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MEETING AT THE WRONG TIME
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July 7, 2010
It's the first day of school for the second semester and I'm not even looking forward to it. I just want to stay at home.
"Andy! Wake up or you'll be late! I'm not letting you ride my bike!" Noa, my older brother, shouted at me as usual like he's my nagging mother.
"Five more minutes, please?!" I begged him.
I literally prefer to stay on my bed than walk outside.
"No!"
But he actually let me because my family—the Kurosaki family, is overprotective of me due to a traumatic incident I was involved in.
Noa Kurosaki is my older brother. He's nineteen, cool, reserved, hardworking and teases me a lot! People reckon he's good-looking so maybe he is. Or maybe they got bad eyesight. I prefer to believe that the latter is true.
My name name is Andrielle Kurosaki but it sounds like a guy's name so I prefer others to call me 'Andy'.
Why? No particular reason. I just like it. I mean, we all got our own preferences and that is mine.
Actually, this is my first time going to school because of that incident I mentioned before the first semester started.
One night, an escaped prisoner entered our house and at that time, everybody was asleep, but not me.
I heard noises from the living room so I silently walk downstairs and saw him—about ssi-foot tall, broad shoulders, and a long scar on his right cheek. He was wearing the orange shirt with the big P behind since he was a prisoner. But I don't know if all prisoners wear orange.
The man panicked seeing me and he pointed his gun towards my direction.
"You!" He screamed. "Give me your phone!" My heart took a crazy turn and decided to beat like a madman.
'Wait! He's demanding only the phone? Like who cares!' I thought.
I was so scared that that man is giving me the creeps! I had to do something but my mind had also gone blank!
"Mom! Noa! Help me!" I shouted.
"Shut it!" The man demanded to me still pointing the gun at me.
"What's up sis?" I heard Noa going down the stairs.
I turned to look at him going down but a loud 'bang' echoed in the room. The next thing I knew was that I was lying on the carpet floor. The carpet was warm yet wet... And I was the cause of it.
'Is it blood? Is this still reality? Someone please...' I thought as my vision started going blurry.
I just recognized that man's shadow left through the window. I guess he also use the same spot for entering. I didn't know what happened after that since I lost consciousness.
