Actually, I really want to tell you what I went through to Widya, my best friend. How do I see them, their shape, but I'm afraid of being laughed at, I'm afraid that she will think of me as a joke and a laughing stock.
It's hard to keep all of this alone, I want to tell my mother but we are too far away, especially since the village has not been touched by signals and cell phones. After school, I saw Ani already at my grandmother's house.
Ani, who is none other than my aunt's daughter, she will live with me and my grandmother for some time. She is waiting to be picked up by her aunt to join her work in Jakarta, she only graduated from elementary school. Ani is also in her early teens, after graduating from school she decided to work rather than marry.
People in the past often married young, very much different from today. Ani has pure white skin, beautiful face, ideal body, lots of young men have a crush on her.
She also likes to wear make-up on her face, knowing that she really likes make-up at that age. she wears kohl, eyebrow pencil, powder and also lipstick. This is normal for a teenage girl, but it was this makeup that backfired on her. The story begins on that day, Ani finished her makeup, I thought she was going to an invitational event but she didn't.
"Where are you going, sis?" I asked in surprise.
"I want to go to the spring, want to wash clothes"
"Isn't it wrong? If you want to go to the spring, you can make-up like this"
"Ish... Let it go, I like it!" she replied.
At that time, Grandma came out of the kitchen and she pay attention to ani's face carefully. "Annie, where are you going?"
"Wanna go to the water spring, wash clothes" she replied, slightly hiding her face.
"To the spring? Isn't it wrong you want to go there but dress up like that!"
"Ouch grandma... Why the?" Ani began to look annoyed.
"I do not forbid you from wearing face makeup, but if you want to go to the spring, I ask to erase your makeup!" Grandma gave a stern warning. I became a little worried, if the grandmother had said like that means this problem would be serious.
"But why grandmother?" Asked Ani.
"If you make up like this later in the estimated ghost there!" Grandma changed a serious expression.
"What? Haha grandma... Where are there ghosts have a crush on humans!?" Ani is still in her establishment, she feels that she has been difficult to delete it. "Grandma, I want to go to a spring first" Ani admired a basket made of woven bamboo filled with dirty clothes and then rushed away without regard to grandmother's warning.
I was silent staring at Ani's back which was getting away, the spring was a haunted place where my soul was once kidnapped by the caretaker who was there, moreover Ani is not originally from this village, it is very vulnerable to her because of her strange aura. Even though I didn't understand it at the time, I believed what Grandma said.
"Sissteerr... Sister Ani wait!" I ran after her before it was too late.
"What else!"
"Sis, you better listen to what grandma said, remove your makeup before going to the spring"
"It's okay, a kid like you know what it is! It's better to go play there, don't meddle in my business." said Ani even angry.
She pushed my shoulder roughly. "Yeah whatever!" I said annoyed, the important thing is I warned her but instead she was being rude to me. I turned around to let Ani walk faster towards the spring.
In the afternoon I had just come home from playing at Widya's house and suddenly I heard a crowd coming from my grandmother's house. Arriving at the front door, there were many neighbors who came there.
"Grandma... What happened?" I muttered.
I immediately barged in afraid something would happen to grandma, but when I was able to get into the house it turned out grandma was fine. It's just that time I saw Ani lying on the bed.
"Grandma, what happened to Sis Ani?"
Grandma just silently looked at me sadly, didn't explain anything. "Grandma, we go first, I hope Ani is okay," said one of the neighbors then one by one they went to say goodbye.
"I warned you, but Ani didn't pay attention to my words," said the grandmother sadly.
I was silent while observing Ani's pale face, the makeup on her face was gone. I heard from the neighbors who were gathered earlier, she said, Ani was screaming at the spring. Then one of the residents found Ani in an unconscious state.
After several hours of fainting, Ani finally woke up and that day there was nothing strange, Ani was still acting and doing activities as usual. It's just that her eyes look a little empty and like to be absent-minded. I was still silent and just observing until finally, something happened that night.
"Ha ha ha"
The sound of laughing loudly broke the cold and silent night, even the grandmother who had hearing problems was shocked and woke up from her sleep. We immediately rushed to Ani's room and to our surprise, when my grandmother and I caught Ani doing her makeup in front of the mirror.
"Ani! What do you do with makeup at this time of night?" grandmother wonder.
"Hihihihi. To be beautiful, Grandma, I want to go to the spring," said Ani, moving from the mirror.
I immediately got goosebumps seeing Ani's behavior which was very strange, her gaze was blank, occasionally she also laughed in a strange tone that scared me. "Don't she know, what time is it? Why is she putting on makeup and instead wants to go to the spring!" I whispered to myself while continuing to observe.
"To the springs? Ani do you realize it's already midnight why did you go there?!" asked grandmother getting angry.
"It's okay. Even though it's night I'm not afraid! Hi hihi"