The screams of Midnight
Small distractions in the Kitchen

The night grew late, the chatter of a group of young people who enjoyed their freedom was increasingly unclear. Rico secretly carries one type of illegal drug that is distributed to the others. 

Luna who had expected the show to be confused Rico immediately dragged Amel not to get involved far and be affected by those who are now cool to sip illegal goods that are rolled like cigarettes. 

"Mel, get in! Let them enjoy what they bring!"

 Luna gave orders to Amel. His eyes stared intently from a distance at the group of young people who were enjoying the illicit goods.

"They are doing Lun, the smell of cigarettes is different, it makes you dizzy!"

Luna just grinned without looking at Amel. Ardi who was among them, nodded faintly at Luna.

"They're digging their own graves!" Luna muttered, not realizing Amel was looking at her suspiciously.

"Well, you mean?" Amel was confused by Luna's attitude that focused on paying attention to the backyard. For a moment Luna kept silent to Amel's question.

"Ehm, what? What were you doing?" Luna asked back when she realized Amel was watching her.

Amel curbed his curiosity, becoming convinced that Luna had a secret she did not want to share with him,

"Ah, no luck! I'll take a look at the kitchen first, will you help me?" 

"Ehm, can you be absent? I want to finish my clothes, tomorrow I have to leave before eight in the morning so I don't miss my luck until home!" luna replied with a regretful face and both palms clenched in front of the chest.

"Hmm, yeah if so. You also rest at night. Let them enjoy the night outside!" 

Luna and Amel stared for a moment at the young children who were cool in singing and smoking marijuana as much as possible. The intoxicating effects of those illicit goods began to affect their sanity. Rico and his friends as well as some of Luna's classmates start to go crazy in the backyard.

Enjoy this evening with your laughter, after this your screams and cries that I look forward to!

Luna went into her room, after a while, her room lights went off. Signs that he is asleep. While Amel was still in the kitchen cleaning the remnants of their cooking activities. 

Amel glanced towards the wall clock almost at one night, although tired he still wanted to clean the kitchen.

"Cepet very already at one hour, this sleep ends. They'll sleep here at least."

Amel peeked out from behind the kitchen window with a view directly facing the backyard. Their laughter sounded so loud, sometimes strange chatter also spewed out of their mouths. Sometimes alternating sometimes at the same time, making Amel dizzy to hear it.

"May the neighbors not be disturbed!"

Amel again cleaned the dirty cookware, washed and rinsed it clean. So cool he did not realize the black prowess that moved closer to him.

Shhhh…,

Shhh, shhhhh …,

This time the sound was a little longer. Instantly the fine fur on his nape stood up. Amel slowly turned around, staring around the kitchen at each corner. The room temperature felt cooler, quiet, quiet, only the sound of water flowing from the open water tap.

"I think I'm too tired," 

Amel again continued washing dishes after looking back and found no one. A black shadow flashed behind Amel, the invisible figure this time pulling a few scoops of newly washed Amel and dropping them onto the floor.

The sound of metal clanking clashing with the floor made Amel's heart feel exploded. It surged from its place, its body trembling in search of the thing that sounded aloud earlier.

His eyes found a spoon strewn across the floor in astonishment. How can the spoons fall by themselves to the floor, while there is no one in the kitchen other than him.

"I-I dream right? Who fell down?"

Amel's eyes scanned around, the black shadow's prowess reappeared and caught the tail of his eyes.

"Who was that?" tanyanya ventured.

Sepi, there was no answer but then the sound of laughter of children was heard tickling Amel's ears. He squeezed the rag he was holding, channeling the fear that ambushed him all of a sudden. The sound of a small laugh was heard again, moving places like they were running around.

"Don't bother me!" 

Amel shouted in courage. In his heart he lamented his reckless stupidity of cleaning the kitchen in the middle of the night. He tried to move his legs that felt stiff because of fear. 

Slowly, Amel crouched down to pick up the spoons that had fallen near the dining table. His hands were trembling, it felt like time was running so slow that it was difficult to reach the spoon which was only a few centimeters away. 

The sound of a child's laughter again sounded this time felt very close to him and then disappeared. With great difficulty Amel could grab one spoon and immediately take the other spoon.

"One .... two .. eeh, w-what is this?" 

His hand touched something cold and soft. Amel's eyes widened, he was curious but also scared at the same time. Despite hesitation Amel ventured to the bottom of the table, his hand had not moved from the soft cold object.

Amel's heart was beating more than normal. In his heart he prayed that he might not meet ghosts and the like. Amel ducked by closing his eyes, a subtle voice that shuddered the feathers of Rome greeted.

Hi brother …,

Amel suddenly opened his eyes, and found two small child figures developing a smile on him. Their lips are dry peeling and blackish. Sharp black teeth also appear to grin at Amel. The cold thing he touched was apparently the hand of one of the creepy little boy figures.

"Aargh!!"