The Memory Keeper

Chapter 3 - Cordolium

TW: ⚠️⚠️ The following chapter contains languages that may be sensitive to some readers. Please proceed with caution.

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SUJIN's POV

As he continued to attack me with his words with something I can't quite understand, my eyes welled with unshed tears. 

What happened to this man? Who inflicted him with this much pain?

I was jerked away from my own thoughts when he said:

"Fix yourself and go home after you have eaten."

What? Go where? 

Where is home? Who am I?

The incredulous look he gave me when I asked those told me I should have kept those questions to myself. 

Of course, he wouldn't know. How could he when I don't even know myself?

I don't know where home is. 

I don't know my name. 

I don't remember anything. 

The weight of my statements must have been too much to bear even for a man like him as I saw him sit on the far corner of the bed, looking aghast.

A throbbing headache was developing beneath my temples, stick hot needles between my eyes. 

I don't remember anything! 
I don't remember anything!

"What do you mean you don't remember anything?!!"

I don't know who I am. I don't know where I am from. I don't know anything!!

I saw you drowning yesterday and I had to do something. 

By then, the pain in my head has become a full-grown headache, I had to close my eyes and wrap my hands around it as if shielding it.

There was silence in the room as the man processed what I just said.

"You are sick yet you jumped into those waves to save me, you stupid, little fool?!!

Those harsh words were coming as a shocker that I opened my eyes to look straight at the man who suddenly took me roughly by the shoulders, his eyes blazing with fury, a nerve ticking on his forehead.

His grip was too strong, his fingers digging into my skin as he shouted:

Are you out of your f***in mind? What if you died pulling that stunt, huh? What then?"

I was crying, feeling stupid. Distressed.

I may have lost my memory but I know I can't allow you to die like that while I watch!!

"Who told you to watch? Who told you to be there, in the first place? Who told you to save me? I didn't want to be saved, do you understand that?!! How dare you risk your life to save mine!!??