Bodyguard | Heesun

12

It's finally the day: Sunoo is allowed to go outside and use his social media again. It's been over two weeks since the incident and, although he has been productive and written more songs than he had in the past few months, he still missed going out, missed posting silly little stories on his Instagram...

And he's also been missing Heeseung.

They haven't seen each other ever since that day when Gyubin broke in; they've had no reason to, really, but Sunoo still wanted to contact him.

After what happened, or almost happened, he felt a bit awkward and he just wanted to make sure that Heeseung wasn't feeling guilty or something, but he never got to check in on him.

He's excited to see him again today because he's not going back to the company: he has an event—a public event. He's not sure how it will go, but he got invited to a movie premiere and the company decided it was a good idea to reappear there, since not many people will expect it.

Since he learned how to change the code to his door, he changes it again back to the one it was before so that when his staff members come with the hair and make-up crew, they don't suspect anything.

He'll change it back later.

It's been such a relief to live like that, not worrying about who might or might not walk in unannounced.

Mr. Yeo felt so apologetic about the whole thing that he even sent Sunoo a heartfelt handwritten apology after he learned what happened.

He's getting ready now, wondering when Heeseung is going to come since there are other members of the security team there, but he's nowhere to be found. He knows the rest as well since even if they're not his personal bodyguards, he's also had them around in times when he needed more than just one, like right now.

He wants to ask, but he barely gets the time, being rushed from one place to another inside his apartment: first, clothes fitting, then hair, then make-up, and then getting dressed for real once he's all ready to make sure that the make-up and products don't ruin the clothes.

"Ready to go, Sunoo-ssi?" one of his managers asks from the door, holding it open. Sunoo just nods and imagines that Heeseung must be waiting downstairs in the car to drive them there, but to his surprise, there's someone else driving. Someone he's never seen before.

"Is this the car?" Sunoo asks when they slide the door open for him. "Where's—"

"Mr. Lee won't be joining us today. He's requested the day off, so we brought someone else from the security team to cover for him," he explains and his heart drops.

Did he quit? Is it his fault?

"Do you know why?" Sunoo inquires as he steps into the vehicle. The man shakes his head before he shuts the door, leaving Sunoo with nothing but his thoughts to consume him as the car starts moving toward the premiere.

He decides to bite the bullet and send him a message, hoping that he will get a reply that might ease his sudden anxiety. Maybe he got sick, or maybe he was busy since the decision to go to the premiere was pretty last-minute. He shouldn't jump into conclusions that fast, and yet, he is already free-falling.

to : Lee Heeseung — 7:39 p.m.
Where are you? Are you okay?
Why aren't you here?

It only gets worse when he sees that the texts aren't even getting delivered to Heeseung. Either his phone is off or he blocked Sunoo.

His breathing is starting to speed up and he unconsciously reaches for his pocket to get his vape, but Heeseung's voice echoes in his head, then. And the eyes with which he looked at him as he begged him not to do it.