The Sign of Love
Seeing the Face of the World

The atmosphere on the roadside, which is commonly used by Relina to sell so crowded. The streets were crowded with children, who rushed home from school. Relina faithfully waited for her trade, there were still a few more seeds that were still intact and she would sell them there until they ran out. While some of the leftovers were damaged by the accident, he was distributed to fellow traders and also he enjoyed himself.

Sure enough, some children also buy food, until it is completely exhausted. After that he cleaned things up and walked back down the road home.

"It's over, Neng?" Asked a woman who was both food vendors, in front of the elementary school along with Relina.

"Yes Ma'am, how's Mom's trading going, is it over?"

"Oh, there's still a little more, deliberately brought home for the kids at home."

"Oh, how many kids do you have, Mom?" relina replied calmly, while walking hand in hand because their goals and directions, were the same.

Since a few days ago, when Relina started selling, they arranged their trades, side by side. The woman sold fried, cilok and siomay retail, by being pricked using a bamboo rod that was shaved and dipped in a bean-spiced sauce.

During the trip, they exchanged stories and experiences, about residence, family, school as well as work.

Relina also said that she was a nomad from outside the area, she came from outside the city and a different province. He can be there, work and boarding at the place of his college friend, Keke, who invites him.

He grew up with his mother, father and sister in one of the villages far from where he lives today. He tried to pit his fate in the larger cities and provinces.

The girl began working in Junda's office, a year after graduating from college, at one of the city's private colleges. He did not expect, after a year he became an employee there, he had to leave his job. The reason for her dismissal was not clear, that the company was in a period of recovery, very unreasonable for Relina.

Maybe this is the journey of life that he must take as the content of his age in the world. Is not every journey of human life never the same? If it can be described, the life of every human being is like a road that continues to climb and will come back down when it reaches its age.

When she reached the crossroads, Relina stopped, smiling as she ended the story about her family.

It turns out that their residence, not so far, from a fairly large boarding place. Place Relina, commonly known as rainbow boarding because the boarding place was deliberately painted colorful with a very striking color following the rainbow color.

"Most people like this Eneng, working in companies or being factory workers, here are many companies, Neng can work there, why sell this?" Ask the woman with her thick regional language.

"I'm still applying at another company, Mom. Waiting for a call. Yesterday I just got fired, now I'm applying for another job, while selling, quite rather than spending time at the boarding house."

"Oh yes, Neng," said the woman while nodding. "Hopefully Neng, successfully, accepted a job there." Again the woman spoke the local language mixed with the National language.

Relina is not a native, she is a migrant, so she has not been used to master the language of the region in her place. If he met with his fellow employees at that time, he would be quiet and just listen. Because his co-worker must have spoken the language of the region, which he did not understand. Only Ane faithfully explained the meaning of their conversation to him.

Neng is a common call used by locals, to call a small child, a teenage girl, or a young woman.

*****

Relina opens the door for Ane, who comes to pay a visit to her boarding room, when the girl has just finished her bath. The scent of soap and shampoo poured out of his body as his best friend walked in.

They sat cross-legged facing each other on a small carpet that could be used for everyday sitting by Relina. The room that surrounds them is small according to the size of the boarding room in general.

"Sorry, Rail. I just got here. How you doing?" Ane asked as she leaned against the wall behind her.

"What no. I'm good now, it's past the critical period" Relina replied as she thrust a glass of mineral water at Ane.

"Critical period, what pain are you, the same heartache Mr Junda?"

"Yes, the hell time, no wind no rain, immediately fired? No more severance." Relina's upset. He works with his heart, mind and energy, but all his efforts seem to be thrown away without being given anything. Miris once his fate, fired before he got his salary.

"Try me, Rel, you're introspection, who knows if there's something, or your attitude does make Mr. Widow, angry." Ane said as she sipped the mineral water in her glass.

Ane's remarks made Relina pensive, his attitude or mistake on Junda, he had thought from the beginning to experience dismissal, but he did not find it. For example, something that has not consciously or unconsciously offended Junda.

Relina thought very hard, she felt that when in the company office, they rarely met, once in a while, even just passing by. So, there was little chance that he could offend or err on Junda.

During this time, what Relina felt during work, Syalu who was more often assertive even tended to be fierce to her. He realized that maybe it was his stature and disposition, let alone that he was his subordinate. So it is natural that Shalu is often angry with him, even in other problems that have nothing to do with his duties.

Relina again thought, maybe because of his mistake or problem with Shalu, which made the boss complain to Junda, then the company's leader, finally fired him.

"Oh, yes Rel, how now your application at PT Gunara, has been accepted?"

"Ah, not yet, I've been sending applications there for a week, but there's no answer yet."

"What if it's not accepted. You want to apply elsewhere, here I send your CV to PT. Adolescents."

"Just wait, if in Gunara's company, there is no answer, then I give my CV to you, okay?"

Ane nodded, the drink in her glass was up.

"Why are you waiting for a proposal, really you sell, where are your trades?"

"Yes I sell, make money so that my money does not run out. If my trading is up, I never make much .. a little, but a day runs out."

The wheels of life's turn continued to roll and never stopped, just like that was the face of the world that Relina was now staring at. He must face a reality that is beyond his thoughts and assumptions. He did not expect to be fired, in a state of not having money, until he turned his brain to find income.

A good friend, he always helps and gives help, but he will not always depend on him. Ane also needs money, for her own purposes, considering they are also a nomads in the city.

Suddenly Relina remembered the incident, while she was in the park. He told Ane everything, how he tried to prevent Junda from the bite of a poisonous tree snake. Ane then said, when Relina was done talking.

"Well, could be the boss painting you for that."

"I didn't mean it, he was stung by a bee at the time, because of his own mistakes, didn't want to calm down, instead of him being bitten by a snake on a tree." Relina said with a frown, as if Junda was in front of her, very upset.

"Are you sure the snake will bite Mr. Junda?"

"Yes the snake was getting ready to bite the person under it, just above the head of Mr. Junda. Better where, bitten by a bee or his head pegged by a snake?"

Hearing Relina's story, Ane laughed.

"It should have been you at that time, when there was a snake on his head. So he's not angry!"

"Well, how do you say? When I said shut up, he left."

"I think so, it could be the problem that he's really upset with you. I just now know, Mr. Junda, never been to work a week, maybe because his hands were swollen."

"Ah time?"

"Hm ..."

Ane works in a different division to Relina, or in a product marketing division. Therefore, he often relates and meets directly with Junda, including other parts such as advertising or sales promotions. So he knew that for a week, the boss of the company, wasn't in the office.

Not everyone knows the cause of his absence. Only now does Ane know that the possible cause is her hand swollen from being stung by a weekend bee.

"If so, you say, apologize to Mr. Juanda about what happened in the park."

'Hey, what's it doing?"

"Yes, let you be accepted, work again there."

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