Webbed Up Hearts // WooSan

X - I Found You At Last!

June 21
Jung Family Home - 00:00

So far beyond boredom, I felt like I was in a whole 'nother dimension.

I have no idea how sick I am, and I don't really care.

What day is it even? I don't know.

'When will mom go to bed?'

"Ugh..."

From my position on the living room couch, I could still see the light inside my mom's room from under the door. I groaned again, waiting.

And waiting.

And waiting...

Until I finally saw the light turn off. Without wasting a single second, I stood up and crept over to the stairs, making my way up to my room. I threw on black sweatpants and a dark gray hoodie, not forgetting to grab a mask and a pair of sunglasses - just in case.

When I arrived back downstairs, I almost missed how my mother's boyfriend's car was backing out of the driveway quickly.

'Mf, that's the fifth time I've seen him do this... Tf is he doing?'

I watched from the window and waited until his car was completely out of sight. Then, I snuck out of the house and began wandering the streets with no clear destination.

I just wanted out.

Without even realizing it, my feet dragged me over to one of my favorite spots in Seoul.

Han River - 01:58

I adjusted my mask, as it was slipping down my nose. There wasn't anyone else on the bridge, just me. It felt nice to be alone.

I kept walking forward, my thoughts wandering off to a certain someone all on their own. Mindlessly, I wandered around the bridge, watching the water without actually processing what I was seeing.

Eventually, I stopped walking. I felt my lungs clear up a bit and looked around hopefully.

Then I spotted someone.

'I know that brown hair with a white streak... It's been engraved in my mind ever since that day.'

Taking this as the perfect chance, I fixed my mask once again and slowly approached the boy, putting my hood up as well to hide my hair and a bit of my eyes.

As I grew near him, I saw the blood red, irritated spider on the back of his neck, small little angry red blisters over top of it.

'His poor soulmark... It's all my fault...'

I stopped about a foot behind him and sighed quietly. Before I could say anything, though, it felt like a knife sliced through my neck and my hand landed on his shoulder in a way to stabilize myself.

The boy's hair bounced as he turned around to face me, clearly shocked. He struggled to let out a gasp as the burning, neck splitting apart feeling returned to both of us, more violently now, causing him to stumble forward and crash into my chest. He cried out as I carefully held him and gently placed my hand on his soulmark.

"Relax..." I whispered, feeling the sensation slowly die away and trying not to cry myself.

I was holding him in a way that he couldn't see my face unless he strained his neck, so I decided to do something very risky. I removed my mask and left a gentle kiss on the black spider that lay peacefully on the boy's skin.

He gasped quietly and hung his head low, squeezing his eyes shut.

'He doesn't even want to see me. I like him even more now.'