The House 1937's
12. Shadow in the Water

After the incident on that night, made my omku remember one incident that he experienced his own grandmother's house and he really could not forget it.

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The clock shows it's still four in the morning. Omku who felt like he had to go to the bathroom because the call of nature was still a little wriggling on his bed and finally decided to get out of his bed and slowly walk out of his room to go to the bathroom. Having to go to the bathroom at hours like this is actually a very avoidable thing, the quiet atmosphere and dim light make it reluctant to set foot into the bathroom. Because of this call of nature he had to strengthen his determination to step out of his room at hours like this, even though he just went out to the bathroom. He remembers when he was a child he was frightened by my papa who told me that in the bathroom grandma was inhabited by a long-haired female figure with a very creepy face, hearing that my omku who was a little timid obviously felt scared and papa just laughed because he was happy to scare his brother. Even to this day he likes to feel afraid to walk alone to the bathroom in the middle of the night or before dawn.

One footstep into the kitchen, he looked slightly to the right and to the left to make sure of the surroundings, then walked on his tiptoes and slowly to the bathtub.

Okay Toni, you can do it. Just going to the bathroom what you should be afraid of. Inner Omku encourages himself.

He opened the bathroom door that had looked weathered slowly and began to enter the bathroom to complete the affairs of his natural vocation. When he was finished and relieved, he washed his hands and poured water on the bathroom tiles. As soon as he was about to take back the water in the bathtub with a dipper in his hand, he seemed to see something strange reflected from the bath water that began to look calm, calm, he continued to observe the reflection of the bath water and he gasped in shock at what he saw. There was a very creepy and terrible shadow of a woman with long messy hair, eyes that were entirely white with a mouth that was full of saliva up to her chest, the most terrifying thing was that his unnatural wide mouth was like grinning and muttering something vague.

The frightened Omku immediately shouted quite loudly and ran out of the bathroom. The scene he had witnessed earlier was truly terrifying and he was really upset why did he have to see such a terrible thing in his own house??. He no longer cares about the other residents of the house who might wake up and feel disturbed because of his screams. He went straight into the room, locked his door slot and hid under his bed blanket. He was completely unable to sleep after seeing the apparition, and in his heart he really wished for the morning to come soon.

In the morning around eight in the morning, my mother finally woke up from her sleep with a pretty chaotic face. The face that was still full of sweat added again with his eye bags that began to look, not to mention with his head that felt dizzy because he immediately stomped his body to wake up sitting on his bed. His head felt a little better after he drank a few sips of water that was on the table beside his bed. In the midst of the eternal consequences of last night and his head that was still a little dizzy, from outside his room he heard a noise. It was like there were some people coming to his house this morning. From the sound that was heard it seemed that the number of people out there was quite a lot that invited his curiosity to immediately leave the room. Once out of the room he saw his grandmother, papa, Aunt Alin and aunt who were like they were talking about something very seriously. He was also somewhat astonished to see his sister who spoke while half-holding a cry.

"Loh Nah...., seriously looking at it, again saying what Nah?", asked my grandmother as soon as she stepped out of her room.

"What??!, hang yourself?", Omku was like he was hit by a hammer in the morning. He did not expect that such a terrible event would happen

it happened in his own neighborhood.

"I.iya Koh, this is Neng Alin crying because he was shocked to see the face of his corpse.", Auntie also explained why my tanti. and that Omku immediately held onto both of my tantric shoulders and calmed him down.

"Who hung himself behind Nah?, Jun you know?", Papa just shook his head slowly, he also did not expect that such a terrible event would happen.

My grandmother finally told me that the one who hung himself in the garden behind the house was a woman whose grandmother knew as the grandson of a child shaman who used to help the process of papa childbirth. What grandma heard was that the woman was abandoned by her boyfriend who preferred to marry another woman than her. Grandma also said that the poor woman hung herself on a white water guava tree which was quite close to the bathroom of this house. Omku who still looks in shock was immediately his face paled. My papa who was astonished by my sudden paled omku immediately nudged his shoulder, looking at him as if asking why his face was as pale as that. My om who understood with the signal that papa gave then whispered to papa.

"The woman who was the clay cave was malem, in the bathroom...............................",

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