Upik Abu Becomes CEO

Teaching to Talk

Anitha looked at Ajeng sharply and deeply. Once again Ajeng felt his heart thump. The Anitha he knew far changed. There was no more naivety in his attitude and outlook. Anitha, her college friend, has disappeared under the banner of her power.

"I call you superior and subordinate!" anitha firmly. He swallowed his saliva with great difficulty.

"Yes ma'am, what's wrong?" answer slowly. Ajeng no longer dared to look Anitha in the eyes. Anitha deliberately presses Ajeng first to achieve her goal. The goal is to improve the good relationship between them.

"Are you happy to work for this company?" again Anitha's tone was so deep.

"I'm glad Mom."

"I know, you are among the employees that count in this company. As a boss I feel proud and very happy. But ...." Anitha deliberately paused her speech.

Anitha wanted to see Ajeng's reaction. Evidently Ajeng looks restless. Anitha could catch Ajeng still wanting to work here or might need this job. It was a plus for Anitha to urge Ajeng to talk to him.

Ajeng ventured to raise his head because Anitha never finished his words. Ajeng saw Anitha still staring at herself sharply.

"However, Mom?" Inevitably, he ventured to ask. The king must get rid of his ego. He really needs this job. His mother needs more money to raise her degree.

Ajeng had wanted to give up, but his affection for his mother made him strong.

"You must know that outside the context of the office, we've been friends and hurt each other." Anitha chose the word hurt each other. He was provoked because of that word.

"I mean Mom?" Ajeng did not dare to use non-formal language on Anitha. He continued to speak formally.

"I think you understand what I mean. You might be able to ignore me because of the deep pain. But I can't ignore it. Aside from this being my company, I also keep the biggest disappointment in you." Anitha was silent, taking a deep breath.

Ajeng remained silent and listened carefully sentence by sentence Anitha. Ajeng could feel the bitterness of Anitha's tone mixed with disappointment.

"I who know nothing, become a victim of the selfishness of both of you. You're my friend, no matter what you're in, you shouldn't be covering up your relationship with her. While your relationship has come a long way."

"I__"

Anitha deliberately cut in, "I'm naive. I can trust a friend for the rest of my life. I got the right man I loved back then just the rest of my friend and best friend, because my dear friend was so selfish. For the sake of his love for the man, he was willing to give me the rest of his love. For the sake of his love for that inappropriate man, he was willing to let me marry the rest. Then he also ruined my life for the sake of his heartache by arguing that I was the one who ruined his life ...."

To his astonishment, he did not expect Anitha to know everything. What Anitha said was absorbed by her brain and flowed into the deepest recesses of her heart. He could feel Anitha's sadness. Anitha herself regulated her feelings. He did not think this sick man opened an old story on the woman who had been his best friend and girlfriend of his ex-husband first.

"Just three months I felt what was loved, because he who did not dare to firmly defend his love or just let go of his love, I was slandered. He once again managed to destroy me who was considered a sidekick."

"I__" Ajeng could not stand it. She's a woman too. He was also as closed as Anitha. She also has only one best friend, Anitha. Now his tears almost spilled seeing his best friend struggling to tell what he felt secretly all along.

Anitha gave no chance for Ajeng to interrupt, at least until he could let out all his sense of heart that Ajeng did not know. Anitha's tears were full in her eyes. He held back with all his might.

"I felt in hell that my husband was mistreated because of the slander of my cowardly friend. Not only was my heart hurting, but my body was far away she hurt by venting her anger through her lust. Every time she has succeeded in provoking my passion as a wife, she torments me as if I were a night woman who likes to show off my body. All that suffering will be perfect when I become a woman of the night if my best friend succeeds in selling me."

Anitha dropped her gaze down with her palms intertwined. She shed Anitha's tears. So too with Ajeng. It turned out that it was not only him who was hurt, Anitha was far hurt. At least he didn't get Sahrul's harsh treatment in sex with him. Although sometimes he is forced, Sahrul still treats him gently.

Anitha's hands were slapped on the table, feeling a soft squeeze. "Do I still have the right to apologize to you?" tanya Ajeng with a blurry look. Tears have fallen.

"What's the evidence you're not lying to me anymore?" asked Anitha by pretending to doubt Ajeng. He just wanted to find out how far Ajeng had changed.

"I know you can't possibly believe me, after so many lies I've told you. Just so you know, if you had used power to suppress me, I would have prostrated myself to you apologizing for working here."

"Is that what you need with this job?"

"I really need. Then I'd be willing to beg you if you were going to stop me."

"Then?"

"Now I'm willing to resign, so you don't feel anxious because I'm in this company. Just so you can forgive me. I was selfish all along. I cultivate heartache without you knowing anything. It should be that depraved man I hurt. But I can't. Even today when the second time he lied to me, I still love him so much."

Anitha pulled out her hand which was still within Ajeng's grasp. Ajeng gasped to think Anitha was rejecting him. Anitha got up from her chair. He turned around his desk and pulled Ajeng's hand to sit on the sofa.

The dumbest prank followed Anitha's hand. Anitha pulled Ajeng sitting beside her.

"Can I be best friends like I used to be?" tanya Anitha looked at the look on Ajeng's face.

"Do I deserve your friendship?" ask a question back.

"You're just the best friend I've got. If you can forget your grudge against me, I want us back together."

"You can really forgive me?"

"could. If you promise not to betray me again."

"I don't know how to promise. I can only offer to resign and stay away from you."

" No need, if you still want to work with me and sincerely if I am your superior," Anitha said in a hoarse voice ready to cry and with a tone without any intention of arrogance.

Ajeng laughed in a voice that was as hoarse as he heard Anitha say. "I am ready and thank you very much. I've never envied your success before. I know who you are. It's just a matter of that damn guy I'm holding a grudge against you and my grudge being mis-addressed. I'M SORRY AN." Ajeng hugged Anitha tightly.

"I'm sorry I was also insensitive at that time," Anitha said in Ajeng's ear.

"Is it true that you still love Sahrul?" ask Anitha.

"Why? Do you still want to go back to him?" tanya Ajeng without any more jealous tone. Ajeng has decided not to pursue his love anymore. Just saving for his own memories.

"The story goes back to asking. Answer me honestly. Let me think straight."

Ajeng smiled wryly. "I've decided not to pursue and expect it again."

"If I were, ever since I decided to leave him. I don't want to go back to her. Moreover, you don't know, I'm married again."

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