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DINING

The sound of pocong crying still rang out loudly from the back of my back.

"Darto?!" The voice of a woman called out in the middle of a cry.

"What do you want?!" I answered a little without shouting.

"Please ... Darto!" Pinta pocong the woman in a voice of heart-wrenching roar back.

The sound of my heart beating sounded so clear this time, as if it was beating right next to my eardrum. My hair sat all over my body immediately standing up, as I slowly removed my hands from my two ears.

I turned my head bit by bit towards the back, until finally it was clear that a figure with a smashed face was standing there, a smell of rancid and rotten was immediately present at that very moment, too, the smell coming from the figure who was nodding his head, right in front of my eyes.

"Who are you?!" I asked with a trembling mouth-no. I guess not only the mouth, but even the cots I used as the bed also shook, accompanying the shaking from all over my body.

Instantly the cry of the figure stopped, leaving a silent voice between me who was sitting facing him, and himself who was still standing while struggling in front of me.

After that, the pocong jumped up, and instantly my eyes immediately widened after seeing that. With just a little jump, he immediately disappeared and immediately moved to the corner of the room that only got a little illumination from the flashlight.

I kept squinting my eyes at him standing up, I saw him jump back up and just disappear. Unexpectedly ..he appeared on the cot, with a sleeping position on his back, with a rotten face facing right towards my face.

"Allahuacbar!" I was so surprised, that I immediately jumped, stepping over the figure. Without a second thought I jumped straight from the cot, then rushed to grab a jolt and ran towards the door of the room.

"Darto ... " Sound again he called me with a soft voice holding sobs.

Not until my hand reached for the doorknob, I ventured to look back at the couch, even though I was already very scared.

"Dining?" My heart as I blinked my eyes, confirming what I was witnessing.

Looks like the woman I know so well, she's the only woman I'm so familiar with. From the first we often spend time together, from playing, sleeping even to bathing we often do all together.

He was sitting on a couch, holding down sobs as if trying to hold back the sweat and looking like he needed a friend to complain. As far as I know, after his father died, exactly three months ago his stepmother had brought him to live in the city.

"You why Ning? Why are you here? What are you here for, Ning? What happened to you?" The question after question that was in my mind just spilled out. After that I rushed to meet him, until finally I was in a squatting position below him, while raising my head to look at Dining who was sitting on the couch.

Dining did not reply, she kept silent and lowered her head in tears. Seeing that I then grabbed Dining's hand. His skin was so cold, his color was pale and also wrinkled. It is like a skin that has been soaked for too long in water.

"Why shut up, Ning? What exactly happened to you?" I still don't get an answer from my best friend.

"Where do you live now?" This time my question got a response from Dining

Since his hand was still clasped, he used the other hand to raise his index finger, and pointed his finger north.

"What's close from here, Ning?" My question was brief, and only answered with a headband.

"Why are you coming home?" back Dining shook his head.

I know, something bad must have happened with the dining, because it was impossible for Dining to get into my room without opening the door or window.

"Let's go to the room Si Mbah, who knows the Mbah can help," I suggested as I pulled Dining's hand to leave my room.

"Mbah ... have you slept, Mbah?" I slowly knocked on the door of Si Mbah's room, then greeted by her opening the door of her room right then and there.

Although not family, Dining was one of my closest friends, he almost every day came to the house of Si Mbah to meet me. Not infrequently also Dining, Anto, and satya stay at the house of Si Mbah, which is clear to Sewah Dining was like his own grandson.

Dining suddenly brought his lips closer to the ear of Si Mbah, he whispered in a very slow tone, so I could not hear at all. This time, Si Mbah's face was truly wrathful. Si Mbah's eyes were reddened, with a slightly wrinkled forehead, complete with protruding veins at his temple.

However, it was inversely proportional to the facial expression of his. The words that came out of her lips were very smooth, her tone was sad, and her eyes were glazed over.

"You don't worry Nduk! Si Mbah promise, as much as possible will help you," said Si Mbah while stroking gently Dining hair. The treatment of Si Mbah really managed to bring Dining more and more drowned in his sobs. I immediately realized when I heard the sound of Dining crying, in front of Si Mbah, because his voice was so similar to the sound of a pocong that kept crying in my room, right then and there, I know that Dining no longer exists.

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I woke up completely tonight, still not willing to feel in the heart, after knowing bad things had happened to Dining. The sense of regret became even more, when I remembered I did not have time to send or see Dining, when he was about to go with his mother to the city. Now I can only lament, after the Mbah told him to leave, and wait patiently for our help.

'I have to help Dining!' The murmur that continued to speak nonstop, until unknowingly the day had changed.

"Dar?! Darto?!" There was the sound of Anto and Satya, on the ocean, shouting from my doorstep.

"Just a second!" I answered while stepping agile, while looking for caping, sickle, and also tumbu, which is made of woven bamboo that will be used to bring home the harvest.

After saying farewell to Si Mbah, the three of us walked for up to an hour, only to arrive at Anto's kebon. After getting there we immediately rushed to harvest the beans in his garden. When the sun has risen and is right on the top of the crown. hurry we go to clean ourselves, continued congregating on a bamboo gazebo, which was deliberately built for a place to rest in the middle of the kebon.

"Why are you so black, Dar?" tanya Satya who was chewing corn rice with taro leaf side dish in her mouth.

"Yes, are you sick Dar?" timpal Anto is also chewing on the same menu.

"No, Tok, Sat, last night I stayed up until morning" I replied as I poured water from the jug into the zinc glass I was carrying.

"From nyari wangsit you Dar? How can I stay up until morning?" Sahut Satya laughed a little, followed by his right hand hit his chest slowly while holding his breath.

"Well, so if you eat again don't joke! I already know corn rice, still just kidding!" Sergeh Anto on Satya while thrusting a glass of water, to remove the drag in Satya's throat.

After eating, a pack of cigarettes landed perfectly in front of my body, a brand-new cigarette from inside Anto's basket.

"That's a bonus for your energy!" Said Anto who was looking for matches in his basket.

"Wah ... When are you going to town, Tok? Can get a good cigarette gini," asked Satya who had grabbed and was tearing the cigarette wrapper in her hand.

"Udah! Right here! Long time you, Sat!" My sergeant while grabbing a cigarette in Satya's hand quickly, then I grabbed a cigarette from the 12 rows inside.

I lit a zippo match made from kerosene left by my late father .. not long after a puff of smoke came out of my lips.

Then, in the middle of the break, I opened up a long conversation about the thing I experienced last night. At that time, after hearing the long chatter that I said, the look of worry, anger, and also anxiety mixed evenly on the faces of Satya and Anto, he said,

"This is not right Dar, we have to find out about the truth!" Anto's response with an angry face.

"Yes Dar, we will finish the harvest, asked Si Mbah, I also want to help!" timpal Satya with a sad face.

In response to their furious faces, I simply nodded as I said, "We should finish the harvest first. We'll talk later, when we get to my house."

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