FROM ANOTHER WORLD TO YOU (Sistery Story Group )
Chapter XV - He Is My Beloved

The woman sat on the porch of her house, her pair of round eyes staring blankly at the regularly growing shrubs, lined along the path connecting the front door and the gate of her house. He did not care for a few strands of his hair hovering to be played by the small winds that came down from the body of the hill while carrying the remnants of the light of the king of the day who began to turn dusk. The woman remained seated sabil occasionally let out a long sigh. Under her eyelids appeared a black, faint and pale basin hiding the beauty on her egg-rounded face.

It's been an hour that the woman has sat there, and my eyes have never been separated from her.

Lidya .. such is the name of the woman. I've known her for a long time even before she married JOHAN, who died a year ago in an accident. I could understand her sadness, but, what I could not understand was that she still considered her husband alive and accompanied him wherever he went, even for now. Frankly, I don't want him to constantly dissolve in his heart's sadness, I love him and anything I'll do for him.

“Le... want until when do you constantly stare at him ?” suddenly my ears heard someone calling me from behind. I turned my head, mother walked up to me with a smile, “From yesterday I saw you never let go of looking at her,”

I nodded my head and stepped to the edge of the bed and sat down near the mother who had sat first, “Yes, ma'am, he's become like a madman. Though mother knows for herself, when not married .. she is an energetic and hopeless woman. But, look at him now ..”

“Mother understands. But, what are you going to do to him ? Meanwhile, she herself doesn't seem to care about you,”

“Mother ..believe mother of the existence of a subtle creature or another world?”

“Why did you suddenly ask that ? Of course this mother of yours does not believe,” while saying so, I can see mother lowering her face deeply to the floor of the room.

I smiled, I looked at my mother's face deeply. 35 years I have lived with both my parents, it feels funny if I do not know their respective characters, characters and characters. Therefore, when my mother behaves like this, I understand that my mother actually believes in the existence of other worlds, spiritual realms, subtle creatures or the like as well as their existence. He just didn't want to tell us, his kids. It was all caused by the disaster that hit our family a few years ago. I don't want to tell you what happened that made my father disappear somewhere. But, what I want to ask my mother right now is about the woman I love and love, Lidya.

“Mother cannot deny the existence of another world, we all know what has happened to Father. I don't want this to happen to Lidya. Know, some time ago .. I had a visit to Lidya's house. Do you know what she did ? He talks, laughs and cries himself. She told me to leave because I didn't want to fight with her husband, but I knew that in her house there was no one else but the two of us. But, I cannot deny.This ear heard clearly, there was someone other than the two of us. He growled and more terrible chairs in his living room suddenly moved alone,” explained me, “If mother does not believe, I can see for myself the incident at his home,”

My explanation this makes mother stunned, I can see from the corner of her eyes wet with tears, “Yes, my son. But your explanation surprised me. When did that happen, le ?” tanyakanya.

“To be exact, 7 days after Johan's death,” I replied.

Mother nodded her head, “Then.. but, it is impossible ..” she said in a trembling tone, her face deathly pale.

“What's up, mom..”

“No, Le. That's just not possible. We all know how Lidya and Johan's household is doing after they get married,”

“Le, please take mom to Lidya's house now,” while saying so mom stood up and pulled my hand out and then stepped out of the room. Even though the confusion and curiosity still spread throughout my body, however, I also felt happy that my mother finally wanted to respond to me and invite me to come to Lidya's house.

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Lidya was still sitting alone on her porch. His eyes were empty and hollow, to the point that our arrival was ignored. I walked up to him, I stuck my mouth to his ear, “Lid, I Eko came to visit, this time with my mother,” I whispered slowly hoping he would listen to her, but, still not budging. Seeing the situation, the mother walked up to him, he looked at Lidya's face deeply and then said, “His body is indeed in this place,” I really don't understand what mom said, “I mean mom, how ? I don't understand,”

“Baw Lidya into the house and take care, let the mother who will take care of it and whatever happens, do not try to leave her alone. Hopefully he can still be saved,”

Without asking much more, I immediately carried Lidya and walked along with my mother. The front door opened, we stepped into the room.

I laid Lidya's body on the floor and lit candles around her.12 candles surrounded her body. While my mother's pair of eyes stared intently at every corner of the room and every corner of it including the second floor, “Take the candles to avoid being extinguished,” she said, “Oh, yes.

Wear these 2 bracelets. One in your right hand and one in his left hand” continued while removing two bracelets made of brass from his pocket.

It was a hereditary inheritance bracelet from our family.

That said, the bracelet could protect us from danger, it could even lead us to the supernatural realm. The shape is very simple, yellow bracelet carved flowers 7 colors. 7 FLOWER BRACELET, that's what it's called. If the bracelet is made for good, then, the person wearing it is always endowed with goodness as well as fortune, health and longevity. Indeed, it has been proven for a long time, when my father disappeared, he did not wear the bracelet. The origin of the bracelet was only the mother knew and we never brought it up at all. Frankly, even though there was a lot of evidence about the benefits of the bracelet, I still did not believe it.

But, under such circumstances, there was no reason for me to hesitate. I put the bracelet on my right hand, while the other bracelet I put on Lidya's left hand. After wearing the bracelet, it happened something that did not make sense at all. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO PEOPLE'S LOGIC. Slowly all the walls in the room cracked like dry rice fields in the dry season, the color of the walls turned blackish brown, the cobwebs stuck almost in all corners. The staircase connecting the first floor with the second floor which was originally golden yellow with beautiful carvings, turned into dusty rust iron and black and the stairs turned into partially weathered wood some damaged. The lights hanging on the ceiling turned into ancient model lights with strange animal carvings. Everything turned into junk items that were no longer intact.

Lidya's house, which originally looked luxurious, is now turned into an ancient, uninhabited building filled with dust and unkempt. THIS IS THE REAL FORM OF THE HOUSE. OLD HOUSE, DUTCH HOUSE.

“Be careful. We have entered into a realm where jinn, demons and subtle-creatures gather. On the bracelet of the 7 flowers you wear there is a thin red rope. Whatever happens, don't let the rope break. They're gonna try to keep us apart. The best way to overcome it is .. when you hear the voice of people asking for help, crying, or others DO NOT NEED TO BE IGNORED. Our goal is to find Lidya. You need to remember they can change their shape as they please .. so, don't let your guard down, le ....” while saying so mother stepped carefully through the room after room leaving us who were sitting in the middle room and surrounded by candles whose light was swaying there and there in the wind that came through air holes.

Even if Lidya and I were in the living room, but, I could follow where Mom went to explore every room in the old house. Well, I was indeed the first time I followed my mother into the world called THE OTHER WORLD. I don't know how many times I've been faced with all sorts of strange and horrible scenes . a black-haired, tangled, long woman dressed in a brownish-white outfit, and, he stood holding the baby and occasionally cried, laughed and hummed in a melodious voice; a large, hairy, bushy tall human figure ; a body wrapped in a brownish-white shroud was jumping up and down and other strange figures were again terrifying. One time, this ear heard my name called and occasionally heard screams/shouts of pain and ask for help.

Heartbreaking voices but, not knowing where they came from.

“Do not ignore the voices, le ..” said my mother, “It can make us lose our minds,”. We continued walking and now arrived at the connecting stairs of the first and second floors. As we were about to climb the first step of the stairs, our ears heard a sound like an object falling from the second floor, a round object appeared to roll down the stairs and stop right at our feet.

My eyes were wide open to see what turned out to be a human head covered in blood, his eyes wide open looking at me.

“Bu, that is the head of Johan, Lidya's husband,”.

“Not. It was one of the incarnations of the inhabitants of this place, you don't have to care about it,” while saying that mother walked up the stairs.

“KILLERS ! THE KILLER ! KILLER !” the voice was heard repeatedly in both ears, it came from the head lying not far from my feet as I was about to turn my mother back to remind me not to care, I followed him back from behind. The scream grew louder and louder, making my ears hurt.

“DIAMOND !!!” suddenly my mother cried out loudly, the voices slowly disappeared and the situation went quiet again. We finally arrived in front of the second floor entrance, the fingers of the mother's hand moved around the handle.

A heavy and dry voice tickled my ears and nape, my hair that had been goosebumps ever since, increasingly made me tremble all over my body. We walked through a room where there was only a chandelier that turned so dim.

The dim room was a lot of household furniture scattered and dirty clothes, seedy and spread unpleasant odors. After walking for so long my heart seemed to stop beating while in front of us suddenly stood a body covered in blood and did not have a head.

The headless figure slowly raised his right hand, a moment later his index finger pointed at a room located at the right end of where we were standing. The door of the room opened by itself and we saw a red light.

We approached him and when we saw a body sitting while putting the left foot on the right groin, his fingers were holding a newspaper.

The long, wide sheets of newspapers hid part of his face. The letters printed on the surface of the worn paper seemed to persuade the pair of eyes of the male figure with glasses to reluctantly turn on us.

What caught my attention was, large letters and red inked on the front page of ‘JALAN SKULL, ASK TUMBAL AGAIN’. It was the news of the accident that killed Johan, Lidya's husband, I said in my heart.

The man was still sitting quietly as if he did not care about our presence. I walked back to where my mother was walking through the big, dark room. The lights of the room are no longer able to reach the entire room, making us difficult. In this dark, anything can happen. We walked while docked on damp, mossy walls. As far as the eye can see there is only darkness and stuffy air. Until finally, our pair of eyes caught a small light that was getting closer and closer.

The light came from an oil lamp lying on the floor. Through the light we can look around. Apparently there is another room that is quite wide and wide in front there is a woman wearing a long red dress with lace roses.

The woman's stature was very similar to Lidya's, she sat back to us. “Lidya,” as I was about to approach her, but, mother pulled my right wrist, “Wait, le.. don't rush,” that's when we felt a sharp whirlwind, <TAG1>, cold and strange blowing. We turned around and in front of us stood a tall and thin man, he had no eyeballs. What appears to us is 2 large enough holes in the eyes also occasionally seen maggots, worms and centipedes creeping between them, “Keep you away from him ...KILLER !!” exclaimed the creature, its voice filled with anger and as if echoing throughout the room, it made my ears hurt so much.

At the same time, my mother's body bounced back as far as 3 spears, a pair of bones-dwrapped bone hands, long and pointed black nails holding my head. It was so fast, I could not help it, for a moment I felt the contents of my head empty and a dazzling white light shut my eyes.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself standing in the middle of a road that was quite crowded by vehicles passing by at a fairly high speed, he said, god, how am I supposed to stand in the middle of the road like this ? my question is in my heart. My gaze swept out to all directions a great many vehicles of various sizes gliding at high speed, I could not count how many times the vehicles hit me, but, I felt nothing. Seemed by me a luxury sedan pulled over and from the inside appeared a pair of young men. They are JOHAN and LIDYA, both face looks red and when they get out of the car they quarrel and end when Johan floated his right palm to Lidya's cheek until the woman fell slammed. What makes them fight until Johan slaps Lidya ? Seeing Lidya falling slammed, Johan seemed to ignore it, he got into the car and left Lidya lying on the ground. The sight hurt me, I tried to get to Lidya, but I was shocked when a truck was hurtling at high speed. A few seconds later my ears heard a loud noise like heavy objects clashing against each other and followed by the screams of people, “CRASH ! ACCIDENT !”

At first glance the road became jammed and I could see a luxury sedan driven by Johan Ringsek. Between the wheels of the giant truck, there was a thick red liquid and Johan's head was no longer intact, while the truck driver also suffered severe injuries.

I widened my eyes as soon as I found out who had fainted in the truck. The truck driver was me. IT CAN'T BE !! I cried but, no one heard it. From far away I saw Lidya walking towards me.

As he stood before me, “Why did you do that ?” tanyakanya. I did not have time to answer, suddenly a black shadow appeared and surrounded Lidya's body. The woman looked confused, she exclaimed as the black shadow pulled her away from me, “Eko, help me !!!” he shouted while his right hand flailed.

I tried to chase after him, when my fingers almost got it, I felt like my body was being sucked by a vacuum cleaner. My eyes blurred, everything I saw vanished and turned into a speck of dim light and I found myself in a room lit by candlelight and Lidya's body still lying unconscious. I looked around, not far from me, my mother was facing a black and tall, hairy figure, my mother's face looked tense when she saw Lidya in her arms.

“I know who, you. You shouldn't have kidnapped that woman. Put him down and don't disturb our world anymore,” my mother said.

“But your son killed her husband and should I let him hurt this woman's feelings ?” said the black figure.

“I know. That is our business with the Creator. And, you .. don't have to interfere in the affairs of our world. Get that woman or I'll kick you out of this place. For I have the power to do so .. the power given by HIM to get rid of a bully like you,”

The figure lowered Lidya's body, and then slowly disappeared somewhere. Along with the disappearance of the creature, slowly the entire room turned into a large field with a giant banyan tree. The long root fibers hanging in the air almost covered the tree with strange and terrible-shaped rootcocks. In such a state, the form of the banyan tree is like the head of a creature that has long hair and fancies. Behind us an old building stood majestically challenging the sky, the old manicured house had already turned into its original form. A Luxury House that is quite large and beautiful, that is where Lidya lives.

“Lid, how are you doing?” tanyaku was excited after Lidya's condition returned to normal. Lidya looked at me as well as my mother in turn, “Eko, Aunt Tania, what has happened already ? Why are you here ?” tanyanya. “Do you remember anything, son ?” ask mom.

Lidya shook her head, “As I recall, I sat on the porch of the house, to eliminate the feeling of being saturated because I was alone in the room. After that somehow, suddenly I was here and you were already in front of me. And, I feel like this head is light,” Lidya replied while rubbing her forehead with the back of her right hand.

My mother smiled, “Son Lidya. Aunty knows, you are still sad about your husband's death, but, don't you daydream too much. Frankly speaking auntie says here, your soul has just survived the clutches of a creature called Gondoruwo, the genie waiting for the banyan tree behind your house.

Lidya smiled wryly, “Bi, I do not believe superstition or the like,”

“Then, can you explain how you now have a new habit ?” my many.

“What new habits ?”

“After your husband died, you often talked, laughed and cried alone,” I replied, “My mother often saw you alone with a black creature, tall and big when midnight arrived,”

Lidya widens eyes, “Is that true, bi ?” tanyakanya.

My mom nods her head, “True. And I know who he is. He follows you wherever you go. Your marriage to Johan infuriated her, which is why she took the form of my son, EKO and killed your husband in an accident 1 year ago at the Cipularang Toll. By taking advantage of your quarrel with Johan while trying to make my son as his scapegoat. He doesn't want you to be someone else's wife, he wants to take you as his wife,”.

Lidya's face was deathly pale, he really did not understand how it could happen, “No way. How can this happen ?” tanyakanya.

“Love has made anyone blind, Nak Lidya,” just had my mom shut her mouth, I see Lidya's face changed. She looked cruel and cruel, her wild eyes staring intently at us, “DIA IS MY LOVER !! I won't let you ruin my love for her!!!” lidya's soft voice became rough and high-pitched, after which Lidya laughed, jumped out and ran to the yard, he did not care if his body collided with the window glass. He kept running and running leaving us who were chasing him while shouting his name.

We lost track, our pursuit stopped in the backyard where the giant banyan tree stood. A pair of my mother's eyes stared intently at the tree and stopped at a woman's body with her neck tied to one of its root fibers. His pair of eyes were wide and empty, his tongue was stretched out, my mother's eyes were soaked with tears when she saw that there were no signs of life on his body.

Far above the tree, a shadow stood on one of the leaves, his pair of red eyes staring down, at the corner of his lips turned a cold, thin, horrible smile.

(Monday, 24 – Sept – 2018 )