INCEPTION [Haruto]

PROLOGUE

Seeing my girlfriend Kang Yumi and her so called friend Bang Yedam together made my blood boil for the nth time. It's not like I don't want her to hang out with her friends but I don't like this Yedam guy circling around her like a firefly.

I don't like the idea of these two spending so much time together. The fact that Yedam has feelings for Yumi doesn't sit well with me.

Whenever I see the two of them together, I feel insecure. Call me immature, but that's how it is. Yedam himself challenged me that he would make Yumi his, adding to my insecurities.

Since his open challenge, Yumi and I have been fighting over for this useless guy. Yumi being all smiley and carefree in front of Yedam isn't helping me either. No matter how many times I try to prove what his true intentions are, she doesn't want to listen to me.

I trust her.

I trust Yumi more than anything and I know her heart belongs to me. Yet, this jealousy and insecurity always clouds my judgement ending us up in an endless argument.

Today was no different.

Hurrying my steps towards their seat at the café, I stood there with a glare piercing through Yedam's being.

"Didn't I make myself clear the last time?"

I spoke to Yedam.

"....I guess I told you not to hang out with my girlfriend."

"She's not your property. And I hang out with anyone I want. I don't need permission for that. Plus...she became my best friend way before she became your girlfriend."

Yedam's attitude didn't sit well with me. Through gritted teeth I pulled him up from his collar.

"You!"

"Haruto!"

Yumi stood up from her seat while calling out my name. But my eyes were solely fixed on the man smirking in front of me.

"Haruto, let him go."

She said while trying to get my hands off Yedam's shirt.

"Ruto, he's my best friend and we were just hanging out! What's the big deal?!"

She shouted the final words making me look at her in astonishment.

"What's the big deal?"

Scoffing, I mimicked her words.

Letting out a puff of air through my nostrils I pushed Yedam back onto his seat. Taking a hold of Yumi's wrist I dragged her out of the café straight to my car. Making sure she gets herself settled in the passenger's seat, I then walked over to the driver's side and without any word I drove to our place.

Yumi and I have been dating for two years and since three months ago the two of us moved in together.

"Why do you always have to hangout with that guy?"

"Because he's my best friend and why do you always have to pick a fight with Yedam? It's not like he did anything wrong to you."

Yumi talked back.

"I'm trying to save myself before he does anything."

"What do you mean?"

Looking at her for good two seconds I focused my attention back onto the road.

"I don't know what riddles you are talking but please leave Yedam alone. I hangout with the people I want. Don't try to control me."

"I don't want to control you. You know that. It's just... Yedam isn't the person you believe him to be."

"Oh, so you are saying that you know him better than me. What do you mean then? That all those ten years I have been with him were all fake?"

Lips sealed I gripped onto the steering wheel tightly.

"He's my best friend Haruto. That's as far as our relationship will go. You have to trust me. The fact that I love you... I am your girlfriend shouldn't stop me from hanging out with the people I want, right?"

Yumi stated. Her voice laced with a tone of wariness as if she was done with talking about this topic over and over again.

"I agree but Yedam-"

"Please, let's stop this. Yedam this, Yedam that. I don't wanna hear you talking about him again. Just drive."

Yumi said with her eyes looking outside the window.

The fed up tone her voice held made me frightened. Frightened that we might part ways over some guy. That these constant fights will make us give up on us.

The way her slumped figure looked at the small raindrops sliding down the window made me worry that she already might be thinking of going on her own way.

Just like the drizzle started to turn into a pouring rain, my anxiety started to grow.

"Yumi."

I slowly uttered her name.

"Just drive."

Without daring to look at me, Yumi replied.

I don't wanna fight with her. I don't even like the thought of having to pick a fight with Yumi. But I also cannot seem to keep my mouth shut when I am frustrated.

I wanted to make some small talk with Yumi but she seems to ignore me. I constantly kept on looking back and forth at her and the road, trying to see if she would make a simple glance in my way.

"Haruto."

My mind was filled with many thoughts that I barely heard Yumi calling my name.

"Haruto!"

With her eyes fixed onto the road Yumi shouted making me break free from my train of thoughts.

"Huh?"

"Ruto!!"

She grabbed my attention by looking back and forth at me and the road. Focusing on her line of sight I saw the horror that was about to happen.

A large tipper was driving straight into us. Seeing the headlights glowing closer and closer with each passing second my mind went blank.

The next thing I know was that Yumi grabbing onto the steering wheel, trying to divert the car from the road. But we still collided with the tipper and the car went rolling along the road.

Once it came to a stop I realized that the wheels were up in the air. Beside me was an unconscious Yumi, bleeding profusely from her head. I wanted to reach to her, hold her in my hands but I was stuck in between the seat and the dashboard, making it unable to move. I tried to call her name but failed nonetheless. The piece of glass stuck against my throat made only blood ooze from my mouth.

The last thing my conscious mind grasped onto was the murmurs coming from the passers-by.

TO BE CONTINUED....