My wife Kuntilanak
Chapter 22. Arunas

"Kin, you want to go home?"

"Eh, Aruna. Yes, I want to go home. What's up?" ask the teacher who just got out of class.

He's a little surprised. Aruna who does not always ignore it, this afternoon just greeted him first.

"Before coming home accompany me to the wetan garden, yes," asked Aruna with a clear face.

"Hey? Wetan's garden? Wanna what? Go home first, change clothes and keep saying goodbye to mother," replied Kinanti with a wrinkled forehead.

"Uhh, yesterday I borrowed Nokea's HP from Rani. But I left it near the wetan garden when the shepherd goat," said Aruna.

"Well! Geez! That's expensive stuff!" pekik Kinanti's.

At that time it was still very rare to have HP. The price is also considered very expensive for the pocket of a village teenager. Only the sons of the bosses and officials could afford to have them.

"Eat him, I'm afraid that if we go home first, his HP is gone. Then if I go home late alone, get angry with my mother," explained Aruna with a clear face.

"Duh, how is it? But it's also not good if we go without parental permission," muttered Kinanti doubtfully.

"I promise we go straight home if his HP has met," persuaded Aruna.

"Yes, deh. Come on."

The two teenagers then walked from the school to the wetan garden, a farm that was quiet because of the harvest. The grass grows well. There are some cattle and goats out there.

"Where's the HP, Aruna? We've been looking all over the place and almost close to it camani," said Kinanti who began to feel weak. The teenage girl had not had lunch.

"Duh, where, huh? I think yesterday under that sengon tree, huh. But how come there's no more? Don't people take it?"

Aruna invites Kinanti to approach the camani. The small lake that became the boundary of their village, with rajaswala forest on the slopes of Mount Lawu. But Kinanti was very guarding his footsteps, not approaching the lake that has a deep enough base. He was just waiting under a shady catapult tree.

"Aruna, mending us back to where we were, deh. It's a distance away" asked Kinanti.

Bruk! Suddenly Kinanti's back pushed forward quite strongly, until her body fell into a deep lake.

"I'm sorry, I didn't intentionally. I almost fell" cried Aruna.

"Please, I can't swim. Help me!" kinanti screams with her hands waving upwards.

But instead of helping, Aruna ran away from Kinanti.

"Please," cried Kinanti with all her might. This time Aruna had disappeared behind the trees.

...***...

The wind howled loudly, sounding terrifying from outside the house. Occasionally, twigs and branches fell onto the roof of this house. The owls began to wake up from their sleep perched in the trees around the house while shrieking in disdain.

Brak! Brak!

Suddenly the kitchen door opened with the wind. It's strange, because as Aruna remembers she's locked the kitchen door.

A cold wind from outside burst in, right from the thick-growing jengkol tree. Aruna suddenly saw a black shadow flying rapidly.

"Crowd brutes? These nights?"

Aruna shuddered and rubbed his nape, upon seeing the typical bird of death. Crows are a type of diurnal animal that comes out during the day. Unlike the owls that come out at night.

Aruna pensively for a moment. His ears caught the sound of women crying. His voice is subtle but real. Sometimes slightly camouflaged by the whirring of the wind, and the earthy chirping of owls.

"Arune... Arunas..."

The long muttering voice that called out his name made Aruna shudder. A great fear overcame his curiosity. His feet moved forward. While his hand moved about to close the door.

"Yeah ..." Aruna shrieked loudly as she clearly saw who was standing in front of her kitchen door.

"Why, Mom?" A teenage boy ran into the kitchen, when he heard the voice of his mother's cry.

"I-it's." Aruna pointed towards the kitchen door, while closing her eyes.

"Oh, Madam Laksmi. What's going on here at night?"

Hearing her son's voice speak casually, Aruna opened her eyelids slowly. There was no longer a figure in white clothes drenched in blood on his doorstep. Now all that looks is the figure of an ayu woman in a long negligee dress, with her hair plastered upwards.

"Sorry ngagetin. Abisnya was called from the front no one nyutin," said Laksmi. "Mbak wants pecel rice and megono rice for tomorrow morning. But the number this time is rather a lot, because it wants to be divided into neighbors as well, "he added.

"Well, this is the buyer this morning? How did Farras know?" aruna was confused.

"He's Mas Satya's wife, Mom. His sister-in-law is my friend" Farras explained without hearing the mother's question. "Why don't you order over the phone, Ma'am?" connect Farras.

"Wow, I didn't think that. You'll pay anyway," said Lkasni

"O-oh so. So how many packs?" asked Aruna with a cramped face. He was happy to get a lot of orders. "But why did I see that damn ghost up ahead? Am I thinking too much, because this is the month of his death?" thought Aruna again.

"you reckon? So you realized it?"

Aruna's ears caught the delicate voice that seemed to speak to her. His eyes accidentally looked directly at Laksmi.

"Byeah!" Aruna screamed again, as she saw the woman grinning widely at him.

"Mother why?" Farras immediately grabbed the mother's shoulder and calmed her.

"Why, Mommy?" Laksmi also worried about Aruna who is now pale.

"It's okay. I think I'm just exhausted. What message did you want?" Aruna had to repeat the question.

"Each twenty packs. This is the money I immediately paid off," said Laksmi while giving some money to Aruna.

"I-iya, thanks. Tomorrow at six o'clock in the morning can be picked up," Aruna said with a trembling voice.

He still couldn't believe what he saw just now. Is he hallucinating? Or did the figure appear?

"Ah, I must be thinking, because this is the cursed month," Aruna calmed down.

"Geez!"

Aruna threw a note in her hand, which now turned into a bunch of green leaf caterpillars. The woman jumped on the kitchen floor full of cookware, to avoid the squirming caterpillars.

"What's up, Mom?" farras returned to the kitchen. He was worried about his mother's condition.

"I-it's. The money Laksmi gave her had turned into caterpillars" Aruna said in a trembling voice.

"Tool? There are no caterpillars, ma'am. Is this the money?" farras said while picking up a sheet of paper money scattered on the floor.

Aruna just gawked at it. "Where did the caterpillars go?"

"Mother rest if you're tired. Let me do it later," said Farras, forcing his mother to go to sleep.

"What's up, Nduk? How about rame?" tany Bu Tuti is awake from his sleep.

"No, ma'am," said Aruna as she walked into the room. "Ah, but I had a glimpse of Kinanti at the kitchen door" said Aruna.

"Huh? A winanti? You mean that girl?"

(Connected)