Author : Helleng Wang
Chapter 8
Knock... knock...
"Please come in!"
Lilly opened the door and stepped into the health room,
"Hello doctor..." Lilly greet a handsome doctor who was sitting
enjoying the tea.
"Aah, it's Lilly!" The doctor's face was
more handsome with a smile on his face. He put down the tea cup he was holding
and walked quickly toward Lilly. He hugged the girl tightly. "Oh, My dear Lilly,
I miss you so much!"
"Ren, if anyone sees us, you must have been
reported on the basis of sexual harassment of students!" Lilly pushed the
doctor with a flat expression.
"Hahaha...!" The doctor laughed,
"You're really cold to your cousin!"
"Even if you're my cousin, we're still in the
school!" Lilly walked to the right corner bed, close to the window. From
the window she could see clearly towards the basketball court.
"Yeah... yeah, sorry! I'm too happy to see you that
I forget the place where we are..." The doctor approached Lilly and leaned
against the window.
"How are you?" Asked Dr. Ren, "you
don’t usually come here. What’s wrong?"
"I'm good...!" Lilly answered casually.
"I want to rest here for a while."
"........." Dr. Ren watched Lilly
expression, "Of course!"
"Thank you..." Lilly pulled back the
covers and closed her eyes.
"Lilly...!" Dr. Ren sat beside the bed,
"What happened?"
".............!" Lilly did not answer.
"You can tell me anything. You know that,
right?" Dr. Ren watched Lilly who remained silent doesn’t budge. "Okay,
I will not insist if you don’t want to tell…! Just rest here, I'll call your homeroom
teacher!"
Dr. Ren leaves the room wondering what happened to
Lilly during his leave. Lilly is not usually like that. Since they were small
Lilly was closest to him. Ren smiled at the little Lilly, who was tomboy and
cheerful, who always followed him wherever he went. Like a chick who always
follows her mother. Whatever it was Lilly always comes to him to confide in and
seek advice. Even until they were grown up, Lilly was still spoiled. Either
since when Lilly attitude changed, she seemed to withdraw. They used to be so
close but since Lilly got into high school she was like keeping a distance from
Ren. He wondered if maybe Lilly had changed because she was aware of a change
in her that was no longer a child? Can you say the anxiety of a girl?
"Aah... My Lilly is a teenager now!" Dr.
Ren muttered, there was an anxious smile on his face.
Meanwhile, in Health Room --------------------------------------------------------------
"I'm sorry, brother!" Lilly muttered
quietly. "Not that I don’t want to share with you. But it's time I learn
to be independent. I can’t keep depending on you whenever I have a problem! I
have to face it alone this time…"
Lilly straightened and stared straight up at the
ceiling.
"Hhhhh..." Lilly sighed sadly. "It
feels like my chest is so cramped that I'm hard to breathe. Just imagining it I
feel like crying! "
"Cry…!"
"What!!?" Lilly was startled, the voice
coming from the next room.
Lilly did not expect anyone to be there. Moreover,
Ren did not tell her that she is not the only one who needs rest. Without a
doubt Lilly pushed aside the white curtain that separated their room. Lilly saw
a male student lying there with his back to her.
"Who are you?" Ask Lilly,
"Hhmm... Nobody!" The student replied
without turning around. "What makes you sad?" He asked.
"You are Nobody! So I'm not going to say
anything ... "Lilly's a bit annoyed, she pulls back the curtain she just
opened until it's closed again. Lilly lay facing the window.
"Cry if you want to...!" Nobody's voice
was heavy but soft, the masculine impression felt every time he spoke.
"Let's just say I'm not here ..."
Lilly paused. "I'd be crazy to talk to myself..."
Lilly murmured. Her eyes began to tear.
Lilly covered her mouth to keep her sobbing sound
unheard. Her chest was tight, there was a pain in her heart. She was reminded
of all the events she had experienced. The unfairness she had experienced since
Jennifer stole her design, to the annoyance she felt when she couldn’t prove
Jennifer's cheating. Her heart was so devastated when her past memories showed her
closeness to Jennifer. When they were still friends, when they still laugh
together.
The time before Jennifer betrayed her, before Jennifer
left her locked up alone in the gymnasium, before Jennifer spread the rumor
that she seduced a senior so she was shunned by friends in the class, before
Jennifer doused her in the toilet, before Jennifer's mischief nearly blinded
her left eye, and before Jennifer blackmailed her for 7 month in 6th grade.
“Hiks... ungh... hiks...” this time Lilly clamped
her mouth more tightly, she felt her tears would break if she didn’t do that.
An increasingly frustrating reality is the fact
that a few moments ago she acted like Jennifer when she was bullying another
student. She cornered Jennifer, the anger she felt made her lose control for a
moment. She doesn’t use violence but what she just did was playing with Jennifer’s
fears and emotions. Seems more sneaky. She's sorry, she felt so mean. Lilly's
mind raged, her feelings mixed up. She was really scared, she realized the dark
side of herself. Tears welled up unstoppably. “Uuggh… hiks…” Lilly hit her
chest, hoping that the tightness she felt was diminishing. Hoping the pain that
tortured her stopped.
"It's been 30 minutes but she has not stopped
yet. What happened to her? I'm so curious! Her cry sounds so sad..." the Nobody
muttered to himself. "I've never felt this kind of pain just because of
someone's crying...!"
The time passed as the loss of Lilly's crying
sound slowly. Lilly was asleep, occasionally still sobbing in her sleep.
"Even in your sleep you cry!" The Nobody
whispered as she wiped the tears that came out of Lilly's eyelids. "What
really happened to you?"
The nobody looked at Lilly asleep. Starting from
his long dark hair, his eyelashes are moist and wet. "When you wake up,
make sure you look in the mirror before you leave!" He chuckled softly.
"You'd be surprised to find a panda there..."
Nobody’s eyes stop on Lilly’s swollen lips,
"You even bit your lips up like this! Is it really painful?" He
touched her lips softly.
Kriiieett ... health
room door open....................
Who's entering the health room?
TO BE CONTINUE. . . . . . .
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