I stared at the phone screen, my fingers feeling cold.
There were 99+ chat records yesterday, but now there are only a bunch of soliloquies I sent out. The cursor flashed in the input box. I typed and deleted, deleted and typed, and finally only three words were sent:
"Where are you?"
When the message was sent out, the red exclamation mark in front of it made my eyes hurt. System prompt: The other party is not your friend, please send a friend to verify.
I log out and open the address book. Ajie's name also disappeared, and all the numbers starting with him in the phone book were inexplicably moved one place forward, as if this person had never appeared.
Wrong.
Not "as if".
He just never showed up. At least on mobile.
I opened the photo album again - those photos of eating and drinking, and I was left alone to raise my glass to the air. I moved to the end of the next month, and the ugly photo he took as a prank was still there, but I was the only one in the photo, with a weird outline next to it, as if the PS had not been edited out properly.
I rowed to an earlier time, to the photo of us on the first day of school - only me was left, even his hand on my shoulder disappeared.
"Fuck."
I sat up from the bed, put on my slippers and ran downstairs. People were coming and going in the dormitory building, and someone greeted me. I didn't care about responding and rushed directly to dormitory 406.
