Midnight Phone Call II

Yuliang had been in the middle of having a very pleasant dream that escaped him the moment he was snapped awake by the sound of his phone buzzing.

He growled in annoyance.

"Do you know what fucking time it is, Mina?"

There was a giggle on the other side, "Oh whoops. Sorry, did I wake you up?"

"It's 3 in the fucking morning! Of fucking course you did!" he hissed, pushing long locks of hair out of his face and rubbing at the bridge of this nose. "Do you not fucking sleep woman?"

Mina outright laughed, one bordering on hysterical, "What sane medical student sleeps during exam season? Seriously though, I called you for a reason."

Yuliang sighed, tugging at a tangle in his hair, eyes drooping from exhaustion, "Yeah? What is it this time?"

"Well, I was messing around on the Net and scrolling through my Social feed-"

"I thought you said it was exam season, Mina. You're making it sound like you did everything but study."

"-Ouch. Don't call me out like that. You can hardly expect me to be able to study this late-"

"Or stay up. Say your piece and go to fucking sleep."

"But, mom," the woman whined.

Yuliang rolled his eyes, "I'm serious Mina. Say your shit and fuck off. Even if you can't sleep, I can. If I'm going to deal with the second year Enforcer assholes tomorrow morning, I'm going to need more than 2 fucking hours of sleep."

Mina made a sympathetic noise on the other end, well familiar with what Yuliang dealt with by now. "Alright, alright. I was just going to say that you're kind of going viral on the Social right now."

Yuliang groaned, "Why? I didn't even do anything this time. Did I?"

"Well… there's a recent clip of you yelling at some lady who said some pretty rude things to you. Are you okay by the way? That whole situation looks terrifying to be in. Did they hurt you?"

Yuliang felt his entire body tense at the memory; no air, no escape, no space.

He grits his teeth and shakes his head, "I'm fine. It was just unexpected. Is that sort of thing likely to happen again?"

There was a long silence on the other end before Mina finally said, "From the way people are talking about you right now, especially from what I've heard on campus and the streets. Yeah, probably."

Fuck.

His.

Life.