Echoes Of Unspoken Connections

20. Apology

Byeol was riding her bike to go to her home without noticing that there was another bike following her.

Few minutes passed by and that's when she noticed that a bike was behind her but a little far. She then realised that the bike was behind her since few minutes.

"Is it following me?" She thought to herself. She got an idea and took a right turn, the bike was still behind her. Another right turn, another and one more. Still, the bike is behind her.

Byeol went in a circle and they reached the same place again and the bike is still behind her, that means the bike is following her.

"Gotcha! Following me, I see. I know how to deal with you" she thought and drove towards her home. She parked the bike inside gate of the house and noticed that bike drove past her house.

Byeol went inside the house and immediately connected the CCTV that was present outside the home to her phone. She started to observe the video to find someone but no one was there.

Two minutes later, the same bike that followed her parked his bike in front of her house. She waited for few minutes for the person on the bike to do something but the person just sat on it without doing anything.

Just as Byeol decided to go outside to confront him, the person rode away on the bike. She ran outside to catch him but drove away. "You fucker, just come back. I will teach you a lesson for following me" she yelled at the person from the main door of her house. "Stupid, how dare you mess with Byeol" she mumbled angrily and went inside her home.

Byeol went to her room and it was so dusty as no one touched the house since more than two months. "Ahh, what the hell am I gonna do now?" She groaned and went to the living room. Thankfully, the couch was covered with plastic so the couch didn't have any dust on it.

Byeol removed the plastic and threw it aside. She coughed as the dust went into her nose and tried to move the dust by waving her hands. After she was satisfied that it was clean enough, she laid down on the couch and dozed off as it was already late at night and she had university to attend the next day.

***

Jungkook came running downstairs and yelled "Byeol isn't in her room" Namjoon looked at him, "She might be in washroom" he replied. "No, she is not there. I checked the whole room. Even her bike keys are there in the usual place" Jungkook stated.

Namjoon furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "Where would she be this early in the morning?" he questioned to no one in particular. "I don't know hyung" Jungkook mumbled. "Is her bike outside?" Namjoon questioned him. "I will see" the younger replied and ran outside the house.

Meanwhile Namjoon took out his phone and tried to contact Byeol but the call didn't go through.

Just in that moment, Taehyung came downstairs with his bag followed by Jimin. He noticed the distressed face of his hyung, "What happened hyung? You look tensed" he asked. "Byeol isn't in her room" Namjoon replied and tried to contact her again.

"What!? Again? Why does this girl always do this?" Taehyung mumbled to himself. Jungkook came running inside, "Hyung, the bike isn't outside" he said and took a few breaths. "Ahh, she might have gone somewhere without telling anyone. Don't worry too much" Taehyung said and sat to eat his breakfast.

"I don't think that's the case" Jimin piped up and everyone looked at him. "What do you mean?" Namjoon asked him. "Something happened yesterday and Byeol got so hurt. So I think that she left the house or something. I don't know" Jimin told them.

"What happened hyung?" Jungkook asked and came towards Jimin. "Yoongi hyung scolded her and said a lot of hurtful words to her" Jimin said and bit his lips.