IV. Final Day of the Activity

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I didn't get any sleep after that happened. It felt uncomfortable. A couple of days had already passed, but it still didn't make any sense. I've been trying to think what I should do but I'm not having any progress after all. To avoid overthinking it, I tried different ways to amuse myself and yet it didn't help at all. Her words bothered me for the rest of the days, not knowing what I should do about it.


After doing all of that work and still not making any improvement, I felt I still needed something to do then I realized something. The second and last day of the event will happen tomorrow and that is another thing to think about. Am I experiencing a bad omen, or did I do something to deserve all of this? If this baggage of stress added another one, I would totally lose my mind.


Fate didn't even spare me even after saying that, Gerald called and told me something I didn't really want to hear.


"Yael, what are you doing right now? I've got some big news for you.", he chattered.


"I'm just here making myself busy by reading some books. What is that big news you're speaking about? Is it really a big deal?", I asked.


"The publishing house just called me and wants us to work. They told me that they were in a partnership with some company with a project. It is a multi-story library near the capital."


"And what we will do? How is it even connected with us?", I asked.


"Since you have already created a name for yourself, they want us to lead the opening. They also demand us to have a fan signing event to help them gather more people to the area."


"Also, I've already agreed with them.", Gerald added.


"What?! You agreed without even telling it to me?"


"Just calm down. It's still 2 weeks from now plus, there's no way that you will have plans in that day. I bet you're just going to use that day for any nonsense activity."


"The reason I also agreed with that without telling you was because the publishing house told me that they would extend your dues for the book. You need more time, right?", he added.


I was a bit glad that my due extended a little but receiving such information while experiencing complicated things didn't help me at all.


Thanks to that, the things I needed to think about just piled up more. Picking up the pen was already a taxing thing for me at this moment but now it's just a mess. How could I finish all of this while not mishandling it at the same time?


Though I'm carrying such burdens at the same time, I don't have any choice but to move and accept it no matter what. I even attended the event for Mom while still being bugged about everything but to light things up, I tried my best to hide just for myself and just think about it later. Nothing will happen if I try to settle things without knowing what I should do.


The event didn't change its location and it is almost the same as what we left it last time. The bay was clear enough already but there's still a bunch of things that we need to do.

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