Pickup Transportation
Section 301: Bus 404 (4)
“Enak Rif?” Melati asked.
“Iya passable, can wedge stomach.”
“You pay close attention yes, these seeds and also leaves that you can eat, later if you are lager, look for something like this yes.” Melati is like giving a message.
“Yes, there will be you, later if I am confused just ask you.”
“Yes, I wasn't always there,” Melati replied.
“Where do you want to go, we will have the same goal.”
“Yes, who knows I'm tired and finally back to the saung earlier, if you find me, you to the saung it aja.”
“Iya, but Mel, I was confused, the saung had not met you, I find you never met, I intend to go back to the saung afraid you're back there again, I'm afraid, but I didn't meet her.”
“Meet me later, if I go back there, then you search for me, you will meet.” Melati smiled sincerely, after eating, they continued on their way.
Looking for Nola or the way out, Arif is grateful because accompanied by Melati, he became sure he would be able to find Nola.
At nightfall, again Arif and Melati had to spend the night in the forest, but not in the saung anymore.
While elsewhere.
After being frightened and hearing a voice from the back of the bus, Nola finally ventured to get there, because in the future she was not so brave, she said, there was a feeling of fear that he could not explain when he saw those people looking at him simultaneously while kicking hearing the old song.
Nola walked back without hesitation, even though it was dark there. When he got closer, he realized something, there were some people there.
Their faces looked much more normal than the faces of the people in front, Nola was speeding up, she turned on the flashlight on her smartphone, this way she could see everyone.
“This is fast!” Nola was pulled by a man, after she pulled Nola, Nola sat in the row of five people who were behind, they all looked frightened.
“Whose are you?” Nola asked.
“I'm Bobby, this is Mita, this is Desi, Rosi who's in the corner is Rendi. We're students majoring in Psychology, we're also like you, stuck on this bus.” Bobby explained.
“I'm Nola, Stuck?” Nola doesn't understand that much.
“Yes, we won't stop at the usual place, they will take us to ...”
“Where?” Nola curious.
“To the forest!” Bobby whispers.
“Sitting Nola, they don't like us noisy,” Mita says.
Mita pulls Nola to sit with her and also Desi, they sit on the rear paing bench, a bench that is longer than the others because it is not cut off part of the road, because the very back of the bus.
“We will be dropped in the forest?” Nola asked again.
“Iya, anyway later if this door is open, we all have to go down flat, yes, that's why we run, but watch the run, you have to follow us yes, lest you run without direction, later you get lost, if you get lost, we'll have trouble coming back, understand Nola?” Bobby pointed at the door near them, the back of the bus.
“Yes Bob, but why are we stuck on this bus? why also my friends and also the bus that passed us, can not see this bus and also me, even though I have tried to give them a sign, but I have tried to give them a sign, but they were unconscious and no one saw me.
“Perhaps because it is dark so it does not squirm us, all here are also the same, this is because the campus area is dark, so they do not see us.” Bobby explained again
“But strange, this guy the bus sounds big too, time can not be seen another bus?” Nola is still in doubt.
“Later if we're out, I'll ask the campus to turn on more lights, so they can monitor students well.” Desi looks excited.
“I don't want anything, I just want to meet my mom, I want to get out of here, here is too scary.” Mita.
"Why are you all here?" Nola asked.
"We got on a bus like you, then got stuck here." Bobby replied.
"Can't we find a way out?" Nola asked again.
"We'll be out in a minute, just wait." Bobby said mysteriously.
The bus stopped, Nola looked outside, dark but Nola could see that outside was full of trees.
"We were dropped off in the woods?" Nola's confused.
"Once the door opens, run away all, Nola just have to follow us, don't ask, just follow us. We have to make it tonight. My mother must be sad waiting for us to come home." Bobby and the others agree, Nola has no choice because Bobby and the others are Nola's only hope, even though this feels like a dream.
Bobby's door opened first, Nola continued and everyone else, Nola was held by Bobby so as not to separate from the team, everyone ran, penetrated the tree, Nola ran while looking back, Nola ran, from the bus there were a lot of terrible creatures out, there were women and men dressed in tatters, leftover blood here and there, faces that were not intact and also a strange way of walking, like a robot. They're all after Bobby and all his friends.
Nola was scared, she just kept running holding Bobby's hand tight. She cried, kept crying but kept running behind Bobby.
Until they finally arrive at a fork, Bobby like to remember where they were yesterday, he then had the right side of the forest fork, Nola still continues to hold Bobby's hand, everyone behind them.
They ran at a speed that was not reduced, until finally they were exhausted and chose to rest.
“All hide first in the big tree, hopefully they are not chasing us anymore.” Bobby said with a choked breath from exhaustion.
“Nnothing Bob, thank you for taking care of me, actually I am a person who is not strong to run, but because you pull, I can run well, thank you, Bob.”
“Iya equally, we are all here take care of each other yes.”
“Bob, what were they? why his body is not intact, like not a human, I'm afraid.” Nola asked him to close his eyes because he remembered the incident earlier.
“Nola, we also do not know what they are, maybe demons, maybe aliens may also be creatures that have not been defined, but honestly, they are indeed frightening, he said, that's why we all try not to be on the front bus, because that's where they are, we have to always be at the back, remember it's Nola.”
“Are we going back there?” nola asked, because Bobby's words were so ambiguous, reminding Nola to always choose the back, will they come back again?
“Yuk we walk again,” Mita invites.
They walked again, this time no longer running, because they felt no longer being chased.
“Stop.” Desi asked everyone to stop after they walked for about twenty minutes.
They are separated in bali trees.
“What's up?” Nola asked Bobby who was still holding his hand.
“Sstt,” Bobby asks Nola to be quiet by sticking an index finger on her lips, Nola nods, not long Nola looks in the direction that everyone sees, there is a grandmother walking with her grandson, there was nothing strange about them, except, the grandchildren and grandmother were very pale, her grandmother's clothes were also kebaya and rags, while her grandson only wore a white cloth on the genitals, the grandchild's head was bald and his body was very thin.
Nola closed her eyes and closed her mouth, upon awakening, there were no eyes on the two creatures.
Bobby pulled Nola closer, he knew that Nola was scared, this was the first time they had seen such a horrible person.
After waiting for a few minutes, because the grandmother's path was very slow, they started walking again, this time the path was faster.
“Bobby, that was not a person, obviously he was a demon, you know, I've heard rumors about this forest, so I used to dislike entering this forest the most, because it was obviously very scary.”
“Maybe you're right, we call her Grandma broad-eyed, if you see her, you should hide ya.”
“Why?” Nola's confused.
“Because he is very dangerous, if you get caught, you will be killed by him.” Bobby warned.
“Thank God of you no one has ever caught.” Nola mutters.
“Who said? we know he's a danger after losing a lot of us.”
“What do you mean?” Nola's confused.
“We were once 15 people Nola, now the rest is only kamil.”
Nola stops and pulls Bobby's hand.
“Ka-kalian ... was fifteen people? when was that?” Nola's confused.
“Either, the time here is like stopping, your watch must be dead.
Nola saw his watch, it turned out to be true, since when it was, but indeed he did not notice, but it was fitting that he sent a message to Winda, he said, even the phone is still working and the clock is still working on the screen of the phone.
“Why our clock stops, are we stuck in the supernatural world?” Nola speculated.
“We have also discussed it, but rather than find out about it, we better find a way out.”
Bobby and the others continue on, they arrive at a bridge that Nola thinks is strange, if the structure of the campus forest, there will never be this bridge, he said, because under this bridge there is a flowing river water, strange. There is no river running around the campus.
They started walking, everyone clasped hands, Nola stayed behind Bobby, the others behind Nola, they walked one line, he said, Nola was confused why on the wide bridge fit these three people they had to walk like this, until arriving in the middle of the bridge, suddenly the bridge rocked and finally when Bobby stepped, the bridge swayed even tighter, until it finally made the people who were on it hold each other tightly and .. ctas!
The bridge broke, Nola and the others did not release the handle, they fell together.
Nola held her breath, because this was a river, meaning she had to hold her breath so that when it fell, not much water was swallowed, she was ready to dive, but when it fell.
Nola woke up, she did not fall in the river, but she fell on a foam bench, she again heard the lyrics of a very familiar song, the lyrics of a very old song.
Cut the rice in the fields
Ani-ani done it all
If it's time
Let's go home
Cut the rice in the fields
Ani-ani done it all
When the time comes
Let's go home