Jadi dulu kawanku ini seorang single mom and struggling for the end meets for her and her daughter. Actually her ex is still responsible - very responsible to cover all the expenses for their kids, but to be honest, the salary in our work place was small. Mind you that she graduated from reputable university and very skillful so working in that place was not worthy.
So she was thinking about resigning from that kindergarten and find a better job but since there was a year contract she cancelled it.
But out of the blue, once day she came to me and told me that she got a job around Kalibata area. The money was good. Way better that this place.
I told her to grab the opportunity.
She was confused a bit about the excuse that she would bring up.
I said, "tell them that you need to go visiting your sick father for few day but then tell that you cannot come back because your dad asks you to stay."
She was considering the idea for awhile.
"How about the uniform? Should I return them?" She asked.
"Just post it," I advised.
She agreed.
I was the only one who knew the dirty idea.
4 other friends that we were close to knew that she got new job, but had no idea where it was.
Her teaching partner, head mistress, and supervisor asked me about her leaving and got suspicious on me. Did I give a damn? Hell NO!
I had little respect to them, tbh, so it would be a bit relieved feeling to make them curious :)
But soon our little secret would reveal unexpectedly.
So, almost every weekend, in the morning, she and I jogged at University of Indonesia for at least two hours.
Once, when we were walking down the path in UI, from the different direction, we saw the head mistress and her family. They were bicycling together.
My friend was talking on the phone with her uncle at that time, so she walked aside to give space to other joggers or bikers.
Seeing that, the head mistress confronted me with sharp voice, "tell her not to be afraid of me." I said okay. She then left.
I told my friend about it and she just laughed and said, "who is afraid of her? not me."
That time i was still working in that place but somehow nobody confronted me about it.
I don't remember what I felt on Monday, a day after the secret broken.
I don't think I felt scared of something like that. It was a normal day.
After few years, we flash back and I delivered my curiosity to my friend about why the head mistress didn't confronted me or got ramification from the lies.
She replied, "probably R (the head mistress) felt useless talking to you and pretty sure that you would keep your mouth shut."
I said, "yea. But even if she asked me whether I lied about the whole situation, I would admit that yea, I did lie. Nothing she could do about it anyway."
Working experience there was not all lemon.
Hm.. I was able to change it into lemonade :)
At least I got a good friend.
See you.
