"You know, we aren't that different from each other," she teased, a smirking playing on her plump lips. His dark eyes glared into hers.
"We are nothing alike."
started: may 24, 2022
completed: july 15, 2022
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HER SILENCE WAS EATING DONGHYUCK ALIVE.
She was ignoring him to say the least. Sage had came back out of her room in the morning, her hair damp from washing it. The woman had made small talk with Renjun and Chenle in Mandarin while she sat on the couch, her voice soft and barely above a whisper. As the day went on, she had began to talk with everyone but Donghyuck. He couldn't blame her but it hurt like hell. She would pass by the tanned man like he was a ghost.
His heart seemed to break more when she walked into the kitchen and noticed him, her body disappearing out of the area before he could open his mouth.
Donghyuck laid on his bed, his eyes on the side of the bed that she always laid on. The side that would always be abandoned because she would end up cuddling against him in her sleep. The side that her curly hair would be sprawled on. Why did he feel so hurt if they weren't even together? He wished that he had never pulled that trigger. He wished that the look she gave him that night didn't replay in his head constantly.
Although the situation wasn't his fault, it felt like it. She was hurting because of his actions and he couldn't comfort her about it. Donghyuck tried to tell himself that anyone would do what he did but, it didn't ease his feelings at all.
Donghyuck's eyes went towards his room door as he heard four knocks— the three, patterned knocks that Sage always did out of habit. 1 2 1.
He stood up almost immediately, swinging the door open with quickness. She stood in front of his doorframe, his eyes on the familiar sweatshirt that she was wearing. It was his. He looked up at her eyes, an unreadable expression in them.
"Sage," he breathed out, that soft voice that she loved flowing through her ears.
"Can we talk?" she asked, the woman fidgeting with her fingers as the question ran through his head.
"Of course, come in."
She walked in slowly, sitting down in a chair beside his desk. Donghyuck sat down on his bed— the room filling with silence between the two. Donghyuck kept his eyes away from her, the tension growing as she tried to form words to speak.
"I'm not mad at you," she let out, bringing her arms across her body in comfort. His brown eyes immediately went towards her face. "I can't be. If I look at it realistically, none of you had no idea that it was Kai. Whoever had harmed me was the one that called you all so there was no way you would've known that Kai was involved."
Donghyuck slowly nodded. "I still should've held my shot."
"Kai was unstable."
Donghyuck furrowed his eyebrows. "What?"
"He was barely sane around me. We have no idea if the effects of the injection could come back and turn him into Jongin again. If he was alive... he would be a ticking time bomb. It would only be a matter of time until he tried to kill someone again. After watching videos of my mother's experiment last night, I realized that. There would be times where her true self would show but things would trigger her back into that state. I fear it would've been the same for Kai."
"So you are saying that me shooting him was a good thing."
She shook her head. "Not a good thing but, it was logical. Without a cure that we don't have, he would've suffered until his end."
Donghyuck sighed, his eyes softening at her words. Why wasn't she taking her feelings into account ?"Sage, you're allowed to grieve. To be mad at me."
"I've done enough grieving haven't I? I don't want to feel like this anymore, I just want it to be over and I can't do that if i'm holding onto grudges for something none of us had control over," she stated. "Plus, I miss you. I can't feel better if i'm ignoring the one person who makes me feel grounded."
Donghyuck's lips twitched— her words making his cheeks burn. She stood up from the chair, opening her arms to hug him like she always did. "I'm sorry," she said as she wrapped her arms around the man. Her legs found themselves wrapped around his since he was sitting down still. She placed her head in the crook of his neck— Donghyuck wrapping his arms around her as she did so.
"Don't apologize Sage," he said softly. He placed a small kiss on her neck, the honey skinned boy smiling once he felt her lips form a smile on his neck.
She lifted her head, a smile pressed against her lips. Donghyuck let his hands fall to her waist as he placed a kiss against her cheek where the scar was left. "As soon as we are out of here, I'm making you mine Sage."
Sage wrapped her arms around his neck— her fingers playing with his hair out of habit. "Take me on a date first Haechan."
He tilted his head. "You don't think I already have one planned out?"
She laughed softly before scrunching her nose. "What is it?"
"That's a secret baby."
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Sage laid down in Donghyuck's bed, holding the sleeping man whose head laid on her chest. She looked at him— a small smile growing on her face. His mouth was slightly open, Sage being able to hear his soft breaths. His brown hair was messy and covering part of his closed eyelids. Sage could still see his long, dark eyelashes though. His cheeks were a bit red, which she found cute.
Her hand ran through his soft, silky hair. She couldn't fall asleep due to the constant thoughts that ran through her head. She was stuck in a predicament and she didn't know what to do. She couldn't tell anyone. Sage sighed before placing a kiss onto Donghyuck's forehead.
"I'm sorry," she whispered softly— slowly moving away from his body. She got up and walked out of the room— venturing off to Taeyong's office. She knew was still up, he always was. She knocked on his door and let out a breath.
"Come in," he said through the door, Sage doing as he said. He gave her a soft smile, Sage close the door behind her.
