
"Bibiiiiiiiiii!" hysterical scream.
"What's up, Ma'am?" asked Auntie after coming half-run to me.
"Where's this cake from, Bi?" moaning sobbing.
"Owalaah. This is from the room, Sister Sarah. Aunty saw me sleeping but her room was open, because Auntie was in a mess and put the cake in the fridge. Oh yes ... Happy birthday yo, Mommy. May you live a long and healthy life always" explained Bibi.
I don't care about that word. My eyes were only fixed on the cake that last night that I, Rida, Fani, Erix, Elsa, and Ms. Widya had last night.
"Where are the kids, Bi?" I asked Auntie that question again to convince myself.
"They're out, ma'am. Aunty came at dawn. Aunty saw Mba Widya, Mbak Elsa, Mbak Fani and Mbak Erika out with his two friends, as the journey into the complex headed home. When Auntie called, they didn't come back. Maybe it's because they're the opposite way, so it's too far away to hear Aunt's voice" Bibi said.
"Two friends?"
"Yes, Mother. Two temen. One is long-haired curls, wearing a kuni T-shirt ... "
"Yellow! Yellow shirts?" as if.
I haven't had time to finish the sentence, I've cut it. I know because Rida was wearing a yellow shirt last night and she also has long, curly hair.
"Yes, Ma'am, yellow. The other one uses a gray skirt, shoulder-haired, and a white shirt. You know?" ask Aunty.
It shook her head slowly, unable to believe what Aunt had seen was Rida and the gray skirt lady who stood in the corner of my room last night. All the blood that was in my body was sucked and disappeared. I fell down on the dining chair in the kitchen.
"Udah magrib's. Ma'am, please turn on the lights here, Auntie turn on the ones in front" Bibi said before leaving me in the kitchen to light up the house.
Wh why?
Why wasn't everything I had last night a dream? My tears are falling down my cheeks. I cried myself. No matter what Auntie said, I was still sitting limp in the kitchen with empty eyes.
***Kreekkk ....
Kreeekk ....
Drugg***
My body flinched. My heart is back beating so fast and so unbecoming. A long and creepy claw sound was heard coming back from behind the kitchen door to the tightly closed backyard. I even hope that this still includes my birthday prank plan.
Turn on the kitchen lights and run as fast as you can to the room. I lighted my room and sat down to my knees on the bed. Had Rida been here, I might not have been this scared. My brain was working hard and asking myself, if Rida was here, what would she do?
"Think! Think!" I hit my temple like my brain is like an old machine.
***Kreekkk ....
Cartridge*** ....
The clawing sound was now coming from under my bed, very close to my body sitting trembling on it. I shut my mouth so I wouldn't make a sound, even though I knew he wasn't a human being who couldn't feel me in bed.
Extinguished.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh." I screamed as the room lights suddenly went out.
"Stay, Ma'am. Aunt bawain candle. Turn off the lights" cried Aunt who was standing at the door of my room that was closed.
I'm getting ready to jump out running for Aunt's company, but ...
***Kreekkk ....
SAAAAARRR*** ....
Ni-nina bo-bo, ooh Ni-na bobo
If not bo-bo, bitten by a mosquito
Bobolah bobo, my sister is sweet
If not bobo, bitten by a mosquito
My mouth started singing in imitation of Rida. I don't know what I'm doing myself. Everything spontaneously came out of my mouth.
***Kreekkk ....
SAAAAARRR*** ...
My breath is getting heavy. My whole body was limp, unable to move. Even to cover my face with my own hands, I was unable to. I cried holding my breath, thinking what would happen next.
Will I be killed like Elsa, Erix, Miss Widya, Fani and Rida? I don't know. All I know for sure is that none of them were lucky that night, except me. Maybe today is my turn.
The creature emerged from under the bed and is now slowly rising to the edge of my bed. It's black, but I don't know what it is. In this kind of darkness I can't see clearly.
Slowly and slowly ....
It was more and more obvious that it was a hair-covered head. As I climbed to the surface, I saw the paled skin of his face with black eyeballs. There is not a single white color there. His mouth stretched open wide, so wide that it could swallow a kitten in one swallow. The burrow fell on the bed sheets, I could even feel the coldness as the drops fell on my skin.
I closed my eyes, not wanting to see what would happen to me.
Kreeekk ....
Now his claws are dancing on the surface of the clothes I'm wearing. Walk slowly from the end of the neck, towards the end of my arm. My body held my breath.
"Errrrrgghhv ... Want to hear a scary story, Saaaaar?"
WUSSSHHHH
A cool breeze coming from the fan hit my skin. I opened my eyes and saw the light coming from the ceiling of my room, and his figure disappeared evaporating with the air.
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"***What's his name?" I was curious about Rida
"name ... Nina. I called her Nina," Rida replied
"She said her name was Nina?"
"No. But he said the song was entertaining. Nina Bobo's. Like asking him to rest," explained Rida.
"If he often brings scary stories, why don't you like to read, watch, or listen to scary stories?"
"That's because of her ..." continued Rida.
"Him?"
"Yes, he. Nina doesn't like the smell of fear, when I listen to stories from others," explained Rida with a sweet smile rejecting the book titled 'Blood' that I gave***.
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➖ Sarah Eszed ➖