Mr humility episode 6

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Chapter 6

(My heart beats like boom!) Fifif

“Hey Cynthia.”

Aster sighed as he settled into his bed, feeling the comfort of the matress seeping into his aching bones.

“Hi Aster. I just wanted to ask….”

“How Chan’s doing?”

“….Yeah.”

He chuckled lightly.

“Shouldn’t you be asking him that?”

He heard a scoff from the other side of the phone. “If I keep calling him Aster, it’s gonna fuel his ego even more. He won’t realize that what he said to me was extremely hurtful. I guess I’m being selfish though. He didn’t just insult me. He insulted his mother too.”

Aster sighed again, rubbing his temples.

“Well, since that’s the case, he’s doing pretty well, at least that’s what I can see.”

He heard Cynthia sigh in relief. “Is he settling in well?”

“He hasn’t complained about anything yet.”

“Yeah well, if I were you, I wouldn’t get too comfortable. He’s bound to make trouble one way or the other.”

Aster chuckled lightly.

“You really do care for him, don’t you?”

Cynthia sighed. “That’s an odd question to ask. And to answer.”

Aster chuckled again. “Oh that’s right. He met my sister today. Or…rather she scared the daylights out of him. It was hilarious, but he’d better not hear me saying that. I’ve never seen him look so shocked before. I had to restrain myself from bursting into laughter.”

Cynthia snorted. “Really? That would have been fun to watch.”

“It was. My sister is known for bringing out the worst in people anyway.”

“I honestly don’t know if you mean that literally or not.”

Aster began to laugh and Cynthia joined him, both of them bursting into relieving laughter for a few seconds. As they began to quiet down, Aster felt his heart thumping loudly in his chest.

Cynthia was quiet too, and the silence between them was deafening.

“Uh….” Aster began, wondering just what in Earth he could say to dispel this awkwardness that had suddenly descended on both of them.
“Thanks a lot for the update, Aster. I’ll call again soon. Goodnight.”

“Um… goodnight Cynthia.”

As she hung up the phone, Aster chuckled softly. “She really sounded like the heavy air between them had not happened at all. He guessed being able to handle things like that were one of the perks and wisdom that came with age. She was after all, almost seven years older than he and Chan.

He fell back on his bed, feeling his heart continuing to thump loudly, no matter how much he tried to calm it.

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The sky was still dark out when Chan came out of his room. The house was quiet, and he guessed that his hostel family were all still sound asleep.

He was planning to go for an early morning run, he had to stay fit after all, break or not.

He entered the living room, and his heart almost burst out of his chest when he saw Aster’s sister,Lee, seated at the table, quietly sipping on a packet of chocolate milk.

She turned to him, her eyes w¡dening slightly. Upon closer inspection now,she didn’t look that frightening.

Well, mostly because now her hair was tied up into a bun and not matted across her face.

But, what the hell was she doing sitting in the dark, sipping chocolate milk at six am?

He huffed and prepared to ignore her.

“Where are you going?” Her voice was soft but accusing,and it halted him in his steps.

He turned to face her. Perhaps now was the right time to tell this kid off properly.

“Where does it look like I’m going?”

She scoffed, then smiled, rolling her eyes at him. He bit his lip in anger.

“Do you know your way around? Hun? What if you get lost? Anyway…?”

She rose her arms up and shrugged.

“What do I expect from someone that hangs out with my brother? You’re probably as much of a doofus as he is.”

Chan clenched his fists.

“I don’t appreciate your tone of voice. Do you have any idea who I am?”

She looked him over, not the least bit impressed.

“Sure I do. You’re that popular singer, Chan.”

Chan folded his arms, smiling smugly.

“Oh I see what this is now. You’re trying to get my attention. Well, I can’t blame you. But your attitude is getting old fast.”

She stared up at him, her mouth hanging open slightly.

“Wow. You are a huge jerk! Do your fans know that your ego is the size of your head?”

“Excuse me?”

“What on Earth is my brother doing being friends with someone like you anyway? Gosh that idiot. I’m sure you bullied him in some way. He’s too easygoing.”

“Aster and I are co-workers. And I fired him for exactly this kind of insolence. I see it runs in the family.”

The girl ran her hands through her hair.

“Oh geez. I cannot believe what I’m hearing.” She didn’t sound scared, just extremely amused.

Chan stuck his hands into his pocket, gently flicking his guitar pick between his fingers. This girl was already getting on his nerves. But no way was he about to be bested by some emo teenager.

She rose her hands in defeat. “Fine. Have it your way.”

He smirked. So she was all bark and no bite. Figures. Aster was the same way.

He turned around and headed out the door, leaving her behind. Lee stared at his retreating form. She pressed her l-ips together, then put him out of her mind.

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Several hours passed and Lee soon forgot about the wh0le morning incident. She sat in her room all morning, listening to music and reading books. Books she had read over a thousand times already.

Songs she had heard a million times over.

But this was the life she had chosen. Some people might call her a coward, but she had long since decided not to care what other people thought about her and her choices.

But…she felt as if she was running round in circles, and not truly living. However, no matter how trapped she felt, nothing could ever make her try to step out of her cage, or to try to contradict the monsters in,side her head.

She sighed and rolled over in her bed.

Yeah. This was the life she had chosen. This was the cross she had to bear.

Her attention flickered to a space, one that used to be occupied by something she had long discarded, or had the thing discarded her instead?

She sighed again, and picked her book back up, trying to five her attention back to the blank words on the page.

Her door burst open just as she was getting invested again.

And of course it was her idiot brother.

“Can’t you knock Aster?”

“I seem to be having problems with that.” He replied cheekily and she rolled her eyes.

“What do you want?”

“You said Chan went out jogging right?”

Ugh. He was here to talk about that puffed up egomaniac.

“Yeah I did. So?”

“We’re about to eat breakfast, and he’s not back yet.”

“So how is that my problem?”

“Did he tell you where he was going?”

“Of course not. I tried to stop him, that he could get lost, but he didn’t listen.”

“Oh geez. And he left his phone in,side too.”

“Wow. What a genius.”

“Now is not the time to be sarcastic Lee. We have to go look for him.”

“No, you have to go look for him. In what way is he my responsibility?”

“Come on Lee. It will be faster if we both go. Mom’s getting worried too!”

Lee looked outside from her bedroom window, feeling goosepimples prick her flesh.

“Nuh uhn. No way am I going outside. And especially not for him.”

Aster gro-ned. “For goodness sake.” He muttered under his breath, then shut the door.

She shut her book as well, then stared out her window.

She knew that Chan dude was going to be nothing but trouble.

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Chan looked left, then right. He bit his lip.

He was lost!

How could he have gotten lost?

Even though it had only been a week since he had arrived here, he had accompanied Aster out a number of times, and he trusted himself to remember the notable landmarks and Aster’s house address. How on Earth had he gotten himself lost?

No. This probably wasn’t his fault. It was that Lee girl. She had thrown him off his game that morning. And he hadn’t brought his phone along with him.

The sun was starting to rise, and people were starting to fill the streets, and he threw his hoodie on his head. The next course of action would probably be to find a payphone and call Aster.

He sighed. He would need to ask someone for directions though.

But could he ask someone without them recognizing him?

He smiled involuntarily to himself. Well, if they did, he would just enjoy the attention. He walked a few metres, looking for the perfect person to ask for directions, when he was stopped in his tracks.

Standing in a clearing, was a large and grand theater. His eyes w¡dened in amazement. He couldn’t believe there was something as grand and beautiful as this in this small and sleepy town. A monument near the entrance caught his eye.

He moved towards it and appraised it carefully.

Inscribed on it were the names of several people. If he had counted, he was sure they would have been up to fifty.

There were also flowers and candles left no doubt by the people of the town, at the foot of the monument.

There was no doubt, the people whose names were written there were probably all dead. But, what on Earth could have killed so many people? Did it happen at this theater?

He found himself being unexplainably drawn to the mystery, and feeling curiousity in his veins, as he stared longer and longer at the monument.

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