FROM ANOTHER WORLD To You (A Mystery Short Story Collection ) - The Second Book
Chapter 29: S o o k (Introduction )

P o o l o g :

I indulged myself in lying on the bed I bought this morning. A spring bed, for people who already feel the pleasure of sleeping in a spring bed that is always promoted on glass screens and banners... Sleeping in a spring bed, that's common. However, I was almost 3 heads old, all this time just sleeping in a bed made of cotton. That to me is fancy.

Why ? Because this is the result of my efforts to work in an office that people say do not dare to pay expensive salaries for various reasons... If there was a better job and fit my field, I would have just moved out of that cursed office.

Spring beds. It smelled so fragrant, and as my body lay down, I could move up and down, it was said that what was on the spring bed also served as a circulatory transmitter, massage the muscles and veins that are numb so that the next day when you wake up, the body returns refreshed. I continued to pamper myself, imagining that tomorrow when I woke up my body was completely refreshed.

"Kkkrrriieeettthh...."

A front door opened and a black shadow flashed through the front room into my room. The distance between the front door and my room was not much, nor did I turn off the lighting.

I slowly got off the bed, stepped into the front room. The door was open, I hurriedly closed the door and locked it. After making sure the doors and windows were closed, I stepped towards the back where the shadow was coming in. There's no one. I'm sure there's a shadow coming in but the owner of the shadow is invisible. I checked the whole room, who knew my sisters had come home from the next door neighbor's house, but, after calling his cell phone, they were still playing video games.

I reached the kitchen, my eyes sweeping around the room to every corner, there was no one. Cold wind blows slowly through the cracks of the air hole, the whirring of the wind makes the bristles crumble. I rubbed the base of my arm which suddenly felt strange and uncomfortable.

"Crete... Kretek... Crete...."

The stems of bamboo trees that grow behind the house rubbing against each other in the wind accompanied by the sound of the howl of forest dogs add to the heart feel uncomfortable. I turned around, stepped out of the kitchen. My footsteps halted while a pungent fragrance stung out that did not know where it came from. "I don't want to linger in this place" I muttered alone.

The location of the kitchen is separated a bit far from the main house, backyard, lighting was minimal plus the number of bamboo trees that are almost never tidied up, he said, whereas I had asked my father to provide maximum illumination here, also cutting down trees that are old or worth harvesting but, not digubris. Even if it was installed as high as 2 meters more as a barrier to the backyard and the river connecting the neighboring rice fields, but it still makes us anxious. And, ever since I've lived in this house, only now have I experienced something strange. I was sure I saw a shadow coming in, passing through my doorstep, but after I checked around the house, it disappeared somewhere.

The fading fragrance turned into a jasmine fragrance, my eyes widened wide when I saw a large tall figure dressed in brownish white clothes standing back against me at the front door however, just for a moment, a knock came from the outside door and my name was called.

"Sister Thia, we're home... Please open the door,"

I glanced at the wall clock hanging just above the exit, at 20:00, the strange aroma was still felt even though it was not as hard as before. I hurriedly opened the door, Si Felix and his sister, who had been, Ditha stood at the door.

"You promised to go home before eight o'clock, I missed.." I asked to start hearing.

"Sorry, brother... " Said Felix while bowing his face, feeling guilty.

"Ditha took Felix's brother home at seven, but, he said, be quiet again... Short again... Just a little more. Lazy as it is," said Ditha, "Sister wear perfume, yes... How does it smell ?" tanyanya.

"No... What do you smell, anyway ?" ask me while locking the door as soon as they come in.

"You're a jasmine, sis ?" answer Ditha.

My heart seemed to pierce out hearing Ditha's words. In the corner there near the entrance... The figure stood behind us. His hair was black, long, tangled and allowed to cover his back.

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