INTRIGUED (✓)

Chapter 16

JIMIN POV

"After that....
Would you leave after that...??

"Tell me you won't go. Then I will"

"Will you come back..?"

Yes. I want to.
I want to go back to you.
But I don't know.
I don't know how?
When?

I opened my eyes and those soaked lashes wouldn't make it easy for me.
The tears wouldn't stop and the sound of her stubborn pleadings that I never wanted to stop.

She begged me.
She was stern.
But I left her.
I had to after knowing what I was putting ourselves into.
I can't risk it.
She would think I'm a coward. I left her without a word. Everytime her grieved voice and her pearly eyes imaged in my mind I couldn't stop the guilt and the stabs of a thousand knives on my heart.

I sniveled, rubbing my face wiping off the stains of salty water.
"Will you come back..?"

Jesus.
I couldn't take it anymore.
I bit my lips hard to the point of tasting my own blood.
The pain pierced through me like a sharp needle and going deeper and deeper.
Her voice.
Her eyes.
Her ethereal face.
Recalled in my mind again and again.

I wanted her.
I want her so bad right now. It hurts.
My head was spinning from the ache I felt but I didn't bother. Her warmth  felt like my mother's womb.
The little squeezes, her cute laughs,
everything, every little thing about that whole day with her pondered infront of my eyes as if yesterday.

"Tell me you will.."

I fell on my knees and cried louder unable to bear the pain. I heard a loud thud of the balcony door open.
Hari ran towards me with bewilderment encasing her face.
And that was the last thing I remembered before darkness clouded my brain.

Flash back

"Sorry, sorry, sorry Aera
I'm sorry I put you into this"
I apologised to her as we ran for our lives. I need to get her some where safe and leave right away. My father wouldn't stop untill he sees me.
I'm ready.
I'm ready to face him.
I'll give him what he wants and we will be set free from his ugly trap.
I will immediately go to hyung after all this is done. And maybe her also if that's where my life leads me.

With soft whimpers, she followed me,
"Jimin..jimin...listen..."
She called for me again and again.

I saw a dark alley with shallow and dirty puddles leading the way.
I wasted no time in dragging us there and hid behind a wall.

"I need to leave, go from here, don't follow me. Soon call someone and ask them to take you from here I'll stay untill you leave."
I spoke fast in one breathe realizing the fear and tension in my voice.
But what she spoke next confounded me.
"After that ....
Would you leave after that ..??"

Yes.
I don't want to.
But I can't tell her that.
The moment I heard the gun shot that he threatened to aim at her never left my mind. They might even go to an extent where they can kill her and make sure no one finds out.
Including me.
I know how evil those men are.

Her hazzy voice filled with desolation broke my already hurt heart. The repairs she made to my heart was beginning to untie themselves because of her voice that held a longing for me and I was ashamed I couldn't fulfill it. Her pearly eyes shedding tears reminded me of how much I would regret this.

I raised her chin to look at me.
"Please" I beseeched.

"Tell me you won't go. Then I will".
She was so stern.