ADIBA

What I am going to tell you in this short story is could be say as a fiction story . But however I am not forcing you to believe toward this story. If I say that it is a real story from my life, I doubt it that you will believe. So just suppose this story as a fiction short story as usual or a fiction short story that pretends real. But the most important thing is I can tell you (with force) what I have to tell.

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Since I took extension class in my college exactly in Teknokrat college, the college that provide many majors and also provide extension class and also I took English Literature major in this college. Maybe you think I having work in the daylight, so that’s why I took extension class. But it’s not true, the reason why I took extension class is because the class that I want to take in regular class was full, so I take extension class because i have no choices anymore. I have chaos in my learning procces, I can not understand what my lecturer tell about. Actually its happened because I feel so sleepy in that class.

 Actually it is also caused because I just bought a new modem, and internet service providers that I use was only able to work smoothly at twelve o'clock upwards. Compounded by the fact that my new hobby, I drink as much as two cups of coffee a day (I think I'm starting to get the level of addiction). As a result, I often stay up until three in the morning, and more often awake until sunrise. When the sun rises and the other occupants of the house are just beginning to wake up, shower in the morning, and starting their daily activities, I even start turn off the lights and covering my body with my blankets. I know that this lifestyle is very unhealthy. So I did not get to exercise, having breakfast, and frequent colds. There is a risk of psychological conditions also impaired, and I do hope so. 

You might think that every time I stay up, I used to doing homework or learning. But it is not true. I've been trying to write a short story for my last assignment of Prose 1 or doing other activities at the middle of the night, but eventually I fell into for browsing, watching videos of the concert on YouTube, or simply visiting facebook group. As a result, the existence of the internet even hinder productivity, so I rarely even doing the homework, even I have ever not doing my homework and did not submited to my lecturer. And yet I have so many subjects in that day, exactly in Thursday I have three subjects, first is Aplikom II in the morning at 07.00 am and the second is Reading III in 01.00pm and the last is Phonology Class in extension class.

These are the things that make my learning procces is bad, I feel so tired when I have to face phonology in extension class. As you know before i have two subjects during the daylight that makes me feel tired. Roughly a few weeks ago, precisely on Thursday at night, I experienced the incident. At that time I was sitting in the corner of the class and heed the lessons that I extremely  did not understand and I can not get information or lessons that my lecturer gave to me.

I know its because of my misbehaving that always stay awake until mid night and instead of until morning.  And yet I was sitting alone with no friend, because I am from regular class I have no friend at all at that time, actually i have few friends from regular class, there are Galuh, Dian, Rama, Hutri, Nasya and the last is Dasa. Dasa was attended at that night but he was sitting in the front because he came late and forced to fill the chair in the front. But for the other did not attended the class, maybe because they already pass the first quiz of phonology. So they want to take their time for relaxing their brain and don’t want to think hard about phonology class.

Mr. Budiawan ask to me for took the copy of slides that there is in one of the table in Lecturer room,

“Alki, Are you sleep? At that I extremly feel sleepy and my head is in the table.

“Little bit, sir” I answer his question

“May you take the copy of slides in Mr. Mario table?”

“Yes sir, of course”

 Mr. Budiawan is a lecturer that teach phonology in Teknokrat, he is a great lecturer, many students are love him because of the teaching technique, he can make the students understand easly toward the hard matter, and also he was the first generation of Debate in Teknokrat. Since he was asked me to took the copy of slides. I just directly open the door and down the stair, when I started down the stair the lamp in that roof suddenly blackout, and I heard somebody just call me  from behind

“kak” somebody called me like that.

Sounds vague from behind me, when I look into my behind I see nobody. What I can see at that time are just windows, wall magazine that in the left of the wall and empty space. And I just thinking that is just a misheard or just a hallucination. So I ignored it and started to go down the stairs. When I was arrived in lecturer room and opened the door, the condition of the place was deserted, it was just there is one person who face the monitor in the beside of the door. Then directly I went to table and took the copy of the slides, but when I going out from lecturer room, At that moment, I saw a girl who looked from under the guava tree. Only her head is able to look, it looks like her body was behind the guava tree. Initially I had thought that it was the daughter of the chairman of the foundation of Teknokrat who often play around there, but it is impossible there is a child who play there alone without any baby sitter? As I recall, the child did not look like a ghost, he was not pale, not bright, not bloody. She looks like a normal human child. So I was thinking that she was the daughter of the chairman of the foundation of Teknokrat. Over time, I became aware that the child was staring at me. We were locked eyes for a few seconds, but it seemed like a very long time. Then with a slow movement, she waved her hand to me. That's when my whole body so creeps. I did not know if she's a ghost or a human being, I didn’t care, but obviously the way she waved actually made ​​me shudder.

I feel so scared at that time, and I just closed my eyes because the way she looked me was made me shudder. When I opened my eyes she was gone and I didn’t know where she was. Then I go back to the class and started learning of phonology again. But I kept thinking about the events that had just experienced, met with a figure of a little girl under the tree that I guess she was a ghost.

“oke, thank you for your coming Assalamualaikum Wr Wb, and good night” Mr. Budiawan said the class was already over.

And I just directly go home and I want to sleep because I feel so very fuckin’ tired from the routine. But recently I can not sleep, Not because I was not sleepy, I just feel very sleepy. But because of stress and fatigue, I repeatedly experienced Tindihan (or scientific language, "sleep paralysis"). When experiencing Tindihan, I felt shortness of breath, as there is something squashed my body. Every time I tried to get up, dizziness directly attack my head. sometimes and then also when experiencing Tindihan my body feels like pulled up. But at that moment I tasted it there are so many hallucinations (or at least I hope so). I heard people whispering in my ear, or a hand flicked my shoulders. When I turned around, I saw the figure of a little girl who was sitting curled up on top of the wardrobe, sometimes hovering roof. I did not know whether the child was the same as the child that I saw under the guava tree in Teknokrat, but because I think it's just a hallucination due Tindihan, so I was not too scared. After passing through the struggle, finally I can sleep well at that night.

Because I do not want to suffer that kind of thing again , I was trying to improve sleep patterns . Two days after that incident , I 've made ​​a schedule that I have to sleep at eleven o'clock . But since that time I have a new movie from my friend and start watching it at ten-thirty, but finally I could ended the movie at twelve o'clock . I try to go to sleep, no more browsing events or log in to facebook or maybe youtube . I immediately turn off the room lights, computers as well, and then I was lying on my bed. Because I already accustomed staying up late, I really do not feel sleepy at all. I am so completely wrong , flipping the body, facing right, recumbent , then finally facing left. When the position of my body tilted to the left, I felt comfortable. Probably because of the position against the wall, my thought would not thinking something scare again. One minute, two minutes, I finally began to feel sleepy . I closed my eyes and began to enjoy the beginning of sleep. But at that moment a voice softly repeatedly annoy my ears.

Clack, Clack, Clack. The sounds be like. Inevitably, my hearing be sensitive. The voice sounds coming from my back, from the direction of my laptop. I thought that it was the sound of dripping water leak, it will be damage my laptop if the water contact my laptop. But strangely, it was not raining, so it's impossible if there is water leaking. I continued to listen to the voice, tempo static. Eventually I realized, too, the voice sounds very familiar toward my ears. That is the sound from laptop keyboard bar. More specifically, that's sound of the space bar was pressed repeatedly. I knew the sound of space key, because I pressed it in many times every day. The question is, who's pressing the space bar on my laptop, when I was in the room alone?

            Although there is a feeling of fear and horror, but my curiosity is bigger. I finally ventured to turn around, so I could see what happened in the front of my computer. But when my body has been facing to the right, the sound disappeared. And indeed, there is nothing or anyone in front of my computer.I did not know what I have to supposed to feel,  whether to be relieved or even more scared. In the next day, that incident happen again. The voice that produce by space bar always sound in every time when I turned off the light and started to sleep. And the voice always dissapears in every time I checked. My feeling can not feel comfort, my plan to change schedule sleep was totally failed.  So I was purposely to stayed up late, and I dare to sleep after passing the dawn.

But yesterday, exactly on wednesday, I fell asleep around three o'clock in the morning. In my dream, I was dreaming something very strange, a dream which made ​​me acquainted with Adiba. Adiba is a little girl. The little girl whose face I have ever seen under guava tree in my college, and yesterday she get into my dream. As I mentioned before, the little girl was not creepy at all. She was like a little girl ordinary, she even cute. if you know the daughter of Uya Kuya named Cinta, who often appeared on the reality show,. Yes, her face is similar to the little girl that I saw. Not really similar to Uya Kuya's daughter, but her smile and laugh are little bit similar.

In that dream, I was in my college exactly under the guave tree beside lake. I was standing alone, there were no students or lecturer at that time. The condition was totally deserted, and appeared suddenly a little girl in my beside. That is the moment when she asked me to be acquainted and she mention her name to me. If i am not mistaken, the conversation is like this.

“My name is Adiba.” She said while offering her hand to hand shake.

I am also shake her hand and we were hand shaked at that time, and I am introduce myself with honest.

After that she was talking about something, she just like want to vent, but I did not remember what she was talking about. I didn't know, maybe because it was a dream, I can not remember all the details. But there is a part of the conversation that I remember clearly and I can not forget until now.

“I am gonna tell you the story” she said

“but just know, you already tell your story to me, right?” I asked, in that dream I don’t know why I am not feel scary at her.

“no, what I mean here I want a story” she asked again

“what story?”

“no, I mean that I want you to tell story about me to other people”

“what for?”

“later, I will come to the people’s dream that ever heard about my story” she was smile wide.

“so, what are you gonna do in their dreams?”

“it’s not your business”

And after that, I woke up. There was a strange feeling after experiencing that dream, I felt that it was not a dream, even though I knew when I was lying on my bed. When I checked out the surroundings, I realized that my computer was turned on. It's strange i think, because my laptop wasn't in condition on. I didn't turn on the laptop at that night. I didn't know, maybe I have forgotten. Or maybe, there is something else that makes the laptop turns on. Was it Adiba? I do not know and don't want to make speculations.

finally, because of my dream that I experienced yesterday, I felt haunted. So I decided to carry out the desires of Adiba. I wrote this story and tell about herself to other people as best as I can remember. Whether it is right or not Adiba will come to your dreams because of you already read this story. But don't you worry, cause I think she's not dangerous. I even suspect if she really come to your dreams. she will make same request to you. She just want us know about her existence.

Now I am done. hopefully after I tell about all of this. I can actually fix my sleep schedule, and I will not feel sleepy when I have to face extension class and also I will not disturbed by the voices from laptop keyboard.