
Stefan contacted Mr. Arya and went back to discuss his work at AlfaTech.
“Sorry, Stefan, your name has been crossed out and has been replaced by someone else.”
“I have signed a contract of employment, Sir.”
“Betul. But it's been three years that you haven't confirmed it to the company. So with a heavy heart we say that you can no longer be accepted to work at AlfaTech.”
Stefan ditched his hopes of working at AlfaTech. He looked for other options by looking for job vacancies. However, Stefan will not be able to because all diplomas and certificates and anything related to the administration of his studies, from elementary school to undergraduate, have all been burned by Bobby. Not leaving a single bit.
Except for what's in this closet. What can you use to apply for a job? Stefan has an idea. What if she applied for a company held by her own in-laws.
Monday morning. Stefan knew that soon his in-laws would be banging on his bedroom door. Before that, he was ready. She had taken a shower and was dressed. He sees himself in the mirror. Her hair was flaky and combed to the right. Puffed nose. Thin lips. Taper chin. Height 180 cm and weight 70 kilograms. His skin was yellow and close to white. In this blue shirt suit Stefan looks handsome.
GAR'S!
GAR'S!
Stefan hurriedly opened the door. “Good morning, Dad!” greet Stefan without stammering with a smile.
Bobby was shocked, his mouth a little open. “Why are you so neat? Crazyhead!”
“I want to work at PT. Sanjaya Sawit as programmer. I can manage websites, maintain systems, and repair computer devices.”
Bobby snorted in annoyance while meddling. “While are you! Eat and sleep there!”
“I'm serious, Dad. I have a wife I have to live with.”
“You are still dreaming. You fucking son-in-law!” Bobby snarled, then left Stefan still stunned.
Shortly after, Robert and Luchy arrived at Stefan's doorstep. Looking at Stefan's neat appearance, the two of them were flabbergasted, did they look wrong?
“You're slowly making progress, brother-in-law trash! Yesterday you can bring a motorbike, now you can dress neatly. Can also,” maki Robert.
“Do not forget to bring a handkerchief to wipe the liquid that will come out of your nose!” cela Luchy's.
Stefan casually heard all the insults against him. Calmly and clearly he replied, “If you guys want to go, please, I want to go out looking for breakfast.”
Robert pointed at him while belittling. “You're three full years old. You recall? It is good that you can now find your own food.”
“Chicken alone is not fed. Bennel!”
“You are lower than a chicken!”
“Just shut it!”
Robert and Luchy left.
Not wanting to be insulted by his mother-in-law and his wife, Stefan shuffled out of the house. There was not a single one that he did not remember the location around here, even in this city, everything he remembered so well, he said, even he still remembers the name of the doctor and nurse who treated him while in the hospital.
Stefan sat in a roadside coffee shop around Bukit Kecil. He enjoyed a cup of black coffee and a few slices of bread. Angsana, palm, and banyan trees on the roadside. He knew exactly the names of the path's ornamental plants, Furcraea and Lantana. He could even tell the difference between bottle palm, princess palm, and triangle palm.
While at home, Lionny is shocked to find Stefan in the room. He asked his mother who had just returned from the market.
“Where is the real daughter-in-law?” ask Chyntia back while glancing around the house.
“I've been looking for him, but no.”
“She's at home wrong, outside for us hard, it's wrong to have a useless daughter-in-law like her.”
“Bu, it looks like I have to talk again to Grandpa Sanjaya.”
Lionny picked up his phone, then contacted his grandfather. He made all sorts of complaints while Stefan was here. One family agreed to send Stefan to a mental hospital.
“I still love him. If you drive out let alone get divorced, you all will never get an inheritance!”
Sanjaya's grandfather gives a firm ultimatum. Hearing that, Chyntia and Lionny were unable to say anything more. Bobby as the head of the family alone can not dwell when given a warning by his father.
Of course this one family will obey whatever ordered by Grandpa Sanjaya, because Bobby is the only successor to the family, therefore all the abundant heritage is certainly accepted by Bobby.
The only step they can take is to remain patient over Stefan's presence in this house. If Grandpa Sanjaya had decided on something, no one would have been able to protest. Everything will go according to his orders.
There was a knock on the door.
“Assalamu’alaikum.”
Chyntia and Lionny gasped, then answered the greeting. Apparently Stefan. She's home. In a hurry Lionny approached the front door.
“Where have you been? We were worried once,” asked Lionny frowning.
If Stefan doesn't come home, Grandpa Sanjaya's real mad. Chyntia, despite her hatred, tries not to over-treat Stefan badly.
“We're worried about you!” Chyntia ruffled her waist while shaking.
Stefan smile. He innocently gave the package of bread he had bought in the mini market. “I'm sorry I didn't say goodbye. You are hungry.”
“Yes is it!” Lionny emotions. “You two days almost died from over dosage.”
Lionny and her mother were astonished. Why is Stefan looking so good? Why is he so good at talking now? How could he go shopping?
“Let's get you in that room! We will lock from outside!”
“Do not, Mom. Don't lock. I'll go out again. I'm going to take a nap this afternoon.”
“No need for you to go ngojek, Stefan. Later Grandpa Sanjaya thinks you're abandoned here. Worse you won't remember the way home.”
“Take it easy. I remember, the proof is I'm now home.”
In the afternoon, Bobby came home from work, Stefan said goodbye to his in-laws.
“Hei son-in-law trash! Where are you going?”
“You make money, Dad,” reply Stefan while wearing a helmet.
“Do not! Your brain and body have not healed!”
Stefan jumped up and down doing jumping jacks and stretching his muscles. “I'm well, Dad. If Dad changes his mind, I will be ready anytime to work at Daddy's company,” Stefan said without stammering a bit.
Bobby threw his face away, then stepped from the living room into the living room. “Drink more medicine many-lots! Don't keep bothering us!”
His wife and all his children were astonished. Why can Stefan bravely and confidently want to go out of the house? The four of them spewed out sarcastic sentences in chains.
“Grandfather Sanjaya's beloved daughter-in-law, listen to us, if you die or run away, the fate of us all here will fall apart.”
“Ipar who said top programmer, do not act pretentious, later you get hit again, you die this once!”
“IPar pathetic. Mending you daydream in that room!”
Stefan doesn't care. He will still find money to support his wife, then set aside some money to buy a laptop. Because, with the laptop later he will be easier to get money.
Stefan's phone is ringing.
First order as an online ojek for today!