Inner Voice

04 - Friends?

"I will help you Sarang, I'll help you so that you won't ever need to go through all those alone" He stated firmly placing his hands on her shoulders.

She was taken aback when he suddenly said that but actually felt relieved and touched.

She needed someone by her side, someone to assure her, someone she could trust, but her Inner Voice never let her do that.

He suddenly pulled her into a tight hug, Sarang was flabbergasted but soon reciprocated the hug.

Her eyes were already full of tears, she doesn't understand why her life is such a mess, why all these atrocious things happen to her and, whenever she needed someone, why was he there?

Was she grateful?? Yes she was, in fact, she was happy that he was always there when she needed someone but, will he really be there for her all the time and never leave her? The thing that she was scared of the most was people leaving her

"Heesung, I think we should head back, class is about to begin" She said pulling away from the hug.

Heesung just stared at her without saying anything.

As she was about to leave, he quickly grabbed her hand making her face him.

"Let's be friends Lim Sarang"

Sarang let out a chuckle and softened her gaze at him, "I would love to be your friend Heesung" She responded.

Heesung grinned widely, satisfied with her response, he held her hand and led her to their classroom.

"Isn't that the handsome dude?"

"Why is he holding that fake girl's hand?"

"She succeeded in seducing another handsome guy"

She could hear whispers from every where, she hated the attention she was getting, she felt small and so out of place.

"Don't listen to them, let them say what ever they want to" Heesung whispered noticing how tensed she looked as they took their respective seats.

Do you think he really cares for you?

Don't tell me you do...he's doing this out of pity

You always appear to be needy when ever you're with him...

I bet he'll leave after spending some time with you

Sarang grabbed her hair in frustration when her inner voice attacked making Heesung look at her worriedly, "Are you ok?" He asked looking concerned.

Sarang looked up to him, giving him a small smile, "Just a headache, don't worry"

Just when Heesung was about to say something, their teacher walked nto the classroom.

"Today, I'll be giving you a project where you need to work with your deskmate for that project"

"You'll be preparing an essay, you can choose any topic"

"This will play a very significant role in your marks for the mid term exam, so I want you guys to give your best" She continued her statement as the students just minded their own business and paid no attention.

The only students who listened were probably only Heesung, Sarang and few of the students.

"I hope you take this project seriously and use this as an opportunity to get to know your seatmate better, that's it for today's class" The teacher said and made her way out of the classroom

"What do you want to do??" Heesung asked looking at Sarang who looked like she was about to fall asleep anytime.

"I don't know, I'm fine with whatever you want" She responded barely keeping her eyes open.