How My Life Was Ruined

107: The Past - X

I woke up to find myself in my familiar room.

I raised my upper body. I felt sluggish and a bit feverish. With my heavy eyelids, I looked at the analog wall on the clock. The time was 6 in the evening.

I got off my bed and made my way downstairs. I felt dizzy and I had to hold onto the guard railing as I went down.

In the living room, there were two people sitting on the sofa. They were sitting side by side. In proximity. Close to each other. Their shoulders almost touching. The large T.V in the room was on and a news channel was broadcasting the news of a certain accident that had happened yesterday night.

The female news reporter was on the scene, with a mic in her hand as she covered the news, “From police investigation, the statements from the eyewitnesses and the family members, it was a suicide.”

“Suicide?” Hearing that word, I couldn’t keep my voice from leaking out.

The two who were seated on the sofa with their backs to me turned around at once and looked at me in surprise. T