Finding Home || Kazutora Hanemiya

Chapter 32

You turned away from Kazutora and hurried back to your apartment, while angry tears were streaming down your cheeks.

How could you be so stupid?! Letting a total stranger stay in your apartment, while you only knew him just for a day?!

Why were you so fucking naive?! You didn't know anything about his past, yet you welcomed him, no, invited him in your home, giving him a perfect chance to use or hurt you!

You couldn't believe it: prison?! Kazutora was in prison?

You started crying more when you reached your apartment and walked through the door.

You shut it and your back hit it, then you felt yourself slowly sinking down, burying your face in your hands, sobbing loudly.

Then your eyes snapped open and your heart stopped beating for a moment.

What if he was in prison for murder?

What if Kazutora was a murderer?

What if he escaped from prison?

You quickly got up from the floor and reached for your phone with shaking hands, but it slipped from your hands and landed on the ground, and it slipped a little further from you on the floor.

You quickly jumped after it and you landed on your knees, reaching for it again, and you quickly dialed 911.

Just when you were about to call them, you closed your eyes, sobbing, thinking back to the last few months. All the laugh and hugs you two shared, and all the kisses and love you gave each other rushed to your mind, flashbacks of every single time where he made you feel safe and cared for made your chest tighten in crushing pain.

Was it all just a facade? Was it all just a lie?

Why? Why did this have to happen? You were so happy, you thought you had found someone who loves you just as much as you love him, who you thought cared about you. You thought that the warmth and the love you were feeling will last forever. Every time he hugged you, you thought that your feelings grew stronger and stronger, making your heart burst from the happiness you were feeling when you were next to him.

You leaned forward, hugging yourself, squeezing your body as hard as you could, trying to make it hurt, hoping it would outgrow the pain you were feeling in your chest.

Suddenly you heard as the door opened behind you, and your head snapped in it's direction.

Kazutora hurried up the stairs, quickly following Cassie and Ryo, who were already up, and when he turned on the stairs and looked up to your apartment, he saw as both dogs were standing against the door, furiously scraping it with their front paws.

Kazutora ran to it, fishing out his keys, and when he reached the door, he heard your cries. He stopped in his movements and looked at the door, feeling his heart breaking.

He closed his eyes, gulped down the lump in his throat, and he slowly opened the door, but nothing could have prepared him for what he is going to see.

You were on your knees on the floor, hunched over, while your whole body were shaking, and loud cries left your throat. Just when he opened the door, your head snapped in his direction and the look you gave him made his blood run cold.

Fear.

He saw as you turned around on the floor, now sitting on it, and you started to desperatley crawl away from him.

"Don't come closer!" you cried, as Cassie and Ryo ran to you, and when your back reached the wall you hugged your dog closer to you for comfort and to feel safer.