𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋 | 𝑨𝑶𝑼𝑨𝑫

23 | I won't leave you

Su-hyeok's POV

"What do we do?" Dae-su asks after Jae-won collapsed and is now on Nam-ra's lap.

"Just throw her out!" Na-yeon squeals pointing to the door.

"I believe you're the one we should throw out," Gyeong-su remarked as he rolled his eyes, his face and tone clearly showing how hurt and mad he still is after what Na-yeon tried to do to him.

Na-yeon glared at him, "We'll all die here––"

"We'll all die because of you," Gyeong-su spat firmly but Ms. Park stood forward and stopped them.

I actually like to see more of the scene between them....how Gyeong-su is mad and decided to speak that way. But this isn't the time, I need to take care of Jae-won.

"Let's just keep her inside the storage room for 5 minutes seeing you're skeptical about her and if nothing happens, she will not leave," Ms. Park said.

Half of me agrees with her idea since this would convince them Jae-won is fine. But half of me doesn't because we couldn't watch over her.

"But isn't that dangerous? There are no windows to see what she's doing inside, what if we open that door and she at––" I decided to cut Ji-min's words off,

I fired back, "She is not a danger."

"Okay, let's do this," Ms. Park breathed out and looked at me, with that cue I approached the sleeping Jae-won which Nam-ra is caressing.

"She's fine. She isn't...." Nam-ra whispered inaudible for the others to hear as my fingers snaked the piece of cloth I tied her wrists and feet.

"I know..." I sighed, "Let's just prove them she isn't."

"Hey, don't remove that from her," Ji-min stopped me in my trance referring to the two ties on Jae-won.

"Wtf? What do you think she is, a dog?" I cursed, it did triggered me, just by getting her inside that room alone as if she was on a quarantine is enough already. But tying her there is just fucked up.

"But what if she turned without us knowing and opened the door?" Ji-min criticized.

"What the hell is wrong with you! You want me to let her tied inside that room alone? What if she wakes up, don't you think she won't get hurt?!" I rose up to my feet facing her my eyes burning holes on her head, the bottled up anger now crawling out of me.

"It's just to be sure!"

"That's so wrong for Jae-won's side. For our side, yeah, it would assure us but for her...." Gyeong-su trailed off, and the other boys' eyes says they didn't want this too but can't do anything.

Ms. Park huffed, "Enough."

I lift her body up in a bridal style. On-jo and Nam-ra tailing behind as I walked towards the door. The two watching me as I placed the sleeping beauty in my arms down the cold floor. I stared at her features for a few seconds, my fingers playing with the ties on her wrists before averting my gaze towards Nam-ra who's next to On-jo staring at Jae-won. I made eye contact with them which they got the signal and nodded back. On-jo won't tell the others.

"I won't leave you.....ever again."

Tears brimming my eyes as my lip quivers while untying her wrists and feet. My thumb made contact with her cheeks gently when I saw a tear roll down from her closed eyes. I can't bear seeing her in this state, and my conscience won't take it more if I let her figure tied up all alone in this small room. That's why I didn't obey what others said and let Jae-won go instead.

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Nam-ra's POV

2 minutes left....

We are now circled around on a chair doing nothing in particular. Some talking to pass time, just like Dae-su, Gyeong-su and Wu-jin, talking about how eager they are to eat Cheong-san's mom's chicken. My attention went to Su-hyeok whose one leg is bouncing up and down, biting his lips while his fingers drumming constantly on the armchair in frustration and obviously getting impatient. I am no different than him. I badly wanna get her out of there  before she even wakes up. I'm unpremeditated on telling her about this.... I don't want her to feel bad more than how she already is.

"Five minutes," mumbled Ms. Park while checking her wristwatch. With those two words, a wave of relief hit me as I sigh before standing up but I was shocked midways when Su-hyeok pushed himself up from sitting that made the chair scrape roughly creating a screeching sound on the floor when he did.

I trust him with her now after he unknowingly proved me he is willing to take care of Jae-won when he didn't left her even she was bitten. That's why I just let him without coming after him. He didn't even knocked to be sure that Jae-won didn't turn, he just allowed himself in not minding if she turned or not. It made me feel somewhat....at ease.

He came out holding an unconscious Jae-won in a bridal style, "Put her down here––," I pat the chair I slid beside me but before I could even finish, he sat back down on his own seat resting his back on it with Jae-won still in his arms. Multiple pairs of eyes watching his every moves but he stayed unbothered as he positioned my cousin carefully on his lap– Jae-won's figure facing sideways, head resting on his chest, caressing her hair while his other hand fixing her skirt to avoid it from exposing her thighs, hugging her figure afterwards.

I glared at him and when his eyes met mine digging onto his. His eyes went wide and threw his hands up in defense as if he got the signal.

Unbelievable.