Xiao was sitting on a chair, in a room with a windowed mirror, a door, another chair in front of me, and a table. Xiao was sitting there waiting for the interrogator. He was handcuffed, He had a bandage on his left hand. Covering up the cut from taking whatever was the object that he had implanted in his hand.
The sound of taking the lock of a door attracted Xiao's, making him look in that direction. Someone opened the door. The person entered the room and slowly closed the door without staring at the doorknob, his attention was on Xiao. The person sat down and put some papers on the table.
The Person examined my face, then my hands.
"May I take off the handcuffs?"
"Yes, you may." He stood up again and took them off.
"Thanks, my wrist was starting to ache a lot," Xiao said while ribbing his wrists.
"You're welcome," The man said while sitting down and opening the yellow folder that he brought with him. The man peeked at the material inside the folder. He took a remarkable 10 seconds looking at the papersโthen he drew his eyes at Xiao.
"My name is David, what is your name?" Said the man with brown short net hair with black eyes.
"My name is Yeonghon"
"Nice to meet you Yeong-on," he said Xiao's name with trouble. "Well, from what can I see, you have been human trafficked, right?" he glanced at him waiting for a response.
"Yes, I was," Xiao said. I started to get comfortable on my chair. This is going to be a long chat.
The man looked at the papers again to re-check something. "From what I see, you escaped from it"
"Yes, it was very hard, but I did what I had to," I said while looking straight into his eyes. "I don't remember how I got there or before that."
"Could you tell me a summary of what happened?" David asked.
"Yes," Xiao said.
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The chat was long which made Xiao tired, he felt his eyes were flickering like a worn-out light bulb, his head like a bag of sand.
David stared at Xiao while Xiao dozed off. Look at him, he is so exhausted, this kid went through many things in just half a week.
"Yeonghon I will be right back," David said, pushing his chair backward.
"Ok"
David left the room. Ugh, I am so sleepy, that some questions were difficult to respond to with a smash jelly brain. I felt like at any second I was going to faint any time soon.
He rubbed his eyes, then covered his face with his palms.
๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ง๐งโฆ
Xiao was now dead asleep. The sound of the air heater was lulling him.
Slowly but steadily his head was falling to the table.
"I am back! And with good news!" David said with excitement.
Xiao made a little jump, his vision was still not prepared for the light of the room. His eyes were still dry. He looked upwards, mad and annoyed, that he couldn't get a blink of sleep. He groaned while rubbing his eyes.
David looked at Xiao, yeah, he should rest. David stood in front of Xiao.
"I ask my boss if you could rest, so we will talk tomorrow," Xiao lighted up hearing the good news, "but I am only going to ask some important questions so that you can leave and rest."
David looked at his watch.
"Sure" Xiao yawned and straightened up, pulling his chair closer to the table.
"O-kay. What was the place like?" Said, adjusting the papers that he had with himself.
"Inside, from what I felt, it was a theater. Outside looked abandoned. There were some buildings around the area like small abandoned stores."
"You felt?" David asks with curiosity.
"I was blindfolded, but I could hear and feel that inside it, it felt like it was a theater. The floor was made of flexible wood like plywood. What is most common in theaters"
David looks impressed, this kid knows more than normal kids would. "Hmm" David tried so hard to remember a place like that, but he just didn't know or remember.
There aren't many dance theaters here. I think they are very rare.
"How are you sure that it was a theater?" asked David with curiosity. He leaned and crossed his arms.
"I used to dance for uuh around of 7 years"
"Oh wow, that is a pretty long time. It must have been fun for you to be in it for 7 years."
โฆ The silence was so loud that it made it awkward.
"Oh, I almost forgot." Said Xiao. "The motorcycle that I came with is not mine, it was one of the persons that were there," I said, looking straight into David's eyes. "You can start your investigation with that"
"Mh okay"
David stood up, "Now that we are done, you and your friend may rest."
Xiao stood up, David stood up too, and he opened the door. The man guided me to the reception. We walked through an extended hallway, there were some metal doors and there were some wooden doors too. Then, when we left the hallway, there was a wide room. There weren't any people there except for the receptionist. The entry door was the automatic sliding glass door. They had tile floors, and the color was dark blue. The tiles had some parts that had sparkly metal rock.
"Here we are, Cecilia, Yeonghon. There I was waiting for Ethan while putting my information on a piece of paper.
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"Sir, please calm down. We will be speaking again tomorrow. Your friend is in the reception waiting for you."
A tall figure ran towards the reception. He had long curly hair that reached to his shoulders. His hair was colored honey, it made him look like a charming prince. He had black loose pants and a long navy blue coat, he had a white t-shirt, his socks were of different colors, his right foot had a black sock and the left foot had white. His Shoes weren't that well tied. They were loose.
Ethan looked in the direction where the reception was and ran there.
"Sir! Don't run inside!" the officer told Ethan.
Ethan stopped running and looked for Xiao. Their eyes meet. I could see his face was all red from crying and his eyes swollen.
"Yeonghon!!!" Ethan ran at him and hug him so tight that Xiao can't move a Centimeter.
"Hey, wait, I can't breathe." Said Xiao with difficulty.
Ethan realized what he was doing, "oh sorry," he let go of him, so he could breathe properly.
"I didn't know that you had that much strength," Xiao said while hugging back. Suddenly, Xiao caught his eyes on something.
"Hey, have you grown taller?" He was confused, is it that I haven't seen him in a week?
"No, I am the same, 183 cm-"
"WHAT 183 CM??? SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU BEEN SO TALL?" Xiao said with confusion.
"Two years ago we were the same height, 167 cm. " he said as he was holding Xiao's waist.
"Wait, so I grew only 6 cm!?" no wonder why he needed new clothes so often.
"Well, what did they feed you, so that you would grow so tall?!"
Ethan giggled,
"I eat the delicious food that you made"
๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต.
Ethan hugged Xiao's back and moved Xiao's body closer to him, making no extra space between each other. Then he rested his chin on Xiao's shoulder.
"Ugh, let's just go home. I am tired." Xiao said, then gave the papers to the receptionist. The face of the lady was blushing from the romantic atmosphere.
"May I ask, are you two partners?"