Hold Me Tight

Hold Me 4: There is Something

Hold Me 4: There is Something

"Are you okay?" Sungjae shouted from across the basketball court.

She can feel a warm liquid flowing out from her nose...

Oh her goodness gracious, it is so embarrassing.

She wiped it off immediately.

"Hey..." He was about to kneel down in front of her.

Her heart thumps for a bit as she realized he was too close to her.

No wonder, none of her friends tried to approach her and just giddily observing the two of them interacting.

Attracting attention is the last thing she needed... and her bleeding nose is not a sight to be seen by everyone. So before he can wipe it off from her, she ran away as fast as she could.

Sungjae was too baffled to say anything as he sat down alone... when she ran away.

At first, he looked perplexed.

Now, he was too embarrassed to even react. Only then, he started to burst into an amused laugh.

"Yaaa... why are you laughing?" Peniel asked him.

"Don't you think she is cute?" He grinned.

Peniel face went unreadable by a minute.

Because Sungjae was actually genuinely laughing and smiling. Like he was finally living again.

***

Joy spent no time in calming herself down after she went to the school clinic.
She paced back and forth to no end, fanning her burning cheeks.. when she realized the blood stain on her hand.

Memories...

Accident....

She closed her eyes, trying to contain the loud thump on her head as it beats painfully. Once the noise subsides, Joy found herself being swallowed by the loneliness of the day as if once again she was all alone being wrapped in a blanket while watching people walking around in black clothes, mourning the loss of her beloved parents.

In no time, she found herself being sucked into a vortex again.

A smile decorating on her face was wiped from existence, not knowing that Irene, her friend, was attending to her bleeding nose.

She was too busy staring at the empty space as her fingers curled into the cigarette box in her pocket.

Irene finally went out from the room when Irene saw Wendy was about to come in.

"How is she, I thought she just needed to get her nose treated?"

Irene worriedly shakes her head... "It happens again." She sighed. "She is off to another place we can never reach... she always has."

Sungjae who tried to find the right timing to visit Joy, accidentally overheard them and silently backed off. But, it was still within the hearing distance. 

Soon after, he walked into the room, she was smiling brightly again... proudly showing the tissue shoved into her nostril to stop her bleeding nose.

"Can you even breathe?" He asked laughingly.

"If I can't, what would you do?"

"I will do a mouth to mouth resurrection technique."

She smiled at his joke.