Chasing Moons

CHAPTER 28 SPECIAL: SILENT NIGHT

Grade 12 Wayo

It's New Year's eve and I am left with nothing to do after dad and I got home from having dinner at a sukiyaki hot pot. The food was good enough.

I could have gone with Ming and his friends to celebrate the new year but I suddenly remembered there's something important that I was supposed to do. I was going to send my new year's message for P'Pha.

Since the holiday break it has been too long the last time I've seen him, it was only on facebook that I saw snippets of him because..er we aren't even friends on it. There were a lot of photos tagged to him that I came across on my newsfeed and when I stalk anything relating to him. It seems he's famous in university. How did he became this popular?

There are photos of him too where he looks like he's up on a stage and I wasn't able to know what the event was.

I'm not into facebook that much, tho. Well, I'm too lazy to keep on browsing and his profile's set on private anyway so there's not much to stalk.

Now, going back to the task. How am I going to send him my message. Playing out the scenarios in my mind made me feel nervous at once. I'm suddenly unsure of my self if I'm going to be able to put my self in to the task.

While I'm battling it out to convince my self that I can do it, I was distracted by the 'ping' on my phone notifying me of an incoming message. It's a PM from someone who I'm not friends with on Facebook.

"Hey, how's your new year's eve?"

Do I know this person? They didn't introduce themselves so maybe it's just a spam.

I was not going to bother to reply and seenzone who ever they were but then another message popped up.

"If you're reading this please reply back?"

Too bad I've never been one to respond to messages from people I don't know online.

"I can see you're reading my messages."

"Not even a hello?"

"..or ask me back 'how's my new year's eve' too?"

What a nut crack. By the looks of the faceless profile they're even using a fake account. Yet here he is talking to me like we knew each other.

"How's your new year's eve?"

Whatever dude. Maybe if I give him what he wants he'd stop.

"Finally he speaks. What are you up to? Aren't you going out for the count down?"

Obviously whoever he or she is, they're not planning on letting up at all.

"Nope, I'll seat it out at home. Who are you anyway and what's your deal?"

"I think you know me, or you might not. I'm not sure.."

"If you got nothing sensible to do, why don't you go to the temple and pray?"

"I really want to go out for the count down and see the fireworks."

"Alright, enjoy then."

"Don't you want to go too? You can come with me. There's still time."

And why would I go with someone I don't know? I bet I'm talking with a guy, tho.

No matter, I decided to just ignore him then clicked back to P'Pha's profile and stare at his profile photo. It was still the same old photo he had since highschool.