Chapter 17: Relieved

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The guard holding Casey laughs and squeezes her arm tighter causing her to cry out. That action causes Zico to react. He steps forward and punches the unsuspecting guard in the face. He immediately let's Casey go and goes after Zico.

As they fight Casey tries to get to the car with Kari, but Kari's father grabs hold of her. He yanks her towards him, her back to his chest. He reaches around and places his hand around her neck firmly.

Zico finishes off the guard and looks for Casey.

"Bring Kari out here now," Mr. Parker demands.

"Honey, this is getting out of hand!" Mrs. Parker exclaims. "Let that girl go." She commands.

"Not until Kari leaves with us," He replies angrily.

"She won't come and her friends will continue to protect her and keep us from her."

"You're giving up? On our daughter coming home?" He asks, surprised.

"Yes, she obviously doesn't want to come and if we continue on like this she will only hate us more. Let her go and let's just go home. We can try to contact Kari and settle this from there."

Kari's father lets Casey go and she runs directly into Zico embrace and hugs him tightly. leave quietly.

As soon as they're gone Kari's out of the car and joining the others. Casey partially lets go of Zico to hug Kari, then she's back to hugging Zico. Kari and Jooyoung hugs as well.

"Let's go home now," Zico suggests.

Casey just nods her head, as do Jooyoung and Kari. They quickly return home where Zico sends Jooyoung and Kari inside first. He takes Casey to a pharmacy a few blocks away to buy some medical supplies for her wounds.

When they get back he slowly leads Casey up to the apartment. When they enter they see Kari and Jooyoung placing an order for food and openly holding hands. Without the energy to tease them Casey gives Kari okay gesture before she tries to let go of Jooyoung's hand.

Zico ushers Casey to his room and makes her sit down on his bed. She sits holding her hands in her lap, unsure of what to do.

"Why'd we come in here instead of just going to my room?" She asks.

"I don't know. Just because, I guess," He replies.

She just nods her head. Zico sits next to her and takes her hands. She pulls her hands away from the sudden contact.

"I need to hold your hand so I can clean up your wrist, okay?" He tells her.

The look of fright slowly disappears as she gives him her hand back.

He looks at her black and blue wrist, gently putting ointment on it and carefully wrapping it in gauze to protect it. When he finishes he places a light kiss on the back of her hand and holds it for a while. He lets go of her hand and starts cleaning the blood from her split lip off her face. A band aide on her lip and some pain relieving ointment on her bruised cheek cause Casey to winced at his touch but she doesn't pull away from him.

Once Zico finishes Casey leans her head on his shoulder and lets out a sigh. They sit like that for a few minutes.

"You should go change." Zico tells Casey, getting her to stand up.

He walks her to her room and leaves her to change and does the same in his room. He's in the bathroom washing his face when Casey comes back in with Pizza and water.

"I don't really feel like eating in the kitchen." She explains quietly.

He nods in understanding as they sit on the floor to eat. As they eat in silence Casey can't help but look at Zico and smile softly at him. She was happy that she had someone to protect her when she was in danger.

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