WHEN MY FACE CHANGED
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A month has passed since Jessica set foot in New York on unemployment. Jessica sees her account balance is dwindling, the last month she has done nothing and lived with the pas-pas san. He and Jeffry had not interacted for a long time, the man disappeared after returning from the hospital, Jessica who was filled with worry could only hear the news of Jeffry from Gabby, his sister's girlfriend.

“Sherina ?” Screaming Jessica when she saw the woman calling her, she immediately clicked the green button to talk to Sherina.

“Hello, Sherina ? anywhere, why just called me ?” Ask Jessica.

“Halo, I'm not going anywhere. Just take care of a little thing here.” Sherina answered through the connection.

“How are you doing ?” Ask Jessica.

“Ya is quite improved, my relationship with brother Erick has improved a little.” Sherina.

“Ah, thank goodness. So now you work in Dez group ?” Jessica asked considering the family-run company was a Dez group.

“Hah ? How do you know ? feeling I never talked about this with you ?” Sherina asked in surprise. How not, Erick neatly hid the identity of his family including Sherina. So very few people know that he is one of the children of the famous businessman Dez group, at most only the trusted people of the family who know.

“Jessi, answer. How do you know Dez Group is a company that Erick ?” runs Sherina repeated her question.

Ahh, fuck. Why am I so stupid ? Jessica cursed herself.

“Ah, the.... Of course I know, who doesn't know Dez group ? if you forget, you once took me to your house and met your sister.” Jessica said in a reassuring tone, as if she had nothing to hide from her words.

“Ohhh, yes I forgot.” Sherina.

“Then what are you doing in New York ? you also just left without telling me first.” Sherina said in a disappointed tone.

“I'm sorry, you still remind me I have a sister ?” Ask Jessica.

“Adik ? oh yesiya, why ?” Sherina replies that she once overheard Jessica mengingau when she came home from the bar drunk.

“I attended her graduation event here”

“So you'll be home when ?”

“I don't know yet, it will probably settle here.”

“Oh well then, hopefully you can get what you want.” Reply Sherina was not curious as usual, the woman seemed to no longer care about Jessica. But Jessica was stupid so much with Sherina's current attitude, she desperately needed help at this time so she threw away all her reluctance in order to get what she wanted.

“Iya, but Sher..”

“Iya, why ? I don't have much time, soon there's a meeting.” Sherina said in a hurry. Jessica took a deep breath, convincing herself that this was the best way for her smooth life.

“HAH ?” What did he say ? borrow money ? is this Jessica ? The Jessica he knew with her cold, reclusive nature was it ? No. gabe. There's no way this is Jessica, that woman is so arrogant with her powers, feeling the most capable, the strongest feeling of being able to live alone without a single friend by her side, Sherina thought.

“A-what ? who are you?” Sherina asked in surprise, not sure if Jessica had said that to her.

“This is Jessica, can I borrow your money ? my balance all thinned after a month here to unemployment.” Say Jessica again.

“Jessica you..”.

“Iya Sherina, I really need your help this time.” He said again, reassuring that this was really him.

“You how many ? just send me your account number.” Sherina said without thinking. Where was the Jessica he knew ? is that woman really messed up right now ? Ah, I don't know Sherina also can't understand Jessica who she has known for about three years.

After receiving a transfer from Sherina, Jessica immediately rushed out of the hotel that she had occupied so far, she chose to rent an apartment that was the cheapest so as not to spend a lot of money. Jessica undoes her intention to borrow money from Sherina to buy bugatti for Jefrry because it feels bad, after all who wants to lend money hundreds of billions without any collateral ? There aren't. Moreover, his life was currently in a mess, not knowing where to even have no job at all. So he chose to open his own business, however the results later he has resigned the important try first.

“Finally” Jessica put down her suitcase and walked towards the balcony of the apartment. The apartment unit that Jessica occupied was not too big as the apartment that circulated on social media. Even so, at least this building can be a place to rest while thinking about the way of life in front of him,

While arranging the contents of her suitcase into the closet, Jessica got a box that she had been carrying all this time. The box was a gift from his mother before he died, he did not know what the city was because he had never opened it at all. The last time her mother said she could open the box was after raising her sister well. Jessica stroked the square object made of light wood brownish black, it was in the padlock and the key was still stored in her wallet.

“Bu, I've raised Jeffry with all the abilities I have. I can even get him to graduate from college abroad and it's all a result of my own hard work, yes even though you'll be disappointed with the effort I've been doing all along. But...” His eyes warmed up, for some reason every time he remembered his mother's treatment he always felt a very deep tightness.

“But I did not really manage to educate his nature ma'am, he..he is just like father..hiks”.

“She... she forced her life to be as luxurious as her friends, she wanted all her wishes to always be fulfilled. You know ma'am ? back when I was in college, he used to call me to tell me all his wishes, that was mom. He never even asked me where I got the money for the living expenses of both of us, where I got the money to finance his education, he never asked that ma'am Her tears fell on the box in her hand. Jessica wiped away the tears, took a deep breath then exhaled violently.

“Huh!! But I'm sure you'll never understand any of that, you're just thinking about Jeffry's life, aren't you ? even in your last days you didn't send a message for me to live happily, you just left Jeffry, you only thought about him while I. I'm just babu here.” 

“But it's okay, therefore all I grew to be strong to like this” Her lips smiled faintly considering this bitter life she lived. 

“I can already open this relic of yours right bu ?” He muttered while wiping the tears that were dripping on the box.

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