YUMNA AZZURA'S

252. Want to Be an Independent Woman

Just two days the four of them at Melati's house, Syifa and her two sisters must return to their respective activities. They can't take a lot of time off because they are facing a semester exam that will be held soon. Melati's heavy heart let go of her granddaughter, although Yumna was not her biological granddaughter, but her affection for Yumna was immense.

***

Yumna is sitting in the back garden of the house with a laptop in her lap. He was focusing on the screen in front of him, looking for job openings in other companies.

"Is Brother still looking for vacancies? Why not go back to the papa company?" asked Azkhan when he had just arrived near his brother.

"God, I want to find my own job. You and Arkhan who should help papa in the office, you are boys," said Yumna without looking at his youngest brother.

Azkhan sat beside Yumna and leaned there. "Didn't Brother resign for not feeling good with us?"

"What's so bad about you?"

"Well, why, dong? What's wrong if you help Papa in the company? Why suddenly leave the department anyway?" ask Azkhan.

"It's okay. I would rather find a job with my own efforts. You are more entitled to hold the company. So, you have to study hard to replace papa later" said Yumna.

"I don't want to hold the company. Dizziness, many meetings everything," said Azkhan, this time successfully made Yumna turn her gaze from the screen.

"Why? Someday you and Arkhan will have to help you manage the company."

"Arkhan, Syifa too. Let me continue my workshop and cafe efforts" Azkhan said again.

"Why not, okay?" This time there was a tone of complaint from his sister's mouth.

"You have to talk to papa, if you don't talk, of course you won't know, lah," said Yumna.

Rough breathing was clearly heard from his sister. "Yes, anyway. Papa wouldn't know if he didn't say. I don't want to hold the company, it doesn't feel comfortable in papa's office."

"Just talk good, as long as your reasons are acceptable, papa doesn't seem to be meaningless either."

"Yes. Where are you going tomorrow? Got a job yet?" ask Azkhan.

"Still looking. This is a foreign company. But do not know, whether it can work there or not," said Yumna.

"certainly could. The Singapore graduate period cannot be," said the younger brother encouraged.

***

A few days later, Yumna, who was drying her hair, received an email from a company. His eyes widened when he saw the email he had sent a few days ago had gotten a reply. It was great to read what was inside, the foreign company he was looking for asked him to come for an interview and bring a CV.

Yumna jumped up happy to read the news, hurry she prepared what she needed for tomorrow.

Lunch, Lily looked at Yumna's unusual face, looking a little different with a smile that did not fade from the beautiful face of her first daughter.

"Is there any good news?" lily asked as they both ate lunch.

"What news?" Yumna glanced at Lily, not expecting her mother to talk like that, as if she knew what was happening right now.

"Something seems different. Does anything make you happy?" ask Lily again.

Yumna smiled with the spoon she**** in her mouth. "Tomorrow I will interview at a foreign company" Yumna told her mother.

"Well, seriously?"

Yumna nodded with excitement.

"Why don't you go back to the papa company? Papa needs help, you know!" ask Lily by investigating her daughter.

Yumna shook her head. "Yumna just wants to work on her own, Ma. For now want to find an experience outside the big name Mahendra," said Yumna again. Lily understood what Yumna meant. It is not once that his children say the same thing twice.

Breathing was heard clearly from Lily. Yumna felt a little guilty hearing that.

"Are you sure you want to be there?"

"I have to be sure, Ma. At least I want to know if I am worthy or not" Yumna said.

Lily laughed a little. "Who said you weren't worthy? Mama is sure you are very worthy. Your efforts and hard work have proven that you are very worthy in the business world. Papa already admitted that, right?"

Yumna nodded, confirming what her mother said, but according to her father was worthy, not necessarily according to others worthy. Yumna is a persistent and stubborn Yumna, just like her father.