AWAKENED
Eleven: An Unnamed Letter

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This story is just fictitious. All events that occur are free authors' essays, not actually occurring in the places and locations mentioned......

Leaving the bench in the car drenched, Gopal drove at the maximum speed he could to get home quickly. In the middle of the bench, Salfa was already shivering violently. Actually it feels strange to everyone. The waters on the island are warm, not to the point of making someone shiver should. But maybe because of the overwhelming panic that makes Salfa so.

Novan who was on the front bench with Gopal immediately went down, grabbed the key in his pocket and opened the door for the others. Kinara and Genta led Salfa in. There, Vin saw some people who were passing by looking strange, even arguably, looking like horror.

"Pal?!" call him to Gopal who is about to come in. As a result, the young man was restrained with Vin. "Look at the people. On stopping in front, what's so bad?"

Gopal did not take the people's views seriously because he just turned and looked at them at a glance. "Ah, yes maybe see the condition of Salfa so on watch."

Vin tried to think like his friend. Shortly after, he followed Gopal who had walked in first. In the living room, Salfa sat still with shivering conditions. His gaze was blank, the girl just remained silent without a sound. Meanwhile, from the inside, Kinara ran around to get a blanket.

"Salfa let's change it first, free of charge with blankets if the clothes are still wet," Vin said, and Kinara immediately patted his forehead because he felt stupid.

"Yes, come on, Sal. Change first yes," invited Kinara who then pulled Salfa to stand slowly. He could not bear to see the condition of Salfa. The first time Salfa was horrified by something that was about Mr. Karni, not until now. "Come, Sal. Change yes, I take your clothes."

Four young men, one of whom was still in the same wet state as Salfa, waited in the middle hallway. In front of the girls' bedroom door. Complete with the contents of each head that does not know, because they have not yet started diving activities, they were surprised by the sinking of Salfa.

About five minutes later, after Salfa lay on the bed with a quilted blanket, Kinara headed forward. It felt like he could no longer resist letting out the emotions that he had been holding in the car since.

Brakk!! The room door was closed roughly by Kinara. Four young men who were friends of his holiday troupe were standing in front of the room. Kinara's eyes were immediately fixed on one person. Approached the man with a face that looked up.

"Why did you get to like that? You're the same he is, you should be able to take care of him, Ta!" jolt Kinara with the face red. The girl took a step forward. "Lo have a good explanation for this? Ha?"

Vin immediately stepped forward to mediate, providing a distance between Kinara and Genta that was still a thousand languages. He understood how panicked his girlfriend was, but on the other hand, he understood Genta very well. Vin knew Genta would not even give the opportunity for such things to happen, let alone Salfa.

"Ra, Ra, Ra. Relax, Ra. The important thing is that Salfa is here with us. He's in the room, resting. Don't fuss here" Vin said very subtly, almost like a whisper. "Genta is also impossible. Everything's out of her control, Ra."

Indeed, only Vin can always calm a Kinara other than Salfa. The girl was silent now with her face rubbed. He was afraid something might happen to his best friend. In life, only the two of them really became friends. The rest, just simply qualify humans as social beings.

Kinara's head fell on Vin's shoulder. His hands rose, coiling behind the young man's neck. Her cries came out in the end, albeit without a sound. Just hid his face on the shoulder he knew was the most comfortable. "Gue's afraid Salfa's why, Vin…"

Vin who returned Kinara's embrace, replied. "No, Ra."

Seeing that, Genta's mind, which had only been focused on Salfa, immediately shifted focus to the guy who was looking down next to him. Novan, withdraw from the crowd. Genta soon followed him.

"Van?" call the young man when Novan gets to the porch.

As he understood what his friend was going to talk about, Novan snorted. "What else, Ta?" his tone sounded very heavy.

"Lo want to give it up?"

Novan silent. Don't know what to answer. The young man then chose to just go, take a walk around. Hope the outside air will clear his mind a little. But apparently, Genta still chased after him. "What the hell, Ta?!" skink.

"Lo if you're upset Si Salfa like PMS, Njing," replied Genta staring in horror as he continued walking. As if he didn't care about his clothes being half dry.

Novan elbowed the young man next to him. "Lo is still mending, Ta. You two have the same taste. Look at the girl I like. He likes a guy who's never been so sensitive to him."

Genta. The thing that Novan hated the most about the young man was because he knew, if Genta's expression had been so, the young man must have had a good reason behind it, he knew, like the uneg-uneg and the thought of a Genta that can be said to be strange.

"Gue hoped your words would still disappear from the face of the earth" Genta said later.

Yeah, Novan's guess is on target. "Why?"

"Because life is not to precede each other. Life is not a race where people compete as if they were the saddest people in the world."

Hearing the words of his friend who more like advice, Novan bowed his head. Perhaps, the reason why he could get that close to Genta was because his friend was a person who did not like pleasantries in anything. For many years they knew, the only thing Novan disagreed about Genta was when the young man pursued his first love and left Salfa—which Novan said was the most loyal girl in the entire solar system.

"Sstttt!! Shhhhhhh!"

Just now Novan was about to respond to Genta, but a voice that was like one calling out made the two young men turn their heads. It is a mother with a veil that has two ends tucked behind her neck. Calling them from behind the lush plants on the path they are going through.

Genta and Novan scanned the mothers from top to bottom. Mothers who could be said to be middle-aged covered her face with a bright orange scarf cloth draped on the shoulders. His hand waved at Genta and Novan and dropped an envelope on the spot before the mother ran away.

"What the hell, Ta? Envelopes aren't they?" asked Novan with narrowed eyes.

"I think so," replied Genta.

Soon they took the envelope. Not immediately open it because it is still fondling what the meaning of these mothers. Being chased is also far away. Genta chooses to open the envelope with his other friends. He handed the thin object to Novan to put it in his pocket.

Arriving at the rented house, the two young men were surprised by the presence of people who could have been guessed were local residents. Standing in front of the house while whispering.

"Sorry, what's going on here, gentlemen, Mothers?" novan asked without further ado because he was very surprised.

As surprised, everything is lyrical with each other without Genta and Novan knowing what it means. In fact, there is one mother who pulls the other mothers back and then leaves. The others followed, with none of them answering Nova's questions. More and more strange with everything, Genta immediately entered and found a lonely house.

"Where's everything?" ask him on Novan who has followed.

"In Salfa's room?" guess Novan.

With quick steps both of them arrived at the front door of the middle room. Dan, right. The four people in the room immediately turned to realize that someone had come. At that time, Gopal immediately hurriedly gave his phone to Genta. From his expression it was as if it had been read that something had happened. Restless, anxious, plus anxious. At least that's what Genta can catch his friend's face.

"Gue record because we don't know, Ta!" said Gopal who is still trying to catch his breath.

Genta frowned not understanding. "meaning?"

"Salfa was possessed. Scream."

The phone is in Genta's hands. After a brief glance at Salfa who was given a drink by Kinara, he played the sound recording shown by Gopal. Hardened volume.

"Piye? Ijek ora, what am I talking about?" (How? Still can't believe my words?)

"Key iki wes ciloko, kowe kabeh ijek moh mere press kene?" (This child is wretched, you all still don't want to leave here?)

"I pancen ora seneng omahku pressed guests. But sak iso-isone I keep your njogo kabeh. Jowo iku ngurmati tamune senajan ora seneng. Jowo I understand adab and upload it." (I don't like my house being visited by guests. But as much as possible I keep answering all of you. Java respects its guests even though it does not like it. Java understands adab and karmic order.)

"Delok’en kae! Wong-wong podo teapot mrene mergo weruh onok sing not right. But no onok sing wani ngandani your kabeh!" (Look over there! People come here because they know something's wrong. But no one dared to tell you all!)

Not immediately saying something as a translation of what he heard, Genta chose silence first. Regulating his breath that felt tight, as if the oxygen around him was thinning. Novan himself who also heard, but did not understand, could understand that whatever Genta understood, is not good.

"Ta, How about, Ta?" tanya Vin who was originally sitting on the mattress, now moved to the place where Genta stood.

After being able to master himself again, Genta also told everything as a translator. All who were in the room listened carefully including Salfa who even for a moment of sleep to rest his body which was still in shock, did not have time.

"Does it all have something to do with the person I was attracted to?" in the end, the curly-haired girl opened her voice. His silence was actually trying to hold back what he knew not to reveal, so that his friends would not feel more afraid. Naturally hearing his expression just now, all eyes were on him. "So I saw, though vaguely, that there was my interest and it was a real drag. That's what makes me speechless."

Kinara immediately stood up from her sitting position. Both of his hands rubbed his hair from the base to the back. Heavy sighs then sounded.

Genta stared intensely at Salfa, reconnecting what the girl said. "I rasain, when you pull from the water, it's very heavy. Many times more than normal."

"Seriously, Ta?" sahut Gopal with a clearly dumbfounded face.

Genta. "So that, it feels. K-kayak I'm fighting to pull something else. G-gue himself still does not understand until now."

Put eyes to each other in a room that is not so spacious. Instead of continuing the discussion about all this, they even kept quiet without a word until one by one and then came out of the room. Sure, with each other's turmoil in the head.

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"Where are you all ready?"

Gopal, this afternoon had decided to have all his friends prepare the items. They're gonna get out of that house. Looking for a hotel closer to the port, which of course the surrounding atmosphere is more crowded, not like here. All suitcases have been put in the car with the power of the men.

Salfa and Kinara waited on the terrace. Equally they felt an oddity, like the smell of a burning cable. Initially thin, but over time stinging. Without saying it, Salfa understood what it was. Usually if there is such an odor, then there is something from another natural veil that indicates its existence. The girl turned her head, and right, behind the manga tree next to the house, something big tall and black saw her. Genderuwo.

Feeling uncomfortable, Salfa chose to follow closer to the car. He took Kinara's hand to go with him. At that time, Genta had just closed the back door of the car. The young man looked at Salfa, and the one being stared at did not know how to respond. Salfa simply passed forward, meeting Gopal and Vin.

"It's a real decision, Pal. Hopefully with us moving from here, the disturbances are gone" Vin said with a serious look that was rarely seen from the young man.

Gopal nodded steadily. He himself felt grateful to be able to know Mr. Beni—people who rent cars to him. Just talking by phone, he can immediately get a briefing to take which way and which hotel they should go to. Mr. Beni recommended two hotels, and the result of negotiations with his friends, Gopal chose a rather large hotel because of course the care and security there is better.

Salfa and Kinara exchanged looks. Having generous friends like the four young men who are one such gang, is very calming for them. From the beginning, both of them just obey because everything has been prepared. In fact, you could say, they are the ones who spend the least money because they are never allowed to contribute.

"Yes, come on in all. We walk," Vin said giving instructions.

Genta and Novan appear to enter first because they are sitting in the back. Then, Salfa and Kinara followed, sitting in the middle. Just before entering, Kinara realized that some people were standing there watching them all on the front street. It seemed like they were watching something interesting, just that their expressions were hard to explain. Kinara caught him between fear and horror.

The girl then closed the car door, directly glancing at Salfa. "Look, those people are concerned we're not very ordinary."

Vin, Gopal, Genta, and Novan who also heard that immediately shone forward. Sure enough, those people are still there. Gopal who then could not stand it because his incomprehension had already reached the top level, immediately stepped on the gas. The car pulled those people away from the road giving the car access to pass by.

Judging from the rearview mirror, Gopal found they were even still watching the car from afar. Genta and Novan who were also looking back, realized the same thing with Gopal. Before a moment later, Novan recalled the envelope this afternoon.

"Ta, envelope!" he said slowly with wide eyes.

Just as inevitable, Genta also just noticed it. Soon he asked Novan to get him out. Also ask Gopal to pull over for a moment and turn on the lights in the car. Although not fully understood, Gopal chose to obey two friends.

Two people on the front bench, plus two people on the middle bench, turned their bodies back, waiting for an explanation from Genta and Novan who still seemed to look at each other encoding something between wanting to tell or not.

"Buruan, why?" ask Vin impatiently.

Genta cleared his throat, the envelope was already in his hand. "I went out of the house with Novan earlier, there were mothers who called us and fellin' this," he said at the end while showing the brown envelope.

Salfa frowned, then his hand grabbed the envelope. Opening it, the girl asked. "Mom-mother? Who?"

"We both don't know. His face was covered in cloth. So he went" replied Novaan.

With Kinara, Salfa lowered his head, looking at the contents of the letter. Read it simultaneously with enough volume so that the entire car can hear it.

"Your eyes are closed to something invisible. One of you is being stalked. I see every day there are people pacing back and forth in the house you live in. Careful. Take good care of yourself."

After widening their eyes realizing what they were reading, Salfa and Kinara scanned their friends one by one. Who is not surprised is suddenly given a letter containing such a warning. Moreover, none of them understood his meaning.

"Not sure who wrote it?" asked Vin who also looked surprised not to play.

Salfa flipped the dull paper. Take a good look at each side. While Kinara checked the envelope section, hoping that something was left inside but empty. A letter without a name. That's how they call it. Because the dizzy had mastered each person in the car, Gopal chose to continue the journey. Hope to get to the hotel soon and rest his mind.

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