"Yeah." I said surely.
I continued searching in my room—and even at the living room and kitchen. I opened all the drawers, turned my blanket upside down...
"I'll help you find it later, Nee-san. We have to clean your wounds first." Hanabi sat at the couch with a clean cloth and basin filled with water. She instructed me to sit beside her.
As I stood, I remembered that Kiba-kun also told me about not answering my phone last night.
I walked over the couch and asked her, "Hanabi, m-maybe I have left it at home?"
"Nope. I have searched around your room last night while calling you." my sister confirmed.
"W-What if it isn't here?" I sat beside her. My sister reached for my right arm and began cleaning it.
"If it wasn't here, then where could it be?" she asked.
I began to get more worried. Breathe in, breathe out. Think...
Think...
"T-The school—" I stared at my sister. "Right! The school!"
"Probably—"
"We have to get there—aaaah! Ouch!" I cringed when a felt a shot of pain on my open wound.
"S-Sorry! Don't move too much, you know I'm cleaning your wounds." my sister said strictly.
I chuckled at my very caring sister.
"We'll get there after I treated you." she said.
I nodded.
She carefully cleaned my poor blood-stained arms and hands. It was too much blood but I still survived. I am still alive. W-What the hell?"
Finally, my sister wrapped my wrists with bandage. "You should never repeat this again, Nee-san. I'll make sure of it."
"H-Hai... Thank you, Hanabi. Uhmm..can we go search for my phone now? I-It wasn't only my phone that is missing. My phone is in my pouch so it literally means that m-my pouch is missing too. And there are some important things in it." I pleaded.
"Seriously?" she asked.
"Y-Yeah." Trying to convince my little sister.
"Let's go then—wait, would you mind changing your clothes first? People might think you've murdered somebody." she pointed at my shirt.
"Huh?" I looked down my shirt and I gasped. The sides of my shirt were fully soaked with dried blood. "R-Right, I'll go change right now!" I went back to my room and looked for a new set of shirt and jacket.
—At school—
She scratched her head. "Nee-san, where did you exactly lost it? Do you still remember?" Hanabi asked while we entered the school campus.
"Ano.. I-I think I left it on our table at the gym during the event." I explained.
"Okay, let's go!" Hanabi said.
While we were on our way to the gymnasium, my eyes caught a familiar person behind the bush. I stopped and went closer to the man who's back was facing me. He seems to be very busy with something.
"Nee-san? Where are you going? I thought we're heading to the gymnasium?" Hanabi halted from walking as well.
"S-Shino-kun?" I softly called. The man turned to face me.
I Can Wait Forever: Chapter 19
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