Chapter 2: I must be seeing things
"Anyway, I'll get going now." Tae-Ming said, smiling heartily. "I still have a few things to look after, so I'll get going now."
"Alright."
I watched him leave and then sighed. I couldn't sit around for much longer. I had to get to work too.
That night, I took the night shift once again and my mind accidentally wandered.
I don't exactly remember how it happened if it was my negligence or a mistake on the part of the other workers, but the hilt of the bar at the top shelf, which was holding onto the heavy goods, fell, and all of that heavy stuff fell right on top of me.
It was too late for me to even get out of the way and the next thing I knew, I had been crushed.
I had no idea what had been in those packages and I definitely had no time to be thinking of that since I was losing blood like a water hose.
I could barely see anything and couldn't feel my body either. I couldn't feel anything.
'Help,' the words I wanted to speak from my mouth could not even find their way to my throat. 'I... I don't want to die.' I thought.
I felt my life flashing before my eyes. I was weak and paralyzed, crushed by the same goods I was in charge of counting. And with that, I closed my eyes, feeling my consciousness slowly fade away from me, only to open my eyes right away but in a different surroundings.
I sat up with cold sweat dripping down my pores heavily, startled and confused.