Devination |hongbin [completed]

11. The Castle

Seeing the world as though I was embedded in stone was something tragically beautiful. My senses became heightened. I listened and observed more, I took in everything around me.

Hakyeon's helpers placed us in boxes, I couldn't feel being carried out of the basement, but I could see the changes of light through the cracks of the box. Everything was black again, and I figured we were loaded in a truck, ready to enter the new the place.

I wondered what the others were thinking about. Whether they hated having so many thoughts to themselves for long periods of time, and whether they wished they were asleep on the inside.

"She goes to the top floor, with him" I heard Hakyeon order, and once again I was being carried up a set of stairs.

Once my box was open, I couldn't believe my eyes. The room I was in was so grand, so magnificent it was all too much to take in. The helper moved me to a central position and that's when I noticed Hongbin was being placed right in front of me.

The arrangement was much like the basement, where his side was dark, and my side was light, split right down the middle. He stood before me, and I wanted to reach out to him, call out to him, as if he could hear me.

'Hongbin..' I called out him my head.

'sorry am I staring too much?'

I heard his voice loud and clear, as if he were standing next to me. I thought it was one of the workers around me, but it was definitely him, I know it was him.

'Hongbin was that you?' I asked, as the workers continued to work around me completely oblivious to us.

'This is one of the perks of being the way we are, we can hear and talk to each other but they don't have a clue" he responded, making me feel so much better.

"Ah there they are!" a man called, his voice unrecognisable to me. I watched as an old aged man stepped into the room with Hakyeon, standing directly in front of me.

"I really like her Hakyeon, I really do" he said and turned back to look over at Hongbin, "both of them, they're so perfect together."

I saw Hakyeon nod, but he didn't seem all that comfortable with this arrangement. This could be the reason why Hongbin and I were put together the first time, because of this man.

Whoever this man was.

"The castle will open to our guests tomorrow, you will get your funding by then" the man smiled, "It's a pleasure doing business with you yet again."

Hakyeon called for one of his helpers to see the man out and shut the door immediately on his exit.

"This was meant for me! Not him! Why does he want to share my prized possessions with outsiders?" Hakyeon spat, kicking over a chair as he sucked in a deep breath.

"I should of gotten those books and that stupid witch on my own, without his help" he continued, I've never seen him this angry before.

'what is he talking about?' I asked, as Hakyeon continued to curse in the background.

'That's the man who made this all possible. He is someone very high up in this secret embassy they have going on' Hongbin replied easily.

'Well Hakyeon doesn't seem to like him, considering they do the same thing'

'no, Hakyeon did this for his own personal interest, this man, Mr Ahn, he is just using Hakyeon's exhibit to gain a profit" Hongbin explained, 'it's a win win situation I guess."

My concentration on Hongbin's voice was interrupted by Hakyeon's face nearing mine. It annoyed me so much that I couldnt feel him, he could do about anything to me and I was helpless.

"Oh (y/n), how I wish you didn't mess up that night, we could of finished what we started. I still think about your body on my bed...and.... "

"Master Cha?" a voice rang from the door, and Hakyeon immediately stepped away from me, "It's time to leave."

"Uh... Yes let's go" Hakyeon mumbled, finally leaving the room as the lights by the window slowly began to dim.

It wasn't long before we heard the chimes echo throughout our new space, and the feeling from my head to my feet was finally present.

"You slept with him?" Hongbin hissed, not giving me time to properly take in my surroundings.

"I didn't sleep with him, I was going to but he had to leave" I responded, biting down on my lip.

"You were going to?" he growled, "Do you know that just a few moments ago that bastard had his hand up your dress?"

"What could I have done!" I cried, "The last time I checked I was damn near frozen, honestly Hongbin why are you always on my case?"

He began making a b line straight towards me and my heart began to speed up rapidly. I expected him to yell at me once more, but instead his lips were on mine, and I melted instantly.