STOLEN

eighteen

mark ruffled my hair while i'm in despair in his arms. ❝what's wrong, hmm?❞

❝i-i.. feel so bad.❞

❝about me?❞

i nodded. ❝you gave your bulletproof vest to me and now you got hit. i feel so sorry.❞

❝aw, haechanah, i gave it to you willingly. don't feel sorry about it.❞

❝h-how can i when my heart is breaking?❞ soft snobs breaks out from my lips. i can't help but cry again and again. ❝i'm so sorry. you got hurt because of me.❞

he squeezed my hand and made me look up to him. his pale lips smiled at me. he doesn't even look so healthy right now, how can i not feel bad?

❝i'm good now, haechanah. you don't need to feel bad nor sorry. your safety is my outmost priority.❞

❝you jumped out there to save me!❞ i groaned, standing up in anger.

he had the audacity to smirk amidst this. ❝i want to. i can't bear to see you hurt. i'd take all bullets thrown at you so you don't get a single scar, haechanah.❞

it made me sob even more. why is he like this? making me cry by keeping me safe. by risking his life for my own sake.

❝come here.❞ he patted the unharmed arm. i put my head there and buried myself in his warmth.

❝i love you, mark. i-i love you and thank you.❞

❝shoot.❞ i feel his arms tensed. ❝you shocked me there.❞

❝i mean i love all my friends, but you're the only who did something this worse for me.❞ i speak out. ❝i feel so grateful and it made me think of how much of a precious friend you are to me.❞

❝you love me?❞ he brushed out the bangs away from my forehead and smiled. ❝that exact love is what made jump out there to save you.❞

❝thank you.❞

i feel his one arm behind me, grabbing my waist and pulling me closer. he kissed my hair too.

we were bothered by a knock.

❝giselle?❞

mark let go of me when all of a sudden giselle kisses him infront of me. suddenly, i couldn't breathe right. my chest thickens and i didn't want to watch them.

❝lee haechan.❞ i hear jaemin. he picked me out of mark's bed and hugged me so tight.

❝the fuck, the boys pranked me... i thought you got hurt.❞

❝i didn't. what made them tell you that?❞ i hug him back as i answer.

i don't know why i feel this way but i really don't want to see giselle and mark right now, so i'm happy jaemin got me here.

❝thank you for coming here.❞ i whisper to jaemin. he smiled in return and cupped my cheeks.

❝wanna go out? i might have something to tell you—❞

❝where are you going to bring him?❞ i hear mark chime in.

jaemin replied, ❝just right there. i figured out you two might need some privacy too.❞

❝oh. right.❞ i speak out after realizing that. ❝yeah. we should leave now.❞

before someone could reply to that thing i said, i already pulled jaemin out of the room. only then i felt relieved.