Between There and Not

“Re, Re, Where are you?"

"Re, Rere, where are you kid? " said a mother who was calling her sister.

"Rere here ma'am, where are you?" said Rere who was confused looking for her mother's voice.

Suddenly the sound of lightning struck, heavy rain outside the house, and finally, Rere woke up from her sleep with cold sweat on her forehead. That night was a tense night for Rere. He always has bad dreams when she misses her mother.

 Rere is a student at Trunojoyo University Madura, and she majored in English Literature there. She is currently in her 6th semester in which she has to prepare materials for her thesis so that he can graduate in 3.5 years. Rere joined an art-based Student Activity Unit because she was very fond of the arts. Since she was 5 years old, her passion for the arts did not escape her mother; who is a singer in one of the arts in Surabaya.

Rere is the only child in her family she was also raised by her mother, while her father passed away while she was in her mother's womb. Rere loves, respects, and respects her mother and admires her very much. Because she was very determined to face the harsh conditions of life and also she struggled as a single mother to raise her child. As a child, Rere had an imaginary friend and she was named Lala, but when she grew up, Rere seemed to have forgotten or did not remember that she has a childhood imaginary friend.

One day after she came home from a hectic activity, she stopped by the secretariat to do her homework and rest before she returned to the boarding house. At that time she fell asleep because she had piled up tasks that made him fall asleep. The state of the secrets at that time was full of musical instruments that happened to have been used by musicians for practice, so he was sleeping in a position facing the wall with little space left because of the musical instruments. Rere was sleeping so soundly that she was not aware of the time that passed so quickly, the time was 8 pm, her position was alone in the secretariat because the children who accompanied him had already returned.

Adzan Isya’ prayer has passed, the afternoon has changed to black clouds, nocturnal creatures have started to emerge, and Rere is still sleeping soundly. When she turned around, she felt the air that did not wear, even immediately opened her eyes and looked at the clock at secret.

"Astagfirullah, I overslept. How come they didn't wake me up?, oh my god, I still haven't finished my assignment because I fell asleep, tomorrow is the dateline, tonight I have to finish all my tasks" she grumbled while cleaning her eyes.

Finally, she did her job in a semi-conscious state because she just woke up from a deep sleep. After that, she heard a familiar voice coming from a musical instrument. Rere tried to think positively because she didn't like things that smelled mysterious and scary. , in the secret, there are many musical instruments, starting from pelog, gong, kenong, bonang, drum, klenang, etc. Her position is behind the gong, which is quite large because she wants to do her job without anyone disturbing him, so she is behind the gong.

The voice that Rere heard got louder and clearer. She saw from behind a large gong, that someone was playing the klenang musical instrument with a tone that was not so irregular. Finally, Rere also ventured to see directly who was playing the instrument. She was surprised that the one who played the instrument was her childhood friend whom she had forgotten, namely Lala. Rere couldn't believe what she saw, because as a child Lala was Rere's most beloved friend. Rere didn't know why Lala could just disappear from her memory, because Rere had made a promise to Lala never to forget him or leave him alone. Rere finally wept bitterly because she could see her childhood before him. Then.

"Rere, wake up our time to meet is over. You can open your eyes. You can't stay here forever," said Lala.

"I don't want to, I want to be here to share stories as we did before, and I once promised you not to leave you here alone," said Rere with tears flowing in her eyes.

After that, Rere's friend came and saw Rere weeping in her sleep, afraid that something bad would happen, her friend immediately woke Rere up so she could wake up from her sleep.

"Heenggg, heeengg, heeeng, please don't disappear again Lala, I want to share a story with you, heeenggg, heeenngg, heeennng" Rere was crying while delirious.

"hey wake up, wake up Re, what's wrong with you, wake up, wake up re" said Rere's friend.

After that, rere woke up, she woke up with puffy eyes because she had been crying all this time. Then she told about the meeting with Lala to her friend.