The House 1937's
46. The Past: Recollecting

Papa went into his room with his hair half wet with a small towel attached to his left shoulder. Papa turned on the fan in the corner of the room and put the small towel over the head of the bed. He sat on the bedside drinking the warm black coffee he had made himself in the kitchen. Today is tiring for him, all day his shop in the Market is quite crowded with buyers. Understandably, in the Market where Papa's store feels on every weekend is always crowded with buyers.

Not only the store itself is crowded, the store from Herman which is right across from the store is equally crowded. While sipping his black coffee, he suddenly remembered the incident a few days ago, more precisely when mama was staying in this house. Inadvertently Papa eavesdropped on the conversation between the two of them on the side of the kitchen door, their voices were both clearly heard due to the state of the house that was indeed quiet. At that time the father who wanted to take water in the kitchen and his steps stopped when he heard the voice of Aunt Alin telling Mama about the terrible incident that his sister experienced when she was a child, who apparently had seen a terrifying black figure crouching on his bed. Papa remembered the event, his youngest brother did look very scared when he saw the state of his room which was then pitch dark. He was amazed why his sister until such a fear, when as he remembered in his room there was no one but himself, who at that time did not know about the truth.

Papa put his coffee glass which now only left the coffee grounds alone on the kitchen table, then rushed to the room Aunt Alin. He wanted to ask more about the terrible creatures he saw at that time. Because after accidentally hearing his sister's story, papa so remembered back to something that had happened to him, and if remembered again it was a long time ago. Papa who walked quickly past Grandma who was now sitting in her chair in the family room furrowed her eyebrows because her youngest son was walking very fast, like he was in a hurry.

"Where is Jun?", asked Grandma briefly then her gaze returned to the lit television screen.

"Alin Well.", replied Papa briefly, now he was in front of the door of Aunt Alin's room and slowly began to knock on the door of the room. Not long before Auntie opened her bedroom door, she was wearing red pajamas in a light gray knit jacket. Aunty looks a little surprised because Papa does not usually come to his room.

"Koko?, why?", Papa immediately pushed the door of the room so that he could go inside, pull and sit Aunt Alin on the edge of the bed that was still confused.

"What the hell is Ko?", Now papa takes a sitting position next to him.

"Koko wanted that one at the time...",

"Well.what?",

"July's time to stay here....",

"Oh that, why are you here?",

"Koko actually at that time did not deliberately hear you the same story Yuli about the incident.., Koko inget...",

"What?", Aunt widened her eyes, she was surprised to find Papa hearing her talk with Mama about the event.

"Yes.., that time...",

Papa again asked Aunt about the terrible figure that Aunt saw at that time. Aunty shut her mouth when she heard the characteristics mentioned by Papa.

"Koko has seen it too?, the exact same character Ko...", Has his brother seen the terrible creature with his own eyes?.

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Chilling...

The dark...

Papa took a few minutes to slowly gather his consciousness.

Where's this?,

I don't know, in the view it looks pitch-black and feels weird. Not only that, the coldness pierced his skin like dozens of sharp needle tips that touched the surface of his skin at once. He tried to move a little head that feels stiff, each movement feels very slow because it is so difficult he moves his own neck.

He began to think, what is this?. Why is it so hard to move his own body. Like there was something that made it very difficult to move, even he took quite a long time to realize that he was currently lying on a bed in his own room !.

Papa began to swallow, he felt astonished at the condition of his body like that. The temperature of his own room remained unchanged, the temperature was so low that it made both his palms and the soles of his feet begin to feel frozen and stiff.

Papa began to take short breaths to stabilize his breathing and his heartbeat began to beat fast. In his heart now he was afraid, but he still had to be able to make his mind calm and not waver. Whatever happens, he must remain calm. He closed his eyes for a moment while reciting the sacred sutras he had memorized all this time. Slowly but surely, with all the confidence in his heart Papa continued chanting the holy silk in his heart and slowly he began to be able to move his fingertips, continued with the tip of his foot which he also began to be able to move.

In the midst of his efforts he tried to move on his bed. Suddenly he heard a strange voice that shocked him. A screeching sound that sounded discordant and terrible. Papa guessed the sound came from a corner of the room close to the door of the room that was still heard and if he could say honestly, the sound was very disturbing hearing. Slowly but surely with the holy incantations he kept chanting, papa was increasingly able to move his body, including raising his head to look directly at the source of the very disturbing and frightening sounding sound.

In that dark scene, papa saw with his own eyes, a terrifying black figure with long hair and sharp pointed fingernails grinning at him, grinning at him, and the scary voice was heard again. What was even more frightening was that the figure began to creep up on the wall like a lizard with its long hair hanging and sticking out like the roots of a banyan tree. He continued to crawl on the wall of the room that looked pitch-black and continued to crawl towards the ceiling of the room. Papa who began to be unable to with what he witnessed it now began to move his whole body roughly, then accidentally his body can move immediately and because of the very rude and haphazard movement, it was, Papa fell off the bed quite hard.

Papa started to feel a pain in his head, and he started to open both his eyes slowly. He looked around him and it turned out that he was already under his own bed with a sensation of a painful and throbbing head. He was quite surprised because it seemed like his forehead was slightly bumped due to his head hitting the floor surface. He began to look at the entire area of his room that turned out to be quiet, there was no one there but himself. However, he still cannot deny, what he experienced last night, for him it is too real for a dream.

Like dreaming with eyes open.

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