"Lily, would you come or not?" Alona nudged Lily's arm, observing the big giant tube in front of her.
Lily turned to Alona and nodded her head. "I will follow. I still want to look at him for a bit more."
"Aren't you tired of looking at him every day?" asked Alona.
Lily shook her head. "Since the first time I saw him when I was five years old, I never got tired of looking at him."
Alona shuddered. "Scary. What if the man in there will never wake up?"
Lily turned back to Alona. "He will wake up. Just wait."
"Then what are you going to do when he wakes up? Had you said you've liked him since you were five years old? He is now more worthy of being your father," said Alona.
Lily just shrugged her shoulders. "I also don't know what I will do when he can finally be awakened."
Alona took a deep breath. "I'd better leave you here alone while thinking about what you're doing when he wakes up."
Lily laughed softly in response to Alona's words.
"Bye! I'll see you outside." Alona left the glass room where the frozen bodies were stored.
Lily shook her head, seeing Alona leaving the place. She then turned his attention back to the man in the giant tube in front of her. Lily didn't even have to tiptoe to look at the man. Lily used to ask Max for help if she wanted to see the man's face.
"A long time has passed since you were first brought here. We're trying to wake you up as soon as possible. You'd be surprised to find out that you've been asleep for twenty years," Lily said. She seemed to be talking to the man in the tube in front of him.
Lily turned her head and read the name next to the small glass showing the man's face. "Matthew. Can you feel my presence?" She then laughed when she saw the scribbles on the tube that held Matthew's body.
Lily then fell silent again, looking at Matthew's face, which looked like someone was sleeping. Matthew's body was purposely frozen, and he was put into a hibernating bear-like state. Twenty years had passed since Matthew arrived at his father's facility.
Since Matthew has become one of the facility's residents developed by his father, many changes have occurred. Now Matthew's family has a stake in the facility.
They funded the research carried out by researchers who worked with Lily's father. Everything they did for Matthew's recovery. Lily was shocked when her cell phone rang. She immediately answered the phone.
"I've been waiting for you outside. Why don't you come out too? Get out of there quickly before I freeze you." Alona shouted on the phone.
Lily laughed as she walked out of Matthew's storage room. "Yeah, I just came out of the storage room." She then turned off his phone with Alona and put his cell phone back into his pants pocket.
Before closing the storage room door, Lily looked at Matthew's face from a distance. She smiled. "See you soon, Matt."
Lily then closed the storage room door and immediately walked over to her desk to take her bag and coat, which she still put on her desk. After that, she immediately walked out of the facility.
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Alona shook her head when she saw Lily step out of the facility. Lily quickened her pace when she saw Alona had crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"You're not going to freeze me, are you?" Lily asked as she approached Alona.
"If you make me wait another five minutes, I'll definitely go inside and freeze you immediately," replied Alona.
Lily laughed and immediately took Alona's hand. "Where are you taking me?"
"I would like to invite you to get acquainted with a living man. So that you don't keep hoping for the frozen man you stare at every day," said Alona.
Lily immediately let go of Alona's hand. Their footsteps suddenly stopped.
"Seriously?" asked Alona.
"There's no other man I like besides Matthew," Lily replied.
Alona took a deep breath. "I'm just kidding, Lily. I know you fell in love with Matthew before writing your name. Tonight we gather to celebrate Catherine's birthday. You remember her, right?"
"Catherine, who used to bother me at school?"
"Yes, that Catherine. She invited us both to her party." Alona then grabbed Lily's hand, and they walked back together.
"Why did I come to her party? I don't even like her," Lily said.
"I don't care if you like her or not. Now it's your job to be my friend to come to the party. She's currently dating an NBA player. I wish I could get the attention of one of her boyfriend's friends. They must have come to the party."
Lily took a deep breath. "So, when you managed to get the attention of one of those players, you're going to leave me alone in the middle of the party?"
"Yep. That's what a friend like you is for. After that, you are free to look at your frozen man," replied Alona.
"I hate you, Lona," said Lily.
Alona laughed. "You can't hate me, Lily. Because I'm your only friend right now."
Lily laughed as she shook her head. Alona's words are valid. Alona is the only close friend she has at the moment. She is not very pleasant, and Alona always takes her to hang out with people their age. Because if not, Lily will just be spending her time in the laboratory with her father and her father's colleagues.
"You're my friend, but you always trap me in unpleasant situations," said Lily.
"It's not my fault that a man approaches you. You are too beautiful to pass up. You should be aware of that," said Alona.
Lily just mumbled softly in response to Alona's words. She immediately unlocked her car, and they immediately got into her car.
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