The Youtuber (Completed)

Ten

~Xiao Zhan ~

I grab the phone and I see the last message I received on my common line. It's a multimedia message. I open it and I almost throw my phone away. My hands are trembling and my body is shaking. I have no strength to hold the phone and support my body weight. I fall on the floor.

Why is it like this? Why suddenly my life is so damn? Only in a few days and terrors keep hitting in my life. The worse just happened last night, and still continue in the morning. Now it appears again. All happens on my birthday. The 25th birthday where I'm already an adult, not a young adult anymore. But it's too much to handle for me.

Suddenly the phone rings, shocked me. I take a peek at the device to see who is calling. I'm so terrified, afraid if that creepy guy who will call me. But to my relief, it's Zhuo Cheng who calls. Still trembling, I pick up the phone and answer the call.

"Hey! Specs! I'm at the supermarket now! What tidbit do you want to eat?" Zhuo Cheng's voice sounds like a relief to me right now.

"Come back..." I say with a trembling voice.

"Come back? Is there any snacks named come back? I'll ask someone first...!" he says.

"No! You! Come back! Now! Come home! Immediately! Please!" I scream through the microphone.

"Geez, Dude! Are you possessed? No need to scream like that. I can still hear you even if you are whispering...!" Zhuo Cheng grumbling.

"Cheng! Please come home now...!" I beg him.

"Ok, ok! Let me pay this first!" he replies.

He cuts the line. I run outside the room and checking all the doors and windows, although we stay at 5th floor with one and only entrance, but who knows? 

To calm myself down, I get myself a glass of water. I feel better after that.

Ding! Dong!

I jump and gasp when I hear the doorbell. It can't be Zhuo Cheng, right? It's too fast for him to reach home. He just put the call down, and why suddenly in five minutes he reached home already?

Aware, I walk slowly out of the kitchen. I stand in the living room and stare at the door. I froze there, can't move anymore.

Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong!

The doorbell rings again. The person seems rain out of patient already. But I still don't move.

"Zhan Ge!"

That's Yibo! I rub my chest in relief. Why didn't I think about calling him than scream at Zhuo Cheng to come back home soon?

I walk fast to the door and unlocked it.

"Zhan Ge! You left the..." he stops speaking when I crash him and hug him.

"I have never been glad like this to see you here....!" I say.

"Wha-what happened?" he asks. I can feel his hands wrap up on my back and he squeezes it gently.

"Let's get inside!" I reply, pulling his hand and enter the house.

I let him sit on the couch while I take my phone and show him the multimedia message I just received.

"Typo again?" he asks when he saw the image.

I nod.

"Why don't you call the number? Here's the number," he says.

"That number can't be called!" I say.

Yibo observes the image carefully.

"Hey! Isn't he the old man, I mean, the cashier at the convenient store earlier? The one who grope your ass?" he jumps.