Fiction: Group 3
“Fei…?”
Fei smiled heartily, his eyes flitting towards Lu’s table, piled with various documents filled with confidential
information.
“Do you like your work?”
Lu shrugged mindlessly.
“It’s… my job.”
Fei sighed, letting his forehead rest against Lu’s table in a childish manner, his eyes never leaving Lu’s.
“You’ve changed, Lu.”
At that, Lu snapped his head up, his eyes meeting Fei’s brown orbs for the first time. His lips formed a small
frown, eyes squinting at Fei, who glared back in an equal demeanor.
“I’m sure you know, Lu,” the laughter had completely evaporated from his eyes, his customary warmth
gone quicker than spring showers on hot sizzling earth. A strange fire seemed to be burning in those brown
orbs. “
Your
company,
your
beloved job, you know how they are contaminating the Pearl River Delta
waters with the waste of unlawful genetic engineering of a new hereditary product which produces waste
that brings up symptoms of
vomiting
and
sudden memory loss
.” Fei was now inching closer to Lu, a subtle
smirk playing at the corner of his lips in his moment of arrogant triumph. “Ring any bells?”
“You don’t know what you’re saying.”
“I perfectly know very well what I’m saying, but do
you
know what had you been doing for the past, what,
ten years?”
Lu had now pushed Fei to the ground, snarling at him like a wild animal. Unexpectedly, Fei looked less
than surprised at Lu’s sudden act of violence, instead, he actually laughed.
“Despite working in such a barbaric association, doesn’t mean you have to be senseless machines and work
for such uncivilized causes. Look what you’ve become. A mindless animal.”
“Shut up.”
Lu raised his hand, preparing to deliver a hard blow to the petty face of his friend, but at the same time, a
nagging feeling from the pit of his stomach seemed to be warning him that this wasn’t right.
“Lu, I’ve been aiding the government in finding the cure for this disease, this… catastrophe for years,” Fei
reasoned, “These…orders from your superiors, it’s illogical, immoral even. Lu, what happened to the
memories? What happened to ‘protecting our home’?”
****
“Lu!” Fei ran through the grassy lands near Xi Jiang, a major southern river of the Pearl River Delta, his
pretty hair blown from his face, but his face seemed pale, ashen even. “Lu, something wrong has happened!”
The dark-haired Chinese boy who had been sitting quietly on the grass, enjoying how the sky adorned
itself with brilliant shades of red and orange, how alluring swirls of color of this enticing splendor had taken
his breath away, and yet this boy had to ruin such an overwhelming moment of peace.
