Touch || TXT Yeonbin (TOMORROW X TOGETHER Yeonjun x Soobin)

VII || Scarlet

I leaned my forehead against a gap in between the bars, closing my eyes. He did the same, some strands of his hair tingling my skin. 

‚I love you, Yeonjun-ah..'

We looked at each other again.

‚Now you belong to someone...' he said kissing first the tips of two of his fingers, then placing them gently upon my lips. ‚I love you too, Soobin-ah..'

If there weren't these iron bars I would have pulled him close to me and never let go. But reality was different. He was still inside a cage, and I was still living with the person that put him in there, and was torturing him day after day.

‚I promise, I'll find the key, I will get you out of there...'

‚But you have to be careful, you can't reveal yourself to him or you will end up down here. That's not the way how I wanted to be together with you..'

‚Until today I didn't even know, that there is part of a creature inside of me ... even if I wanted to show it.. I don't know how.'

‚Just take care ...' He said his eyes never leaving mine. ‚You should go back up again, you were already down here for a long time.'

Although I didn't want to go, I didn't want to leave him, I knew he was right, I had to go soon or I would risk meeting Taegeum.

‚I'll be back as soon as possible..' I assured him, placing another kiss on his hand. ‚Stay strong..'

He nodded watching me gathering all the things that I had brought down and then disappearing up the staircase. In the kitchen I put the box away again before I went straight up to my room. My urge to find the key was greater than ever. I wanted to be finally close to Yeonjun, I wanted his suffering to stop, I wanted to escape from this house together with him. But where could Taegeum have the key hidden?

I threw myself onto the bed, staring at the ceiling. His room would have been my first guess but his room was accessible the whole day. Strangely enough in the whole house there was not a single locked room. It seemed as if Taegeum had nothing to hide, a man without any secret... but in reality he had the biggest secrets, his whole personality was a lie, a facade, an act.

So where would a person like this keep the key to his biggest and dirtiest secret? It could be nowhere and everywhere. I felt like it could be right in front of my nose and I wouldn't know. But anyhow, I needed to find it as fast as I could.

I looked over at the clock it was already late in the night... I knew it would start soon. Taegeum would be back soon, Yeonjun would suffer again. 

As I began thinking about it, the noises started. 

My whole body froze as I stared blankly into the room. Tears started falling. I covered my mouth with both hands in order not to cry out. This night was an exception to all the nights before. The sounds were so vivid, loud and tearing my heart apart. I couldn't imagine what was done to Yeonjun in that moment or how he would look the next day. It sounded worse than ever before. I could clearly hear his screams echoing up to me. My limbs began to shake, my shoulders quivered with my sobs.

‚Please be alright' I whispered. ‚I'll be with you soon, just be fine... Yeonjun-ah..'

The noises faded but my tears stayed until my eyes became too heavy to stay open, sending me into a land where I was already with him, where I could be by his side.

As I woke up the next morning the house seemed oddly quiet. I changed my clothes, choosing a shirt with a high collar to cover the wound on my neck, then I went down the stairs. Kitchen and living room where empty, there was just a note from Taegeum left on the kitchen table: Had to leave earlier, see you later, it said.