Love & Error | leo [completed]

20. Reality

I decided to spend the night in my own room for once, while I gave myself some time to calm down after a heated conversation. As I dragged my tired feet down the hall to the dorms I heard someone clear their throat behind me.
I turned around slowly, to see my boss, Ms Park Yoon glaring up and down at me suspiciously.

"Where were you?" She spoke, frowning deeply at me.

"I was at the lab, um im going to my room now sunbaenim" I bowed nervously, as I tried to avoid eye contact with her.

"I was in the labs a while ago, and I didn't see you there" she walked slowly around me, analyzing my every movement. "Actually, I haven't seen you around these halls for the past few weeks".

"Well I'm not a person who stands out" I chuckled nervously.

"You are assigned to Ravi right? He personally requested for you to work with him, am I correct?" She asked, raising her eyebrow.

"Um yeah, well Ken aswell, we heard he's the best at engineering so..." I shuffled nervously, this woman's presence was terrifying.

"Ah" she simply nodded her head "well I hope you work hard then". She smiled slightly and walked off, as I exhaled deeply. Something seemed a bit off with the way she reacted to me working with Ravi. I didn't like her. She was someone who would do anything to get her way, those kind of people you shouldn't be messing with.

I sank into my bed and buried my head in my hands. 'How were we going to do it?' I asked myself. 'How were we going to escape?'. After meeting Ms Park Yoon already made me doubt my plan. What would she do to us if she found out about our plan? Or found out Leo wasnt what she thought he was. My mind was filled with insecurities. I suddenly thought about what Leo had said, about not being able to grow old with me or having a family.

I bit my lip and looked at my ceiling. What would it be like if he was human?. Fully human. What it would be like going through a typical relationship with him, the ups and the downs. We won't be able to have that. The human emotions and traits will only be one sided, how will that be in the long term?. I shook my head and tried to scrap the thoughts of us not working out. I loved him and that was all the motivation I needed.

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I woke up bright and early to begin work. Actual work. I've been slacking on my job and I couldn't bring more attention to myself from Ms Park Yoon before she finds out about my secret meetings with Leo.

I ran up to Ravi and hugged him tight. He jumped up, startled by my actions.

"What are you doing?" He laughed, moving back to his work.

"I just felt like hugging someone, what should I do?" I smiled cheerfully, trying to go back to my mundane routine.

"Well, you can start working on the wiring here, I'm just tweaking these microchips a bit"

I sat down across from Ravi and began to involve myself in the machinery, trying my best not to ask questions about him or Leo.

"Hey...." Ravi mumbled, as he set his laptop down "Leo asked me a weird question this morning".

Oh great I thought. Not the deactivating scenario all over again. I didn't want to go through this right now.

"Look, I know that-" I began.

"Leo wants to talk to Ken, alone. Do you know a reason for this?" He asked, concern filled his face.

The statement took me back completely. What would Leo need to speak to Ken about unless he was still not understanding the relationship between Ken and I.

"Alone? You think that's safe? I don't want Ken to get hurt" I stammered.

"He seems to be pretty set on it, Ken doesn't have to go inside the case, so I guess it will be fine. The request just seemed a bit weird".

I nodded as Ravi got back to his work and pretended to not worry. I forced myself to ignore it and continued to work. My stress wasn't going to help this situation in any way.

After a long day in the lab, Ravi and I retreated to the basement in silence. He seemed to have a lot on his mind these past few days, much like me, but on him it showed negatively. His shoulders slumped, and his dark circles under his eyes became a common trait.

As we walked down the stairs I noticed Ken standing in front of the glass case. He was nodding slowly as Leo spoke to him. I couldn't hear what he was saying, but his expression seemed stern. I got to the last step and Leo's eyes moved to me as Ken turned around.

"Oh hi" Ken chuckled, scratching the back of his head nervously. "I was just getting some work advice".

Leo looked between Ken and I and slowly walked to the bed and sat down. He smiled at me, softly, my confusion obviously noticable to him.

"Work advice ? Seriously?" I raised my eyebrow.

"I didn't want him to make the same mistakes I did" Leo smiled reassuringly.

I looked around at the three guys who stood before me. The way they shuffled nervously around me made me question the real answer that was obviously hidden. What didn't they want me to know?