THE NEXT DAY, Rheanne is still at home and is still resting since she's still weak. Max won't be working though because he'll have to take Rheanne to the doctor now.
Leila volunteered to help but Max said no. Since their office has one member absent, that being Rheanne, he told Leila to stay instead.
"Hey, Leila!" As Leila enters the building, she saw Mori who greeted her. Leila smiles and waves back.
Mori and Leila both walk towards the elevator and Mori presses the 'going up' button and the elevator door opens and both of them get in.
The ride was full of Mori talking about something of her liking Howard. Leila is listening to Mori fangirling when her gaze turns to the elevator buttons. And suddenly, it feels like she wanted to go to one specific floor button.
But before she can do anything, the elevator dings and opens. They are now on the 7th floor of the building.
"Hey Leila, let's go," Mori speaks up and Leila nods and also exits the elevator.
EVERYONE continues what to do throughout the day. There's not much that happened. It was an uneventful day so they were all pretty much working silently in their offices.
Leila didn't even notice that the day has ended, "Yah Leila let's go~"
"Ah, yes." Leila nods and stands up to fix her things and cubicle when she receives a text.
June: my Leila, I'm here in the lobby of your office. come down, I know you're done with work.
I miss you.
Leila smiles at her now-boyfriend's text. She continues to quickly fix her things, obviously very excited to see June.
"Are you done, Lei?" Mori asks and nods with a smile as both of them exited the office and goes to the elevator.
Leila presses the 'going down button' when Mori nudges her.
"Oh wait. Leila, I actually forgot that I'll be doing some matters before I go. I won't be long."
Leila turns to Mori and says, "Oh it's okay, I'll just wait for y—"
"No, you can go. I saw your smile and I already know that your boyfriend is waiting for you."
Leila pouts but still smiles, "Alright, if you say so. Bye~"
"Bye Lei~! See you on Monday."
The elevator dings signaling that the elevator is now at their level. Leila gets in as Mori smiles and waves goodbye. Leila smiles and was about to wave back when she saw the woman's face on Mori for a brief second.
Her smile vanished even though she can now see Mori's face again. Leila stands there frozen as the elevator door closes.
She was still frozen as the elevator slowly goes down. In fact, painfully slow. Leila's breathing starts to go fast, her chest going up and down. Her palms start to sweat as she now became aware of her surroundings.
Leila then starts to hear faint whispers. It goes,
"Do it."
"Do it."
"Do it."
It made her look at the elevator buttons again. Specifically to the elevator button numbers that go in a sequence; 4, 2, 6, 2, 10. And the whispering became louder and louder...
"Do it."
"Do it."
"DO IT."
This made Leila scream very loud as she covers her ears. After a few seconds, the chanting stopped and the elevator dings signaling that she had arrived on her designated floor.
Leila makes a run and leaves the elevator. As soon she saw June, she runs to him and was immediately held in his arms. Leila clings onto him tightly as he asks what was wrong.
But she can only reply, "N-nothing. Let's go."
June's brows furrowed because of this but decided to shrug it off as he nods with a smile. She smiles back at him. As June and Leila decided to leave, she looks back at the elevator and left.
+ + +
MAX ARRIVES in front of Rheanne's house. He exits the car and at the same time, Rheanne is already locking the door.
"Rheanne~!" Max calls which made Rheanne look up and smiles as she walks towards Max.
"You ready for your check-up?"
"Yes." Rheanne nods at Max's question.
Max opens the door to the passenger seat, being the gentleman that he is, and Rheanne gladly gets in. Max walks back to the driver's seat and drives off.
The two arrive at the mall and parks there. The clinic is inside the mall so they entered the mall and walk towards their way there.
As they arrive at the clinic, Rheanne gives her name and showed the proof that she had an appointment today.
"Rhei, you okay?" Max asks as both of them sit down, waiting for Rheanne's name to be called.
"Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't I?" Rheanne says while she looks at Max in the eyes.
Max smiles at her answer but then looks closely at Rheanne's eyes. His smile vanished as soon as he saw something in her eyes. But he didn't get to say it out loud.
"Miss Rheanne?"
"Yes!" She replies as she stood up and follows the nurse. Max can only sigh as he worriedly follows her.
They arrive at the doctor's office and Max sits down while Rheanne sits in front of him. The doctor started to interrogate Rheanne while Max just listens.
"So since when did you start feeling this somewhat 'sickness' of yours." The doctor said.
"Just this Monday. I feel weak but I don't have any fever." The doctor nods at this.
"Yeah. From what your temperature the nurse got, it definitely isn't a fever. Does it hurt somewhere?"
"Not at all."
The doctor nods, completely confused. Max was frustrated as well by seeing the doctor's face. It seemed that the doctor is utterly confused as well since there are no symptoms that can help him know what Rheanne is feeling.
In the end, the doctor dismisses them by just advising them to take vitamins and said that the patient does not have any sickness at all.
Suddenly, Max starts to look back at what happened these past few days. Rheanne was weak but she talks to him just fine and still jokes around. And until that day...
The day when Rheanne had a nightmare. She was still weak and her treatment towards her is still the same. But every time he tries to ask about the nightmare, she would always avoid answering him and even looking at him in the eye.
In fact, their eyes barely meet now...
As he looks at Rheanne who's smiling and is busy buying the vitamins, he thrusts into his pocket and gets his phone, dialing a number. As soon as the person from the other end of the line answered, Max said, barely in a whisper,
"Can you come back to Chaeyoung's house? There's something going strange..."
The person replies with a yes and both ended the call. Max is still looking at Rheanne as he remembered what he saw in Rheanne's eyes...