358 LEAP OF FAITH

BLAG.

The dust-covered pavement was disturbed by the force coming from above.  A duffel bag fell from the sky, and soon the owner reunited with it with a thud.

In the middle of the night, around midnight, one Wednesday in the last week of March, a young lady jumped off an open window of a bedroom on the second floor.  She landed with a thud and cried out almost automatically as her sneakers hit the ground. 

"Ouch! Shhh!" She mumbled a cry of pain first, followed by her self-righteous, correcting voice. Though she landed fairly well, her ankles were not exempted from feeling the pain.  At the very least, she did not incur any more physical damages, and could still walk fine.

And so, she took a cab away from the Chen house.  Guilt-stricken, Kang Sola stared at the last sight of the Chen dream house where she had spent the last few months. 'I am so ungrateful.  Linyun-ge has every right to get furious at me.'