Chapter 30

Alina's POV
Yes, I can't imagine if Jerome wasn't in that part of my life. Luckily I met a savior angel who came from nowhere. Suddenly he appeared and at first it made me scared and shocked, mixed with surprise and a bit strange, umm, I mean very strange.
Ah well, now I've arrived in front of the house. I opened the door of the house as usual. I saw my aunt and uncle sitting in front of the living room waiting for my arrival with expressions that were not like usual.
"You just got home?" My aunt asked me with a cynical look.
"Yeah, I just came home from school." Even though I felt nervous, I didn't show that I was in big trouble. Instead, I tried to cover it all up by showing an expression that tried to seem normal as if nothing had happened.
"Are you sure you're at school?" Uncle said in a sarcastic tone to me.
"Y...yeah sure." Say sure but hesitate in answering.
"Ummm."
My Aunt and uncle made indifferent faces at me. Then my aunt threw an envelope on the table.
"Look at that!"
My Uncle and aunt looked at the envelope then looked at me. I feel very anxious and nervous in my heart. What is it? What actually happened?
I tried to take the envelope even though I was hesitant. Then try to open it to take out the contents of this envelope. Then slowly, very carefully, I tried to open the contents which were folded like an official letter.
I felt shaking when I opened it and when it was all open I was shocked. I felt shocked beyond belief and almost couldn't believe the reality of what I had just seen.
"You were expelled from school." Uncle said while swallowing saliva.
"Yes, we were called to school to face the counseling department and the principal. We were shown that your grades were bad in several subjects, almost all of them. We also got bad reports from your friends and your coach at the club."
I just bowed in resignation. Mourning my fate which is plagued by this continuous problem. Feeling not okay, I went into my room and locked myself without further ado to my uncle and aunt who were still frozen feeling very disappointed in me.
I walked into the room very tired and lay down on the bed without changing out of my uniform first. I don't know what else to do now. After I was no longer given the opportunity to go to school. Not to mention it's not just the problem with the math teacher and the random grades. But I also have a problem with school fees which are still in arrears for several months because I can't afford to pay them. So the school, with very strong reasons, just expelled me.
Now I can't cry anymore because I've cried enough. So I'm running out of tears now and can only drown in daydreams. But I tried to get up by wearing my work uniform. Without looking at the clock, I immediately went to work on foot because it wasn't too far from here.
I walked around feeling confused and unenthusiastic. Until finally I arrived in front of the cake shop where I work. When I was about to enter, I suddenly saw a lot of strange things in the shop.
"What is this?" I asked my friend who also works here.
He just shook his head with a languid expression then just walked away, leaving me dead.
I went back to meet my other work friends.
"What is this?" I asked the same question again.
But again and again I got the same response as the first time I asked my friend who had met me at the front earlier.
No one can answer my question at all. Suddenly someone called me.
"Alina, you're being called by the boss!" Show it with a glance in his eyes.
"Where?"
"In his room."
I immediately walked to the office of my boss, the owner of this cake shop. I was suspicious of what would happen. Moreover, since I was walking along the shop from the front until here, I didn't see any buyers or customers coming to this shop. This cake shop is very quiet, unlike usual which is quite busy, not too quiet. I started to enter with a feeling of wonder. Until I was in my boss's office.
"Excuse me."
"Sit down."
I sat down after being asked to sit down. Walked to the seat then sat opposite my boss, separated by his desk.
"You know what I meant to call you here?"
I shook my head "No."
"Excuse me..."
Just hearing the word sorry, I felt really bad. But I didn't do anything other than listen to my boss say what he really meant even though I already felt that he was going to say something that would make my heart even heavier.
"Sorry I have to fire you."
"Why? Did I do something wrong and disappoint?" I felt accused and protested all the accusations directed at me.
"No! No! That's not it. I mean I fired you honorably. You didn't do anything wrong."
"So?" It seems like I'm starting to be impudent by continuing to ask my boss. No, I mean my former boss now.
But he didn't seem to mind at all and instead continued what he was saying.
"I have a lot of debt to the bank. Until this shop and its contents had to be confiscated by the bank. You know, the sales profit at this cake shop doesn't really increase. The shop is sometimes quiet, sometimes busy, but mostly quiet. So to bring in my capital I had to borrow from the following bank to beautify the decoration of this place so that it still looks attractive. But to no avail, I didn't get the results I expected. Meanwhile, the cake production costs had to continue and come out every day even though many cakes didn't sell because the cake products didn't last very long So I suffered a lot of losses. Not to mention I had to pay my employees. That's why I'm so lost that I'm now in debt.” He explained the chronology of events to me.
"Yes, that's okay." While bowing weakly.
It felt like I had fallen down the stairs.
"Okay, now you can leave this room. Because I won't give you a single penny of severance pay. Because I don't have much money for that. My case is about debt so it's clear I'm short of money right now. Sorry, Alina, I'm sorry." He apologized again.
"Yes, okay, I'll excuse myself from going home."
I stood up from my original sitting position. Then he started turning around very sluggishly.