Together As One

I miss you

[Wheein's POV]

"Hye hyegiiii!" I greet as I open the door to her apartment.

I didn't bother knocking this time as since I had her passcode and she was expecting me. I open the door and see her lights all turned off except her room and kitchen. That was kind of strange, she is expecting me to turn up for a snack right? I leave the chicken and rice cake on the table and quickly look into her room.

There was no one there. Hm... I open the bathroom door but no one was inside as well. This leaves only the kitchen but there wasn't anyone when I walked past earlier?

"Hyejin ah? Are you in here?" I ask gently as I walk into the kitchen. There she was staring into the night time sky blankly with the washing machine blocking her.

I heaved a small sigh of relief and she looks up at me.

"Oh? You're here already? Sorry I was just enjoying the night time breeze." She stands up hurriedly and smiles as she warmly takes my hand.

"Ey it's okay... the sky does look pretty tonight." I softly reply.

I take the food with my empty left hand and we fall to the sofa with a loud thump.

I watch her as she chews slowly on the spicy rice cake. I miss her. I miss my best friend. My soul mate, my other half.

"What's wrong Whee?" She puts her fork down and pulls me closer to face her.

I stare at her face. The hard stern look in her eyes had disappeared. Replacing that was the soft vulnerable look, that gentle gaze and innocent smile spreading all over her face. Ah... I thought to myself. Her smile was indeed infectious.

"I miss you..." I say softly, hugging my knees to my chest, resting my chin on top of my left knee.

I see her concern eyes briefly for a split second turn to a cute eye smile.

"I'm always here silly.. aigu... I'm never going over, you hear that? Never. I'll never leave you." She says gently into my ears, pulling me into a hug.

A wave of love crashed over me, and I let go of my knees to hug her back, burying my face into her shoulders.

After a few minutes of silence and chewing, I opened my mouth again. It wasn't that the silence was uncomfortable, don't get me wrong, this was a very relaxing silence, but I decided to share my feelings with her first.

"Hyejin ah..." I start and she turns again, giving me her full attention.

"I'm scared I'll lose you. Please know I love you always and I want to be there for you through anything and everything. I don't care if you think it's going to burden me or anything but you are all I have okay? I just miss you being happier, before those stupid people talked nasty things about you that aren't and will never be true. It makes me so sad that you have to go through all that. I don't want you to go through anything alone alright?" I say sincerely as I hold her hand.

"Aigu, wheepup don't cry :( I promise I'll try but sometimes it's just too hard..." Hyejin wipes away the streams of tears rolling down my face as she replies me softly.

The pain, the hurt that lingers in her voice stings. I knew she was still hurting, and that hurt me too. After all, we were each other's ride or die.

After we wash up, I flop down on her bed and wait for her to cuddle. I had been having difficulty sleeping the past few weeks and Hyejin knew that, so she told me to go over and she'll put me to sleep. I was touched because although it was a rather normal practice for us when either of us were having spikes in our insomnia issue, I also knew she was having a hard time sleeping.