Crystal

chapter 07

The day changed...

She remembered that she needed to give a resignation letter to her workplace. She also needed to buy some new clothes. So that day, she decided to go to the factory and then go to shop for some clothes. She rode her bike to the factory. It took more than thirty minutes by her bike at medium speed. She arrived at the factory at work time on purpose to avoid her acquaintances. She knew they cared for her, she was the youngest in her division, but she didn't want to get deeper with them. She was afraid their sympathy would make her weak. She walked to the security post after parking her bike in front of the factory. The security let her in, he knew her. Even though the security felt weird because she arrived at that time, he didn't ask her anything.

She walked to the HRD office to meet the head of HR. Her heart was beating faster, she didn't know if resigning from a job would make her heart beat so fast. She couldn't avoid the memories of that place even though she tried not to get closer to the people in it.

"Huff..." She exhaled before knocking on the door of the head of HR room.

"Come in..." A man's voice came out of the room. She opened the door and saw him talking with the Division manager. They were a little bit shocked about her being there at that time.

"Why are you in here?" The Division manager asked her. He felt weird she was there. He knew her, even though he didn't know a lot of the workers in her division. Crystal was very easy to recognize even though she wanted to hide herself, almost all of the employees in that factory knew her. It was not only because of her appearance, but also her good attitude.

"I need to meet with Mr. Damian." She mentioned the head of HR name.

"Okay, take your time." The division manager got up from the chair in front of Damian.

"I'll call you." He said to Damian before leaving the room.

"Okay..." Damian answered while looking at his back, and then he looked at Crystal.

"Have a seat." He let her sit on the chair in front of him which the division manager used before.

"Thank you." She said while taking a seat.

"Do you need my help?" He asked her while looking at her, trying to analyze what her purpose in his room. Crystal didn't say anything, she took the resignation letter and her ID card for the workers at that company. Damian knew what she wanted when he saw her take those things from her bag. He didn't want to lose her. He didn't want to lose a good employee. He took a deep breath before persuading her. He wanted to hold her and she told him her reason why she must leave her job. He couldn't hold her, he knew the young woman in front of him wanted to catch her dream, and finally only supporting words came out of his lips. His warm words almost made her tears fall, she tried so hard to keep them in her eyes. She took a deep breath before appreciating his kindness.

"Thank you for everything, Mr. Damian." She got up after she said those words. She didn't want her tears to fall down if she took more time in that room.

She was walking, getting out of the factory with many feelings. She didn't know when she would walk in that place for more. She thought maybe it was the last time she walked there.

"Huff..." She exhaled while walking. She had thought resigning was easy, just giving a resignation letter was enough. She didn't know it would churn her emotion, even though she tried not to get closer with people there and she had not worked there for a long time. Only ten months, but she felt bond because she worked with nice people. She held her emotion until she met with her bike. She took a deep breath while sitting on her saddle, ready to go, but her feeling was blue.

"Let's go shopping!" She tried to change her mood and took the pedal, started to ride her bike to the clothes shop, her next destination.

She arrived at her house with some new clothes. Her bag became fat because of that. She dropped her bag on the floor when she got into her room and jumped on the mattress to let her tired go. She was facing the ceiling and then she looked around. She thought that she needed to rearrange her room. She looked at the wall, the pink color of the wall was faded. So, she decided to make up her room while waiting for the academic period to start. She hoped it would give a new vibe before meeting a new chapter in her life as a new student at the university. She hoped it would help her study well.

Her next days were busy with her room. She sorted her clothes and other things that she didn't use anymore. She bought new wallpaper with different colors from her last wallpaper. She wanted to change the vibe of her room. She looked around her room before changing the wallpaper. She was looking for a way to change the wallpaper without moving the things in her room out of her room. She moved the things to the middle of the room. She needed a ladder to reach the top of the wall, so she went to the workshop to get it. She saw her father was sitting behind his desk when she opened the connecting door. He was busy with his phone. She continued her steps, walked to the workshop and took the ladder. She walked to another way to reach her room, not through the connecting door. She didn't want her father to see her and would ask her what the ladder was for. She didn't want him to ban her. She knew her father's habits, he always banned everything she did. So she never asked his permission. She knew the answer before asking. Mars saw her when she took the ladder. He didn't know what she was doing, but he wanted to help her, but he was busy and he didn't want anyone to know his feelings. He glanced at the other workers, they just ignored her, so he pretended to ignore her like the others, but his eyes didn't want off from her.