Complexity

Night Search

Xinyu POV

"SOHYUN!!" I was sure I had run around this street and I still hadn't found the quiet one.

"Where is she?" I said as I ran again to look for her. I called her several times, but there was no response from her.

"Where are you?" I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket and hoped it was Sohyun but nothing. It turned out to be Ning-Ning.

"Her house is also empty"

"WHERE IS SHE?!"

"Don't scream, please. You better go back now" I nodded even though I knew she wouldn't see me.

All of this happened after Sohyun ran out of the house. Without sandals or shoes. With my shorts and on a cold night. I don't know what she talked about with Handong, but I think I can guess it.

"You brought up her past"

"She needs to know" I guessed it.

"Sohyun just recovered from her fever, from the place she called home which was hell. And you told her about her past?" Ning-Ning who had just arrived home could only stay silent and listen.

"She should know that her father is a subordinate of your parents who disappeared 11 years ago"

"But she HAS NO RIGHT to know now!" I unconsciously snapped at Handong. The person who raised me since I got out of child rehab just because of 1 person I love. I clenched my fists so I could stay calm and not yell at her anymore.

"I feel what Sohyun feels. Getting an unfortunate family, a drug dealer family, a disharmonious family. But she is much stronger than me. She forgave her parents even though they hurt her. Me? I killed my parents just because I didn't like them. And you know how much she loves her father. She won't trust anyone anymore after knowing that her father is also a criminal. In her eyes, her father is an angel for her. Always there for her and giving her gifts even though they are not expensive. But now you are giving this dirty fact?" I said while trying to call Sohyun again. My words just now managed to make Handong silent. Am I being too much?

Again, my call was not answered by Sohyun which made me worried. Where is she really? Do I need to call another friend? But they will be suspicious why I'm looking for Sohyun at night. I'm really upset with what Handong said.

"Do you think she still has memories with her father? Nothing. Everything is destroyed. And thanks to you, her trust for me seems to have collapsed. Just because you called her fear" I said while leaving on my motorbike.

I was very worried about Sohyun. As if I would go crazy if you didn't find her.

"Park Sohyun Where are you?" Is it possible that she is in the library? Maybe?

I drove my motorbike towards the library that she could visit. I searched carefully, asked the librarian, and she was not found. She wasn't there either at her workplace. She wasn't in the school garden, I had to climb the fence secretly just to find her.

Maybe it's been 2 hours since I looked for her but she still wasn't found. I chose to stop by Nien's house for a while and it turned out she wasn't alone. There were Mayu, Lynn, Joobin, Hayeon, and Shion. Because it was too crowded inside, so you chose to sit on the terrace.

"why are you here?"

"asking for some drink"

"oh you just come here just ask for drink" grumbling she went into the house and came back with a glass of ice water in her hand.

"I'm looking for Sohyun"

"What's wrong with Sohyun?"

"It's okay. It's just that she didn't pick up her phone. It's hard for me to do an assignment together"

"Oh, the assignment"

There's no way I can tell her that Sohyun ran away from my house.

"In the library?"

"nope"

"In the store?"

"nope"

"At school?"

"I climbed up, but she wasn't there either"

"In the park?"

"No? wait? Park?" Park? Maybe?

"The park is near her house. Did she ever tell you?"

"she did... but I don't know. I don't even know where her house is"

"Makes sense" I lay down on Nien's porch, followed by her.

"Do you think she's there?"

"Maybe" I immediately got up and left, which was clearly shouted at by Nien because she knew that I didn't know her address, even though I did.

In the middle of the journey, I felt my phone vibrate. I can guarantee that it was from Ning – Ning or Handong, or maybe Nien. Even so, I still checked it. And it turned out to be from Sohyun.

"Xinyu"

"Sohyun? Why? Where are you? Let me go to you" I could hear her sobs that managed to make my left hand grip the steering wheel of my motorbike tightly. But besides her sobs, I also heard the sound of wave as if she was on the edge of the beach.

"Are you at the beach?"

"I'm scared"

"YOU STAY THERE! I'LL COME TO YOU NOW, OK?!" I quickly drove my motorbike without ending my call with Sohyun to explain to her that she was not alone. The time from where I stopped to the beach was 30 minutes.

"I'll make it 5 minutes"

On a quiet night, there weren't many vehicles, it was advantageous for me to speed up my pace to be able to meet the person I loved. When I arrived at the beach, I expected that the beach would be very dark because I had never been here at night. It turned out to be very bright with many lights on the edge of the beach, and also the surrounding merchants. I walked around the beach to look for the figure of the 18-year-old girl who went out of the house barefoot. Until finally I met a girl who was sitting with her knees bent. I sat next to her while giving her my jacket. Of course she was surprised because suddenly someone gave her a jacket, but the surprise turned back into tears while hugging me tightly.

"I really came in 5 minutes, right?" she didn't answer and just cried.

I could feel her pain. We both have a similar past, as if we were destined to be together. Her cries sounded very sad, I can't explain it in words. But I could feel the pain she had felt for years that she finally let out to the person she trusted. For years she didn't trust other people, now she is trying to open up and finally wants to trust me.

"Listen. You can trust me, you can trust Ning-ning, you can trust Handong, you can trust your classmates. We will never lie to you or anything. You have me with you, okay?" I could feel her little nod without letting go of her hug. She was cute, and I agreed.