Chasing the Sun - (On Hold✌)

Chapter 8: ...And Tormented

Hima let out another deep sigh. The food in front of her looks delicious but all she ever did was stare at it, then poke it with her fork again and again.

It was lunch time and the steak on her plate was dead and cooked, but it still died a hundred times from her fork.

She let out another sigh.

"What's your problem?" asked Sophia who was getting distracted with her sighing. "You know I am starting to pity your food, stop playing with it."

Her mind has wondered back to the roof top of the hotel, she didn't even hear Sophia's snide comments.

She could still remember the faces her friends made earlier. They looked like heaven showed them a miracle. But when she took her phone and examined it, she wondered if it was a miracle or a punishment for her.

Her phone has registered a couple of miscalls from an unknown number. Then her heart sank even deeper when she read the message the unknown number left for her and it looks like it came from him, from BB Oppa. There was a total of 5 messages. Some of the messages were composed of him asking how Jeju was, or how was her day. Then a few more was him asking whether he got the right number or not since he can't reach her no matter how many times he tried calling.

His last message was this morning and it made her want to cry. BB Oppa told her he will be flying to Jeju for some business. He added that he was hoping to see them but since he can't contact them, he might just as well enjoy the nature. That's what he said and the message was sent around 7 in the morning.

Hima heaved another sigh.

"Will you seriously stop it Hima," Sophia told her, she looked annoyed with her sighing.

"Hima, don't you like the food? Do you want something else?" asked Marie, she looked troubled as well.

She tried to eat something but she almost threw it all out when her phone suddenly vibrated on the table. All eyes were on it as if it was an alien thing.

The food got stock in her throat and she started coughing. She involuntarily drank all the water in her glass then look at her phone again. It won't stop ringing.

Hima looked at her friends who had the same expression as she has.

"Don't look at me," Sophia told her. She was looking at her as if begging her to help her.

"Marie?" she looked at Marie pleading.

"Why me? It's your phone. Go on, answer it," she cant make out the look in her face, she looked worried, shocked and excited, all at the same time.

"I can't. I- I don't know what to say. Please answer it. Just tell him, I'm asleep or something," she tried to reason out.

"Are you crazy? High noon and you are asleep? Who'd believe that?" rebuked Sophia, she rolled her eyes and said, "give that to me," and answered the phone.

Hima and Marie were listening intently to Sophia as she answered the phone. She told him that they were having lunch and that Hima was at the restroom. She even went on and made up a story like how she misplaced her sim card that's why he wasn't able to contact her a few days ago.

Marie looked like she wants to applaud Sophie for her impromptu story. She even thought Sophia could win a best actress award, she didn't even faltered as she talk to him. They were only staring at her until she finished the call.

But her heart started racing as they wait for her to drop the bomb.

"Happy?" she asked as she slowly returned her phone on the table.