
An ambulance arrived and took Eli's body to a nearby hospital. The police have arrested the culprit and are interrogating him. Some police also checked the crash site and questioned people who saw the incident directly.
Eli's mother is still crying. He did not expect that his daughter could have a fateful accident right in front of his own house. Because this area was always safe before. Although the road is wide enough but the vehicles passing quiet.
That night I couldn't sleep because I thought about Eli. After hearing from her sister, I was a little relieved. Eli's life was saved but still unconscious.
The next day, I told the class manager about Eli's accident. But I didn't tell you that I exchanged locker keys with Eli.
During class I was still not calm. Was Eli's accident just a coincidence? Or does it have something to do with that cursed locker?
I reached into the pen in my bag to start taking notes. But something caught up when I pulled it. When I noticed the object stuck at the end of the pen, I suddenly threw it away and shouted, attracting the attention of the entire class.
How can the locker key, which I gave Eli yesterday, be with me again?
"Riri, what's wrong?" Miss Desi, who was teaching my class, came up to me and rebuked me. I was silent still in surprise.
"Is this yours?" The teacher picked up the pen and locker key lying on the floor, then put it on my desk.
"Are you sick?" ask Missi.
"I'm fine."
"Then I'll continue the lesson."
I nodded slowly, with my eyes still fixed on the thing on my desk. I really don't understand. The thing that was supposed to be in Eli's house, why was it on me again?
After the lesson ended. Laila, our class president came to see me.
"Riri, the key is it still scaring you? If you still don't want to wear it, I'll give it back to the teacher for a broken reason."
"really?"
"certain. So you don't have to worry anymore."
I'm glad to hear that. Without hesitation I directly gave the key to him.
The next day, Laila came to me again and told me that she lost her key before she could return it to her teacher.
At first I didn't really care. I think it's good that the key is missing. Until I rediscovered the key in my bag.
I threw it into the river and made sure it sank. Again it came back to me in a way I don't understand. Why like this? Has this key chosen me as its victim?
I feel desperate. Then the next day I saw the boy who had become the talk, Melya. A girl who is said to have the sixth Indra. You can communicate with ghosts.
I watched him when he entered class. And how he made a noise on his first day. I'm more and more convinced that he's no ordinary kid. He'll be my savior, I hope. But, would he believe me if I told him all the weird stuff I'd been through.
I'm waiting for class. I intend to reprimand him today. I had to dare myself to greet him. I saw Laila give him the locker key. Then I noticed he was acting strangely in front of the locker.
He even peeked at locker no 13 that the kids were talking about. Did he feel anything strange about the locker? If I let him do it like Eli. Maybe he doesn't know, or doesn't know yet.
* * *
"After that I rebuked me, and you know what happened next" I said. Melya sat in front of me. He listened while occasionally drinking ice in his glass.
We both sat in the school cafeteria waiting for the rain to stop. I told her everything I experienced while watching how she reacted.
He looks relaxed. Doesn't he believe my story. Or he's a brave boy like I've heard all along.
"What do you think of your vision?" manya curious.
"If you believe me I'll answer."
"I believe." Right now he's the only one I can trust.
"There's nothing on this thing that could make the owner wretched. I don't feel a thing. It's just like a regular key."
"No way!"
"So you said you believed."
Not that I couldn't believe it, everything I was experiencing was awkward.
"I think what your friend Eli is going through, it's just a coincidence, there's no clear evidence that it's a ghost or that it's something you're saying that's cursed."
"But, many have experienced bad events because of the key. Some even died."
"Do you know who it is? Teacher or student? What class are students from?"
"I don't know because I just heard it from someone else's story."
I let out a disappointed breath. "Riri, it's not a good thing to believe in issues that are not clearly the source. And trust him roundly. It'll have a bad impact on you"
"I think you're too trusting of what you call the seven school weirdness or whatever. Honestly I don't really believe it, because stories like that are usually just made up to make a school scene. So don't get too consumed by stories like that."
"So you mean all those stories are lies?" ask me to confirm his assessment.
"I can't be sure that all the stories are lies, I'm just saying that they're still not clear. And one thing is certain is ..." Mely threw the key in front of me again.
"I can assure you it's just a regular key. No evil spirit, black magic, curse or anything attached to that thing can harm its owner. So I dare to guarantee that it is safe" Melya said confidently.
I still stared at the key gloomily. "What if this locker or locker is really haunted?"
"You afraid of ghosts?"
"Are there people who are not afraid of ghosts?"
"Have you ever seen him?"
"Never."
"Keep, what are you afraid of? You can't see it?"
"But in horror movies ghosts are scary."
"Then what you're afraid of is not the ghost, but the horror movie. Riri's! Hear that! You're lucky you can't see them. Enjoy your normal life! Don't think about the no-no! You don't see it, you can believe they don't exist."
"But what about a self-switching key? That key always comes back to me?"
"That's what I still don't understand. Tell you what, this key for a while let me hold it. Let's see if this key can still move on to you or not."
"Don't! Bad things can happen to you like Eli. I can't let it."
However, Melya snatched the key. "I've been through a lot of bad things. It doesn't matter if I experience it again."