21 (Dark Moon)

Introducing Ginny's friend Natalie Tan.

'Told cha you shouldn't get involved too deep with a guy. Now look what has happened. What if he dies? And he's not even Chinese! I'm sure his parents will blame your car, you. He's an Indian. Older than you! How could you?' Natalie looked angry.

'I won't regret it even for a day. I love him Nat. I won't.' Ginny seemed headstrong. The smell of food filled the air with the usual noisy babel from the students in the cafeteria.

Ginny was the one that first fell for him. She remembered how she stalked his facebook everyday. She took hours just looking at his photos in facebook. She was first attracted to him due to his personality. She met him in a party during Halloween. He was an engineer and she was studying her second year medical degree in a local university. To become a pharmacist has always been her dream. At the start, it was really hard to accept the fact that he was 10 years older than her. But love makes anyone blind. They made it through until he proposed to her by singing her a song. It was the sweetest song she ever heard in her life. And now, it seemed painful to almost digest the fact he didn't know that song, that ring.

'You see, even that ugly guy with a mole which grew hair on the chin and who liked you since high school doesn't seem so bad right now. You should ask him to marry you instead. Oh why? You are only 21, don't get married.' Natalie went on, not caring if anyone was listening.

'We were not getting married so fast, just wanted to remain engaged due to his parents disapproval of me. Some racist problem because I'm......'

An animal stood in front of her. It had grayish-black fur. A long tail. Pointed teeth. Really sharp teeth with saliva dripping from it. Claws that scratched the marble floor giving out sharp shrill noises. It looked like the wolf that ran away from a good Red Riding Hood story just that it was a hell lot bigger than any wolf she'd ever imagined. It was the size of a mother whale. And it was looking at her. It didn't wait for her to admire its beauty.

Ginny didn't know what was going to happen. She knew the wolf was aiming at her. Her instincts kicked in to just run, run, run. She felt its eyes on her. Yet, she was afraid to make a move.

The wolf lunged at her with full force. Its paws dug into her flesh. Its weight crushed her. She felt something hit her head hard. She couldn't breathe. She felt her soul leave her body. Unexpectedly, she heard herself whispering. Abruptly, the wolf retreated, howling painfully like a child who lost a candy. Ginny tried to stand up. Her vision was blurred by thick warm liquid that flowed profusely from her head. She felt weak and collapsed when she thought she was able to run. Desperate, she crawled on the floor. The wolf was back again to its normal self and began to move towards Ginny at full speed. Ginny crawled to the guys toilet, and hide in the first cubicle she entered. She realized she was holding fur damp with her sweat in her hands. She had pulled it while trying to fight off the wolf. Like pulling a little fur would save her life, she thought. And then she did something she never did before.

She closed the toilet bowl with its cover, using blood that dripped from her wounds, she made a circle with triangles inside. The fur was spread all over the shape she made and words she never knew existed in the world flowed out of her mouth naturally. She heard the toilet door being pushed open, and blacked out.

TO BE CONTINUED

21 (Freak Accident)

Hello there, this is a story about witchcraft and love. Characters here are Ariel Lea, Ginny Lim, Hemmie Nagpea, Shiye Nginesta, LayNgoh and Mell Thingaer.

It rained while she sat on the edge of the table with her legs crossed. The aroma of steaming hot coffee filled the waiting room. The doctor left 50 minutes ago and Lea was still surrounded by family members. Ginny's patience was running thin. She wanted time alone with him. Finally, the nurse chased them out as they were making too much noise. When she saw Lea's mother, her mind was filled with utter confusion. Why was that woman crying? Black tears flowed down washing away abundance of mascara and eyeliner.

She went into a ward. It was a two bedded ward, quiet and cold, large curtains covering and becoming the main obstacle of the whole room. The next bed was empty, giving a lingering eerie feeling in her throat. She almost cried when she saw Lea. He was completely bandaged with intravenous therapy. His shallow breathing was noisy and tiring. He looked liked some really sick person acting as Lea.

She sat on the dull green chair next to him and held his hand. 'Lea.' He looked at her with a poker face. Finally he spoke.

'Who are you? What do you want? Don't touch me.' He pulled away from her.

'Lea, I'm Ginny, your fiancee. Look, I still have that ring you gave me.' Ginny was wild with absurd.

After 5 minutes of wild temptations to knock the hell of out Lea, Ginny speaks to the doctor.

'The accident affected his brain and nervous system. For the time being he won't be able to remember his past.' The doctor said in a as-a-matter-of-fact tone.

Ginny wanted to punch him in the mouth. ' His past? He doesn't even remember his name! He doesn't remember his family, his job, his everything! He doesn't remember his life! We were suppose to get married! You don't understand!'

***

Ginny stills remembers the fateful day Lea's mother called to inform her of his accident. It was the weirdest accident in the history of Malaysia to ever happen to someone. Lea's car was sent for repairs at the workshop so he took Ginny's car to work. It was the usual traffic jam during lunch hour and Lea took the shortcut-a lonely road not known to many surrounded by palm trees to go from Dengkil to Putrajaya. When the police and rescue crew found him, the car was trampled to a flat piece like a flatten roadkill. Lea was completely buried in metal to the extend 6 hours was needed to remove him from the junk piece that once belonged to Ginny. Lea was in a pool of blood, blood that literally flooded the car. Ginny's car was the only vehicle in that accident. When the accident happened, there was no one else on the road. No one else to tell what actually happened. Police could not identify what had cause such great damage and the possibility that a human did it was impossible. There was no sign of machine marks on the car. What they found not far from the accident scene was a huge elephant footprint. The footprint was so huge it could not possibly belong to any elephant, except a mammoth-which had extinct years ago.

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