Conscious After a Treasure Depleted

Setting up a Small Business

Zarina is no longer able to survive in the city of Jakarta, not because she is not strong anymore to work but the heartbreak she suffered made her want to go far. Far from the former lover whose shadow always teases his heart when doing activities.

His determination was round to return to the village because his savings were enough to buy a sewing machine and he also planned to open a stitching business in his hometown.

Erni shed tears of farewell with her best friend at the airport. As true friends, she and Roy, her lover take the time to drive Zarina to the airport.

"Don't forget to come to Borneo on our wedding day!" Roy again reminded Zarina when the girl was about to enter the waiting room.

"Ready, I will wait for an invitation from you!" sahut Zarina with a sincere smile.

His eyes also glazed over when he saw the couple turning towards the parking lot.

Only one month away, Erni will also return to Kalimantan because her parents want her to get married soon considering the age that is not young anymore.

He was also lazy to go to the office because he was reluctant to meet with Mr. Alga. I don't know why he hated that guy so much. The pain suffered by Zarina was also very influential in him. He felt very devastated because since Pak Alga fired and expelled Zarina, his best friend turned quiet and his face never again beamed.

Many employees in the office complained because since Pak Alga married Tini, the woman became arrogant and acted arbitrarily to employees. Potang-about already be the wife of the Boss sir he was free to govern the subordinates.

His stomach is getting bigger but every day always come to the office in case the old secretary has entered work again.

Tini always takes care of her husband strictly for fear that there are other women who tease her especially for these times she can not serve her husband to the maximum because her stomach is getting distended.

Mr. Alga chose to stay home with his parents even though there was a house ready to be inhabited, a gift from his father and mother as a wedding gift.

Tini always urged her to move to a new house because she was impatient to become queen there and her mother also always urged her to move immediately so that she would be free to visit her son but Algae always act cold and never take it seriously every time he expresses his wish.

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Zarina set up a sewing business in the village where she lived and this work kept her busy so that little by little the disappointment and heartache had begun to decrease.

One day he came upon a customer who wanted to sew. They came by car and a beautiful girl came down and approached Zarina.

"Can you sew kebaya and men's shirts for graduation?"

"How rich a model?"

The beautiful girl opened her little bag and took her cell phone. After that he opened the gallery and showed the graduation photos of others who will be used as an example.

"How can you, right?"

"OK, when will the stitches be taken?"

"Next month and we have ten people, six adults and four children.

After talking about the cost, Zarina and Yolan measured their families. Zarina felt very helped because there was Yolan, her neighbor who had just finished high school but her parents did not have the cost to send her to a higher level. The arrival of Zarina to the village made him happy because he could have a job, at least not just lying at home.

One by one they were measured to arrive at the turn of a man called 'Opa' by two young children who were only about four or five years old.

Zarina wrapped the meter around the middle-aged man's body nervously as the man was looking at him intently.

"It's over, sir," said Zarina, leaving the man stunned from his daydream.

"Eh, oh, yes, thank you!" he said with a wave.

He stepped out and got into the car because his son and grandson were waiting.

The night before the break, Zarina checked her phone and there was a chat from a new number on the WhatsApp application. He carefully opened the profile photo and it turns out that the one who sent the message was the man who came to his place of business.

Zarina retorted thinking that maybe this man would discuss the clothes to be sewn but it turns out that the man was confiding and said that he seemed to see his late wife when he met her earlier and that was it why tonight he ventured to ask Zarina's mobile number to his eldest son who had written it earlier because his eyes could not be closed because it was always overshadowed by Zarina's face.

"Ohhh, your wife is long dead?" asked Zarina over her cell phone because she was tired of typing to reply via chat.

"Yes, ten years ago due to heart disease," Mr. Ando's voice sounded in a sad tone.

"Sorry sir, I asked you about it and it made Baoak sad!"

"It's okay, really,"

"Oh, yes, good rest, sir!"

Zarina disconnected her phone because she was already sleepy.

The next day when she had just woken up, Zarina heard the sound of an incoming chat notification on her phone.

(Good morning, are you awake?) chat from Mr. Ando.

Zarina ignored because she thought it was an unimportant message. He just left his phone and went about his usual activities, help the mother in the kitchen to prepare breakfast for her sisters and immediately take a shower and enter one of the rooms that have been devoted as a place to sew.

Inside the room, Yolan was already on the move. He came early in the morning to remember many more orders.

While cutting the cloth, Zarina told him about what she experienced last night.

"He called my sister's phone?" ask Yolan curiously.

"Yes, and strangely Mr. Ando told me about his family life. What does this have to do with me?" Zarina.

"Yes too, yes, or maybe Pak Andi was in love with Big Brother" Yolan said innocently.

"Ahh, you can, he is old, has six children and already has a grandson too, cooking he still wants to fall in love?" Zarina laughs.

"You can only see that Mr. Ando is still dashing and mighty" Yolan said again honestly.

Zarina simply chuckled in response to Yolan's comments and the two returned to serious work. Yolan's job was to sew fabric that had been cut by Zarina and sometimes also put buttons, ironing and packing ready-made clothes.

Yolan is classified as an intelligent and agile child so that once or twice learning how to sew he can practice well.