Secrets of the Former (Love Left Behind)

Eighteen

Fikri was pacing around asking for Gantari's whereabouts. Until late in the afternoon, he finally found the woman.

"Tar!" his breath stung as he ran to welcome Gantari's arrival.

Gantari shuddered in horror. However, it soon changed to worry when he saw the look of Fikri whose tumbens are serious.

"Gue nyariin lo from earlier," he said gasping.

Gantari invites Fikri to sit in the front seat of the office near the security post.

"What's wrong?" tanyanya.

"Pak Sasongko, our client in Semarang suddenly dropped out of contract" explained Fikri.

"Because?"

"Say raw materials from us cost more." Fikri sighed, then continued, "He doesn't even mind paying the contract cancellation fine."

"Whose competition are we?" tanya Gantari was still calm.

"Strong Group."

Gantari. "You find out all the ins and outs of Angkasa group. Report everything to me no later than tonight. Tomorrow morning I leave to see Mr. Sasongko directly," he said.

Fikri gawking. I am so amazed by this woman. Then nod in response.

"Who is going to Semarang?"

"Just like you," answered Gantari lightly, then rose to his cubicle to take a bag, to go home with Mr. Sarif.

***

Shanessa's been thinking all night about what's been bothering her mind all day. The words of Lexa, Nevan who knows Gantari shrimp allergy, as well as the speech of employees, make it daydreaming and difficult to sleep. This morning he got up and was determined to throw away all his stupid thoughts. He laughs at himself who had once suspected Gantari and Nevan.

Out of the room, Shanessa no longer sees Gantari. He did wake up late because it was difficult to sleep all night. Let him come to Nevan's office to say hello to Gantari and her fiance, he thought.

Since dawn Gantari has been busy here and there. Early in the morning he stopped by the Hospital and told the mother to leave the city. Actually his heart still feels heavy because he is still not satisfied spending time with his mother. However, responsibility is responsibility.

There Gantari also met Farez with her eyes. "There's an operation, huh?" ask Gantari.

Farez smiled very broadly. What dreams he had this early in the morning had seen Gantari smiling sweetly at him. Farez nodded. "Six hours" he said.

Gantari lifted both her thumbs up, "Cool," he whispered. Makes Farez scratch his head bashfully.

Finally Gantari also conveyed his plan to go to Semarang to Farez and asked the Doctor to contact him immediately if something happened to his mother. This time Farez raised both thumbs, making them laugh together.

Before long, because Gantari immediately resigned to leave and Farez took the initiative to drive him to the entrance.

"Oh, yes! Shaness' friend hasn't been seen in days."

Farez's words just now made Gantari turn her head with her eyebrows linked. "Friends Shaness?"

"Yes. Duh, what's his name?" Farez laughed blandly, then continued, "Get to see you often, but I always forgot to ask you his name."

Gantari still thinks. Trying to guess the guy Farez meant.

"Almost every night he comes to see Mom. Until the next big hour he had just come home," Farez recalled, then continued, "But it has been a few days since. I don't think she knows that she's conscious either."

Gantari. There were people he suspected, but was it possible?

Gantari finally breaks down and enters the car to return to the office to meet Nevan and Fikri. Apparently Fikri was waiting for him in the lobby with a backpack that looked claustrophobic by the files.

Gantari. If it goes well this afternoon he can go home without staying overnight, Gantari said.

"Sir Nevan how? What does he think?"

Fikri stopped her footsteps, then hit her own forehead. "Gue forgot the report," ringisnya who immediately responded wide-eyed Gantari.

***

"Anyone? Don't you have any reports on me?" scowl Nevan on Fikri.

Fikri just looked down. Gantari went ahead and took over the chat. "I don't think now is the time to talk about that. You can punish Fikri after we get home from Semarang."

Fikri raised his head, and glanced at Gantari with a look of pity.

"We?" Nevan breathed deeply. "Yes, I'm coming."

Gantari. There's no way he's going with Nevan. "But where the office might be left alone," said Gantari trying to influence.

"It's only a day that it doesn't seem like a problem" Nevan replied.

"Who knows? No one guarantees everything goes well. The settlement plan is only a day, but anything can happen and change all plans" Gantari explained.

"You mean, you want to stay over?" Nevan stared at Gantari without thinking.

Gantari is like that too. He took a long breath. "That's not what I mean. At least someone's coming from here."

"Then I go and you stand guard here" cut Nevan.

Gantari istighfar in heart. "But who already understands the current condition of me and Fikri."

"Where the file let me read quickly," Nevan replied not to lose.

Fikri who had been standing between them was just wailing while gawking.

"Don't be rash. If this contract is void, the impact is large on the company" Gantari concluded. Then exit the room followed by Fikri.

Nevan gawks at Gantari's departure. "From the first it wants to win by itself," he hissed.

"She was talking about business, or did I miss you anyway?" he said it to himself again.

On the way, Gantari was still struggling with his own thoughts. He was still thinking about Shanessa's friend Farez told him about this morning.

***

This afternoon Shanessa came back to Nevan's office. The cousin was still the reason he came across a few boxes of donuts.

"Your cousin has not been to work for two days, and today suddenly said he wanted to go to Semarang" Nevan told me while biting a tiramisu-flavored donut. He was still upset with Gantari.

Shanessa rounded her eyes in disbelief. "Want today to Semarang? Two days Gantari did not go to work? Where is it possible."

Leisurely Nevan shrugged her shoulders. "Today he went to Semarang to deal with office problems. I didn't know yesterday."

Shanessa feels something is wrong. He wanted to call Ardi, but he was afraid his father was worried. The only way is to wait for Gantari to come home. Shanessa became unsettled, so she decided to go home. Just to make sure if Gantari has said goodbye to Grandpa to go out of town.

At home Shanessa breathed a sigh of relief, apparently the cousin had pocketed grandfather's permission to go to Semarang.

"Emang must be so, must be professional," said the grandfather who made Shanessa smile with relief. He didn't want to see his cousin get into trouble with grandfather again like the incident the other day.

After Shanessa leaves, Nevan secretly thinks about her fiance's speculation. Gantari is unlikely to be remiss at work just because of a man. Thinking Gantari was roaring at the state of the mother as she had last seen, made Nevan unfocused.