Salanghae

Part 8

  Suddenly, as I opened my eyes, I noticed that I'm in some unfamiliar place.
"Where am I?" I whispered to myself.
"Oh, Yuri. You're awake?" I heard Jun's voice.
I looked in the direction, where the voice came from. "Jun. What happened?" I was trying to remember what happened.
"Yesterday evening, you collapsed, just when I found you I took you to Seventeen's bus, luckily the driver was okay with driving all of us back." Jun explained.
Then, I suddenly remembered everything.
"Has all of this happened because of my stupid fear?" I began to get angry at myself.
"Yuri, everyone's afraid of something. You can't possibly control your fears, all you can do is try to overcome them, and this takes time."
Just then, Joshua walked in. "How are you feeling?"
"Me? I'm fine." I answered.
"Josh, can you look after her for a while?" After Jun said that, he walked out.
"Is there anything you want to do?" Joshua said, as he walked closer to me.
I slowly sat up.
"Umm-... Can I go home, please?" I answered
"If you're feeling good enough to go, then of course, I can walk you home. But you should know that your teacher hasn't called your parents that you're back. Why don't we go eat some breakfast first, I'll ask the members if they want to come as well? Wait here, I'll be right back." Joshua said, as he left the room.
After a while, he came back. "They are eating inside."
"Come on, let's go." Joshua added, as he held the door open for me.

"So what do you want to eat?" Joshua asked, as we were walking through the town.
"I-I don't know, I'm not really that hungry. I can always eat at home." I answered in a quiet voice.
"Are you sure?" Joshua's voice changed a little.
I nodded in response.
"I know, if you don't want anything, let's go for some ice-cream." Joshua smiled.
"Okay." I smiled back.
Before we knew it, we were standing in front of the ice-cream stand.
"What flavour do you want?" Joshua asked
"Umm-.... Can I chocolate flavour?" I answered with a smile.
"Can I have one kiwi and one chocolate flavour, please?" Joshua ordered the two ice-creams, as I went to sit on the bench nearby.

Suddenly, an ice-cream appeared in front of me. I turned my head to look to the left, and I noticed Joshua standing on my left.
"Thank you." I slowly took the ice-cream.
"Is it nice?" Joshua asked, as he smiled.
"Yeah, it's delicious." I answered.
"Is there anywhere else you want to go?" Joshua asked, as we both finished our ice-creams.
"Not really... Can I go home?" I answered.
"Yeah, of course. Are you sure you want to go home now?" Joshua's voice changed.
I nodded in response and smiled, as I stood up.
"Okay then, I'll walk you home." Joshua stood up.

Finally, we were just walking up to my house.
"Okay, we're here." I said.
"Will you be okay? I heard that your mum is very streaked when it comes to school."
"Yes, thank you for everything." I bowled and walked off.
"I'm home." I said, as I walked in.
I took my shoes off and walked into the kitchen.
"What do you think you're doing here? Weren't you supposed to be at school!" My mum walked into the kitchen.
"I'm sor-..."
"You already skipped too much school. I let you off before, now I'm being serious."
"But mum, I also need a break every now and then." I tried to explain.
"No, Yuri! If you want to live in this house, you have to follow my rules."
"And what are those rules? Is education really that important to you?! I already succeed my full potential in all of my classes, none of the teachers can teach me anything more, if you really would be my mother then you should have been proud!" I felt tears showing in my eyes.
"Okay then, if you refuse to follow my rules, then you can just as well leave! You have fifteen minutes to get out!" With that my mum walked off.
I ran to my bedroom and packed everything into my suitcase.
Once I was finished, I dragged it down the stairs, and out the door.
Then, without saying anything, I left. For couple of hours, I walked aimlessly round the town, until It started to rain.
Without, knowing where to go or at least where to find a shelter, I ran to the playground that just happen to be across the road.
I hid under one of the slides, hiding myself from the cold rain.

Suddenly, after some time, the rain stopped. Still not knowing where to go, I sat there pointlessly.
"Yuri?" I heard a voice from behind me.
I turned round to see Jun standing there.
"What happened? What are you doing here?" Jun held out his hand.
I took it, and Jun pilled me up.
At that point, I was unable to hold myself from crying.
"Yuri?! Tell me what happened."
I felt Jun's warm, gentle, yet strong and protective arms around me.
"I'm here, you're safe now. Please stop crying." Jun's voice instantly calmed me down.
"So, will you tell me what happened?" Jun asked, as I finished crying.
"My mum kicked me out of the house. She said that if I don't want to follow her rules, I might as well go." I said quietly.
"You can always stay at the dormitory." Jun said.
"No, that would be unacceptable." I protested
"Where will you stay?"
"I can always ask Minju if I can stay with her for a while." I answered. "I'll call her now." I said as I took out my phone.
After couple of seconds Minju picked up. "Hello?"
"Hi, Minju. I have a little problem. Is it possible for me to stay with you for couple of days?"
"Yes, of course. What happened?" Minju asked.
"My mum kicked me out." I said in a quiet voice.
"Oh, I'm sorry, will you be okay."
"Yes, I'll be fine." With that, I hung up.