I Lava You

CHAPTER 02 : SUFFERINGS

WARNING
Mentions of suicide

CHAPTER 02 : SUFFERINGS

Holding the thin boy in his arms, Yoo Jonghyuk looked down to scrutinize him. When he first saw him, he was baffled as to why a scrawny boy entered his territory and how did he even survive after entering it. That's why he watched him on the sidelines.

He was even surprised when the boy looked in his direction. ‘...He can see me?’

Yoo Jonghyuk was confused. How in the world can a mortal see him when Yoo Jonghyuk himself does not allow anyone– excluding the entity like him– to see him? And the thing that shocked him also was the aura he felt from that thin boy. ‘I'm certain, it was that pleasing aura.’

However, when the mortal shouted and jumped at the crater, Yoo Jonghyuk felt his heart skip a beat. ‘Committing suicide in my place?!’ 

“...let go... I SAID LET ME GO!” Brought to reality by his yell, Yoo Jonghyuk loosened his hold on the thin boy's waist. Dokja massaged his numb waist and confronted the stranger who was covered by stinky black liquid.

“You–!” Dokja didn't even start yet and was cut off immediately.

“You can see me?” 

Dokja's face looked really irritated since the stranger was asking the obvious. “Fuck this volcano!” He cussed and pointed to himself. “I may be sick but I'm not blind. I can see you vividly and clearly which is annoying! If you don't want me to see you, then it's better for you to leave me alone.”

He walked around the stranger to get ready to jump into the crater again. This time, he widened the distance between them. “Don't stop me.” Dokja warned and lifted his foot. Yet, for the third time, Yoo Jonghyuk intervened again. Dokja didn't even notice Yoo Jonghyuk's speed because of his raging emotions.

Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! 

“Shit! Shit! Shit!” Dokja exploded in anger. “I finally had a chance to end this pathetic life, but you!” He glared at Yoo Jonghyuk, currently holding his arm. “Why did you even mess up my plan?!”

He used his full strength to resist Yoo Jonghyuk's gripped. Dokja pulled and pushed his arm to break free from Yoo Jonghyuk, who didn't add strength to avoid hurting the thin boy, which was why they became chaotic.

“All I wanted to do is to die! Don't you understand that?! I want to DIE!” Dokja was going berserk since he was currently emotionally unstable. All the things that have been buried submerged in one go. He really reached his limit on keeping it. 

Dokja was an orphan, his father didn't want him while his mother died giving birth to him. Then a kind sister took pity on him, however, the orphanage that took him in was burned to ashes. The sisters who he considered as his mother, the children just like him he could call as his siblings, and the short but happy memories they created together vanish in an instant.

The only one who survived was him. 

He didn't have a place to call home anymore, or a person who would say ‘Welcome home.’ and ‘How's your day?’ to him. Dokja became an orphan for the second time. 

He lived in the streets, stole a piece of bread and got beaten up eventually, being chased out, being looked at with disgust was his life. Even so, what's more agonizing was finding that he was sick. 

Dokja has a cancer that couldn't be cured in his era. He was beyond saving knowing that he doesn't even have a single penny for his medicine. Since it was not only his sickness he needed to cure, also the emptiness of his stomach which you call hunger.