"We advise everyone to stay in their homes tonight as said from the government. A rare disease has spread causing inhumane behaviors, Quarantines have been made throughout the country of S . Korea, We don't know how long this illness will last but if you are infected please notify the police of your well being so we can stop this disease from spreading."
"Eomma?" I hold the house phone to my ear.
"Don't worry, Eomma is fine. I will be home late due to the company building being put under quarantine. Make sure you and BuYoung get something to eat. I should be home by 12 or so." Eomma says as if nothing bad was happening.
"Arraso." I say trusting her words.
I place the home phone back and looking into the living room to see BuYoung watching spongebob eating rice porridge.
"Eomma said she'll be home late tonight, Is there anything you want to do?" I say walking towards her bed in the living room.
"Unnie It's not like I can do anything." She says in disappointment staring off at her IV connected to her wrists.
"Ya mwoya? (What?)" I sit down beside her placing my hand onto her beanie.
"We have lots of board games and -"
"Unnie let's just watch spongebob." She says weakly crossing her arms as her focus goes to the T.V.
Pancreatic Cancer.
It's been a hard year since we found out that BuYoung was tested positive for having it. Mom has been on her feet more then ever and I have no such place but to just be there by her side.
"Okay well before I get it started is there anything you want to eat first?" I say getting up off the bed to face her.
She raises her hand to her lips thinking to herself, "Tteobokki?"
"Arraso." I say picking up the blanket from her feet raising it to her waist.
"Just wait here." I say making my way to the kitchen.
As I set up the ingredients for what needs to be needed, I look at my phone waiting for the test results from last exam to show up. Still, no sign.
Having the feeling of confidence and anxiety mixed together was never a good feeling. If I had passed this exam that would mean I had finally gotten into Law Academy.
That'll be the first.
I open up the premade rectangular shaped rice cakes and call the one friend I knew who'd be up at this time of night.
"Woosung?"
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"Ahhhh" He yawned from the other line of the phone, "What could you possibly be worried about this time?"
"Aish," I say as I drop the rice cakes into a bowl to rinse them. "Did you ever get your score? I never recieved anything."
"Ani- (No-), Wae are you so worried?" He shifted the phone to the other side of his ear. "You studied more then I did odds are you're bound to get accepted then I am."
A smile on my face reassures me that maybe I have been overreacting about the whole situation.
"Arra Arra. (Okay, Okay.)" I brought the bowl over to the sink to rinse them off.
"Unnie-"
"Ne?" I look up to see her looking out the window.
"What is that?" She points out the window and I noticed a bright light shining.
I walk over there to see what was happening and I couldn't believe my eyes.
The town hall was on fire.
"Woosung, I'll call you back." I say not bringing my eyes off of the burning building.
"Everything alright?" He asks if anything had happened.
"Look out your window, right now." I say.
I could hear him moving through the phone and the only words that escape his mouth. "Oh shit."
"D-Don't look." I say bringing my hand to cover BuYoung's eyes..
"Woosung, I'll call you back arra?" I say closing the curtains so BuYoung wouldn't see.
"I'll be at your place in 5." He says through the phone hanging up right after.
I look at my phone dialing 911 immediately but as I raise the phone to my ear the call went straight to a beeping noise.
"What the fuck." I mutter looking at my phone.
Screaming from the distance starts to capture our attention, Not just one but many.
"Unnie what's going on?" BuYoung asks worried.
No signs of sirens , ambulances or cops anywhere. Where are the officials at?
"Don't move." I say as I open the window door to step out onto the balcony. The cold wind blows against my skin causing goose bumps to appear on my arm.
As I could see the fire growing catching onto the other houses, If the fire trucks don't show up soon it'll latch onto our apartment building as well. Looking down below I noticed people running for their lives. But from what?
I squint my eyes to get a better look and notice a guy covered in blood.
What the hell..
His hair hung low covering his eyes, nothing but blood spouting out from his mouth.
I raise my hands to my lips and saw him as he ran towards another guy biting onto his forearm.
Fear shivers through my down to my spine.
What the hell is happening. I scoot back from fear and look at both my sides to see Woosung's apartment is lights out.
