83 After That Day 1 (1/2)
”A restaurant owned by the Victory Foods Corp was bombed last night with more than thirty bodies reported as casualties....”
Steffy who turned on the TV to check the time flashing on the bottom of the screen momentarily stopped to listen to the morning news.
”Aww, that's awful. This Victory Foods is actually running a brothel underneath their restaurants? That guy who bombed them is bad, but at least, he did it after letting those more than eighty victims escaped from there.”
Steffy shook her head on the news and walked towards her sister's bedroom.
It was already 7:15 am. Classes start at eight. And her sister who rarely goes home was still asleep. She didn't know what her sister and her best friend did that made them stay up late.But both of them ended up spending the night at her apartment, taking the room next to hers. And nope, they only slept and did not do anything else.
”Sis! Sis Wendy! Wake up!!!!” she shouted after popping her head in the doorway.
When she came in, the two friends were still asleep and based on how tightly shut their eyes were, they looked like they wouldn't be waking up soon. However, Steffy wouldn't allow them because they all have to go to school. After all, it was only Tuesday, and there were only two days left before the finals.
Left without a choice, Steffy picked up one of the pillows that had fallen from the bed and started hitting the two sleeping ladies on the face!
”Wake up!!!! It's already 8 am!!!!!!!!!!!”
”Sis!!!! Wendy!!!!!!”
”You don't want to wake up? Okay, fine! Don't wake up because I'm enjoying hitting you two!!!! Hyaaaahhhh!”
”Uggh!”
It was Wendy who reacted first. Her hands moved to protect her face from whatever was hitting it and then when her other body parts started getting struck, she grabbed on the blanket and pulled it up to her face, trying to make it her shield. Of course, what she did was a no-brainer. But at least, when it failed to get her some peace, Wendy's drowsy eyes finally half-opened.
”Okay, one's up! Time to focus the firepower on the still sleeping dinosaur! Haaaah!!!!”
”Steffy?” Wendy dumbfoundedly called out.
Her mind had been blank for a while, but then pieces of memories started surging in, allowing her to remember that she overnighted at Sofony's place. A decision she made whimsically after getting pissed off by her brother's colleagues.
A few seconds later, Steffy's cries echoed in the room because Sofony had already woken up and was now pinching her sister's cheeks.
”Steffy!!!!!!! You have guts!!!!!! Of all things, you call your sister a dino?!”
”O-ouch, hey, I'm just joking! I swear you're the prettiest big sis, okay?”
Sofony snorted before laughingly letting go of her sister's cheeks. She yawned after, and then looked at her frowning friend who seemed to be having a headache.
'Ugh, actually, I'm also having a headache. We arrived here at 1, but then I have to go back to the station, so I slept around 2:30 am.'
”Sis, and you trespasser, go wash up now, or else we're all gonna be late. It's already past 7 am. I don't think we can even eat a decent breakfast,” Steffany hatefully grumbled while caressing her slightly cheeks using both hands.
Wendy drowsily asked, ”Why did you only wake up us now?”
”Why did you two have to be woken up? I thought you two are honor students?”
Sofony yawned once again. After some time, she stood up, walked towards a small cabinet and pulled up two towels. She threw one to the girl who was still massaging her forehead on the mattress, then strutted unsteadily to the bathroom. Her mind was still not totally awake.
After a few minutes, she was already in her uniform, sipping coffee in the living room. She still felt like dozing off, but thankfully her constitution was now stronger and the coffee was already showing some effect. Her sister was on the nearby sofa, busily checking if nothing's missing on her bag.
A freshened-up Wendy came out of the room, smilingly commenting,
”It's been a while since I came over at your place, Sofy. I remember that time, this little mischievous is still not here.”
”Yeah,” she nodded while handing her friend a cup of coffee.
Wendy accepted it using her right hand, then responded,
”Changes really happen every second, huh? See, now, you have a rude girl at home hitting people's faces with pillows. Sighs.”
”It's fun, you have to try it sometimes. It's especially refreshing if the target's face is very pretty.”
Steffy's cheeky reply earned an eye roll from Wendy and a laugh from Sofony. The latter had her eyes at Wendy, glad to see that her friend didn't act out of character and was back again to her usual self.
A couple of moments later, she looked away and started to reflect. What happened yesterday was a close call and if she had not moved early, then her friend would have ended up really jailed for attempted murder.
Despite being a bit relieved, she was still guilty. It was her feud with Clarissa that almost caused two lives to be destroyed.
This was why she realized, with a hostile enemy nearby, she could never slack off again. She had to always protect her loved ones.
A bitter smile arose from her lips. It then vanished a second later, replaced by conviction.