My Time With You | DahMo Book 2

8) Never Let Me Go

I woke up early and quickly got dressed, I was going to meet Momo at the police station for our statements. We discussed that we should go there early so it would be easier and quicker to go to school in the morning.

When I got there, Momo was already there, waiting.
"Morning." I shouted as I waved to her.
She turned and smiled wildly as she ran towards me. She instantly held my hand right after.
"Are you done?" I asked jokingly.
"Yes, let's go." She happily skipped inside with me getting dragged by the girl.
When we got into the police station, one of the police officers we saw yesterday.
"Miss Kim, we're glad you're hear to make a statement with your..." She paused.
"Girlfriend, Miss Hirai Momo." I answered.
"Ah, well if you're ready then you can go in, but you have to come in separately."

I nodded, but Momo tugged my arm.
"It won't be long."
"I don't want to let you go." She pouted.
Wow... I can't say that I don't want to be apart from her. So I asked.
"Is it okay if we're together instead?"
The police officer scratched her nape.
"It's a policy, I'm sorry." She bowed.

Momo nodded and slowly drifted apart from me as she went in first. I waited for a while for her to come out and this was my turn to tell what happened.
It wasn't much, I was supposedly following Momo when that guy showed up and then I tried to make him stop harassing her which angered him even more and got punched in the end.
That doesn't seem much, right?

Don't worry, even the police officer got flustered. It was embarrassing at first, but it was a time to make fun of it.
When I got out, Momo quickly went by my side and once again she was holding my hand.
"I was only gone for 3 minutes." I said.
"That's too long." She joked.
We both started to walk a bit faster towards school, even though we were going to be early we still kept our pace.

It was back to normal from what I saw. Momo was getting better, she's not distancing herself. But I still find something weird about her, and of what Sana said.
She kept looking at my neck— others neck too.
I'm getting to a point I think she wants to be a vampire, but let's not hope that.
Anyways... when we arrived at school she mumbled something under her breath.

"Let you stay at 84... I won't let you go below."

In that moment I was confused, weirded out almost.
84? Is that some kind of age or something.
And why 'you', is she implying me—saying that she won't let me go?

It was a bit early when we got to school, that's when we decided to wait in the school garden.
I tried not to remember what happened when I saw Momo in the school garden, I don't want her to be sad ever again.
"I have a school council meeting with the set up team, you can come if you like."
As soon as I said that, she already was nodding her head.
"I assume, you want to stay after school?"
"Well, either way I'll sill come."
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It was hard to let Momo go fur by the school, but I think she was missing me more. She kept gripping onto me when it was lunch... like a lot.
Finally, the school finished and a Momo was with me the whole time when we were walking to the school council room.

Inside, there were the school council team and Chaeyoung.
"You're here now." Jihyo spoke.
"You brought Momo?" Jeongyeon asked as she looked at me weirdly.
"I had no choice." I replied.
As I sat down, Jihyo was smiling sheepishly at me whilst Chaeyoung shook her head.
"Where are the others?" Nayeon asked Chaeyoung.

"They're coming."
I sniggered as she stared at me.
"It was not my idea! My mother wanted me to have the extra credit." The short girl folded her arms.
Well it makes sense why she signed up.
After a few minutes of waiting the others came.
"Right, everyone's here. We should start."
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As we finished, the team decided that they were free on the weekends which means that they can start to set up with the help of the other staff who are taking care of it.

The three of us, Chaeyoung, Momo and I were walking to the school entrance when Chaeyoung, being her nosy self noticed something.
"Why are you always holding each other's hand?" She asked.
Actually, I was wondering the same thing, why was she always holding my hand.
"Couldn't I be affectionate to my girlfriend?" Momo smiled.
"Okay, I'm going to leave you guys. I'll call you when I get home Dahyun." Chaeyoung waved back.
"Come on, I'll walk you home." I said.

When we started to get close to her home, there were still questions in my head on why Momo was acting differently.

"I want to ask you something." I started.
"Sure."
I took a moment.
"Did you mean what you said when you wanted me to stay away?"
Momo paused and her smile slowly faded.
"It was for a reason, a complicated reason, but it now over because I'm with you. I was wrong."
"What was the reason?" I saw that she hesitated to answer, to me I was probably selfish to get all the answers that she kept from me.

"I wanted to protect you."
"From... what?"
Momo sighed deeply and faintly smiled.
"From me."