The House 1937's
3. Noticing?

The clock shows it's still at half-seven p.m., night, my father, who is now a teenager, walks to the left side of the house which is the road to the kitchen door and directly facing the side field of the house which at that time was still empty land and overgrown with many banana trees. From his trouser pocket, he took out one basket, a type of traditional cigarette whose wrapper is made of dried leaves, which he used, then he also took out of the same pocket one old brand kretek cigarette that was quite popular at that time.

He also took out a wooden match from his other pocket. Papa looked for a moment to see the situation around and after feeling safe, he began to light a match to burn the end of the bathtub, then suck the smoke and he exhaled slowly through the mouth. His smoking activities that he did secretly had been done about a week ago. Where he secretly took a basket or kretek cigarette belonging to grandfather in his room, or sometimes secretly bought the cigarette while buying a wooden match for himself. This smoking activity began when he saw one of his friends who brought a basket and sucked it when they were gathering at a weekend, cause curiosity in the mind papa to try smoking with this bathtub. At that time the gathering activities carried out by teenagers were spent by telling stories about many things, without a device or story renewal on social media as it is today. In addition to bako, he also tried smoking with clove cigarettes that he had bought secretly. Papa is afraid that if he continues to take kretek cigarettes belonging to grandfather, grandfather will suspect that his kretek cigarettes run out quickly because grandfather does not smoke every day, and papa knows about it.

Papa was forced to smoke secretly like this because he did not want to get angry like my omku, who was none other than papa's older brother who was a heavy smoker far beyond my own grandfather. Grandpa and grandmother did have time to worry about his health condition considering that in one day my om can smoke two to three times. Of course because of that, grandfather did not want my papa as well as omku who is a heavy smoker. And that's why besides smoking secretly, he also does not do his "new activities" every day. He remembered very well grandmother to throw sandals at my omku quite hard because it was still "bandel". Papa knows if grandma is like that, all her children including papa really can not dwell anymore, and that also applies to grandfather.

Did not feel the bako in his suction was almost finished, he turned off the short and still burning end of the bakery and threw it far enough towards the empty land. Then again lit his wooden match and returned to smoking, but now with a kretek cigarette that he had brought along with the bakery that had been smoked. Papa exhaled the smoke from the clove cigarette while closing his eyes, then sucked it back and saw the burning tip glowing orange. He then took a squatting position and leaned his back against the wall. With a position like this, he felt a little relaxed compared to standing like the previous position.

Papa's heart felt squeezed and almost dislodged, he was really scared to see the figure. In addition, the figure is like making a movement will approach papa slowly and his mouth that looks shattered like unclear movements. Papa immediately stood up and ran away from the place where he was smoking earlier with great fear. He went straight into the house, locked the door and ran towards the living room where there was a grandmother and sister papa who was sitting chatting while drinking warm tea. Papa did not care about them and went straight into his room, ran towards the bed and covered his face with a pillow. Yes, it was the most terrifying sight he had ever seen. In his breath that was still breathing papa thought for a moment, what could not when papa smoked there a few days ago, the creature was also there watching???,,,

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