Pride of Love

New Life in Jakarta

By noon, Andra was ready to bring her father home from the hospital. After completing the administration to redeem the drug and get the approval of the doctor, Joddy was ready to return home. Between them by the driver they headed to the residence of Hadiwiguna.

The car was running slowly amid the traffic jam of the capital city. Along the way Andra continues to look at the circumstances around him, it has been 3 years he never returned home, the traffic jams realize that he now must be ready to challenge the rigors of life here, he said, in contrast to Jogja who is always full of calmness and friendly smiles of everyone he meets.

Their car arrived home. The servants in the house welcomed their arrival with a feeling of pleasure. "Gee... Den Andra is back" said Nur while taking the bag and all the goods that were taken down by the driver from the car.

Andra lets her father into the house and takes her straight to her room.

"Dad rest Yes Well... Andra wants to go to the room and shower for a while" since arriving in Jakarta indeed Andra has not returned home, he chose to stay at the hospital to accompany his father.

Andra helps her father lie in the most comfortable position and pulls the blanket over her father's body and leaves him.

"Bi Nur... How lonely is Bi, where are the others?" Andra greeted her servant who was tidying up the room. There were usually other servants in the house, but that day Andra only saw Bibi Nur there.

"It's been two years of my own Aunt here Den, the other waiter's been on the way out, after all Aunt only serves Mr. Joddy herself here, so it's commonplace, no need for help from other servants Den" Nur seemed to be hiding something from his young master.

"Den Andra has eaten?, want Auntie to prepare Den Andra's favorite meal?" Nur diverted the conversation.

Nur had worked for the Hadiwiguna family for decades since Andra was a baby so he was able to understand everything that happened in the family. But at that time Andra was not too sensitive to the attitude of caregivers since childhood.

"I want to take a bath first Bi. later eat the same father, ohya, please cook potato porridge for dad ya Bi, salt just a little, just a little, meanwhile, Dad still had to take care of the food first so that his blood pressure did not rise again" while stepping into his room on the second floor of the mansion.

Andra walked into her room, her eyes sweeping across the room, "still the same as before I lived, nothing changed" she thought. The room was kept always clean even though it had not been occupied for a long time.

Andra went into the bathroom to clean her body and changed clothes. After that Andra went down to the dining room and saw some types of food already presented at the dining table.

"His bury is ripe Bi?" He saw Nur who was still busy preparing the porridge.

"In the meantime Den" Nur answered from the kitchen.

Andra stepped into her father's room to take her to dinner together. Andra went into her father's room and saw him sitting on the headboard of his bed watching TV.

"Dad we eat first yuk so that father can take medicine, after all we have not eaten together again Well"

Joddy took his legs off the bed and Andra helped him get out of the bed.

"Dad can walk alone Son, dad is healthy really. let's eat fast, Dad is hungry too" Joddy stepped slowly ahead of Andra and did not want to be broken again.

They finished their dinner quickly without much talking.

Andra devoured every food on the table, he had long missed home cooking let alone Bi Nur cuisine that always tasted delicious to match the cuisine of the late mother.

"Father is full, Andra you come with me to the room!" Joddy finished his meal.

"Good dad" Andra also finished her meal and held up a glass of water in front of her. He caught up with his father who had already stepped into his room.

"Andra please grab my dad's laptop "Joddy pointed to a laptop bag he put on the nightstand"

"Dad should rest, do not think about work first, Andra will not allow father to use the laptop" Andra firmly refused his father's request.

"It's been a few days that I haven't been to the office, there's definitely a lot of things that need to be sorted out" Joddy urged.

"In addition there are important things that I want to convey to you Andra"

"It's dad now there's nothing more important than dad's health" Andra still cheekily refused his father's request.

"Andra come on. Just a moment, after all since the hospital too dad just rest, dad bored. And if this important thing is not immediately conveyed to you, your mind will not feel calm"

With a heavy heart finally Andra took also his father's laptop, besides there was a curiosity in his mind why his father was so eager to show the contents of the laptop to him.

Joddy opened his laptop and opened his email. The opening of an email of financial statements sent by Nadya's secretary.

"Andra, let's take a good look at this report" Joddy pointed his laptop screen at Andra sitting next to him.

Andra also pay attention to the details of financial statements during the 6 months running in his father's company made in MS Excel format.

Andra frowned while reading the contents of the report, all LOST columns were written in red and listed with a minus number with a fairly high nominal, while PROFIT columns looked empty.

Andra immediately concluded that his father's company was indeed in a condition of severe financial difficulties.

"This condition has been happening since the last 4 years Nak, the company continues to lose money" Joddy sighed slowly and began to tell the condition of his company.

"The competitors have more and more today, besides that many fathers have lost the trust of clients since the case of smuggling prohibited goods in the container HW Logistics"

"Barbidden stuff?? I mean..??" Andra was shocked to hear her father's story.

"Yes, there is an irresponsible person who deliberately smuggles illegal goods in our container container, and it is done by the enemy in a blanket that is the staff of his own father's trust. The culprit has indeed been caught, but the business with the court has become very complicated. Dad had trouble proving the man's mistake, it seems there is a game under the hands of a competitor company with an officer so it is difficult to solve this case. Plus, I have to close the media so that the news does not become public consumption that can damage the reputation of our company. I've spent a lot of money on this case but it hasn't been done until now. I've tried to reduce expenses in various ways, sell some company assets and reduce personal expenses, he said, even some of the servants in this house are no longer working because I don't want to pay too many people."

"Father decided to sell 50% of HW Logistic shares to cover the debt. Thank goodness there are good people in this world... Firmanto bought HW Logistic's shares and returned them to his father but made them a loan with various conveniences because he only wanted to help his father and could not afford it to fall into the hands of the wrong people"

"Om Firman Prima Go Contruction owner?" Andra was a little surprised by his father's story, where maybe the contractor company is interested in the company's shares that have nothing to do with the property world at all. Just the intention of helping him by spending so much money a little bit unreasonable according to him, there must be something else that father has not told about Om Firman.

"Yes son, he Om Firman who met yesterday in the hospital, he is indeed an old friend of father and father is also very indebted to him. I purposely told you this, so you're better prepared for the cruelty of the business world and you can also learn to find a solution to all this"

Andra fell silent, he only realized that during the abandonment of his father was so heavy to bear the downturn of the company which was the only business of his grandfather's legacy.

Andra's heart is increasingly shrouded in guilt towards her father and in her heart she is determined to restore the glory of HW Logistic as before.