THE SACRED LOVE OF MENTARI

GET A JOB

Dance froze to see her father and mother-in-law, they looked at her sharply, the rays of hatred were still burning in their eyes, because they clearly thought they, their son became a dissident because of Tari.

Dari could only duck could not feel like staring into the eyes of the laser aimed at him by his two parents-in-law.

"Mama and papa want to eat" asked Adam trying to be friendly even though he knew his parents clearly did not want to be friendly.

"You think we'd do something at home if not for a meal." mama Cellin replied ketus.

"You can still eat here Adam after you've removed all the facilities you have." as usual, Papa Atta's voice sounded cold.

"With or without the card given by papa, Adam is more than able to invite my own wife to eat at this expensive restaurant."

"Where did you get the money, you've been working."

"I don't have to answer that question."

Adam's words just made Father Atta growl, his palms clenched.

"Well, we'll go home, please mama and papa come in."

Because the aura of hostility is very visible shown by both parents, Adam finally chose to leave, fearing there was a commotion like the time at home the other day, this is a public place, it is not funny if they become a spectacle of many people, especially they have the status of parents and children.

"Dear dear." invite Adam to reach for Dance's hand and hold it to tell his parents that he does not regret leaving his luxurious life and choose together with Dance.

When passing through her in-laws, Tari tries to be friendly, even though she is not liked, they are still her parents who should be respected by her.

"Let's ma, pa, we go first." nodded his head which was reciprocated by them with a snort that further showed how dislikeful they were to Dance.

Laura stared at the same dislike of Tari's in-laws, "So this is her father-in-law Tari, her personality is very different from that of her good son, a materialistic parent." as Laura followed Tari and Adam behind.

Now that Adam and Tari have arrived home, Tari wants to ask about the card used by Adam to pay for the expensive restaurant they ate just now.

"Mas Adam."

"Yes Dance."

"Mas Adam used a card who was at the restaurant, instead of Adam said that all facilities including credit cards owned by the mas revoked all."

"Ohh, it's got Mbak Hawa Tari, she said, the card I can carry for a while."

"Ohhh." muttered Dance.

"I promised Eve I'd take it back once I got the job."

Dance just nodded, "Mak Eve is good, just like Adam's mas." inwardly.

*****

One month already Tari works as a secretary, you could say his salary is quite large, but even so, Tari does not feel at home working in the company, this is because his boss who has a distended belly always looks at him flirtatiously and sometimes often harass him verbally, Dance can still survive, even though his desire to resign is very large, and sometimes he can still be, the difficulty of getting a new job makes Tari temporarily hold his desire in the heart.

The dance looks up to stare at the clock hanging on the wall of the office, the hour hand has shown the number 05.10, it means it is time to go home office hours for employees like himself, he said, office hours like this were the happiest thing for Dance, it meant that she was free from seeing her boss's annoying face, she could not wait to go home and get together with her husband and tell him about her daily life at the office, yahh except about the treatment of his boss who is always brash which clearly will never tell Tari the husband, because if he tells about the sentences of his boss who always lead to harass him, because, Dari was sure her husband would go straight to the office and beat her boss to death.

Dari tidied up her things before going home.

"Dari, yes first." rebuked Dina her fellow employee as she passed the Dance table.

"Yes Din, this is also I want to go home" he replied.

Dance was already standing up and ready to go downstairs when the boss's door opened, it seemed like she was going home too.

As soon as he saw Dari, the face of the boss sik immediately smiled flirtatiously, and as usual, the boss sik looked at Tari from toe to toe with a look of disrespect, if not the boss who paid him, he said, I want it to feel like Tari punched the boss in the face.

Dance sometimes surprised with her boss who always looked at her as if she wanted to strip her naked, whereas Dari dressed very politely, a knee-length skirt, she said, with a long, loose-sleeved shirt that keeps his curves from being exposed at all.

Although very upset with the work of the boss, but Tari forced herself to say hello, "You go home sir."

"Yes, you also seem to be going home."

"Yes." Yeah."

"What a coincidence, how about together with me, I anter to the house." sik boss offered while winking.

Dance grimaced, she couldn't imagine herself in one car with a striped male like her boss, this wasn't the first time the boss sik offered to drive her home, but Tari can still avoid, and this time Tari will look for reasons to reject the invitation.

"To be in one car with a striped male like this, that's tantamount to suicide." - Inwardly.

"All of us stopped by for coffee, how did Tari, want me to take it" he continued when Tari had not yet responded to his invitation.

Dance tried to find polite words to refuse, she couldn't possibly use the same excuse as before to reject her boss's offer this time.

"I'm sorry Mr. Dante, but I didn't go home, my husband called, he said there was business around here and he asked me to see him" replied Tari with great reassurance.

"So, you don't want me to take it with you."

"Once again, I'm sorry sir."

"Hmmmm, well then Dance, maybe today is not my lucky day like it is, maybe next time huh."

Dari could not help but grunt at the boss's words, "Luck what he meant, and don't expect that next time, I'd rather jump out of this building than accept your offer, you fucking dickhead, don't remember what the wife's kid is at home." words that can only be voiced in the heart of course because Tari realized for now she still desperately needs this job to support herself and Adam, yahh arguably her husband is unemployed, and she is not, but Adam was not just sitting, silent and holding hands, Adam every day trying to find a job, and put a proposal without his diploma is the same as an impossibility, but Adam was sure, with his talent, he said, one day, there will be a company that will consider it.

Dari waited for her boss named Dante to go first, but because the boss did not move from his place and still felt at home to look at him made Tari ask, "Sorry sir, father does not want to go home, why are you still standing there"

"Not that you will return, let's say we should go down with it."

"Hmmm, fine." muttered half-hearted Dance.

Dance stepped and walked in front of the elevator that would take them to the ground floor, while Dante walked behind and noticed the body of the dance from behind with a view of the mupeng.

Dante is a 50-year-old man and is the CEO of a working Dance company, he is rich and wacky, and, several times he has dated his secretary and some do not last long become Dante's secretary because they can not stand the behavior of Dante who is striped and likes to flirt.

Now the two people are in the elevator, as much as possible, Tari stands very far from Dante, obviously Tari does not want to get close to the striped male, he said, especially now that Dante can not be separated from looking at Tari make Tari uncomfortable, the journey to the ground floor so feels very long for Tari, while he already wants to be far from Dante.

"You're so beautiful Dance." The compliment Dante always throws when he first sees Dance.

"Thank you sir." Dance response without expression.

"Lucky your husband has felt you, I became jealous and wanted to too."

"Based on the jerk, can't you shut your dirty mouth." I want to feel like Tari stuffed her shoes in the mouth of her brash boss, "Here it is, too, why not to the point, sieh, the tumben of this elevator is melting, do not-don't be damaged again." ruuk Tari on the elevator that has not reached the bottom floor, extinguish usually quickly.

"Do you want to spend time together with....."

Ting

That's a sound that indicates that the elevator has reached the ground floor, never this dance has heard the clangs, before the perverted boss continued his sentence leading to slovenly things, Dance rush ngacir.

"I'm first sir, goodbye."

Dari walked half-run, Tari just breathed a sigh of relief when she was outside and immediately approached the taxi driver who denied the road where the company owned by Dante stood.

"One hard day has passed." sighed Dance relieved.

****

Today was a really hard day for Adam, but he was satisfied because he was finally able to get a job after a month more idle, yahh, even though the job he did not expect sieh, but he thanks her.

The flasback

This day Adam wandered around with no clear purpose, he thought he might be able to get a job, yesterday Adam thought he could still get a job without a degree, he said, but now everything feels very impossible, and Adam is willing to work whatever origin he works, I swear he is very ashamed of the Dance that has been breeding their domestic life, she was the head of her family, but Tari always sincerely took on the role that Adam should have borne without bringing up the possibility that her husband was unemployed.

Adam walked without direction, he just followed where his feet took him, until his steps came to a halt in an ongoing development project.

Instantly he recalled his chat chat chat chat with Marcell who said that, 'if you're a coolie, you don't need a diploma, you've got enough energy' it's about the sound of Marcell's chat.

"Okay, there's no harm in me trying." she steadied her legs to get closer, and asked the man who was currently stirring the cement.

"Sorry, do you need additional workers here."

The man who was asked to stop his activities for a moment, looked at Adam uncertainly, yes naturally, Adam is handsome and has clean white skin, of course people think that Adam was wrong address.

Despite thinking Adam had the wrong address, the person asked by Adam said, "I don't know, but ask Yahya, the foreman who handled the building project." while pointing at a rather neatly dressed man who gave the same orders as his subordinates.

Adam nodded, "Thank you."

Adam set his foot on the foreman appointed by the man he had asked.

"Excuse me sir."

The foreman named Yahya sir turned to the voice that greeted him, "Yes, is there anything I can help you with."

"Do you need additional workers." asked Adam expectantly.

Just like the first person Adam asked earlier, the foreman also looked at Adam with uncertain eyes, people must think that he is better suited to working in an office than working as a building porter, yes it should be so, but because it is limited to diplomas, so no one wants to accept it.

After being satisfied to assess Adam's appearance, Yahya sir voiced his astonishment, "Am sure mas would want to work as a coolie."

Adam nodded, "Yes, sir, and I can." Adam tried to convince.

Although actually in his heart Mr. Yahya is not sure if Adam can work well, but because he really needs additional workers, he finally nodded, "We are indeed in need of additional energy, sieh, but I'm sure it can work."

"Can sir, I can do it."

"All right...."

"Adam." Adam mentioned his name.

"Well, Adam, Adam can start working today."

Adam felt very happy, finally he could get a job, well even though only as a puli sieh, but the important thing is halal and not so burden anymore for Dance.

"Thank you sir, thank you, I'll work really well." Yahya's hands were enthusiastic.

Flasback off

"Mas Adam." reprimanded Tari as she saw her suamin sitting on the floor patting her on the back.

Tari's face that had been tangled back bright when she arrived home let alone see her husband, the sense of the betna because the action of her boss who was odd vanished already.

Adam smiled as soon as he saw his wife, "Dance, you're home."

Dance approached and greeted her husband as she used to do, Dance felt her husband's palm a bit rough, different from before, but she did not bother about it.

"Mas Adam is waiting for me."

"Yes, I miss it." Adam's tease.

"This Adam could have been."

"Yuk yuk mas."

Adam followed behind Tari, "You must be tired dear, wait a minute yes I make tea." he said, but he was also very tired because all day long work is heavy, heavy because Adam used to work office, and he was very tired, well-dressed and working in an ac room, and working in front of a computer, not with a shovel and having to haul rocks around, but Adam thought, he can't complain, no, he must be strong and grateful, because there are still many people out there whose lives are much more difficult than his, he has been living since childhood and full of luxury, he said, and maybe now he has to feel the name struggle for a bite of rice.

Adam returned to the living room with a cup of tea and placed in front of Dari.

"Thank you Adam."

"Return the love." Adam answered and sat down beside his wife.

"Darling, I want to say something."

Dance listened without asking about what Adam was going to say.

"I've got a job."

Dance quickly turned to Adam, "True, I've got a job." she asked to be sure.

Adam nodded weakly, Dance's enthusiastic face made her feel somewhat guilty, he thought, if Tari knew what her job was, surely Tari was not that enthusiastic.

"Thankfully, it turns out that there are companies that want to accept Adam's mas without the frills of a diploma, Tari seneng dengernya mas."

Adam nodded weakly, seeing the face of Dance who was so happy to hear her get a job, making him stop at telling her what exactly her job was, Tari would definitely be disappointed and embarrassed if she was just a porters.

"Congratulations to Adam." Dance hugged her husband.

Adam just smiled blandly in response to the congratulations from Dance.

"Mas Adam when did his work start."

"M." mm." Adam hesitantly replied, but he finally said, "Tomorrow."

"Tomorrow, how about tonight we go for a walk, we go to the dress shop."

"To the shop, to the clothes."

"Yes buy clothes for Adamlah mas, let's just have two shirts that are worth to wear to the office."

In Adam's heart sighed heavily, "A coolie doesn't need good clothes and decent Dance, a shirt is enough." Of course, those words are just thrown in the heart.

"Mas does not need new clothes Dance, just that two are the only ones that mas wear."

"Smoke the mas...."

"Just save the money for other purposes, later if I have payday, we can go out and buy clothes while buying for you too."

"Nieh, I don't need new clothes."

Adam shook his head, "Dear no."

"I have a stash, you know, we can use that money first, buy clothes, cloth pants, shoes."

"Kan mas already said, save the money for other purposes only, for now mas really do not need clothes and all sorts."

"Alright if Adam did not want to." sigh Tari resigned because it did not succeed in persuading her husband.

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