The Scarlet Woman
Today was tiring
day for me. I work in a car washing as car cleaner, and I had a duty to clean
up a dirty jeep was filled with the soil at the bottom of the car, when it was
time for hours after work. I cannot complain because I didn’t want to argue
with my boss.
As usual after I
finished my work, I changed my work clothes with the same outfit when I went to
work. I return to riding my bike to get to my apartment where I lived alone.
Arriving there after I parked my bike in parking lot, and then I headed to go
to my apartment was on the seventh floor out of ten floors. I rode the elevator
to get there, when I reached the seventh floor I walked down in the hall to my
apartment, and then I saw a pair of red shoes belong to a woman beside front of
my apartment, where nobody who occupied the apartment previously.
The lights in
the town lit up, it can see in the window of my apartment which signified night
started coming. My stomach started to hunger and then I decided to go to a
restaurant where it's not far from here for dinner. Arriving at the restaurant
I was sitting at the dining table while I was choosing a food menu I saw a woman
wearing black clothes and long hair shoulder length. When I was eating with
my head toward to the plate, then there was a woman wearing red shoes that past
me and then I remembered that was the woman who had just stayed in front of my
apartment and I thought immediately turned and she was gone and then I saw a
woman who was in the corner is not there anymore and it turned out she was the
one who passed me was wearing red shoes. She’s my new neighbor.
My dinner was done
I went to my apartment. Arriving there I walked straight into my apartment and
had no visible red shoes again, I think she had inside in her apartment with her
shoes. Today I’m so tired because my job. I turn on the turntable to play a LP
"Chelsea Girls from Nico" to a conductor of my thinking about my new neighbor
such as what she is, because I was so curious about her and maybe I wanted to
know her.
Next morning
I woke up from my sleep, and then I open the window, suddenly I look crowded
once people were gathering under this apartment, I saw there was a traffic
accident I thought. With curiosity I went straight down. On I arrived outside
the apartment, I asked someone the old man "what’s happening there?"
He told me there was a woman hit by a bus. I was immediately rushed there to
see it, I was so surprised that she is my new neighbor yet I know her and last night
I’ve seen but I can’t saw her face anyway. She was already dead by the position
of her body upside down and strangely her red shoes still on her feet, I saw
the red blood had flooded her body and the police began to evacuate.
Hendi Kurniawan
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