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CHEN MEI XING
❝minghao! watch out!❞
that was the last thing i remember saying before i supposedly got hit by a truck. who's minghao? i don't know. what does he look like? i don't know. where is he now? i. don't. know.
i've been told that 'minghao' left for america as soon as his parents found out about my accident. all the time i've been told that 'minghao' never cared for me. that he was just pretending to be my friend.
i reply with a simple i don't care because i don't. why should i care about someone i don't know. it's pointless.
it's been 6 years since the accident. and i'm living a peaceful life. on some occasions, relatives ask if i still contact 'minghao' and i reply with a flat out no.
i'm still curious about minghao to this day, i ask my parents about it. they always reply with an occasional we'll talk about this later, but we never do.
i've heard people whispering in the halls about me as soon as i walk down. i'm guessing they've heard about what happened 6 years ago. it's been 6 years and most people are still not over it.
that's when i noticed people weren't staring and whispering about me this morning. they were looking behind me, i wasn't interested so i ignored whatever was behind me.
faint gasps and hush whispers spread throughout the whole school as i walked through the halls.
"justin! that's justin."
"geez, he looks better than on tv."
"america did him good."
"yes, i know right!"
"why is mei xing there?"
"i don't know. remember, she doesn't know common sense because of her 'accident'."
"i heard that his real name isn't justin. he only changed it to justin in america."
"really? what was his real name?"
"nobody knows. we only know that he's lived in this province before he moved."
i decided to step off to the side as the whispers grown quiet. i look at the guy who walked down the halls as if he owned the place.
he glanced at me for a second before he strolled through the halls. he looks so arrogant.
"oh, my gosh! he just looked at me! justin huang looked at me!"
