Time is running out, now I am 5 years old and it turns out that I was blessed with dreadlocks. Yes... Hair that is tangled and clumpy but grows naturally. It's not because my hair is unkempt or dirty, but it's indeed a descendant of Wonosobo ancestors.
Dreadlocks are children who are privileged in the Dieng plateau, descended from the Kolodete kiyai and entrusted by Nyi Ratu Kidul. To find out more, you can check the information on Google about dreadlocks in the Dieng plains of Wonosobo.
I often get sick when the dreadlocks want to grow. The body will have a fever, high fever, even the medicine won't fix it if the hair doesn't appear on my head.
The hair doesn't grow in dreadlocks right away, initially the hair grows normally over time the hair will tangle itself even though it's been combed many times then the hair will clump.
Tormented actually, but that's the way we are the chosen children. Even though it is privileged, there are still its own hassles, for the child or parents, it is already a risk.
My body is still weak because I've had a fever since three days. But what I have in my mind is wanting to go out and play, even though my mother is trying so hard to forbid me. That afternoon the feeling of wanting to play and the desire to leave the house could no longer be restrained.
Secretly I also opened the bedroom window that had been locked, as I recall it was already before night and the sky looked dim. When I was enjoying the atmosphere, suddenly my aunt caught me.
"Nimas! Why did you open the window?!" said the aunt who was at Grandma Putri's house at that time, she had been living with us since two months ago.
"I want to play!" I answered honestly.
"You can't! You're still sick and you can't leave the house!"
"Auntie, but I've been waiting for my friends, they want to play with me" I replied, pointing to the yard.
Aunt looked out the window, but she didn't see anyone there. After that aunt glanced at me with a look full of questions.
"Nimas, now close the window. It's late"
"No. I want to play!" I answered while holding the shutters.
"What is this?" Asked the mother who came over when she heard the aunt arguing with me.
"Sis, Nimas is acting strange. She wants to get out of the window and go play. She said her friends have been waiting for her, but there's no one outside sis!" clear aunt.
Mother's facial expression immediately changed after hearing that explanation,
while on the other hand I was having fun watching groups of small children who were having fun playing happily.
Some were chasing each other, some were holding hands while singing cheerfully in a circular motion. I really want to play with them.
"Nimas, please close the window. It's getting late," said Mom in a gentle tone.
"You see, they are playing. I want to play too"
"Who are they?" mother directed her gaze to the place I pointed at.
"That's it, my friends"
Aunt and mother glanced at each other, they didn't see anything in the place I pointed at.
"Mom can I play?"
"Nimas, there are no children there, no one is there! Now close the window!" mother said and immediately carried me away from the window, not caring about my whining and crying then my aunt immediately locked the window tightly.
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After a few months, my mother decided to come and live with my father in Jakarta so that she would be closer to my father. At that time we lived in a rented house, there was one room with a bathroom that was located outside the room.
The rented house is on the edge of the village. Usually my father comes home at the end of every two day or every three days. He works as a security guard and sometimes sleeps at the guard post.
Everyday I played with the children who were there, at that time I was not yet in elementary school because I was not old enough but not infrequently I also played with friends who might be said to be the only ones who saw me.
I have a mysterious friend that I first met, she is named Adek. Whether that was really her name or her nickname before she died I don't know, if I knew her now I might be able to interrogate her, but unfortunately I didn't understand before. I also don't know where she comes from, but she is always there to play, even though it always ends in chaos.
Let me explain the characteristics, her body is not much different from mine, it's just that Adek is a few inches taller than my height, maybe if you describe Adek's age as around 7 years, occasionally you can see snot coming out of her nose.
Adek prefers to suck snot with her nose and wears only white underwear and underpants. I have never seen her wearing a shirt or trousers.
Yes... Just a white undershirt and panties, that's all.
The strange thing is that even though she always comes to play together, Adek always irritates me, my toys are always taken, my work is also messed up by her.
After making me cry, she always disappeared, but still came back and asked me to play. Really annoyed me.
One day, I was busy drawing and coloring, and crayons were left scattered nearby so that it would be easier to pick them up when I needed color. At that time, Adek came out of nowhere, even though the door was locked by my mother because I couldn't play outside the house, the weather was very hot at that time.
Mom is busy with homework, she sits not far from where I draw. At first Adek sat in front of me, she saw the picture I made then watched me color it.