Almos

Empty

Twenty:

Next day

I woke up feeling very heavy. As I lift up my left arm, a sudden pain filled me in and I almost lost my breath. I quickly put it down as I try to breathe calmly to ease my pain. I took a few deep breaths before the pain I felt completely disappeared and that's the only time I open my eyes.

I just look up into the ceiling with an empty mind and empty thought. Nothing.

The pain that I felt earlier... I really don't know what it caused. I don't even know if I dream last night or I just simply slept even though... There is something missing that I cannot explain what it was.

I just feel that there is something that I totally forget and I couldn't remember anything about it.

A knock at my door cuts off my staring before I heard my mom's voice.

"Are you awake, Anne?"

"Yes mom." I answered before she entered my room.

"Are you alright now?"

I slowly sit up before I answered. "I'm fine, mom."

She went beside me and checks my forehead. "I'm glad your fine." She said. "But still, you need to rest more and I think you can go back to school by tomorrow." She added that I just nodded and smiled.

...

In silence, I look at my laptop blankly. I don't know why I open it or for what reason, I just open it and just look at it until the screen turned black.

"So, what are you trying to do with it, Anne?"

"Chaddy!" I surprisingly answered. "What are you doing here? And why did you suddenly enter my room without even knocking?"

"Visiting you since you're excused for two days, and I knocked few times but you didn't seem to hear so I asked your mom's permission first before I finally entered your room. And as what I saw, you seem too busy thinking nothing." He answered and sits across me. "So, I'm thinking if I'm going to asked if are you're well or not?"

"I'm fine, thank you." I answered and he just stares at me intently. "What?"

"It looks like you are not well."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know." He answered as he shrugs off.

I look at him before I heave a sigh and close my laptop. "I don't know what is going on with me, Chaddy." I finally surrender and tell him what is going on with my mind.

"Do you mean, the blank stare at your laptop and the feeling like there's nothing in your mind, it is simply... empty?"