Adult Zone
27. Inviting Lembayung At The End of Dusk

...PICKING UP LEMBAYUNG AT THE END OF DUSK...

...Author by: David Khanz...

Magdalena, the young woman I used to call Lena, staggered to pull a large suitcase into the trunk of the vehicle parked in front of the house. His grim face was covered in the rest of the plagues that were still imprinted among the blank eyes. The laugh lines I once saw crossed sweetly across the cheeks, now as if they were gone. Just a heavy sigh, occasionally accompanying footsteps to the outdoors. The old new world he longed for, after being caught up in the heartbreaking hue of destiny.

"You're ready, aren't you, Len?" I asked when the woman was straying in the front door of the house. Glanced for a moment, then removed the handle of the suitcase further leaning against the wall. "I'm confused, Frans," he lamented.

I rubbed his shoulders, leading slowly towards the sofa. Trying to calm the anxiety he was feeling between sitting, befriend a glass of water presented on the table. "Drink first. Let's just relax a little, Len," I said, shoving the drink.

"Thank you, Frans," said Lena after gulping down almost half the glass like an insatiable person. "Thankfully there is you. Otherwise, I don't know .. what will happen to me next."

I smiled faintly. "It's okay, Len. Instead I am very grateful, can come to help even though it is too late to know everything."

I light a cigarette and give it to Lena. The woman immediately sucked in a delicious, puff of nicotine smoke through her dry lips. There is no beauty left that once made this heart crazy. Now, like a bunch of hornbills living among the maggot froths. Skinny dry, dull, smelly, and filled with bruises from blunt objects all over the body. Depressing.

"I'm sorry, yes, Frans," said Lena in the silence of our conversation, "it used to disappoint you. You must be hurt too, right?"

"Forget it, Len. That's long gone. Anyway-"

"No, Frans. For me it was a fatal mistake I ever made. I'd rather have Alex than you. Finally, this is the line of life that I must feel," added Lena as she looked at me deeply, complete with melted tears down the cheeks. "I'm lulled with all the persuasions of Alex, Frans."

I closed my eyes for a moment with a long sigh, remembering the events of the past few years. Where when the figure of the beloved girl, took off the engagement ring beautifully embedded in the ring finger, then threw it right at my face. Lena ended our relationship unilaterally, with a sharp speech slicing the wall of the heart with pain. "Now, I'm giving you back the cheap stuff that you thought could have me in its entirety, Frans. Now I am free to make my own choices. A decent life with a man who is more everything than you."

"Len ... " call me in disbelief. "What do you mean by all this?"

The girl smiled wryly. "Sorry, Frans. I don't want to live with you. Right now, there's another man who promises to take me to a better life, and to fulfill all my dreams."

I still can't believe it and try to resuscitate Lena, and maintain a long-standing bond of love. "Who is he, Len? Wh who? You realize, don't you, what are you saying?"

"Of course, Frans," replied Lena again accompanied by a wry smile. "You must know that man, too."

"Him? Who?"

"Alex."

"lex? My cousin?"

Lena laughed a lot. "Who else? Of course Alex is your dirty cousin, Frans."

I scratched my head over and over again. This headroom is increasingly distrustful to accommodate all the girl's jokes. "How can you turn around with him, Len? She's the-"

"Playboys? The cassanova? Land crocodile? Pied nose?" Lena laughed out loud. "That's what you're going to use to slander him, Frans. Haha. To be sure, he's richer than you, and that's what I love most about Alex. How about your self? It's nothing, Frans. Just sorry to say good bye .... "

"Len! Lena!"

Ah, I'm free to keep him. Lena's been stuck in Alex's venomous mouth. The beautiful girl was willing to renege on all the promises that had been said, to live with a newly known man.

For years, no word was heard of Lena. The girl completely disappeared in the sparkling worldly life with Alex. I don't seem to want to find out either. Just want to focus on work and business that is growing rapidly, while forgetting the pain behind the chest. Until then at one time, my phone rang with a name clearly on the screen ... MAGDALENE.

"Frans .. " said Lena's voice across the street.

"Do you know my voice?" asked Lena in a soft voice.

"Of course, Len. I still have your contact number. What was? You-"

Suddenly there was the sound of Lena crying. So heartbreaking and produces so many questions in this mind. "What's wrong with you, Len? You're still the same Alex, right?" imbuhku.

Lena's crying is getting louder. He tried to speak among sedu sedan that never subsided. "Help me, Frans. Come right now. I need your help right away!"

"A-there's a-pa, Len? What's the last a-pa?" Suddenly I was nervous and started to think something was wrong with the girl.

"Come now, Frans. I can't say it here" replied Lena softly.

"All right, I'll be right there. You're at Alex's, right?" I guessed and answered briefly by Lena, "yes."

Not for an hour, I was at my destination. The house is empty and unlocked. Alex does have a fairly large and spacious private residence. It's inhabited only by the two of them, Alex and Lena.

"Frans ... " call Lena from a room. I immediately approached the direction of origin of the sound. Surprised, that was the beginning. How not, the floor and mattress are filled with patches of fresh blood. While Lena sat next to Alex's body lying still motionless, cut into pieces. Educate!

"What's going on, Len?" I looked at the girl with a knife in her hand, covered in red fishy liquid.

Lena was crying hysterically. "I killed that bastard, Frans!"

"Yes, God! Why is it like this? What is it between the two of you? Me ... I ... " My speech did not end, because suddenly the stomach contents were pushed strong with severe nausea.

After fully removing the vomit, I fell silent listening to Lena's stammering explanation. He claimed to have killed Alex, because he could not stand the harsh treatment of the man. During this time Lena is often the target of her lover's anger if it is being hit by emotions. Apparently beside being stamped with a playboy stamp, Alex is also a temperamental. Man with multiple personalities. Sometimes soft and civilized, but on the other hand can be violent beyond the savagery of even wild animals.

At the peak of the suffering that had been detained, Lena desperately ended the life of the evil man at the tip of the knife, after previously poisoning. Even with the turmoil of hatred, it blinded the girl's sane mind to vent her wrath on Alex's body that had become a corpse. The incision as well as the swing of the sharp flat object in the hand, successfully mutilates in several parts.

I sat down helplessly staring at the madness of the former loved one. How not, while scolding incoherently, he was busy stuffing pieces of Alex's body into a large suitcase that had been prepared. "Help me throw this bastard's body into some deserted place, Frans. I don't want her to rot here" Lena said, looking at me intently.

I closed my face for a moment, unable to see the pool of blood still scattered on the floor of the room. "I need some fresh air, Len. My stomach's nauseous. It feels like I want a fresh drink to restore my energy back."

"Go to the kitchen. I'm going to clean up the rest of the blood in this room" Lena said. I said, then waited for him in the front room, having previously prepared the vehicle with the position of the trunk door wide open.

"We're leaving now towards the north," Lena's voice startled my daydream. "It's getting dark. I want it all done before midnight, Frans."

"All right, Len," I said as I got off the couch. 

All the suitcases containing Alex's body parts were already stuck in the trunk. I don't know when Lena took care of it. Maybe when I was long? I don't know.

The journey is quite long and will take a lot of time. As per Lena's request to find a quiet place, in order to eliminate the fragments of the corpse in the suitcases. The girl preferred to be quiet, sitting next to me who was in complete control of the steering wheel. There was no sound or breath from behind Lena's chest. His eyes opened round with white foam coming out of his mouth.

I smiled cunningly. The car stopped in a dark and quiet place. There were no human or vehicle traffic there. There are only a few sounds of night animals that accompany my movements in the thick of nature.

Before leaving the place, I stared at Lena's stiff blue face, between the gas-lighters in my hand and said, "I'm sorry, Len. I never took revenge on you. But Alex's death because of you, that's what made me lose my business coffers in the future. Honestly, the company I own right now, it's also your barter to Alex. He's the only brother who can help all my dreams come true. Rich at a young age, Len. Like you said before. Hehe. Now, enjoy your life with Alex in another realm. Just sorry to say good bye. Muah ... I've never loved you, Len. It's all about bussines."

Then I dropped the still-igniting lighter onto the bottom of the vehicle. Instantly, the fire quickly grabbed the fuel tank that was deliberately opened wide. Scorch all contents in it ....

...~ Finish ~...