The Midnight Radio
Episode 72

"Xu!" the back cry, instantly stopped my steps because I knew clearly who the owner was.

"Braise!" pekikku ran over and hugged her tightly. "Is it really healthy?"

"Thank God, Xu! The doctor said it was all safe, so I could start working again."

"Alhamdulillah," I said gratefully.

"Eat siomay yuk? I have not eaten Siomay Mang Udin for a long time," he asked as he pulled my hand slowly.

"Wood!" i responded.

We both lost moments like this for a long time. In the past, during the early night broadcasts, we usually waited for Gia to come while eating a plate of siomay.

"I really see you here, Rem," I said as I looked into his eyes.

"Make a lot, Xu! Mama Teh Raylen said, You were devastated when I was in the hospital."

"Yes, um! Who is strong to see his rich friend. I won't get rich if you're okay, Rem," I hugged her back.

He rubbed my head gently. "Quiet, from now on we will be together, ade-in-law."

I let go of my embrace for a moment and looked at him with narrowed eyes. "Ah well, it has moved also finally the Nyx."

My words made Remi laugh so I couldn't help but laugh with her.

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"Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi. Inoxu comes from the second floor studio The Story of Midnight 12.08FM Radio Rebel Bandung. For the next hour and a half, I will accompany the listeners' night break all with a presentation of the story from the source. One song request Noviyanty Azzahra from Cici Paramida with Wulan Mermindu will be the beginning of the story this time. Stay tuned and don't go anywhere."

I turned off the mic and turned my eyes to Remi who raised her thumb. Not long after, the song began to sound from the headphones I was wearing. While choosing the phone number of the source, the studio door opened and displayed the figure of Bang Win.

"Safe, Rem?" tanyakanya.

"Friendly, Bang!" remi answered again raising his thumb.

Bang Win smiled and walked towards me. "I want to go out for a minute with Utep, what do you want to nitip?" he lowered his head and shifted the headphones covering my right ear.

"Make bread chips? Same peanut butter chocolate," I replied.

"Oh, what doesn't make you? Go first, huh? Before I finished the broadcast, I came back here again," he continued before rubbing my cheek gently and walking outside the studio.

"Ah! When is Tomo going to Indonesia? Delayed grandu, so the same gemes couples who are still so cute" said Gia cynically.

I just chuckled at her words and chose to contact the source. After connecting, I asked him to wait for a moment.

"Welcome I say to the new listeners. One story is ready to be presented by our speakers who are waiting at the end of the connection. Huh hello? With whom from where?"

"Hello Inoxu Tea, this is with Tara in Long Leuwi."

"Please Tara Tea" I said.

"I used to live in Jambi, Teh. There we just occupied a rented house lined in two and still surrounded by forest. Early living there no strange incident at all, safe and comfortable anyway. The only distractions of that time came from stray dogs and wild boars. Yes, the name of the forest deck is right?

After a month of living there, my sister and I went to school in a schoolhouse where my mother became her teacher. In the afternoon, my father came to pick us up from school and left my brother alone at home.

One day, after we got home from school. I've been standing outside my house with a frightened face, Tea."

"There's a wild animal?" my many.

"No. Brother said, in the house next to our rented house there was the sound of laughter of a man, even though the house had no occupants. My father was worried that someone would sneak in and have evil intentions. So, he checked the house and there was no one there. My sister got sick, had a high fever and was vomiting.

Over time, there was one family that eventually occupied the house and almost all family members experienced something strange. Starting from sleep squeezed by a sinister figure, tau-tau hugged by a large figure with his hands crushed to death lights, until the sound of people bathing.

At two o'clock in the evening, my neighbor's kitchen door was knocked. Out of curiosity, the owner of the house decided to open up and he squirmed the figure of a small child who flew up. I myself have also squirmed the figure of this little boy, Tea."

"Astagfirullah, really drag a little boy floating around" I chanted.

"So cool, Tea. I squirm the figure fit again to take a drink in the kitchen near the bathroom. The boy kept watching me. When I look back, his feet are floating. He staggered to hold my leg before flying upward and continued to disappear. No matter how long, my leg is swollen. If from some of the fathers who can squirm. They live in banana trees right behind the house."

"It's lucky you're not there anymore, is it, Tara Tea?" tanyaku. It is hard to imagine living in a home that provides many distractions.

"Yes tea, thankfully no longer there, hehehe. That was the story of me, Tea. Makasi has been allowed to share a lot of stories" said Teh Tara.

"Together, yes, Tea? Always healthy," I said before turning off the connection.

"That's the Tara Tea story that gave me goosebumps. No wonder, the house should be a comfortable resting place, but if the house is rich serem, not the comfort that is obtained but the fear all the time. One song requests Chacha Aurellia from Ilir 7 with Forbidden Love to be the end of the Story of Midnight this time. Inoxu and all the team please leave. Keep your health, wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh."

I turned off the mic and took off the headphones before moving to Remi's desk. "Nyx pick it up?" ask directly. Remi just grinned and nodded slowly.

"Ish, I was picked up by grab," Gia timpal said with a face wash while putting the tablet in a bag.

Remi and I chuckled and cleaned up our personal belongings before going outside the studio. By the time the three of us arrived on the first floor, Bang Win was already waiting for me with Nyx beside him.

"Dam!" I'm on Nyx.

"Naon?" his reply was short while waving towards Gia who was saying goodbye home.

"Cepet delivered, it's too malemy," I said as I gave the eye code to Nyx.

"Yes kalem, this is will. Yuk, Rem?" bring him. They said goodbye and left me alone with Bang Win who immediately handed me a bottle of mineral water.

"Why so?" I looked at him who was looking serious in front of the laptop.

"Create a report for a vendor, Yank. Cape?" ask her back while rubbing my head slowly.

"It's a habit."

"Eat the grilled sticky rice in Lembang, will you?" tanyanya.

"Yes, do it!" seruku fast. "Tumben went there."

"For a new atmosphere. That Abis snuggled to Ciater yuk?"

"Wood!" seruku again. "To the house used to mean, take a shirt."

"Easy. Bring that black shirt, will you?" he said very slowly while looking down. His face turned red and he did not dare to look at me.

I'm stunned. The black shirt is the official dress of the wives that is worn only in front of the husband.

"Ish, be shy about it! Yes, bring that one," I said casually. He was still embarrassed and in a moment the anxiety approached me. Quickly, I bit his arm hard until he complained.

"Here bales bite," my challenge.

Bang Win looked at me. "It looks so good to me if you want to bite bales. But I don't want to."

"Why?" many wonder.

"I don't want to hurt you, yank," his voice that returned softly, making me even more anxious and could only hug him tightly from the side.