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I drew my gaze to the man still dressed in his princely regalia, who turned away from me and began walking away. I'm thinking about a lot of things, and I'm looking for answers to a lot of questions. What is he attempting to tell me? There's something strange about them; I'm not sure if I can trust him, but I'm going to follow my gut. "Get me out of here, please," I begged when I hurried up to him and grabbed his wrist to stop him from walking.
I never imagined I will ever look at someone with so much desperation in my eyes. But I have left no choice.
"I am one of the princes," he stated nonchalantly as he looked down at my hand, which was now gripping his wrist, then straight to my face again as he continued, "Why are you asking for my help?" I was caught off guard by what he said, and my hand slowly released his wrist then I looked down.
"Aren't you scared of what I might do to you?" He asked another question even if it was clearly obvious that I am as frighten as I could ever be.
"You're my only resort. If I can't escape because I don't know the way to the exit, then you must know. Because just like what you said, you're one of them. You lived here more than enough you already memorized this place, right?"
"You're right, I know all the corners and even the tiniest spot in this dollhouse, but I can't help you; if we get caught, I'll be the one who will suffer more than you," he added, his face is as bland as before. He straightened up and bowed in front of me, apologizing that he would never be able to help me.
As I watched him turned his back on me and was prepared to walk away. When I looked at his wrist, I noticed that the stitches all over his body were nothing like the other guys' stitches. I was holding his wrist earlier, and one thing I realized...
"You're not one of them, are you?" He abruptly came to a halt, apparently taken aback by what I said. Then he looked back at me, his gaze and attention shifting at the same time.
I was certain this time when he glanced at me... that he isn't like the other guys so I made a deal with him: "If you help me get out of here, I'll help you escape with me." He is a human, just like me, who was imprisoned within this dollroom.
He stared down at me, and I couldn't help but wonder what he was thinking. Whether he's thinking about helping me or not?
His mouth agape, and I was eager to hear his response since I was confident that he would finally give me a straight answer this time, but someone interrupted us.
"Heeseung, what are you doing?" When a guy's voice suddenly called his name, the two of us looked back to the guy who was now surprisingly wearing his pajamas when in fact, all of them seemed to be wearing a prince uniform just earlier.
Did he overheard our conversation? I cleared my throat nervously as the guy on his pajamas started walking towards us.
"I was just scolding her for ruining the dress. She shouldn't have done that, especially that Sunoo even sewed it just for her" Heeseung lied, as I already read the situation so I bowed apologetically and weakly says, "Sorry"
"Alright. You can go now Heeseung, I'll take care of her" the pajama guy named Jay said as he held my wrist and gently pull me towards him, pulling me away from the guy who was about to help me, not until this jerk interrupted.
I looked at Heeseung who's now nodding his head and was about to turn his back but this guy said, "And Heeseung... prepare all the things before the lights off" Heeseung only nodded once again, turned his back and completely walked away.
I was just looking at Heeseung, watching him walk from afar.. wanting to talk to him again and ask if he could help me. I will try again to convince him, he is my only chance anyway.
"You must be tired by now. You should lock yourself in your room before all the lights went off" Jay said as he faced me and gestured his hand for me to go inside again that stupidly big doll room.
"I just woke up a few minutes ago" I said refusing to go back inside again in that room.
"I know. But you should do as I say, you'll never want to see how it is here when all the lights went off"
"What is going to happen then?" Is he scaring me or what?
"You can go see for yourself, you can either lock in your room or wander around. That, if only you have the courage" Jay said with a smile on his face that gave me the creepiest vibes.
He pat my shoulder before turning his back around and leaving me with full of curiousity what's behind the thing he's calling 'Lights off'
