Mystery of Room 13
Part 26: Kunti Ganjen

I was aghast and these eyes were rounded, when I found a figure wrapped in a shroud that looked faded in color and filled with mud. His eyes were red with dark circles while the tip of his eyes continued to drip blood. His face was already rotten and maggots started to gnaw at him even the cotton stuffed in his nose continued to let out a green liquid that smelled very rotten.

Immediately I sat down and my hand tried to wake Indah or anyone by shaking his shoulder so that the pocong immediately disappeared but no one woke up even though I had shouted for help. I was just about to stand up and get ready to run when suddenly the pocong got up and stared intently at me.

"Help me! Everything is pitch dark here. Help me!"

"No! I-I can't help you, our world is different. Just go! Go!" I screamed while shaking my hand, while my other hand closed my eyes.

The pocong instead of leaving, she shifted her bound body closer and closer to me. I can no longer bear this fear. I got up and ran as fast as I could. However, when he arrived at the door of the building he was already there and was facing me.

"Help me! You have to help me!" His screams made my ears ache so hard.

"Go! Don't bother me! Go!" I shouted but the pocong was still standing upright even now he was showing off a grinning and hideous smile. I decided to go back to the lobby, who knows if someone woke up and could help get rid of the ghost.

When I turned around, the pocong that was originally at the door, had now moved in front of me. I don't know in what way the horrible creature moved.

"Help me!" his whisper was weak, much different from earlier as he shouted thunderously and very loudly, like the roar of lightning. This time the pocong was soft-pitched and merciful like a begging person, asking for mercy.

"I can't help you. Besides I don't know how, we're also in a different realm. I cannot interfere in the problems of our world. Please, go. Don't bother me just keep going like this."

I said tremblingly, after I gathered the rubble of courage left in my mind. I can't just succumb to invisible beings.

My tears broke at this point. The many burdens of thought I had to bear, not to mention the ghosts that seemed to endlessly pestered my heavy life.

"Han, are you okay?"

A warm hand touched my shoulder, slowly I turned around. My eyes stared at the soft yet firm figure that was before me. Not waiting for long, I hugged her body tightly.

"I-i'm scared. They keep coming and terrorizing me." I complained to the owner of the height of 180 centimeters while crying bitterly.

"There's nothing." Her bare hands gently rubbed my hair. "All will be well. Didn't I tell you last night. I'll take care of you."

He lifted my chin up a little. My eyes met his clear eagle eyes.

"Han, believe. Although we have not known each other for a long time, in my heart has never been this sure. I will always be faithful waiting for your answer."

The eyes were so clear that I kept staring and looking deeply. But I didn't find any lies there. People say that the eyes are a reflection of the heart. I only found sincerity in the beautiful eyes.

"Give me some time. I've never known falling in love except for my father."

Smile on that thin side-fringed face. He held me back in his arms.

"I will wait until you know what it means to love. Han, if you choose me, then I will be a lucky man because it will be your first love other than your father."

I didn't refuse because there was a sense of comfort in his arms. A different sense of comfort even when I was in your arms. I don't know if this is the seed of love or not. Clearly, there was a new comfort in this man's embrace. The perfume is like opium to me. I inhaled deeply so that the fragrance would be even though he was not beside me. The smell I always wanted to feel.

My memory floated on the scene last night shortly after the tragedy of mass trance. I was asked to rest at the front hall of the building with friends who also experienced trance.

I was standing by the window while my eyes kept staring at the pitch-black spinning building. The building is the reason for this trance. My eyes were round because in the same window when I saw the pocong, it appeared a figure who had been visiting me lately, a woman without appearance. The woman was waving as if calling me. Like a buffalo being poked in his nose, I stepped out and walked towards the building opposite the production building.

"What are you doing, Han? Why are you here again? Come on, let's go back to the musala!" I gasped when I heard his words.

"I don't know either, Wan. I just saw that lookless woman in the window and waved and then unconsciously walked over to her."

"God. Let's leave this horrible place soon." His hand immediately grabbed me but I don't know why my feet were so heavy.

"Hanna! Get in here. We play together!" That voice I know very well. It was the voice of Ms. Arum but why did it come from inside the spinning building.

"Wan, did you hear that voice?"

"A sound? What noise? I didn't hear anything."

I frowned, how the sound was not heard by Ridwan, even though the sound was so loud that it was deafening. But that could all happen.

"Hanna! Watch out!" Almost a branch of a mango tree standing firmly beside this building fell down and almost hit me. Fortunately, Ridwan swiftly pulled me until I could survive.

I don't know where to push, I spontaneously looked up and saw a kuntilanak figure sitting on one branch.

His red eyes looked at me sharply. He kept glaring at me even his eyes almost popped out.

"Rid, let's get out of here!" If Ridwan was holding me then this time I was the one flanking him. After entering the musala, I just told Ridwan what I saw earlier.

"Han, is it possible that he kunti who was once called Indah kunti ganjen is it?"

"The same old lady you were?"

"Amit-amit jabang baby. I'm still a normal human being, Han. I still like real women. I still like pretty women like you."

I was shocked by his words, yet managed to calm my heart. Ridwan's face approached and was only ten centimeters away. Gently Ridwan whispered softly in my ear.

"I fell in love with you the first time I saw you at the Tirtonadi terminal."

"Terminal?"

"Yes happened to be the bus we were riding stopped at that place. I instantly fell in love with you who was seen carrying a large cardboard box and also a backpack." I was just silent though I did not deny that due to the flutter my heart flowered.

"I don't know why, but meeting after meeting we made me believe you were my missing rib."

I enjoyed every second with him. Suddenly, the man sitting on a tree flew around me.

"Wan, the cunt is all around us."

"Calm down, let's just pray for him to leave." I asked for protection from the Almighty, Ridwan was right slowly the kunti ganjen left. Although I know the kunti has gone but I am reluctant to let go of the hug. To the point that someone is beating behind me. Fearfully I let go of Ridwan's embrace to see who was behind me.

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