The Midnight Radio
Episode 21

"Standby, Xu!" fun Remi.

"Ongkeh."

"In 3, 2, 1, on water!" Remi raised her thumb.

"Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi. Inoxu was present to greet the listeners of the Story of Midnight from the second floor studio 12.08FM Radio Rebel Bandung. How's everything going? Forgive me for the Midnight Story being vacuumed for a while, which was due to a technical glitch in the studio. One song from BCL with First Love request from Liana Azha will be the beginning of the Story of Midnight this time. Happy listening and make sure not to go anywhere."

I turned off the mic and started to select the source. Once connected, I asked him to wait at the end of the connection.

"Tea, when is it Adul's turn to say?" he asked after a long silence.

"This abus. Later also ask the same answer your source who handles yes, Dul? Inget, don't be so partial!" I answered looking at him sharply.

"Yes Tea, Adul understands" he replied. Gia and Remi just smiled broadly at Adul's behavior tonight.

"Sshhtt, sshhht," call Gia. I looked up and raised an eyebrow.

[Where's Win, Xu?] he wrote it on the tablet and pointed it at me.

I shrugged both shoulders at the sign of not knowing.

[Did, cupu! Girlfriend doesn't know where to go]

Remi stifled laughter reading the writing on Gia's tablet.

"Aah," I groaned. This must be because Teh Hani who saw me and Bang Win came out of the radio station hand in hand last night so as to make rumors appear among the broadcaster.

"Dul, will you get ready? Inget, don't expand everywhere." I reminded him before the song ended.

"Yes ready Mrs Win, very chatty anyway," he replied.

I patted my forehead slowly and heard that Gia and Remi were laughing out loud.

"Halo gaes, Adul takes over after one flowery song from BCL with First Love. On the other end of the phone, there are listeners who want to share their stories with all of us huh gaes huh? It won't take long, hey caller, introduce yourself!"

Aful smoothly took over the broadcast after previously moving to my seat. I myself moved to sit next to him to control the course of the broadcast and took over in case something happened that Adul could not handle.

"Malem Kang Aful, Inoxu Tea Mall. I'm Momon from the corner of the room."

"Hey Momon! What's in the corner of the room? Don't tell me that you're a demit who's hooked on a mojok-majok huh?!" reply Adul.

I was shocked to hear his words.

"Not Kang Adul, I mojok because again nyender on the wall. Satisfying, abis eating."

"Sok or Kang Momon, what story do you want?"

"The story of the experience of the late Friday night patrol, Kang Adule. So gini, I am part of the patrol ration in my neighborhood. Just so happened to coincide with the schedule of my two best friends."

"Well, not the patrol. Playing cards!" cut Adul.

"Hahaha, yes. But we're going around first, Kang. There should be five of them, only one, the other sick and the other need. Yeah, it's three.

We're traveling around taking coins from used glasses of mineral water from people's homes."

"Oh, yeah?" ask Adul.

"Yes. We traveled around until finally arrived at the back of the village which is famous for serem. Passing through there the rich whimper there was the sound of curtains being closed violently. The srek! It sounds like Kang."

"How come?" Adul's voice sounded curious.

"The three of us can tell the origin of the sound and arrive in front of a house that has been empty for a long time. Very careful Kang, if the curtains move by themselves. Open the lid and the three of us are still there until finally the curtains stop moving."

The studio door opened slowly and Bang Win walked in holding a plate in his hand. He placed a plate that turned out to contain siomay and bowed towards my ear.

"Take it for a bite" he whispered softly after sliding a bit of the headphones covering my right ear. After that, he walked out of the studio.

Gubrak gubrak!

Spontaneously I turned my gaze towards Remi who was soaring with excitement with Gia. The two held back the laughter by putting their palms in each other's mouths.

I smiled faintly in response to Gia's writing while turning back to Adul and was surprised to see him chewing on something. True allegations. Because too engrossed in hearing the story of the source, he unwittingly plucked siomay on a plate until almost half.

"The three of us want to leave the front of the house, we all get hit by pebbles. It doesn't hurt but it's shocking. In shock, there was one cement that sprained and finally the road to the jackfruit tree that grew in front of the house."

I'm back to focusing on the story.

"What about Kang, the friend?" ask Adul still by plucking my siomay ration.

"Willing that tree, Kang! He said, feel the power of my holy water," replied the source.

Adul laughed out loud until I had to hit his hand. "How did Kang go, your friend? Healthy?"

"Alhamdulillah healthy. We go back to the patrol post and relax, coffee while hunching. Pas want to ngeroko, my turn is confused because matches that I had put already do not exist. Nanya dong me, to this second place, and they also do not know at all.

The cold air and the feeling of wanting to make me sprained and say words not polite. I said, where the hell is this match, the time is taken the same devil! And no one threw me for long. Put nduk to see, it turns out my match."

The studio door opened again, featuring the figure of Bang Win entering. He walked up to me, and put the hot coffee in a cardboard cup and walked out after previously taking the empty siomay plate by Adul.

Gubrak gubrak!

Without even looking, I knew that Gia and Remi were back in excitement.

"How did Kang Momon go?" Adul's question got me back in focus listening to the story.

"It turns out that my match was thrown from above by a figure who again sat right on top of a tree near the patrol post. Look at that, the three of us ran away."

"What did Kang see? How fled?"

"Liat po*cong, Kang Adul," replied Kang Momon.

"His korek was thrown the same po*cong?"

"Yes," replied Kang Momon again.

"Couldn't you? Kan po*cong mah wrapped in a shroud. How threw it? His hands are also wrapped" said Adul.

Plaque! I clapped his hands hard and turned my eyes.

"Sorry, Tea," said Adul while grinning.

"Yes, I don't know Kang. I don't know how that po*cong threw. All I know is escape, escape, escape. That's it."

"Inoxu Tea Similar to Kang Momon's. Doyan escaped most quickly if there was nothing in the studio" said Adul.

I grinned, looking at him cynically.

"Is there a story for Kang Momon?" ask Adul after Remi gives a sign if the duration is running out.

"That's what Kang Adul is. Much has been made of the Rebel radio. Rebel jaya jaya jaya jaya mah radio pokonya," replied Kang Momon before turning off the connection.

"Yes thank you very much Kang Momon for the story. Serem yes, demons today can play physically. But Adul didn't think ya gaes huh? Po*cong mah diiket is that right? Can I throw a match? Curious to see."

I raised my face in shock and spontaneously patted Adul hard. "Closing," I said, moving my lips without a sound.

"Yes at best yes. Thank you for listening to the end. The Sound Song performed by Green Leaf requests Bu Alva to be a sign that our meeting this time is over. See you again on another occasion, wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh."

I turned off the mic button located in front of Adul and removed the headphones. Afterwards, I sat back down while sipping the coffee that Bang Win brought.

"Euy wisdom, drink coffee from the lover of the heart" chirped Gia. I smiled and went back to sipping coffee.

Adul stood up to Gia's desk where he put his bag there and packed up to go home. Either because of my flowery mood, I didn't notice when Adul, Gia and Remi's faces became as pale as cotton.

"Xu, run!" remi jolt ran towards the outside of the studio with Gia following.

Bruaks! Aful who was shocked, came running out to hit the table. I put the coffee down and looked around the studio to make sure there was nothing strange. When my vision reached the corner of the room, my breath was immediately blocked and I lost the ability to move limbs. Adult-high candy complete with white cloth looks at me fixed.

"Win Bang!" I shouted loudly and tried to walk towards the door. Slow-moving legs as if blessed with something that does not seem to make fear and panic increasingly become. Until finally, there was a pair of hands that hugged and held me tightly.

"Ges aing bejaan tong ngaganggu! Hunk! (i told you not to bother! step aside!)," said Bang Win with a pressing tone. The terrified me was still in the man's arms until a while later. Swipe at the head, making a sense of calm slowly approaching.