UNRAVELED // YOONMIN

SECRET

I don't know how,

but in an instant I was no longer in the grips of my captors,

instead I was on the ground,

gasping for air,

everything was a blur,

my mind didn't process that around me punches peppered the air,

all that I could truly tell you was that I didn't die,

and that the men just disappeared.

at least that's what I could tell you in that moment,

but now I know everything,

unfortunately I haven't quite gotten to that part in the story.

The only thing that I can truly say with confidence without spoiling what's to come,

is that on that day I felt a terror so real that I became numb,

that,

and jin was bleeding,

his shirt covered in blood,

but as I asked him if he was okay,

he refused to answer,

only shaking his head at me,

with what looked like anger,

not fear,

but pure, unaltered fury.

almost like he wasn't surprised by the turn that the night took.

when he dropped me off at my home,

he roughly wrapped a scarf around my neck and left,

not one word was exchanged,

not about how I had almost died,

not about how we had kissed,

not about how we even escaped,

so I was left with the thought that things just didn't add up,

that my suspicions about jin weren't all unfounded,

because it seemed like strange things always happened when he was around,

when I walked in,

my mom was waiting,

"where were you?"

I stopped.

"I said where were you."

I was silent.

"were you at that amusement park?"

I nodded.

"Someone died."

I nodded, not really hearing,

"did you hear me?

someone died there tonight."

someone died?

as if triggered by those words,

my head rewound time,

I was back in the haunted house,

gun shots,

someone died?

could it be?

"tell me you didn't go into that haunted house, jimin,

please,