behind closed doors || shen ricky

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲-𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞

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They ran to the bus stop, but there was nothing they could do. Jiah plopped down on the bench, fazed. Ricky looked around him and held his hands against the back of his head in disappointment.

"The next bus will be here at 8am" she mumbled. "They will kill me"

"It's fine. We can just look for a hotel somewhere close by and be here at 8am"

"A hotel? Look at this place!" she got up. "This won't do. Let's walk until we see a car and then ask very nicely if they can take us back to Seoul"

"Jiah.." Ricky looked at the empty pitch black road. "..I don't think anyone here is going to Seoul at 10pm"

"We can always try" she started to walk.

Ricky sighed and followed her. They walked for about 20 minutes until they saw a bed and breakfast sign. Ricky stopped in front of the place while Jiah continued to walk.

"Come on!" she signed him to follow her. "There's probably a car there"

"Let's just sleep here. We're waisting our time" he wined. "Please"

She turned around and glared at him, making goosebumps go down his arm.

"No, we're walking"

"I'm not" he said firm. "It won't make a difference if you get home at 2am or 12am. Your friends are probably sleeping already and you'll just say you went out to get breakfast tomorrow morning"

"Oh you don't know my friends. They are sitting in the living room right now waiting for my text"

He walked to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. "Then don't tell them anything"

"Excuse me?"

"Like we talked about, throwing our phones into the sea. Let's pretend we did that and not worry about anything. We're together anyways. Nothing will happen"

"You don't get it" she sighed. "I need to call them. This isn't exactly the perfect moment to go awol on them"

She took her phone out of her pocket and dialed Yujun's number. She put her phone against her ear and started to pace around.

Jiah? Thank God I was so worried, where are you?

I'm in Namhae

Nam..Namhae? What are you doing there?

It's a long story, but don't worry. I'm not alone

Are you there with Sungjae?

Try again

Ricky? What the hell are you two doing across the country together

I'll explain when I get back, but that won't be tonight. We missed the last bus

Do you have a place to stay?

Yeah we found a B&B. Please tell Yoona not to worry

Just catch the first bus back to the city. We really need to talk about this

Okay. Goodnight

As she hung up the phone, she looked at Ricky who was waiting for her a bit further away. She marched to him and put on a smile.

"At least I can go to sleep now without getting worried about seeing my face on the news in the morning" 

He laughed. "What'd she say?"