Lost world

Raju tells the story

 "Hold it, hold!" I said looking up from Rafique and Raju. These two knuckles heads were my closest friends in college. All three of us were business majors.

"What?" asked Raju sipping his ice lemon tea.

"You cannot pause there. What happen next?" I asked leaning closely towards them. Waiting for them to continue...

"He fainted," said Raju nodding his head towards a flushed Rafique.

Ok, that was anti-climatic..

"What?"

"He fainted. After screaming Abang he fainted." Rafique's face was getting bright red. He could barely look at me.

I was trying my hardest not to laugh. Rafique, BIG masculine Rafique. The adoration of many girls in college, you could hear the trail of girls sighing as he passed them by. Rafique with his dimples, short crew cut hair and Caucasian features (he swore that he was a true blue Malay). Ehhmmmmm..... I shook my head. Back to the story..

"What happened to the girl?" I asked. Raju shrugged his head. "His brother and I were paying attention to Rafique, when we turned to the woman, she was gone."

"Gone?" I asked dumbfounded.

"Hilang....puff," said Raju waving his hands in the air.

"Maybe she is a Pontianak," said Rafique taking a spoonful of nasi lemak. Raju shrugged his shoulder.

"Maybe....." he said thoughtfully. I knew Raju all my life, when he was deep in thought ,(which was not often, he was a carefree, happy-go-lucky fella and hardly takes anything seriously) it means that he was going to do 'something' and that 'something' normally includes both me and Rafique.