WOUND
Sick Leave

Until when I got to the front of his office room immediately I knocked on his door and sounded authentic from the inside allowing me to enter, immediately I entered by walking down while continuing to think about what my mistake to him was without stopping until when it was facing him in front of my face I just asked him directly.

"Good morning sir, what did you call me here so early?" I asked him at that time.

"Aahhhh nothing, I just want to ask if my hand is okay and have you checked with the doctor?" Asked Mr. Arsen to me made me flabbergasted to just widen my eyes very wide at that moment.

"Hah?.a.a.what...aahhhh..iya my hand is fine this master has improved a little I have also checked it to doctor aha...you do not have to worry about it" I replied to him a little nervously and was still shocked.

At first I thought Mr. Arsen called me because there was something important he wanted to talk to me about so I was very shocked and nervous at first and when I came in he asked me about the situation my hand was so I was immediately flabbergasted because it felt like asking about it was not as important to him as it should be, because this also happened not because of his mistake only I was careless and did not see the flower properly before so that a small accident like this I could not avoid.

After I told him that my hand was fine and had improved with time but what I did not expect was that he suddenly gave me a day off so easily.

Though I did not intend to ask him for permission at all because I thought it was just an ordinary wound so I could still endure the pain and I could still move as usual even though the palm of my hand in a bandage like this.

"Anna you'd better take it easy, I'll give you sick leave if you want" Mr. Arsen said.

Of course I refused him a subtle offer because I didn't want to be a source of envy to other employees where I knew this would not be done by Mr. Arsen to other ordinary employees and I don't want to cause social jealousy in that place.

"O..ohhh, thank you, sir, but I think I can still hold it and can handle my own work even though my hands are like this, the doctor also said that this can be opened after three days and I can put a special plaster on my hand to make it easier for me to move his fingers" my reply immediately explained to him along with all the detailed explanations hoping that he would listen to me.

But I was stupid, indeed, he would still not be able to listen to me even though I had explained everything in length and breadth, talking incessantly to him trying to convince him that this was only a wound on the hand from a sharp thorn in the flower roses only, and do not need to be too much to worry about the wound problem until it gives me sick leave with a long time at that time.

"You should stay and rest at home, I'm not going to cut your pay because you're like that in your time and still be with me so let's just say this is a form of accountability from me, you have to take the five days of sick leave that I give you" Mr. Arsen said, deciding everything on his own.

I could only stare in shock and both wide-open eyes felt very strange and erratic astonishment hearing the words from him like that.

"YES..AA..what sir? Five days?" I asked him again because I still couldn't believe what he said to me just now.

Five days off was too much for me because the one who was injured was not even a palm that he imagined or what he was thinking in his head at that time until he could giving me five full days of work accident sick leave plus a six-day Sunday off, I really did not understand the mindset of an Arsen master at that time.

"Yes...five days, why did you get shocked like that, what five days less? All right then seven days only" said he who even added again the cut schedule.

I quickly refuted his words because I was afraid that he would add back his sick leave for me, making me even more suspicious of other employees, moreover, at this time they have often talked about me behind the back and many also often think that I am in the child affected by Mr. Arsen, rather than the fact that I also never expected to be treated like that by Mr. Arsen himself in addition I also never felt in the child to be afflicted by him, he added, he just looks good and looks at me on the outside because he also stays tough and firm to me even if they know that I would rather be ignored by Mr. Arsen like an employee else, getting this kind of attention from her was quite troublesome for a person like me who wasn't too happy to get things like that, because I wasn't used to feeling it.

"Sir.wait, those five days are too much for me in addition you added it again, the purpose of my previous speech is I want to keep working without taking sick leave from you, he said, because right now I'm healthy and I'm really capable of doing my job, after all, my work does not require much energy because I will not lift any heavy items and can put my wounds in danger, I'm just sitting in front of the computer and looking for other ideas for new food I'm also just checking the results of our creative team's design, it won't bother my Lundi at all" my reply explained everything to Mr. Arsen.

I was still trying to explain everything and hoped she could understand what I said at the time to her, that in fact I did not really need Citi to be sick, I just want to use my sick leave if one day I have a pain that really makes me unable to come to the company, then I want to use the opportunity, he said, but if now of course I will not do it carelessly because if I am too much in the know not to go to work by other employees and can get sick leave so easily even Mr. Arsen alone who gave it to me happily, of course all the employees here will feel jealous and hate me later.

Yes maybe not all employees hate me because they envy me being close to Mr. Arsen but most are like that, I have very often listened to their gossip whispers accidentally, bad they kept talking about it when they found out that I was there, in fact, they even tighten their voices as if intentionally insinuating me and hoping I will listen to all their babbling at that time.

But fortunately I am not that stupid I always wear earphones when out of my room or go to the kitchen and bathroom because only those two places where there are many people who are always caught by you in the middle gossiping with Mr. Arsen with unfounded words and news, they too easily talk about the ugliness of others that deliberately fabricate the evil in others.

It was only out of envy and disbelief in his heart that he had been left far enough behind than the person he was talking about back then that they deliberately aggravated the person's name in order to be equal again with him or even someone who often deliberately dropped others and compared himself to me as if he was better than me even though I did not care at all about him.

All of that was indeed quite irritating for him as well with all the sayings and rumors they were talking about him as well about Mr. Arsen.

But what I told Mr. Arsen while trying to hold him back was all a futile conversation because Mr. Arsen still told him to take the sick leave he gave that moment.

"Yes you can take whatever day off you want, I give you freedom because you have won the race for our company" Mr. Arsen replied to me.

I know that means it's good for me but I don't want that at all because I clearly understand the attitude and character of the other people around this office, where they certainly saw all the goodness of Mr. Arsen from a different point of view than what he saw himself at that time.

"You know who I am and how I'm not, so there's nothing you can argue with if I decide myself, at least you should cherish my kindness by taking the sick leave I've given you for a few days, even if you're only going to take it for a day or two, I don't mind that but if you keep pushing it like this I don't think I can accept a rejection from anyone not except you Anna" mr. Arsen said to me with his face so serious and looking at me so sharply at that moment.

Because he had already spoken to me like that and I could only let out a languid breath at that moment, I couldn't do anything more and couldn't argue with it in the slightest so I could only give up on accepting everything with an airy heart.

"Okay sir, I will go and take three days of sick leave from you, it's not that I don't respect you, sir, but I only minimize the rumors that will be circulating later in this office if you continue to treat me differently from other employees continuously like this, and I hope you understand what I mean" I replied to him, saying goodbye as soon as possible.

I'll get out of there as soon as I can and go back to my own workroom, I walked into my private office and just sat down in front of Mey's secretary who was focused on doing my job up there, I could only just sit down lethargicly while sticking my head on the table with a very uninspired face at that moment.

"Huuffft....." The sound of my breath lethargic,

I couldn't say anything more and just continued to sit languidly while continuing to stick my face on the table in a daze, until Mey's secretary immediately reprimanded me with her face that looked very curious towards me.

"Ehhh.... Anna, are you back? Why stare at me like that, what's wrong with you lest you get a spray from Mr. Arsen huh?" Mey's secretary said as she walked right up to me and continued to stare like she was investigating me back then.

"No he didn't spray me with anything at all, he was just too weird and kind to me, I couldn't accept everything" I told him.

Mey's secretary quickly looked at me more sharply than before she was so serious about listening to me earlier, and now she was looking at me with great enthusiasm, indeed he is the happiest when it comes to talking about Mr. Arsen and everything about him.

"God ...Anna then what do you need to worry about and need to make you look lethargic and weak like this if indeed Mr. Arsen is being nice to you, should you feel happy right?" Mey's secretary replied to me at the time.

He knows absolutely nothing and of course he will not feel what I feel he will not understand it because it does not experience anything I experience, of course it was difficult to explain to him what my current position was and I also did not want to talk about the matter to Mey's secretary so when she urged me to tell her all immediately just push him to leave my office because I'm no longer in the mood to talk to anyone including himself.

"Anna why are you quiet, let's talk to you, let's tell you what's really going on with you, who knows I can give you the best solution, why don't you answer me like this" said Mey's secretary, who kept urging me as she pleased.

I just stared at him with a flat gaze and really could not give any more expression to him at that time.

"Secretary Mey I'm not doing well right now, I'm tired can you just leave here, please give me some time to myself first, I want to calm my mind, I want to, can't it be Mey's secretary?" I said to him in a good way.

"Anna I want to accompany you here why you are telling me to come out, I am your secretary of course I have to accompany you" replied Secretary Mey who even made me a little annoyed at him.

"Secretary Mey.you are why, please if you want to understand me, go first, I do not want to hurt you with my words that will be able to come out any sentence if I am angry later, I will not want to hurt you with my words, I beg you" I said begging him.

Until finally the secretary Mey nodded and finally she wanted to get out of my room as soon as possible.

"Yes.if you want to be, I'll go out but if you need anything, tell me immediately, don't hold everything alone yeah, I really care about you" said Mey's secretary and I nodded to her immediately.

He immediately went out of my office, and I could only keep quiet with an erratic feeling and could only look down lethargicly while looking at my hand wrapped in a bandage like this, I was completely fine but he kept telling me to take the sick leave he gave me, even though I didn't ask for it at all.

"Aaishh.what should I do if I take three days' sick leave from her, I must also make it impossible for me to cook by hand like this, mother will definitely not allow it" my grunts just kept feeling erratic at the time and continued to be confused themselves.

Until the clock came home from work and Mey's secretary had come to pick you up to the workspace, so we both immediately went together to go downstairs, when I got to the bottom I saw that Mey's secretary had been picked up by her sister so she just left quickly while I myself just stood waiting for a taxi that passed around there at that time.

"Aahhhhhhhhhhhh...My sister Anna has come to pick you up if you want to go with me I can take you" Mey's secretary said, offering her a ride,

"Don't I have to either taxi for your brother's pity, didn't you say he was as fierce as Mr. Arsen I couldn't face a man who looked like Mr. Arsen, I was dizzy with just one Mr. Arsen" I told him a little jokingly at the time.

Secretary Mey also just chuckled softly in response to my remark until she immediately waved her hand as she quickly got into the car and left with her sister.