The House 1937's
14. Call out.....

Papa parked his yellow truck in the yard is quite spacious and takes a little time to park it because the condition of the yard is still rocky and overgrown with weeds. Papa opened his mineral water bottle with a bottle opener that he deliberately stored in his car as a tool mandatory to open the bottle cap because at that time the packaging for mineral water in the packaging was still a bottle glass with bottle caps that must be opened with special tools. Papa drank the water in the bottle until half the bottle ran out, opened the window of his truck and lit a cigarette and exhaled the smoke slowly.

Today he is quite tired after traveling to various places he likes for a full day using his yellow truck to fill his vacation time that he had deliberately set a few days ago. My father who at that time as a trader who was busy taking care of his shop in the market did not have much time to do the things he liked at will. The crowd of the market and the sound of people shopping and bargaining there is always a motivation for him to always be eager to look after and take care of his shop every day. Not to mention if the store is in a crowded state, even he forgot to catch his breath because it was so crowded his shop. Papa sells groceries in the market and every day his shop is always open and never holiday. Grandma who felt sorry for papa who was getting busy in her shop, finally advising papa to close his shop one day and he went for a walk to various places that he wanted to unwind from his activities in the store.

My father thought for a moment of grandmother's advice and maybe there's a point that he should relax a little because all this time he has rarely spent time to have fun or just gather with his friends on weekends because he is increasingly busy taking care of his store in the market. Before having my own shop, my father used to work with one of his relatives who owned a large store that sold various furniture and glassware, he said, thanks to his hard work and the part of the money given by his grandmother to his father for the management of rice fields that papa did today he could build his own shop and buy this truck on credit, although not a new vehicle but he is very happy to have his own vehicle. He again exhaled cigarette smoke into the air, he looked up at the sky through the windshield of his car and saw the sky that was now beginning to darken indicating that maybe now it was almost Maghrib, he said, and it is true that I heard Adzan Maghrib muttering. Papa spent the remaining mineral water is still half a bottle and turned off the cigarette that only the filter is left. He looked for a moment at the house where the lights outside and inside the house were already on. He grabbed his backpack in the car seat next to him and was about to get out of the car to take a shower and join dinner with the others to coincide with the sound of the adhan who had finished reverberating.

He parked his car right not far from the white water guava tree which is now in a thick flowering sign that the tree will produce white water guava fruit that papa know sweet taste a little sour and has a lots of water content. For a moment he looked at the tree, he seemed to see something strange and suddenly he heard the car door next to him as if it had been hit by something and as soon as he looked back at the tree, it was like seeing someone sitting on one of the branches of a tree and shaking his legs. Shaken in shock by what he saw, the figure was increasingly visible and was chuckling with a scary facial expression plus a face that was so pale white and the part around the eyes that looked circular black ....fleeting sounds......

JUN......

Without further admonition, my already extraordinarily panicked papa immediately tried to open the door of his car which unfortunately he had to take some time to open it because it was stuck. After successfully opening the car door and grabbing his backpack, he ran off the ridge without glancing right and left. At the door of the house he knocked on the door quite loudly afraid the creepy creature followed him. The door was opened and my aunt who was also afraid to mix was shocked to see the face of my father who was panicked and looked frightened.

"Dangerous Lin?", my father whispered softly to Auntie.

"Yes ko danger.", answered my aunt.

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