Tamarind Shoots

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3 years ago
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Coming home from work Brian immediately spurred his motorbike fast, knowing that he almost missed an appointment today to take his wife to go see the night market in the field near the sub-district office with his only 3-year-old son. Moreover, the work at the office was very busy, so he came home a little late. In fact, he is a bit embarrassed by his wife because in the past few days he has made many promises that he cannot keep because of the large amount of work.

The journey to the house was felt by Brian to be very long and long, he imagined his wife's face that looked disappointed but made as elegant as possible because the promise he made was no longer fulfilled. When it was getting dark when Brian rode his motorbike, unfortunately, the road was closed because there were residents holding a wedding celebration. He also looked for an alternative route to return home. Although Brian had been assigned to the interior of the village of Kaitmoaja, which is located at the foot of Mount Gandaragen for years, actually he did not really understand the ins and outs of the area.

Brian began to enter the village of Kaitmoaja village, during the trip Brian did not have any bad feelings. And the long journey begins. It didn't feel like the day was getting dark. Brian decided to take a short break at the mosque as well as perform evening prayers. after finishing the prayer, he continued his journey. the farther he drove the late the night accompanied the trip.

At first, at the beginning of the journey, the atmosphere in the village was so busy and full of laughter and singing of children playing on the terrace of the house, now the atmosphere has slowly turned into a lonely and quiet atmosphere. Now Brian realizes that at this time he is lost, he has started far away from the village of Kaitmoaja and entered a vast area of ​​rice fields, from a distance the howls of wild dogs can be heard making goosebumps even more. Brian, who felt normal at the beginning of his journey, is now slowly beginning to feel fear.

Suddenly the vehicle in which he was riding, the lights suddenly went out, panic and anxiety spread through his body, especially when the sky looked dark, the stars did not appear because they were covered in clouds and seemed to be spewing out the rain in a moment, the anxiety had not yet disappeared what Brian was worried about happened, the rain was pouring down very heavily... Brian drove his vehicle in the middle of the dark night with a heart that was pounding uncertainly, he hoped that on his way he could meet a resident's house for shelter or to fix his bicycle lights. the damaged one.

And fortunately, from a distance, he can see a glimmer of visible light, a sign there is a settlement. "Thak's God... Finally, a settlement has been seen ..." Brian said in his heart. This time his heart was a little relieved, after getting closer it turned out that it was just a very simple house or rather if it was called the Shack, located right at the corner of the corner under the Big Tamarind tree.

To calm the atmosphere Brian decided to stop for a moment. Brian knocked on the door of the house, not long after, a very beautiful girl came out. Brian was very shocked, the girl's face was very, very beautiful, she was about 17 years old, had straight black hair, and her smile was very sweet. The girl welcomed Brian warmly, with a typical Kaitmoaja accent.

Brian excused himself to fix the motorbike light that went out, when he was repairing the vehicle for fun he asked the beautiful girl,

"You live alone, are you not afraid?",

the girl replied "I live with my grandmother. that's my grandmother, sir, ".

Brian was shocked absurdly, he almost jumped from where he was, since when had anyone stood under that big tree. even though he realized earlier that when he entered Brian it was passing from the same direction and around him was only a large tree.

Again, the feeling of anxiety creeping up Beno's body, even so, he tried to stay as calm as possible, yes Brian didn't really care about it, he forced his smile to appear to greet Grandma earlier, but the grandmother was just silent and her expression was really very flat ...

After finishing fixing his bicycle lights, Brian took a break on the terrace for a while waiting for the rain to stop, either because he was too tired or the rainy atmosphere made the atmosphere peaceful, Brian unwittingly fell asleep.

When he woke up he looked at his watch, at 3:00 a.m., he was shocked absurdly, then rushed home, he was about to say goodbye to the beautiful girl and also his grandmother as an expression of gratitude for giving shelter, but he did not see the girl, Brian thought maybe the girl was asleep with her grandmother, she finally decided to go straight to her house.

Brian was full of twists and turns to find directions back home, but fortunately he was able to arrive home safely, when he entered his yard he just realized that his briefcase was left at the girl's house.

"Ah, let it be .., I'll take it tomorrow," Brian muttered to himself.

He knocked on the door several times, when the door opened his wife immediately hugged him tightly with sobs of emotion. Brian was a little surprised, indeed he was late returning home, but this is not the first time, whenever there is office work piling up he often comes home late at night, but his wife's attitude this time is really odd.

But after he entered the house and his wife told him the condition that happened he was shocked to death, he almost did not believe what his wife had just said, how not ... !!!, in fact, he had been gone for three days and three nights, and many friends - his coworkers came to the house to ask him.

The next day when Brian went to work, Brian planned to pick up his leftover work bag, he combed the road he had traveled yesterday, starting from the villages in Kaitmomaja village to the rice fields where his bicycle lights died, until finally, he arrived right at the corner under a tree. Sour, but he was surprised because the house he had visited yesterday was not there. And when he looked at a Cambodian treetop which was not far from the tamarind tree which was standing firmly, his heart was pounding, suddenly his hair shuddered. His heart almost fell off, he could not believe what he saw in front of him, because he saw his briefcase stuck in the top of a frangipani tree, right under the frangipani tree there was an unkempt grave overgrown with grass with a tombstone written on it.

TAMARIN

Born: February 14, 1985

Died: December 31, 2002

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