~ Ups and downs ~

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I opened my mouth to start asking questions but she shushed me. “I talked to your biological father yesterday.” She said like that was the most normal thing to say in our situation. I raised my eyebrows in confusion. “You can contact my biological father?” I asked in shock. I didn’t expect that. “Yes, he gave me a number in case of emergency.” She said. I couldn’t believe my ears. All these years she lied to me about my real parents and now she even tells me she could contact them at any time? I opened my mouth again to argue on the matter but she didn’t let me speak. “He said it was not smart to call him, but your position has already been detected by the Organization so it’s no use to try and hide it anymore. You have to leave.” She said dead serious. I couldn’t believe what she was saying, she raised me for eighteen years and now she wanted to get rid of me? Did she ever even love me? I looked at her in disbelief, I couldn’t recognize my mother in the person who was now in front of me. She was a stranger to me. “What the hell are you saying? I need to leave where, and how do you know about the Organization?” I asked her, my head was spinning in confusion, this was too much. She raised her eyebrows. "I was expecting you'd ask me what is the Organization, but by the sound of it you seem to already know. How is that Annabelle?" she was becoming furious, she knew I was hiding something from her these past few weeks, and it seemed she started to realize it's all connected. But there's no way I'm going to tell her anything. "You want me to leave?" I asked in shock. Her face suddenly softened. “I’m sorry baby." she started but this time I didn’t let her finish. “Don’t you dare call me like that, I’m not your baby!” I yelled at her, I didn't buy her crap for a moment. Her expression turned to sad and finally I started to see traces of the person who raised me. “Eighteen years; did you pretend to love me for eighteen years?” I asked, tears started to flow down my cheeks. She seemed deeply hurt by my words. “Annabelle, I never pretended to love you, I do love you. But you’re in grave danger and unfortunately if you stay here, we’re all going to die.” She said with regret. We looked each other straight in the eyes, I gasped in fear. I thought of my father and my siblings, I loved them more than anything. If anything happened to them because of me I wouldn’t forgive myself. “Where would I go?” I asked through tears and sobs. Everyone I knew was here, in this town. I had nowhere else to go. She took me in an embrace. I hugged her back, burying my face in her neck. “Your father will send some men that can protect you, I don’t know where they will take you. They can’t say. Even you won’t know where you’re going until you’re there.” I slowly pulled away and looked her in the eyes. “Mom, who is my biological father?” I asked her, I couldn’t understand why all this was happening, maybe if I knew who he was I could understand more. She sighed. “Unfortunately, I do not know for sure myself. All I know is that your father has many enemies, enemies that once you were born became your enemies too. And now they have found you. You must be very careful my dear child. Once you start running you will never be able to stop. They will always be behind you, waiting for a moment when your gourd is down to strike.” Her voice broke on the last word. I could see how painful for her it was to let me go. I couldn’t even imagine a life without her and the rest of my family. But I couldn’t stay and endanger them, I knew I had to go, but that didn't make it any easier. I thought of Seung-hyun. “Oh gosh! I need to see Seung-hyun!” I exclaimed suddenly. I had to tell him all this, he can come with me, and protect me! “Who?” My mother asked suspiciously. “He’s… a man. He came here to kill me at first but then we fell in love. It’s hard to explain, but mom he can protect…” “No!” she interrupted me with a scream. I raised my eyebrows in surprise. “But…” I protested. “Are you out of your mind?” she screamed. “You mustn’t trust that men! He’ll kill you!” she grabbed my shoulders and squeezed them a bit too hard. “Whatever he told you he’s lying.” She said. “But mom he had a chance to kill me and he didn’t. And he even saved my life.” I tried to explain. She started shaking her head in fear. “Saved your life? You were shot! And it was probably he who shot you! Was he here? Does he know where you live?” she yelled at me. I was more scared of her now than ever before. “Yes he was, but mom…” she didn’t let me finish again. “Oh no…we’re all in danger. Why didn’t you tell me this earlier? He could be on his way here right now to kill us all!” she screamed. She was panicking like never before, I could clearly see the fear in her eyes. I shook my head in denial. “No...” I uttered. He wouldn’t, he loves me; and I love him. “Don’t you understand? Your father is a powerful man with powerful information, information that could destroy their whole Organization. That’s what that men is here for, he needs to extract all those informations from you. He doesn't care if you know anything or not. You can’t trust him.” She said. I couldn’t believe my ears. This was just too outrageous. He…he saved me, he loved me! My head started spinning again, how could this be? It’s not true, it can’t be! I must talk to him! I got up from the sofa and looked down at my mother. “I need to talk to him.” I said seriously. Her faced turned pale. “No, you can’t see him. He’s going to kill you!” she said. She got up and grabbed me to stop me but I shook her hand off and ran out of the house. I ran all the way to the station and took the first bus to town. I ran to Seung-hyun’s apartment and once I was there I hit the doors until he opened up. “What’s wrong?” he asked with a concerned face. I huffed like crazy, all the things I found out were running through my mind but the thought of him seducing me for information was unbearable. I had to hear him say it wasn’t true. I looked him in the eyes and took a deep breath before asking. “Why are you here? Did you come to extract information from me?” My heart was pounding like crazy, I couldn’t breathe. "What are you talking about?" He asked confused. I thought he really didn't know anything but I had to be sure, so I asked again. "When you first came here, was it to seduce me? To get information from me about my biological father?" My head was spinning and I was waiting for his denial. But the moment I saw his face turn pale I knew: my mother was right. “Annabelle…” he started. Suddenly I felt like all the air was punched right out of my lungs, no... how can this be? I felt tears in the corner of my eyes and an unbearable pain in my chest. I shook my head in denial but his face was telling me everything. “Please, get inside I can explain. It’s not like that…” he said. He stretched his hand to take mine but I pushed it away. “Don’t touch me!” I screamed. Tears fell down my face, my breathing was getting harder and harder. I wanted to run away but my body wouldn’t move. My whole body was shaking out of fear and anger, how can a person be so cold blooded and emotionless? I tried to find something to hold onto but there was nothing around me, just an empty hall. There were so many things I didn’t want to think about right now but were filling my mind. That whole week we spent together when I treated his wound, and then that breakfast he made for me, the best night of my life when we went to that beach together. I was ready to be with him that night, no wonder he opposed; he was never going to go that far with me anyway. All those memories piled up in my mind and I felt like I was crushing under their weight . Suddenly black dots filled my vision and my legs gave up on me. I felt myself falling. I heard Seung-hyun screaming my name as he caught me just before I fell unconscious.
When I woke up I was in a familiar, empty room. My head was hurting like crazy and my eyes were dry as if I cried a lot. I turned to the side and saw Seung-hyun lying next to me, watching me carefully. I smiled at him for a moment before everything came back rushing in my mind. What mother told me and what he so easily confirmed to be true. “No…” I said with panic in my voice. I got up in a sitting position and he quickly followed. “Annabelle let me explain.” He said taking my shoulders and turning me towards him. I was slightly shaking, I didn’t know what to think or say. I was afraid but somehow I felt safe at the same time. “No. you don’t get to explain anything! You’re a monster!” I yelled at him. How could he use me like that? I just couldn’t understand what kind of person he was. "Annabelle it's not like that anymore." He said but I knew he was lying, like all those time we were together. All a lie! “You're a liar! Why didn’t you just kill me in the first place?” I tried to struggle out of his grip but he wouldn’t let go. Tears flew down my face again. I remembered the first time I met him, when he threatened me with my life. I refused to cry that one time, but this time it was not my life that was at stake, but my heart. And that was something I valued way more. He didn’t say anything for a while so I looked up at him. His lips were slightly parted and his eyes were showing off a hurt expression. I was so confused that I couldn’t tell what he was thinking or why he was hurt. But I didn't care, he desevred all of it! “You told me you forgave me.” he said quietly. “I did! So how could you betray me like this? How?” I screamed in tears. He completely ignored my question. “Then why do you keep bringing it up? Don’t you know how guilty I still feel?” he raised his voice at me for the first time ever. He gripped my shoulder tighter and slowly shook me with each word. I got startled and gasped, not being able to speak a word. “Don’t you know how heard it is to be in your presence without wanting to punish myself for ever even having thoughts of killing you? Why can’t you understand how I feel about you?” his voice was getting louder and his grip tighter until it started to hurt. “You’re hurting me!” I screamed at him trying once again to struggle away from him. He immediately pulled away his hands. My head fell down and I closed my eyes. I couldn’t look up at him, my head was spinning and I had never been this confused in my life. "I lied only once, when we had dinner before you shot me. That's how it was supposed to start. I was supposed to keep you here until you were so in love with me you'd spill everything you knew. And if not, I was supposed to..." He seemed to struggle with words, like the sole thought of what he's going to say pained him. I kept looking down, trying to figure out what was true and what not. "I was supposed to torture you." he finally finished. I gasped, I didn't know what to answer to that. "Everything after the moment you shot me, when you decided to stay and take care of me, who came here to kill you, all of that was true. Everything I did, every word I said and every kiss I gave you, it was all my true feelings for you, feelings that I have never felt before and was so overthrown by them that I would've died for you. When you were shot in front of me and I realized I failed to protect you, it was the worst day of my life." I was still confused, but most of all I was scared. He cupped my face and made me look at him. "And I will never let anyone hurt you again. I promise." he said. I looked into his beautiful piercing eyes, they seemed so honest, so pure. But how can I know he's telling the truth? Deep down I knew I could never know for certain if he’s lying or not, I had to go on blind faith. I backed away wiping off my tears. I gripped his shirt and buried my face in it. “Please, please tell me the truth.” I begged him. Right now I was putting the fate of my life in his hands, I knew there were only two paths we could take from here. He would either love me or betray me and kill me; and even if he wouldn’t kill me I knew, if he betrays me I’d kill myself. But it’s better to get it over with now than putting everyone else I loved in danger. He cupped my face again and pulled it up so that I was just a few inches away from his. “The truth is, I love you, little girl.” He bent down and placed his lips on mine. I kissed him back, holding onto him like a thread. I knew if he ever lets go of me I’d fall way too deep to survive. That was exactly what I tried to tell him through my kiss. It seemed he understood my feelings because he embraced me and squeezed me to himself as if he too would die without me. When our lips parted I leaned my forehead against his. We were both huffing, never before did we express so many emotions through our kiss. His kiss expressed feeling of safety and love; like my life gave a whole new meaning to his. I kissed him again. Sucking on his lips and pulling them with my teeth. He put his hand around my waist and pulled me in closer, there was no space at all between us. Slowly, trying not to break apart we laid back on the bed together, intertwining our bodies. He trailed his kisses down my neck. I took his hands in mine and intertwined our fingers. He pulled them over my head as his lips sled down my chest. I gasped in pleasure pushing my breast towards him. He pulled back, looking me from above, my eyes couldn’t leave his as he bent down for another kiss.

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Heheheh, I ruined the moment didn't I?? xDD
Oh well, I'm an "S" so there's no helping it. :P
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