ABOMINATE || Slow Editing

Chapter 14: Tears

_JACKIE_

"What are we going to do now?" I asked for the nth time as I was leaning against a tree holding my wounded leg and putting pressure on the bleeding bullet hole.

"Just shut up and let me think" Yoongi yelled clearly annoyed. He was continuously pacing on the grass.

We both were waiting outside the camp border and trying to think about ways to get in without being burnt by the protective shield. The time was almost 2 past midnight and we were not supposed to return untill the next five hours. No one was expecting our early arrival and we were too scared to tell them.

"There's no other way Yoongi, we'll have to call the chief" I exclaimed while suppressing my increasing pain. Every slight movement I did made the bullet inside my flesh move thereby amplifying the pain.

"You might be on his good books but I'm not. Once he gets to know that I sneaked out and compromised our mission, he will kill me himself" Yoongi scoffed.

"You are exaggerating this Yoongi. He is your father, he'll surely forgive you" I tried to calm him down.

"I am not exaggerating anything" Yoongi's voice kind of simmered down as he came and sat down beside me by the tree.

"He never understood me and never will. He doesn't love me" I saw Yoongi breaking down and it was the first time I witnessed his vulnerable side.

I didn't feel the hatred I generally felt for him. Instead, I was feeling sympathy towards him. I considered Yoongi as a rude jerk who didn't care about others' feelings but now I knew that he did all those rough act to hide his broken heart. He didn't have anyone to care about his feelings and as much as I respect the chief, I knew he didn't give Yoongi enough time that a father should give his son.

I didn't know what neurons sparked in me, I moved closer to him and placed my hand on his cheek thereby wiping his tears away. He looked up at me with surprised eyes.

"You are wrong Yoongi. Chief loves you, a lot. But he is scared to express his feelings to you, just like you are. He always wanted to get closer to you but never could do it because he was afraid if he goes farther away. Loosing your mother was hard for him, he doesn't want to loose you too Yoongi!"

To my surprise, Yoongi did not punch me or push me away at my audacity of talking back to him. Instead he came even closer and hugged me and started crying his heart out while his head rested on my shoulder. I lifted my hands and wrapped them around his back as I hugged him back.

_YOONGI_

After crying for what felt like hours, I finally realized what situation I was in. I was hugging my worst enemy and I also revealed my vulnerable side to her!!?

I wanted to be angry on myself but somehow I wasn't. Half of me wanted to push her away while the other half just wanted to stay like that, hugging her close to my chest forever. I never cried in front of anyone but confiding in her kind of felt nice. For some weird unknown reason, I wasn't feeling the rage towards her that I always did.

Anyways, I pushed her aside softly and moved away.

"I am s-sorry" I said while looking down.

"You wait here. I'll see what I can do to get us in" I stood back up and started my pacing. I took a small pebble from the ground and threw it towards the camp shield. As expected, the gravel degraded into fine pieces of ash because of the high voltage electricity erupted by the shield.

Immediately loud alarms started ringing through out the camp perimeter declaring the arrival of some uninvited intruders. Within minutes almost the whole camp gathered by the border with deadly weapons, ready to eliminate us.

I quickly raised my hands in surrender and moved closer to the light so that they could recognize me. They did as hoped and Adonis disabled the shield.

"Help Jackie, she's hurt" I informed them and almost immediately a stretcher was brought in. They took her to the medication zone and I followed behind them but one of the attendants stopped me in my track.

"She needs to be operated on right now. You can't go in" she declared.

"But-" I could feel some unexpected fear in my heart. Would she be okay?

"Don't worry, your friend will be okay" she said as if she read my mind.

Wait, friend?