more maybe I'm four or fifty years old.”
Kumal gawking wonder. “How can you be that old, when you really look young and beautiful?”
Beautiful Ghost giggled and blushed in embarrassment hearing that. “No need to praise me ‘cantik’ all.”
“Indeed so the reality.”
“You're too honest, boy. All right, I'll explain so that you don't get confused and show a buffalo-like face.”
Kumal was a bit upset when Beautiful Ghost called herself a Buffalo. In addition to ‘bocah’ said ‘kerbau’ is also quite insulting. And as Beautiful Ghost said, he would not argue before the ghost completed its explanation.
“That ghost doesn't age, boy. It will not be gray or wrinkled. Ghosts are eternal. The age and clothing that man wears before death, will affect the appearance and clothing when he becomes a ghost. If he dies young and becomes a ghost, he will become a ghost. If he dies in old age and becomes a ghost, then he becomes an old ghost. If he died when he was a toddler and became a ghost, then he became a baby ghost, although there are rarely baby ghosts in this world.”
Kumal mangosteen listen to the explanation of Beautiful Ghost, because all that can be useful science for him as a person who has opened the inner eye. Not only that, Beautiful Ghost also explained many things related to ghosts.
Beautiful Ghosts say, not everyone who dies will become a ghost. The dead will become ghosts if there is unresolved business while still alive. It can also be called the spirit of heaven. So therefore, not necessarily Kumal can meet with the father, because maybe the father is calm in heaven there.
Beautiful Ghosts also say that the clothes worn by ghosts are the last clothes he wears before he dies. Because Beautiful Ghost died in the hospital, it is not surprising that he wore patient clothes like now. In addition, ghosts can also feel hunger, heartache, and joy. Ghosts are not as imagined by Kumal, not all ghosts are ugly, ugly ghosts are ghosts who died by accident or rather, they are, before he died, the man had severe injuries.
“What ghosts also defecate?” kumal asked a little silly.
However, he was really curious about it.
I nodded, though not understanding. Now he realizes that an angry female ghost is scarier than anything on earth.
And without them knowing it, they both have talked a lot of things and they are also getting closer to each other. The night was also getting late, the night birds that had continued to babble, now had been silent and washed away in the dark of the night. The stars faded and the moon was still hanging in the sky waiting for the prince of dawn to come in its place.
Kumal also wanted to excuse himself to go back to the contract, because it is not good for a bachelor like himself to stay in the grave too late. However, unexpected things come back like a row of trains waiting their turn to enter the station. When he was about to leave to go home, a strange sound echoed in the public grave. The voice seemed to call someone. “Where you are, Fi ... brother came to pick you up. Fi... please answer your brother.”
Hearing that strange voice, Beautiful Ghost just floated up and hid in Kumal's back. He looked terrified at the strange sound. “Bring me home with you, Boy,” beg Beautiful Ghost with cute look, immediately make Kumal a bit flabbergasted.
“Where might I bring a woman home to my contract. What people say later.”
“Do you forget, I am a ghost. No one will ever realize that I was in your contract.”
“You are right, you are ha.. ha... ghost.”
“Hem, it looks like your disease is afraid to relapse again,” responds Beautiful Ghost after realizing Kumal's body began to tremble again. “But rather than you being afraid of a beautiful ghost like me, you better be afraid of a damn ghost that is coming soon.”
“A.. a.. what ha. ha. .. the ghost has a face that bu.. ruk ru... ru..... appearance?”
“Of course, the ghost has a worse bad face than the ugly one,” said Beautiful Ghost with an expression made creepy, but even so, he still looks cute.
“Ba.. ba... alright then.”
The two of them ran towards a contract not far from the funeral. On the way, Kumal asks who the ghost has been looking for Beautiful Ghost. And the Beautiful Ghost says, the ghost is named Fadel, he died eight centuries ago, which means he has lived in the era of the kingdom. It is said, during his life he never had a woman as a companion to life, so when he died, he was venting by chasing female ghosts. Not a single female ghost would want to be with a pockmarked ghost like her. And now, he often pursues Beautiful Ghosts and wants to make Beautiful Ghosts as wives.
“What is your contract?” point to Beautiful Ghost when you see a house painted green and start weathered.
Kumal nodded which in the end made Beautiful Ghost float in front of the young man. Beautiful Ghost wants to get to the contract immediately, in order to avoid the pursuit of a single ghost who wants to find a soul mate. However, arriving at the doorstep Beautiful Ghost instead stopped and waited for the arrival of Kumal.
“Why don't you just go in?” kumal asked in surprise, just a moment when he had also reached the doorway.
“How can you, your door is locked.”
“Are you really a ghost?”
“Of course.”
“Why don't you just break through, like ghosts in general.”
Pretty Ghost rubbed Kumal's head with his fist, and it was quite painful. The ghost can touch Kumal at will. “You watch too many movies,” spray Beautiful Ghosts. “The real ghost cannot break through the wall even though he is a ghost. There are only three things that distinguish humans and ghosts, and surely you remember them, because I mentioned those three things many times.”
“So, you can also touch human?”
“You have too many questions, you should not open this door first.”
“Sorry, Miss, I was just curious,” Kumal felt guilty for talking too much, he immediately took the key in his pocket, then opened the door.
While entering into the contract, Beautiful Ghost also answered questions that had been delayed, “Your inner eye is open. Not only can you see ghosts, but you can also touch ghosts, beat up ghosts, even you can also make love to ghosts.”
The last sentence Beautiful Ghost, made Kumal's cheeks flushed in embarrassment. He didn't think that far, even though he didn't really want that.
“Where is your room,” ask Beautiful Ghost then. Spontaneous Kumal pointed towards the open door without him noticing. Beautiful Ghosts also sneaked into the room, and Kumal also patted the eel.
When Kumal followed into the room, Beautiful Ghost had been on the bed, he slept even to the point of snoring. He looks very overwhelmed. Half disbelieving this scene, he saw a ghostly figure sleeping so soundly. Is there something strange or is basically a ghost that can also be tired and need sleep?
I am lazy to think further. He yawns wide, sleepy and also tired. He dropped his body into the bed anyway, then consider the strange events tonight as a mere dream. Hem, I hope all this is just a dream, his mind.
