Chapter 6: Debt and more
Chapter six
Lin wei muttered a curse as the light refused to switch on. The emergency bulb had been going on and off since last week,the faint yellow light doing unspeakable things to her eyes. And the landlady did nothing about it.
She stepped inside the room, welcomed the musty smell of the rusting pipe, the smell of the dead racoon that was stuck in-between the wall (the racoon's halfway through it's decaying process) and overall stuffiness. She toed off her shoes and walked to the window with her socks.
The floor was creaking under the feet, but it was no new thing. She was now familiar with the sturdy side and the creaky side. It only took a few weeks at most.
She opened the window and leaned in, the warm rush of autumn air fanning her cheeks. Yes, this was her life.
She sat on the bed with a sigh, glad to be back in her one-bedroom-godforsaken apartment. This was better__nice even. She had been constantly checking her back in the alley, wondering if that guy from the hospital had his people follow her.
Not that she was scared of what they'll do to her, but what if her insurance has issues and she couldn't afford to kick one of their shin?
Today had been nothing short of exhilarating and humiliating with a dollop of whipped anger and a drop of massive irritation. All in that order.
First, she had learnt that she was involved in an accident. The accident in which, if she may add, she was the victim.
And because the world was such a rotten place where everyone lick each other's asses (only rich people asses), the lanky police offer had deemed the guy right and Lin wei wrong.
"If you was perfectly on the bike lane, the accident wouldn't have happened" he said with a forced air of politeness. He had been in the verge of snapping at Lin Wei, and asking her to shut her trap.