Parallel Lives (pjm ff) | unedited |

- 10 -

OUT WITH IT

SEOUL

With one final roar, the vehicle came to a screeching halt in a small driveway.
The click of the keys turning in the keyhole switching the automobile off disturbed Yuan in her deep slumber.
She twisted her body adjusting to the dim light seeping in through the glass. Her eyes fluttered slowly getting acquainted to the new warmth. Blinking a few times her recent memories resurfaced inside her head making her sit up and look around.

Yuan pov:
The slight pang inside my chest didn't go unnoticed by me as the nervousness started kicking in.

Damn... I can't believe I actually moved out of my cocooned hell.

I jumped out of the car observing my surroundings. They have a garage for the apartment... That's right... They.

Yoongi had told about the roommates he lived with. Speaking of yoongi, I walked up to the end seeing him pulling my single suitcase out of the boot.

Ahem...

I coughed a little as the mild whiff of engine smoke tickled my nostrils.

"honey, you awake I was dreading the thought of waking you up myself. How do you feel."

I stretched a bit stifling a yawn, smiling at his words but kept mum nonetheless.

"oh, and namjoon called he said they were out for a while so it's only you and me for now."

I tried ignore the fact that the two anonymous people yoongi has been talking a lot about were gonna return soon. I stepped out of the garage to escape the smoke trying to breathe in a little fresh air but the air seemed to get stuck in my lungs refusing to come out as my eyes internalized the view in front.

The lush green bushes that lined the pavement held tiny red wild fruits that contrasted well with the deep green leaves the lone street quiet and the chill breeze calming to one's mind.

"let's go... Honey" yoongi's voice broke into my trance as I stared at him for a good long second holding the bags and flashing a look of doubt.

"yeah right behind you ..." I replied with a tint of energy evident originating from an alien source inside me.

once we made it inside the apartment that was way bigger than my cramped one with well-maintained furniture, half white wallpapers that went well with the ash-clothed couch covering the length opposite the black entertainment cube mounted on teak cabinets. As I twirled around admiring the living room, yoongi focused his twinkling pupils on me.

"Follow me..." yoongi apparently abandoned the luggage which I cared much less about at the moment as I followed him upstairs to another lounge vividly different from the previous style. Entering a room adjacent to the stairs yoongi stepped aside letting me in to witness the beige beauty of the furniture contrasting with the caramel walls, the single cot almost an alluring sight to sleepy heads like me, lilac sheets awaiting to be used.

"get comfortable, shower and we can maybe go for a drink." yoongi winked skidding off downstairs.

author pov : 

Yuan nodded distracted by her new surroundings her eyes scanned every bit of the new space memorising certain likable details such as the beautiful view outside the double window, the tranquil calmness that filled the room with a safe and comfortable warmth. The body length mirror reflecting her petite figure in skinny jeans and an oversized sweater.

Yuan Settled down on the bed, eyes shut as she remembered everything that happened past one week. It was then that she realised that a warm bath was the perfect thing for her body right now.

She seized the first fabric that grabbed her attention in her back pack and entered the aqua blue space finding the shower to her right.

She closed her eyes to the warm water  falling on her body concentrating on her muscles that relaxed to the touch of the smooth liquid.

"Yuan your bags I mean bag has been brought up. Come down for lunch." yoongi yelled a while later as he left the room.

"I am not coming any sooner, actually I had my lunch." Yuan shouted from the bathroom.

"yeah come out soon" yoongi drawled uninterested at the idea of Yuan having her lunch alone.

Yoongi pov :

Yuan finally came out of the bathroom after what felt like an eternity as I waited in her room.

"what are we having for lunch" Yuan asked an expectant look on her face as she stops drying her hair for a second.

Shit I am seriously going to ruin this for her...

The hesitance in my face should have given it away a bit as her face loses the calm look slowly. But I brace myself for the hard part as I turn a stoic face at her as I speak.

"I got this call from Busan I have some things to take care over there and it's a bit urgent so I have leave tomorrow. You have this week to yourself so enjoy it before you think of worrying about university and job an-"

"yoongi..." Yuan's voice was just above a weak whisper, the towel fell from her hand as she started perspiring. Her eyes unfocused as it wandered around the area avoiding my calculative gaze. My gaze soften a second before a gasp left my mouth unnoticed as her fierce look instantly fixed with mine.
It was not the Yuan I knew four years ago but a new one, times fierce and stronger than the old one, stoic and almost inhumanly rigid compared to the fragile and broken girl I knew way back in the past.

And that's when I decided she was capable of handling herself now...

... I can firmly go on with the plan now...

"Yuan I know I promised to accompany you but you have to learn to live on your own at times. Learn the way of living a normal life than surviving while drowned in the darkness is not what I want you to go through. We moved away so-"

"stop with the fucking excuse yoongi."

"yuan watch what you are telling."

"yeah sure but I don't care anymore no yoongi I have been surviving on my own for the past four years without you and on my own. That's my way of living and you didn't have to but in out of nowhere if you were gonna leave again yoongi." everything came out of her lips in a haste. A long sigh that's all she could further exhale as her eyes turned watery and lips trembled with mixed anger and betrayal. A bad combination for the broken giirl standing in front of me.

" Yuan you can do this with or with out me it's gonna be the same. At some point your gonna be left alone it's only you that you have for yourself so learn to stand alone honey."

"oh yes, yoongi stop it with your shit and get going cause like you said it might be the same you would have abandoned me later at some point I guess might as well be now so LEAVE."
The emphasis on the wrong words were always her thing a small smile crept up my lips as I thought about the past with her in it with me, shaking my head to wave of the thoughts I looked back at her with more determination.

With a simple nod in her direction I turned around and walked off to the kitchen to prepare something for the both of us before I left to Busan again.

So here the next chapter yay!!! 🥳🥳
Sorry for the delay guys I was not in the right mind to write for a few days.
Well maybe a lot of days.
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Will be back on track in a few days and you can have more chaps regularly.
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