Jun

THE BLACK EYE POWDER ** By Jun ** -“Finally...I’ve been choose for the model casting of a fashion magazine!! There’s just a few days left for me to prepare everything.” said Yiang to her best friend, Louis. -So what will you do to prepare your casting thing? -Shopping, now!! I want to buy some cosmetic for my show! 5 minutes later, Louis is ready on his motorbike with Yiang. It’s afternoon now, instead of a blue sky with the sun shining brightly, there’s only a big gloomy cloud that seems to cover all the sky. Louis and Yiang are now in a little cosmetic shop that she found on their way. Right on time, the rain starts to fall down. Yiang go around the shop to look for something that she thinks she might need it. But suddenly, her phone is ringing. Yiang has to go home now; her mother doesn’t want her to go out in the rain. She will go mad at Yiang if she’s wet and get sick. Quickly surfing from stalls to stalls, Yiang grabs a black eye powder and give it to Louis: -Louis, can you pay for me? I’ll pay you back later, I have to go now, see you!! Fast as a little fox, Yiang runs out the shop. She gets a taxi and goes straight to her house. Louis slowly goes to the cashier with the powder; he couldn’t take his eyes away from the cover box. It was a pretty old broken plastic box and the powder inside looked like someone had used it. Louis can’t understand why she chose that one. Back to his motorbike, while he was trying to get out the key, Louis accidently dropped the eye powder on the ground. He picked it up; he opens the box to make sure that there wasn’t anything broken. Louis notices the words that were written on the back of that box. It’s in Latin. He couldn’t understand what those words meant. Louis decided to go to the library and have a look in the dictionary. So strange, he doesn’t even know why he is going to do that. In class he’s not really interested in Latin. But there’s something like gravity this time. It’s a big library with so many kinds of books, documents and dictionaries. He goes straight down the stalls of new books. Louis stop at a little room with the door opened. He can’t stop the curiosity, Louis enters the room. Louis thought it must have been abandoned for a long time as there was dust on; the stalls, on chairs and even on the tables. Now here it is, the book Louis was searching for, the Latin – English dictionary. It’s big, thick, and soiled because of time. He carefully,  looked up the words on the cover of the eye powder. He’s starting to get the meaning of them:  -This eye powder made by ashes from Egypt, careful of your wishes, when you’re using it or you will sell your spirit to the darkness… -“What the heck is that? A kid’s warning?” wondered Louis. Suddenly, there was an electric short. Now the only light in the room is from a little candle on the table near Louis. He couldn’t even remember when he lighted it up. The room falls into silent, but no, somewhere there’s a sound of footsteps getting closer and closer. He saw a shadow behind him… -“Who’s over there?” said the shadow, which getting closer and closer to Louis It’s an old man about 50 years old with grey hairs and a brown, thick jacket. It’s now summer, Louis can’t think of any reason for him to wearing like that. Is it a new fashion of old person? Louis hopes not. -“What are you doing here? Finding something? There’s nothing for you!!” said that man.  Suddenly, he saw the dictionary on Louis’s table: -Where did you get that book? Give it back to me, you not suppose to…  He hasn’t finished the sentence yet. The old man tries to push Louis and get the book back but Louis was faster. He got the book before that man could touch it. The old man tries to hit Louis on the head but how lucky, he missed. Louis finds the way to escape from that scary guy. To run away from him is not an easy job. Louis has to push one of the old, dusty stall down so that the man couldn’t catch him. Run away, as fast as possible, Louis’s finally on his motorbike and quickly gets out of here. Back to the street where the cosmetic shop is, Louis saw the shopkeeper is waving for him. Somehow that girl can recognize him while he’s riding his motorbike with a helmet on. -Sorry, I just remembered that our boss tell us to not sell this powder for anyone. It’s old and might be bad for woman’s skin; can I please have it back? I’ll give you another one, for free… The girl is trying to take the black eyes powder out of the white pocket which hanging on Louis’s motorbike while she’s talking. Louis seems like don’t want to give it back, he doesn’t want Yiang to goes mad at him like every time when he made her lose a super sale off skirt in a shopping mall just because he was late. -Sorry… but I think my friend will not be happy with that…so… <span style="font-family: Andalus; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> And suddenly there is a truck goes right on the street side which just made a horrible accident. The shopkeeper girl is a victim. The drunk driver killed her right there, right in front of Louis face. A few seconds before, Louis wished that the girl can get out of his way because she was making him confused by give the eyes powder for her or just simply say no. And now she did out of his way, is it just random or there’s something weird? He doesn’t know… Louis escaped by his motor, away from those freaking places. His brain’s now spinning because of what happened today. The rain is heavier each time. He doesn’t know where he is going. Just don’t want to stop. Backed to home, somehow he couldn’t know. Slam the door, run straight into his room, ignoring parent’s question, curious about where did he go? Why does he wet? Louis doesn’t care. He’s so tired, he just wants to sleep but his mind can’t stop thinking of those weird things today. Then 1 hour, 2 hours, his brain might be tired too, he falls into sleep…Yiang’s casting day had come. She’s now busying with her costumes and make up thing. Louis just can wait outside, on a sit of the audiences. The show starts. Yiang is the number 13/ 50 people. So Louis doesn’t have to wait for a long time, here she is, walking on the catwalk stage exactly beautifully like when she practiced. But may be because of that black eyes powder thing, it made Yiang becomes skinnier and some way he could say it’s really strange and unfit with her skin color. Silently waves hand to Yiang, not a smiley face replies to him like every time. What he gets back is just a really cold, frigid eyes likes she has never met him before. “Riii-ing…” The show is interrupted because, like what Louis has listened, the girl name Lily – the rival of Yiang was lost. And like he knows, Yiang is really doesn’t want Lily to comes to this show. She doesn’t want to lose but she has to agree that Lily has more capability than herself… But wait, Yiang is also wished for Lily to not come like he did for the shopkeeper that time…What the hell is going on? Everything seems not right when he bought the black eyes powder. Somehow there is a strange voice keep saying in his mind: <span style="font-family: "Castellar","serif"; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">- Careful of your wishes when you are using it or you will sell your spirit to the darkness… <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Castellar","serif"; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">