Between Ravange And Love

Whose Voice Is That?

Keysia is a 17 year old high school 3rd grade girl. So far she has had an almost perfect life, Keysia is an only child who lives well. She is a brave girl, always cheerful, and friendly to anyone.

Tomorrow is his birthday, therefore Bram and Shinta have planned to prepare a surprise at 12 o’clock tonight. They had prepared everything secretly without Keysia’s knowledge.

“Daddy, so when you were little Daddy lived here?” asked Keysia who was sitting on the sofa while enjoying hot tea with her father, while Shinta was busy preparing many things in the kitchen.

“Yes, I used to live here with my grandmother, grandfather, and also Aunt Ririn,” explained Bram.

“Then why did Daddy move to Jakarta? Why don’t we just stay here from the start, right? This house is so abandoned, even though the house is quite big,” said Keysia.

Bram smiled bitterly, his eyes far away. Remembering this house, then one by one the memories of his family used to play automatically in his mind. Too many memories and also secrets hidden behind this house.

“Daddy?” Keysia managed to break Bram’s daydream.

“Ah, yes, so when your grandparents died, I was alone in this house with the late Aunt Ririn, but after Aunt Ririn also left for good, I lived alone here. You know, living alone in a house this big is the most disgusting thing. My life is filled with loneliness all the time, therefore after all my business here is finished, I finally decided to migrate to Jakarta,” Bram explained in detail to his daughter.

“Oh so that’s the story, then this house is really empty?” Keysia asked again.

Bram shook his head, “I pay people to always keep this house from being left completely empty, it’s just that it doesn’t seem to be cleaned very often.”

Keysia nodded in understanding, but then she asked again, “Daddy, I was even thinking about Aunt Ririn, didn’t you say that she died when she was young?”

“Yes, that’s right,” answered Bram.

“Then what caused him to die? So far, Father has never told me about it.”

Bram jumped, he seemed nervous to respond to his son’s question.

“That … Eum … That … Aunt Ririn died because … because she fell from the stairs of this house,” answered Bram casually.

It’s true, the house has two floors. But the top floor had not been cleaned at all. Maybe tomorrow or the day after, the Bram family only occupies the first floor for the time being.

“Oh my gosh, how tragic that is,” Keysia suddenly seemed to regret the situation.

“There’s no need to mention that, after all I’ve tried to let him go, so you don’t have to bring up old wounds anymore. You better sleep now because it’s ten o’clock,” Bram changed the subject.

“Okay, I’ll go to bed first,” Keysia is indeed an obedient child and never disobeys her parents’ orders.

After Keysia left, Bram immediately went to the kitchen to help his wife prepare a surprise for their daughter tonight.

The husband and wife are so united, they no longer argue like before, even though Shinta’s curiosity is still not over.

“Finally everything is ready,” said Shinta with a relieved smile.

“Yes, you are right. Look, the clock shows 23:45, that means we will go straight to Keysia’s room in 15 minutes,” said Bram.

“Okay, it’s all ready. Let’s just go straight there, “said Shinta.

Bram agreed, the two sneaked into Keysia’s room with a chocolate-flavored birthday cake with the number 17 perched as a candle on it, it was made by Shinta herself. They waited at the door until the clock showed 12.00. They entered and immediately sang happy birthday.

“Happy Birthday to you…

Happy Birthday to you…

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to you…”

Of course Keysia immediately woke up, with eyes that were still half asleep she sat smiling happily seeing the arrival of her parents who gave a surprise on her birthday.

“Honey, happy birthday,” said Shinta as she climbed into her child’s bed and kissed Keysia affectionately.

“Thank you, Mammy,” Keysia replied.

“Happy seventeenth birthday, dear,” it was Bram’s turn to say it, he sat on the right side of Keysia.

“Thank you too, Daddy. I’m very happy, I’m lucky to have parents like you,” Keysia said quietly. The three of them hugged each other very tightly.

“Let’s cut the cake,” said Bram.

“Come here, I’ll just cut it. Later, Keysia will feed your father and me,” Shinta took over the cake that had been blown out by the candle.

But suddenly Keysia felt like going to the bathroom to pee, “Daddy, Mammy, I’m going to the bathroom first,” she said.

The girl immediately got out of bed and headed for the bathroom in her room. But when he entered it turned out that the water in the bathroom was not on.

”Ah, gosh. How can I pee if there’s no water here,” Keysia grumbled from the bathroom, she was still trying to turn the faucet, but to no avail. Maybe because it hasn’t been used for a long time, the water faucet is stuck.

“If this is the case, it means I have to go to the bathroom in the kitchen,” complained Keysia. He immediately came out with an annoyed face.

“Why, Keys?”

“The water faucet is off, so I have to go to the back bathroom,” Keysia answered.

“Is that true? Maybe it’s because it hasn’t been used for too long, so it’s like that. Tomorrow morning, I will send a handyman to fix it,” said Bram.

“Yes, Daddy. I’m going to the bathroom first,” Keysia quickly left.

In the house there are two bathrooms, one is in Keysia’s room and the other is near the kitchen. At first Keysia wanted to do everything in her room, but it didn’t go as expected.

Keysia staggered towards the bathroom. Keysia’s new house is like an L letter, a few meters from the kitchen and bathroom there is a separate room. She briefly glanced at a wooden door from a room that was always locked. Sometimes Keysia was so curious about what was in the room, she had asked her father many times about it, the answer was always the same that the room was just a warehouse.

But just this afternoon when Keysia asked for permission to come in and clean the room, but her father always forbade it for the reason that there were many things she was not allowed to touch.

To hell with the room, Keysia hastily continued her steps because she couldn’t stand the urge to immediately defecate.

When Keysia was about to open the bathroom door, she suddenly heard the sound of someone crying. By that time the rain had stopped, only the drizzle could be heard, therefore the slightest sound could be heard, though faintly.

Keysia refused to go into the bathroom, her curiosity was so passionate that it pushed her to follow the source of the sound. Keysia had to keep her ears sharp so she could hear the faint voice, sometimes the voice was lost in the sound of raindrops.

But Kesya was sure that if her ears were still functioning perfectly, what she heard just now was real.

“I think the voice came from the locked room,” said Keysia.

She adjusted her hair so it wouldn’t block her ears. Then Keysia walked step by step slowly towards the direction of the voice. He was very sure that the sound of people crying was indeed coming from inside the warehouse which was always locked.

The closer she got, the clearer the sound became. According to Keysia’s hearing it was a woman’s voice.

“Whose voice is this? A human voice or not? Or maybe this is a kuntilanak’s voice,” said Keysia to herself. Now the hair on his neck was standing up.

Keysia stood for a long time in front of the door, she put her earlobe on the door just so she could hear more clearly. However, there was something strange this time, on the door there was a lock that stuck as if his father had just come out of there and forgot to bring the key. This is really unusual.

“There’s a key, even though I remember this afternoon Daddy said that the key to this room had been lost for a long time and I don’t know where it was. Then why was the key suddenly stuck here? Did Daddy just come in from inside? Or did Daddy lie about this key on purpose? ?” thought Keysia.

His curiosity began to recur, he no longer paid attention to his fear. Now all she was thinking about was how to get into the room and see for herself what was in it.

“As long as the key is here, so I can go in now to look inside and make sure that the voice is not from inside here,” Keysia had made up her mind.

But unfortunately the sound suddenly stopped.

“Ugh, why did the sound stop? I’m pretty sure the source of the sound is from here,” Keysia said quietly.

Keysia’s heart was beating faster than before, however she still had a fear of invisible creatures. He was so scared that he swallowed many times.

Suddenly the voice that had stopped was heard again, this time a little clearer. There was no doubt that it was a woman’s voice crying. Keysia actually does not really believe in creatures called ghosts because she has never seen his form in person. But even if it was a human voice, who was that person in there? As far as Keysia knows, the warehouse is rarely opened, she herself has never been in there. So, it felt very impossible.

Keysia looked around her, worried that suddenly a creature would pounce on her from behind. After all, Keysia’s house does feel a bit tense from the house in general, because the house is only filled by her and her father, moreover her mother also died there.

“Rather than dying of curiosity here, I’d better go in and see for myself what’s inside,” said Keysia again.

The girl took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly to reassure her that there was nothing inside. Slowly, Keysia touched the key that was stuck on the door she would turn it slightly while holding her breath, her hands trembled slightly because the rhythm of her heart was beating faster. Suddenly …