SAWMILL
233. MR. HENDRIK'S RETURN

I silently stared, feeling that something was behind me….

Right now I'm sitting on the couch, but suddenly my legs, my hands, my body and all my limbs can't be moved at all, even to move my head I can't…

After my entire limbs could not be moved, when I was thinking about what happened, suddenly my eyes closed by themselves….

I tried to open my eyes….. I forced open my eyes.. I tried to move, but still nothing.

I tried to open my mouth to say the name of Allah and to ask Him for help in the danger I was in…. But all is impossible…. I can't open my mouth at all.

I can only pray in my heart and continue to pray in my heart.. Never cease to mention the name of God….

Suddenly I felt something.I felt something on the back of my head in the area close to the nape…

Suddenly there was like a cold pointed object hitting my back.

Slowly the cold pointed object moved from the bottom of the head to the top of the head

Amusedly...cold…!

Yes .. cold amused and fear mixed into one.but I cannot move to fight…!

I've resigned.. I've resigned to what happened…!

In addition to praying.I keep trying so that I can move even a little.I also try to scream!

Suddenly a miracle happened.I was able to move my big toe……

“RRR..GGRRHH……!

“TOLOOONGG!!!... AAAAH TOLOOOOONG!!!!”

Now I can open my eyes….

“What happened Mr. Agus....!” said Jiang who was next to me with gasping breath…

“Where am I Jiang..!”

“Pak Agus was sleeping on the sofa.. I was in the back to wait for the catering people to come, because usually they come after the morning adzan berkumandang”.

“So I heard a strange sound, and when I headed here, Mr. Agus asked for help”

“Ya already Jiang... I was probably having a nightmare…. You just go back to Jiang's back, uh Tina ma'am has Jiang woken up?”

“But pack...”.

“Ya already Jiang, I will wake up, all I want to pray dawn”

My breath was puffing, sweat still soaking my body…

I had a horrible dream, a dream that I obviously could not digest with common sense. I sat down for a while on the sofa in the main room before I woke up Tina.

When I was about to stand up to knock on Tina's bedroom door, it turned out that she had already gotten up and opened the room door.

“I need to wake up Tina”

“Iya mas..have subuhan mas?”

“But mbak.. This also want to wake up Tina trs up I want to take water wudhu”

“Kok mas Agus's clothes are soaking wet?”

“Eh sweat mbak.. It's sweat”.

“Kok Kerwarning, the hawanya is not cold mas?”

“Later I will tell you mbak, I want to take water wudhu first mbak”

What a terrible dream, and as if it were real, what the dream means, and whether the dream will repeat again later tonight.

Ugh I can't imagine what will happen again with me.

After I finished my morning prayers, I was in the main room with Tina's mother, Jiang was helping to park the arriving catering vehicle.

“So the middle of the thirties, after sir Diran returned to the guard post and sir Hendrik went into his room.

“Means last night no more strange happenings?”

I told Mr. Tina about the message from Mr. Cheng to us that was conveyed by Mr. Kunti, then about what I saw in the front parking lot. And of course about my dream just now.

“Later tonight Tina will go to the middle of the mas forest.. but Tina did not dare to go there alone mas”.

“Let's talk to Pak Diran first. Actually this is an internal problem of the ancestral family mbak Tina, so it should be yes only mbak Tina who can discuss with her ancestors mbak Tina”

“Iya mas.. Tina later in the afternoon for an opinion from Pak Diran dulu”

“And about the dream mas Agus this.. Tina confused mas... is it true the state of this hotel as mas Agus dreamed it?”

“The dream is a kind of our subconscious that seems to wander everywhere, and think as it were, so it could be what I dream it was from my subconscious mbak”

“And maybe also I was in a state of tinderihan”

The conversation with Tina was over because six o'clock was over and Jiang had to hand out breakfast to hotel guests.

Well routine work from morning until about nine o'clock.

Meanwhile, Tina must prepare documents in the form of hotel invoices for guests whose check out schedule is in accordance with the emailed by Mr. Robert's men.

After the breakfast was over, I waited next to the reception desk, who knew there were guests who needed help to bring their bags or luggage to the car.

Around the tenth hour, Hendrik walked towards the reception desk with his travel bag.

“Good morning mas Agus and mbak Tina. how mas Agus.. after I returned to the room last night, is there something disturbing again?”

“Morning sir Hendrik.. is just a nightmare and maybe also I am in a state of pak” piercing.

I told Mr. Hendrik about that dream last night.

“Hmmm quite horrified also mas. and hopefully it's just a regular pierihan mas... oh yes mbak Tina, I checkout now yes, because I will noon there needs”

“This is my business card, there is my home, office and mobile phone number. Please contact me if something happens here, and I also ask for a phone number here mbak” said Mr. Hendrik

“Mas Agus, have told Tina about what we talked about last night right?”

“Already pak”

“Ya already then mas Agus and mbak Tina, I say goodbye first, and please contact me whatever happens here” said pak Hendrik then hurriedly leave this hotel

Mr. Hendrik has come home. Now I live, mbak Tina, Jiang, and Pak Yogi who served morning until afternoon.

During the day until afternoon as usual, I was on the riverbank to watch over the guests who were playing on the edge of the river flow is quite clean.

Noon until this afternoon there is nothing strange with the guests here, and it is so as before, there is nothing strange here.

From this morning until noon some people from the garden maintenance company came to mow the grass and flowers that started to grow wild, they worked quickly, and they were very busy, so that afternoon they were done with the hotel garden business.

In the afternoon before dusk as usual the catering company came to prepare dinner that I will take to the guest rooms.

Mr. Diran came, and as usual he signed on to the security guard's absences book and then roamed around the car park to check if there was a car that had not been locked or already.

After finishing with the car and parking lot and after Pak Diran closed the hotel gate. Then as usual Sir Diran entered the main room.

“How is the state of the hotel Mr Agus?”

“Morning to afternoon is safe sir. As usual there is no special incident”

“So morning sir Hendrik also checkout.. oh yes sir, I want to tell you about my dream when I sleep on this sofa pak”.

*****

“Aneh also yes that Mr. Agus dreamed it.. and about the state of this hotel that was destroyed like there was someone or something that destroyed him” murmured Pak Diran.

“Destroyed mess seems like someone or something is looking for something here” continued Pak Diran

“And of course what is sought is the stake around this hotel Pak Agus”

“Oh yes sir Diran.. Tina wants to go to the middle of the forest to talk to Tina's ancestors sir, but Tina is afraid to be alone in the middle of the pak” forest

“If it is like Mas Agus between Tina how about sir?” ask Tina

“Begini bu Tina, bu Tina and Pak Agus have never been there before?”

“We have been there several times pak” replied Tina

“Ok bu Tina. then how much time it takes to be there?... surely spend a few hours to days just to talk to the ancestors of bu Tina who only a few minutes, right?”

“Iya right sir Diran..” replied Tina.

“Well if bu Tina was there a little long, then for the business of this hotel how bu, fear that bu Tina is there until a few days” said Pak Diran again

“Iya yes sir... really too.. then what should Tina do sir, the more days this bully is more and more often doing his gang here pak”.

“Izin first to Jay sir for one day only bu Tina, then the business of work Pak bu Tina later pak Agus who handle, to clean the room later I will help Jiang….. I used to work as a room service because hehehe”

“Well this Pak Diran idea is actually also mbak Tina.. it's just that Tina must be alone in the middle of the forest”.

“Lho don't do it.. Anter Tina until the middle of the forest, after that mas Agus stay also not papa” answered mbak Tina

“But to do that can not be as tina ma'am, at least tomorrow morning or noon bu Tina call Jay sir first, so tomorrow night I come here with a change of clothes also” said Pak Diran

The business of Tina's mother who will meet her ancestors is done, now the business of tonight.

As usual the night after dinner was over usually me and Pak Diran patrol around the parking lot and the back of the hotel.

And the part that we have to go to often is the river bank.

“Bu Tina... walky talky hotel I brought one mbak...”

“Hehehe usually pack Diran never bring HT or Walky Talky pack?” ask Tina

“Iya mbak, because the noise coming out of the two-way radio sometimes makes guests not calm.

“Kan can be reduced his voice pak”

“Stay sounding mom.. Evening quiet, there are no other sounds, so any sound as slow as will surely be heard from inside the room, and cause guests to be disturbed also bu”

“But this time I brought ma'am, and I will soften her voice hehehe”

“Bu Tina sleep rest only.. Let the guard here Jiang. I and Mr. Agus will go around first”.

Mr. Diran and I headed to the front of the hotel first.We were here not long, because Pak Diran said on the front for a while there was nothing.

Then Diran and I walked into the main room to get to the back of the hotel.

In the room there was only Jiang, while Tina seemed to have entered her room.

Me and Sir Diran were stale to jiang for a while then we both headed to the backyard as usual.

For some reason tonight it was so cold and a little windy, that I, who was only a few minutes in the backyard, felt cold, so I had to go back to the main room to pick up the jacket I kept on the hanger.

Jiang was at the glass door that bordered between the main room and the back of the hotel.

The situation in the main room was dark because the main room lights were turned off because there was no more activity in the main room.

Only the lamp above the glass door limited the main room and the back of the hotel were lit, and Jiang was sitting on a wooden chair that was provided here.

“Jiang... mbak Tina is asleep?” ask me while entering the main room

“Already, from earlier will have entered his room Mr. Agus.. This walky talkynya handed to me pak”.

“Eh yes Jiang... Keep the woman who is standing and looking towards the outside who is Jiang?” I looked towards Jiang

I faintly saw the figure of a woman with long hair, the length of which was exactly like that of Tina standing and staring outwards.

The woman stood close to the sofa facing back…

Is that Tina who was looking out?

Jiang said that Tina had entered his room…

“Which woman sir Agus?” jiang asked who was suddenly right next to me.

“Not anyone who is pak”

“Eh what might I have been wrong yes Jiang”

“Iya Pak Agus sometimes wrong see also pak” said Jiang who then returned to the wooden chair he was sitting in earlier

There was no one in the main room, no women or Tina in the main room, the main room was empty, there was only furniture!

I walked closer to the dark main room, then I opened the room to pick up my jacket.

When I closed the door, it was like hearing the voice of someone talking…

The faint voice of a woman speaking.