The Last String

13

The nurses didn't let Noon enter her sister's room. And although they keep saying she's alright for now, Noon wants to wait until he sees his sister.

"I brought some of my co-workers" Noon announces as his mom escorts him to the lobby.

"Isn't it troublesome for them to accompany you here?"

"I didn't force them, they forced me to bring them here" Noon explains.

"Where are they? I should atleast meet them before you rest for tonight, it would be rude of me if I don't greet them right?" Although nervous, Noon led his mom to where everyone was.

"Oh my God, is that?" Noon's mom looks at him in shocked as a familiar face greets him with a shy smile.

"Mom" was the only thing Jake was able to utter before he was engulfed into a warm embrace.

"Our little cat is home" she says warmly as she lets go of Jake.

"You've grown taller, look at Noon, he hasn't grown a bit" she jokes.

Although Jake was still trying to cope up with the sudden warm feeling Noon's family had always given to him, he was glad.

It was that warmth that he always longed for

"Mom, this is Kit, our upper hand manager, Dhan and Ham, we all work for Jake" Noon introduces everyone and they all put their hand together in unison as they give her their respect.

"So how was Nami?" Jake didn't hesitate to ask.

"She's alright now, she had a combustion and the doctors pumped her with oxygen so she could breathe, they injected her some medicine and thankfully half an hour later, she came back to normal" she explains. She scans at everyone with a knowing look.

"You all look tired, I'll call Pol to pick you up" she tells them. She dials someone on her phone and after hanging up she looks at Noon in assurance.

"You need to go home too. Nami is fine, maybe tomorrow they'll let us see her"

//

Noon's house was still the same from eight years ago. Jake takes a deep breath as Noon opens the door and lets them in.

Pol stood there watching them go in.

"Message me if you're going to stay here for another night. If I knew you had come, I would've kept some of our rooms reserved for you. Too bad it's a packed night so we have no vacancy" Pol apologizes, feeling bad.

"It's okay, Noon's house is quite big, we can manage it here" Kit tells him which made Pol smile.

"If you're planning to spend one more night here I'm inviting you to our Thank God It's Friday party"

"Just go home already, we'll give you an update so just shoo away" Noon sarcastically smiles at him.

"Now you're showing your true nature" Pol points put earning an annoying groan from his friend.

"Yeah, good night too" Noon gestures everyone to go in first and without a warning he closes the door.

"CALL ME IF YOU NEED ME!" He hears Pol shouts from the outside.

The first thing that Jake saw was the trophy on the living room. It was the trophy they got from a small singing contest at the school festival way back in high school. He looks at Noon who doesn't seem to notice how he was looking around, or maybe he wasn't bothered at all.

Noon shows them the room they'll be sleeping in for the night. It was the room Jake had used before. But unlike seven years ago, it was now just an empty bed that looked unoccupied for some time.