
Work time was finally over, Ella went home with her body exhausted at night to her home.
Ella was always a neat and clean person, so after work she went straight to the bathroom to clean her body from the smell of the kitchen.
After her body was clean, Ella lay on her bed. Ella is a person who likes cleanliness and neatness, so she never sleeps on her bed in a state of sweating.
The air in Tang City in January feels like a hot steam room. When Ella finished work at night, the bus she was riding on was always filled with sweaty people, so her journey home felt like a shower of sticky sweat that made her sick of the smell of sweat.
The restaurant where Ella worked had actually provided her with a dorm room, it's just that the place prepared for Ella wasn't fully ready so the restaurant company gave her 1,000 NNM (NNM is the fantasy currency of her author, though, consider it 1,000 MNM about 2,000,000 Rupiah or whatever your imagination wants to assume how much, it is up to hehe) for him to pay the rent of a temporary residence until the accommodation of the place for him that the restaurant provides is ready to live.
Ella is happy with the arrangement from the restaurant side, she does not want to stay in the dormitory because Ella likes a quiet place. Ella plans to stay at her house she rented even though the dormitory the restaurant has provided is ready in the future.
Ella prefers to drive a bus home and go to a restaurant for half an hour and get a 1,000 NNM subsidy instead of having to live in a dorm room with a stranger.
Ella took her phone out of her pants pocket to see what time it was. Ella usually turns off her phone during work time, and after she turns on her phone, several messages appear directly on the phone screen and there are many missed calls.
Some of the missed calls came from numbers he recognized and some were from numbers he didn't know.
Ella looked at the number she recognized. He frowned slightly while biting his lips, hesitated for a while and finally called back the number.
📱: "Hallo …"
📳: "You've finally called back! I thought you wouldn't call back …."
📱: "Uncle Stanalise, I just got home from work. I don't turn on HP at work."
📳: "You work so long till night? You worked too hard Ella! By the way Have you transferred money for this month?"
📱: "Yet, I'll transfer it tomorrow."
📳: "Then hurry up the transfer the next day, the others who owe me have paid their debts today. I'm having a little urgent need so please pay 1000 NNM more when you transfer tomorrow. Because my son's gonna be bringing his girlfriend home soon and I want to buy them an AC."
📱: "..good."
📳: "Ella, I understand that this is not easy for you and I know you are exhausted. But when you were young, you had to work harder, Otherwise, when can you repay your debt to me? You don't want to be in debt for the rest of your life, do you?"
📱: "Good, Uncle Stanalise."
📳: "That's all I can tell you. Long distance calls are expensive. In the future if you transfer money on time, I will not call you again. Don't let you pay late, huh? Otherwise, because you are so far away, no one will know if you run away from paying your debts. Do you understand? I know you are not that kind of person .., but considering that you owe me quite a lot, this is hard for everyone. So try to think about our situation as well, huh?"
📱: ".okay, Uncle."
Call stops. Ella was exhausted.
Ella tries to get excited to get out of bed. He then took out a savings book stored in his closet and looked at the numbers in his savings book. But just as he was looking at the amount of his savings, his phone suddenly lit up again which left Ella in shock.
Ella saw that it was a call from an unrecognized number. After weighing for a while, he finally pressed the answer button.
📳: "Hallo? Who is it, this?"
📱: "Ella Noer Amyzee?"
Ella heard a breath that was heard through her phone. Ella's hand shook and her phone almost fell out of her hand.
Ella knew whose voice this was. she remembered this voice. This was a call from a person he did not want to meet. This is a call from Mr. Reo.
📱: "What is this, Ella Noer Amyzee?"
Ella hesitated for a long time before she finally whispered 'yes.'
📳: "Yes."
There was a sigh of relief and a small laugh on the phone.
📱: "You answered too long. I think I've hit the wrong number!"
Ella was silent to the sound coming from her cell phone that she put in her right ear.
📱: "Why didn't you say anything? Why are you quiet?"
📳: "Master ... Reo."
📱: "Okay, at least you still recognize my voice."
Ella didn't know what to say, so she kept silent no more. Ella was also wondering how this guy could find out his cell phone number?
📱: "Where do you think I know your phone number from? I asked for your manager Kaazee number. So when do you get home from work tomorrow? I'll pick you up and we'll discuss food for the party."
'Meet him tomorrow? I don't want to see him tomorrow …. Also, he just said to meet me tomorrow but didn't he ask my opinion first? Didn't ask if I was willing to meet him?' ella thought to herself.
Ella was disgusted by Reo's commanding tone and seemed unwilling to accept rejection.
📳: "I ... don't work tomorrow. Vacation."
📱: "Oh, good! Since you are free tomorrow, then you have time to serve me tomorrow. Where's your house? I'll pick you up in the morning."
Ella said in a soft voice except for the word 'holiday.'
📳: "Tomorrow is my day off. A holiday!"
Ella emphasized the word holiday a little harshly. He really didn't want to meet Reo. After all, Ella only had one day off in a week.
For a moment, things became quiet before the one on the phone returned to voice.
📱: "Koki Ella must be tired. So rest well tonight. Tomorrow again after you get home from work, I'll pick you up. So .. good night."
Phone disconnected. Before the phone was cut off, Ella could vaguely hear Reo's tone that she was unhappy with Ella's refusal.
Ella lay on her bed and covered her body with a blanket. No matter how much he disliked to meet with Reo, he could not refuse the offer of money.
Ella hugged tightly the pillow bolster. After a while, he finally fell asleep.
The next day, Ella spent time recalculating the amount of debt she had in the notebook. He also transferred money to several no. accounts to pay his debt installments including to Uncle Stanalise's account number. Stanalise's uncle was not his family or relatives, it was just one of his neighbors where he used to live in Angspoer City.
His father fell ill with cancer and he had no money for treatment. 13-year-old Ella had to knock on every door of the house in the neighborhood to borrow money.
After promising to pay for it by working and making debt-receivable notes, he finally managed to raise money for his father's treatment. Unfortunately, in the end his father still died .. And the debt must be paid.