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CHAPTER 4 .

That afternoon Winda and Lusy were busy helping Nania tidy up her room that was tacky overnight – poranda because of the Jelangkung game.

“That Jelangkung Game...Why is it so weird out of control like that? Win, did we cast the spell wrong last night?” nania said while inserting her – books scattered on the floor into the shelf of her bookcase. Winda who is busy fixing the layout of the – picture frame on the Nania study table, shrugging.

“It looks like I'm not, and I'm like, Nan...Jelangkung game is a game of calling the spirit and his spirit only comes through the mediation of a medium. Instead of making spirits appear until they are very clear figures, like invisible creatures.”.

“Lo means...Make Fairro appear..” interrupted Lusy correcting word – said Winda.

“Ih Lusy..”

“Indeed right? Fairro came by last night? The cute one...” Lusy voice sounded bitter because the girl clearly felt Fairro no longer fit in saying ‘si saucy' after last night's incident.

“Iya....But I didn't think at all...The Fairro...His sister Abi...Why is he so scary?...Don't – don't...Don't don't actually Fairro's dead....So his spirit he who called by our game.” said Winda with a bad look.

To – 3 the girls looked at each other in horror.

“So....So the one we met on the beach was Fairro's ghost?? And I, too, before that beach, had met him at my mom's funeral....Even he had time to give me a handkerchief.” said Nania with a slightly trembling voice.

“Dia....He could give you a handkerchief?? Nan...Hiiy...Throw away that handkerchief...Serem!!” said Winda spontaneously. “Let's do what – is again.”

“Iya, I also intend that...Here's her handkerchief...” Nania took a handkerchief from the pile of clothes – clothes that are still scattered on the bed. Girl – the teenage girl shuddered at the handkerchief.

“Eh...Are you sure Fairro won't come back?” arrived – arrived Lusy said.

“Ih Lusy, don't talk so nakutin ahh...”

“Yes yesterday we let the wooden doll just lying in this room...”.

“Lusy, already..”

“Who knows he's back....As long as I play Jelangkung it is....”.

“Lusy, pliiis?”

“Iya yes...I was just remembering...Let it be anticipated..”.

For a moment the room was silent because of Lusy's words. Girl – the girl suddenly worked in silence. Three – three felt scary imagining the possibility, imagining that Fairro came again to haunt them. Lusy was right, that night they did let their wooden doll lay on the floor of the room without properly closing the ritual of their game.

The shadow of Fairro who was walking dragged – dragged close to them, the shadow of Fairro's pale face drenched in blood, with his – ashes cold eyes staring at them. Everything was so terrifying and so disturbing to their minds. Nania felt her hair standing up, because she was the one who met Fairro the most.

“Padahal..Though I really want to be able to communicate with my mother through the game Jelangkung.” said Nania slowly. “ But why is it so messed up? Why did Fairro come??”

Winda and Lusy looked at Nania with pity. Both of Nania's close friends are very aware that Nania is still saddened by the departure of her mother who is very loved. They know Nania is disappointed because they did not manage to summon Nania's mama's spirit last night, which is even a mess that makes Fairro come.

“Permissii...Wow here after all these girls gathered.” a voice suddenly sounded shocking the three girls. A wayward-looking young man wearing an upside-down pet hat appeared in front of Nania's wide-open bedroom door. “Tadi bik Inah said you guys were upstairs, so I thought you guys must be in Nania's room...That's why I came straight here.”.

“Eh Abi's...Come on in....Not what – is..”

“Again on what? Really good as chatting?” abi asked while sitting on Nania's bed. “Again my ngegosipin ya?”

“Yeeii...Ge-er....Who wants to buy elo?” protest the Winda immediately. Abi cengengesan ugly.

“Eh so no?? He said we're going to the bookstore today...Tomorrow we start school again, right?” said Abi. “Gue also seems to need to buy some stationery...During the holidays, pen – my pen, tweezers, ruler...Like lost somewhere...Dizziness I was looking for him last night..”.

“Yes yes too...I almost forgot we want to go to the bookstore together today.” said Winda half relieved because their uncomfortable talk is now so changed the topic because of the arrival of Abi. “Yuk..This room is neat after all...We go now yuk??”

Lusy immediately nodded in agreement.

“Nan...What else do you do? You're coming, right?” Winda was surprised to see Nania seemed to be still busy struggling in front of her dressing table, like looking for – find something. “Let's what lo? the HP Android lo? Fuck...HP Android lo is on top of the old bed...”.

“Not...Not HP's...But necklaces....Did anyone see when we cleaned the room??” sahut Nania with a confused face.

“Callung??”

“Iya..Yesterday at my mom's funeral, I met a necklace...So unique...I don't know who has...Her necklace is so tiny..There's a Pentagram locket...So I keep it, because who knows who's missing...So you can ask me..” said Nania while stirring – stir her jewelry box where she keeps the necklace of her findings. “But now how is it gone? I remember very well yesterday I kept it in this box..”.

“Ah must have been tucked away somewhere when your room was a mess last night...Later we will search again..” said Winda.

“Ya just might? Maybe tucked away or...Falling under the bed??” Nania curiously crawled under her bed peeking that – if the necklace was there. But Winda immediately pulled her impatiently.

“Come ah!! We'll find it later...Yuk, we're leaving...All of us throw away the doll.......And sweep that hand...We really want to get out of this.”.

“Oh yes...Nice propose!!! Spooky I long – long, if the doll is still here.” support Lusy.

Abi's eyes are rounded hearing the word – said doll Jelangkung. He did not know at all about the incident that befell his girlfriend – friend, because he had returned to his own home last night, did not come to stay again.

“Ah yes Abi don't know ya?”

“Gue don't know what?? What's the matter??” insist Abi.

“ Yes already...I'll tell you about it in the car..Yuk...” said Winda while telling Abi to leave Nania's room following Lusy and Nania who had gone down to the lower floor of Nania's house.

Using Nania's car, the four teenagers set off for a large bookstore in their town. On the way there, the – teenagers took the time to throw a doll of jelangkung and a handkerchief given by Fairro to a landfill they passed by, hope they are not affected by anything from the game Jelangkung.

“Hmm...we find what first?” nania asked when the four of them had reached the large bookstore and entered it. “ Lo want to find stationery first, Bi? Eh Abi?...A will? Lusy?”

Nania. Seen friend – his friend knows – tau has disappeared in an instant from his side. Winda and Lusy are already engrossed in New Entry, giggling through Barbara Cartland's new novel. While Abi, instead of hanging out in the tool section – stationery but has been busy tempting store girl salesgirl who looks sweet in the Comic Book section. Nania shook her head.

“Basic..” lamented Nania in heart. “Ya already, not what –..I'm alone looking for books for Indonesian lessons...Hm....I have to find the Literature Section..”.

Nania is alone looking for a row of bookshelves of Literature section.

“Where are you?..Ah that's him!” Nania finally found the name sign ‘Sastra’ among the many rows of bookshelves in the ledger shop. Nania immediately approached him excitedly.

BRAK!!

Nania did not see anyone standing at the end of the shelf of the Literature books, and hit him successfully until the thick book the person was holding fell over.

“Sorry...” said Nania spontaneously bent down to pick up the book that had fallen. But it turns out that people are spontaneous to do the same. Their hands clashed against the thick book.

“Eeeh..” Nania panted to look at the man...That person was an indo-looking young man, long-haired, gray-eyed, staring back at Nania.

“Oh...Nooo!!...Fairro!!” peekik Nania shocked not artificial, the sweet girl almost fell sat down as a result. That fellow...The person he hit turned out to be Fairro, that creepy young gondrong, that cute ghost!! How could he possibly meet Fairro here again?? Why should she??

It was like a terrible nightmare, Nania felt as if a piece of ice block was so cold that it had broken her heart at that moment. The girl shivered in fear as she stared fixedly at Fairro who was also looking at her with – ash eyes. Nania felt like she was forced to look again at the horror scene that night.

As if a heavy iron shackle was handcuffing her legs at the time, Nania almost cried trying to move but could not. Fairro...The – ash-eyed creature moved, crawling closer and closer, extending its pale bluish hand, trying to reach Nania.

“Do not...No...!!” jerit Nania is - so. The world around her seemed to suddenly become dark, Nania did not know but sayup – sayup she heard the voice of Winda and Lusy.

“Nania? What's up?!”

“Nania?!”

Nania hit the two friends with the remnants of her strength, cold sweat soaking all over her body.

“Fairro...Fairro..” Nania brandished her trembling hand towards the gray-eyed young man she had hit earlier. The hysterical screams of Winda and Lusy seemed to care for all the visitors of the bookstore.

Somehow the three SMU girls ended up outside the bookstore. As if forgetting their original purpose to the bookstore, as if not see poor Abi who wasted – vainly running after them on the stairs out of the bookstore, calling – call them. The three girls hunted into their parked car in the yard of the bookstore and immediately gasped away. A very very very frightened look was clearly on the faces of the girls. The thoughts of – horrible thoughts flashed in their minds. Is...Was Fairro...The ghost of the Jelangkung followed them? Did Fairro haunt them because they didn't return him after the game of Jelangkung last night??

Nania drove her car like crazy and left the bookstore. When turning a sharp bend, an Avanza car suddenly appeared from the opposite direction. Nania was shocked and spontaneously slammed the steering wheel to the left to avoid the Avanza. Winda and Lusy screamed in fear. Fortunately Avanza was successfully avoided, they survived the collision. But due to slamming the steering wheel in high speed, Nania's car slid and turned crazily, before finally stopping suddenly crosswise in the middle of the road. The three girls were sitting limp with deathly pale faces and trembling bodies. Lusy even looked teary-eyed in the backseat. Fortunately, the road was quiet at the time, so their car did not hit the others. But the loud honking of a large bus immediately startled the three.

“Oh...Nooo!!” nania's screams hysterically saw a large bus speeding right towards those still trapped in the car that ran through the middle of the road. The three girls simultaneously tried to get out of the car. The bus, which looked like a terrible scourge, continued to go as if it did not give the girls a second chance to get out of the car, saving themselves. Panic attacks, making it increasingly difficult for them to open the door of a car that seems stuck, do not want to be opened.

At such a critical moment, suddenly a shadowy figure of a long-haired figure seemed to run darting towards the middle of the road. The three girls gasped and could only gawk at the figure stopping running right in the middle between Nania's car and the bus earlier.

As if all the time was frozen in a few seconds, as if all of a sudden so it was moving so slowly, the figure stood in the middle of the road, stretching out both of his hands as if he wanted to challenge the bus. The figure closed his eyes, letting his black shirt and his thick black long hair wander in the wind. The bus stopped with a terrible squeaking sound just inches away from the body of the figure.

“Heh, want to die huh??!! Crazy young man!!” the Bus driver's swearing gushed at the figure.

But the figure was just silent while staring at the bus driver for a while before then stepping away from it in a nonchalant style. At first glance, the figure turned to the three SMU girls who were still staring dazzled in the car.

Nania, Winda and Lusy were shocked. The figure was gray-eyed, indo-looking, pale white-skinned, long-haired...

“It...That's...Fairro...” Nania's voice sounded so shocked when saying that. Winda and Lusy could only look at each other weakly.

“Ta...But Fairro saved us..” said Lusy suddenly as if to make them aware that the desperate act that the gray-eyed figure had done had saved them from the hit of the big bus earlier.