I'm Not Your Choice

CHAPTER 21

the atmosphere of the meeting room this morning was quite tense. Mr. Antok, Mr. Louise and Candra.

Mr. Setyawan and Ms. Amel looked at each other..

"so let's start on the spot meeting today. Good morning.."

"Wait!!" Mr. Antok immediately stopped his words

"Well Mr. Candra, we'll wait." everyone present was silent and lowered their heads.

"I just wanted to ask. Where is Elsa? Shouldn't He come in every meeting with me?" highlight Candra's sharp eyes.

"I apologize in advance Mr. Candra. Elsa has resigned and two days ago was her last day working here." said Mr. Setyawan.

"you let go of my wife without asking me first?!" his eyes grew cold, "i doubt your integrity. It has started this meeting now"

and the meeting started. Candra prefers to stay quiet throughout the meeting.

'I will definitely find you.'

*******

I entered my new study. Mr. Zaenal accompanied me to introduce myself.

"good morning everyone.this introduces our new Chief Accountant Mother. from Aryah ya ma'am? Miss Elsa's name."

I shake hands with my new team.a new face and still young.it looks like it's going to be a pretty tough homework for me..

"Okay, Mom I'll stay first." Mr. Zaenal left the finance room.

"Thank you all. first, I want to ask for updates ageing(rebt - payable) all sides yes. and balance sheet Rekon, can I see in our shared folder?"

"There's everything mom, I can see in Fin-A there's a section of the same folder." Answer one of them

"key..thank you." I passed by and entered my room. I started my new job, without any more having to remember about my mass.

I have to chase back to my destination...

*TWO MONTHS LATER...

"hallo?" I spoke by phone from the office.

"hallo Mom, this is someone coming to find me in the lobby."

"who's Agnes?"

"Sir Toni ma'am." I fell silent my eyes snapped,

"well, I went up to see him" The phone closed.

I took my breath, stood up from my seat. grabbed my phone, I walked out. "I met a guest in the Lobby ya."

"well mom..."

I walked down the hallway to the emergency stairs, opened the door, then I walked up.

"Good day ma'am." said one of Engineering's kids to me

"afternoon.hallo.." I smiled at him.

I opened the entrance to the floor of the Lobby. turned towards the right side door, passing through my General Manager's room.

there's only one Front office kid, "Beautiful, where's Mr Toni?"

lovely looking over, "Sana ma'am, " leads a middle-aged man sitting near our internet corner.

"okay, thank you." I walked back to leave the reception desk.

my shiny black shoes shone in the sunlight that afternoon.I remember, these shoes were given by Candra when we were about to get engaged.

"Sir Toni..how are you?" I say hello to Mr. Toni kindly.

"Non Elsa...non how are you? now I look everywhere." I then sat in front of Mr. Toni.

"yes sir.we've been seeing you for a few months," I keep throwing smiles.

"Non Elsa, Candra's sick, at Columbia Hospital. non please if you have time to nengokin him.."

'what does it have to do with me.' I opened my voice, "owh, but there's already a great doctor treating him.it must be healing fast."

"...please help non.already almost a week no development....."

we are equally silent....

only breaths are heard...

"i'm actually here with a message from the Father. tomorrow Saturday your nephew will get married, this is the invitation." Mr. Toni gave a red wedding invitation.

I accepted the invitation, "Noura Mila Sedjati?"

"Yes non Mila married, and hope father non can come. for clothes, non can go to Jason's Boutique, there already in the rent of all fathers.

please, non..."

I'm still silent against Mr. Toni..."..."

"well Mr. Toni, I try to say hello to you. I'll stop by when I get home..."

"good non.thank you.non take care of health yes.."

Mr. Toni also went away with Candra's Suv. I turned around, went back into the hotel.

The clock is 07:30 p.m. I stopped and remembered what Mr. Toni said.

I rushed to save my files, shut down my computer. I took my briefcase in pink salem. I walked out of my room, no one. Just stay with me.

I walked down the darkened hallway, on a night like this.

"Good Night...Miss Elsa, I checked her bag first, I'm sorry.." Security started checking my bag. "Well.thank you, Miss Elsa? It's been this night"

"Yes mba May, I first yaa..ojol I have come.excuse me.", his name is Damanti. But used to call Mba May...

"well mom.please.. Heart - Heart Ma'am.." his stature was firm, but his face was sweet with Bob's hair that was always neat.

I walked out of the security post in front of the hotel. Looking for the ojol that has arrived.

Ah.that's it.the old honda beat motor, I approached him.

"On behalf of Mba Elsa?"

"Yes sir, Mr Shamsudin? I borrowed a helmet."

Shamsuddin gave me a helmet.

Then I got on the vehicle. My trip too, began with Jakarta which has finished the crowded hours people go home from work.

"Mom, will you stop at the front door or the side?"

"Front of you sir." Not for 10 minutes, I arrived.

I got off my ojol, took off my helmet and returned it to Mr. Shamsudin. "Thank you sir, it's already paid for. Pake my Pointpay." '"yeah already ma'am.thank you."

I left my ojol, walked in to the entrance. Special pedestrian writings. I entered through a small road that was available beside the automatic door.

Then I looked up at the building, it says.....

.COLUMBIA RS.

"Excuse me ma'am, if Mr. Candra Adiwinata's patient is in what room?"

I asked the reception in front of the entrance.

"Sorry in advance, can you tell the name of the patient's wife? So that our data is not exchanged."

I said, "my wife, my name is Elsa Nirmala."

"Well Mom, please wait a minute" they checked the data on the computer. "I'm sorry to have been waiting for you for so long, Mr. Candra is on the 5th floor no 8, ma'am."

"Good thanks." I immediately left the reception.

I stepped towards the guest elevator. Waiting for the elevator to open, with me there were several families of patients waiting.

Followed by the family of the patient who was waiting with me.

5 Floor, elevator open..

I put my foot out of the elevator. Look at the 8th directional signboard on the right row.

I walked slowly, towards room 8.

My steps that were once incensed became heavy. Very heavy and slow.Mad to say to me keep going.until I stop in front just in front of door no 8.

******

"It's weird sir, the platelets don't go up. We also gave additional infusions.

The food that goes in is only a little and if it is too much, the father will vomit again.

From the lab results, I have no infection in any part.

My advice may be you need refreshing and calm your mind.

Or you're too heavy to think about your job.."

Candra just kept quiet and nodded. Candra was still busy reading the file through her ipad.

"Sir if you need anything please contact the nurse, I'm sorry."

"Yes." The doctor left Candra. 'If I ask you to find Elsa can you?'

The door to Candra's room opened again, slowly someone appeared.with neatly tied hair, white shirt and black cloth pants, and red Cardigan covered her clothes so as not to look like an apprentice.

"ELSAA...." Candra put her pad, her left hand pulled the infusion pole. Candra forced herself out of the patient's bed.

Forced his entire limp body to come down from the bed. As if receiving magical power, Candra immediately went down and walked quickly to the direction of the door. With the infusion hose and the pole is still accompanying Candra.

"I.. Did I dream? Seriously you're Els?"

Elsa was still silent, Candra's hand trying to hold Elsa's face. Elsa is avoiding.

"Go back to your bed, you're sick."

"No!! I'm perfectly healthy. I am healthy! I'll go home now and bring you home."

"Eits.stop..wait a minute.you don't trust yourself Cand.

I just came here to ask if you would divorce me. I just took the file in your office."

Candra was getting closer to Elsa. "I will never divorce you. We still have 1 year and 6 months. I'll never let you go."

"..." - ".Elsa lowered her head and rolled her eyeballs..

"Or do you...have a new lover? So you want to part with me?"

"No!! Err.I mean not yet, maybe one day." Elsa answered nervously. Her hands became cold, she felt nervous about meeting her own husband.

The husband asked her to leave. Where the saying goes, 'once you let your wife go from home. Then it's forever impossible for him to return'

That saying doesn't apply to Candra. Because for Candra, "I should be able to bring you back."

Candra held Elsa's right hand, "Elsa.I beg you, let's go back from the beginning. Come back to me, stay with me."

Elsa was silent for a long time..

Elsa took a deep breath, "I'm here on the news that you've been sick for a long time but never healed. But right now, you look very healthy. So I better just go home.

It's wasting my night's rest. Then excuse me first." Elsa turned her back to Candra.

"You can go tonight. But, I believe! you came because you care about me. And I never would have given up Elsa...

You're still my wife.wife Candra Adiwinata.

You're Candra Adiwinata's mistress!"

"Cih...didn't you say I was forbidden to declare myself Mrs Candra Adiwinata.? Never mind. Good night." I opened the door and walked out.

I left Candra. It feels plong my heart, need to gather all my courage. To say my indifference to Candra.

******

I peeked into the boutique. I went in and asked Mona to shut up.."sst."

jess is in the inner room, "lo denger yes, this gw dress is expensive. if you say you want make but can not pay please.but gausah deh said if I gw ga professional, you say, designer yesterday afternoon.."

it seems that Jason was angry.I sniffed in closer to Jess who had just closed her phone.

"Doorr!!" I surprised jes...

"chicken child.." Jess said as I startled her.

"When did you talk to Jess?"

"ihhhhh.the basis of this woman.lo here past want fltting for tomorrow Saturday yes...

here Om have book everything.so you freely choose a dress.."

jess took me into the room where her dress was stored.I remember that chair and this closet was once my memory.

"this.kanya suitable for lo. candra said if you meet him choose this for lo."

light silver colored dress with strands of beads - black beads.long dress that fits my height. I think this custom dress from jess..

"gw try it first.." I went into the dressing room, tried this dress..fit..and my body looks smaller.

I want to go out and show Jes..

"ish.cook us with his wife Candra here together.where maybe he's enough."

",he's fat, ugly again."

"his name is also poor people must be he. see if he was most daunted again in the same kick candra.." hahhahaha.

"alita, namira, shafira.I will remember you...." Elsa is hiding..

jess came to the three women. "namira dress for you only there are 2. your size is oversize. so I don't make much."

"hey! bencong times dare her you say I oversize. Iw tu semok tauk!" namira is thick-bodied with a fat-covered neck, a saggy belly and a round face.

"oh.yeah you choose there a flick." said syafir.

"the same size as Elsa the same time.she's fat."

"flopped! lo ngunyah mulu the mouth." alita began to be impatient with namira.

namira tried on her dress. instead it looks like ondel - ondel entered the village.."buahahha...lo want to be a puppet mampang? very big time.lo anyway milih model that.ganti gih.." ucal alita.

jess left the three women. Jes was looking for me,"how does it fit?"

"belly gw kanya rather oversize jess..still can lo petitein? but if you've been stuck, why not - napa the hell jess.."

jes called Rianty.."jess...rianty?? pregnant?"

they both nodded.."congratulations ya.gw join seneng.finally yes you two...,"

"thank you beautiful sister." said rianty

"honey, help me measure this shirt, how many more stops I have to take care of the 3 ducks first."

"well baby, go there. I'm dizzy to hear them.very chatty, the daughter-in-law of a rich family but their behavior is so rich" said Rianty while stroking her stomach..

jess left us. Rianty helped me re-measure this dress.

"Candra's back?"

"don't know.kemarin gw there he still uses infusion anyway."

"he's a fragile man, brother, you just stay that way. 2 weeks sick it's not clear what the pain is. sick or spoiled it." said rianty annoyed.

I just kept quiet and smiled..