The Sign of Love
The Special Person

Relina was stunned for a moment, to think about Anne's remark, that in order to solve the problem of her actual dismissal there was no need to happen, just because of the problems that occurred outside the office.

If all the allegations are true, then he can straighten out and get back to work. It will remain, if Ane's allegations are wrong, that the dismissal Junda did because it was his fault, it will be very embarrassing.

He will not do Ane's advice, it could be true that the mistakes he has done in the office, it is quite fatal, or indeed the company is doing budget savings. Ahk, just ignore it.

Relina shook her head, after which she stood up, taking out a map from the plastic drawer, the only piece of furniture that was near them. He keeps all his personal needs there, including clothing, some skin care products and other supplies.

"I don't want to talk about Mr. Junda anymore. I've made another cover letter, whatever, you want to go anywhere." Relina sat back in front of Ane while thrusting the map to her.

"Seriously, would you like to sign up at another office, Rail?"

"Yes, where are you going to enter my application?"

"To the same restaurant PT, Aurora."

"There's a connection there, is that it?"

Ane simply nodded as she stuffed Relina's map into her bag. This friend of his did have a lot of friendships and relatives in the city because he was born there.

"But, if later the job application at PT. Gunara's welcome, I don't want to work anywhere else."

"Why?"

"The name of the company resembles the name of our upperclassman, Gunara Badru."

"Cie .. remember the ex. Yes, I'm new, yes, if the name is similar to the name of Mr. Gun."

Hearing Ane's words, Relina smiled, suddenly remembering their upperclassman on campus, Gunara. They were once close, often doing activities together because their activities and missions were the same, as if they were one frequency in interests and desires. Scouts, and nature lovers, that's their activity.

"Well, I just found out, too, when I was looking for a new job. Not far from here"

"Yes, I hope to meet you there .. same ex." Ane laughed after saying it.

"What, he never said anything about his feelings, just rumors I'm dating him."

"Aren't they close, are they, like you?" Ane is curious about Relina's past because her best friend never talks about her personal affairs to others, including her.

"Yes, being close doesn't mean being a boyfriend." Relina said while frowning her nose.

"Well, everybody says you're dating her."

'Yes, but he never shot me, until he graduated, he just kept missing no news'

"Now I'm clear, I'm not dating her!"

"Ciee .. that's just getting angry" The two women laughed together, full of familiarity.

When he remembered about Gunara, the upperclassman he liked, Relina could forget his heartache on Junda. He had met his former boss twice, in unpleasant circumstances. Surprisingly, he was always the one whose position was always wrong in Junda's eyes. Eventually Relina could only hope, not to meet the man again.

*****

Junda was standing in front of a large mirror attached to the wall of the living room, near the reading table. Next to the table, there was a bookcase deliberately placed in the middle of the room, transversely because it functions as a barrier between the place to watch television and the sofa that is commonly used to read books neatly arranged there.

An old woman passed by next to him and sat down on one of the couches, looking at Junda, his granddaughter. They were both in the room, which was located in the middle of the house and it was the room, the largest among the other spaces.

"What do you see, has anything changed?" Sashi asked with a strange look at Junda.

"That's impossible, Grandma!" Junda replied with a sniffle, annoyed with his grandmother who liked to mark him.

The relationship between the two of them is very close, since Junda was a child, Sashi took care of him. Instead of Junda being a child with no mother, he became an orphan 23 years ago. His father did not live with them either.

Since Atmaja, Junda's father married a woman named Felia, the man chose to live in Jakarta, with his wife. Leaving his only child with Sashi, the mother of his late wife.

"Nothing, Grandma. I just see why the white mark on my neck isn't missing."

"You throw away your skin, it can disappear" said Sashi with a slanted smile.

Junda has a gentle mother, but she has gone before Sashi, as well as her son. The woman died when Junda was a child from an infectious disease that had occurred in Indosia, in 2003 to 2007.

The disease affects many poultry in the province of West Java, such as the Lumajang, Tasik, Bekasi, until finally spread throughout Indonesia.

Daysi, contracted the h5N1 virus, or commonly called Avian influenza, accidentally. She loves beautiful little birds. Actually, the case of death in humans is very small, from the data of 29 cases, which were infected at that time, only 13 people died, and that includes his mother Junda.

Sashi often explained to him about the death of his mother to Junda, the boy was seen seriously learning about this disease several times.

A few years later, cases like this happened again, with a higher number of transmission, but Junda had not thought about it anymore.

"Jun, the older you get, the more you look like your father."

"Oh, huh?" Answer Junda flat. He looked ahead, thinking back to his mother. His memory of the figure of a mother, almost gone from his mind, he was just a pure child, when his mother was gone and still did not understand.

"When did you call your father, how's he doing?" Sashi asked as Junda was already sitting next to him while opening a book.

"Who knows you've got a new sister, now." Sashi said as he shuffled towards his granddaughter.

Junda's father is an energetic, charismatic adult and loves to work hard. Behind his advantages, he was too afraid of infectious diseases or anything that could hasten death. Therefore he did not want to approach his wife, Junda's mother who was sick at that time. Until finally, the woman who had accompanied his life for more than seven years, died.

Hearing Sashi's words, the man who was currently wearing this white shirt and knee-high pants, only put his shoulders forward.

He read without looking at Sashi. Sometimes his hands rubbed his hair straight and always neat. His skin was pure white, appearing to sparkle in the light from the wide open window.

Junda did not care so much about his father, because it was not too close, the relationship between father and son was biased only. When he was a child, his mother and grandmother took care of him, while Atmaja was always busy working.

His job as a company leader, which forced him so. Moreover, his business, in the field of property products, has just run and developed rapidly.

"Maybe" answered Junda when he heard his grandmother's words.

"Didn't you want to go there? It has been almost a year since you went to Jakarta. He's your father too. If I die later ...."

"Grandmother, enough. Don't talk about dying anymore. I don't like it, Grandma." Junda says he closes the book and turns to Sashi.

"If I die, your father is your only family. I just wanted to say that." Sashi smiles.

"I can live without him, Grandma." Junda said while clenching his hands.

"Don't you, if it wasn't for your father, you wouldn't have your company now."

"Yes, but ...." Junda closed his eyes while taking a deep breath.

He recalled the story of his grandmother, who once told how his father behaved at the death of his mother. Atmaja, did not want to be close to Junda and Sashi once he learned of his wife's illness. Even when his mother's body was buried, Junda was just like beach sand, which is meaningless, his father saw the funeral procession from a distance.

Since Atmaja married a woman, who managed to lure him five years ago, he let go of Junda just like that, with all his great responsibilities in his hands.

"If you don't want to be busy approaching your father, then be busy looking for your life partner" said Sashi with a flat face.

"I don't want to get married, Grandma. No woman has such a mark on my body." Junda said while looking at a white sign like a rose petal near his knee.

Junda has such a sign, since birth, ancient parents called it the baolawe sign. The sign has a name because it is rare for a newborn to have a sign like this. Most birthmarks on the baby's skin are black, or red, it's common, but the birthmark on Junda's body is different.

It's just a matter of some people's trust, but Sashi believes in this and the trust he continues to convey to his granddaughter. Most birthmarks in the baby's body, will disappear with time and will not be seen again, when the child grows up. However, the mark on Junda's body is not lost until now, which is what causes ancient people to give a nickname, for this one body sign.

"That means you and your wife are special people, it's not easy to get them."

"Son, is it true that if I don't marry the same woman, then I can die?"

Seriate

*In this essay, I only take story ideas from one myth or belief that arose in ancient societies, but there are still probably, a handful of people who believe in some myth in society. I'm just a little dramatizing this belief into a story. I take one of the myths that is very rare, even relatively rare... For the name of the tribe and the origin of the belief, I deliberately did not mention, in order to avoid the element SARA*

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