All Your Lies | Yoon Jeonghan

CH 32: Grassy Hill

[ Them Then You ]

'No, don't go.'

Her voice could not reach them, she almost immediately realized.

Raki should stop them, she really should, persuade them not to leave, they'll end up dying if they do.

However, when all it could take was for her to cry and beg, plead for her parents to not leave her alone knowing very well that they wouldn't have the chance of coming back, instead, she was standing there, in the middle of somewhere she couldn't recognize anymore, giving her parents her warmest smile, despite the sadness subconsciously weighting on her chest. "Have a safe trip."

She took the time to look at each of her parents, their sweet unsuspecting faces. They don't know. They don't have any idea. "We'll come back very soon, Raki, and sure that Haruki will be with us as soon as we do."

Despite feeling upset towards her older brother because of his persistence, Raki still warmed up to the idea of Haruki coming home after so long. "Alright.", She slowly nodded, still looking forward to the idea of her family coming home, still unaware that they never will. "I'll be waiting here."

Then she never stopped waiting. She never stopped. She could never bring herself to stop.

Raki steadily lifted her head up from when they leaned on her arms, waking up from yet another dream, a memory.

It could never surprise her anymore. Seated on the floor, her back leaning on the side of the bed, her knees bent up with her arms over them, she wandered her gaze around her dim room with the dusky street lights seeping through the gaps of the window curtains.

Her room was too dreary. Too hollow that it was hard for her to tell wether where she was.

Was she in her room? Or was she nineteen again, running in the rain after hearing of her parents deaths?

It was right in front of her, everything beginning to be alright. Her mind would go look straight for Jeonghan, and it was him, someone she could look forward to.

Yet, it doesn't just stop there. There would always be something next; the falling into uncertain heights, the emptiness, everything the people who weren't coming back has left her. .

And then she was twenty again, locked up inside her room, not knowing where her parents were, the wound still raw, not believing everything of it all.

The following day, the only one going right in her life welcomed her first thing after waking up. Raki brought up the phone up to her ear, Jeonghan's name on the screen.

"Hey.", She said, her voice obvious that she had just woken up from a long sleep, yet the long hours of sleep rather made her feel more tired, which didn't surprise her at all. But it doesn't mean she didn't detest it, she really hates waking up tired.

"Hi.", His voice was slightly quiet, quite lacking of tone. Raki couldn't just help but notice. "Did you rest well?"

She leaned in more to her phone, feeling at ease from his voice and the way he talks, which was probably her post-sleep brain deluding. "I did. I actually just woke up."

Yet, the ease left as soon as it came when he became quiet for a moment, long enough for one to notice that he was somehow hesitating. "I'd like to bring you somewhere today."

Why would he hesitate when that was exactly what their agreement is all about? Bringing her somewhere. On days when he feels like it. "With your parents?"