Chapter 122: Fried chicken (1/2)

Chapter 122: Fried chicken

I froze and stopped to look up and down. But aside from me, there weren’t anyone else. The whole staircase was empty. The atmosphere was very creepy.

Could it be a ghost? But ghosts can’t speak?!

Perhaps I haven’t spoken for far too long, the lights from the staircase suddenly turned off and scared me out of my mind.

“Ahhhh!!!!” I yelled. The lights turned back on. But it was definitely much dimmer than before. On the inside, I was very nervous because I was truly afraid that there was someone or something following me.

Am I hallucinating? The voice never appeared again. My heart began to calm down and I thought to myself,

I only have to get on the first floor. It’ll be ok once I get to the first floor.

So, I began to focus on my task again. While I was three steps away from landing, it was as if someone suddenly shoved me from the back. I fell from the stairs and painfully landed on the ground.

“Ahhh!” I screamed into the walkie-talkie and directly fell down the stairs. My painful cry echoed all around me. It felt very eerie.

“What the heck?!....” I went to check my injury. There was a throbbing pain on my wrist. I must have sprained it.

Since Suyang couldn’t locate me, he would eventually come find me. So, I sat at the lowest step as I waited for him.

As expected, in less than three minutes, I could hear Suyang huffing and puffing up the stairs.

“I’m here!” I tapped on the handrail and yelled down below.

By the time Suyang reached my floor, he was already out of breath. He collapsed like a mess in front of me. “I f-finally found you….! You never replied back to my message. I thought something happened to you!” He panted.

I pointed at my hand, “Something did happen to me. My wrist is injured.”

“How?”

“I fell and twisted it.”

“How could you be so careless?” Suyang had his eyes closed as he raised one hand to indicate that he needed a moment to catch his breath.

A few minutes later, he crouched down and said, “Alright, climb up!”

“My wrist is injured, not my ankle. Why?”

“So you don’t want to?”

“Well, since you offered…” I tried my best to straighten my arm. But I could barely touch his shoulder. “No, I need you to help me up. I can’t get on your back while sitting down.”

Suyang helped me up and I leaned against the handrail before I was able to leap onto his back. While Suyang carried me, I placed my chin on his shoulder and gave him a sideways glance. He was sweating profusely.

“Are you stupid? Why didn’t you take the elevator?”

Suyang gave me a bitter smile and refuted, “You’re the one who’s stupid for asking that question. How would I have known which floor you were on? Obviously I had to check every single one!”

“Oh yeah. I forgot. Which floor are we on now?”

“21st.”

“What? After so long, I’ve only gotten down 9 floors?” I found the truth very unacceptable. But knowing that Suyang had ran straight up to find me was very touching.

Thinking of this, I tightened my grip around his neck. I wanted to hold him closer.

“Goldfish…..” Suyang sounded like he was suffocating, “At this rate, I’m going to pass out.”

Ugh! He’s always ruining the mood!

After 20 floors later, Suyang and I had an argument. He said we had to return back to the apartment to wrap my wrist and rest. But I wanted my free meal. I said he promised. So we were in the front of the elevators for a very long time.

Suyang pressed the floor of our apartment. But I pressed the 1st floor. Ultimately, Suyang pressed 27th floor and pushed me all the way into a corner where I wouldn’t be able to touch the elevator buttons.

“Ah! Let me go! Suyang! I want to go for dinner! I’m hungry!” I didn’t care that my wrist was killing me as I began to smack his back; whining.

“Be good. We can always go out to eat another time. But we must take care of the injury now. Or else, you will suffer from repercussions.”

“No! I’m fine! Look!” I climbed on Suyang’s back and flung my uninjured wrist in front of him. “Let’s go eat, ok?” I tried to look pitiful.

“The other hand!”

Darn it…

“How about I go buy whatever you want to eat after I wrap your injury? Ok?”