darkest hour △▼ wonwoo

four

I thought I would be dead in two days, but I was wrong. Ten days had passed, and I couldn't take it anymore. The demon started to get a little creative from time to time, doing something different every now and then, one day he hung me upside down in the room and left me there for hours, and then started his little torture session.

The strange thing was that every time I was about to die he would magically heal me and let me go back to Wonwoo. If he hated me so much, why wouldn't he just kill me? I couldn't wait for the day he was going to kill me, his tortures were physical but it affected me mentally as well, I would dream about him, fear he was going to show up out of nowhere while I was with Wonwoo. I wanted all that to end, but I knew it wasn't going to be soon, I was there for a reason, it was my fault. I still don't know what I did, but it was something that affected the demon harshly, he hated me in a way I've never seen someone hate in life, he wanted so see me suffer. I obeyed him, and stopped asking for his compassion, stopped saying sorry, I stopped asking why, I stopped screaming. I just stayed silent, crying, while he was laughing at my misery.

Hyemi told me his name, Dokyeom. She refused to tell me more, she was also afraid of him, so I didn't push her, and I wasn't really sure if I really wanted to know more. His name didn't match him, Dokyeom didn't sound like a bad person's name for me.

"You can look now Wonwoo." I said finishing buttoning up my shirt. I was cleaning myself, and Wonwoo was staring at the wall to not see me on my underwear. We had soap to clean yourselves, but no shower, just water from the sink, it was a big struggle but we managed to clean yourselves there. Hyemi came one day with soap and toothpaste for us, she said she sneaked those in because we looked disgusting, that was the only nice thing she did for us.

"Do you want me to comb your hair? I notice you were getting to pain from doing it yesterday." Wonwoo asked getting the comb from my hands, I nodded and sat on the floor. It was true, I was in so much pain that even combing my hair was difficult. "Can I braid your hair too? Mingyu would freak out knowing that you are letting me handle your hair, while you never let him."

"He would! I don't know where his obsession with my hair came from! And It's not my fault I don't like people touching it." I laughed remembering all the times I argued with Mingyu because he wanted to do something with my hair. "I miss him."

"Me too... I even miss Dino annoying us, wanting to hangout and be part of our 'squad'... When we get back home I will invite him to join us for lunch."

"But what if we never get back?" that was me and my pessimism, I wanted to get back to my old life, boring school, parents, responsibilities, but what if we were trapped there until the demon finally let us die?

"Don't say that... We will find a way to leave." I could tell Wonwoo wasn't sure of his words, he just wanted to have some hope.

"I don't know... I'm afraid that we will have to spend our last days here. We will never graduate, we will never see our parents again, I will never get a boyfriend."

"We will find a way Hannie, I won't let you die here. We will graduate, we will see our parents again and you will get a boyfriend." Wonwoo stopped combing my hair, and hugged me from behind, and left a kiss on my cheek. "I will get you out of here."

"Well, if we get out, I won't get a boyfriend because the guy I like doesn't like me." It was weird but I was bringing that up without thinking correctly, I was just a little bitter he never liked me back.

"Well, if he doesn't like you back then he is really stupid." He let go of me and started braiding my hair, well he stopped when some words got of my mouth without my consent.

"It's funny because you are calling yourself stupid."

I froze when I realized what I said, Wonwoo froze when I said those words. I was so stupid, I had just confessed to him without wanting to. I wasn't ready for a rejection, I wasn't ready to face him everyday after the rejection. I would probably lose his friendship after that, he wouldn't want to talk to me, even though we were trapped in a room together.

"Hannie..." I stood up and went to the other side of the room, ignoring completely my pain, I just wanted to hide myself.

"Just forget that okay? Pretend I never say that. I'm so stupid..." I couldn't even face him, I stared at the wall front of me and bit my lip, I was going to cry, again. I had cried so many times on the past days I didn't know how my body still had tears left.

"Hannie, I can't pretend you never said that..." I heard him stand up and walk up to me. "Look at me."

I didn't move an inch, I stood there, in silence. Wonwoo grabbed my arm, and turned me around, obligating me to face him. He had a huge smile on his face, I've never seen him smile that big in my life, especially during the days trapped in that room.

"Kim Hanbyeol, I like you too. No... I love you." He touched my cheek and my heart started beating faster. Was he telling the truth? Or just playing with me? I was sure that a few months before he told me he liked Eujin. "I really do. I'm so happy you just told me this, because I would never make the first move, I never thought you would feel the same way about me... That is why I told you I had a crush on Eujin, that is why I asked her out... I wanted to get you out from my mind... I've always loved you Hannie. I was just afraid of telling you."

I was too shocked to say anything, the only thing I could actually think about was that he felt the same way, he loved me too. I smiled, for the first time in days, and he sealed our lips. That was our first kiss, what an unfortunate time for it to happen, but at least brought some happiness to me. For a moment I became oblivious of the situation our us, and let myself be happy, enjoy every moment of the kiss.

"I love you too Wonwoo." I whispered, burring my face on his chest after we pulled away.

"Does that mean you are my girlfriend now?" He squealed like a happy teenage girl, and hugged me back.

"If you want to." I replied happily. That was my dream coming true, I was finally with him, even though the situation that brought us together wasn't the best one, I was happy.

The door started to open, and brought me back to my senses, I was aware of the situation again. My smile fell, my happiness disappeared, that was probably Hyemi to get me.

But I was wrong, it wasn't Hyemi, it was way worse, it was him.

"Who are you?" Wonwoo asked, holding me harder. He still hasn't seen the demon's face, unlike me.

"Hanbyeol is coming with me." Dokyeom ignored his question, and walked in our direction, I started shaking in fear, and Wonwoo noticed it.

"No, she is not!"

"Wonwoo, don't do anything, he is going to hurt you! I will be fine." I said, and got away from his grip. It was better for me to go with Dokyeom peacefully than Wonwoo trying to protect me and end up hurt.

The demon tugged my arm, and I groaned from pain. I should've kept my mouth shut, because that trigged something in Wonwoo and he decided to fight the demon.

"Don't touch her!" He pushed Dokyum away from me, and I saw the demon's eyes turn all black.

"Wonwoo don't!" I yelled when Wonwoo went to attack the demon, it was going to be useless.

"You should've have listened to her." Dokyum just flickered his hand, and Wonwoo fell on his knees, tugging his stomach.

I ran to him, and saw blood coming out of his shirt. I didn't had time to say something because the demon pulled me away from Wonwoo and dragged me out with him. The only thing that mattered to me on that moment wasn't what he was going to do to me, but what he did to Wonwoo, and if Wonwoo was going to be fine.