One day

Chapter 19

I'm Sen, one day I found out about Sana's phone number.

"You go back to class first, I'm busy with homework." I interrupted Lilith, asking her to leave.

Lilith was bored with talking too much and returned to her classroom. As expected, she ran into my classmates in the hallway, it sounded like they were having a good time.

Everyone seems to like vivacious seniors like Lilith.

Today is the first day of the week, so students have to stay at school all day, so when it's lunchtime, I quickly leave the classroom to avoid Lilith looking for me again, taking advantage of a short time to work I need to do.

I'm going to call each of the contacts I got earlier.

In class I still can't help but think a lot, I don't know how I ended up calling all those contacts, but I wish I wouldn't get in any more trouble again. Recently I called a suspicious man, he had a rather strange accent, probably a local accent, and he threatened me.

He suddenly threatened me, a person he did not know.

But judging from the strange thing he said, it looks like he's trying to find Sana, which is definitely not in her favor. Thinking for a while, I quickly pulled out the sim card from the phone, avoiding him to find me thanks to the locator.

There are still a number of other phone numbers that I have not contacted, perhaps it is better to use a public phone to contact another time, to avoid encountering someone with a dangerous smell like the uncle just now.

“You had your phone confiscated for using it during class.”

I was snatched by the opposite person, thinking in my heart that I don't know who would do something superfluous like taking my phone again. Although it is true that at school there is a rule not to use phones while studying, most teachers do not follow, some people even encourage students to go online to look up documents, so using phones during class time does not count as a violation.

And I'm not the only one using it, yet the only person whose phone was taken away was me, but seeing the person doing it, I pondered for a moment and then decided to suffer.

Anyway, I just removed the sim so the other phone is not very necessary.

“My name is Ken Devlin, nice to meet you, from now on I will be one of your official instructors.” Ken wrote his name on the board, boldly announced it to everyone.

Unexpectedly, the person I met yesterday told the truth, he really transferred to the school where I worked. However, I still don't understand two things, one is that he knows I'm a student while I'm not wearing a uniform, the other is that he always pretends to know me.

I feel like my luck is running out, otherwise, why would people like Lilith and Ken show up at school? And also Sana, the person I wanted to meet at school the most, couldn't go to school, which is ironic.

"Tch-" I clicked my tongue, covering my ears to avoid hearing the girls' weird screams. My perception is not very normal, I can hardly distinguish who is beautiful or ugly, only when someone else says it, I will know.

Like yesterday, for example, Ken was mediocre in my eyes, but today when my classmates said he was handsome, I also thought he was the handsome type. 

I hope no one knows this thought of mine because it is very strange.

I don't know what Ken feels uncomfortable with me, it seems that he is trying to rebuke me with all kinds of things, although it is not called bullying, every day at school is very tiring. It would be great if I could be like Lilith, after a day of school she would have more energy as if she didn't know what fatigue was.

“Can you tell the teacher to let me take a day off school tomorrow? I feel tired." I lay with my back to Lilith, opening my mouth to ask for her help, my voice so languid that I didn't even expect it.

It seems that Lilith also felt that I was tired, so she stopped teasing me, hummed for an hour, and then prepared to go to sleep. It's just that I know Lilith really wants to ask me why I don't go to school because in her eyes a person who considers learning everything as I have never wasted my time studying…

But now I give up easily go a long time? No, it wasn't pleasant, I had a hard time making that decision because I didn't have the energy to deal with everything in such a short period of time.

I took a deep breath, praying that I would have a good night's sleep. The next time I opened my eyes, it was already morning, I couldn't believe I wasn't disturbed by the nightmare, so I went to look for my watch.

It's still early, the clock strikes six o'clock.

“You got up so early, so you really decided to school today?” Lilith was combing her hair, casually said.

"No."

I still have a lot of work to do today, so I can't go to school. Waiting for Lilith to leave the house, I also prepared my clothes to go out, before leaving I glanced at my notebook, then took a pen and wrote one more thing.

Once I get my phone back, I will never bring it to class again.

“Having such a quick effect? You're not fooling me, are you?" The psychiatrist asked in amazement after I told her everything I was feeling these past few days.

"It's true, although I don't feel very loved, I don't have nightmares anymore, and talking is quite comfortable." Actually, I have changed a few small details, but it doesn't matter, just being distracted doesn't have a big impact.

The doctor forcefully turned me around, looked at the whole picture from top to bottom, then suspiciously asked: "You didn't hurt yourself, did you?"

For a moment I didn't understand why she asked that, so I didn't answer forever, she saw that and added: "There are some people when they are too stressed out by harming themselves, many people when they overreacted to the point of being hospitalized, but in return, they feel calm. I hope you don't."

Do I look like the kind of person who would self-harm? Come on, I've defended myself so well that I've never tripped.

"In short, I wouldn't do that, thank you."

After leaving the psychological clinic under the skeptical eyes of the doctor, I went to Sana's hospital first, the last time I saw her she seemed to be fine, soon she moved again just somewhere else. By then, I might not be able to find Sana anywhere.

Since James said they couldn't go back to the boarding house, Sana's mother said she ran away from home, so I couldn't find her in those places. And where they went next was probably only James who could tell, but there was no way he would tell me, so I had to get in touch with Sana as quickly as possible.

I don't know what Sana thinks of me, but she's the only one that makes me feel connected, maybe it's the friendship I've always wanted.

But the purpose when I went to Sana's hospital was not to meet her, I just needed to confirm if she was still here or not, and after seeing James go in the hospital, I was relieved.

Maybe they'll stay here for a while.

So I hid and waited for James to disappear and then found a nearby cafe, sat there waiting for James to leave and I would call Sana… I'm not too sure, hoping for the last number I need to call is Sana's number.

James was in there for so long, I was almost bored to the point of wanting to go home. Because I don't have a phone right now, it's inconvenient to do anything, can't read stories, can't find documents, and can't even review the data inside my phone.

Today is the end of the month, the day I will check my phone to delete unnecessary data, free time like now is the right time to do it, but I don't have the phone!

The day my phone was lost, I really didn't think about this case, if I had been a little more resilient then maybe Ken would have paid it for me.

I got tired of glancing at the hospital, after a while James came out, waited for him to disappear, then I went to a payphone and dialed the number. The ringing of the phone made me nervous, waiting for Sana to pick up the phone, but the third time I dialed the number, no one picked up the phone.

At that time, I was really sad, so the person who answered the phone was not Sana, I also accepted, as long as someone answered, it would save me from waiting.

On the last dial, when no one answered, I gave up and definitely hung up. But before I hung up, I seemed to have heard someone else answer, so I quickly dialed the number again.

"Hello, who is that?"

It's Sana's voice, thankfully, I almost gave up. I said, "Here I am, sorry I didn't visit you the other day."

Sana was silent for a moment, which made me a little nervous, lest she finds me annoying. But right after that, Sana said: "Thank you, I knew you were coming but James stopped me, so I also apologized on his behalf. Are you free now? If you have free time, I hope you come to my place to play, I'm bored here all day."

She laughed a little, on the phone I sounded like she was having a good time, but I don't have time anymore. Besides, if I don't get home in time, Lilith might think I'm skipping school, and then she tells my parents...

Suddenly a thought crossed my mind.

I awkwardly said to Sana, "I might not be able to get to you right now, but I can text you later, okay?"

Sana still didn't give me too much trouble, she agreed and told me to read my phone number, but I don't remember it. Usually, my phone number is only called by my family and school, I haven't given it to anyone for a long time, so I have forgotten, sometimes when I need to write down my phone number, I have to open the phone to see.

But now I can't get my phone, so I told Sana to wait patiently, in a day or two when I get my phone back, I'll call her.