Chasm.| Seo Changbin

Twenty-Seven.

Stella groaned as she stirred in her place. Her neck hurt like a bitch and awakened her. With a loud yawn, she pushed her body up while still yawning and rubbing her throbbing neck. She finally opened her eyes and looked around with confusion before realization hit her.

Right, last night she came to Changbin's empty house. Did she fall asleep on the sofa? She slept, yes. For once in many days.

She grabbed her phone to check the time but found it dead. She rolled her eyes and stood up, still groaning from neck pain. She walked to the kitchen to get herself some water and check the time from the small clock hanging over the counter. Stella gasped when she found it was past three in the afternoon. She didn't know she slept that much! She slept for around 10 hours. Stella was about to drink her water when she heard the front door being snatched open. The poor girl jolted and gasped, dropping the open bottle from her hand and spilling all the water on the floor.

Hearing the gasp, the one who walked in ran straight to the kitchen.

Stella stood there, with wide eyes and a startled face, facing a red panting furious Changbin who looked like he was about to punch someone. And since there was no one there except Stella, she guessed she might be punched.

"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Changbin uttered through his gritted teeth.

"I-I will clean the f-floor." She stuttered.

"Fuck the floor!" He yelled and walked closer, letting the kitchen counter be the only barrier between them. "Why the hell did you disappear without telling anyone where the hell you are?" He still yelled.

"I-I went for a drive. I was suffocating and I just found myself here!" She defended.

"Why didn't you tell anyone? You didn't even answer the phone and then it was switched off! You've been missing for more than eleven hours!"

"I wasn't missing! I was here." She yelled back. "And my phone battery died and I just fell asleep after I cal-" She stopped midsentence and her eyes widened. All the regretful events from the night before attacked her brain. She rushed and rounded the counter to face him. "Give me your phone." She demanded, finally remembering what she had done the night before.

"Why?"

"Give me your phone!" She snapped and frantically, pulled at the hoodie he was wearing, searching his pockets.

Changbin grabbed her two hands and clasped them tightly in one of his. Stella squirmed and tried to free herself but to no avail. "Will you just stop?" Changbin huffed. He seemed calmer now that he was assured she was safe and sound. "We'll need to call Felix and tell him where you are cause he was dead worried when he called me nearly at dawn telling me you were missing."

"Huh!" She scoffed bitterly. "So, you reply to Felix's calls and never mine?"

"It was a coincidence." Changbin took one step closer to Stella. "It just happened that he called me as I was turning on the phone."

Stella calmed down a little and pouted. "Just be honest. You weren't going to answer my call if I was the one who called at that moment."

"Honestly," Changbin talked lowly and pulled Stella even closer, still clasping her two hands into his one. "I was never going to answer your calls or see you ever again." He gulped.

Stella had to hold back her tears as she lifted her head to look at him. "Then what happened? Why did you come to look for me?"

"Let me ask you this first." He took one more step till he was almost flush against her. His free hand hovered lightly over her waist. "Were you drunk last night?"