Chasm.| Seo Changbin

Fourteen.

"...3469." Stella uttered with an eye roll. "Do you really need to keep that babying attitude?"

"For your safety, yes." Changbin uttered as he double-checked his shoelace before he turned to check Stella's while crouching down.

The girl flinched when she saw him kneeling by her feet but composed herself quickly. "You activated the tracker on my phone. Why do you need me to memorize your phone number and Hajoon's?"

Changbin straightened up and looked at her, resting his hands on his hips. "What if you lost your way?"

"You will find me!" She huffed.

"What if you lost me?" He tilted his head.

"You will find me!" She repeated.

"What if you lost your phone and I couldn't find your location through the tracker?"

"You will find me!" She smiled.

Changbin huffed. "What if I'm not there? What If I'm nowhere near you? What if I'm injured or even dead?"

Stella flinched and her face paled. "S-Stop the nonsense!" She shouted and started to walk away towards the hill she was about to hike up.

Changbin grabbed her arm, twirled her around, and pulled her back, crashing her body against his, and making the girl gasp. He looked at her with all seriousness on his face. "I'm not joking here, Stella. And it's not only for hiking up. You need to memorize the contact info of people who might help you when you are in trouble. If I'm not there, then you have to think of who to contact other than me. It would better be Felix but for now, Hajoon is the closest to our location."

"You won't lose me in the mountains, Changbin." Stella looked at him and she could see the true concern in his eyes that she wanted to provoke. "However," She smirked. "You will come to rescue me if I need help? Even If I'm not your client anymore?"

"Always." He uttered and Stella's body shook.

She shuddered at the realization that was hitting her. She could understand what Hajoon was implying earlier. A simple single word from Changbin and she was affected. Her heart was beating faster and her mind was blurry. He had an effect on her!

She stood back and cleared her throat. "Do you always run to your previous clients?" She questioned while looking anywhere but his face.

"I run to whoever needs my help, Stella. Before being a professional guard, before taking this as a profession, I learned to be of help when needed, whoever the person is. Client or not, I will be there. Always." He talked seriously and Stella wanted nothing but to punch his face.

She liked his professionalism and his good manners which reflected how his parents raised him up, but right now, she hated them all!

He should've shut the hell up after the first 'Always'. She shouldn't have asked him anything more.

For a fraction of a second, she thought she was special or something. But now it turned out that it was just out of his kindness he would go to her or whoever needed help.

Pouting sulkily, she turned around and started walking up the semi-paved route between the tall tangled trees. As clueless as he shouldn't be, Changbin shrugged and started following Stella.

Stella had always been athletic and had good stamina because of her line of work, but she couldn't keep up with Changbin's speed in hiking. How could he be that fast when he was going up a freaking hill? He wasn't even sweating and he had the audacity to laugh at her face while telling her it was the easiest route up and he chose that route cause she's a beginner. He also nagged her for being slow and that they wouldn't make it to the summit by the sunset that she badly wanted to witness.