Even if it wasn't meant to last a lifetime doesn't mean it wasn't meant to be

Chapter 2

It was late afternoon and the sun was slowly setting. Many had begun leaving the company in large groups, finally heading home.

Kim Rok Soo sluggishly walked into the break room, preparing to grab his things and Suhye to start driving home.

The break room, as late as it was, was filled with people. Mostly from teams who just got back from a long mission, resting up and eating before heading home.

He couldn't help but automatically hone in on two specific voices in the room. Sitting next to each other on the couch, they were talking with two other coworkers who he thinks were from team three.

He shut the door behind him with a squeak, the old door had gotten rusty with time and use, but it didn't help with Kim Rok Soo's wish to come and go quietly. A few people paused to turn in his direction, before turning away and continuing with what they were doing.

But two people didn't.

They continued to watch him as he moved across the room, their stares baring into his back.

Why were they staring at him? Why them of all people? Why were Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo watching his every move?

It's not that them watching him was out of the ordinary.

Before, they would watch him as he walked by each other sometimes. But they usually went everywhere together, so it was rare that he would enter rooms without them.

But that didn't change the fact that the two were watching him. It was sort of creepy he thought, a part of him wanted to turn around and ask them directly what the hell they thought they were doing.

But he didn't.

Instead he just walked to the small table where Jang Suhye sat and opened his mouth to speak.

"Suhye-ssi, I'm going to head back now, do you need a ride again?"

It wasn't something he would do before, offering rides to coworkers he means, but now... he guessed he had changed. But change wasn't completely a bad thing was it?

"Huh? Oh yeah I just need a bit, I'm soooo tired..."

Jang Suhye had just gotten back from a mission with team 2, where they ended up fighting a monster who had a sort of paralysing poison gas, in the end she basically carried them all on her back throughout the battle.

She was slumped down on the table, burying her head in her arms as she groaned tiredly.

Kim Rok Soo only sighed as he sat down across from her and grabbed his bag, pulling out his keys in preparation as he waited patiently.

He thinks that they have stopped staring at him now, that's good.

He can hear their voices talking again, albeit quietly. But at least they stopped staring at him.

(Why did they stop?)

He turned around for a moment, just one, to look at them. A quick look over his shoulder, one that wouldn't even be noticed.

And he couldn't help but break, just once, in the slightest flinch. They were smiling so brightly. They were laughing cheerfully. They were happy , without him .

He turned away, as quickly as he had come.

He didn't want to think about how he looked right then. He didn't want to see anything at all.

His nails dug deeply into his palms, hurting him, but it was the only thing keeping him aware.

It hurt.