Soul Riders
Chapter 8 - Hidden Room
Be carefull!
The sentence continued to swirl in Aurora's mind like a mill of a washing machine; stirring it all the way home, but not making her brain clear at all. Sentences that triggered various questions appeared, but Aurora could not find the answer, no matter how hard she tried. Whatdoes thatmean? Why was that first word? What does he think of me? or what did he see of me? All of those questions just hang, and in the end run into a deadlock. On top of the passenger seat, he sat on Mayang's pink matic motorcycle restlessly.
“You why? still thinking of Jenar's words? why shut up?” terka Mayang, while his eyes continued to focus on the path he was passing towards the house of his friend. “You made me like transporting inanimate objects,” added the slanted-boned girl, still continuing.
Aurora removes the reddish hair sheets of Mayang, when it hits the surface of her cheeks and head that is not protected by a helmet, “isn't it strange? He suddenly said it.”
“Yes, Jenar is indeed a strange girl. You already know that. Then what else to think? You're just wasting Aurora's time.”
“Can that mean a message to me? but, I have to be careful of what?” he thought as he looked up into the air.
Mayang shifted the sein button to the right to follow the path, then overtaken the two vehicles in front of him. ”Why don't you just ask him, than you're busy guessing.” Mayang's proposal is almost not interested.
“I would have done it if Jenar hadn't hurried to leave May.”
Mayang snorted small, “It's close to your house yet?” the question then, had not responded to Aurora's reply.
“In the meantime, still straight follow the main road.”
Mayang launched a motorcycle exactly as directed by his travel buddy, “hm .. maybe actually I know the answer why Jenar said it.” he said suddenly.
"Really?" aurora's response was instantaneous, so shocked by Mayang's statement.
“Yes. You already know, Jenar has no friends at all, I think he just felt lonely now. Since the children of one class no one wants to approach him, then he chooses to approach you, of course, because you are a new child. He thought you would be approachable, then deliberately sought attention by saying 'careful' for you to be interested,” explained Mayang elaborated his analysis, “ makes sense right?”
Aurora pursed her lips, then breathed heavily through her nostrils, “but I don't think for such a reason, I don't know, I was also confused to the point of not being able to stop thinking.”
“Yes God, I will visit your house not to discuss Jenar. If you're still thinking about it, maybe I'd better go home, or, you want me to take you to his house?” then Mayang pondered his offer, “but unfortunately I don't know where Jenar's house is. Ah, never mind, if you want to hear my advice, it is better not to deal with him, then you can catch the strange and mysterious.”
"Hey, don't be. Well, I will not think about and discuss it again.” said Aurora in the end, making the girl with the bangs smile. “Well, now slow down the motor, we are almost until May.” Mayang nodded obeying the instructions until he felt a light clap of Aurora's hand fall on his shoulder, “stop, that's my home.”
Mayang turned and took his vehicle across the grass and stopped in the courtyard of the house. Aurora came down from the back seat when Mayang put her pink bogo helmet on the right side of the handlebar, then tidied her bangs and hair.
“Waahh... look at this house, cool.” praise Mayang excessive, as usual.
“Come we enter.”
They passed the stone steps before starting barefoot leaving their shoes on the top steps, then stepped on the cold marble terrace towards the entrance. Aurora pokes the duplicate key she holds into the keyhole, and opens the high door. The excited Mayang immediately went in ahead of the owner of the house.
“Welcome to the palace, princess Aurora,” Mayang competed like a servant, while bowing she put her left hand on her flat stomach, while the right hand he hid behind the waist so that it seemed to have only one hand. Aurora smiled shook her head, looking at her friend's behavior.
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“We go to the room first yes, I want to change clothes, so it is comfortable.”
“Okay princess, please walk first, I will follow behind.” Mayang's right hand appears from hiding, then moves into the air as a gesture of welcome. A second later they both laughed.
“Come here May.”
They enter the middle room — Mayang always excited every time set foot in the new room — then start galloping up the stairs to the top floor.
"Wow.. look, there is a piano there.” exclaimed Mayang, then ran to the lounge, past the sofa and television table, where the object that attracted his attention was placed in the corner of the room.
“Be careful, a lot of the dust, it hasn't been cleaned since the first time my family came here. ”
“What is the princess Aurora as lazy as that, to not want to clean good stuff like this?” mayang Goda.
The girl laughed, “The piano was in my room. Mama intended to sell it because my family has no talent playing musical instruments. Well if it sells, the new plan will be cleaned. You seem interested?”
Mayang then puffed his cheeks, collecting air inside and then blown into the dusty piano keys several times. After feeling enough — with a serious mimic like a talented pianist — he pressed his fingers up the keyboard, preparing to play a song. But on the first clink and lyrics
song *Dang*erously owned by Charlie Puth, Aurora could not resist his laughter because of the discordant sound of Mayang and the sound of the original music that played.
“Now you still intend to offer it to me?”
“Forget it,” Aurora said in her laugh, “ya already, wait a minute, I change clothes first in the room.”
“Please,”
Five minutes later, the owner of the house was out of his room in a dress. “You here or down?”
“Down, I want to explore your entire home.”
They went down the stairs and stopped in the middle room, there something caught by the vision, again attracting Mayang to approach. The girl felt three old canvas paintings hanging stiffly on the wall. In the first picture, a woman is riding a carriage pulled by three black horses and a white horse on the waves and dressed in green. Mayang can immediately recognize it as a painting of Nyi Roro Kidul. While the brush strokes on the other two paintings form a picture of wayang and temple.
“All these paintings are amazing Ra,"
“So?"
Mayang nodded.
Not enough to just observe the painting, the attention of the girl turned to ancient objects in the glass door closet around it. He then opened the closet, took and looked carefully at each ancient object in it. The first thing he touched was a shell-protected keris, he pulled the kris, observed its wavy shape and progressively conicaled to the tip, then put it back into the container. Next he took out a kind of mini-sized stone sculpture, then a agate rocky ring, then turned to metal plates and glasses, continuing to the pile of old books lined with an ancient alarm clock.
"Crazy, complete collection of these antiques Ra. I won't be able to observe everything."
"That's all the relics of the old homeowner." explained Aurora.
When he began to observe coins like the ancient currency — which has a hole in the middle of — from inside a bag, he accidentally dropped one of them, which is not the case, the yellow coin rolled down the closet.
"Damn!" she screeched, "sorry Ra, I didn't mean it, I'll take it for a second."
"Yes, it doesn't matter to May."
The girl placed her knees on the floor, bent so that she prostrated herself, then touched her cheeks to the ceramic, while her right hand flailed in the dark, but the coin was not found.
"Ra, get me a cell phone, I need a light." Mayang ordered.
Not waiting for long, Aurora has been moving the object to Mayang's left hand. A second later, with the help of the flashlight feature, Mayang was able to see the contents under the clear. But again, something caught his attention.
"Ra, is there a room behind this closet?" Mayang asked without changing position.
"Huh? Meanin?" Aurora asked back, confused by Mayang's words.
"I think I saw the door, come here and look."
Invited by curiosity, Aurora also equalized Mayang's position, and looked under the cover. He was surprised when in fact there was a door hidden behind the closet. "I just found out there's another room."
"Didn't you want to see it?" tawang Mayang's.
Aurora thought for a moment, "Let's take a look, but slide the closet."
"Yes." Yeah."
The two got up from their original positions, then together pushed the cupboard with both hands, but not the shifting cupboard but their legs were pushed back.
"Ra, it looks like we need to get the contents of the closet out first." Mayang suggested.
Aurora nodded in agreement, "good idea."
Quickly they emptied the entire closet, and moved it while on the floor. "Let me push." Mayang turned to his back to the side of the closet. With the strength of his back, he pushed his closet until it shifted. Almost happy, but apparently their efforts have not been completed there, because the door face of the hidden room was on the crossbar using two flat wooden slats nailed cross.
The two girls were stunned, "huft .. I think we should still try harder" Mayang said.
"I'm going to go back, look for something to open the crossbar."
"Okay, I'll wait."
Aurora rushed into the kitchen, opening each drawer of her closet, hoping to find a tool to use to pull out the nails stuck in the wooden crossbar. But there are no hammers there. The carpentry tool he managed to find was a small axe with a wooden handle. Quickly he snatched and led her into the living room.
"I found this."
"You're gonna break the wood."
"No problem" Aurora's two hands clasped the end of the axe's hilt, swung it high, then pinned it to the crossbar. At the first blow, the wood started to crack. Furthermore, the new wood was successfully dropped after receiving several blows. However, they still could not breathe a sigh of relief, after seeing that the door was still protected by a lock whose key was somewhere. Aurora snorted in annoyance. "o Lord," That's all she could say.
"Remove the axe, I'll smash the lock." pinta Mayang.
That thing changed hands. Immediately, Mayang strengthened his hand and began to beat the padlock violently, causing a deafening iron clang. Sweat began to hang like apes on Mayang's forehead, when the padlock was dropped and thumped to the floor.
Mayang exhaled a satisfied breath, "finally."
“Come quickly we open,” exclaimed Aurora impatiently, immediately grabbed the handle, pulled it down until the door was open.