Broken Connection

13

I immediately began trying to pry myself away as Lucas confusedly told Johnny what had happened.

Johnny scoffed and released his hold, only to grab my wrist again.

"You're just being a brat, aren't you?" He asked with a cold tone.

It was as if he only now realized who I was, because his entire demeanor had changed.

"N-no," I stuttered out quietly.

"We're going in the office. We need to have a meeting," Johnny told me and began to pull me forward even as I protested and tried to get away from him and the door.

"No! No no no! Don't make me! Johnny, please! He's going to be in there. I can't go in there. Please," I begged and began crying again as we got closer to the door.

I eventually gave up on real sentences and settled on just yelling no over and over. I would not go in there.

Lucas looked guilty, and Doyoung had disappeared, probably into the office I was being dragged towards.

My knees were shaky and my vision got darker the closer to the door we got.

Just as Johnny laid his hand on the knob I felt myself go limp.

I woke up to a girl that looked to be about my age dabbing my forehead with a cold washcloth.

"You took quite a spill," she said with a small smile, and I couldn't help but smile back at her.

Her voice was soft and musical. It almost sounded like silver bells ringing when she spoke. She was slender but tall, like a willow tree.

"What's your name?" I asked her.

My voice came out scratchy,probably from all of the screaming, but she understood.

"Just call me Jess," she told me.

Jess had a comforting presence. I sat up to look around the room I was in. I was much closer to the ground than I had been before, probably only on the third or fourth story. It was odd. It had a hospital-type feeling to it, but there were personal touches that suggested that it could just as easily be someone's room. The bed that I was in was actually a hospital bed, though, so this had to be an infirmary of some sort.

"Mind telling me why you freaked out back there and Lucas had to carry you to me?" She asked.

I felt my cheeks turn scarlet at the mention of my breakdown. It wasn't one of my finest moments, and I felt bad for Lucas to have to deal with me like that. Johnny kind of deserved it. He should have listened to me in the first place.

"Just some very bad old memories," I said to her.

She nodded like she understood. I guess being in this place she had to be able to understand an explanation like that. I'm sure there were more than a few people here that had bad memories.

"My boyfriend was so shocked when you fainted," she let out a little giggle.

"Oh? Who is your boyfriend?" I asked her.

I was curious. She seemed like she could get along well enough with anyone to date them. I wondered who the lucky guy was.

"Oh! You've met him already. His name is Johnny," my heart and my smile dropped.

This was the girl that held my soulmates heart in her hands. After all of my encounters with Johnny I know that we probably would never have been a good fit, but this was a cruel way for the world to remind me of that.

I wanted to be mad at her. I wanted to scream and yell that it wasn't fair. That she should go find her own soulmate and leave me and mine alone. I wanted to throw things and cuss and cause a scene.

I didn't do that. It wouldn't be fair to her. She seemed like such a beautiful person both inside and out, and I didn't want to tarnish that.

I nodded and forced the smile back onto my face.

"So, how do you know my boys?" She asked me.

How should I answer that?

"I-i work with Hyuck." I eventually said.

They all seemed to know him. Wether he was a part of this or not he was definitely their friend.

She smiled at that, and the knot of unease in my stomach twisted a bit more.

"He's such a great kid. I'm sure he'll be happy to know you're okay," she said.

Just then there was a soft knock on the door.

"Come in!" Both Jess and I called at the same time.