The bell rang and the students hurried to their classes after the break.
However, none of the three people in the infirmary seemed to notice it.
The school doctor hurried about while a pale young man was standing next to the hospital bed, absent-minded.
There was still no movement from the flushed boy on the bed. His sleek black hair looked especially erect and despite his red face, his lips were pale white.
Suddenly the door of the infirmary opened and a hurried student bumped into the young man standing there, startling him out of his daze. He looked at the boy on the bed again with melancholy and sighed.
'..was he really at fault? maybe he should stop behaving so carelessly.. but is this guy too unlucky? he got shocked just like that, without even touching the wire..'
He signed once again when the doctor arrived. " Doctor, is he okay?" he was worried.
"Don't worry, it's just a little shock, he'll be fine. Let him be careful in the future" the Doctor tried to appease.
"Okay, thank you very much doctor" he nodded in dismay. He didn't dare say that to the boy. Technically, he did nothing wrong. All he did was bump into him...accidentally.
"He'll wake up soon. The class has already started, why don't you head back? " the Doctor suggested.
"Is that okay?" he was guilty, but he didn't dare stay here.
"It's fine, I'll take care of him. Hurry back, or you'll get into trouble with the teacher" the Doctor kindly reminded.
"Then I'll trouble you" he glanced once more and turned away as if he was afraid of regretting it. Anyway, he didn't want to be beaten after that guy woke up. Though he might not beat people up, still he didn't want to take that risk.
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"...draw the tangent here from point A to B, remember that you've to go through point X here.. Yuan! focus on the lesson!" the teacher suddenly snapped.
"Arriving late to the class and being distracted now, is this your learning attitude? I shouldn't have let you into the class at all"
Yuan, who was trying to figure out what exactly happened before, finally came back to earth and promptly apologized "Sorry ma'am, this won't happen a next time"
About an hour ago, Yuan had been carrying his bottle to the water dispenser for a refill, when he nearly slipped on the water that had been dripping to the floor from the dispenser. In his haste, he had grabbed a corner of the dispenser to steady his footing, only to come into contact with its power cable with deteriorated insulation. Startled, he had tried to change his grip, accidentally bumping into another classmate who was waiting in line at the dispenser, on top of all the trouble.
Strangely enough, that classmate had fainted in the next second, with fried hair from an electrical shock! So a very confused Yuan, who had only felt a slight tingling, had to drag the six-foot-tall classmate to the infirmary.
However, now that he had been reprimanded by the teacher, Yuan sat with rapt attention for the rest of the class, trying to look every bit of studious.
When the bell finally rang for the end of the period, Yuan heaved a sigh of relief in secret, while the teacher gave him a barely approving nod, satisfied with his 'behaving'.
Yuan was mentally debating whether he should pay another visit to the infirmary, when the students started rushing past him to the hallway excitedly, pushing and pulling at each other. "Let's hurry, it's snowing"
'Snow…?' Yuan who heard them, had a bewildered expression. 'At this time of the year? They can't be serious…' He followed the others into the hallway, equally curious.
The hallway was packed with students peering down from the windows, some even stretching their hands through the gaps between metals bars, trying to catch snowflakes. Yuan squeezed near a window with difficulty, stretching his neck, crammed below another's arm.
Surprisingly, there were indeed specks of white fluff falling down drifting in the wind, although he couldn't help feeling that these snowflakes were somewhat different.
Just as he succeeded in stretching his palm outside as well, they heard another commotion downstairs.
The head teacher of the disciplinary committee was standing there, shouting at their direction "Stop, all of you come down this instant! And bring that with you!" She pointed a crooked finger. Just as he was wondering why she was shouting at them: the innocent spectators, he saw a fire extinguisher being thrown down from the rooftop above them.
Instantly, two students hurried downstairs trying to catch the fire extinguisher, amidst the shouts from the teacher, turning the scene even more chaotic.
Wait, fire extinguisher! Yuan suddenly understood. So someone was discharging a fire extinguisher from the rooftop! No wonder there was untimely 'snowfall'.
Yuan suddenly lost interest in the snow and squeezed back with difficulty from the 'window seat'. He didn't have to keep watching to know what happened to those students downstairs. Besides, he felt like the students of that troublemaker group, who just came downstairs, seems to be sneaking glances at his direction, which was starting to make him uncomfortable. It would be bad if the disciplinary teacher was to mistake him for an accomplice. Caught by her, they were a foregone case.
On his way back, he stopped by the infirmary once more, albeit quite reluctantly.
However to his surprise the bed that was previously occupied was now empty, and the school doctor was nowhere in sight.
Did he wake up and leave? Yuan breathed a sigh of relief while patting his chest. That's good, he was worried about how to explain the situation of the wire, which he himself had no clue.
Just as he was about to go back, footsteps sounded, and the young man appeared from behind the curtain, with a glass of water in his hand. However, this time his hair looked normal, or at least as normal as it can get.
Facing the inquiring gaze from the guy, Yuan stuttered with difficulty "Hey, are..are you okay?"
Untimely, he couldn't help but feel that the guy looked quite decent with his hair in an 'non-fried state'. Or to be honest he actually looked quite good.
Evand arched his brow with genuine confusion. He got inexplicably shocked by walking to the dispenser, got towed to the infirmary, missed his chem quiz and had to drag his tingling and dizzy body to search for water and this guy asks whether he is okay?
"Do I look like I'm okay to you?"