The Winter Promise

Chapter 75: Time to Release.

After returning home from school, I along with Maul and Mr. Febri went to the office to release the application that we have made for approximately the last two months. There has been a lot of time and energy we put in to make that app.

“Alright, we start the countdown.”

“Ten... Nines... Eight on... Seven... Six... “

We all count down together.

“Five... Four... Three... Two... One.”

Dor... Dor... Dor...

Me and Mr. Febri pulled the confetti we had bought earlier.

“Because the app has been released, let's celebrate with a meal at a mealmate near here.”

Mr. Hari took us all.

“Do we really have to celebrate this?”

“Of course we have to celebrate this before later we will work again for the future.”

“Good.”

Huh! My body feels so light.

“I'm tired once.”

Mr. Febri was leaning against the wall behind him.

***

“One more time, thanks for the hard work!”

Mr. Hari picked up a drink he had ordered earlier.

“Starting tomorrow there are already some interns who will work for the editor and IT, so Amar and others can relax first.”

I can finally play again! It's been a long time since I've been playing games, it seems like tonight I want to spend my night having fun and relaxing.

“Finally I can sleep well, it has been a few days my sleep hours are very irregular.”

“Indeed before getting this job, your sleeping hours are regular Mar?”

Maul said to me.

“Not really.”

“I will work at home to optimize its ads so that many people download the app.”

“Maybe, but don't self-empower Mul.”

Mr. Hari is worried about Maul's condition.

“Let's just relax, so I haven't got a new job. Doing something like this is not a big thing for me.”

This person never understood when to rest.

“I will also pay you when the application already has income.”

Whoa! Fresh money for months I want. I guess after the money I get, I'll buy some computer equipment like a mouse and headphones.

“Alright, if the boss has said so. We must develop this application to become a famous application to all corners of the world.”

Mr. Febri if he has heard the money he is immediately excited.

“Then what will we do next so that we can improve the performance of the application and maintain it?”

I guess today there will be no discussion for the application.

“Today I heard this from my friend, according to my friend to do development in the application so as not to make readers hassles while reading the comic. We have to make the readers comfortable with our application when reading comics for a long time. In addition, we also have to make a contract that is equally beneficial to both sides of the pack between the comic and the company. I think adding-“

“Already Mar! I think you can say all that in the next meeting.”

I think I talked too much.

“Where did you get all that?”

Mr. Hari asked me after stopping me earlier.

“I found out from my schoolmate.”

“Did your friend ever join one of these comic apps?”

“Seems not.”

“So what you're talking about is a very good input. Sorry to stop you earlier, but the input was very good.”

“I also agree with what Amar said earlier. Pak Hari must think about how much payment will be given to the comic, because the crowded or not of our application later is the participation of the comic. In addition to making comics here, they will also market their own comics without us asking.”

Maul agreed with me and expressed her opinion.

“I'll think about it.”

“Do you two work together often?”

Mr. Febri has been watching me and Maul.

“No, this is the first time Maul and I have worked together. Why?”

Reply to him.

“You two are very compact as people who have worked for many years.”

“If there is Riki here we will be more compact. Me, Amar, and Riki are already like one solid team.”

Maul smiled as she said that.

“Who is Riki?”

Mr. Hari asked Mr. Febri who was enjoying his drink.

“He was one of the students in my class, he was one of the children who was active in pencak silat.”

“Why didn't you take Mar with you? Couldn't he help you while working yesterday.”

“At the moment in focus for O2SN, so I don't want to bother with it.”

“If he has finished O2SN, just invite him to work here as well. I want to see what if you guys are on one team.”

“Indeed like that was my intention from the beginning.”

“Good, the more people it will be the lighter also the work we do.”

Finally the food we ordered came and we ate together. All the costs of our meals are borne by Mr. Hari, he said that this is the initial payment of our hard work yesterday.

“By the way how to pay for interns later? Do we already have data for such a thing.?”

Hmmmm... So Mr. Hari is retired, I guess he will continue to work until this application really has a sufficient and stable income.

“Do you not want to use that money for Ri's personal needs?”

“How is it? I don't have anything I want to buy, so I'm confused about what to use the money for.”

“Then what about his family Pak Hari himself?”

“It's not polite to talk about other people's personal matters Mar.”

Reprimand Mr. Febri to me.

“I'm sorry.”

“Just calm Mar, that's not a problem. Febri alone is too much, hahahahaha.”.

We ate the food we ordered to celebrate the party. After that we immediately went home because Mr. Hari wanted to give us a day off, he thought it was not good to force himself to work. Though Mr. Hari himself a person who always forced himself to work.

“Oh is soon your birthday huh? Are you going to celebrate?”

A birthday? I forgot about it because I was too busy.

“Indeed, did I ever celebrate my birthday? Why celebrate a birthday, it's like a child. Mostly I will invite you and also Riki to eat at his house.”

“How about Rina, Miyuki and the others?”

“I don't know if I'll invite him or not.”

But I have a hunch that even if I don't invite them, they will come on their own at Miyuki's initiative.

“At least you invited or told them that you want to have a party at home because they are already like our close friends, we have spent a long time with them.”

Come to think of it, Maul is right too, I have spent a long time together with Miyuki since meeting her on the train majoring in Jakarta Kota. Especially with Rina, I have been with her for almost four years, even though Rina said that she already knew me from Elementary School.

“It looks like I'll invite them if I have a party.”

Oh yes, there is something I want to ask Maul.

“How is the development of the case handled by your father?”

“My father is taking preventive measures to prevent two cases at once so that not more and more will happen.”

“Prevention?”

“If if this kidnapping is indeed related to human trafficking, so my father and all the police he has collected prevent the occurrence of kidnapping cases by tightening security at various points prone to kidnapping.”

So that's the reason why this case has not been the subject of discussion in the internet media anymore. I didn't see this on the news on television either. Thank goodness for example what his father Maul did bore fruit. Worrying will not happen first.

“I understand, in the absence of food kidnapping there will be no people sold in the market.”

“Quickly once.”

I don't think Maul's father can find the exact location of the human sales market. What makes the location difficult to find? Is it because the location is always changing, or information obtained by the police is not right.

“But great your father can do such a thing smoothly. There should be some obstacles considering that there are some police bribed there.”

“Yesterday my father said that he had the support of several superiors to do that, so my father could do that smoothly without the slightest obstacle.”

“Yes even so, it is still very difficult to limit it to the root.”

“You're right, if they want to do that. they have to find out who leaked the police information to those people.”

Even though we are currently on the bus, but the condition of the bus at that time was very quiet because the hours of returning to work had passed. So we don't have to worry when we talk about something like this.

“Is it weird teenagers like us talking about things like this?”

“It was a strange thing.”

“I agree with you.”

“Why are you asking like that Mar? Not as usual.”

“I feel like I'm different from the other kids.”

“That's what makes you look special in the eyes of people like Riki, Rina, and maybe Miyuki. Your point of view in judging things, thinking about things, and making decisions is very different from most people.”

Different huh? Is it not wrong to be different like that? Actually, I also do not know that my thoughts during this time that makes me different from other children, because I always talk to people and they understand what I'm talking about, because I'm always talking to people, at that time I thought that my mindset was almost the same as the others.

“Is it wrong if I feel the so-called youth?”

“What is it! have you started to feel the name of love to say that?”

“This all has nothing to do about love.”

“Then?”

“After seeing Mr. Hari and Mr. Febri, I saw which people spent their lives pursuing their careers and some who spent their lives with their youth, but they were equally successful.”

“Life is full of mysteries, we don't know what's waiting for us out there. We just need to live and try to do our best in life.”

Whoa! What cool words are those. Since I often went alone with Maul, I often heard cool words coming out of her mouth. Does he have the talent to be a motivator? It's probable.

“Since when can you say wise like that.”

“Anybody can also put out such words, so don't be surprised by it.”

“You're right.”

We looked out the bus window and saw the city lights that lit up the city that night. The cars passing by our side and some people walking on the sidewalk made the view of the city that night feel very calm.

“It feels like there is less yes if there is no Riki at this time.”

“This only lasts a while until Riki finished O2SNnya.”

“Can Riki win that game or not huh?”

“I myself do not know, even Riki who is usually sure when I ask said I do not know too. But at least he is trying to win the best result of that match.”

“We also cannot lose to him.”

“Iya, let us succeed this application and develop a business with Mr. Hari.”

During the trip I always thought about two things from the conversation I had with Maul. The first was about the kidnapping case, and the second was my own birthday.

Although I feel happy that his father Maul can overcome it easily, but I feel that what he did is still not strong enough to solve this. I myself also do not know how to effectively solve the problem because I do not know how the facts that occur in the field, he said, because I only know the news from the internet or television media.

Then my birthday was quiet, I had never celebrated it at all since entering elementary school. I asked my mother not to celebrate because I thought it looked like a child, but at that time I was still a child. Besides, I don't really like being the attention of people who come to my birthday.

About the suggestion from Maul to invite Rina, Miyuki, and the others to my birthday party, it seems like it is not a bad idea either. Although I'm lazy to admit this, since Miyuki became my friend. My daily life doesn't feel boring, because a lot of things happen with her coming. Between something fun or troublesome, I think it's almost the same when it comes with Miyuki.

All the actions he took were always out of my reach. I could never guess what he was doing and what he was going to do. He is like air, invisible but I can feel his presence. Maybe right now I should change my point of view to Miyuki. Not good too if you consider it troublesome continuously.

That's also if he doesn't do things that don't make my eyes change again.

the End Chapter 75