Silence & Chaos | Kim Jungwoo

Chapter 27 - Pianissimo

"Uh, YangYang?" Sunhee spoke up through the muted air that stagnated in the car on the way out of the hospital parking lot. He was sitting next to her in the bucket seats of the suburban, and turned to her with his eyebrows raised as soon as she asked for his attention.

"Does this mean... that the case is over...?"

With a pressed smile and closed eyes, he nodded at the woman. "Yes, it does."

She returned her own little smile. "Okay. Thank you." The information was a little hard for her head to actually process and accept, so she directed her gaze outward, at the city that flew past the tinted window.

Sunhee thought that finding this knowledge out would help her know what to feel, but she was lost as ever regarding her emotions and their placement.

The case was over. The long, excruciating wait was over. She could finally go back to normal life.

What exactly was normal life? Sunhee guessed it was how she lived before the night at the warehouse. When she drew for children's books, which was a job she settled for instead of reaching for what she knew she could be. When she lived alone and had only Junhui around to support her. Before she knew Jungwoo, and Johnny, and Mark and Donghyuck.

Did going back to normal life mean saying goodbye to all of them?

If that was the truth, Sunhee did not want to go back to normal.

She wanted to create her own normal. One that included not only Junhui, but Jungwoo, and Johnny, and Mark and Donghyuck, as well as the other friends she'd made throughout this whole fiasco.

One feeling that kept coming back to her was the relief of being out of danger.

Another one was the burning need to see a certain Kim Jungwoo.

Pulling into the parking lot, she could barely contain her excitement. The excitement began to flatten when she realized the time, and was worried that no one would actually be on the floor. It was nearing 3am.

Her prayers were answered when the elevator doors opened, and the unit floor was filled with nearly every member, save only for the members at the hospital. Even Lucas and Ten had made it back.

The ding of the elevator called a lot of attention to the four that were walking out of it, and there was a mass surge forward toward them.

Lucas was the first to greet Sunhee. His large arms picked her up effortlessly in a hug that was oddly gentle. Like he was nervous he would break her if he wasn't careful. He set her down as softly as he picked her up, and his big hands gripped her arms as he looked up and down her face. His big eyes that she'd just seen cutting down a gang member, were now wide and softened with relief on top of a thin layer of concern. "Sunhee, are you okay? How are you feeling?"

Sunhee chuckled at how he was doting, and smiled at the big puppy man. "I'm doing fine. Not a scratch." She noticed that Ten was patiently waiting behind him.

Before she could decipher that, She was mauled by a screeching Chenle, whose arms wrapped around her clumsily and fairly tightly. A stark contrast to how Lucas hugged her. "SUNHEE YOU'RE ALIVE I WAS SO WORRIED!!"

A wave of the younger agents swarmed her. It was the most welcome she'd felt in a very long time in any social setting whatsoever.

Jisung made his way to the front and held her hands in his while he looked at her and searched for something to say. Coming up short, he just gave her a sweet and soft hug.

"I'm glad you're okay, Noona."

Sunhee was able to contain herself for so long, but at this point she let her explosion take over. After squeezing him back tightly, she pretended to cry while she patted his head that was now a fair amount taller than her. "Please never be anything but yourself, Jisung."