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“I'm really keeping you busy since the morning, I don't want to bother you anymore,” I cringed.

“It's fine. I'm used to guiding the foreign students around every new session,” Jake shrugged.

“Uhm...does that include walking them home?” I chuckled.

He instantly flinched and backed away, raising both his hands a bit, “If you're uncomfortable with me walking you home then I can just leave.”

I grinned as I spoke, “It's not that I'm uncomfortable. You're nothing but help for me today. But again I'd prefer going back home alone.”

He merely smiled as he nodded, “If you say so. Get home safely.”

“You too.”

There was just no way I was going to let a guy, who I just met a few hours ago, walk me home in a foreign country that I wasn't familiar with.

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“I thought your school gave over a long time ago. Where were you?” Chris spoke fluently in Korean, making me remember half of the vocabulary I had forgotten at school.

“I kind of made friends. We went to a book cafe,” I answered with no problems in between my words as I dropped my bag on the couch.

“Oh, good for you. Did you reach up to them first or vice versa?”

I sheepishly smiled, “The other way round. I kind of forgot how to speak when I was going to introduce myself. But now that I'm back here, I'm suddenly fluent.”

He snickered, “You're clearly not fluent if you have trouble speaking in front of others.”

“It was fine though. There were actually two students who could help me around so it was all good.”

“That's—” A loud crashing noise interrupted Chris from completing his sentence. We looked at each other in fear and confusion before we both raced to the balcony to see what was going on.

“Is that an ambulance?” I asked, my heart racing.

“Yes. Stay here, I'll go down to see if everything's alright,” he stated before dashing off.

I watched him as I contemplated whether I should ignore his words and run down there with him or not. I sighed in frustration and stayed put while continuing to look down at the disaster that had occurred.

The ambulance had ran into a wall of our neighbouring building. The front of the ambulance continued to smoke as a number of people started rushing to the scene.

It was not long before two men came out from the back while holding captive a woman in her early 20's with them. Her mouth was stained with blood as she cried hysterically, “I'm hungry!”

I furrowed my eyebrows and shifted my gaze to the front, where the rescue team was busy helping the driver get out from there. I squinted my eyes to see clearer.

But all I could see was the lifeless body of the driver being laid on a stretcher and brought into another ambulance.

I watched in confusion as the ambulance drove off. What just happened?

Without having to waste another second, I rushed into my room and turned on my laptop before hastily searching up about the recent incident.

There weren't much information since it recently occurred a few minutes ago but there were a few pictures and videos taken by some of the people who were down there.

It seemed to catch a lot of attention in just a few minutes that a bunch of people started reposting and sharing their opinions about it.

‘Don't tell me that that woman killed the driver just by biting him, no.’ One stated.

‘What is this massacre? It's disturbing as fuck.’

‘Who in their right minds let that lady get in an ambulance when her condition is like that?’

‘Is this the start of a zombie apocalypse? 🙂🔫’

‘Y'all probably watch too many movies and series to think that it's a zombie.’

‘It's worse than a zombie, I assume.’

‘Stop panicking everyone, I'm sure it's all just a misunderstanding.’

‘MISUNDERSTANDING MY ASS. THAT GUY IS FUCKING DEAD.’

‘He didn't die. He was just unconscious. At least that's what the rescue team said.’

‘Another day, another controversy. But this one is actually interesting.’

I leaned back on my chair and spun around as my head was filled with thoughts. I'll have to wait longer to have a fixed opinion.

The sound of Chris opening and closing the main door caught me off guard as I started fumbling to shut off my laptop.

“We might need to make a few rules about after school outings with your friends,” he spoke in English.

“What?” I exclaimed before jumping up from my seat and charging towards him, “Why?”

“You just saw what happened, right?” He gestured at the balcony.

“I did but what does that have to do with hanging out with my friends?”

“Look, Emma, your parents trusted me with you staying here and there's no way I'm going to let you wander around outside and put your life in danger when those type of people exist outside there. You could've gotten hurt if you had reached later.”

I released a sigh, “You're just being paranoid.”

“I may be paranoid but your chance of getting hurt and me getting in trouble for it is never zero. I'll start dropping and picking you up from tomorrow.”

He walked off to his room before I could protest. I cursed under my breath before shutting my door and plopping down on my bed.

I thought that I could finally be independent but I guess not. I looked down at my uniform, sighed and eventually decided to clean up.

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I stared at my laptop, a cinnamon roll in hand. I was in the middle of chewing and on the brink of falling asleep when I saw a picture of the mark where the lady had bit the driver. I leaned closer to the screen without even thinking of zooming it.

Didn't I...predict this would happen when I was younger? I swallowed as I remembered myself arguing with my fellow classmates back in Melbourne.

It was another day of them mocking me because of my "weird interest". I clearly remember making a fool out of myself and saying that vampires would come out from the woods and catch the media's attention when I was eleven years old.

It was only when I got older that I knew it was foolish and humiliating of me to say that in front of them. I furrowed my brows as I stared at the picture. But it seems like I could've predicted this all along.

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