💙Fated Calamity♥️ (FJ/WC)

Chapter Twenty-Five

"Altria, you can do it."

She bravely stepped on the rooftop, and brought herself to walk a few steps. 

The god in purple robes, with white hair smiled back at her.

They stopped outside her dormitory. "I'll escort you up to here, Altria," the ethereal voice said.

Wait, who are you and what's your name? She had wanted to ask.

He was gone...

DRIIIIINGG...........

The alarm rang continuously, forcing Altria to wake up from her dream. She was back in her world, and back to her pain. I don't feel like going to work, she thought. If i go to work, I'll see him and her, and it hurts. Then, she rubbed her eyes and looked at the time on the black screen of the clock. Since the incident yesterday, she had never ever felt so unwilling to wake up for work. The images of Cassandra Chen hugging Lyrid repeated themselves in her mind. 

Even with the disappointment of her first love, she had never felt anything as painful as seeing Lyrid with another girl in his arms. She couldn't sleep all night, and resorted to binge-watching television dramas and feasting on all the snacks she could get her hands on, to distract herself from thinking about Lyrid and Cassandra. 

She reminded herself that she needed to take a long route on the subway and stop at an interchange to take a different subway service (indicated by the different colours on the map below) before she could arrive at work. Since she was on her probation, she could not afford to miss work. Without a valid reason, her absence would be cut from her salary.

As she was figuring out a valid reason to excuse herself from work, her smartphone beeped, showing a notification on the screen of her smartphone. Her co-worker seldom texted her unless it was necessary. Quickly, she opened the message to reply to her co-worker.