Marlangens
CHAPTER 19

It's been a month since Aunt Rani left. Disturbance after distraction from the soft guys still befalls me, but it's all just a fad disorder that's not related.

After the sighting of Aunt Rani in the kitchen a month ago, her figure has never been seen again. The figure of the half-snake woman also never bothered me again, she just showed herself from a distance. Adit has recovered from his accident wounds, now he has started to go to college.

As usual, I sat in a bag with Amel and Bayu, while Sella was on campus more often with her boyfriend.

"His girlfriend started going to college again?" amel asked to tease me. The boyfriend that Amel is referring to is Adit.

"Ngaco, I have nothing to do with Adit" I said with a hot face.

"But you guys are rich dating tau, like lovebird," said Bayu while chuckling.

As I was being teased all out with them suddenly someone called out to me. I looked back and the one who called me was Adit. I also left Amel and Bayu who had cleared their throat with lebay.

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Adit and I sat in the park behind campus, reminding me of Mayang, the woman Adit loved so much. How could I possibly enter his heart while his love was only for Mayang.

"Why are you daydreaming?" ask Adit who immediately broke my daydream.

"Ah is okay. Why did you bring me here?" askaku.

"Just talk, haven't been here in a long time. I'm happy, this is one of the special places for me," he said with a smile.

I know it's not normal to be jealous of ghosts, but really this time I'm jealous of Mayang who can be loved by men like Adit.

"Are you really healing?" ask me to expel the heat in my heart.

"Udah. Oh yeah about our chat the other day about the ghost of the flat-face woman who said how is your mother still alive?"

"I don't know if I'm confused, Dit. Everything that has happened lately is related to each other. But I don't know where to start," I said honestly.

"I think you should go home in the village, maybe there is a clue" Adit said with a serious face.

"I also had time to think so but Om Bagas did not allow me to go to my house first"

"Why?" ask Adit carefully.

"I don't know either, but it seems I have to make excuses so I can go home for a while to my old house" I replied.

"I will take you to your old house" said Adit

"Don't, my village is pretty far from Jakarta." My ban on Adit.

"Ah how far anyway, anyway later you will I deliver," he said without wanting to be denied.

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This morning I plan to go with Adit to my village first. Earlier I was saying goodbye to Om Bagas and Sella, I said after college I would go to Amel and stay there because Amel's family was going out of town. I had to lie so that Om Bagas would let me go.

Me and Adit left in Adit's new car, and somehow I got so nervous. I was scared too, but the place I was going to was my own home. The place where I was born and raised is also the place where I filled my days.

After nearly eight hours of travel, we finally arrived at my village. Late in the afternoon when Adit's car began to enter the village area there are still many empty gardens filled with bamboo trees.

"Kalo malem must be very tired, said Adit as he looked through every street we went through.

"Fearful?" tanyaku.

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I looked at the house in front of me with mixed feelings. Scared, nervous and longing. I have too many memories with my father.

"Now enter?" ask Adit.

I took out the keys and opened the door. The condition of the house was still the same when I last left. It's just that the house court is filled with dry leaves and conditions in the house were filled with dust.

"We start from your personal space" I told Adit who followed me.

The place is still the same as the last time you died. Because after that incident no one dared to go inside especially coupled with the death of Pak'lek Agus.

The flowers of seven forms that have dried up, incense marks and many things related to mysticism I found in the Father's private room.

"The night can be opened, Langen!" call Adit.

I also immediately approached Adit, it turns out that in the closet there is a leather puppet that you usually use for the gig. But my eyes were fixed on a medium-sized wooden box, a brown wooden box with carvings on it.

I took the wooden box to the living room, when I was about to open it it was locked.

"It looks like the one in the box is very important" said Adit who sat next to me.

"I'll find the key. Who knows if it's in my room."

After searching in my room, I found nothing. Finally I returned to the middle room, there Adit was looking at the photo on the wall of the house.

"There was nothing I could find in my room. But I wonder what's inside this wooden box" I said, holding the wooden box.

Instead of saying Adit was fixated on looking at my neck.

"Why Dit?" manya suspect.

"Your necklace bobble is shaped like a key and it looks like the key is not just a necklace accessory" he replied.

Adit was right, without further ado I removed my necklace and removed the key-shaped pendulum.

When installing the key pendulum on the keyhole in the wooden box was heard a clicking sound that indicates the wooden box is open.

I looked at Adit before opening the wooden box. Aditpun nodded as a sign of agreement. When I opened it, it turned out that what was inside the wooden box was a medium-sized kris. Keris is yellow gold.

By the time I was about to touch the keris suddenly a strong wind hit me and Adit who immediately ran towards the door. The strong wind seemed to chase us, when I was in the car I felt like I was riding a boat that was tossing waves.

"Dit, let's get the hell out of here."

Adit did not answer, he immediately plugged the gas and drove his car out of my yard.

It was already late at night and the atmosphere of the village was already very quiet. Adit kept driving his car fast, the strong wind was no longer following us. But fear still envelops me.

Actually the keris that was in the wooden box that I was holding this kris what, why just look at this keris I feel so scared.

And what are you trying to hide from me?

Question after question kept spinning in my mind all the way back to Jakarta. Did you have anything to do with that half-snake woman?

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