43 Smacked In the Forehead (1/2)

Li Xiuying washed up her bowl and cutlery and headed back to her bedroom. She put on a pair on her pj's and slipped into her bed.

She downloaded a popular romance novel on her phone and snuggled in to her bed and started to read. A few chapters later her eyelids grew heavy.

She mumbled to herself as she drifted away to the land of nod: ”Mmm, yes I'll go to the dance with you.”

Li Xiuying's dreams were filled with women in elegant gowns, men in tuxedo's, beautiful live band music and dancing under the moonlight.

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Sunday 14th

Li Xiuying woke from a long peaceful night's rest. She sighed in comfort while making a starfish on the bed. She felt around her bed for her phone, 10 am. Hmm plenty of time to get ready for this afternoon.

She showered and got dressed. Li Xiuying decided to live life on the wild side today; she wore a round necked three quarter length baggy black t-shirt paired with a dark pair of black biker jeans. She put on some purple short ankle socks with hamburgers printed on them. This was the most exposed skin she had shown in years.

She walked into the kitchen and made herself some stir fried rice noodles with an assortment of vegetables.

Li Xiuying looked through her kitchen cupboards and the fridge. There weren't enough ingredients for this afternoon. She decided to go shopping.

Li Xiuying put on a pair of trainers, picked up her coat off the foyer floor and put it on. She made sure she had a pair of gloves in her pocket, she didn't want to push herself too far in regards to her skin not having barrier of clothing protection.

She picked up her keys and purse from the foyer table and hummed as she left her apartment.

I'm going to have a girls day ~ we're going to stuff our facessssss ~ and eat caaaaaaaaaa~ keeeeee ~ because that's what I've heard people do on a girls day ~ She continued humming her made up song as she strolled to her car.

She stroked the bonnet of her car. ”Hello Baby. We're going shopping today.”

She looked up local supermarkets. There was a large supermarket approximately 35 minutes away. Li Xiuying was pretty excited about physically going shopping; she had always just bulked ordered protein bars, protein balls, dried fruit snacks and bottles of water and juice.

30 minutes later, Li Xiuying pulled into the supermarket parking lot. She put on her gloves as she walked towards entrance. She snagged a trolley, which seemed to be trying to escape from the automatic sliding doors. Hmm I'll need meat and vegetables, noodles, glutinous rice, ingredients for dumplings and wantons. I'll buy some cake too.

Li Xiuying made her way down the first aisle of vegetables.

Li Xiuying picked up vegetables as she went along this list included cabbage, spring onions, chili's, peppers, spinach etc. She also bagged and placed some garlic and ginger in her trolley.

After she had finished with the vegetables she hummed her little song as she sauntered towards aisle 2, the fruits aisle.

Just as she reached the top of the fruit aisle she heard a woman screaming.

”Ahhhh! Someone help! Help! My Husband, My husband is chocking! He can't breathe! HELP!!!!”

A crowd started gathering around the middle aged woman who was trying to frantically pat her husband's back while shouting for help. The middle aged man was clutching his throat, his mouth was wide open trying to gasp for air, he made choking sounds and he was becoming pale.

Li Xiuying pushed her trolley to the side and left it to walk towards the middle aged man. Before she could reach the middle aged man, a young woman in her 20's stepped out from the crowd.

Young Woman: ”I'm a doctor, can everyone please make way.”