Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Forty-eight

Sana

"Miss Minatozaki, you look really pretty." The head stylist said to me when I came out of the changing room in my wedding dress, I don't know how they can even get the dress made in such a short time.

Normally, wedding dresses that are customized takes nearly half a year for those dresses that really cost a lot and this dress costs like a million dollars or something, they wouldn't just make a cheap dress for the crown princess of the Japanese empire and I have no idea how they can make such an expensive dress in less than 2 weeks and it looked so beautiful and it fits me so perfectly.

"Is it made by a robot?" I asked the stylist and she nodded her head. "No wonder it can be done in such a short time, I thought that I would have to wait for half a year to get the dress and be held captive for half a year."

"Held captive?" She asked me, looking very confused and I realized that I have said something wrong again. "I am just joking, don't take it too much to heart. Of course, I am happy to get married and I am going to be married to the crown prince and I will be the crown princess and in the future, I will be the queen."

"Right." She nodded her head again, I don't know if they will somehow find out that I am being kidnapped by my father and that I am forced to get married because I have to or the people around me will not be safe and I have decided to go along because I don't want him to kill my friends that I have gotten close for the past 6 months.

"I am really happy," I told her. 

"I know the truth, you are being kidnapped by your father and you are forced to get married to the crown prince or you will be dead." I looked at her, wondering how she would even know about this when she is being hired by my father to make sure that I don't get to run away from my wedding that I didn't sign up for. 

"How did you even know about that?"  I asked her and I looked around us, she has ordered everyone from her team to get away from the room without me realizing and there are only the two of us here and I am starting to get terrified. Is she going to kill me or something?

"I am not going to kill you, I promise." She said to me, almost whispering and I could barely even hear her.

"That is what they say in the movies and they get killed off right after that, you are going to do just the same and I will be dead and I don't want to die today." I feel so threatened and I looked around for any openings and there isn't any opening at all, we are in an enclosed space and there is nowhere to get out other than the front door and she is not going to let me out of the door that easily.

"I am not going to harm you, Prince Haruto was the one who hired me, not your father and I am not going to kill you." She says. "Prince Haruto has the plan to get you out of here and we would have to wait till the coast is clear and we will then proceed with the next step."

Prince Haruto is a true friend to me, to think that we have only met once and he has already made up with a plan for me to get me out of the wedding and for me to return to where I should belong, to Chae Hyungwon and my new life as Woo Yiwon. Maybe I would get to keep my name as Mintozaki Sana but I would like to be known as not Minatozaki Sana because her life is miserable and I don't want to live like that for the rest of my life.

"Do you know if there are 2 guys around here? They are from Gwangju and I have been staying with them for a while, they were there when I got kidnapped and I know that they are trying their hardest to get me." I asked her, maybe she knows about Hyungwon and Kihyun.

She shook her head. "I am so sorry, I don't know them." She apologized to me again and I told her not to. "They are your best friends and you have been living with them for a while, if they treat you like their friend and love you for who you are, I am sure that they will be here to get you no matter how hard it is and they wouldn't stop until they completed their mission."

I hope so too... "Drink some water first, you looked nervous and you wouldn't want to face your father in your worst state." She passed me a bottle of water and I drank a few sips of it, feeling the water do down my throat and I feel less nervous.

I looked at the timing and there is still time until they will call us out to enter the ceremonial hall, I also used the time to get to know the head stylist. She is such a cool person and I admired her so much for being the spy and how she is not afraid of getting caught by my father, she said that it is all worth it.

But it is taking a little too long and I asked the head stylist who is currently using her phone and constantly texting someone. "Is the coast cleared already?"

"Coast? What coast? I don't quite understand." She tilted her head in confusion.

"The plan? We are supposed to be getting out in less than a minute or so." I reminded her.

"Plan? You are not getting out of here, Miss Sana." Her facial expression suddenly changed and I don't like it, it is as if her facial expression got ironed flat and she is looking at me like a robot without any emotions on her face. "The plan to get you out of here doesn't exist at all, I made it all up. There is no way that I will let you out of here because I am not working for Prince Haruto, your father is my boss and I will respect him and worship them until the day that I die."

"What are you even talking about?" My vision suddenly got blurry and I just fell so asleep, I know that I am tired but to the point that I would just doze off without trying anything. I looked at the water and I drank half of it, that bottle of water is almost empty and I drank that for nearly an hour and most of the effects will only happen after some time. "You bitch, I hope that you rot in hell..."