Chapter 6: Theoretically Speaking...
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My hands were in tight fists. I needed to check on her, but I was so hesitant, I didn't know if it was a good idea or not. Might as well just do it. What's the worst to come of it? Yumi didn't actually move and her parents find out that she has a friend and she gets in trouble. That's theoretical. It sounds too probable to be theoretical though. I wish I could just see her already.
I went on my phone, clicking the call button for the 70 millionth time. It rang out for 25 seconds, then went straight to voicemail again. With nothing but no hope left, I reread my messages to her.
𝙼𝙴: 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚘𝚔𝚊𝚢 𝚈𝚞𝚖𝚒? ⁻ ᵘⁿʳᵉᵃᵈ ⁻
𝙼𝙴: 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!!⁻ ᵘⁿʳᵉᵃᵈ ⁻
𝙼𝙴: 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝚅𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜♥ ⁻ ᵘⁿʳᵉᵃᵈ ⁻
𝙼𝙴: 𝙸'𝚖 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 ⁻ ᵘⁿʳᵉᵃᵈ ⁻
𝙼𝙴: 𝙸 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 ⁻ ᵘⁿʳᵉᵃᵈ ⁻
I didn't want to spam her. But I still wanted her to know I was worried. If I'm too straight forward and spam, then she'll get overwhelmed. I couldn't do that to her. She's been through so much already, putting too much pressure on her wouldn't phase her, but it was unhealthy.
Huffing in anger, I gently placed my phone on my desk. Everything sucks without her. I didn't want to go back to school knowing she wouldn't be there. What's the point of going to school anymore if people are harassing me about her 24/7, and on top of that I won't see her? Genuine disgust invaded my mind. I took a deep breath. Go to sleep. In the morning, everything will be better.
I laid in bed for a while without moving. I'm so used to staying up talking to Yumi or 2nd hand listening to Street Lights before I sleep that I couldn't sleep without any of that happening. Umma was worried that something was wrong with me, offering to take me to the doctor.
"I'm almost 18 now, Umma," I remember telling her. "I can do what I want, I'll be fine."
She looked so on edge about it. Remembering how I said it made me feel like an awful person. All she wanted was the best for me, and as her son, I wanted her to not worry so much about me. Umma would've loved Yumi. They both have such a similar sense of human nature and caring for others. They're the two people I can't live without. No matter how many times I admit to myself that I've moved on, saying that she probably got bored of me, I still keep my hope.
I miss her so much that it hurts sometimes.
Was this feeling of pain in my chest going to go away? Logically, yes. It's not like I'm having a heart attack at this very second. From an emotional standpoint, I had to do something to get my mind off of her. All she's doing is getting under my skin. When it came to Yumi, I didn't mind it though. It didn't piss me off the way I thought it would.
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Without even noticing it, I was so lost in my thoughts that I accidentally stayed up til morning. My eyes began to feel tired, weighing down my fatigue. I checked the time on the clock in my room. It was 1:38 am. I had to be awake soon, so I got up anyway and got ready for school. With three hours to burn now, I logged onto YouTube to check what I've missed. Just scrolling through, I looked for an interesting video.
"'Sweet Chaos' (DAY6 WONPIL Facecam) SBS Inkigayo"
I hovered my mouse over, ready to click it when a video not too far next to it caught my eye.
"Teenage Girl falls off of a 100 feet building and survives. What...."
My curiosity got the better of me as I slid my mouse over to read the rest of the text.
"Teenage Girl falls off of a 100 feet building and survives. 'What was she doing up there so late at night?' Officials wonder"
God, why is that title so long!? Isn't this the person I saw on the ground that night? I saw this on the News, but I must've missed what happened. I clicked the video. An ad played for five seconds, then it got to the video. I adjusted my volume so I could hear what the reporter was saying.
"Late at night on December 22nd a teenage girl was found bleeding out on the grass next to an apartment building. Everyone including doctors and nurses have quickly recovered the information that she had fallen off that night. We still don't know if she had jumped in an attempt of suicide, or if it was just an accident. Officials still speculate that she could've been pushed off the building. We had a word this the parents of this young girl, and here's what they had to say,"
The woman stopped talking once it switched to a shot of the parents. The father looked annoyed, almost like he didn't care about what had happened to his daughter. As for the mother, she was balling her eyes out. Her voice was raspy when she had started talking, as if she was screaming or crying for a long time before then. Understandable.
"We didn't notice she was missing until we had gotten the call from the hospital. She had sneaked out of the house in the middle of the night to head to the roof. All I remember thinking when I got that call was, 'Is my baby okay? Is she hurt?' That's when it dawned on me that.. she had fallen 100 feet. Her survival rates were very low. I'm lucky and thankful to God that she's alright and beginning her recovery process here at Redlix Hospital,"
Her words sounded as if she had memorized what was being shown on the monitor. They didn't sound true, nor genuine in any way possible. She was lying. She didn't care about her daughter at all. I looked at the date posted: 3 months ago. I was so fed up with the mother of this poor girl that I felt the need to exit the video. As soon as I did, a new similar video popped up in my recommendation.
"Girl put in a coma from falling from a 100ft building opened her eyes..."
I slid the mouse adjacent to the video for the pop-up preview to come on so I could finish reading.
"Girl put in coma from falling from 100ft building opened her eyes for the first time in months"
I checked the date: Today. So she finally woke up? She lives in my building, I think I might know her. Then again, I live near a high school so many teens live in my building. It had almost been a full year if she fell on December 22nd...
That date rang in my head. December 22nd...? That sounds so familiar... Where have I heard that date before?
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