The Bloody Story at the End of the Dusk
15. find tere

I woke up when I heard the dawn prayer in the mosque complex, immediately to the bathroom to take ablution water, and to perform prayers .

I walked towards the kitchen, but I paused and turned to the living room, Tomi is still sleeping and the tere figure is no longer there .

when I was about to go to the kitchen, I heard the sound of footsteps on the upper floor, during my stay here I have never been to the upper floor, because according to my best friend the upper floor should not be occupied, I also obey.

I tried to ignore the voice I heard earlier, maybe it was just my feeling, I went back to the kitchen to make breakfast .

I take the groceries from the refrigerator, only chicken and eggs left and a little vegetables, I'll make chicken fried rice .

at seven o'clock breakfast is ready, I'll take Tomi to breakfast together ,Tomi seems tired I feel I can't bear to wake her up .

I brought a cup of coffee and sat on the terrace, I looked at the road in front of the house, I saw the mother of the housing complex was crowding the vegetable brother.

my gaze stopped when I saw one of the mothers who was choosing vegetables, there was an old woman sitting on a vegetable cart, her face covered in blood and licking vegetables and a pack of fish and chicken .

my eyes still did not blink looking at him, the blood coming out of his broken face was flowing soaking up the vegetables he was sitting on .

while the mother mother scrambles to take the groceries, the longer the more come and go and in less than half an hour the trading brother runs out in the banong .

The vegetable brother picked up the bag and took out a small bottle, then his hand pulled the hair of the old woman who was still sitting on his wagon ,the woman's body goes into the bottle and the vegetable brother closes the bottle and puts it back in his bag .

I sighed at the incident ,Abang greens used the spirit of an old woman who seemed to be an accident victim to pass down her wares,uh I can not if I have to buy vegetables from her .

"Mel, you've woken up from earlier huh, I'm sorry bad luck." Tomi's voice surprised me .

"eh you've woken up tom, we have breakfast first yuk, the cold stove of fried rice." I stood to take Tomi to the dining room .

Tomi followed me to the dinner table and I prepared two dishes of fried rice and one plate of fried chicken.

"Mel, last night I had a dream that Tere came to me, he cried hugging me, 'Tere suffered a lot during this time apart from the family." Tomi said while chewing rice in his mouth.

"you don't dream of tom, Tere is near you, he's looking after you while we're sleeping." I said staring at him .

"are you willing to help me dismantle the hole where Tere dumped Mel ." Tomi stopped who she was and looked at me .

"today I'm off 'we're going there with tom, I'm also kasian with Tere 'we have to help him '." I said .

after finishing breakfast and clearing the dining table, Tomi and I left the house, we waited for an online taxi to get to the back of the hotel anatel .

fifteen minutes car ride to the front of the back alley of the hotel, I and Tomi get off after Tomi pays the taxi fare .

I saw there was writing on the wood that was attached to the wall of the fence, the peacock two, Tomi also stared at the writing on the wood that was attached to the wall .

"what's right here Mel ." said Tomi while tidying up her backpack .

"iya tom, this is the back wall of the hotel anatel, we enter this alley looking for an old house according to instructions from Tere." said I reassured Tomi .

we walked down the alley, we did not find a single person in this alley, the atmosphere was very quiet and some of the houses were tightly closed fence .

me and Tomi kept walking and we stopped because there was a high wall ahead and there was no way around anymore, we looked at the house on the left ,this house is unkempt and looks dark and gloomy .

"Mel, this is a dead end, are we trying to get into that house alone, it looks like the house is uninhabited ." Tom pointed to the house that I was looking at .

"ok, let's go there." take me, we go to the yard .

the door of the house was tightly closed, I peered into the house from the window opening, in the dark nothing was seen .

"we go back Mel, who knows the side door we can open .' Tom walked towards the side door of the house .

it turns out that the side door of the house is also locked tightly, Tomi tries to pull the door handle and eat it .

brak ....

tomi's body was pushed forward and fell to the ground, strangely this door was difficult to open ,like someone opened forcefully from the inside to make Tomi unprepared and fell .

"no papa Mel, I'm just surprised, I think someone pulled this door from the inside , so strong that I was shocked ." Tomi flicks her dirty pants over the ground .

"Let's go in Mel," Tomi stepped towards the back of the house, I followed her .

until in the back yard we stopped, there were tables and chairs near the fish pond whose water was dry, beside the fish pond there was a clothesline that had yellowed color .

I cleaned the chair with the clothes on the clothesline, then we sat down to adjust the breath that felt tight .

"Mel, where the sinkhole is yes, it doesn't look here." Tomi said, shaking her body against the wooden chair .

I circled my gaze across the entire backyard of the house, there was absolutely no sign of a sinkhole here .

as I was about to walk to look at the pool, I stumbled on something, I turned to my feet, there is a rusty round tomorrow under the table .

"tom look here deh , this is an iron embedded here ." I said to Tomi who was typing something on her phone .

Tomi walked up to me and shifted the table to look at the iron I said just now .

"Awa mel, I want to try to pull this iron." said Tomi .

Tomi pulled the embedded spherical iron and seemed to be cast with cement, it had been repeatedly but to no avail .

I walked around the yard looking for something that could be used to pull the iron, my eyes saw Palu lying among the pile of sacks in the corner of the yard .

"tom , try this pake who knows can lift the iron." I thrust the hammer into Tomi's hand .

Tomi hit a round iron hammer with a hammer, but not that the iron was lifted but the floor around it cracked, Tomi pounded the floor following the cracks that spread around the iron .

it was wide enough that the floor was open due to the hammering of Tomi, and Trang ..the hammer hit the iron firmly .

Tomi was getting more and more excited about dismantling the floor, and she smiled as she looked at the iron slab like a hole cover sticking out from under the floor .

"Mel, look at this looks like this iron slab covers the hole beneath it ." Tom raised his face towards me .

"continue how we can open it tom , the iron is very strong embedded in the 'floor." I said as I squatted in front of Tomi .

"we're looking for something mel, who knows there's a crowbar here we can use to open the iron cover ." Tomi stood up and walked over to where I had found the hammer .

Tomi found an iron about the size of a meter and walked towards the spot, he stomped on the round iron hooks the lid of the slab, but did not also manage to open it .

we sat down to rest, Tomi's face was drenched in sweat, it didn't feel like it was late afternoon and my stomach was hungry and thirsty .

"tom I'm out looking for food yes, it's already five and a half, you must be hungry right." I looked at Tomi's tired face .

"you walk out Mel , lest you get tired later, let me just buy food , you wait here ya ." Tomi snatched the backpack she put on the table .

I nodded and watched Tomi's back as she walked towards the side door of the house .

after Tomi left I rested my head on the wooden chair, my eyes were very sleepy and my body was tired, until I finally fell asleep .

I woke up when Tomi's hand hit my shoulder.

"Mel, wake up eat first yuk, here I buy you a meal ." Tomi put a plastic bag on the table and pulled out the contents.

two boxes of chicken rice and cold drinks we ate together, my stomach is filled and the body feels fresh by drinking cold water .

finished eating Tomi again busy looking for a tool to open the iron door, until the night did not also find .

we agreed to go home and come back the next day, when me and Tomi had reached the side door .

brack...

the door was tightly closed, as much as we tried to open it but it didn't work .