THIEF: BTOB Sungjae ✔

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 14
Define Us
Shin Hye-jeong:

     "Are you sure this is not because of me?" I ask Seolhyun who is busy packing up her things.

     She nods with a smile. "Of course, not! I really just miss my parents. I'll come back when the next semester starts."

     "I'll miss you."

      Seolhyun grins. "I know. Me, too."

     She'll be taking a vacation to her parents' place for the rest of her vacation, I guess.

     I sleep alone that night and get my usual nightmare ever since I killed Park Minyoung. I quickly run to the kitchen and drink cold water. I keep dreaming about the scene when I pulled the trigger and he died instanly. I shouldn't have killed him. Maybe I should have just left him to the cops.

     I rub my face with my hands. That's the first time I killed someone. I feel sick at the thought although I know he was going to kill all of us, if I didn't pull that trigger.

     I file another leave of absence and jail myself inside the apartment. I need some time to think.

     That afternoon, while I'm sitting in front of my apartment, Sungjae comes over with a dozen of bodyguards.

     I quickly open the gate and let him in. He walks in with a crutch and I make him sit where I was earlier.

     "What are you doing here? Are you alright now?" I ask worriedly.

     "I'll fully recover soon. You didn't visit me yesterday so I was worried." He says.

     His handsome face is coming back little by little. Bruises are fading away.

     "I just needed time to think."

     "About what?"

     I sit down beside him. "I've never killed before, Sungjae. I'm getting nightmares." I confess, not able to look at him.

     He stares at me in the eyes, like he's trying to see through me. "You didn't do anything wrong, Hyejeong. You just saved me. You saved our lives. Mine, Minhyuk hyung's, and yours."

     "By killing."

     "You had to."

     "I could have done something else."

     "Look at me." He says, lifting my chin up, turning my head towards him. "Sometimes, you have to do what you don't like to get where you want to be or what you want. You wanted to save me. You wanted me alive and if you didn't kill him, I wouldn't be here with you right now. Do not blame yourself for something that had to be done."

     I just stare back at him, thinking he's right. I can't imagine how would I be without him right now. How much I would blame myself, if the opposite thing happened.

     He pinches my cheeks and smiles all of a sudden. "Don't look at me like that."

     "What?"

     "I still don't look normal yet." He says with a frown.

     I chuckle. "Seriously?"

     "The doctor said I'll need a surgery to bring back the old form of my nose."

     I laugh and touch the bandage on his nose lightly. "Poor Yook Sungjae."

     "But at least, I was already handsome even before that." He says. I give him a judging look but he just pulls me close, his arm wrapping around my waist. "The doctor said I could kiss a girl now."