Save Me •Cha Eunwoo•

Chapter 17

Eunwoo's POV

I couldn't express some uncertain and unexplainable feelings that I am feeling right now and everyday. It all started the moment Myun Na moved out.

I couldn't focus on myself as I was imagining Mina walking around the house, sleeping soundly on the couch with her bracelet kept tightly in her grasp. I wish I was able to keep her like she did to her bracelet.

I feel incomplete.

I want to give her everything she deserved. I promised to take care of her.

Promise implies in someone's willingness to keep even it takes an eternity to visualize it. I commit a lot of promises to Mina but I don't think I ever have a chance to prove my words.

All I wish is I meet her earlier, so I can love her longer.

Myun Na's POV

"I gave you my permission and even cooperate with you in dealing with what stated in our contract. This is not the way to play it."

I state sternly, with a shot of serious gaze towards 'his' face.

"Well, your aunt said do whatever to you as long as I give a raise to your payment." Ji Chul mutters under his breath but I still managed to hear it crystal clear.

"You know what? I was living in a hell with you and my aunt. It was the greatest mistake I have made in my entire life when I come back looking forward to endure the life I know what are the consequences. Living as a homeless is better than living with devils like you guys."

I get up after I make up my mind. I have no reason to stay here. It is better to be homeless than live in a place where my soul is being tortured.

I run over to my room, looking for a bag so I can stuff all of my things. My heart is beating at a fast rate as it is about to pop out from its place. For a moment, I feel like I was doing the right thing.

My hands are as fast as lightning, packing my things. Never in my life I have felt this way. The feeling of reaching freedom which is waiting for me, ready to pull me out from the long dark tunnel I have been walking through for years.

I don't know where I got the guts to do this. I mean running away in front of them because for all I know, I've been running away from home while they are sleeping or away from home.

"What do you think you are doing?!" Ji Chul snaps my hand, forcing me to face him while I breathe in his alcoholic breath. He never failed to make me feel disgusted.

"Let me go, you brat!" I scream at his face, using my girl like energy which has no effect on him at all.

"What's all of this about?! I heard your voice screaming like two children fighting over a toy."  A voice echoes from my back, while I keep throwing punches towards Ji Chul's chest.

"Yeah, I am fighting for my toy because I see she is like *Woody now."

*the main character of Toy Story which the toy can move around and run away from their owner*

"Oh no, honey. Can't you see? You're stuck with us forever."

My aunt's face changes in a blink of an eye. Which never suprised me. The expression of a devilish aunt who turned me into a whore at the age of 14.

I gather all of my energy and a little of braveness as I rise up my leg upwards hard, kicking Ji Chul right to his sensitive part.

He groans and falls onto the floor so I take the golden chance to run away. I push my aunt away, causing her to fall too.

Before I even reach the doorknob, a hand grabs my ankle causing me to fall frontwards and I hit my head on the doorframe. I couldn't describe how painful it is.

"I warned you from the first day we met! You are always and forever will be mine. Not even that Cha Eunwoo can help you! You are my Kim Myun Na."

Ji Chul screams to my face as he hovers on top of me, ready to make a move. That's when I smiled cynically towards him, creating a confused look on him.

"That's what you don't know, I am not Kim Myun Na anymore. I am Mina."

I trigger his anger badly when he decides to slap my face as hard as a baseball player hits his last hit.

He keeps slapping me while I am struggling to breath as blood starting to fill up my mouth and nose.

"Oh my god! Ji Chul, stop! Stop! I said stop!"  My aunt tries to pull Ji Chul away  from me but it doesn't work. She is just a middle aged woman trying to stop a guy that has been working out for years.

Ji Chul screams at the top of his lungs while his hands are actively ripping of my pants off me.

I knee him in the face, causing him to fall to the side. I quickly get back up, gathering all of my energy left to get out from this.

"Myun Na! Come back here you brat!"

The loud scream by my aunt doesn't stop me from running towards the door. I open the door, so ready to see the sunshine again.

Sadly, it is raining heavily. I don't care, perhaps the weather today represents my feelings.

I run and run and run to every direction. Like always, following where my legs take me to. I smile happily as I soar around with my sore legs.

I walk without any certain directions. My eyes are too blurry for me to see where am I already.

I don't give a shit as long as I am free now. I am no longer somebody's slave.

As I walk around staggerly, swaying a lot to all directions, I fall onto my knees as my legs can no longer help me.

I sit still helplessly on the cold hard tiles. I put my head up to see a door in front of my face.

It's not just a door. It's a familiar one.

Where did I see this door?

While my unsteady mind is trying to figure out the answer, I hear something falls behind me.

"M-m-Mina?"