[Bonus chapter]Comfortable floors

Just when I thought the closest people in my life had finally succeeded in killing me, I also heard them calling my name, "Makena, Makena", as they dragged me back to reality.

"Ouch"

Yup, I wasn't dead yet. I was certain because I could see Aurum and Cory towering over me while I was laid out on the floor. I can't possibly imagine what I looked like.

"Oh my goodness!!!" Cory exclaimed in my face, fanning herself, "I thought you were gone."

"Gone, as in dead?" Trust Aurum to always find it amusing. She was failing miserably at hiding a smile, even her tone was a dead giveaway.

"Well…yes. Didn't you see how she slumped???!!!"

They were like water and fire, polar opposites. Corianne looked as if she was carrying the anxiety of the whole world.

While Aurum looked at Cory like she was a clown at a kid's birthday party. She was finding her amusing, while Cory couldn't possibly fathom how Aurum wasn't freaking out at the moment.