Your only CHOICE

Control

((Saeran's POV))

We just sit there in an awkward silence, Mc looking down in fear for something that I don't know. Maybe it has to do with what I said earlier about her becoming more like me. I sigh and turn back around yo lay facing the wall.

"I will never be like you..." She scowls at me from her seat. I don't respond, act like I'm sleeping or something to keep her from talking to me.

"Saeran! I know you hear me!" She yells, out of annoyance, I quickly sit up and turn to face her with a glare.

"WHAT?!" I yell loudly at her, now hoping to scare her off. But she continues to look at me the same way she did before, she didn't even flinch when I yelled at her.

"I hope you understand that once I am released from your control, I want nothing to do with you again." She spoke, looking at me as I looked at her. A comfortable science fell upon us, but maybe it was an uncomfortable science to her.

"You're not going to be released from my command for a while. New members stick with their leaders until they graduate training. Normally, training lasts for a little more than a year. But if you try and work hard, you can graduate early." I told her, wanting my words to motivate her to work harder and graduate early to get away from me, because honestly, at this point I don't want to be around her either. The fragile quite falls around us again. She stands up and walks to the door.

"Where are you going?" I ask her, my eyes fallowing her movement across the room to the door.

"You said that if I work hard, I'll graduate faster... I'm going to study" she hisses as she walks out the door, slamming it behind her.

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((MC POV))

I storm off in the direction that I think is the direction of the library. I keep my gaze at my feet as I walk, not wanting to depress myself with the unfamiliar hallways. As I walk, I see other feet pass me, as well as some people asking if I was ok. I ignore them, their words sounding like mumbles to me. They soon leave and I just stay still, looking up, I realize that my wondering trying to find a liberty got me hopelessly lost. I sigh loudly and lean against the wall, sliding down until I'm sitting on the cold hard wood. I hide my face in my knees as I sit there. Clicking of shoes getting louder and louder, closer to me in the hallway.

People's feet gather around me, people kneeling around me, mumbles of concern rang through my ears.

"Mc, are you ok?" A familiar voice called out, the crowd parting. Rika kneels down in front of me and places her hand on my shoulder. I look up at her with red puffy eyes, trying to refrain myself from crying. Rika, the people around her, for some reason they all seem like they care about me, even if they barely even know me.

"Leave" Rika orders the others around us in a stern but kind way. The crowd dispersed and left me alone with the savior.

"What's wrong?" She asked, kneeling next to me. I shrug, I don't know specifically what's wrong, it's more all the stresses at once. "Those people told me that they were worried about you, I came to ask you what's wrong" she pressed, wanting something other than silence from me.

"This place really is like a family" I say softly to myself, chuckling a bit. She smiles a bit and nods.

"And you're a part of it now" she said, I think she's trying to cheer me up, but that's not what I'm upset about. I hide my face in my knees again,

"I don't want to be around Saeran anymore." I mumble softly. I heard a slight giggle from beside me from Rika,

"He kinda is an ass. But I know he cares for you deep down, it's just hidden, I doubt be even knows that he cares for you" she said softly, I look back up at her and sigh, that wasn't the words I wanted to hear, I wanted to hear her say that I can get my own room, or I can be removed from his control, or better yet, I can leave this place and go back to my normal life.

"You can't go back, if that's what you want..." Rika said as if she read my mind, "from the moment you answered Saeran's Text, and went to the apartment, you're life became entangled with this organization"

"Can't we just... Just untangle it?" I said, not hopeful at all that she'll say yes.

"Your only choices are to stay tangled, or cut all ties. But when you cut all ties, we do too. And since you know about us, we would have to eliminate you." She said in a monotone voice. I don't speak for a long time, neither does she, the silence almost drives me into insanity. I take a deep breath to start speaking,

"So, where's the library?" I ask, looking forward to avoid her gaze. I've made my decision, I'm going to live, and I'm going to make the best of this life that I can make it.