The Sign of Love
I'm His Friend

Love is like a journey, it has a starting point, a saturation point and an end. Love can end at any time even by death, that is the end of the journey. When one associates his feelings for others with love, he is like a traveler who walks to reach the estuary that is his goal. Usually, the estuary of love is marriage.

Relina was still thinking about her feelings, no matter how hard she tried to forget Junda, as strong as all the memories of being with her were clearly displayed in her eyes. Including when the man kissed her by force. A kiss is fleeting and meaningless. All happened because Junda showed his power and how arrogant he could do that to Relina at will.

But the last time their lips touched each other and Relina let him, she felt her tenderness and warmth. While in the car, he had already tried to fight Junda but in vain, finally he just kept quiet and accepted passively.

While Relina re-enforced her body after being in a leaning position long enough. He put down his phone and someone came to order coffee. There were a few more customers that made the bored atmosphere slightly melt away.

Relina let her co-workers provide and serve customers, while she herself received a video call from Ane. There were a few cell phone numbers that he kept, all the numbers of people he thought were important, of course, including Ane.

“Where did you get my new number?” ask Relina to Ane as soon as the call is connected. She was just about to call her best friend and wanted to ask her how she was, but it turned out that Ane had already contacted her.

“From Mamahku he asked for your number when to your mother's house.” Ane replied while chuckling. “You think I can't do anything, find your number. Hais you here, make people upset!”

“Yeah, it's just an attempt to erase the past.”

“So, I am also the past, so?”

“Hehe. Yes no. How do you continue ... still be Alex's nanny, or change profession?”

“What profession?”

“Wife of Mr. Dion, his mother Alex!”

“Hais, where is it!” Ane recounts her experiences while caring for Alex. It was a new and exciting experience for him. He also shared his doubts with Dion's offer to move to work at his company. After that he also said that Junda was looking for Relina and wanted the girl to return to work as a replacement for Shalu, her former secretary.

“So, Ms Sya is out, yes?” relina asked to make sure her hearing was not wrong. Though he knew in detail the cause of Shalu quit his job because Junda time explained everything to him.

Junda severed all ties with Shalu in front of Shalu's own parents, along with some evidence, which made him unable to refute his actions until he accepted the dismissal, by force.

How not? His actions have entered the criminal domain, until they can be criminalized. It's just that Junda still appreciates their friendship, so he did not complain to the authorities.

“So, how do you want to work with Mr Junda again?” Ane asked, while staring fixedly at Relina from her phone.

Relina heard Ane's words and shook her head, she also told him that she was now a new coffee entrepreneur in Martapura, so she had the busyness she hoped and could make him forget all the loneliness.

“So, you just received Mr. Dion's offer, remember ... opportunity did not come twice. Although there are other opportunities, but it will never be the same again. I'm the boss now, at Martapura! So, it's impossible to double up," said Relina who also laughed.

“What? Far away, Rail? Though I have told Mr Junda, if you go back to Talang Padang, eh ... now you are in Martapura?”

“What did you say, Ne? You said I was coming home, did you?”

‘Ya Lord .. I keceplosan’ Inner Ane.

“Iya, sorry. You see he's looking for you.”

‘Bodo highly!’

“Hais. You are Ane ..” Relina looked very disappointed, heard from her sentence and tone.

Relina nodded, confirming Ane's remark, that Junda was not a person who was less working to find it until crossing the Sunda Strait to the island of Sumatra.

The video call ended and Relina kept her phone in her pants pocket. Simultaneously, his heart suddenly grew restless and more and more unsettled. He was doubtful about what Ane said that Junda could not possibly be as determined as it was to catch up with him to his hometown.

She remembered the persistence of her efforts as she tried to persuade Relina to attend as a companion at her party. He thought that the man was capable of doing those things overnight.

‘Ah, who am I, what am I super staff? He can find another woman who is better than me!’

*****

Renita had just come home from teaching, she came home when it was almost afternoon. He had to teach the bimbel of the final grade children who would face the test. He also taught prifat in two houses at once. There was a troubled child at school, so both parents asked him to give additional lessons at their home.

The middle-aged woman who was still wearing the school batik uniform was stunned, in front of her house while wiping away the sweat that had suddenly filled her forehead.

He saw a shiny black Toyota Auris parked pretty in front of his yard. His house was on the side of the village road whose courtyard was not too wide, there was a luxurious car there, really grabbing the attention of some passers-by.

Especially when he saw a handsome young man with a neat and clean appearance was standing by leaning on the body of the car. He wears sunglasses to protect his eyes from the hot sun today.

“True, this is his home?” ask Junda to the assistant and driver he deliberately rented while he was there. He did not bring his personal vehicle because he crossed the Sunda Strait by plane from Jakarta to Raden Intan Airport, Natar.

“Iya, Sir. This is the house that matches the name and address given by the Master, earlier.” Answer his assistant named Fadil. He's a man who is not much adrift of his age with Junda, even it seems they are suitable even though they first met today at the airport.

“Hmm ...” Mumbled Junda while looking around, the house was quiet and looked empty. Her gaze stopped when accidentally, her gaze was strewn with Renita who was standing not far from her car.

Actually the size of the car is too big for Junda who used to drive a sports car when traveling alone. However, getting a rental car in the form of a family vehicle, is good enough for such a rural area.

“Sorry, find who, yes?” asked Renita politely as she walked towards the terrace of her house that looked beautiful and cool. Although simple and not too big the house seemed warm. Many ornamental plants neatly arranged on the left and right side of the house, adding to the beauty of the terrace, so that people will feel at home when chatting and visiting there.

Renita stopped right in front of Junda who was smiling kindly as she extended her hand. While the assistant got into the car and waited for Junda inside, while listening to music. The man's business is not his business. So he won't interfere.

“Halo, I'm Junda.”

Renita did not welcome the man's hand to guard her because Junda did not answer her question. Receiving such treatment, Junda pulled her hand back and hurriedly apologized, if she had been presumptuous to the middle-aged woman.

“Oh, sorry ... I'm looking for Relina. I am a friend in Bogor. We were once one office.”

"Oh," Renita replied as she stretched out her hand and shook Junda's hand. "I'm His mother."

Renita looked at Junda's appearance from the tip of her hair to the tip of her foot, as if looking for the truth if the man standing in front of her was her daughter's friend. Junda again smiled mockingly at himself, then he took off his sunglasses.

“How are you, Ma ...? Is Relina in?”

“No!” replied Renita firmly. As she recalled, Relina never told me that she was close to a male friend in the office. Unless the person is considered troubled and Renita tries to remember something about someone, who likes to force her child and lest..he is the one, who ... has given Relina jewelry!

Seriate