<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Original</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=255198.msg12610586#msg12610586">Quote from: KirbysFolly on 29-08-2016, 02:12:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">September 1st, about 5 PM<br/><br/>Sun-hwa's phone vibrated a split second before it started ringing, the picture of Alice she'd taken forever ago popping up on the front. The other woman sounded a little harried, and the wind in the background probably meant she was driving while calling, since the trees outside weren't moving much at all.<br/><br/>"Sun-hwa! Oh, I'm so glad I got a hold of you! I am really, really sorry to bother you with this. I was supposed to be meeting with my friend May earlier, and she didn't show up. I haven't heard from her before that for a couple weeks, and since I last talked to her, she disconnected her answering machine. I'm on my way to that kitchen forum, and it's really important I go, but I'm worried about May. Could you maybe swing by her place, see if she's in? She's usually really serious about schedules, is all." The words all came out in a rush, offering Sun-hwa no time to interrupt her until she abruptly stopped talking.<br/><br/>Sun-hwa vaguely remembered meeting May at some point, but wasn't too familiar with her.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></div></div><br/><br/>Sun-hwa frowned--who was May again? She asked Alice,<strong>"Yes, I would be happy to do that, but where exactly is her place again? I can't remember where it is, and you know I don't have a car, so I have to take the bus or get a ride from someone. But her answering machine is disconnected? Was there anything wrong before that happened that I ought to know about?"</strong><br/><br/><em>Just like Alice to not let me much get in a word edge-wise about something important at first, just needing to rush out the whole explanation in one go,</em>she thought to herself.<em>And lucky she called around 5 p.m.; some of us do work normal hours!</em><br/><br/>But she was already getting her purse and house keys. All she needed to know was where exactly to go, and she'd be out the door. Sun-hwa wasn't the type of person to not help a friend, and anything was better than being at home alone. When she was alone, she'd dwell on the memory of her husband too much. Urgh, easier to just help Alice about this May thing than to think about it.