SAWMILL
45. FORCED
“Tina taste better mas Agus do not go from here first mas, Tina think there is something wrong here”
“Don't mbak, we go back to Tina's house, I don't want any more injuries due to the terrible creatures that are here”
“So this house will be like that?”
“Iya... better I stay, than there is something else that will attack, I also do not want to mbak Tina why-why here”
“Ya already if it was a decision mas Agus, but the consequence is that if there is a thief here, then mas Agus must take full responsibility”
“If according to Tina, mas Agus must first check the situation around this house, even though it is dark but at least you will know that it is safe to leave”
“Yes already, let's accompany me mbak, I'm a bit afraid if I have to go around alone here”
“Bawa mas Agus flashlight, Tina want to turn off Tina motor first mas”
Why is Tina telling me to go around here, and is it possible that Burhan is around?
But I better follow what Tina said. Who knows if I can find Burhan even though he's passed out around here.
The house turned dark after Tina turned off the motor, now the only light is my small flashlight which is enough to illuminate about three meters from where I stand.
We both left the house towards the back which I never went to at night.
The flashlight ignited.the light was not so bright enough to sweep around us.
“Mas Agus, don't be afraid. This area is the former place where the ancestors of Tina also hehehe”
“Iya mbak Tina, but I still think where Burhan ran. He shouldn't have left home just like that”
“Just calm my husband.. anyway if all is safe, then mas Agus can sleep soundly kan”.
Me and Tina were walking around the house, it was very dark and horrible, but Tina was calmly walking next to me as if she was in her own village.
I walked down the side of the zinc-fenced house, the side of the house that was the place for the sawmill.
Now I'm at the back gate where the workers came in.
“Try mas Agus see first, the padlock is still locked or not?”
“Still mbak, ndak no one entered through the back area of this house” said after checking the padlock behind the house
“Ya already mas, then the front of the house whose padlock is open right mas, yuk we return first aja mas” take Tina while holding my hand
Frankly my chest hurts when it comes to the air or the cold night breeze, but I was a little relieved after seeing the safe back of the house.
It's just that it's still a question of where Burhan is and what caused him to leave here.
When we were about to walk back home, suddenly in the distance from the direction of the banyan tree there was a small dim light that swayed rocking.
A small flame that looks more like a candle flame moves by the night wind.
The flame seemed to be floating because behind the small fire it did not look anything, only dark was visible from here.
“Eh mbak Tina,... uh what is mbak?” I pointed to a small flame that was hovering
Tina was trying to see what I just pointed at
“It..it was there close to the banyan tree.
“What better we hide first...”.
“Wah yes mas, Tina also see the light mas, better hide first, and do not think irrational, remember to think logically mas”
“It could be Burhan mas, remember mas Agus would have said if the place of defecation is in the river right, well it could be Burhan kebelet urinate when it is delicious eat”
“Let's go to the home page first mas, Tina sure that there is Burhan!”
Tina took me in her arms and walked a bit quickly towards the house, now that Tina and I were hiding around the front yard while waiting for what to happen.
The turnstile has been closed again, assuming it is easy, that is, if the flame is a burglar carrying a candle or lighting fire, then he won't go inside the house because I've closed the fence.
Tina and I moved to a corner of the yard that was not visible from the outside.
To put it bluntly my chest was getting sicker, I could feel the hot liquid on my chest being absorbed by the bandage more and more.
I don't think that the injuries from the white-clad creature can be so terrible than previously thought.
We stayed hidden by squatting in the yard until it was safe, but there was something strange around the yard.
“Mas try to listen to the mas, there is the sound of footsteps slowly land towards here”
“That voice seems to lead here mas” Tina said in a whisper
“Iya mbak Tina, I also heard, but this burn really feels hotter and more painful mbak”
“Sabar yes dear later Tina look and Tina change her band”
The sound of footsteps approaching the house and accompanied by a whistling sound….
Then at a glance I saw the light of fire that was moving motion it turned out to be a torch that was being carried by people…
After a while I saw the man walking in the yard…
It was Burhan….
“Mas Burhan!”
I stood from my hiding position….
“Woiii who's there!” burhan shouted in shock
“This is Agus mas...” I stood up and walked closer to Burhan who was still shocked
Tina and I walked up to Burhan who was still standing in the courtyard with a torch in his right hand.
“Where are you from Burhan mas, why are all the doors unlocked, and why are the house lights not turned off too?”
“Fiuuuuhhh I thought this was the person who had been sneaking around in the trees, let's go in first mas, and uh mbak who is this. let's go in first”.
The three of us went into the house. Then Burhan turned on the petromak lights in the living room, so that the living room was bright again.
Ms. Tina sat in the chair facing the kitchen, I sat in the chair facing the direction of the room, then Burhan came from turning on the oil lamp that was in the room.
“I was in this house before, but when I was in front of the house, I saw a shadow of a human being lurking in this house”
“I'm sure it's human because his footsteps stepped on dried leaf leaves several times.” Burhan story
“I am sure it is not a thief who will take valuables here, because here there are no valuables at all mas”
“So as a result I became threatened. I get into the house, I grab my flagship dagger, then slowly land me out house”
“The person's figure is still around the front tree, I pretended not to know”
“Then I walk up to the gate that I previously opened in the afternoon.because I want to look around first”
“After I was in front, then by shouting I unsheathed the dagger from its sheath, I chased the man”
“The man ran into the forest but he had fallen several times pak”
“I went inside the house, but the gate and the inner door I accidentally did not lock, because I am sure the person will come back again here”
“I then ate the lunch that was given by the mothers here sir, when I had a delicious meal suddenly my stomach mules”
“I look for lighting tools that are here, it turns out I can torch that is near the chair.and fortunately there is still kerosene content”
“my home lights turn off all. and I go to *****riverside”
“Well because of this very many key chains, I was confused where the lock of the fence, and where the key of the house, as a result I just stay home in a state I do not lock hehe”
“Then Pak Agus came this heheheh”
“Mas Burhan aren't you afraid of nights out there alone?”
“Hehehe my house in the village is the same as this sir, the jambanya is on the riverbank as well, even further than this, I am familiar with ****** riverbank pak”
“But it is also serem sir, because several times I was disturbed by stone throws”
“Yes already if Burhan mas is not afraid, so here is Burhan mas. This is my friend who is in the village, he is the owner of the wartel where I usually phone” I said
“Nah happened yesterday I had a small accident at this” house
I don't want to tell burhan about the pocong and the others, let him experience something like me.
Then I opened my clothes and I showed her a bandage the size of my chest that was now red in blood.
“So I was escorted by mbak iki to IGD city hospital to treat my wounds this mas”
“Jeez Mr. Agus, that's why the blood is so much, the bandage until it is red it”
“Yes this is Burhan mas, so I want to tell Burhan mas if I for tonight do not go to this house, I will be around the hospital there, he said, in order to easily manage my wounds mas”
“I will later be delivered by mbak ini”
“Oh yes, please my wound is not to be told to the workers here or Bu Tugiyem who every afternoon deliver food here”
“Say I go home because there is a sudden need. That's mas”
“Sampeyan I live here alone ndak papa kan mas Burhan?”
“Ya wis pak Agus, ndak papa sir. I will take care of this house only”
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I wish the Eid al-Adha to those who commemorate.
And sorry because I am busy and on the way back to the city of origin, then for tomorrow I can not update first.
again, sorry and thank you