Dead Chats (#Wattys 2016)

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Zyesha

I sat up rubbing my eyes. I looked around and spotted myself in the mirror and laughed at my morning witch look. My phone buzzed. I immediately grabbed it. I had about 98 notifications and 39 messages. I replied all of them one by one and ignoring some. Then I decided to bath and brush before checking out the notifications.

I went through all notifications. Hit like whichever post I passed on news feed. I began chatting with my bestie Martha. We had a long chat on boys, break up and make up. Later I went to grab a snack so, I logged out. As I was munching on a granola bar I realized that Ryan hadn't yet texted me. I hurriedly ate up the rest and went to grab my phone. I checked through messages. He wasn't online yet. 'Not all are netty like me' I thought and smiled.

I spent the rest of the day watching tv and of course chatting. Then I shared a few posts. Then I decided to have some lunch so I went into kitchen and began looking around for something to eat. I decided to have noodles. I took a sauce pan, packet of noodles and water. I began to boil the water, added taste maker and noodles. Then I turned to get some oil. A small amount of oil separates the noodles and they do not become sticky. But the oil bottle slipped from my hand and oil spilled on the counter. "F*ck " I said to myself. Then I went to the store room to get a piece of newspaper to clean up the oil.

I grabbed a full newspaper and tore a big piece. As I was about to rub it on oil, I stopped dead in tracks. I couldn't believe what I saw.

It was Ryan and his other 3 friends on the newspaper. And there was a news about them. I never usually read newspaper but curiously I began reading. The news headline said -

3 killed 1 injured in a car accident

I began to read further. According to the news, their car had hit a truck. And the car being the fragile of the two had been badly crushed. And-

Ryan was dead.

The newspaper was dated two days ago.