Slice of life – Scientific
WILLIAM
The echoes of siren filled his ear, the red and blue light filled his blurry
vision. While he’s trying to move, a sting sensation jolted awake on his
side, his arm, his cheek when he slightly move his shoulder. He hissed. He
feels something stuck on his left cheek, he would try to touch it out of
curiousity if he can move his arm despite it’s hurt like hell. The ringing has
long left his ears, the sounds are coming back. Then he’s realized
someone was calling to him, their voice muffled.
“Sir!”
.....
“Hey! Can you hear me?”
...
“Sir!”
...
His vision is coming back and he saw a man in a rescuer uniform.
“.....fuck..” He cursed and hissed. The sensation of the bleeding he felt is
coming back too, like waves of furious pains.
“Sir! Please don’t move! We gonna get you out of there!”
“Wha-?....Okay...”
Hurt. Arm tired. He’s also tired, even he’s just awake for a spawn of a ten
minutes.
“Sir! Please don’t fall asleep!”
“Sir! I repeat. Please don’t fall asleep!”
“Hey-!”
“Sir!”
....
He jolted awake in the hospital room, and immediatly regret it. He had a
weird dream, he died a sudden way. But the hospital room doesn’t spare
him.
The room is white clean, the bed is white, the sheet is white, the wall is
white, the celling and the light are white. All the whiteness get his eyes
stinging. He silent mouthing a curse. Phantom pain or not, it’s annoying to
be alive.
When he turned his head to the side, there’s a nurse standing there
watching him quietly. He’s almost jump out of bed, mentally he did
jumped out of bed.
“H-how long was you standing there?”
The nurse gave him a stink eye. She replied.
“Not for long. But since you, Sir, still pay the bill. A few ungrateful cursing
are just nothing. Tell us when you are prepare to leave or prepare to pay.”
“Not ‘fine to leave’?” He didn’t try to crack a smile. The smile got him in
many awkward situations before, and surely if he cracked one, the nurse
would help him extend his bill. So he just stared as she left.
.....
“So Mr.William.”
“If you calling my surname, it’s Will. My name is Liam.”
The front desk of the hospital blink at him.
“But isn’t Liam is the short call of William?”
“Yes I know BUT. My name is LIAM and my surname IS Willl. Ridiculous as
it sound but it’s real.”
“But whoever named their child lik-”
“YES I KNOW!” Why is he screaming? Right, because got out of accidents
left him panic, every single times. He can’t help it. “S-sorry. How much
should I pay?”
“20000$.”
“THE HECK- 20K!??- Sorry....”
.....
After Liam got out of hospital, a phone call hit him. A mad, middled man,
scolding him on the other side of the line. And all of sudden, he’s
remembered what happened.
He’s a teacher.
He’s supposed to teach two classes today, only two. Because he’s about
to get fired.
But guess what?
He almost die today. And somehow, the ambulance got there a little bit
late, he might didn’t get fired because of them. But the head teacher was
an asshole anyway, he didn’t close to any coworker, he also doesn’t need
them in his sad and lonely life anway.
About how his name is Will Liam. He doesn’t know, his parents were
anonymous people They had him, they named him, and one day they
suddenly disappeared, no one knows why and where. Despite no one want
to pocket out their money, the police still started an operation on their
missing. He heard from some of his relatives, his parents were astronauts,
something classified relate to the gorverment went missing so the held in
jail. But that wouldn’t be the case cause if they really in jail he would
already visit them.
Overall, Liam got left alone when turned five. He had a loving aunt who
loves he unconditionally, a luck of an orphanage child.
Had.
Why I always have to think back my whole backstory again?
While he got his attention back on the sidewalk, caused him to almost flip
over. He also got jump scared with the slight of that. The man doesn’t
even turn back to look for who he bumped into. He keeps marching ahead
and let out a silent heavy grunt. His face is a mixed of dark emotion. It’s a
surprise to Liam himself that he’d able to remember those tiny details in a
short time of collision. He just stared as the man keeps moving distantly,
head to the direction of an abandoned building that people kept rumored
about a vengence spirit.
A bad feeling crawling on Liam’s back, not because he was scared of the
man, it was rather curious. He drawn into danger mysterious things.
Let’s follow that guy and see what’d happend?
His mind dangerously whispers, but Liam turns away, heading home.
..........
Half an hour later, Liam was there, back to the wall of a kindergaten. He
admits that he has a problem. But he can’t back out right now.
It’s pick up time, a few adults already spotted him, it’ll be suspicious and
awkward if he walks back without any children with him. While Liam still
on debate, the silhoulette he’s been eyeing appeared again, a man that
more susipicious than him walks into a building, head dug down to lower
the chance of being seen, eyes keep falling side to side, front and back.
He’s sure that he couldn’t take down the man by himself if he were get
caught.
Liam followed the man.
Inside the building wasn’t pleased to the eyes, and nose. Peeling painted
walls, even some foundation of the walls slowly falling out, flickering
lights, water come from somewhere. Rats and their litters, something
died, molds, urines. He regrets easily.
For god’s sake! Why haven’t they demolished the building yet?
Ting~ ting~ ting~
His phone ringing loudly. It rang the most of the most default song he
could ever heard. Liam only has a few minutes to throw his phone away
from the 5th floor.
There are two guys, the guy he followed, and a slim guy. One small one
big. Angry faces and all.
Crashed. His phone hit the ground loudly right outside the building.
“Did you hear that?”
“That’s weird.”
“It’s coming from outside the building.”
“Go check.”
“What?”
Liam silently watching the thugs, the typical in old comic book when the
huge guy is always easy dominant over the smaller guy.
While the small thug is checking outside, Liam has to try his best to get
through the bigger one. He could. Because he has a second phone. That’s
right.
The other phone was for works, this one is for his life. A whole identity and
personality live in one single device. But before he could think of a plan,
he heard it...again.
Then next-
“WILLIAM! WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU?!! YOU STILL HAVE A CLASS TO
TEACH!!”
“Who the heck are you?!”
“You not William!? Get him on the phone now!”
“Are you crazy?! Mother f- Who are you to order me around? That’s not
nice at all man!”
“What the f-?”
“Oi shut up!” The bigger guy showed up and talk to the phone. “Whoever
William is, I think he glad to not have to see you again.”
Then he shuts the phone.
What the.....
“Who the hell is that?”
“More importantly, where is this phone coming from?”
“Must be someone else also here today.”
A chain of something?
“Today? No one show up today, they’re seeing the other building.”
“So, what do you think of here?”
“Hmm, could use a little innovation.”
“Not a little ha ha.”
Innovation?
“But it near the kindergaten and very surprise it near the school too. The
nearest park and also their favourite is here too. The kids will love it.”
What?
“How long has you married?”
“About......-”
Liam didn’t hear the rest, he has to get away because this is a surprise
plot for him. Do not judge a book by its cover.
