|Chapter 19: Crash|
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|KADENA CHAIN|
We were startled when the door of the room opened which causes me to snap into reality.
"Mat, you're not coming?" Shariza looks at Mat beside me, genuinely asking.
I gulp a lump in my throat and have a seat back in the waiting area. I didn't see her coming with Mat but I guess I was too surprised to notice that they were together when they came here. I mentally shrug my shoulders on that.
"I'm coming. I just have to talk to someone," I heard him talk sweetly to Shariza.
I mentally roll my eyes because of that. What's with her that people love talking with her with that tone? She's not a goddamn damsel in distress. That thought made up into my brows that arched in confusion.
Why am I so worked up?!
"Okay! Be faster then, hm?" I can't help but move my lips into a grim line in secret.
I just can't imagine here talking like this. My head then slowly tilt to the side when something lit up in my mind.
Why do they seem close to each other? I mean, I know they're friends. But I can feel the difference between being just 'friends' and they don't have that atmosphere.
I'm just staring at the glassy white tiled floor while listening to them.
"Alright. I'll be there,"
"Hm," was the only response I've heard from Shariza before the sound of the door closes.
"Kad?" My brows furrow a bit but I still look at him. He calls me a bit unsure. Probably not used to calling me by that name.
I shake my head at him when I recognized the silent questioning of his face and eyes.
"I'll stay here, Mat. I'm just waiting for Zaraze," I tell him even if I'm not sure about it.
Wait? For Zaraze? We didn't even talk about it earlier. Well, just to save my ass from getting curious furthermore, I expertly make him vanish in front of my eyes.
"Oh, okay. I'll go then," he points to the door with his right thumb as I nod.
"Sure!"
I release a deep sigh when the door closes again.
"Why the hell am I still here then?" I blurt out loud as my gaze goes down to the brown paper bags in my hands.
"Right!" I exhale as I stand up from my seat and walk toward the door.
I just stare at the door for minutes as I put the paper bags of food on the floor. I sigh again and ready my heels to run. I knock three times and as soon as I'm done, I turn my heels around and run as if my life is already at stake.
I didn't even know why I run but I just have this feeling that if I will not leave immediately, I have to face Zaraze.
Or that, my curiosity grows even more as time passes by.
"Damn it!" I curse under my breath as I speed up my car and drive myself away from that suffocating place.
I need to cool down.
If that's what can make me stop from getting myself on the line. There's no particular reason why I'm acting up this way.
I feel lost. I feel confused.
There are too many things that are running inside my head and it doesn't help that I made friends with that Mat guy. Every time I recall what happened, all I can think of is my stupidity.
My reckless decision will become my key to death. Bullseye, more so.
"Where are you?"
Bish, my bitchy friend called me after hours of driving around the city. It makes me calm my thoughts for a while. The cold wind coming from the window on my side makes my head cool down a bit. I needed it.
"Just around the corner, Bitch. Why?" I ask, calling her name with a T.
"Whoa, bitch! You're worked up, because?" Sarcasm is laced in her voice as she asks me that.
I roll my eyes and step on the gas as the wind harshly dips and passes my face. It only makes my blood boil in excitement. Driving like this can only make me go back to reality, sane.
"Nothing. Just too damn curious about one thing and it frustrates me so much. Like, bitch?! What the hell is going on?" I mutter a curse as I overtake cars by cars.
"Chill, bitch! You're out on the road, chill! You're going to make me have a heart attack! Calm down!"
I laugh at her when she started to panic. Doesn't she know that it only makes me think clearly? It helps a lot, you try!
"Damn, girl! I cooled down!"
I continue to laugh at her rants over the phone as I turn the steering wheel to make a U-turn but the sound of a screeching car burns my ears and causes me to come to a halt.
"Damn, that was close!" I blurt out that makes Bish rains me curses over the phone.
"Bitch! What happened?! What did I tell you, huh?!"
I furrow my brows and look at the car which, took a hard break not for us to crash in the middle of the road.
"Oh-oh. I didn't see that,"
I say it out loud causing Bish to curse at me again in different languages.
What a multilingual person, Bitch!
"Don't worry, I didn't die~," I tell her in a sing sang way.
A beeping line was her response.
I laugh as I maneuver my car to expertly avoid crashing cars with that pitiful car which is near to be crackers on the road.
"That was fun!" I laugh again as I continue my road trip.
As the wind grazes my skin, it makes me feel more alive than ever. It makes me more eager to just drive around without thinking of anything. After this, I'll be back to normal again. So, might as well enjoy it as if it's my last day in this world.
I was enjoying the night breeze grazing my skin when I felt weird all of a sudden. I shrug it off and continue driving without a certain destination.
Because sometimes, it's okay to go on with your life without a destination as it will lead you unconsciously to the right path you'll take. It's okay to not have a plan because life is full of uncertainties. You don't know, in just a blink of your eye, sudden changes surge in your life.
Without a warning.
"What are you doing?!"
My head tilts sideways as voices surges inside my ears. As far as I can remember, I am alone in my car.
So, whose voice was that?
The voice is somehow not so clear that's why I can't name it. I shake my head momentarily as I step on the accelerator and speed up.
As soon as the wind harshly lands on my face, scenarios of the past slowly appear right in front of my eyes. It clouds my vision that I didn't realize, I'm already crossing a line on the side lane I wasn't supposed to cross.
Blinding light strikes my eyes causing me to close them shut as my hands unconsciously turn the steering wheel to the right, aggressively.
"Damn! Freaking sheet!"
I curse as my body moves forward because of the strong force caused by the break I stepped at to control the speed of my car.
"Damn, it hurts!" I groan in pain.
The force causes me to be strangled by the seatbelt in front of my body as the side of my head hits the window. I can also feel pain in my right thigh as I really use force to step on the breaks.
It doesn't help that my hand feels numb because of my adrenaline rush to avoid the car I almost hit because of what happened.
"The hell was that?"
I keep on thinking about what I saw before the light blinded me. It was a scenario I wasn't familiar with.
In there, a woman was shouting at a man who was furiously getting frustrated about something. He was at least sporting a calm expression but the tightness around his jaw is undeniably noticeable.
"You did what?! Let go of me!"
The woman tried to struggle free from the hands of the man but to no avail.
"Damn it, Chey! I have my reason!"
"That's not the point here, Dash! I forgave you for what you did to me the last time but this is a serious case!" The woman, with a rug breathing, tried again to break free from the man who has a name which was Dash.
"Cheating is far from murder, Dashen Villadeza! Let go of me!"
"Kad! Kad! Get back to your senses! Come on!"
I feel severe pain in my head all of a sudden as different voices surround my sense of hearing. The louder their voices are, the more my head hurts.
"Kad! Oh, my ghad! Please hurry!"
Bish?
That's her voice, I'm certainly sure. She's the only friend of mine who's loud and has a pitch high voice than Foren.
Before I can totally succumb to darkness, Dash's face flashes in my eyes.
Dash's a Villadeza?
What a freaking coincidence.
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A/N: Thank you for reading! How was your read? Haaha. Enjoy!