Red Kuntilanak
Chapter XVII

During the day, after lunch and dzuhur prayer. Reyhan quietly exited the house while carrying a picture of Sofia. At that time, the atmosphere of the house was quiet. Salma was taking a nap, while Bi Zizah was ironing in her room upstairs.

Reyhan came out of the house with a matchbox, then walked like a person sneaking around. He ran after leaving his home area. He ran to a ball field area that was still quiet. Because this field will be crowded used a group of children of elementary school age to play futsal later in the afternoon after Ashar.

Arriving there, Reyhan headed to the bushes behind the field. He lit a fire with a lighter, and directed the fire to burn a photo of Sofia. Sofia's photo burned slowly to the point of being charred. After it was charred and the fire died by itself with the force of the wind, he threw the photo paper to the ground. Then go running stealthily so that no one else knows.

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Once home, Reyhan was already feeling very calm now. This time no one suspected him of leaving the house. Salma slept soundly without any signs of waking up.

"I think he's really exhausted" Reyhan murmured as soon as he saw his wife was just moving to breathe, not changing her sleeping position.

Just now feeling calm, his phone suddenly shook. It turns out there was a WhatsApp message from the Gods. He said he'd meet up with the two to talk about the workers who will replace Derry and Gio tomorrow.

Reyhan was silent for a moment. He may think, true also for what God said, there must be a replacement for Derry and Gio for tomorrow. So their office must hold a job vacancy. For this, Reyhan will let Salma go.

After changing his house clothes with clothes away (not Muslim cocoa), Reyhan woke up Salma. But so much so that his wife slept, there was no response whatsoever from Salma for her husband's quiet voice to leave.

Reyhan sighed seeing his wife like that. He understood it, maybe his wife was really exhausted after a day of work helping Bi Zizah do homework, even though she often helped cook or wash clothes, with a washing machine of course.

Despite Salma's lack of response, Reyhan leaves. Importantly, he had permission to leave for Salma. Reyhan combed his hair and returned with his car keys and left. After Reyhan exits the room, an oddity occurs at his dresser: a:

...Sofia's picture is there again, and it's in one piece. But without the frame....

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Salma, who was asleep, suddenly had a dream. He dreams of meeting Sofia. They met on a beautiful mountain, the environment was clean, accompanied by flying pigeons flying above it. It feels very peaceful.

Salma approached Sofia who was squatting while picking some roses and jasmine. Salma called out to him, so that the attention of his late sister-in-law would turn to him. Finally succeeding too, Sofia turned to him.

The girl kept the flowers on the ground, and approached Salma. The two hugged each other and admitted a deep longing. Then Salma asked Sofia to tell him why she was determined to do such an illegal act.

Sofia was silent for a moment. The longing smile on his face disappeared slowly, until he finally told him everything. He told how in his mind began to appear an idea in order to survive the threat of his brother and free from the often experienced by women who stolen his virginity by irresponsible men.

Hearing the story, Salma was shocked to death. She did not expect her husband who had been influenced by alcohol so often did the immoral thing, especially she did it to her own biological sister. Sister seibu and seayah too. It is sad and cruel. This has really happened since he became an alcoholic.

Sofia who started crying replied with a nod.

Salma nodded in understanding. He was also crying. Then embrace Sofia while calming her down by stroking her left shoulder. Salma also suspected that Sofia had been the one who had killed her friends Reyhan. But, somehow Sofia killed them. And now all that's left is God and Reyhan.

"What do you kill in that way, so a ghost?" ask Salma to guess.

"Yes. I'm a red kuntilanak" Sofia replied with a hint of laughter.

"Red kuntilanak? Then, you flirt to them?".

"Yes. Now, I gotta get ready to turn the other one off."

"You mean, Kang Dewa?".

"Yes." Yeah."

Salma sighed. He also reminded Sofia not to do it and just forgive the mistakes and mistakes made by Reyhan and his friends. Pendam or forget the big sin.

"Keep if Ryan finds out, how? He'd be disappointed to know you're like this. You want him to be disappointed? No 'kan!".

Hearing that, Sofia fell silent again. Maybe he thought, if Salma's words had a point, too. If Ryan knew this Sofia, he would definitely be even sadder.

However, Sofia got up from her seat next to Salma and said, "No!". After that, he walked away, carrying the flowers he picked and kept on the ground.

Salma saw Sofia's departure. Called by him many times, but there was no response. Still Sofia went walking away with the flowers. Salma guessed that Sofia might be a little offended by what she asked Sofia.

Eventually, Salma awoke from her sleep. Salma awoke with her voice calling Sofia. Once conscious of his dream realm, it turns out he was in his room. And knowing that it was just a dream that could have been just an ordinary sleeping flower.

However, he felt that his heart said it was not a sleeping flower. But the real clue, that the reason Sofia killed herself was because of Reyhan's rape. If this is the case, it should be directly told to the police. But before that, it is better for him to negotiate first with his friends Sofia and Ryan as his lover Sofia.

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