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Be The Witness

Be The Witness

Shoujoeye

Last update: 2022-02-09

Chapter 1 Flowerpot

  • Quianna’s POV
  • My hands are being busy since in the morning, preparing for the special meeting conducted by our team about the new product we’ll going to introduce. I am Quianna Ross, a normal office employee working under the company owned by my best friend’s parents. I am currently an intern working for 6 months and it’s my final week before the announcement of regular employees, even if it is the company of my best friend, I don’t want people to keep telling gossips on who I entered or chosen at the final lists. That is why I am working until my feet felt numbed and my shoulders tensed for the whole day.
  • “Quianna! Meeting in 5 minutes.” The team leader said to me.
  • “Yes, coming!” I hurriedly collected all the needed papers for our meeting.
  • “Quianna! I said we’re starting the meeting now!” I saw the team leader peeked from the meeting room to yell out to me.
  • “Yes! Here I go!” I yelled and run towards the meeting room. Oh, shoot! I forgot to prepare drinks for the members.
  • I piled all the papers on the table and run again out of the room to go to the pantry. I start preparing enough cups and simultaneously open each coffee packet. I need to do it fast, or else our tram leader will scold me, again.
  • “Quianna! Where’s the presentation?” Alicia asked me, she’s one of the members of our team, but she’s already a regular employee so I guess she’s one of my bosses.
  • “I’ll prepare it in a minute!” I yelled and put all the cups on the tray and slowly walked towards the room. I kept reaching for the doorknob, but I feel any moment I can spill all these drinks on me. A familiar hand reaching for the doorknob to open it, I look up and saw Dylan smiling from ear to ear.
  • “Why are you always in a haste?” he said then opened the door.
  • “Really? I did not notice.” I said then awkwardly laugh.
  • “Well, for your information madame, you’re always doing things in a hurry.”
  • “I think I need to hurry, one more mistake and I’m out in this job.” I said then shoo him out.
  • “Ms. Scarlet, I am done preparing.” I said to our team leader.
  • “Next time Quianna, when I said 5 minutes, it should be 5 minutes. I can’t delay the meeting just because of your carelessness.” She said and entered the room with other members. I sat in front to control the presentation. After an hour, the meeting ends, and I need to clean up the room.
  • I picked all the candy wrappers littered on the floor, the mugs and the papers not needed. I looked at my watch and saw my shift will be done in 15 minutes. After I finished all my tasks, I flopped down on my swivel chair and sat back looking at the ceiling for the remaining minutes of the shift.
  • “Quianna.” Someone knocked on my desk and it’s Dylan again.
  • “What do you want?”
  • “Let’s get off to work together.”
  • “Okay, wait in a second.” I said then start fixing my desk and my bag.
  • “Let’s go.” I said then walked out first. Dylan and I are best friends since we are little kids. Our parents became friends while we are in kindergarten, so we technically siblings.
  • “I’m so tired, Dylan.” I suddenly said to him.
  • “It’s okay to rest for a while Yana.” He said then get my bag for him to carry.
  • “I can’t. I need to work hard for them to say that I did not get into that company through my connection to your parents.” I said and sat on the bench at the playground.
  • From here, you can see all the buildings of the city and the famous city lights which everyone wanted to see during the night.
  • “But you did not. You finished college with high grades, and you have abilities for this work.”
  • “And at the same time, they know we’re close, Dylan.” I said and looked at the night sky.
  • “And at the same time, you did your job very well.” He tries to comfort me.
  • “Don’t be ridiculous, I always do my job bad, I always got scolded and one more mistake, I’ll be fired.”
  • “You want me to change your working department?” he said, then I instantly looked at him and glared.
  • “That is why they’re saying those words to me.” I said to him and he just chuckles.
  • “I’m just joking.” Then he laughed.
  • *Phone rings*
  • “Hello?” I answered.
  • “Quianna! Where are you?!” mom hysterically said to me.
  • “I’m on my way home, what happened?”
  • “Your father was in a car accident! He was in hospital now!”
  • “What?! Okay, text me the address, I’ll go there.” I said and then ended the call. I was about to run when Dylan got my hand. He looks at me like saying he was coming; I just nod to him as I got no time to waste.
  • My phone vibrates sign that mom texted me the address. I opened it and saw there is another text message coming from an unsaved number. I just ignored it and read my mom’s message to me, it’s a relief that they got him hospitalized in our owned hospital.
  • “Which hospital?” Dylan asked and started the car.
  • “Ours.” I said then he runs the car so fast.
  • *At the hospital*
  • “Where’s my father?” I asked the information desk.
  • “Ms. Quianna, he’s in the operating room. Please wait—” I run towards the operating room and I saw mom sitting and quietly crying.
  • “Mom.”
  • “Quianna. I am scared. What if something bad will happen with your dad, I can’t take it.” mom said the hugged me tight while still crying.
  • “No, mom. Nothing bad will happen to dad. We have the best doctors here. Let’s call Dr. Lee.” I said and let mom sit on the chair.
  • “He will be here, in a minute. He’s off duty today, I just called him after I heard about the accident.”
  • “Dylan, please tell the company I’ll be absent tomorrow. I am very sorry but—”
  • “What are you saying? You must go to work. I can look after your dad.” Mom said. The operating room opened, and doctors came out one by one.
  • “How’s he?” mom automatically asked the doctors.
  • “I’m sorry but we’ve done everything we got. He lost too much blood and his heart is not responding anymore.” The doctors said then bowed their heads in grief. I saw mom slowly kneeled on the ground and crying out all the tears she got.
  • “Are you sure you did all you’ve got?” Dr. Lee came.
  • “Yes, professor. We’re very sorry.” They said, I felt my legs wobbly, and my hands became numb. I can’t believe every word I heard. I felt I was about to break down, but I saw mom, who needs more comfort than me. I hugged her and tried to comfort her silently.
  • After an hour, I let mom go home with Dylan while me fixing the needed documents for us to take the body.
  • I sat down and look through my messages today. Many messages coming from our friends and relatives saying their condolences. But, one message stands out above all.
  • “Your father will die tonight, at exactly 6 pm. He will die from a car accident and the killer will not be arrested immediately.”- the message stated.
  • I looked at the number and it seems like a burner phone. I tried calling it multiple times, but it cannot come through.
  • Should I believe this or ignore it as it may just be a prank? But how did the accident happened the same as the message stated? Is this a pre-mediated murder? Am I watching too many movies, I think?
  • “Yana, are you okay?” I saw Dylan walking towards me. I immediately put my phone in my pocket upon seeing him.
  • “What was that?” he asked.
  • “Nothing. Why did you come back?”
  • “Mom said I should stay with you. She’s worried.”
  • “Thanks for your care, but I’m fine—”
  • “You are not fine.” He said emphasizing each word. I just looked at him and smiled bitterly. I lean towards his shoulder and I cannot help myself but let the tears I was hiding a while ago.
  • “You know that I am a daddy’s girl, right?” I said between my sobs.
  • “Yeah, and I know how greatly hurt you are right now.” He said then put his hand on my head.
  • “I don’t know what I am gonna do, now.”
  • “Mom feels so devastated, and I need to be strong for her. Can I do that?” I said then wipe my tears running down.
  • “I believe in you Yana, you can go through this.” He said and gave me a handkerchief.
  • “Thank you for always being by my side, Dylan.” I said and then finished wiping out my tears.
  • “Let’s grab for a bite. I know you haven’t eaten since we left the company.” He said then offer his hand. I smiled and took it.
  • I talked to some nurses there and said that I’ll be gone some time. We went out of the hospital when I heard a message notification.
  • “Won’t you read that?” he asked.
  • “Nah, maybe some condolences again from other people.” I said then continue walking, he grabbed my wrist then silently look at me.
  • “Okay fine, I’ll read it.” I said then took out my phone. I opened the message and realized that the message came from the unsaved number from earlier. I was about to ignore it again when I saw some of the messages.
  • “A huge flowerpot will be falling over you. For that you will be hospitalized for weeks”- stated in the message.
  • I cannot move, should I really believe in it?
  • “What was that about?” Dylan asked. I gave her my phone and let him read it. We both looked up at the high floored hospital building and something was falling.
  • I looked at it and it’s like everything is in slow motion. I just felt Dylan’s hand and pulled me towards him, and after that, a huge explosion happened in front of us. I saw a huge flowerpot coming from one of the hospital rooms or I guess from the rooftop fell and almost killed me.
  • That’s when I believed that every message, It literally happened in front of me.
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