The freezing room's temperature was excess and seriously chilling. Dave Lin was pacing around the chilly room rubbing his hands together as to reduce the cold he was feeling. If he was to sit pit, he believed cold could penetrate through his body and have effects. So this was the possible solution he came up with, moving about to keep lively.
Sunni on the other hand sat on the cold floor, leaning against the freezing wall while she hugged her legs keeping her head low. Her jaw was shivering and so was her whole body. They cold in the room had already gotten a better of her and she was slowly getting weaker and sleepier.
Dave Lin who was pacing around stopped to look at the pathetic looking girl sitting on the floor. He could see she was feeling really cold and not being heatless felt the urge to help out. "You shouldn't sit there and fall asleep, move around to try warming up" He urged.
"I....I...." She coughed blowing off the cold smoke in her mouth" I can't.....Very very.......very .... Cold" she shivered.
Dave Lin rolled his eyes at the pathetic girl. seemed like she was planning to kill herself. He tried ignoring her and making a few calls but there was certainly no connections. He felt annoyed as he shivered a bit. He then looked at her again. " You Know you're the reason why we're here. You just had to check in here right?" .
She managed looking up at her "I know.... you don't have to rub it in. Besides, checking in here was a job we had to accomplish. So it's only natural that we check.... check here...." She coughed again.
Dave rolled his eyes as he rubbed his hands for a while. He looked at the shivering girl who didn't have hope of lasting for another hour or half as he walked up to her and sat besides her , leaning on the wall too.
Sunni looked at him surprised" What.... what are you doing?"
"Just shut up" He snapped as he pulled off his brown overcoat and then put it over Sunni, covering her like a blanket.
"It's okey I don't...." She tried resisting but she pulled the coat tightly against her.
"I said shut up. Don't try objecting" He snapped as he covered her properly with the over coat. After, he stood there looking around as he rubbed his hands.
Sunni looked at him hands and then at him. "Are you okey?" she asked.
"Don't ask about me, just try not to fall asleep" He ordered, rubbing his hands together.
She thought for a while, looking at the overcoat around her as she took it off and turning it horizontally placed it to cover both of them.
"What are you doing?" Dave Lin questioned.
"Don't ask questions and just accept it. Let's share it, it's much better than only me having it"
"Are you nuts? I gave it to you before you pass away even before help is here" He said.
"It's okey. Actually, I'm not as weak as you think, I'll persevere. Besides, you also look not so good even after all these walking around so let's share it. Besides, as they say, there's love in sharing and maybe if we share it, then we'll feel warmer, okey?" She threw him a sweet smile that left him speechless for defence.
He could only watch her adjust the overcoat on them that barley covered their legs.
"You.... why are you so far away ...Are we on social distancing now? Come closer so we feel warm" He said but he just stared at her "Gosh you ...I'll come closer then" She shifted closer to him as their bodies met in a body contact and then she adjusted the overcoat properly "That's fine now"
He looked at the overcoat on him and then at the girl who was looking up with a slight shiver.
"Actually.... This is not my first time being here" She smiled " When I was little, I had broke my mum's favorite vase and was scared she would kill me. So in search of a hiding place, i entered the big refrigerator and then almost froze death. I even fell asleep there but luckily my parents found me and got me out. Then mum didn't scold me even after knowing I broke the vase" Sunni smiled " So I guess it was a win for me"
"Silly" Dave mumbled.
"And there was also one time I went out in the snow without any coats on......"
Sunni kept taking and talking narrating her past experiences to him. When he had had enough he placed his hands over her mouth to shut her up.
She brushed his hands off "What's wrong?"
"Noisy" He said looking ahead.
"You....Well the best way to stay awake now is to chat. if not, I'll eventually fall asleep"
"Then do. Don't bother my ears" He said reluctantly looking up to calm himself.
He was still looking up for some time when he felt a head suddenly leaning on his shoulder. Surprised, he looked at his side, only to see sunni already asleep and head her head on his shoulder.
"This fool actually fell asleep" He mumbled as he poked her hear with his finger for awhile " Hey...get up" But she didn't attempt.
He paused for a moment looking at her face. This was the first time he was so close to a lady and it made him odd. His heart raced for a while but he exhaled looking around for awhile.
Then looking at her again, he got out his hands to pull her closer to himself and then adjust the overcoat to cover her more.
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The black van pulled over before the company that night as they all got out rushing into the company.
On entering they found the whole place kind of busy as people ran from place to place, busy with one thing or the other.
"What's wrong here?" Kelvin asked
"Who cares, let's look for some information" Lara said as they left and on their way to the elevator met the man in charge. Lara recognized him.
"Excuse me Mr But we're here to look for My boss....is he perhaps still here?" Lara asked.
"Well it's a long story. But he was here with a girl to investigate the case. But as both of them went in to look around, there was a sudden power shortage and then the freezing room was closed and now we can't open it. we're trying out possible best for hours to do something."
"Wait, so they've been in there for hours??" Kelvin asked as the man nodded.
"Quick take us there" Lara requested as the man led them up to the freezing room.