Optimism™

21

"Ahhh! Guess who's back!" Jihyo shouted while we were close to the mans house. No one was outside, I guess they are inside?

We knocked on the door and waited for them. No one had opened the door yet so we knocked on it again.

Still no person getting the door

"Eh?" I walked over to the window and peeked inside. Where are they even at? Is this some prank or some jump scare..

"Should we...call them?" I asked. "Yeah" I walked over to the cell phone area and put in Dahyun's phone number in.

Ring...

Ring....

Ring...

"Did they even bring their phones?"

"Not sure. I don't think there's signal here, wanna go find them?" Jihyo asked

"But What if they come back afterwards? Then we won't know" I replied. Jihyo stopped and roamed around on what we should do.

"How about let's just stay here and wait for them. If they don't come back, we will go find them. Is that okay?"

"Sure"
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So then we waited for them, waited and waited. It was really boring since we obviously have nothing to do. All we did is just walk around the same spot, talk and sit down.

"Ahhh! I can't take it anymore. Let's go find them"

"B-but unnie...it's only been like ten minutes, shouldn't we wait a little longer?"

"A little longer? No, we should go find them! I don't even know what they are even doing.."

"I guess they thought we were lost since we took two days to get the potion, they are finding us?" I said

"Hm.."

"How about you go climb the trees and I stay here, maybe you can try to spot them" I said patting on Jihyo's back pointing to the high tree.

"Are you crazy? What if I fall? You know I'm scared of heights! What if you do it!"

"Sorry Jihyo, but your tiny, tiny people are light, so therefore, you won't fall or break the branches"

"I'm not tiny- I'm just short!"

"Same thing unnie"

"What?! It's not the same thi- ok, you know what, I don't want to have an argument with young people like you"

"Exactly"

"Let's just go find them just like they are maybe finding us. Maybe we will bump into them"
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While we walked, we would always hear sounds and stuff but we ignore it. These days, it's always getting worse.

"Tzuyu-ya, do you hear a man shouting and some screaming noises?"

"No-"

"AHHHHHHH GET AWAY FROM ME!"

We turned around, my eyes looked everywhere. I was shocked, where could that scream even come from?

"L-let's just continue walking" I said

"No, w-we must save whoever they are even though it might take a while." Jihyo grabbed my hand and then stared sprinting to where the noise is coming from.

"What's wrong ma'am!"

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Our hands let go...

"G-guys?"