C37 (1/2)

”I don't care! I'm going upstairs! ” I shouted, not caring about my image.

”Oh.” Big Brother Security took a step forward and swiped my card.

The elevator slowly opened.

It took years for me to learn that the big brother had a terminal cancer called straight male cancer.

The metal door of the opposite corridor slowly opened, and the OL's voice slowly grew louder.

”… ….” ”Sorry, your information doesn't match our record and we were unable to enter the vault …”

Was there an error in the information? Was my mother not the one my father had appointed to open the safe with me?

I hesitated for half a second, but then I stepped into the elevator and pressed the button to close the door.

The moment the elevator closes, I see my mother's face behind the metal door.

His face was expressionless.

One second, two seconds, three seconds … It was like ten years in the elevator.

The moment the elevator opened, I dashed into the lobby. The second after I exited the glass doors, I slammed my elbow into the fire alarm clock on the wall.

”Ring, ring, ring, ring …” The spacious hall was immediately filled with the ear-piercing sound of fire alarm.

I didn't stop for a second. I ran down the street and down the alley into the market, through the commercial street and the community park.

Fear can indeed trigger the limits of my body. Normally, I, who isn't even qualified to run 800 meters, can run a five kilometer marathon in one breath.

He did not dare to turn his head back, afraid that he would see another emotionless face.

It will be a nightmare for me all my life.

After being unable to run any longer, I changed into one who was walking. After staggering for nearly two hours, I was struck by a young man in a school uniform who was walking towards me. Only then did I come back to my senses.

In front of me was an ordinary high school. With the familiar sound of the bell ringing, groups of high school students in green school uniforms clattered out of the school gates, passing me like a tide.

Just the day before, I had been one of them — looking forward to lunch in the morning, to school in the afternoon, the comic books always under the textbooks, the neat and popular lyrics behind the notebooks, the failed exams and the unspeakable girlish thoughts in the drawers.

After just one day, this life had suddenly become very, very far away from me.

I walked into the school's reception room. Perhaps it was because I was wearing the school uniform of another school, but the old man inside looked at me suspiciously.

”Buddy, which school are you from? Is there something you need?”

”Grandfather, can I make a call?”

The moment I heard Shuyue's voice, my tears couldn't help but roll down my face, and I couldn't even utter a single word.

Half an hour later, Shuyue found me crying on the street outside the school.

”Hungry?” she asked me softly.

I didn't say anything. She gave me a hand and I shook it off.

”Don't touch me.” I stood up and walked forward.

KFC second floor.

We sat by the window, which was filled with lush banyan trees and cars. The family bucket and hamburger were getting cold, and no one had moved them.

Shuyue picked up a hamburger, opened up the wrapping paper and handed it to me. I slapped her hand and the hamburger fell to the ground.

”Who's that girl in the photo in my room?”

”I don't...”

”Do you think that I'm still a child and easy to deceive?”

”...” Shuyue did not speak.

”My mother couldn't get into the vault at all. The person my father appointed was you, wasn't it? ” I almost shouted, and everyone around me looked over at our table.