Broken Memories [I Did it for You - Book 2]

9

The room was eerily quiet as Scarlett sipped on a glass of lemon juice that Jaehee had fetched for her, glad to feel the familiar citric acid sting down her throat. She kept her eyes fixed on the clouded liquid, too afraid to meet the pairs of eyes glaring at her from all angles.

After Emjay and Jaehee had helped the girl return to her bed in the small room, everyone filed in after them. She could feel everyone's gazes burning into her skull. The doctor's out of confusion, Emjay's and Jaehee's out of concern, and Zen's and Yoosung's out of anger and distrust. It suddenly made the room feel very claustrophobic, even though Scarlett always found small rooms comforting.

After what felt like an eternity of deafening silence, the doctor whom Scarlett couldn't remember the name of, or if she even knew his name at all, cleared his throat.

"Well, now that all has calmed down, I think we should all go and let Miss Scarlett have some much-needed re-"

"No" Yoosung replied bluntly, causing everyone to turn to him in shock, especially Emjay, who had always seen Yoosung as someone to look between the lines before making any judgements. Although, she let out a silent sigh, remembering that this was about her. Yoosung was very protective of Emjay, and he'd rather keep up barriers than try to put himself in Scarlett's shoes right now. She remembered how Yoosung treated V when she first joined RFA, of how his suspicions towards Rika's death made Yoosung question and distrust V so aggressively that even Emjay had tried to make the boy calm his anger and stop those theories of his that sounded ridiculous at the time. However, it turned out that Yoosung did have every right to distrust and hate V. He even ended up being right in the end concerning V keeping secrets from everyone in the RFA, and now, Emjay had no doubt that the man probably still concealed secrets involving Rika's suicide. Based on that, Emjay could understand and respect Yoosung's wariness of Scarlett, but she hoped he'd soften soon. 

Although Emjay hardly knew anything about this girl who had attacked her that night, she could tell just by looking at her that she was suffering.

"We all have a right to be in here now. We have no idea what she might try to do next so I think we should start questioning her now!" Yoosung snapped as the word "she" passed through his lips as though he was spitting out venom that made Emjay's blood boil.

"Yoosung!" she raged, suddenly feeling a sting in her chest when the boy didn't even acknowledge her.

"Sorry, Emjay" Zen began, the look of suspicion shadowing his usually sharp, crimson eyes. "But I have to agree with Yoosung. Scarlett is way too dangerous and we need to start thinking of solutions now on what to do with her"

To that, Scarlett finally lifted her gaze from the glass of lemon juice and shot her head up at everyone, her eyes wide with fear. She held the glass in front of her face slightly as though she was trying to hide herself from all the accusatory glares.

"Agreed" Jaehee added curtly. Although she still looked confused and concerned, her eyes were fixed on Scarlett who was beginning to quiver under the bedsheets. 

Seeing how much the girl shook, Emjay gently took the glass from Scarlett's trembling fingers and placed it on the bedside table before she ended up spilling it.

"Yes, and I understand that" Emjay continued once she set the glass down, her gaze flitting across the room at everyone. "But let's not be mean to her and just ask her what she knows" Emjay tried to calm her voice as she spoke to the group, hoping they'd tone down on the anger and suspicion enough to make Scarlett feel less as though she was being interrogated.

"Why are you being so nice to her, Emjay?" Yoosung asked, finally meeting the girl's eyes. "She tried to attack you and only seconds ago I thought she was about to attack you again! She could have seriously hurt you or worse!"