Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho

Author:Zen Cho [Cho, Zen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buku Fixi
Published: 2014-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

The next time Sham saw Belinda she knew something had happened. Would it never stop? Did Bullet Sri Kaya not have anything to do besides stalk girls? Did he not have supervisions to keep up with and lectures to nap through, like everybody else?

"What's the matter?"

"You're wrong about Bullet," said Belinda. "He's definitely a student. Maybe May Ling got it wrong. Must be Bullet's at a different college from Alwyn."

"Why?"

"He emailed me and he's got a Cambridge address," said Belinda. "You know that T-shirt I lost? He said I forgot to take it when the Malaysia Night committee was handing them out. So he took it. But he no chance to pass to me, so he put it in my pigeonhole."

Sham took the T-shirt from her.

"I didn't forget," said Belinda with quiet certainty. "I took it from Chia Wen and came home and put it in the drawer. I remember I put it just on top of my Hello Kitty T-shirt — what, what?"

"Ugh!" Sham dropped the T-shirt. "It's—"

The T-shirt unfolded to show a great stain across the front.

"Oh," said Belinda, sounding like she was going to cry. But Sham snatched the T-shirt up and rubbed her finger on the stain.

"No, it's OK! Don't stress! It's oil only. Look." She sniffed her finger. "Smells familiar — oh, it's palm oil. That's all it is."

"OK," said Belinda. She sat down shakily. "OK."

"All it needs is some detergent," said Sham. "We should get our minds out of the gutter."

Belinda tried to smile. "Is he still posting pictures on Facebook?"

Sham nodded. She was tracking the impossible pictures Bullet put up of Belinda, and taking screenshots so they had a record.

"What do you want to do, Belinda?"

Belinda held up her hands and shrugged, a little despairing movement of the shoulders. "What's there to do?" her shoulders said.

"If he's really a student, we can report him to the uni," said Sham.

"Do you think that'll work?" Belinda was trying to sound normal, but her breath was coming in funny hitching gasps, and her nose was turning red. "Will that make him stop?"

Sham was not by rule a toucher, but she put her arm around Belinda. Belinda's thin shoulders jerked under her arm.

"I should —" said Belinda. "I should have —"

"Should have what?" said Sham. "Calm down."

"I should have said yes to somebody," gulped Belinda. "One of the eleven boys. I should have said I'd go out with one of them. B-but I didn't like them that way. I d-d-didn't ask them to like me also."

"Who said you did?"

"Feels like I'm being punished," sobbed Belinda. "Because I didn't say yes to any of them. Bullet was sent to punish me."

"This is what comes of being religious," Sham told her. "You all think everything that happens is because God wants to teach you something or other. Sometimes things just happen lah."

"Who is Bullet, then?" said Belinda. "How come he can do all this thing — the necklace and the photos? What is he? You don't know!"

"You think I don't know?" snapped Sham.

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