FROM ANOTHER WORLD TO YOU (Sistery Story Group )
Chapter V - Cosmetics 3 (The Music Player ) - Second Half
A few months after the incident, Baladewa disbanded. All 10 members were scattered. Some set up their own music groups, some career as a single player, some switched professions as a businessman. However, along with their uphill careers, they also experienced events that led to sudden death. Up to 10 of the remaining 5 people are still alive, they are: Ratna, Rini, Lusi, Robert and Sugeng.
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LUCI
Lusi came home drunk, seeing the condition of his best friend Yuniar drove him home. The distance between the office where Lusi works and the house is a bit far, passing through the cemetery and the streets are quiet.
But, Yuniar who has been used to visiting the house of Lusi, it is not an obstacle. However, that night, the streets were so dark and foggy, Yuniar had to be extra careful. During the trip, Lusi talked about his experiences in the past while still a Baldives Group. And unknowingly the names Estefanny and Febiola were mentioned.
“CCCIIIEEEETTTHHH !!”
A deafening sound coming from the car's brake engine followed by the sound of wheel friction colliding with the asphalt, Yuniar stopped the car's speed suddenly making Lusi's head almost hit the windshield. “Lo what is this ?! Mo fuck me, huh ?!” his yell.
Yuniar was speechless his pair of eyes stared straight ahead without blinking. “Hey, I asked lo.. anksa,dong ... don't bengong aja,” back Lusi said in an annoyed tone.
“Lus, lo ga see just now someone crossed the road,” Yuniar reply asked.
“Gue don't see anyone in front. Mending you just drive real,”
“Really, Lus .. I ga da intention ngebo’in lo.. actually there was a girl who crossed the road. Looks like your car broke him,”
“Already,dech ... already do not talk macem-macem. Let's walk again.. if I'm not like gini .. from earlier I must have held the steering wheel,”
Yuniar nodded his head, then started the car but it seemed to break down, “Okay, how is this. Lo home is still far away but, the car does not want to go,”
Just now, Yuniar closed his mouth, his ears dimmed, hearing the sound of a flute. Lusi who has been joking around suddenly fell silent, “Cih, these malls, who music with such a discordant voice,” he lamented, “Still good guitar sound I play,”.
The flute sound is getting closer and closer, the discordant sound makes Lusi annoyed, “Whispering very ..” he shouted while trying to open the car door, but, before his intention was carried out, he said, from the outside came a woman in white, her long black hair down. He's blowing a flute.
Lusi's pair of eyes were wide open, his face was deathly pale, from the window of the car appeared a face of a pale beautiful woman but the right was badly damaged there was almost no skin and flesh, and there was no, until what is seen is white cheekbones and crawled by various animals and spread a stinging foul aroma.
“Yun .. better we leave this place immediately,” he exclaimed in a trembling voice.
Yuniar who does not know what happened to his best friend was trying to turn on the machine, he was amazed by the behavior of Lusi, “Iya, briefly Lus, kok suddenly ...” his speech was interrupted replaced with the sound of the car engine roar. After his foot stepped on the accelerator pedal, the car hurtled. Susi is now more silent, suddenly recalled the events that occurred before the Baladewa Music Group disbanded.
It was he who broke Fanny's favorite silver flute also involved watering hard water on Fanny and Febi's face.
“Lo earlier what was ?” tanya Yuniar disperse the daydreams of Lusi. No answer, “What Lo see something that makes you scared ?” back he asked.
“Mending lo jalanin hold this car. Faster to get home better,” replied Lusi Ketus. Lusi's answer made Yuniar no longer ask questions, he continued to run the car until finally arrived at his best friend's house. Once finished parking the car, Yuniar came out followed by Lusi, “Lo was at home. I go home first .. hopefully your mood will be better tomorrow, so it's not too late with me,” said Yuniar while leaving Lusi, but, but, Lusi immediately grabbed onto Yuniar's hand and said, “Maapin me, Yun ... Tonight meet me, yes .. tomorrow we go to work together,”
“Lo today is very strange.. ga usually ask for payment. But, well asal lo ga iramin ato ketus again ma me. If it is still so, I go home even though it is late,” said Yuniar.
“Eh, lo listen harmonica sound, ga from dalem ?” ask Lusi.
“Gue ga denger nothing. Don't scare me, yeah ..”
“Yakin.. lo ga hearing nothing sound from inside ?”
Yuniar shook his head. Moments later Lusi pulled his arm while saying, “Ayo .. temeni I entered.. I did not know what this malem feeling I did not feel good,” After saying so 2 women were walking, I did not know, repeatedly Lusi's body was piled up due to his condition which was still heavily drunk, but Yuniar hurriedly wiped it out. Until when arriving at the entrance door, Lusi seemed hesitant for a moment, the sound of the harmonica this time sounded clearer, “Duh, why do I become afraid of kayak gini, yes, is my home ?”
Yuniar let out a long sigh, after taking the key from Lusi's grasp, he opened the door and pulled Yuniar in. Lusi's face paled again in front of him already stood a woman in white. His face on the left was broken, he was holding a dark blue harmonica.
“Who lo ... what does this malem-malem go into people's homes ?!” ask Lusi.
“Lus .. lo talk to anyone, ga da anyone in this house besides us,” Yuniar looks surprised by Lusi's reaction.
“Yun, did you see there was a woman in white standing on deket lo?” ask Lusi. Yuniar was confused, he looked around, there was no one on his right. But, he felt a sharp wind that was cold and made his hair creep. He was even more surprised when he saw Lusi running towards the window while grabbing his hair, “Not ... let go, you are dead why you bother me, go ... go ... go !!” he shouted while running towards the window. “Hei, Lusi .. lo what ? Back !!” Yuniar tries to chase after him, but it seems that Lusi does not hear the screams of his best friend.
“PPPRRAAANNNGGGG !!”
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RINI
“KKRRIINNGG”
The loud and repetitive ringing of the phone woke Rini from her new sleep lasting 2 hours. His new solo concert has made his stamina drained so that without cleaning his body he immediately put his body on the bed. The sound of the phone had irritated him and nagged himself. Just about to reach for the phone looked by her a woman in white sat behind her while looking in the mirror, “Hey, what are you doing in my room ?” tanyakanya.
The woman did not answer, she just sat down and combed her long black hair. Rini heard a soft and melodious humming and she was well acquainted with the song sung by the woman sitting behind her. “JOIN ME .. The song first sung by Sarah Brightman. You can sing it too?” ask Rini.
There's no answer. Feeling tired, sleepy and sore all over Rini's body mixed into one and made her emotions explode. Roughly gripped the woman's left shoulder and for a moment she was flabbergasted while her fingers seemed to hold a soft, watery item. He tried to pull his hand but, a terrible face half a human half a skull was already on his nose.
Rini became hysterical and screamed loudly, but, as if no one heard her scream, it seemed to penetrate the roof of the room room until it came out and flew through the night sky which was finally inaudible.
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RATNA
I don't know how many times Ratna went back and forth to the bathroom, at the same time in the room she was vomiting, vomiting, open the medicine cabinet take a bottle containing tranquilizers and drink it with tap water and then glass. Every time I go in and out of the bathroom, that's what he does. He saw the face in the mirror, he used to be so beautiful, not a few adam fell in love with him. Now the face in the mirror is the face of a thin woman with black hollows adorning the bottom of her eyes.
“Come sweet boy, until when do you keep silent in the bathroom ?” a man's cry came from outside.
“Ya, dear ... soon I come,” replied Ratna as she was about to step out of the bathroom. But, his steps stopped while his ears heard a discordant sound from the flute accompanied by a harmonica sound. Ratna fell silent, her head turned around to look for the source of the voice, but, there was no one there.
The sound of flute and harmonica more clearly heard, he knows well every tone sung by the two musical instruments “JOIN ME”, “DELIVER ME”, <TAG1>DELIVER ME<TAG1>, that is what is often sung with Estefanny and Febiola while still in the Baladewa Music Group under the care of Pak Yudhi.
Suddenly the bathroom door was wide open and a straight man came in, “Hey, baby ... until when did you let me wait for you ?!” tanyakanya.
“A minute, baby. But, did you not hear the sound of this flute and harmonica?” ask Ratna.
The man smiled, “Are you hallucinating or what ? Didn't we just play legendary songs and sing together .. no harmonica or flute sounds ...” the man's speech was cut off, his pair of eyes widened wide staring towards the back of Ratna, “Who are those two people ?” tanyakanya.
Ratna looked in the direction pointed by the man, there was no one, however, she felt her hair standing up, “You don't scare me,” she said. The sound of the flute and harmonica was clearly heard in Ratna's ears. Now the face of the man standing in front of Ratna paled, “Maybe they were the ones playing the flute and harmonica. 2 women in white, long black hair were scattered, did you not know ?”
The man's words made Ratna dumbstruck, now she felt her back hot, she hurriedly looked back. “Ka... you guys,” said Ratna nervously. The man was aware of the danger, the air around the bathroom was fickle and made him short of breath, hurriedly he came out and left the place without saying goodbye to Ratna.
“Ma .. I'm sorry Fanny and Febi, I didn't mean to harm you,” Ratna was nervous. The figure of the woman holding the silver flute wrapped in black masking tape spread some of the hair covering her right cheek as well as Febiola, they both showed her badly damaged right-hand face.
Ratna cried out stifledly when she saw that terrible face, her legs were limp and her body seemed to have no energy to move. He screamed while the bones of Estefanny clad in skin grabbed his wrists while the other hand made makeup on Ratna's face with cosmetics. The cosmetics Ratna had given him. Ratna rebel, “TTIIDDAAKK !! JJAANNGGAANN !!!” his yell.
Estefanny's fingers continued to move unceasingly. Merias ... make up ... and decorate... until a pair of Ratna eyeballs catch the shadows of strange and terrible creatures swirling around her, “GO ME !! GO ALL THE WAY !!” Ratna continued to shout as she ran through the darkness of the night.
No one has known of his whereabouts since then.
Ratna had no idea where she was, before Estefanny and Febiola disappeared singing JOIN ME, HERE WITH ME and DELIVER ME. After that the house where Ratna lived was again silent and the shadow of 2 women holding silver flutes was broken wrapped in black tape and harmonica luminescence to various corners of the wind was mixed with a thin fog that floated in air.
While the sound of flutes and harmonica is still echoing.
A beautiful music and sends his listeners into the cradle of dreamland.
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My name is Cindy Permatasari, maybe you won't know who Estefanny and Febiola are. But, for Cindy they are my best friends even though our world is different. The sound of a discordant flute and the sound of a harmonica always accompany Cindy when alone. And they, they have a message that may be worth hearing by anyone. This is their message :
“THIS BROKEN FLUTE, ALWAYS ACCOMPANYING ME WHEN ALONE, SOMETIMES MY SISTER FEBIOLA ACCOMPANIES THE SONGS I PLAY. DID YOU KNOW, THESE TWO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS STORE A HISTORY OF THE PAST THAT IS BOTH FUN AND DARK. IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY HEAR THE SOUND OF FLUTE AND HARMONICA AT MIDNIGHT ... ME AND FEBIOLA CAME EITHER COMFORTING YOU IN THE QUIET OR SCATTERING THE CHARM OF DEATH FOR YOU .... BECAUSE, MAYBE YOU LIKE TO DINE, SWEET IN FRONT OF PEOPLE BUT, YOU STAB THAT PERSON IN THE BACK. IF THAT HAPPENS, THEN, WE DO NOT HESITATE TO PUT THESE COSMETICS ON YOUR FACE. THEN, IT IS : CURSE KAMI”
^^^( 13 – Nop – 2018 )^^^
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