Material Girl

"Hey, newbie. Come here quickly." That voice just made Calista move quickly toward her.

"You clean up the table there, the main thing is that the table has to be clean because there are VIP customers who will come." Appoint a woman three years older than her.

Calista, who is a restaurant waitress and has only worked for two days at that place, must obey. The one who just ordered her is not the owner of the restaurant, but her senior who is also a waitress there.

Calista quickly cleaned the table, suddenly a man at the next table accidentally touched her buttocks, causing Calista to spontaneously turn around and reprimand him.

"Sorry sir, that's not polite." She threw it so that the people at the table turned to look at her in unison.

" What are you saying? I didn't do anything to you, don't accuse me recklessly." Answer the man with an innocent face.

"Just now you touched my ass, that's an act of impolite." Calista tried to stay calm even though she didn't want to admit it.

"See, this servant is accusing me recklessly." The man provoked his friends to blame Calista, and all eyes were now on her.

"Hey miss, watch what you say. We are all regular customers at this restaurant, and we are married men. Women like you are not even to our taste. " One of them attempted to defend.

The commotion made by Calista made the place crowded, even the restaurant manager came out to finish it. Because the man did not want to confess until the end, Calista was asked to apologize to him.

"But I wasn't wrong." Calista said trying to convince the manager.

"Calista, I'm sorry." Cut the manager firmly.

Calista clenched her fists tightly, then she looked at the man's face while bowing her head.

"Sorry sir, I admit I was wrong." Calista said full of compulsion.

After apologizing and all the problems have been resolved, Calista returns to complete her task. And just as she was about to turn back, the man deliberately touched her butt again.

"You son of a bitch." Calista hit the man on the head with an old rag and made everyone look at her in surprise.

"Calisa, what are you doing?" Said the restaurant manager who returned to see the woman's behavior.

"I've been trying to be patient, first you accused me of lying even though you did it. And now you're doing it again you think I'm going to stay quiet, huh?" Calista was so furious that she pulled the man's collar so hard.

"Take your hands off him." Said one of his friends.

Calista turned and looked at them one by one with a scary look, all of them didn't dare to move anymore and neither did the man who was still in Calista's arms.

"Now apologize, or I will smash your face." Calista threats made him look like a demon now.

"S-sorry, I admit I was wrong." The man said in a trembling voice.

"Calista, you've disturbed the atmosphere in this restaurant." The manager looked at her seriously.

"I quit, without you telling me I will quit this stupid job." Calista took off her apron and immediately headed to the locker room to get her things.

**

"AAKHHHHHHHHH, damn it." Calista shouted as she was on the street until everyone around her was shocked and stared at her in shock.

"Bastard man, jerk manager, the world is full of jerks." Calista was furious on the way back to her house tonight.

Calista has been fired three times because she can't control her emotions, she works anything to get money. Calista is a 25 year old woman, not attending college and only attending high school.

Calista is the only child from a broken home, her mother went somewhere shortly after she was born. Then she has a father who is unemployed, moreover her father likes to borrow money to gamble so she has to be in debt by loan sharks.

For almost five months, Calista tried to work to earn money so she could cover her father's debts, but until she didn't get her first salary, she had already been fired.

Calista arrived home, she found her father who was heavily drunk. The smell of alcohol and food waste was scattered everywhere, while taking a deep breath he moved to clean up all the dirt.

"Dad get up, move to the room." Callista's orders.

"Hmmm, dad doesn't have any money." Said in sleep.

"If you don't have money, don't borrow money from people all the time, my own father will be the one who will be dizzy later." Calista replied even though she knew her father was unconscious.

And after everything was done, it was time for Calista to rest. She has a room with a size large enough for herself to relax, tonight she will sleep and tomorrow find a suitable job for her.

**

Several months later...

The woman ran with all her might, she was running from the people who were going to charge her money. She had paid off her father's debt with considerable interest, but apparently her father had borrowed money again and had run away somewhere.

Calista had become their only target, and now she didn't know where else to hide. She has worked very hard to pay off those debts, and now she is still the target of all of them.

"Catch you." They said after they managed to catch Calista.

"Let me go, let go." Calista tries to rebel, but it's a shame their strength is far greater.

Calista was knocked unconscious right then and there, she didn't know where the bastards were going to take her. Faintly she could hear that she would be taken to meet their boss, until in the end she was completely unconscious.

**

Slowly but surely Calista was able to open her eyes, she was surprised to find herself in an unfamiliar room. She realized that someone had injected something into him, too late to dodge because the liquid had already entered her body.

There was a strange man in front of her at the moment, he was looking at Calista with a bleary look. The man was only wearing a hotel bathrobe and was sitting there, the woman who had just injected something into her arm slowly left the room.

" What happened? who are you.?" Asked Calista who was trying to stay away when the man approached her.

"Your father owes us a lot of money, money alone will not be enough to pay it off. I'll give you one chance to pay off the debt, the way you only need to serve me tonight." Said the man while touching Calista's chin.

"Let go, I would never want to be with a pervert like you." She replied while holding the man's hand firmly.

"You will never get away from me." He continued to approach Calista again.

"Let me go. " Calista tried to push him away, but she suddenly became weak and helpless.

"The injection? must be because of that."

"Don't run, I will make you feel the pleasure that you have never felt." The man's whisper made Calista shudder to hear it.

Frence 2019

Calista woke up from her sleep after she had a bad dream, the woman got up and leaned against the head of her bed while touching her face with raging feelings.

Whether it was just a dream or an incident in the past that had disappeared from her memory, everything felt so real that it made him feel short of breath every time she had that dream.

Five years ago he left Italy and settled in France, starting a new life though still in a bad state.

At the age of thirty, Calista has yet to find a job that suits her. She has tried to get a job but unfortunately none of them match the passion she has.

"Calista, come out. I have something to tell you." The voice came from outside the room, without waiting for a long time Calista got out of bed to meet someone outside.

"What's wrong.?" Calista who had just left the room and sat in front of a woman with curly hair.

"I found a suitable job for you." The woman replied.

" What? You got me a job.?" Calista exclaimed, unable to believe the words of the woman in front of her.

The woman named Becky, is a distant cousin of Calista on her father's side, and the two of them decide to live together in a rented house that Becky fully pays for.

Becky herself is a permanent employee at a telecommunications company, she got the right job information for Calista today.

" What kind of job? Quickly tell me." Calista replied again telling Becky to say it.

" A teacher." Becky answered looking her straight in the eye.

" What? Teacher? No..no..., I don't want to be a teacher." Reject Calista really hates this profession.

" But this really suits you who like kids."

"Have you forgotten my past? I don't deserve to take on such a noble profession." Calista replied.

"What's wrong with trying? It's been five years since then, you've become the new Calista." Becky said trying to convince.

"There are still many other jobs besides being a teacher." Calista said softly.

"You have applied for many jobs before and see that until now you are back to being unemployed, this job is good enough for you." Becky replied curtly.

"But I'm not fit to be a teacher, you know teachers educate people's children so they can be smarter. While I can't do that, I can't do this, i am not well-educated." Se said pitifully.

"The salary is 500 Euros per month and you will only teach children aged 5 to 6 years. " Becky shouted.

"Fine, I accept." Calista quickly accepted it after hearing that the salary was quite high for a kindergarten teacher.

"You are a mercenary." Becky's joke made Calista smile with joy.

**

Largely plastered with the words Scuola Dell Infanzia in front of a white building with a fairly large pillar rising up. Makes the impression that the school is very expensive, even though it is only a kindergarten but has a very luxurious building design.

"No wonder the salary is high enough, I will protest if the salary is low but the school model is like this." Calista's mind had just entered the school yard.

Calista walked to the principal's room and the owner of the school. She was warmly welcomed by the school owner named madam Sara, then Calista underwent a series of interview sessions to find out how appropriate she was to become a teacher at the school.

It turned out unexpectedly, Calista who thought that everything would be going through with great difficulty turned out to be very smooth.

As soon as she finished the interview session, Calista was immediately received by madam Sara. Before she actually did her job, she would see the teaching and learning process at the school and would be assisted by one of the teachers named Ms. Xia.

"Introduce my name Hwang Xia, I was born in China but I grew up here so I can speak fluently here." Obviously a woman with shoulder-length curly hair with a mole under her lip makes herself look cuter.

"I am Calista Angela, please take care of me in the future." Calista replied with a smile.

Currently Calista was sitting in the back seat watching how Ms. Xia manages class 1-1 which contains ten students with an average age of 5 to 6 years.

In that class, Calista could see all the different student behaviors, some who were calm in their own world, some who always sought attention, some who were difficult to manage, and various traits that the teacher in charge of the class had to be able to handle.

Seeing how Ms. Xia was able to do so well that it made all the students focus on her and made the class livelier, suddenly making Calista's confidence disappear. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to do something like that in his class later.

Being a kindergarten teacher is not easy, the key is to be patient and be able to manage your emotions well. However, they must be demanded to be professional because at that school they do not only act as teachers, but as substitute parents for their students.

At that time Xia directed all the children to share, and they were free to share whatever they had with whomever they wished to give.

Suddenly a boy came in front of Calista with a plastic flower to her. Calista blinked in confusion and glanced at Ms. Xia gave her the code to accept the child's gift.

"For me.?" Asked Calista to the boy.

"Hmm." He replied with a small nod.

" Thank You." This immediately made Calista's feelings melt, she didn't expect that such a small child would be so adorable by giving her flowers.

The end of class made Calista catch a lot of lessons that were enough for her to be able to apply them in her class later. The children in Ms. Xia is indeed very kind although sometimes there are still some of them who are naughty with the intention of getting Ms. Xia.

The class ended and continued with lunch together, the children brought their own supplies from home. Even though it was break time, Ms. Xia had to keep monitoring them to make sure their food was actually eaten so that no one missed their lunch.

Calista helped and saw that the children's menu in the class was very luxurious, they brought food with expensive ingredients. No wonder this school is called the most expensive kindergarten in Paris.

"You don't eat Calista?" Reprimand Ms. Xia who brought a lunch box for Calista.

"I haven't officially taught yet, why get lunch?" Calista felt bad receiving it.

"You've been accepted at this school, that means you've become part of this school and are entitled to lunch rations. Let's eat with the kids." Reply Ms. Xia then made Calista accept it happily.

And the day ended very well, Calista observed the way Ms. Xia teaches and educates students in his class until it's time to go home.

Each teacher who handles one class will accompany their students until their families come to pick them up and all the teachers do it simultaneously.

"I can definitely do it, I think it will be very difficult considering what I will teach are children." Calista thought confidently.

The next day, Calista arrived at school earlier than yesterday. She can't wait to welcome her students today, Calista is placed in class 1-4 which is a new class for kindergarten students who have just joined the school.

Today, Calista is wearing a white blazer with a maroon shirt, then she wears jeans so that later she can move freely.

"Wow, Miss. It seems that Calista has come, very excited to teach her." replied Ms. Xia was amazed by Calista's enthusiasm to start today's class.

"Yes Miss, I'm excited to start class today." he answered happily.

"I remind you Miss, I don't want to scare you but in a new class it's usually a bit difficult to handle." whispered Ms. Xia, however, was easily replied by Calista that she could do it like Ms. Xia did.

Ms. Xia also said goodbye to her class to make preparations as well, meanwhile Calista was waiting at the door impatiently to see her class students enter the class she was holding from today.

After waiting patiently, finally the escorts for the children came to accompany them to the front of the classroom door. All the teachers at the school also greeted them patiently in front of the class.

But suddenly a commotion broke out in front of Calista's class, many of her students cried when they saw her parents only escort her to the door.

Calista was confused, she saw that the other three classes were not noisy and only the students in her class were crying together. There were even those who joined in crying because she thought it was one part of accepting new students at kindergarten.

Calista tries to get the attention of every crying child to be able to let their parents go. Every parent at the school is a busy person so they can't stay until class ends, Calista is forced to find a way to make them separate from their parents.

"Okey kids listen, Miss. Calista has a good toy, you know." Calista exclaimed while showing the toys in the class to attract their attention, but what happened was they were still crying non-stop.

"Ouch, how is this? I didn't expect it to be this difficult to attract their attention.?" Calista's mind began to be confused.

Calista did not want to give up, she approached the children one by one and persuaded them by promising to provide an exciting experience in class. Luckily out of 10 students now five of them made it in and separated from their parents.

All students in other classes have now entered their respective classes, while Calista still has to attract the attention of five other students who cannot be separated from their parents.

Of all the students she persuaded, now there are only two students left who haven't entered yet and they are twins who keep crying in their father's arms.

"Sorry Miss, they are quite difficult to handle. They just turned five this month, so they're still young enough to go to kindergarten." Obviously the father.

"They're just not used to it sir,"

"Come on baby, let's go to class." Invite

Calista very friendly.

" We don't want."

"We just want to be with daddy."

The two of them returned compactly hugging their father's legs, meanwhile his father had resigned that if they didn't want to go to school, they would both be taken home.

Calista took out candy to them, before that Calista glanced at their father if they could eat candy and their father's answer made Calista attract their attention with the candy.

" Miss. Have delicious candy, if you want to enter the class, Miss will give you the candy." Invite Calista.

Calista didn't expect that her method was able to make the twins let go of their father, now they agree to enter and their father can go to work in peace.

The challenges didn't stop there, when Calista entered the classroom, she was shocked by the chaos that had occurred. All learning media was scattered everywhere, they were running while laughing and making the class noisy again.

In Calista's mind, she can only scream as loud as she can, she must not show her emotional side that explodes in front of them because it will make them afraid later.

"Alright students, let's start today's lesson." Unfinished Calista spoke suddenly something shot next to her and managed to hit the blackboard.

Calista's heart was beating so hard for her, it almost hit her face. The chaos was even worse, some children were crying because they were accidentally thrown by a boy who was very naughty and always annoyed other children.

Calista gave up, she didn't know what to do. Maybe it wasn't too late for her to resign from the job, she just couldn't take it anymore. Until finally madam Sara came with balloons which made all the children excited.

Madam Sara comes to help Calista on her first day of teaching, she knows handling a new class is a difficult job especially with Calista who doesn't have any experience in teaching.

It was thanks to madam Sara's presence that they could all calm down, each balloon was given to them so that they were quiet and Calista could continue to start learning on the first day.

**

The lunch break started, once again Calista had to look after her children because of a boy named Giovani who had been bothering his friends from the start.

This time Giovani took food from Caroline without asking for it, Caroline, who did not accept it, hit Giovani so that a small fight broke out between them.

Calista separated the two of them, Caroline cried beside Calista while Giovani ignored her with an annoyed expression.

"Listen, Giovani, you can't steal other people's food without their permission." Calista said in a soft voice.

"I've asked but he did not give it." Giovani replied curtly.

"You didn't ask for it, but you took it on purpose." Caroline replied annoyed.

"Enough..enough, don't fight okay. Giovani let's apologize to Caroline now."

" I don't want to." Giovani walked to his seat quickly and returned to enjoying his lunch.

"I'm sorry Giovani, Mrs. Calista, promise she won't take your food again." Lontar Calista returned a slow nod from Caroline.

After lunch time was over, then the second lesson continued where this time all the students in Calista's class were a little calmer because today's lesson was painting and they were happy with this lesson.

"Finally I can feel this serenity." Calista's mind was very satisfied.

**

When it was time to go home, Calista was happy because today she had worked extra hard to deal with ten children with different personalities. Now each of their parents came to pick them up accompanied by Calista who received thanks from the parents for her work today.

Calista was so happy to hear compliments from them even though her way of teaching was not 100% good. After each of their parents came to pick them up, it turned out that there was still one child who had not received a pick-up and he was Giovani.

"Your parents will be coming soon." Calista said after approaching Giovani.

Giovani remained silent by staring straight at the school gate, his gaze was very sharp and did not look like the expression on the face of an adorable 5 year old.

"If I may miss, who will pick you up later who?" Ask Calista again.

"I don't want to go home." Giovani then ran away from Calista who surprised her and immediately chased after the child.

Luckily Giovani only ran around the school so she could catch him quickly, Giovani went berserk when he was held by Calista and made the child claw at Calista's hand until it bled.

Giovani was shocked to see what he did, he didn't do it on purpose. Calista deliberately didn't wince even though it hurt so much, she just didn't want Giovani to feel even more guilty.

"I didn't do it on purpose." Giovani said it was clear on his face that he was very sorry.

"It's okay, it'll get better soon. Don't run anymore okay?" Calista's request succeeded in making Giovani nod slowly.

"Gio, come here." The sound immediately surprised Giovani and approached Calista with fear.

"What's wrong, Giovanni? Isn't that your daddy?" Calista looked at him confused.

"I'm sorry Miss if my son's behavior makes you in trouble." The man managed to carry Giovani even though previously he had refused to be taken home.

"It's okay sir, Giovani is a good boy." Calista had to lie so his parents wouldn't worry that while in class Giovani made a lot of messes.

"Then we'll excuse you."

Calista felt something strange when Giovani looked at him before he was taken away, but she ignored all of that because now she is free and can go home.

**

The woman had just come home from work, she opened the door and smelled a very strong alcohol drink. Surprised, she ran into the living room, with an expression of surprise Becky saw Calista who was having an alcohol party and was now completely drunk.

" What's wrong with you? this is your first day teaching right? Why drink alcohol?" Becky asked while shaking Calista's body.

"I ..., going crazy to face all those bad boys."

" What do you mean? Wake up Calista, stop drinking again." Becky pushed aside the last can that was on the table so that Calista wouldn't drink any more.

"You know Becky, I almost went crazy over them. Some cried, messed up, vomited carelessly, and even hit other children on purpose. I can't stand them." Now it's Calista's turn to complain about all of this to Becky.

"That's the job of a teacher, you can't take it out on alcohol. Stop with this behavior of yours, and one more thing this is my house and I don't want to be filled with the smell of alcohol." Becky said emphatically.

"You're so talkative, I just want to sleep." Calista immediately dropped her head on the sofa and made Becky dizzy with her behavior.

**

The effects of yesterday's alcohol are still being felt today, but Calista is trying to give her best for today. Unlike yesterday where the children cried not wanting to be separated from their parents, today only one person was crying but it didn't take long for her to agree to enter the classroom.

Today Calista teaches them to sing where she has provided an LCD screen for the children to see the videos she plays. At first everything was going well, but suddenly Giovani returned to his behavior by biting his seatmate, Leon on the back, which made him cry so hard.

Calista stopped the day's study and approached Leon, who was currently bleeding from Giovani's bite. Calista was so panicked that something happened to Leon so she left the class with Ms. Xia to take Leon to the hospital.

Arriving at the hospital, Calista accompanied Leon to the emergency room, but she had to wait outside until the examination was finished.

Calista paced back and forth with a feeling of fear, she didn't know what to say in front of Leon's parents later. She could only hope that Leon's parents would understand that all of this was just an accident.

After a few moments the doctor had finished treating Leon, the doctor said that the bite wound was not that bad but it would leave a scar that would long disappear.

"Thank you very much doctor." Says Calista can now breathe easily.

Calista was then invited to meet Leon, the child had stopped crying and he wanted to meet his parents now.

"Where is my son? I'm the mother of a patient named Leonard."

Calista turned to Leon's parents who had just entered, they immediately panicked knowing their son was in the hospital. Apparently the school had contacted them so they left work to check on their child's condition.

"What about my child? Who did this to him?" Asked Leon's father who was most emotional after seeing his wound.

Calista also calmly told them what happened in class, instead of understanding the behavior of the children who could not be predicted when they would do something, Leon's father immediately slapped Calista hard.

"I don't want to know, you have to take responsibility for your negligence. It's pointless for me to pay dearly for that school if my child becomes a victim of violence." Leon's father protested while pointing at Calista.

Calista's position at that time could not fight back even though she really wanted to defend herself, she could only surrender to Leon's parents piercing words.

Until madam Sara came and wanted to straighten out the problem that was happening. But Leon's family still doesn't accept it even though the school will pay the hospital bill.

"I will not take my child to that school again if the child who injured him is still in that class." Leon's father said before leaving to take Leon from the hospital.

"I'm really sorry madam, I didn't know this would happen in my class." Calista said while looking down guiltily.

"You're not wrong, you've been good at bringing Leon to the hospital. Kids are like that, sometimes they do things out of their control." Answered Madam Sara who turned out to be on Calista's side.