All Your Lies | Yoon Jeonghan

CH 19: Melancholic Night

[ A Guide To Grip The Life Out Of A Person's Hand ]

Raki had dreadfully thought, for over and over again, that checking on him was a terrible idea. It really was.

Her heart was doing something nauseating, as if it was banging back and forth between her back and her chest, and she knew it wasn't good.

She had come to accept that she had fallen for him, she incredulously did, for a certain amount of times, to say the least, yet, not even more, she will.

However, quite obviously, the odds are not on her favor.

Jeonghan came and slid the door open, not hurried, just the ideal matter of time when she could admire the way how he delicately grabbed the handle and pulled it to the side to create a space.

She had no intention of going in the balcony, not when she expected for him to instead go outside and he will have to lead them back outside his room and into the crowd, however, opposing to her assumption, he went back to leaning against the railings, rather expecting her to accompany him in there.

It didn't took her long to catch on, she may had found him predictable in certain situations after the total amount of time they had spent being with each other.

As she welcomed herself in the very balcony of his room and slid the door back close, she spoke as she made her way to the spot where she thought she should be. "Your parents asked of me to go check on you.", As she settled beside him, she tend her eyes to him. ". . if you were still well and alive."

He chuckled to the last sentence, soft and gentle, and Raki couldn't help but get affected and smile at the sight.

She averted her gaze from him, and where it landed was on the faint reflection of them on the glass door. "Though I thought you would be anything but dead."

Her presumption made his smile grew more, amused by how she thinks of him like that. "Why so?"

Raki peered at his face through the glass. "You're mischievous, you know that. I feel like you'd fool death before it could even come to take you."

The reflection showed her how he diverted his attention to her. "I'll take that as a compliment."

Her eyes found its way back to his. "Please do, I meant it as one."

Jeonghan chuckled more sounding, and the cigarette that he may or may had not forgotten, he put out on an ashtray that he grabbed from the corner.

"I haven't seen you smoke in a while until now.", That was an open secret type of statement and he also was aware.

He didn't mind it at all, if anything, he was pleased with the idea that they were comfortable with sharing anything by then. "My body yearned for it today."

By his answer, Raki didn't ask of the matter further more. He was troubled that night, and for some reason, she didn't want to know why. She witnessed how differently he acted when Victoria came.

"Don't you feel a little melancholic today?"

They weren't on each others' gaze when he dropped the question that sounded more like a statement rather than a question as it is.

He asked her at least twice that night if how was she doing for her not to acknowledge the fact that he asked that because he wasn't already aware of how she was feeling.

"Does it bother you that I dropped out of school?", Raki asked, blunt and candid, without giving it much thought.

Some people look at someone differently after finding out that they didn't get to finish school, no matter how much they try to deny it. Not like she wanted him to not be disappointed, she thought he could freely be, but she wished he wouldn't.