METAPHYSICAL WAR
Death Laguna and Alice
In the afternoon, Alice visits her mother-in-law's house, although she is forced if not for Laguna who invites her to stop by her mother's house first, in order for Rasta, to be, raduma's older brother used to communicate with his grandmother and younger siblings from Laguna because both of them did have a quiet nature and difficult to communicate with. Both Rasta and Raduma live more in Grandma Damanik's house, only occasionally both vacation at Samirah's house.
“Mother where ? How come you two are home?” ask Laguna to Tarma and Gani.
“Do not know kang, because it does not say, this is also new to come,“ replied Gani. Atmadja's son from Samirah was the most bontot, both of his thighs propped up the laptop and his eyes re-gazed at the screen.
While Tarma reluctantly responds he just slumps on the sofa while closing his eyes, just getting home from work.
The three, Laguna, Alice and Rasta enter the type 45 house, greeting Gani and Tarma while waiting for Samirah and Yuniar to return home. Rasta, who was 4 years old, was silent, if not asked by Gani and Tarma, he would not say anything. Sometimes Rasta even wants to go home immediately, tugging at her mother's clothes without saying, not at home with the atmosphere of Samirah.
“Gani..motor enter into not outside so !” Shouted Samirah annoyed when he arrived on the porch of the house.
He entered in a hurry to scold Gani who was still struggling with his laptop.
“Eh, Laguna, tos lami gun dongkapna ? (Have the gun been around for a long time ? )” Samirah shocked after opening the teak door, saw Laguna turned out to visit his home.
“Lumayan Bu, it was five o'clock, where did you run out of?”
“Ah not from anywhere, just shopping with Yuni,” replied Samirah turned to Yuniar who entered after opening his shoes.
“Oh there's Alice too ? Same granddaughter grandma, ouh.“ Samirah wooed a fake on a chubby-cheeked 4-year-old boy.
“Ah skit,“ whispered Alice in her heart glancing at Samirah who was pretending to be friendly.
While Yuniar with a sour face went straight into the upper room by climbing the stairs without greeting or glancing towards Alice and her son.
“Have gone to Semalem here ya.“ Samirah again seduced Rasta who pouted from earlier.
Hearing that, Rasta shook her head, an unwilling sign.
“Rasta, we mondok aja well, only semalem doang, later mr. buyin tamiya.“ Laguna tried to persuade Rasta who was still clutching tightly to Alice's clothes.
With the lure of a toy tamiya gift that was loved by children at that time, Rasta finally collapsed and wanted to stay for one night at the Samirah house.
Agreed, the three of them stay at the house Samirah, Laguna still with innocence has not also sniffed the evil intentions of his mother and sister so far. He still thinks that Alice and Samirah's relationship is fine, Alice who was forced to obey the Laguna order to stay can only resign but her eyes and hearing remain alert. Based on his past experience, Yuniar and his mother often do something unpleasant like one day Alice stayed at Samirah's house, when meal time arrived, Samirah thrust a lump of cooked meat with a sharper aroma.
Fortunately Alice was very thorough, the cooked meat with a suspicious aroma was not so she ate because of the suspicion that just perched in her mind.
“Uh, what meat is this ? How strange the aroma,“ muttered Alice closed her nostrils, unusual with a foreign smell.
Without the ba-bi-bu, she wrapped the meat in a plastic bag with no knowledge of her in-laws walking into the kitchen, a traditional looking kitchen. He wrapped it with the intention to ask later to a close relative who is a butcher, near the location of Alice's house.
There, he learned that it turned out that what he was carrying was meat***wooden. Meat according to the religion that Alice professes, should not be consumed, moreover, it is suspected of being seasoned with poison also after the meat was tried to be given to a dog and the dog immediately fell ill after vomiting violently.
Since then, Alice began to be careful when she was at Samirah's house. But that night he let his guard down for the first time, the lights were off, the bodies had been lying on the bed but not for Samirah, his eyes still wild, equally wild with his brain, he said, looking for a gap to approach Alice just to take a strand of hair, she initially struggled as Maghrib searched for photos when Laguna and Alice married first but somehow the photo was not found.
One mission was successfully carried out that night, Samirah edited Alice's unraveled hair as she slept unnoticed, silent in the dark a strand of black hair managed Samirah cantungi. He walked slowly, settled down and finally returned to his room.
In the morning, Laguna leaves for work while Alice and Rasta are still at Samirah's house, not yet home due to waiting for noon. Two footsteps could be heard leaving the entrance, Tarma and Gani as usual headed to work while Samirah was busy washing clothes and Yuni struggled with all the kitchen utensils about to cook.
“Ngapain anyway tuh people here, make out the stock of food aja,“ grumbled Yuniar.
One kilo of chicken meat he cleaned with running water, after which he switched to tempeh and vegetable spinach waiting to be cleaned. Still with an arrogant heart cooking one by one food ingredients that morning, his hands were quite deft to insert pieces of fresh chicken meat that he bought at the market at dawn today. Occasionally he cut tempeh and turned to the other gas stove, to make sure the spinach vegetables are not too ripe he cooked.
“Hmm I have an idea,“ muttered Yuniar saw biting pieces (wood skewers commonly tucked between tempe ).
Shortly after he cooked spinach and fried chicken, then he took the rice to fry along with slices of meat and pieces of tempe that pasted sharp biting. All the food positions he arranged in such a way on the dining table to run according to plan.
“Yun..have not meteng yet ? Mamah laper nih, long time cooking so doang too,” asked Samirah from inside the bathroom where washing clothes are adjacent to the kitchen.
“It's mah, let's eat,“ said Yuni.
Samirah paused for a moment from rubbing clothes, he washed his hands first then walked into the living room, the dining table was filled with simple dishes that still felt warm.
“Alice, eat first before returning to east Bandung.“ Invite Samirah his eyes swept across the room, despite hating Alice but he can sometimes still behave normally.
“Iya Ma'am for a moment, Rasta I put on a shirt first.”
Alice was still struggling with Rasta's clothes which she ironed after Rasta bathed herself in the second bathroom. Although it feels the air temperature is still cold, inevitably Rasta must obey Alice's orders that threaten her a little.
I wouldn't go home if I didn't take a shower !
That was the sentence that came out of Alice's lips after Rasta woke up from sleep and whined at her to go home immediately. Five minutes later he went to the dinner table to find a bowl of fried rice, as well as the bowl brought Samirah and Yuniar, containing fried rice.
In front of him vegetable spinach and fried chicken and a basket of crackers white color. Alice seemed less interested in fried chicken, she took some crackers and vegetable spinach along with tempeh. While Samirah ate voraciously without waiting for Alice, the passing Yuniar took his own bowl away from the dining table, choosing to eat in the upper room.
“Aw, what is this row ? Jeez !“ Alice was stunned to find a biting in tempeh and fried rice after several devours.
Luckily the sharp biting had not had time to tear or pierce the ceiling of his mouth, the suspicious friction when he chewed it made Alice not quickly swallow just like that.
“What's this clay ?“ alice said thrusting her bowl which contained bits hidden in tempe and rice, her forehead shrinking the look of her face instantly sour. “ What does this mean ? Yuniar wants to harm me ?”
“What's up?“ Samirah saw Alice's bowl still intact. “Oh, biting, maybe the Yuniar forgot to cleanin time.”
“Can't be Mom, this biting as much as this time forget ?“ Alice became suspicious. “Yuniar..!”
Alice shouted out to Yuniar, she already could not bear the treatment of the Laguna family, for her this time it had exceeded the limit.
“Alice ! Don't think of anything !“ Timpal Samirah pounded the dining table with barking eyes. The glass filled with drinking water fell to the floor and broke.
The atmosphere became tense.
Heard Alice screaming and Samirah hitting the table. Yuniar descended from the upper room towards the middle room approaching Alice.
“What is this ?“ tanya Yuniar tried to behave normally as if he did not know knowing. “Do not shout also times, shame the same neighbors.”
Eyes looked at each other full of anger between Alice and Yuniar. While Rasta who was shocked to see her grandmother kicked the table directly into the room because of fear.
“Udah deh, don't play anymore, I'm fed up with your behavior, yes ! What do you mean by putting biting in my bowl ? You want to kill me ?,“ snapped Alice.
“For your mouth, it can't forget, you if you don't like cooking here, go, eat there outside, go home !“ reply Yuniar yelled no less loudly, berkilah from the accusations leveled by Alice.
“Udah now you go home only Alice, rather than here you even make a fuss,“ said Samirah interrupted the conversation both.
Hearing Juniar's reluctant Answer confessing as well as his father-in-law who was just like his son, subtly exorcising himself, Alice finally again held back her anger she could not spill all her frustration any more than that, before long he went straight to the room, tidied up all Rasta's clothes and then left without saying goodbye with Rasta who had not had the least bit of breakfast.
Alice left the house of Samirah with sparkling eyes, holding back the cry that wanted to burst forth in an instant. His footsteps were in a hurry while Rasta was just silent, dumbstruck to see her mother at odds with the Laguna family earlier.