The darkness

nn"I ran into someone today, like... you was here before."

A long, long time later, until the owner of that sentence was completely out of sight, I quietly stepped out from the darkness, silently looking at the stele in front of me.

Above is a picture of a girl, at first sight quite young, with a bent smile on her lips. This is probably the person he loves, the last sentence was told to her as well.

For a moment, the cause and effect of everything seemed to be going through my head, slowly as if riding a horse to see flowers, until the last minute the details suddenly became clear, and it seemed to be faster.

The last image I saw was only a faint and distant figure of that person, so far away that I wanted to reach out and reach for it, but I could not help but give up...

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"How are you doing at work?"

My mother said from the kitchen, she was having trouble arranging the food on the table, and by the way asked me a little about my new job.

"All right." I sat down, took the bread from my mother's hand and then I replied softly.

I had breakfast, then I said goodbye to my mom and I got out. Before I left, my mother's advice to remember to eat by the hour still sounded in my ears.

In fact, I'm only 18, I just graduated from high school, but I want to find more work to try, by the way to learn on my own. Therefore, as soon as I received the university's notice of admission, I immediately expressed my position clearly.

My family is also well-connected, my parents always spoil me, it feels good to do that, and thanks to the relationship, I found this job.

It is not too difficult, I am just an intern of a company, in my free time at school, I can come to work to acquire more knowledge, consider it as a practice.

The director of this company was formerly a student of my father, he was a lecturer at a university, and he always complimented the other person for being excellent, young, talented, and established from scratch. So when I expressed my interest in getting a job, he immediately urged me to work here, and asked this person for advice.

Before going to work, my father told me that each other is temperament was a bit cold, and told me not to take it to heart. I just shook my head to show that I understood, that I said nothing more, that I did not worry, but that my eyes full of anticipation could not be hidden.

Today was only a self-study session, I immediately went to the internship site, when I sat in my position, I glued my eyes to the computer screen and did not communicate with anyone.

For my current age, this personality is really weird, so much so that my classmates all use words to describe me such as: introverted, quiet, quiet or more seriously look down on others.

All those words I ignored, they didn't matter to me. Because only I know, I wasn't like this at the beginning, like today because I followed someone.

It is also because of this monstrous personality that when taking a break or at lunch, everyone invites everyone to go together, only me is silent alone, no one has any intention of inviting me to go with me, which I have just heard just want quiet.

Today as usual, when everybody went to eat together, the room fell into silence, to the point where I could hear my own breath.

I wasn't very hungry, so I leaned back, leaning against the back of the chair, gently closing my eyes and feeling this rare peace.

No more laughing or scolding, that is really quiet... quiet.

While lying for a long time, I started to get bored, so I got up, then I pressed the phone next to me, the lock screen immediately turned on. I involuntarily reached out and gently stroked the screen, when my long slender finger lightly touched the face of the person in the photo, the side of my lips immediately curved up.

This picture was taken by me accidentally yesterday, even though it was only in a moment of distraction, the other person was still as beautiful as ever.

That was the first day I came here to accept the job, get used to everything around, while taking a picture of myself, I suddenly discovered that person was in my photo frame.

My mind suddenly became like a machine that couldn't think, my limbs were frenzied, by the time I got my senses back, that person was already gone.

I did not want to pursue him, temporarily forgetting the present, a fragment of chaotic memories surrounded me, making me incapable of controlling myself. As soon as I met him, I ran to him, my eyes were red, I don't know since when, the moment I touched him, all my restraints broke, I burst into tears and hugged him tightly.

"Duong, I miss you so much." I said with a muffled voice. When I felt the body of the other stiff person, I appeared to be aware of everything and give it up quickly.

Awareness quickly returned, I did not dare to look at his doubtful face, so I used the excuse that I recognized the wrong person, then quickly ran away, not daring to stay another second.

I know that if I just stand there and look at him for a second, I can not help but hug him.

While I was still in a vague state, I almost just stared blankly at the person on the screen, laughing like a child who was just given candy without hearing footsteps in the distance.

It wasn't until that person approached, coughed softly, then cleared my throat and asked me why I was still here that I could regain my composure, startled, and turned to look at the person in front of me.

The moment my four eyes met, my heart felt like a spark had just flashed through quickly, I stammered not knowing what to do, then following my brother's gazes I looked down at my phone, momentarily like someone who had just done something bad hastily hid.

Duong always looks at me carefully, I don't understand very well what he look means, perhaps skeptical due to my unusual actions?