HISTORY CLASS.
"07734?" Liming is so confused.
"What could this even mean?"
It's actually creepy because it could mean anything else, excluding from the fact that that pager just literally shows up out of nowhere in his table when he woke up.
His watch suddenly beeps
"Oh my god- I'm late"
As he prepared himself and packed food for lunch, washed, and got ready as fast as he could. He ignored the pager at first but that pager just keeps goes on and on in his mind, he's still confused about that thing.
In the end, he couldn't resist but to bring it to school with him.
At the library, he saw Por once again,
"Hey Li! where have you been?" Por said, a little confused why Liming's late.
"Shhh, keep it down keep it down." He shushed.
"Oh- sorry sorry, where have you been?" He whispered.
"You're never late, hmm let me guess... something comes up?" Por asked, a little worried.
"No- I mean- Yes." I stuttered. "Remember what our teacher taught us about pager phones?" I added.
"In history class?" He asked.
"Yes, in history class." I agreed.
"Well yeah I kinda remember some, I only know it's used for communication years ago, well- you know I somewhat don't listen to history class that much so..." He then puts his hand behind his head, a little embarrassed "Anyways- what about it?" he adds curiously.
"How can I explain this.. uhm, okay so here's what happened..."
"You know me and mom are not like.. okay right now.." Liming stated.
"Yeah yeah, I know that." Por said.
"So I was alone in our house, actually, I'm in our basement, I have a room there and I'm just planning to read books the whole night." He added. "You know me, I love books so much."
"So is this somewhat connected to a book or something?" Por asked.
"No, no- well actually while reading the book I fell asleep, no anything in the table, just a book- and what creeps me out is that I had a dream about my father."
"Wait what? I mean, what's your dream all about?" Por curiously asked.
"In my dream.. dad wants me to play with him, he asked me to play board games with him and suddenly a phone rings, and he answered it, but left- like literally went out of the house."
"Oh, that's... weird" Por said giving him a confused face.
"Dreams are always weird Por."
"Well, you have a point" he scoffs jokingly. "Then what?"
"And then there's this sudden storm outside with loud thunders, it felt super real, I stopped my dad from getting out but I woke up." He added.
"That's a nightmare man."
"I know! Right? Then I woke up because there's this pager in my table."
"Geez Li! you're giving me chills!" Por states, a little scared.
"Me too, the pager didn't stop beeping and then I saw some random numbers on it."
"What numbers?" Por asked, still confused.
"Here here, I brought it with me." Liming then took the pager outside his bag and showed Por what he's been talking about.
"07734?" Por confusingly asked, probably this is going to be his tmi for today.
"What do you think this mean?" Liming asked.
"Let's search it up to cut the confusion shall we?"
Por then took his laptop out and searched.
"Oh..."
"What?"
"I guess it's supposed to mean 'hello', you know when you turn the numbers upside down?"
"Oh well, that makes sense." Liming finally popped his confusion bubble.
"But who the hell sent you that?"
"I- I don't know.."
"Should we say hello back or something?" He laughed.
"I think we should"
Then Liming surprisingly typed back. "07734"
"Hey! I'm just kidding! you ain't for real right now."
"It's worth the try I guess." Liming said proudly.
The librarian shushed the two.
Por scoffed silently "whatever Li."
Suddenly the school bell rang, reminding them to report to class.
"I'll get going now Li, tell me when that thing replied to you." Por teasingly said.
"I will, now go study smarty ass." Liming chuckled as he watched Por leave the library.
Liming spent his remaining free time learning about the various pager codes. He is clearly becoming more interested in it, so he put on his headphones and listened to music for hours while learning.
He's never shown sustained enthusiasm in anything before, but I guess now the tables have turned.
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Love Coded
خيال (فانتازيا)"a LOVE through numbers." It all began with a student, named Liming. Who tends to get ridiculed and judged not only by how introverted he is, but also about his past. One day, waking up from a terrible dream, he noticed something vibrating, he found...
