After the Farewell

Accepted Work

The sound of a cell phone makes Kara turn from the ironing event of her clothes and put the iron in place and looks foreign number there. With a slight thump, Kara received her call.

"Hello, good morning" he said.

"Good morning. Is this really Miss Kara Gantari's number?" the woman's voice sounded friendly.

"Yes right, myself. Sorry where's this from?"

"I'm Sophia, who interviewed you yesterday at the Star Hotel. Can you come in here at two o'clock to talk about a contract?"

Kara smiled happily. "If you may know, where am I placed?" Kara remembered because she entered the vacancy as an administration and receptionist.

"You're in administration, Miss Kara. Two o'clock in the afternoon I wait."

"Good Miss Sophia. Thanks."

Kara is soaring happy to be working again and in the part she likes. "Alhamdulillah!"

***

A black Innova car is parked near Kara's modest house and inside appears a gray man who three days ago argued with Kara. The man was waiting in the middle seat along with his assistant and driver who were sitting in the front seat.

Before long an online motorcycle taxi approached Kara's house where the girl was waiting on the terrace of her house even when riding her motorcycle, Kara had waved her hand to her neighbors.

"Follow that bike, Jake" the man ordered.

"Good sir."

***

Kara arrives at the Star hotel and immediately enters after paying for her online motorcycle, which is still followed by the black Innova. The gray-mannered man squinted his forehead. To Hotel? Whynot?

The man saw earlier how the clothes Kara wore in the form of blazers and trousers and beige colored shirts. Not expensive but still looks good. Has he switched professions to make money? Widow is free!

The thought of the man traveling everywhere because for him, women with widow status came to the hotel why if not become escorts in the slanted sense. Holy hooch! It's still two o'clock in the afternoon? Wanna what? Day sport?

So after separating from Adi, you chose to be this because you need money?

Jake looked at his boss from the rear-view mirror who seemed to mutter to himself in obscure words could only glare as he glanced at Rafli, the driver next to him.

Boss mah is free!

***

Kara walked into Sophia's room waiting for her.

"Good afternoon Sophia" Kara said kindly.

"Piang. Let's go in Miss Kara" Sophia replied.

Kara sat in front of the woman in her forties.

"Look Miss Kara, after we selected from the incoming candidates, we from the HRD and Management assess that you are welcome here."

"Alhamdulillah" whispered Kara. "So when did I start working, Sophia?"

"Tomorrow morning at eight, Miss Kara must be here, in my room."

"What should I do, Mom?"

"Being my assistant because my old assistant resigned because of childbirth." Sophia looked deeply into Kara's brown eyes. "I'm the same as you, Miss Kara. We're both single mothers but the difference is I have children, while you don't."

Kara gawking. "I mean mother?"

"I am also a widow like you, it's just that my husband is dead and now I live together with my only son who is sitting on the Junior High School bench" Sophia smiled. "So, as fellow widows, we should support each other" she wrote.

"Yes Allah Ma'am" Kara's kekeh. Sophia then gives a contract clause to Kara which is read carefully by the girl and after that she signs her work contract.

"Tomorrow morning Miss Kara. Don't be late." Sophia then keeps Kara's contract clause on the map.

Kara nodded. "Good Mom."

***

The handsome man looked at his luxury watch. Only fifteen minutes? What's it for fifteen minutes?

"Sir, apparently Miss Kara was accepted to work at the Star hotel as an admin" Jake reported.

"Where do you know that?"

"Miss Kara just updated her LinkedIn account" Jake replied, giving her his phone.

The man patted his head and laughed out loud. Jeezoooo! My brain must be washed with Bleach to be clean!

Apparently I was wrong about you Kara. Inexplicably hearing Kara working properly at the hotel made her heart relieved.

The black Innova car was still following Kara from an unsuspecting distance and they saw the girl return home.

"Where else are we, sir?" ask Jake.

"Go back to the office."

***

Kara began preparing her old clothes that used to be worn while still working at a printing company. He is happy to be able to work again so the money from Adi is not he tinkering.

The sound of knocking on the door of his house made the girl squint her forehead. The wall clock shows seven o'clock in the evening. Not too late to visit.

Kara looked through the window to see who had come and how shocked she was when she saw the former housekeeper at Adi's house coming to her house.

Kara rushes to open the door and sees Ijah's biker carrying a lot of cardboard boxes under her feet.

"Bik Ijah? What's the matter here tonight? What cardboard box is this?" kara asked confusedly looking at the maid who was always good with her.

"Non Kara, auntie lives here huh?" pinta the middle-aged woman. Kara was surprised to hear the speech of Ijah.

"Let's go in the bik, please sit."

Bik Ijah was sitting on Kara's old sofa.

"Drink first bik" said Kara while handing mineral water in a glass packaging that she provided at the guest table.

Bik Ijah also said, put a straw and drink it up to almost half.

"Where's bik? What are those boxes?" ask Kara.

"The boxes contained clothes and shoes of the lady given by the late great mistress. Miss will leave all, then Mr. Adi told to be given to orphanages and nursing homes but I do not have the heart. Then when I cleared it up, I heard that Mr. Adi's lover was going to stay in the house." Bik Ijah sobbing. "I don't want to live there. My heart cannot bear, the house belonging to the great lord is used to worship the same master Adi."

Kara rubs Ijah's hand.

"Therefore I choose to come here while carrying clothes and shoes. I told Mr. Adi that I wanted to go home but I chose to stay with Miss Kara."

Kara was full of hearing the woman's words.

"Bik, aunt can stay here. Nemani's ideas are mine but I can't pay a aunt."

"Don't think my salary is non, I also have savings anyway I own so is the handle. The important thing is that I live with non Kara alone is Alhamdulillah."

"Yes, this house is only two bik, later aunt sleep in my former room ya."

Bik Ijah smiled. "Thank you, Kara."

"Yes, let's bring the boxes."

***

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