Occasions

CHAPTER 15 | Snake

Two weeks passed after the incident I ran away from the tavern and passed the man, without glancing at him at all. However, I still clearly remember the look on his face as he got out of his car. I also still felt a beating heart at that time.

“Del, you take annual leave huh?” asked Sandra who suddenly appeared beside my desk.

“Hmm.” I replied with a dehumanization, “why?”

“You finished the cut?”

“Iya.”

“Where?”

“Most return home.”

“Bogor?”

“Where else?” I answered as if.

Sandra let out a long breath. Then he pulled up his chair and sat right next to me. “Why again? A few days this cake is again depressed.”

“Hm? It's okay! I was just exhausted. Need rest.” I was still working on my last job in the office, before I finally enjoyed the 12-day leave.

“You know, ‘kan? You can tell me anything with me.”

My finger that was so agile dancing on the keyboard, now stopped perfectly once I heard Sandra's words. I turned to him and looked at his eyes which turned out to be staring at me from the side.

“Thank you, San, you can always be a good listener if I'm claustrophobic. But maybe, for now, I can't tell you much. I need time alone again.”

Sandra stroked the top of my head. He was like a brother to me. He can really understand me at any moment. Even when I kept the matter to myself, he could feel it. Exactly as it is now.

After the job was done, I immediately handed it to my superior. He came to his room. I knocked on the door of his room which was wide open. “Excuse me, Bu.”

“Oh, Adella, login.” He let me in and sat down at his glass table.

Then I handed over a map whose contents were my last assignment of the month. In December. “This is the work report that Mom asked for, I have completed.”

Treating us all like a family, not a subordinate, and it makes us all feel loved. There are no short-lived employees in this company, all in a matter of years.

“I heard from the HRD section, he said you apply for leave counted from tomorrow, yes?” ask Fero's mother while checking the report I submitted.

“Betul, Mom. For a year, I have never taken a leave of absence. So I thought, I just take it all new year.” I carefully answered her question.

“Where are you on vacation?” He was still checking my report while turning page by page in front of him. I'm watching.

“Go back to Bogor, Mom. I haven't been home to my parents for a long time.”

Fero's mother nodded her head and then closed the map in front of her, she stopped checking my work. “I let you take that leave, because you always do the task in a timely manner, there are even some that you finish before the deadline.” He signed a piece of paper on his desk, I glanced at the contents of the paper, it turns out my leave application letter.

“Hopefully when you return to work later, you can be more excited. I'd like to propose a promotion for you. I need a CFO for a field project early next year. How?” bargain him.

I was surprised to hear the news, because I have only worked for a few years in this company. And suddenly offered such a high position.

“You ready or not? If you are willing, submit your leave letter to the HRD section, otherwise, I will not give you leave permission,” he added again.

This brain can't think clearly, it's just that I want the leave permission to calm the heart. “I will consider, but allow me to rethink it for the gains and losses I have gained from that position,”.

“Good, we will talk back after you enter work later.” He handed me my license. “Happy holiday,” he added with a fluffy smile on his face.

I thrust out my right hand to shake hands, as a sign of my farewell. Then take my cut letter that he signed.

By the afternoon, I had tidied up the desk, put some copies of important documents in the desk drawer, and gave Sandra the keys.

“Nih, the key, if there is anything or need a copy of the report for this month, I keep it there all. You just search aja.”

“Ok. But your phone should not be inactive, huh? Keep the flame on,” pinta Sandra.

“If there is anything directly phone aja, data package I may turn off.” I picked up my bag and work blazer, ready to go home. “I first, yes!” Beware of Sandra, hugging and peeping her right and left cheeks. Then hurry up.

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