Collide

Bizarre Night

There was a sudden calm, like the feeling you get when there's a storm coming, everyone's getting ready for the disaster, but you just can't seem to see when it's coming. Chaerin felt that way, looking through the window of her car as James drove away from the company. It was silent, none of them talked, none of them thought, it was all a blankness that surrounded them completely. Chaerin knew all too well what all of this meant, it was the calm before the storm, before the disaster.

"Do you have any music here?" James asked as he stopped in a red light. Chaerin slowly looked at her radio, her hands limply put on her lap as she nodded slightly. James took a deep breath and looked at her, his eyes looked comforting, like he knew everything she felt, yet he knew they had to do it. "Don't push yourself on that cliff honey, you'll just hurt yourself." He said.

"What are you talking about?" She asked with a slight rude tone to her voice. He chuckled and put the car on drive, the light turned green.

"Be honest with yourself, and for once, just once, tell me how you really feel." He said. She looked at him with a disgusted face and crossed her arms.

"Why should I?" She said. He laughed inwardly and made a turn to the right. He was driving out of town, Chaerin could tell.

"Faith, I wasn't the one who left you to begin with, why are you so mad at me?" He asked with an apologetic tone.

"I hate you, I hate the fact that you call me Faith, or... ugh I just don't want to be here." She said, and with that, he stopped the car, they were in a road through some woods, there was no one around.

"How do you want me to call you then? Chaerin? Didn't you said you hated everything about Korean culture? Didn't you once told me to never call you by your Korean name? And why do you hate me? I wasn't the one who put you through this, in fact, I would've forbid you to ever go into that place, I... loved you, so much, yet you pretended to be free, and in the end, I just ended up losing the most important person in the world for me, and now she tells me she hates me. I should be the one hating you, and yet here I am, trying to save you." He said, his eyes wet from forming tears, his hair pushed to the side and his veins popped.

"I... You what?" She asked while processing all the new information that was spilled in front of her.

"I loved you." He said again. She let out a breathless laugh, like the kind of laugh you do when you're so surprise yet shocked.

"I can't believe this..." She said and opened the door, exiting the car. James cursed and got out of the car, running after her.

"Why can't you? Just wait Faith, wait-"

"My name is Chaerin." She said as she slapped him hard. He grabbed his cheek and looked at her bewildered. "And don't think that just because you told me you loved me, everything will change, you... you whore!" She said.

"So this is about that, huh? Get over it, and get back into the car, we need to go." He said, now a slight sarcasm on his voice.

"About what?" She asked daringly.

"About my list of girlfriends, is that why you hate me?" He said and she laughed without humor.

"Please James, don't feel so important," She said crossing her arms.

"Alright, I won't, please get back in the car." He said signaling the car, his cheek swelling from her slap.

"Ok, I will, but this isn't over." She said walking back to the car, but instead of sitting on the passenger's seat, she sat on the back.

"Is that really necessary?" He asked as he sat on the driver's seat. She crossed her arms and leg, and then looked to the side.

"Totally." She said, without any intention of continuing their talk.