Chapter 4 - A Bond With Rain (2/2)

Most of all, she remembered the way her spirit slowly and torturously left her body. It was worse than being torn apart. But she had to go through this pain repeatedly. It felt like centuries had passed but she was stuck in a loop. Had to live through the agony and pain over and over again.

Feeling her head bursting with sharp pain, she wanted to open her eyes but found it really difficult to do so. Suddenly, she felt a couple of droplets hitting her face. She felt the coolness and her brows knitted together.

'Am I still in the rain? No one is going to bury my body?' Scoffing at her own thought, she replied to herself, 'Who would? My mother doesn't care. And him...' Just the thought of him put her through agony. 'He isn't mine anymore to care. I guess I'm not allowed to have some peace even in death.'

Leaving herself to fate, she didn't make another effort to open her eyes. Her body kept getting drenched in the rain.

”Xiu, have you lost your mind? What are you doing here?”

Hearing her name being called out, she frowned. The voice was unfamiliar but the concern was evident. The voice was coming from somewhere close-by.

'Who could be worried about her?' She thought to herself and felt like someone sheltered her from the cold rain. And then she felt something warm being dr.a.p.ed over her wet self. She wanted to open her eyes. She had to open her eyes. She wanted to see who was so thoughtful towards her?

In the world that scorned her and shamed her, who was willing to become her warm embrace?

Therefore, she tried again. Disregarding the shooting pain in the head, she pushed herself to try harder. Her eyes fluttered and as she slowly opened them, her vision was blurry. But when it cleared what came into her view was a beautiful young girl. She didn't look Asian at all with her striking features but she spoke Mandarine so fluently.

The girl before her had a honey-colored skin. Her eyes were chocolate brown matching her hair perfectly. She was one beautiful girl. Even Xiu who had lived the life of a superstar felt that the girl before her was gorgeous. An elusive beauty whom the artists couldn't match up with.

But Xiu was certainly unfamiliar with her. Who is she? She wanted to ask but her eyes fell on her surrounding and she held back her tongue. That and also because she felt like her throat was stinging. She was in a cemetery. More precisely, she was curled up in a fetal position beside a gravestone.

Unfamiliar gravestone. The name on it was; Carina Novell.

The name didn't ring a bell to Xiu. But thinking about this name brought a weird pain to spread through her heart making her gasp and breathe deeply. What was this weird pain? She wondered to herself.

”You're running a high fever. Let's get you home, first. Why didn't you call me? You are so irresponsible. Am I not your best friend?” The beautiful girl was dragging her frail body but she felt like she had no strength to move.

'Best friend? But in my line of work, I could never make a friend. When did I make such a caring best friend?' Xiu was frowning trying to carry the weight of her own body.

Seeing her condition, the beautiful girl supported her body properly and took her down the small hill. There was a car waiting there. Xiu couldn't make sense of anything. Her head was hurting badly and she didn't know how she was even able to stand.

She dropped all her thoughts and followed the girl towards the black car. She decided to leave the thinking for a later time. Nonetheless, before she could enter the car, her eyes fell on her own reflection in the side-mirror and she froze.

Looking at the unfamiliar face of a teenage girl, Xiu's mind reeled with shock. The girl had puffy red eyes, thick straight hair that reached her shoulder and was sticking to her face, her face was small but had baby fat on it. To make sure, Xiu lifted her hand with effort and tried to touch her face only to realize that it was indeed her face.

Not being able to digest something ridiculous like this, she screamed, ”Ahhhhh!”

Her scream startled the beautiful girl beside her but before she could react, she saw Xiu's body going limp as she fainted.