Abominable 2.0

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Chapter 1 5

After lunch, Mrs. Tsui sat around the dinner table together with Jin and Yi showing them a book with pictures of her life before her husband had passed away.

"Were all these images taken by a polaroid?" Jin asked earning a nod from the woman.

"Chen loved it to take pictures when we were out together going on holidays to different places" The senior explained. "We kept them inside this book so we could always remember, where we were together"

"My father had bought at one point an empty photo album, so we could take pictures on all the places he wanted us to see with him," Yi told the woman. "We could never add any pictures to it, besides a few we took later with my family at the Leshan Buddha"

"Ah, the Leshan Buddha....." The senior recalled surprising the two teens, then watched the woman pass a few pages forward stopping at one page with a few pictures taken by the late husband of Mrs. Tsui and one of them was from the couple, when they were younger standing in front of the tall statue smiling at the camera.

"I liked being there" Jin mentioned earning a nod from Yi.

"Some people say, that when they were looking for their inner peace, that's the right place to find it. I had been tensed for a long while after finding out I couldn't have children. I went there and I can't explain it, I.....just felt better about it, I've found out life still goes on, you just need to focus on what you want to do with it" Mrs. Tsui explained the teens.

"Yeah. I still realized it a little later though, but I'm still happy I did it" Yi pointed out, then kept watching the book along with the woman.

"How far is it actually to the next hospital or clinic?" Jin questioned watching Yi facepalm.

"Right, sorry Jin. Your check-up" Yi apologized, then the senior pushed the book further and got up from the seat.

"I think it is about twenty minutes, by car" Mrs. Tsui answered.

"Could you drive us there?" Yi asked watching the senior shake her head.

"I'm sorry girl, but I don't have a driving license. Chen was the one, who used to drive us"

"I don't have it either, but I've passed the street code two years ago" Jin added.

"So you can drive?" The Chinese girl asked watching Jin roll his eyes up thinking about the question.

"I can drive a motorcycle, but I can't promise I know how to drive a car, but it might not be a problem"

"Okay, I've seen my parents doing that a lot. It doesn't seem that hard" Yi said earning a simper smile from the boy at her confidence on him.

"If you two are sure about it, follow me to the back and I hand you out the key to the car," The woman said walking out of the cottage followed by the two friends and the dog to encounter on the back of the house an old white pickup truck with a short load area on the back.

"That truck must be valuable" Jin mentioned. "How old is it?"

"Maybe 60 or 70?" The woman estimated it, watching Jin gaze into the inside of the car.

"Doesn't have a lot of features like the newer cars" Jin mentioned followed by Yi lean beside him to check the vehicle out.

"Well it doesn't have navigation," Yi mentioned. "We still can use our smartphone,"

"It doesn't have parking sensors or automated lights. Our car has a lot of options thought" Jin explained looking back at Mrs. Tsui, which handed the boy out a simple key with a black plastic cap, then Jin stuck it on the lock to unlock the car. "Funny we're so used on unlocking the car by just pressing the button on the car key. It's a type of control, but around this size" Jin explained holding his thumb and index finger a little away from each other that it had space enough to put an AAA battery between it.