The phone rang and woke me up from a nap while I was dreaming during the school break.

I was sleepy and woke up and looked at the clock. ‘Is it already four o'clock in the afternoon?’ My favorite Chinese martial arts novel, “Sword of the Terror,” fell to the floor. Before using his hand to search for the ringtone until he found an iPhone 5

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Favorite device

On the phone screen was the name of “Ball”, a friend from old times. In middle school, I answered the phone.

“Hello, what are you doing?” I asked him, shaking my head in drowsiness.

“Hey, Keng, do you know the news yet?” Ball's voice was calm as he spoke. But Ball is already a person who talks without emotion like this. So I answered with some doubt.

“What news?”

“Damn Sak, room 5/2, do you remember that? ”

"Oh, I can imagine. What's going on?"

Ball's next sentence almost shocked me. He said,

"Sak, he's dead. His motorcycle overturned."

Ball's voice was still as smooth as before.

The sound of the monks chanting made me realize that My classmate Sak probably no longer lives in the same world as us.

The first day of the funeral service for my classmate Sak has finished. But the feeling is still strange.

We were just in Mathayom 5. We even went to the funerals of our relatives. But I have never experienced a friend's eternal departure.

A month ago, after the last day of exams. I still sat and talked with Sakma on the bus.

Sak also shared his plans for the school break.

His father's favorite motorcycle bought him. Still can't ride to my satisfaction. It was as if his life had been taken away by an accident.

Today I was sitting at the bus stop in front of the temple. Surprisingly, none of the group of classmates came to Sak's cremation ceremony. In the funeral pavilion, there were only Sak's parents and relatives. Sak's friends who came to the event were just me and Ball.

Now at the bus stop, it's just me and Ball.

Ball sat staring at the road and then he said,

“Oh, Keng, do you know? Last week, Sakman borrowed my jeans. I never thought it could be like this. I just encountered it myself.”

I understand the feeling of football. So he put his hand on his shoulder and said to him,

“Well, before the school break, I was still talking to him on the bus. I'm still dizzy here. I can't believe it's dead.”

I decided to sleep over at Ai Ball's house. Find things to talk about or play games at home to relieve boredom.

Today, Ball's mother and father are not at home. In the house, turn off the lights and it's completely dark. Ball unlocked the key to enter the house first.

Ball and I went up to Ball's bedroom. As soon as the light in the room was turned on The ball was stunned.

His two eyes were wide open, staring at the bed.

I looked in his direction. In the blink of an eye, the hairs all over his body stood up.

A coldness immediately spread from the bottom of my heart!

There was nothing unusual on Ball's bed.

But there was one neatly folded pair of jeans.

The jeans that Sak borrowed...

Ball and I ran wildly out of his house without thinking for our lives. For a moment we stopped, gasping for breath, in front of a 7-Eleven store.

The light from inside helps us feel better.

He and I went into the store to get some water to drink and some snacks to eat. I still have the image of those jeans in my head.

While I was browsing the drinks in the corner of the shop My phone rang again.

It was my mother who called. I immediately decided that tonight I would invite Mr. Ball to sleep at my house instead.

“Hello mom, wait a moment.” I answered my mom's phone and then turned around and shouted to Mr. Ball.

“Hey, you'd better sleep at my house tonight. I'll tell Mom to wait."

Ai Ball nodded in response and turned to look at the newsstand.

Mother's voice on the phone said:

“Keng, just now Football's mother called to tell her that The ball is broken, child."

“...What...what, Mom?”

“Ball, my best friend, has passed away. He went on the back of his friend's motorcycle, named Sak, and the car overturned and he was taken to the hospital. I just passed away at four o'clock in the afternoon, child."

Like a bolt of lightning that cuts through the body. I'm numb all over.

I slowly turned my head to look at the ball.

The ball isn't in the store anymore.

It's outside

It stood with Aisak.

Their shadows slowly disappeared.

I myself have fallen...