pinky promise

━━ what lies beyond.

GRABBING THE KNOB, YOU SIGHED ONCE MORE TO CALM YOURSELF before twisting it to open when the person on the other side just abruptly turned the handle and opened the door, causing for your forehead and nose to bump on the hard oak wood.

"Fuck." You uttered, slowly massaging
your forehead whilst glaring towards the impatient brute who unclosed the door. Your eyes focused still on the evident eyebags and dim-hued eyes of the man in front of you, silver hair in a bob cut, dark clothes, and dull look. All in all, he looks nothing but as a formidable resolve for you to run away.

"Slow down, Mikey."

"You saw it, right?" The man, gandering at your visage like you're someone who has no value at all, ignored Kokonoi's claims and proceeded to asked you a question. Thus, the tone of his voice says it all, he's concealing the lividity behind his throat whilst trying to be more hospitable towards you as he still sees you as someone he should respect.

Well, isn't being kind a part of being a decent human? C'mon? You satirely said in your mind, avoiding the act of snickering or rolling your eyes.

"Referring to the murder? Yeah, I did." The similar gallantry in your voice isn't that opaque to hear that it made the man before you ceased over to move. He was obviously a little bit taken aback by the tone of your voice but didn't mind it sooner before nodding to Kokonoi who's only standing still behind him whilst eyeing the preceding events.

"Who's she assigned to?" The man asked to Kokonoi.

"One of our managers under Ran." Kokonoi answered while squinting his face, as if he didn't like to say your main Boss' name.

"He will surely not like this and you, come with me." With his finger pointed at you, you jolted a little from the sudden flabbergast, making Kokonoi bit his whole lip upon seeing your reaction whilst the side of the unknown man's lips curved into a sly smile because of it, too.

You blinked, wishing for the ground to swallow you whole as you were certainly more than flustered because of how they reacted; nonetheless, you pretended to neglect it and decided to comply into the man's words silently afterwards.

The three of you went out of your chambers whilst the remaining men, not excluding your damned soulmate, took a small glance on you from head to toe as if they're examining your whole existence, your whole value to be exact or if you really have one.

You went on to ignore it, glancing to the one who really caught your attention at the first place; the man who's holed up in a chair with his arms tied up to the back, face all castrated and filled with violet hues as if he was tormented for almost a pile of hours now.

"That's the man who harrassed you in the train this morning." Cocking his head to the side, his brisky palm landed on top of the man's head, earning a blockage in your throat upon recognizing that it was actually the same man beside Haru this morning.

He was obviously tortured and tormented hard by someone inside this circle and you already thought of who did it; no doubts for the man in a white hair or Kokonoi called him as Mikey.

Although quite unaware and unable to form any kind of hypothesis as to why you were called to their small confab, you put up a placid facade to show that you're unbothered.

By then, your eyes shifted to Haru and by the moment that your eyes met, his lips stretched to smile solemnly at you, making you blinked in the small sign of assurance that you're safe in their very presence and you don't have to feel too anxious in their cirque. You don't know why, you just felt it out of the connection maybe.