Goodbye!

"And another hour has passed. Where is she?"

QinLie asked for 10th time in that particular minute.

"Calm down! I'll call her alright?" YuXuan gritted his teeth in annoyance as he pulled out his phone from his pocket. For good ten seconds, he was just staring at the screen. There were 7 missed calls from his best friend, MingYu.

This was strange. MingYu was a person who would sit calmly after two calls. If YuXuan doesn't pick his calls after second one, he would just leave a voice mail and let it be.

"What are you looking at?" YuXuan was interrupted by QinLie's sudden question.

"Aren't you gonna call her?"

YuXuan didn't responded to her as he dialled MingYu's number. Another strange thing. It was his fifth call with no response. (May be he's busy.) YuXuan thought as he disconnect the call and decided to call ZhiZao, the girl he was about to call when he got a call.

It was an unknown number. He picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hello! Am I speaking to Zhào YuXuan?"

It was an unknown male's voice. YuXuan frowned his brows as he replied with a 'yes'.

"We found your number from victim's phone. Her name is ZhiZao and she had an accident. You were the first one in her call logs so we called you. Both she and her phone are in bad condition. Can you please show up?"

YuXuan's face turned pale. His eyes were widen in shock and his lips were trembling, unable to form any words.

After a long pause he asked, "Which hospital?"

He stuttered as he got the respond. Ignoring all the questions from QinLie, he ran out immediately. This was not happening. He hoped into his car and drived as fast as he could.

Reaching to the location, he found out it was the same location where his friend, MingYu live.

His house was behind the hospital so he used to use different way for it. He never realised there was a hospital. In front of the hospital, there was a bridge and a river below it. It caught his attention because of the big crowd near the bridge. People were gossiping with sad expressions. From far, it looked like someone committed suicide as a big crane was pulling out something from the lake.

He had no time so he prayed quickly for the person to be in peace as he made his way into the hospital. There were two policemen. He stepped towards them and asked, "For ZhiZao, did you called me? Where's she?" His body was shaking. He didn't wanted to hear anything bad anymore. He just wanted ZiZhao, his childhood best friend to be fine.

"No! We are here for that guy who committed suicide. Unfortunately, he's dead so can't -"

"YuXuan? Is it you?" YuXuan heard another voice as his body tuned towards the man.

"Y-yes! I'm YuXuan!"

"I called you. I'm sorry but...." The man looked down. YuXuan held him from his shoulders and shaked him aggressively. "What? What happened to her? Where is she? Tell me please!" Before he could realise, he was already a crying mess.

His legs were giving up. This was not happening. This was just one of his nightmares, right?

"The doctors tried their best. But when I found her she already had lost a lot of blood. The doctors said if you are her family member, you can take her body by completing formalities. I'm sorry for your lose, man." The man said in one go with calm speech. Of course, he was calm. He was just a helper who took ZiZhao to hospital out of humanity. YuXuan slowly released his collars as he sank down on the floor. Trying to swallow all the information he just got, his trembling legs started to take weight. He stood up with tears.

"Let me take you to her ward." The man suggested and YuXuan followed him quietly.

He was now staring at ZiZhao's restful, pale, injured body. Few nurses were covering her body with white sheet. Used instruments, red coated gloves, and a continuous beep sound. Suddenly the sound stopped when one of the nurses withdrew the machine from her body.

"Wait for me there and we three will go together. It should be special day since it's your birthday!" Her last words kept ringing around YuXuan's ears. She went alone, at a wrong address and she can never come back. ZhiZao was an orphan. Wasn't this already cruel for her? How was he gonna tell MingYu, that ZhiZao was no more? But this news has to be informed. Even though it hurts, even though it's uncomfortable, it still needs to be conveyed.

With a heavy heart, YuXuan dialled MingYu's number. In hope that he would accept the call, his slow heart rates became more unstable when MingYu didn't picked up. He was alone, with his friend's dead body, without any proper guidance of what to do next. Unable to think, he started running out of the room while still dialing MingYu's number.

(The person you're trying to reach is currently unavail-)

"Pick the fucking call MingYu! Where the hell are you?" YuXuan yelled at phone's screen. He looked up and found the officers were still there. What made him look there was not the officers but MingYu's father talking to them.

Finally seeing someone familiar at this situation, YuXuan ran towards him.

"Uncle!" He cried but immediately stopped when he saw that MingYu's father was crying harder.

"A'Xuan! Bring him back! Please bring him back!" His father cried and collapsed on the ground. Unable to understand what was happening, he looked at the officer with questioning eyes.

"The boy who committed suicide at the bridge was his son. Lin MingYu. Do you....by any chance know him?"

YuXuan felt numb. His ears were not listening anymore, his eyes weren't seeing anymore, his heart....felt heavy. It was YuXuan's birthday. And his two friends died. The officers shouting his name was the last thing he heard before collapsing. He was not gonna be the same person anymore. Everything changed, in one night.