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Chapter 3 - Episode 3

~°(...but halal version)°

Screaming for help but nobody can hear the voice. It feels like this hole, it's endless. Wait, I saw something is flying to the surface. "KYAA! ", about a thousand of black butterflies and white moths flew onto her face, accidentally ate the white moth. Surprisingly, it exactly taste like vanilla and chocolate donut. She bow her head and the ground is only 5 meters away from her, scream with all of her heart. She's now at the ground. I couldn't tell how creepy the hole is. The more deeper you go, the more darkness energy you felt around your body. If you have a torchlight, nothing it can do. I wonder why's the ground didn't touch her body. You may think I'm crazy but she's floating. She's not moving for inches. Can't say anything even a word. (" Am- Am I mad? "), she slap her face more than once.

I hear a voice. It's from the ground, the air is trying to push her back to the surface. Every seconds, the voice will become louder and louder. Her mouth feel like she just eat a bunch of soap. Immediately, the air push her back to the surface but it's not the same surface. If you want to become blind, then lift up your head, it's too blazing even the sun will lose. Gently opened both of her eyes, she saw a massive gateway with lots of mosses behind a gigantic hedge maze in front of her. She sighed, knew that now she need to beat this 'thing'.

"Alright, let's do this quick". The maze shows the lanes, there's 3 lanes. If you choose `the late tea party in lost garden' , than you it will be the east lane, you choose the north lane than you'll go to `Ocean's Forest behind misery' . Lastly, if you choose the west lane, than you'll go to `paradise life in hell'. She blinked twice, already made her choice.

"Let's go to that lane! I don't want to live in this `hell' again! ", she glued her eyes to the Ocean's Forest behind misery's lane. She's gone too excited about this. The maze was very frustrating because even if it shows lane by the sign, she will still lost. Sometimes, she got pricked by thorns, fell in mud and even worse, she almost fell into a hole that full of venomous snakes. "Don't worry, Drusil. You got this. You're the most optimist lady in this world! We only tried it for 4th times and of course, there's nothing will happen to you except the failure!!! ", started to cry. "Sob .. Sob ... Let's try it. For the last time. We ... Got this.", she mumbled. She take out her mp3, put the headset on her head and start to cheer herself by listening to her favorite songs. It's actually `Without me' by Eminem. Pretty unexpected and yeah, nothing happened. She just did something useless as a clock without wheels. Accidentally remembered, that she's lost. She want to call her brother (actually her cousin) for help. Her phone shows that this place is an unknown place . "Well than. Let's just die", she drop her body and faint in case if someone want help her. She open one of her eye and make sure to pretend faint in front of them. I don't know, maybe just like a princess got carried by a charming price? Romantic, isn't it?

"This world is too beautiful to me. I wish I could return the favor to them. They still love me even if I disobey to them. I did many wrong things but still don't want to admit it. What's wrong with me? They still love me. Sometimes, I forgot that they will always watching me. I sleep, eat, making bad things, good things, help my brother, bully my sisters -- THEY STILL! Watching me. I shouldn't become ungrateful to them. God. I love you. I love you so much. I love you. I -- couldn't tell you how much I thanks to you. So forgive me, O my Allah ", she wipe her waterfall from her face. I knew that we have different religions. I knew that our languages are different. I knew that our cultures are different but I know one thing that's important. We can still unite our heart. I know. It's sounds crazy but we still a human ,right? All human should unite. We don't want a dissension. It will cause the war, sadness, fear, anger and all of the negative things. So hold my hand, we'll make a better future.

"Her Majesty, become emotional again. What is she trying to say? ", that rabbit appear again. "What do you mean, Mr. Black rabbit?", she asked. He immediately open his wing and fly as fast as lightning. He keep turn around, wonder if she want to grab his short feet. Looks like they're getting far from finish line. At one point, he stop flying. She almost slip. She tilt her head to the right. "A ... Door? ", in a hedge maze? I didn't know that. She try to open it but it's locked. She's search the key everywhere. She even search it in the plant's pot but it's actually lies under the mat. She enter the key and twist it. It didn't work at all. Apparently, it's not the only `key'. There's a pile of keys on her arm.

She open it for the eighth times (last one), fortunately, it open the door. She sighed in happy ... I guess. There's nothing in it, only a plate and a cake. She hold the plate and smell the cake if it still `okay ' to be eaten. It produce a weird smell. Not a good nor bad smell. It just. Weird. She read the recipe of the cake that stick under the plate. "Okay, it's halal", she ate half of the cake and leave it to the last place she found it. She locked the door and closed it. Now, her vision become blur. She can't walk properly nor look into her hand. She blinked more than three times. She faint after she ate it.