Scavenger Becomes New Director
Giving Paper
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Before I could ask any further questions to the car owner who gave me this piece of paper, the street light had gone green followed by the long honking of several vehicles behind the car.
I immediately ran to the side of the road holding the piece of paper in my left hand and the beloved guitar on my right.
The driver woman and the teenage girl who most likely her son had thrown a sneaky smile before I ran earlier. Ahh, I'm suspicious of the writing on this paper.
So I slowly pulled over on the sidewalk and opened the paper with trembling hands.
"YOU'RE LESS FORTUNATE".
" Fuck!!! I was torn," I shouted as I tore and scattered the paper into the roadside ditch.
" Uhh, you rich man, instead of being compassionate, even toying with and mocking the poor like us," I continued to grumble because for the first time I was bullied like this.
"By noon this morning I got too much shit. Even if I haven't earned a thousand dollars I'd better go back home, before I get worse shit or I get humiliated again." I returned to the compound with shaky steps while enduring the shame and anger.
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Let's move somewhere, in a 20-story building.
15 Floor. The Main Director Room.
A FEW MONTHS LATER AFTER THE RED LIGHT.
tok tok tok tok
" Login!" Shouts of male voice from inside the room.
The woman opened the door and walked over to a large white table that looked luxurious and neat signifies the owner of this room is very prioritizing neatness and minimalist luxury decoration.
A man in his 40s was busy staring at his laptop screen when the beautiful woman came to him.
"Please sit down Maya." The man invited the woman named Maya earlier without taking her eyes off the screen of her laptop.
" Where's your other partner?" Man with an increasingly authoritative voice.
" Which partner sir? I was still alone in the lobby before the secretary told me to go in to face the father," Maya tried to suppress her nervousness by answering rather long.
The man raised his face and looked fixedly at the woman Maya had prepared. He stared intently as if intimidating Maya who was a little down looking at this charismatic man's face.
This man is James Mariski, a man of mixed Polish Indonesian blood. Although he had four heads but his face was still very showing the look of good looks. He is the Managing Director of Mariski Group which does business in the field of Hospitality and Has several large and small Self-service spread in almost all major cities in Indonesia. He is the sole heir and his mother's father has long died in a sea accident while on vacation on their yacht. The ship exploded and caught fire. He was grateful to be on a business trip out of town.
It was a dozen years ago that finally killed his wife who was just 1 year old he married. His wife and 8-month-old son, father and mother, were killed in the crash.
his sadness caused him to become depressed and lose his smile. He quickly got angry, venting his anger at the officers several times. He even got drunk a few times. Everything changes a little when two years ago he meets Marsya who eventually becomes his second wife.
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