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Warm bodies

The Legend of Spirituality

By Pasho YaritzaPublished 3 years ago 11 min read
Warm bodies
Photo by yěyè yēyé on Unsplash

My name is Jessica, am an orphan, my childhood was without any color, the ridicule of people around, me and the indifferent face filled my entire childhood. After more than a decade, I always had a lingering shadow in my heart, I resisted everything around me, and felt out of place everywhere I went .....

After all my hard work, I finally got into Philadelphia Medical University and I thought my life was about to change. When I arrived in this brightly lit city, the indifference of the people around me was so frightening and so unapproachable. Gradually my inner fear was magnified, I had no friends, including my housemates who shunned me. Gradually my heart was frozen, I was so afraid, I was afraid of this loneliness, this loneliness that accompanied me for 20 years, sometimes I would hide my face and cry, but I didn't know how to do, I couldn't find the direction of my life, I spent the first semester of freshman year in confusion, until that day ...........

Our school has a work-study system, so it was only right that I entered the pool of poor students. That day I was assigned to clean a lab ....... The teacher opened the door of the lab and the dust on the door fell all over me. This lab hadn't been used for a long time. This laboratory building is built on a hill in the school, located in the identity of remote since the new laboratory building has been built has rarely been used, the night time is gloomy wind burst make people feel very scary.

Now although it is more than 8 o'clock, there are very few people around this, and occasionally only one or two couples dating on this side. "What is it can call me, I'm on the first floor of the duty room. Also, hurry up and leave when you're done cleaning, this lab building is not peaceful." The raspy voice of the teacher on duty made me extremely inapplicable. "Oh .... Oh... Okay."

I just turned around to find that the teacher on duty had disappeared, which was too fast to go! This is when I noticed the classroom furnishings. The classroom was about 100 square meters, and when I walked in, there was a pungent smell of formalin. The organs were placed on a test rack full of dust, as a medical student would not be afraid of these things, but the further you go in, the dimmer the light reflected in those organs, but let a person have a feeling of suffocation. I shook my head to remind myself not to think about it.

Just as I was about to clean up, suddenly there was a sibilant sound outside. "Who's there? Who's out there!" I shouted nervously, thinking it would embolden me. "Meow ....." A black cat jumped down from the windowsill and ran to me and rubbed against me. "So it's a cat, it seems I'm too sensitive." I shook my head and sighed, "It's so late, it looks like you're the only little guy willing to keep me company." This black cat also did not want to leave just stay in this laboratory. I did not care so much, after all, there is a cat to give me courage!

Soon I cleaned up to a smaller classroom, when I walked into this classroom, I saw a formalin solution soaked in a corpse. At once my back broke out in a cold sweat, usually seen are already dismembered organs, have never seen a corpse ........ I gave myself the courage to force myself to go over, to say the least, the light here is even dimmer, can not even see what is around, but only the corpse I see extraordinarily clear ........

When I looked at the corpse I was deeply attracted to her, it was a beautiful woman's face, despite soaking in formalin for so long but could not see a flaw. She was too beautiful, too beautiful to be violated, I stood there in silence and watched ...... Watch. ,....... When I realized the existence of time it was already 10 o'clock. I hurriedly packed up and hurried back to the dormitory.

However, the figure of the corpse was always imprinted in my mind. On that corpse, I could not see a trace of the breath that a dead person should have, but an ineffable aura ....... Yes! It was warmth! A warmth that I longed for. I went back to my dormitory and fell asleep, and in my dream, I had a beautiful encounter with a woman. However, when I woke up the harsh reality had to be faced again ...... I was looking forward to going to that classroom once again.

After my request, the teacher finally arranged for me to go to that classroom again. Another night, the dim light reflecting an organ ordinary people in this situation must have been scared half to death. I didn't think much of it and hurriedly approached that classroom. "Meow ...." In the darkness came a cat cry, I panicked and opened the electric light, it was the black cat again, it turned out to be a poor cat settled here too! I laughed bitterly and shook my head.

In looking at the beautiful corpse again that warm feeling, flawless face, I felt as if I heard the beating of the corpse's heart. Who is she? What kind of person was she when she was alive? Why can he give me such a warm feeling? The ten years of loneliness melted away the moment I saw the body. I stayed quiet for an hour or so and left the lab after cleaning the classroom in a hurry. Maybe there will be even fewer opportunities in the future.

"Young man, hurry up and leave after cleaning the lab, don't take so long!" The teacher on duty said in a hoarse voice. "Got it ......" I nodded dubiously.

It was so cold tonight! I walked out of the laboratory building and shivered, the laboratory building was originally built on a hill, with a lot of trees on the hill and wind blowing salsa, listening to can not help but make that person creepy. I subconsciously wrapped my clothes tightly to make myself feel a little safe. Now I can't wait to meet two couples who can give me courage. Suddenly I vaguely saw a small pavilion in front of me as if there were some people, and when I got closer to take a look it turned out to be a girl dazed inside.

She stood there as if she was thinking about something, and her chiseled body made me very familiar as if I had seen it somewhere.

"Students so late also come here to take a break?" It was a heavenly voice, I didn't expect her to take the initiative to talk to me, so I scratched my head: "No, I'm helping to clean the lab in that laboratory building."

"Then can you chat with me?" I also refused quite a few invitations in the face of a girl, really because I was cold inside. Yet this time I didn't refuse because there was something familiar about this girl. Walking into the gazebo I just saw the girl's dress, white dress white boots, and plain and quiet eyes that I had never seen before. My heart fluttered faintly.

"Please ..... Ask what's up?" I was shy thankfully covered by darkness.

"What can be the matter, ah, not and you said it, want to talk to you ah, Small laugh." The clear laughter made me throw away all the barriers at once. "So what's your name!" I asked, scratching my head.

"Deng Mir, you can call me Emily! And you!" His voice was full of sunshine and trust as if it was going to fill the whole world. "My name is Jessica." Then there was a wordless silence.

"Are you very uncommunicative? Or are you shy? Small laugh ......" I saw her snicker. "........" I didn't know how to return just scratched my head.

"By the way! Today is Mother's Day did you call your mom?" suddenly asked, this question touched me deeply, my body could not help but be stunned. "I ....... am an orphan ......."

After hearing my words, the stranger quickly apologized, "I'm sorry ..... I'm sorry, I didn't know you ......."

I laughed bitterly and shook my head: "It's okay, I'm used to it..." I stared blankly into the darkness, and the relief I had just felt didn't know where to go. Just like that, there was silence again

"You do not have to be like this I am also an orphan. Life is not fair, don't you think?" She suddenly said in a deep voice.

I was very surprised to hear this: "I didn't expect to meet someone like me here." So I talked with Stranger for a long time, as if I had met a confidant I hadn't seen in years. So I took the initiative to ask if we could come out again tomorrow night to talk about it. I didn't expect him to say yes, and I was thrilled. As I was leaving suddenly a black cat jumped out of the grass. "Good little card, where did you go to play!" The little stranger said to the black cat pityingly. Looking at her distant back always felt that I had seen her there.

"Classmate, did you see something yesterday!" At lunchtime in the cafeteria, someone suddenly said behind me. I turned around and saw that it was the teacher on duty. "No ah ...." I shook my head very strangely.

"Ai ....." The teacher sighed, "To tell you the truth, last night I saw you stay in the gazebo until 11 o'clock to go back, and next to you is not a person."

"You're nuts! What do you care what I do, is that stalking?" I was angry and lost the respect I used to have.

He didn't get angry at my words, he just pushed his glasses and said, "Believe it or not, the person you were talking to last night was a corpse. And you've seen it. I don't know what she's up to, and I did see something so odd before but never saw him actively seek out someone to talk to, you must be careful." That teacher said this and left leaving me alone there. At this point, I believe the teacher's words. The familiar feeling, the warmth, the feeling of no separation. And that black cat, that familiar face all confirm one thing ........ I dare not think any further.

Tonight must see his face, the feeling is not wrong, she has no malice!!!

Soon it was evening again, and I arrived as promised. From a distance, a figure turned its back on me. "Is that Stranger?" I asked tentatively, obviously, I felt the temperature plummet at this point.

"You know who I am, don't you?" This abrupt answer caught me off guard. She turned her head, and my goodness! That flawless face. It was her! It was the female corpse! My body trembled slightly. But I wasn't the least bit scared.

"Why aren't you afraid?"

"There's nothing to be afraid of, that's how you make me feel."

"Can you listen to me tell a story?" I nodded.

"Twenty-five years ago a girl was born with the same background as you, and as a child, she suffered from discrimination. But her heart always believed that if she opened her heart, she would be able to embrace the sunshine. So more than ten years have passed, and her heart has always been full of never giving up, God is also fair to give him more friends. She was happy, happy, and never alone. In college, she was so popular and good at her studies that she got a chance to study abroad, yet this opportunity was jealously guarded by a girl in the dormitory. She put poison in her lunch box. Later she was hospitalized because the girl's father was the principal so the matter was not pursued. She knew she was going to die and at first, she hated it and vowed to take revenge, but during her hospitalization, many of her friends visited her and gave her unlimited care. Gradually she let go of her hatred and she decided to donate her body to the medical school after her death. The doctors did not find her body warm for a long time after her death ......"

"Is this story about yourself?" I can't describe how I felt. Ashamed .....

She nodded. "Can I give you a hug?" I don't even know why I said that myself, but it did come from the heart and nothing else.

She nodded, and the moment she touched her body, it was warm, really warm. I hugged her tighter, there was a heartbeat, is this what a corpse is supposed to have? "Why do you have a heartbeat?"

"Because my heart is open and the sunlight pours in every day. I can feel what you're feeling, what you're in the mood for, you like me?" I didn't expect him to ask that. But I was even less expecting my next move to be a direct kiss. She didn't refuse. Warm lips, the warm, frozen hearts of 20 years thawed at that moment. I kissed a corpse, a holy corpse. I wanted time to stay in this moment forever and ever ..........

"You have the purest soul in the world, thank you."

"You know what? I felt your closed mind when you looked at me in the lab! I wanted to help you! Your heart is longing for the outside world." Little Stranger said softly.

"It's just that the indifference of society prevents me from opening my heart, and I don't know how to do it."

"Believe like I do that love exists. Open your heart!"

That night I talked a lot with the little stranger, I did not know that I had passed out .........

The next day... I was dazed and felt what was rubbing me, opened my eyes and it was the black cat. I could not find the little stranger next to me anymore. I rushed to the laboratory building to go, but far away to see a group of people do not know what is busy!

"Please ask what's going on over here!" I asked the teacher on duty.

"There was a fire in that classroom last night, and everything inside was burned, but it's a good thing the body was also burned." The teacher on duty sighed and said, "The one that should leave still has to go, and the one that remains must have the meaning of staying ah!"

After hearing her words my body was stunned feeling a buzzing in my head, in the moment before I fainted I thought I loved her.

When I opened my eyes, I was already in the hospital, surrounded by the eager expressions of my housemates, and seeing their figures I had the feeling in my heart that I had at that time, the feeling of being back in the sun. After I woke up I found a note had been placed in my pocket.

Jun's two lines: you know, we can not be together, so I choose to leave. The love you have for me is hidden in the warmest part of your heart!

After that, I was completely changed and I adopted that black cat ............

Fantasy

About the Creator

Pasho Yaritza

The meaning of life does not lie in the accumulation of wealth, but in the pursuit of spirituality and the nimbleness of the soul.

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