AWAKENED
Seventeen: Scavenging Traces

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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......

Brakk! The loud bang on the table was caused by Novan. He could not stand what the police in front of him said, that if it had not been twice twenty-four hours, they would not have taken action. In fact, Mr. Beni has explained to them at length, but like not pemubris anything, the police remain with what was originally said.

A quick, angry move led the young man out of the police station. He rubbed his frustrated face. Vin was the first to follow him forward. Soon Novan grabbed a cigarette in the pocket of his friend's shirt. "Where's the match?" ask him to Vin.

"When have you been smoking?" sahut Genta who came with Gopal. The young man frowned because as hard as he was, Novan was the same as him. No smoking.

"Today alone," replied Novan quickly while receiving a match from the hand of Vin. Soon he lit the cigarette and then moved away a little. Not intentionally alone, but Novan knows that Salfa does not like cigarette smoke. The girl has more sensitivity with her throat, so when exposed to cigarettes, will immediately cough. He knows it's from Genta, High School time.

Salfa only looked at the distant Novan with a tangled look. He has arrived at the front, along with Mr. Beni. The girl chose to sit on a bench not far from where she was standing. His mind was still lurking everywhere, torturing itself. Kinara's whereabouts are still unknown.

"Pak Beni said the people here are familiar with them? But why did that cop not believe everything we've explained?" ask Salfa with sewot. "At all this for them?"

"Yes.Lo know, Sal. Not everyone believes in git—"

"Lo talk to yourself?" sergeant Salfa quickly before Genta finished his sentence. "If that's what you mean, I'm not interested in horror!"

Salfa then threw away his face with his hands together. It felt that whatever Genta said would not help at all, only to make him even more upset. He knew that if he had been carried away by emotions, he would never have come up with the idea of taking the next step in this quest. The girl was very disappointed because her efforts to get her friends to report here were just in vain.

Mr. Beni, who was talking to Gopal and Vin then approached to pat Genta on the shoulder slowly. "Already, already. There is no point in making a storm. Now we have to think, we have to how," he said.

Genta remained silent in his position. Even though Salfa always sniffed like that to her, it wouldn't make her stay away from things in the least. He just stared intensely at the girl, trying to understand her worries. After all, it's heavy when your own best friend is lost somewhere.

Realizing that Genta was still in his place, looking at him, Salfa chose to leave. If the young man did not want to stay away then he would stay away, even without being told to. The girl just passed Genta and Pak Beni without turning her head. Heading to Vin and Gopal. "What is this now?"

Gopal just sighed softly, looking at Salfa with an elusive look. The young man glanced at Genta at a glance then turned to Salfa again. "Tuh son just wants to be there beside you when you are fragile like gini. Still stubborn," he said because he felt sorry for Genta who stared nanar at them.

Salfa frowned, highlighting Gopal inexhaustibly. "So seriously you're talking about that now?! It's Kinara, Pal, Kinara's missing!"

"I know Kinara is missing. The one whose mind is not to lo doang, Sal!" reply Gopal half snapped. Really, he had tried to understand Salfa but the girl was selfish as well. As if the pain in his legs was not enough, he also had to deal with something like this. Who can stand it?

Vin, immediately pull Gopal's arm and keep him away from Salfa. Since then he had only been silent to the one chain bracelet he found in the last place Kinara was, but he had not shown it to anyone. There was something stuck in his mind about the bracelet. At one time, he had seen her somewhere. The bracelet was no stranger to him. But not until he got an answer, Gopal and Salfa even fought small.

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Until nightfall, everyone still did not get any sign of Kinara. Already almost all corners of the island they came, but the results are nil. They walk a lot to places from the big road to the small road. From the crowded to the quiet. Complete with their respective phones they show people with photos of Kinara on display.

In the car, Salfa was relentlessly looking to the side. Usually there is Kinara who is enjoying iced tea or snacks. But now, instead it changed Gopal who was next to him. While the front bench filled Pak Beni with Vin who drives. Salfa's eyes accidentally saw a large wallet in the lower corner, close to Gopal's feet. He bent down to take it. Kinara make-up wallet. Looking at him, the pain further pierced his chest.

"Kinara must have met, Sal. I'm sure. She's a brave girl" said Gopal in a soft tone after a fight with Salfa last afternoon.

Salfa turned his head and replied with a knotty smile. "I'm sorry, Pal. About it this afternoon."

"Just relax, like who, Sal. Sal.." reply Gopal lightly. He changed his sitting position, so that his legs were not so depressed. The pain did not go away, but since the search he ruled it out. "Van, Salfa's P3K you brought, right?"

Novan who was on the back bench with Genta replied with a brief deheman and immediately handed it to Salfa. The girl received it and immediately checked Gopal's wounds again. Slowly he opened the bandage on the foot that looked more prominent. Strayed, Salfa immediately inched away.

"Why, Sal?" genta asked directly when he realized the spontaneous movement of Salfa.

"Arrrgghh," Gopal grimaced with rage. How not? The maggots returned, but where did they come from? It was clear yesterday that the wound had been cleaned and now it's back like that again?

Vin who realized something was wrong on the bench behind him immediately pulled the car over. Mr. Beni himself was made agape with what he saw. "Brought to the hospital, huh? Not far here, really."

Gopal who was already speechless again only nodded as his hand slowly swept over the maggots. While Salfa is still in a position away to the car glass because it is amused by the maggots.

The car immediately drove as directed by Mr. Beni. And true, not so long seen a multi-storey building that reads local area hospital at the top. The car stopped in front of the Emergency Unit. Salfa went down immediately then, so that the two people on the back bench could quickly get off as well and help Gopal.

"Gue is not that weak," said Gopal when Genta and Novan want to carry it assisted Vin.

The three looked at each other not understanding. What they saw, Gopal instead walked alone despite being hobbled by the pain. Beni was the one who then held Gopal's arm to maintain the balance of the young man's body. And the others, following behind.

Since her inner eyes were open, the place that Salfa hated other than the funeral was the hospital. Both are estuaries of sadness, so a lot of energy trapped there. Salfa just walked slowly, no matter if quite left behind. He repeatedly pulled over like avoiding something because many of them passed by. Hospitals are not only visited by humans, but also ghosts.

Do not count because it is a regional hospital, it will be crowded. That's a big mistake. Some residents on this island still prioritize herbal and traditional medicine if said Mr. Beni. Not many believe doctors, so do not imagine that this hospital is crowded. On the contrary, it's very quiet here.

Gopal is being treated by one doctor and two nurses. The maggots had been cleaned up before entering the hospital. Fear, therefore, who handle it will be disgusted and not total in providing handling.

In front of the room, Mr. Beni waited with three young men and one girl who rented his car. With a sidekick, he approached and triggered a suggestion. "What if you're in my house? It's impossible to go back to that house."

Although he wants the heart so, but if something happens later, it will be troublesome for Mr. Beni's family. They don't want that to happen. Do not want more trouble, especially bring others and their families. Those exchanged looks hinted at the same thing from all of them.

"Cock on silence?" ask Mr. Beni later because he did not get an answer.

The clapper scratched the back of his head that was not itchy. "G-this, Sir. I think Mr. Beni has helped us a lot."

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Upon his return from the hospital, Novan who now alternately drives, dropped Mr. Beni in front of his house. The car was run again, to the old house they rented. From the rearview mirror, Novan could see the middle-aged man still staring at all of them even until the car moved away.

"Sal, move to the front here," he said then after a brief look. "That's exactly my driver."

"Yes, stop," replied Salfa.

The car stopped. Gopal immediately pulled out his leg after Salfa went down. He looked back and apparently, the reason why Genta was so quiet was because the young man was asleep. Probably because he was so tired.

There, Vin was a little stuck to something he saw. A short haired girl. He immediately remembered that he had seen it once when he returned from pursuing an ambulance at that time. His eyes were squealing, trying to be sure. The girl, still there, not far from the car. Look straight at him. The young man then saw Salfa who had not entered the car but instead held himself back with the door still open. Vin peeked into the windshield, Salfa's head straight at what he was also looking at. That second too, Vin knew. What he saw, not man.

It felt, his entire body was goosebumps after realizing this. He tried to recall what Salfa once said, that people who do not have an open inner eye can see ghosts when the ghost itself appears.

"Run in, Sal. Wait what lo?" ask Novan wonder.

Salfa's focus automatically switched immediately, and without answering anything, he got into the car. His feelings are getting worse. That short-haired figure. Why keep following him? Why don't you go? Salfa knew no more. Wasn't that figure enough to scare him to death for locking him in the boat's toilet? Almost wretched everyone by stopping the ship's engine in the middle of the sea. Recalling all that, Salfa came back irritated beyond measure and as his impingement, he kicked at just about anything.

"Lo why?" novan asked in surprise, his forehead frowning at Salfa's behavior. "We're going to meet Kinara, Sal. Sure."

Salfa only glanced over and threw away his face again. What happened in Nova's head was wrong. The girl felt deadlocked. If only he could say that what he thought was not just about Kinara, but there were many. Question after question that never got the answer was still hanging around in his head.

The curly-haired girl also chose to lean her head and immerse her face in her beige jacket. With all his feelings. Crying, without anyone knowing because he tried not to make a sound. God, it feels so tired. Please show me the way.

It felt like just a moment ago fell asleep unintentionally, Salfa's shoulder was shaken by someone. "Wake, Sal. I've arrived."

The girl immediately removed the jacket from her face. A little made him stunned because apparently it was Genta. Soon he realized perfectly, then woke up and left Genta just like that. Not because of his annoyance, but to avoid eye contact because he was after crying. Salfa knew a Genta could never lie about that one. Somehow, even though other people did not suspect that he was after crying, but Genta would know.

"Lo cry?" ask Genta who has blocked one hand of Salfa.

That's right the girl guessed, right. Genta always knows. "No, what the hell. Lepasin," he replied without even looking at it.

"Look at me if you don't."

Salfa saturates with trembling lips. I think he got wet. Can't escape anymore. He finally chose to look back instead of wasting even more energy. Genta looked at him with pity, Salfa knew that.

"Gue doesn't need your pity" Salfa said later.

Genta sighed slowly. "We'll meet Kinara, Sal."

"You all say it's like that, but what's the truth, Ta?"

Without warning, Genta immediately took Salfa's hands. He felt that the girl refused but he did not let go. "There's always hope, Sal."

Meanwhile, inside the house, Vin immediately went to the bathroom to wash his face to make it fresher. Hopefully with that, his mind will come clear afterwards. As most people wash their face, of course, the face will be washed with water first, only after that soap is applied to all parts. It made her see her reflection in the mirror so faintly. It was then that Vin realized there was someone standing behind him.

The figure that Vin had seen earlier, was staring at him. Suddenly he immediately washed the origin of the soap on his face and when it was, he saw more clearly the figure earlier. Shut up, stare coldly. It horrified him and was powerless to look back.

"Lo... Lo s-who?" vin asked nervously because of his fear. Macho youth like him also turned out to be weak when dealing with ghosts. Moreover, this was the first time.

Because the figure was just silent, Vin took the initiative to immediately look back with all the courage he gathered. And, there's nobody behind him. Now he is turning his back on the glass. Look on the side in front of him. Starting to suspect that it was just an ordinary nuisance, Vin also tried to relax back his stiffened facial muscles. He turned to the glass again to clean the remaining soap that was still stuck on his face.

DEG! His eyes immediately widened when he realized there was writing there. It was written using a lipstick that he assumed belonged to Kinara who was left behind. Posted: 037.

Vin spelled the number with a sense of surprise mixed with confusion because he did not understand at all. He washes his face one last time before going out. Soon he met his friends in the living room, who stared uncomprehendingly at him.

"Lo why?" ask Gopal. However, the one being asked felt his tongue as though it was a mute. Moreover, seeing Salfa silently pensively looking at the photo of Kinara, making him unable to say the last one. He didn't want to add to the panic among his friends anymore.

Soon Vin felt clumsy afterwards, then, alibi. "Not what, anyway. That's—eh soap my face left in the bathroom."

A second later, Vin sped back there. Not to take the face soap that is indeed left behind. But aim to remove the writing on the glass. The tissue that was there he took to wipe the lipstick. Seeing that it was only her that seemed to be commemorated by the ghost, it seemed like this time, she had to scavenge for traces of Kinara's own existence.

Although, yes. Vin also knows he shouldn't believe in ghosts that he doesn't know his origins. As happened to Salfa about Suri who turned out to deceive them. But, I don't know why his heart felt sure. But not without reason. The initials W in the bracelet he found made him think that the ghost chose to tell him because he was the only one who found a clue.

"Yes, I'll see this W. Who the hell is he?" he murmured by looking at himself in the mirror that had returned clean as before.

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