In Mondays, I love rocky roads. Tuesdays, I prefer creamy pies. Wednesdays and Tuesday, I usually get steamed chicken. Friday, buffalos are just the best. And in the week end, I could have a full course for the day. I wonder why I'm not getting fat from all this flavors I taste every day. Ha! If that even made sense. This was a common routine for me for years. Although it makes some big trouble sometimes, or maybe most of the time, good thing that I have legs. I could run, stride, hurdle, jump, name it. Life is easier without commitment. Life is easier if you won't let your heart lead the way. Enjoy it while you can still breathe.
I'm Adam Jung. The university's 'Black Hole' as what they say and I'm thankful that I am one. I attract everyone effortlessly that makes my night life easier. Women just come and go. A perfectly dynamic college life. Yes, I may have crazy times. But I also have serious times. Dancing is my passion but I have a different profession if you know what I mean.
Everything seems to be in place except that day and onward.
I was waiting for the rest of gang to come to our meeting place, school library. Ironic right? We're not studious nor straight A students but we mostly spend the time in the library. It was a rainy evening and I hate it. It's because it really forces me to have someone to cuddle with. When cold weather comes, a perfectly hot body is perfectly needed to heat all things up. Not just that, I really hate my expensive shoes get wet. It's either I'll throw it or I'll throw it.
Hallways are empty and classrooms are already locked. The sky is already dark and the only light source I can see is the dim light inside the room and the light post outside the building. There was no class for today though, that answers everything. When we said meetings, we're dead serious that everyone should come no matter what happen. But looking around, I guess no one was there to prove my claims.
"Damn these guys. They know how I hate waiting" I mumbled under my breath as I hugged myself for warmth. Being alone in a room really is so creepy. Imaginations would really work, the bad thing is, I visualize ugly things. Scary, traumatizing, mythical beings. I'm almost being deafened by the silence ready to run away for maybe any minute from now, there'll be ghost asking me to hook up. It's starting to get dark, so is my patience. I'm also starting to get scared. These dim lights are adding up the tension build-up. I slowly looked behind to check if there's someone who's eying me from behind the book stalls or standing between the cabinets. Fuck this imagination. When I'm about to turn my head…
Ring..ring..ring…
I was startled for a bit, wait, not a bit but the whole of me. I hurriedly dragged the answer button.
"Hello?! Where the heck are you! I've been waiting here for almost an hour already!" I shouted at the phone.
"I'm really sorry but I really need to cancel it" I heard James, the leader of our dance group, from the other line.
"You should have said earlier! You just fucking wasted my precious time!" I burst.
"Sorr—"I hanged up before he could finish his apology.
I am frustrated in a rainy day, in a creepy empty building and all alone! Perfect! Just perfect! I was about to run out when I suddenly heard footsteps down the hall of books. I was paralyzed for a minute. I want to move but my fucking legs seem to be disabled. I got really stiff. As I turned around to look for what made the sound. My soul wanted to jump of my body when I saw an image approaching me. As it came closer, the sound of footsteps was now accompanied with the sound of water droplets. In every footstep, the thunder made it effect in synch with the lightning.
Tick, tock, tick tock.
In every second that pass was an hour for me. Slowly the blurry image came into sharp. Ghost, definitely a ghost. What are you waiting for Adam? Run! Damnit Adam! My conscious was telling me. It was screaming inside of me. I was about to convince myself that it was a ghost, I took a few steps backward but the wall was the only thing that limits me from moving any further. I was about to scream but thankfully, I didn't. I realized that it was just a damn girl who scared me to death! But horror movies are just like this though. Ghost usually looks like a real person except… if you look at their eyes.
She lifted her head to look at me and I abruptly closed my eyes to avoid any eye contact. All I can hear was my uneven breathing and the rain sound, also her trembling voice… trembling voice? When I realized that she's saying something, I opened my eyes and saw her pale white hand reach for my direction. It was a good two steps away between each other and she's moving closer.
I was holding my breath hoping that I can be one with the wall when suddenly I felt her hands hold my arm. It was cold and… living. She's real. When my body has realized all of this, I straightened up and look at her pale face that was drenched from the rain.
"Yah! What are you doing? You scared me like hell!" I shouted at her. I tried to make it sound like superior but it ended with a broken voice. I received no answer so I started doubting myself again, is this really not a ghost? But duh, logically speaking, I felt her, solid. No doubt.
Instead of waiting for a verbal answer, she dropped her body against me. She's burning hot. I got shocked and scared obviously. Should I leave her here? Should I run? But conscience answered all my questions.
'H-help… p-please' she said against my ear. And I don't know what happened next. I just found myself inside the emergency room also drenched in the rain.
'What's your relationship with the patient?' the doctor asked the moment she stepped out her room.
'Strangers' I honestly answered.
'Ah, she's fine now. She experienced combustion earlier, that's why. Good thing you sent her in immediately.' she smiled.
'Bitch please, don't thank me. I could have thrown her in the river if I had the chance.' I was supposed to be a joke but the doctor awkwardly smiled and hurriedly stepped away.
It's not that I don't care about girls. I treasure them a matter of fact. But she's just different, she pisses me of. I don't know why. We really have not properly talked; I don't even know her name. Wait, I already know her name, I saw her I.D in her pocket. What was it again Jen? Jenny? Jeniffer? Whatever, I don't need to know her anyway.
When I stepped inside her room, I saw her lying in bed with her eyes closed. Without any caution, I stepped beside her bed.
'Yah, wake up. You still need to pay me 2,000. Don't mind the 50 cents.' I said as I kicked her bed. She had been a burden for me for the past 8 hours and I don't want to extend my wasted time.
'Yah! If you're not gonna get up there, I'm gonna flip this bed' I threatened but she stayed their unmoving. I started to get frustrated by her. It's not that I don't respect girls but obviously, this girl is acting asleep. It's hard waking a person who pretends to be asleep compared to a really sleeping person.
Without giving her a second chance, I pulled the foam of the bed causing her to kiss the cement floor. A laugh slightly released from me but I tried to make the situation as serious as possible.
'Yah! You little-, what's your problem!?' She shouted as she rubbed her shoulder that slammed the floor.
'Finally, the princess is awake' I sarcastically said 'pay me up so that I can leave' I added and crossed my arms in front of my laying one of my palm.
'Pay? I'm not going to pay anything from you' she said as she stood and dusted herself off. She acted like she's all fine so I don't need to worry anything but the payment I am asking. It's not like it's a big amount but my shoes got wet because of her so I need to buy another pair.
'You're not?!' I chuckled 'I sent you here because you asked and now you're not paying me?'
'I asked for help, not to be sent to the hospital, dimwit' she answered and fixed her bed.
'You s-' Wait, she didn't really asked to be sent here. Fuck, I should have left her there and let her die.
'Ah! I don't care. Pay me or I'll strangle you to death' I threatened again, raising my voice but she seems that she didn't care at all. She just lay in bed again.
'Go, strangle me if you can' she said coolly. Bitch this girl.
'In the count of three, If you're…' I'm really trying to be the superior one but shit this girl. She's making everything complicated.
'Three' I heard her say, 'Duh, I'm waiting to be strangled here' she added that made me more mad. How dare her dare me like that.
I'm so frustrated right now and because I'm so generous, I'm going to share it with her since she's asking for one.
Without even thinking properly, I topped and pinned her hard on the bed. It caused her great shock as I noticed because a small yelp escaped her mouth.
'You little.. GET OFF ME!' She screamed and threw punches against me. I hurriedly covered her mouth move to avoid a crowd.
"Now, are you or are you not going to pay me?' I asked again as I locked her in bed. Unexpectedly expected, she bit my finger that was covering her mouth.
'FUCK, GET OFF!' she screamed louder that caused me to let her go from my grip. She used that as a chance to press the nurse button that was on top of the bed.
'HELP! MURDERER!' She screamed. Before I can even take actions to this girl, the door slammed open.
We both hurriedly turned our head to face them and saw a shocking expression of the nurses.
Now that I noticed it, we both are in an awkward position. It's like we're having… never mind. Since the whole situation has not yet sink into me, I was dumbfounded for a sec. Another chance for her to hurt me and so she did. She kicked me hard by the knee. And by me, I mean my taste buds to taste in girls. My glorious glory. It caused me to roll off the bed and cringed in the floor.
'Fuck~' I cursed.