Pickup Transportation
(Part 46: The Bent Beard)
“Yat, don't you sleep? replace if sleepy.” Sakidi, her co-worker, asked, they both headed home after a meeting with colleagues from Bandung. He said there will be a big project later. Now it's 11 pm, the meeting is over at 5 pm, they have dinner first at the hotel, some are just getting ready to go home.
“Ngak, have been relaxed aja.” Yatno was tired, but not sleepy.
“Oudah if so, I'm temenin.” They both decided not to use the office driver because they were used to driving themselves.
“Di, you feel really cold not anyway?” Yatno asked after they had driven on the fifteen-minute toll road.
“Ya raised at its AC temperature Yat.”
“It was not Di, it was normal, but somehow I suddenly felt really cold, like the temperature outside was suddenly dropped.”
“Neither test, but I feel-taste, yes also.” The distance of one car and another car is tenuous because on the highway we must maintain a safe boundary between one car and another car, but the car lights are visible from behind.
“Di, you see not?” Yatno pointed at the shoulder of the road, on the side of the road seen a long-haired woman was directing her hands to the street, a sign as a request for help, from a distance the woman was seen wearing sunglasses.
“Iya, please?” Sakidi asks, since Yatno is driving, so she has to decide.
It is still a long way from the woman who asked for help.
“But strange is not Di, kok malem-malem at the height of the toll, another trus also no one wants to nolong.” Yatno doubt.
“Judah gini aja, we deketin, if looks suspicious, we stay, but the speed slows down, how?” Sakidi gives me a middle ground.
“Yaudah.” Yatno drove the car to the woman on the side of the toll road, a long-haired woman with dark glasses.
As the car approaches the woman, Yatno focuses on the road, while Sakidi tries to notice the woman they want to help.
As the distance got closer, Sakidi continued to pay attention without even looking at it.
“Udah deket Yat, skirting dikit, I want to be sure again.” Sakidi asks him, therefore Yatno complies, he marginalizes the car getting closer to the woman, the car continues to drive closer to her, now Sakidi can see the color of her clothes, the color of the shirt is dark red, the color of the shirt is, the woman was carrying nothing, like a bag or purse. When the distance is getting closer and Sakidi and Yatno are getting to see the woman as a whole ….
“Astagfirullah!!” Yatno and Sakidi screamed and spontaneously Yatno pressed her accelerator and slammed the steering wheel to the right to return to the road, she was already back in the middle of the road at high speed, because sure in front of him is safe he keeps pressing the gas pedal and ….
Brak!!! Brak!! Brak brak brak brak.
“Di ... In ...” Yatno called his colleague who was covered in blood on the face, the front of their car ripped up to make the windshield shatter irregularly, Yatno tried to call Sakidi, but the friend was silent, while Yatno was not aware of her pinched leg, she had not felt any pain, many people but she could not hear anything, she tried to ask for help, but it was as if no one had heard her.
He looked back, who knew there was someone he could ask for help, but just as he was about to shout, he, he was walking with his feet dragged near Yatno's car, Yatno was shaking, he was afraid that if the woman approached him, was it time for Yatno to die? That's what's on his mind.
The woman kept walking closer and closer the more whispers she continued to say while walking, the whisper made Yatno's ears hurt, the closer, the more whisper was heard and the whisper was … “Ila ... ila, ila, ila, ILA!!!” the woman's face was right on Yatno's face then it was all dark ….
…
Aditia came home after a few days she went with five friends, as well as others.
“Dit, yesterday was the sole mother of your broken shoes.” I said to Aditia.
“Hah?” Aditia is confused
[This must be the work of the jin temen Alka disguised as himself, as if to make the mother sole of the shoe.] In Aditia's heart was upset, because the genie dared to tell her mother.
“Iya Ma'am, thanks ya, sorry ya have been rumbling mother.”
“Iya, mother was also surprised, yesterday you asked for a big tumben disol his shoes, usually you have your own subscription.”
“Tau nih, good to tell mom.” Dita chimed.
“Bawel!” Aditia is the head of her sister.
“Eating a lot of Nak, yesterday did not feel well yes, some days I saw you eat a little, what mother's cooking is not good.”
[Yes, Jin mana likes mother's cooking, he likes dirt.]
“Iya Ma'am, Dit, you clean up your blood like I lost?” Aditia was worried, the genie disguised as herself was eating her sister's menstrual blood.
“Iya already, Dita wash clean first, after it Closed several times, trus dumped away from home. Directly moment after shower.”
“Pinter, so keep yes, never forget, can not waste blood on the deck of the house, let alone in.”
“Ngerti Kak, understand kok.” Dita knows her brother is very protective of her, so Dita is always obedient even though sometimes like her brother's fad.
Then Aditia ate voraciously his mother's cooking and added rice and side dishes several times, to show her mother that her cooking was still the best, the genie was unreliable.
“Dit, if you've eaten, I want to say yes.” Her mother said she was sitting in the living room, while Dita was already in the room, she was doing her schoolwork.
Aditia washed the dishes of her former meal, then immediately met the mother, she felt that there was something I needed to talk about.
“Why, Mom?” Aditia asked.
“Dit, until when are you going to delay the thesis, it's been two years. I've prepared your college funds and also Dita, but .. the funds are used, for our daily needs, you know, if the catering is quiet, so for our needs, you know, I'm using your education fees, sorry Dit.”
“No ma'am, wrong Adit, should Aditia focus on finding her money, sorry ya.”
“Parent's job is to finance his son, son. I want to ask Adit for help, because .. we will need money, Dita is still in medical school, the college is six years, maybe just one year away from graduating, would still need a lot of money. Hence, I want us .. sell angkot mr.” His mother said with great sadness, because she knew, the value of the angkot was more than just a vehicle.
Aditia was quite surprised, as it was an irreplaceable inheritance, but she also understood her mother's intentions. He looked sad.
“No other way, Bu?”
“Adit lags, Adit delays thesis only again next year, one of Adit who does not focus after college. If Dita has graduated, then Adit continues, while looking for money to continue.”
Her mother looked down, she did not want to choose between her two favorite children.
“But, your father's mandate is, in order for you both to graduate as a Bachelor, I don't want to choose.”
“Only leave college Mom, will Dita be able to work first, later once sister graduated, right sister work, Dita replace continue kulian.” Dita suddenly walked out of the room and said seriously.
“What is it! Time Taken at work!” Aditia was angry, how could her sister's child want to bear the cost of her brother, Aditia felt useless, her favorite sister really had grown up but it made Aditia sad.
“Just Aditia who has to postpone the thesis again first, Dita passed the new Adit continue in the thesis."
“Ngak Bu, Brother is not a boy, must pay for the life of his wife's child later, is Dita a girl, is Dita married? Let's not be a burden.”
“Dita!” Aditia was angry, while her mother began to cry hearing the words of her youngest child.
“Mother never felt burdened, for mother, Dita it's a blessing, Dita and Adit it's mother's life, Dita and Adit education is equally important, father said you two should be a Bachelor.”
“Mafin Tita, Bu.” Dita hugged her mother.
“Adit the head of the family now, Adit who will find a way so that we both graduate, just calm mom, you guys just calm down, Dita a real school, maintain your performance, you're a smart boy, you're, even can enter jurian medicine, it is not easy so we can certainly run the mandate of the father, ngerti.” Aditia asks Dita not to bury her dream, she feels guilty for being too focused on the supernatural world, while the real world she left behind.
…
Yatno woke up, she looked left right, it turned out that she was already in the hospital. His left hand was attached to an infusion hose. He was alone in the room, when he was about to wake up, there was someone with him, apparently his wife.
“De, Brother's leg is very sick,” His wife approached Yatno, she then massaged her husband's leg by muttering, “why, De?” Yatno asked because he did not hear his wife's words.
Then the woman continued to mumble while pressing on Yatno's leg, the pain was getting painful, until Yatno was a little moaning.
“Sick De, don't press it!” Yatno tried to tell his wife how she felt, but she kept pushing her feet.
“Ila .. . ila .. ila ...” It turned out that his wife muttered exactly as the woman on the edge of the toll, Yatno remembered.
“De, De, De!” Yatno called his wife to make sure.
His wife stopped pressing Yatno's feet, she slowly turned around, no, not her body, but her head, after her fist turned back, she smiled at Yatno and said, 'But, “Ila ... ila .. ila!!!”
Yatno shouted, but his voice did not come out, his body could not move, his entire body ached, while the woman was still horribly in front of him.
“Mas! Mas!!!” A woman with a shady face shook Yatno's body, she then shouted out, calling the nurse to help calm her husband.
After the nurse and Doctor came, Yatno was given an injection, she became calmer and slowly fell asleep.
“Dok, this is my husband why? It's been two days like this, every waking up, always hysterical and then have to be put to bed again, is this because of the effects of the accident?”
“Actually there are cases of depression that afflict patients with accident experiences, but they should be aware first, only after knowing the situation and recalling what happened, they will be in the zone of denial, that's when depression sets in. But with Mr. Yatno it's a bit different, because actually he's not really conscious, we've had MRIs and all the procedures to figure out why, but nothing's wrong, ma'am. Therapy can not be lived because Mr. Yatno was not aware. If it's a brain problem, we can't do much, because sometimes the brain protects its body to survive adverse events including traumatic events.
That's all I can say, we have to wait again until Mr. Yatno is completely aware of new observations.”
“Iya, but until when, Doc?” Wife's crying.
“I can't be sure.” The doctor answered and went to see another patient.
“Happy Afternoon, I am Dirga, the police who handled this consecutive collision case.” Mr. Dirga was already at the door, he heard everything the Doctor said.
“Oh yes, Sir. But, my husband is not awake yet, so can not give testimony.”
“Iya, I know.” Mr. Dirga approached Yatno.
“Sorry sir, my husband is not drunk, so he may not accidentally bump into them.” His wife Mr. Yatno was crying.
“Bu, may I help, but this may be the opposite of medical.” Mr. Dirga offered help.
“Means?”
“I was at the scene when Mom's husband was still in the car with his partner, I saw he was still conscious and asking for help, I tried to communicate with him, but he didn't seem to see me, then next his eyes bulged and he was seen trying to scream but was unable to then faint.”
“So, I mean Father, why him?”
“I think there is something strange about this successive collision, based on the CCTV camera that was on the back of the car that Mr. Yatno hit, it is seen that initially, the, mr. Yatno's car seemed to want to pull over but it did not so, the car suddenly returned to the middle lane with high speed, some cars have been clawed Mr. Yatno's car, the car was, but he continued to drive the vehicle at high speed, as if ...”
“As to why, Sir?”
“As it were, he didn't see all those vehicles, like he didn't see me asking about his state.”
“Astagfirullah, it seems like he also does not look at me every time he wakes up, he just glares and then hysterical, so what should I do Mr?”
“There is a young man, who might be able to help find out, he has advantages about the supernatural world.”
“What! You mean my husband is possessed?”
“The supernatural world is not just about possession, ma'am, but it could be that something happened on that road, what purpose Mr. Yatno tried to pull over his car, he said, gasoline is still full based on the indicators seen before the accident, then why did he gas after not being pulled over, the possibility of him seeing something scary, so he had to rush to escape.”
“I will do anything that makes my husband healthy again Sir, just do not do the musik thing.”
“Good, I will have Aditia come, he is a good young man who might be able to help.”