"Have you thrown your phone away?" Fang snaps at Luya, stopping right in front of her table.
Luya doesn't meet her eyes. She knows why Fang is angry. She had 30+ missed calls from her, returned not even once.
But what she doesn't know, obviously was that Fang saw her with those goons.
"I called you so many times! You didn't call or text back even for once!" Fang adds more.
"My phone was silent. Sorry." Luya responds, eyes still down.
"Sorry? I was this close to come up to your house and-" Fang gets cut off.
"And who told you to do that?" Luya snaps, finally locking eyes with Fang. "Stop making a scene, just go." she commands.
"Aigh aigh, stop you two.....uh, Fang! It's lunch hour, sit with us." one of the girls speaks up.
"No need." Fang responds.
"Ah, don't be like that, there's a free space here." another girl taps on the chair beside her.
"If she sits, I'll stand up." Luya shoots the words.
The girls go silent and Luya places her chopsticks down, avoiding Fang's face that screams disbelief.
"You-.....you know what? I can't even believe you anymore. You're burning everything we've built in all these years like this. You and I, we aren't only friends, we are sisters remember? I-" Fang fails to finish her sentence.
"We?" Luya looks at Fang again. "There's no we anymore. I don't want to see you and I think I've made this very clear." she lets out those words like a dagger through her chest.
Fang, unable to process these sudden attacks, stands there motionless but ultimately walks away, heart heavy with sorrow.
"Luya....that was harsh." one girl says.
"Agah, l-lets just finish our lunch." the other one stops the previous one.
"I've lost my appetite." saying, Luya stands up and walks away from them.
The girls watch her walk away.
"What was the point to push Fang away if she was going to leave anyways?" one girl says.
"Let's not interfere in their matters. They've been good friends for a long time." the other one suggests.
"Correction. BEST FRIENDS for a long time." the previous one corrects.
"Yeah. God knows what happened but I hope it goes back to normal. None of them are good without each other." the second one adds.
"Hm. I hope that too."
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Luya sits on the stairs near the basketball court, her mind racing with flashbacks of what happened just minutes ago. She regrets every word that left her mouth, but she forces herself to take a long, deep breath, letting composure slowly settle in.
"It's for her good. This is what is best." she mutters to herself.
Her calm doesn't last for long.
"Ugh, can't I catch a break?!" she whisper-yells out, scaring some students nearby.
"What's wrong with her?" one student says while passing by.
Luya doesn't mind their reactions, obviously they can't see what she does. She pushes herself up from the steps, she begins to follow the same butterfly that she keeps following around.
"I swear I'm not following some crazy people this time even if it tells me to." she says.
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It leads her to the swimming pool area. Some students are cleaning, others are already in their swimsuits. But since no teacher is around, she keeps following it all the way to the maintenance room. It goes inside the room but Luya stops.
"What? This is locked." she says, holding the lock in her hands.
Then it comes out of the window beside it. Luya goes to check the window and finds it unlocked. She sighs seeing the 'Only Staff' sticker on the wall. But eventually, she gets it. The butterfly flies and flies until it lands on the pool machinery.
"What? Do you think I'm sort of engineer or something? Yesterday you wanted me to difuse a bomb and today this?" she whispers to the arthropod.
It flaps its wings slowly and then flies to a metal pipe that is connected to the pool's water system. Luya goes to it and upon inspecting closely, she could sense a weird electric buzz to the pipe.
"Wo de tian!" she exclaims while understanding the situation.
The entire pool is electrified because of this malfunction, which means anyone who gets into the water will be killed by the shock.
"What do I do? Do I go out and stop them? But.....why would they believe me? What would I say if they ask me how did I know? Or worse, what am I doing in the maintenance room?" she keeps pacing around. Then she speaks looking at the butterfly. "You! Tell me what to do! I'm no electrician!"
The butterfly flaps its wings, staring at her. Luya hears the teacher talking about being ready to get in.
"No, I can't just stand here." she whispers to herself, panic rising.
She looks around the room.
"Switch, there has to be a main switch for the power. If that's turned off, it will be okay, the electricity will cut off immediately." she mutters.
She searches and searches until her eyes land on the electricity panel, which is far too high to reach from the ground. So she searches for anything to help her reach it, and spots a lone chair pushed into a corner. She grabs it, places it right under the panel and stands on it. She fails to touch the lever because it still is about an inch or two higher.
"Damn it!" she snaps.
Eventually, she jumps, pushing the lever up and disconnecting the power source. The machines go off, but Luya falls on her back, unable to balance on the chair.
"Ah!" she cries out, not too loud.
Outside, she hears the whistle and the splash of students jumping in. The butterfly flits up and fades into the air as always. Luya squeezes her eyes shut, her chest rising and falling quickly, then slow as distress engulfs her.
"I hate this insect."