The rush-hour was over, and the bus was almost empty now. Finally feeling like she could breathe, she opened her eyes to look at which place she was at.
The next place is her stop. Finally, she thought, her stomach was missing her favourite ramen. Being cheap was an advantage in this capitalistic world, but the fact that it filled her tummy and tasted too good made that ramen the best.
As she was about to press stop, she noticed something of high value to the seat next to her. She looked around her, but it didn't seem to belong to any of the 3 people in bus. One was the driver, obviously too busy to come up to her to leave an expensive phone as a gift. Another one was a girl, 4 rows in front of her speaking quite happily on her phone. Nope, definitely doesn't look like someone who lost their dear iBaby. The last person sat some rows back with their hoodie on. She couldn't see that well because of the hoodie, but they clearly had headphones on and hanged their head quite low. Hmm, seems like a tired fellow.
So, the mystery remained. Oh, and she missed her station.
Getting out of the bus she saw that it had gotten dark fairly quickly because of the clouds. The weather forecast didn't say anything about a cloudy day, in fact it was supposed to be no clouds whatsoever with a clear sky and the moon shining at her.
The darkness channelled coldness, thus there was less people outside. She noticed that the station she got off at wasn't too far away from home. But was she energetic enough to walk back home or the usual lazy one to take the bus back?
As she pondered on the question at hand, she noticed something vibrate. She took out her phone from her pocket, but it wasn't it. Ah! It must be the other phone. Thinking maybe the owner is calling she took it out quickly, but she wasn't quick enough, and the call ended.
Alas, it was an unknown number and it was technically impossible to call back.
The plan first thing in the morning was to submit it to the nearest police station for lost items. But if the owner contacts her first and wants it back then she will do that.
She realised it probably wouldn't be easy to return the phone asap either, as the phone had no pin code, no saved numbers, no recent calls, no photos nor apps. It would seem like a brand-new phone if it weren't for an app in it. There was nothing on it but one mysterious app that just wouldn't open.
She decided to end her thinking today and return home. The problem got to wait until tomorrow. As the bus would run after 40 mins she decided it would be better to walk home and be by her bed in 20 mins. Maybe, and just maybe because she needs to stop eating junk food 5 days in a row, she'll stop by her favourite convenience store. She snickered thinking about the store name, she'll never get over how someone or some people sat down and came up with ironically such a convenient name.
In her own world, she started to walk. As she did take some steps forward, the new phone vibrated. Looking up she saw a message.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Huh? That's it? The message just read congratulations and nothing more. The number was named as UNKNOWN though it is strange how it's possible because no number is saved…
Ignoring it as a spam she started to walk again. But, the phone interrupted once again.
YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE.
''What the bullcrap?'' She said aloud and looked around but then continued to read.
DO AS FOLLOWS TO GET 20 $!
THROW THE EMPTY BEER CAN INTO THE TRASHCAN.
She stood there dumbfounded before huffing a laugh, "What kind of environment beneficial spam is this?"
Though sceptical, she looked around and to her surprise there was a trashcan on her left with lots of trash around. Well, to be honest, trash is everywhere and as much trash there is, there are even more people who are lazy enough to not throw it in the trashcan even if it's literally near their reach.
Ahh how dumb she felt for almost falling for this trick. Shaking her head, she decided to proceed forward to her home. But at the same time, something in her body was making it hard to move forward.
She was curious. What if?
Well, curiosity killed the cat as she saw a perfectly empty beer can thrown near the trashcan.
What if?
To get rid of that "if" she casually did as the message told her.
Then she waited, and waited, and waited.
But nothing happened.
"Seriously, am this bored of life?" She looked down and an embarrassed laugh escaped her lips. She hoped if there are any ghosts they would not laugh at her. Actually, rather than ghosts who she cannot see, she would be more embarrassed if some people through CCTV saw her, as humans are more prone to show visibly what they feel.
She put back the mysterious phone in her bag. Wanting to disconnect from the world on her way back she put on her headphones and started playing some random playlist on Spotify.
She was lost in the music and focused on her way back home, so she didn't notice when the phone in her purse buzzed.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
20 $ ARE NOW DEPOSITED IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.
DO AS FOLLOWS TO GET 40 $!