Mystery of Room 13
Part 73: Women Similar to Me

How is this they are getting closer, while this leg feels heavy, like it is nailed to the ground. I can only hope the symbok or anyone help me. I could feel my sweat flowing so hard, tears of fear also soaking.

The dancer had a terrible face and wore a crown that was in the front row of the entourage. Her steps were so graceful like a model walking on a catwalk. However, his grinning smile was so terrifying.

"Oh, welcome to my little girl!" he shouted in a loud voice. His hands stretched out as if welcoming me with affection, when I knew they were all lies. The devil is still the devil. Did he call me his little girl, whimsy, not kind.

The distance between me and the group was only a few meters. In this heart kept hoping that it could run like the wind and leave that terrible place.

"Hanna." A voice called out to me, then followed by a terrible laugh. My head looked up, right above my head, the headless ghost was looking at me sharply. Out of nowhere, I could move my legs by immediately turning around. My eyes widened because the path in front of me was only one, why is it now two?

On the left column, I saw many lined similar houses, typical of houses in occult villages. Meanwhile, if I obey the word symbok to take the right lane, then I will enter a very dark wilderness. I was worried, if I was to the left it might be possible to meet a symbok or someone else I could ask for help but what if the symbology speech was true, I would get further into this village. However, if I go into the forest, my fate is not necessarily okay either. Everyone knows that creatures like them are very good at lying.

In the midst of my anxiety to determine the path, the distance between me and the dance troupe was getting closer. Not to mention that headless ghost kept laughing and circling my head. I took a deep breath before making that difficult decision. I ran hard to the right according to the instructions of the symbol. Let me enter that very dark wilderness, rather than later from the houses that lined out horrible creatures.

I ran through the path that was in the middle of the wilderness. I have not counted myself falling and slamming or slipping because of the slippery road.

The road seems to have an end. When I arrived at the end of the road, I was confused where else to go because in front of me was only a wilderness and filled with shrubs and shrubs.

"Follow me. Don't let your guard down, just stay behind me!" I could not see the figure that was in front of me clearly due to the darkness of the night. I don't know who he really is, maybe he is a figure called cymbok keep watching and take care of me.

Several times I had to pierce through the tall bushes because there was indeed no road more relieved. It had been countless times that my arms and legs had been scratched on the sharp leaves. The footsteps of the figure I assessed was a woman when viewed from her stature. He stopped in a slightly roomy place.

"Please wait here first. Someone will come to get you."

"Who? Who's gonna pick me up in the wilderness like this?" many wonder. If this were the human world, who would want to enter the wilderness like this.

"He who is sure is the one who is close to your heart. I'll go first, take care of yourself." The woman left me.

"Wait on! I'm not thanking you yet!"

"Together." The woman looked at me. How surprised I was, to the point of being surprised. I was like looking in the mirror because the woman who showed me the way earlier could be said to be similar to me.

"Who are you? Why so similar to me? We're like bananas in two."

The woman just threw a smile. "Take care of yourself." He disappeared in the dark of the forest.

My mind was filled with questions about a figure that looked very much like me. Was he also the one who saved Wulan when he almost lost his life because of the work of Lord Intan. I don't know, I don't know for sure. When I was busy wondering who that figure was. I heard the sound of the dawn's azan hump from many directions.

I looked around me, the wilderness had turned into lined shophouses. Right in front of me is the wall between the tomb and the highway. The same tomb where I used to be stuck there. This is where I eat in invisible angkringan.

The streets are so quiet, the shophouses are still closed. To return to the index it feels quite far if the walk. I'd better go to the beautiful house first. It was not too far from this very old tomb. I was about to swing a step, suddenly the light of the car hit me and it was dazzling. The car stopped in front of me.

"Hanna!" I smiled when I saw Wulan get out of the car. Not only Wulan, Ridwan also gave us. Apparently the woman was right, the people closest to me came to pick me up.

"Hanna!" with tears in her eyes, the woman hugged me tightly. "Where are you going? Why did you suddenly run out and just leave?"

I let go of her embrace and immediately wiped away the melted tears. "Don't cry anymore. Your tears will get hurt. It will definitely make your wound wet again and feel sore. Yes, don't cry. I'm already here and in good shape. Don't worry anymore."

"How can we not worry, Han. You go unconscious, as if you were hypnotized by something after Intan's departure. You're tepis of everyone who stands in your way..."

"You pushed Ridwan until he fell, Han." Wulan cut off Ridwan's speech. I must look at the face of the man who just last night officially bears the status of my lover with guilt.

"Is anyone sick?"

"Nothing, baby. I'm doing fine. Your girlfriend is not a weak man who once fell in constant pain." The man rattled my hair gently. I am not a godly woman, I still often do open the veil. But I promise that one day I will close my crown and I will only open it when I am with my husband.

Wulan cleared her throat, making me take my eyes off Ridwan's face. "What's really going on, Han? What happened until you were like this, just disappeared. Me and Ridwan are also some indecent residents looking shoulder to shoulder for you, but nowhere. Not even Ridwan and I pierced through this tomb."

"I-i..."

"Already, we tell while eating, you must be hungry. After the meal, I'll drive you home so you can rest." We'll get in the car soon. At first I wanted to accompany Wulan in the passenger seat, but she kicked me out. He told me to sit in front of Ridwan.

"You're such a sensitive woman, why the hell, Han. Is Ridwan our driver? You should be sitting in front, especially if you guys have just been. So you guys have to be friendly!"

Ridwan who was watching me who was like a boy who was being cared for by his mother seemed to keep smiling.

"Basic baffles! Rich moms!" muttered while getting out of the car and moved to sit in front, next to Ridwan.

"I am a mother, a child of two. Is it a problem for you that I'm a mother-sugar?"

"Biarin, don't take care of it! Come on, Yang, let's walk away from these bad-guy mums getting out the bull-sitting style." I stuck out my tongue and mocked Wulan from the reflection of the rearview mirror in the car.

"If only my hand didn't hurt, I'd pinched your cheek, Han."

"try it. Really can?" Laughter filled the car room that was walking across the street.

"Where do we eat?" Ridwan who had just watched, suddenly spoke.

"Whatever!" Me and Wulan together.

"Ciyee, very compact answer. The two of you may have been twins separated maybe."

Temptation that Ridwan threw made him get a pinch prize from me and Wulan also hit Ridwan's arm with a bottle of mineral water that was held from earlier.

"Wow, got bullied by my PKK mothers!" Me and Wulan were both throbbing, pretending to be angry at this dimpled man. "Already, don't sulk again yes, my dear and my dear twin brother. Where are we going to eat now?"

Suddenly I remembered the chicken porridge that Ridwan had bought yesterday but had to be thrown away because it was almost stale. "Which, we eat only chicken porridge, it seems appetizing."

My proposal was accepted by Ridwan and Wulan. The tall man drove his car towards the chicken porridge stall that was open near the factory.

"So it fit that Intan came out even to crawl, that headless ghost turned out to be chasing after him. Suddenly he asked me to come with him."

"Well, why are you coming? It could be that he wants to take you into his world and not come back like what happened to Gayatri."

"Looks like he's good."

"Gosh, from your story alone it's been horrified like that, how can you think he's good?" Because of his emotions, Wulan to put back a spoon containing porridge.

"How are you, Lan? That's a ghost when you want to be taken to the hospital, he said he would take you back. Well that was, I was invited there to take Intan back to our world. Poor there tortured."

"Keep, now where's Intan? Has he returned to his house?"

"No, he doesn't want me to help him give me up as a life substitute to get him out of there. Apparently he was returned here in order to kill two lives as a mashup in his place, which is us."

I could see Wulan flabbergasted, while Ridwan seemed to clench his hands.

"Then what's next?"

"After he refused my invitation to return here, he called his lord, saying that I would replace him to become the slave of the dancer. Besides me, she also handed over the baby in her womb."

"Lacking-minded! What kind of friend and mother she is, sacrificing anyone for her own freedom. Should have let him be tormented for good there," sighed Ridwan in anger.

"Ridwan's right, anyways you want to save him, Han."

I told him everything I had, including the risks that would happen if I didn't want to.

"I'll be stuck there forever, even if I'm not their slave but I can't imagine forever having to live in a very dark village and certainly full of monstrous creatures there."

Ridwan rubbed my arm, his actions calmed me down a bit. "Thank God my heart is back."

"Then how did you get back, Han? We've been around the street where you stood a few times, but you weren't there."

"When I ran away from the dance troupe and into the forest, a woman led me to a field. I was shocked when the woman turned her head, her face was very similar to mine, Lan. I see my own reflection in the mirror."

"Maybe she was the same woman that saved me yesterday, Han. I'm telling you he looks a lot like you. I was also very surprised, why there are invisible creatures that look so much like you. Don't you actually have a twin brother, Han? It's just you don't know."

"It doesn't feel like, if I had a twin, my parents would have told him. It can't be hidden."

"Or is she your mother?"

"No, my mother doesn't look like me. Ma'am Arum who is exactly like my mother. If I were, it's a combination of both."

While talking, suddenly Ridwan's phone rang. He immediately raised the call, not knowing what news he received until his face stiffened. "Yes, Kung. Ridwan's coming home now. Please take care of me for a minute."

"What's up, Wan?" I asked because something must have happened to her mother.

"My mother has relapsed. Can we go home now? Because I have to take care of my mother first and give her the medicine."

"What's your mother sick of, Wan?" I hurriedly nudged Wulan's leg so as not to ask anything first.

"Which, you go home. Let me finish the meal first."

"But-but..."

I stood near him. "Then your mother. If you need help, call me."

"Are you all right to go home alone?"

"It's okay, Ayang. Hurry home, I don't want anything to happen to my future mother-in-law. Careful."

Ridwan immediately left us at the porridge stall after paying for our food. You stubborn man, I told you to let me pay for all our orders, Ridwan still insisted on paying for it. In fact he suggested we take an online taxi, even though the distance of this outlet and index is not far, not up to a kilometer.

After Ridwan died, Wulan looked at me sharply as if to interrogate me. "What's Ridwan's mom sick?"

"sickness of soul. According to Ridwan it happened when he was a child, about three years if not wrong."

"God! Han, I just really noticed Ridwan's face just now huh. Why after I noticed, his face was like a stranger. I think I've met him."

"Well, we met at the lesehan dinner, Lan."

"No, let me just remember a minute."

After about three minutes we were silenced and only the occasional motor sound passed. "Ah, I remember who that person who at first glance is similar to your father."

"Who?" manya curious.

"Bloody indecus owner."

"Are you ever going to meet him? Isn't it that our landlord lives far away huh, off the island?"

"In the early days of living in Indekos, he had stopped by indekos, even we had a conversation for a while. Right, Han. He looks a lot like Ridwan. How can they, when they have no relationship?"

I paused for a moment, while my mind continued to drift thinking about Wulan's words.

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