四十九 ; drops of red

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day 18
2.15 am
jeon jeongguk
3rd person point of view

drops of red

he leads her out after that tiring night
carrying her in his arms
and avoiding the strange and suspicious glances
from the people he passed as
he walks down the streets

he finally stops at a bench in a quiet park
placing her carefully and gently down
before sitting by her side
and tucking one of her fringes behind her ear

"i think i'm in love with you, haru"
he says, almost inaudibly
and he doesn't know if she can hear it
but his entire being is telling him that yes
he is in love

2 weeks and a half have passed
and only she had offered that kind of
solace for him

sure jeongguk's heart was dying
with every passing moment
but just this girl's mere presence
made it beat a hundred times faster

so hard he thought that it would
burst out of his chest and
land on the cold stone ground below him

she begins to shift around
and for a moment he thinks that she's going to
regain her consciousness

"-j-jeongguk?" her eyelashes flutter open
and her eyes are the most beautiful thing
jeongguk swears he has ever seen
"where... are we?"

so she's half sober now, jeongguk thinks
and puts a hand on her forehead
"i took you out
you were kind of dazed inside there
i didn't want you to pass out"

"mphhhhmm"

he laughs and messes her hair with a hand
admiring the adorable way she
squinted her eyes at him
oh, she was precious

"let's go back to the car" he says
and she holds her arms out lazily
he carries her back the same way to their rover
parked in the middle of the lot behind the club
and sets down her at the back seat
tucking her in with a blanket

"sleep" he says
"you'll feel better tomorrow"

and what she says next sends a jolt
through jeongguk's entire body

"i don't love him"
she whispers, her voice trembling
as a drop of tear slides down her cheek
"i don't want to marry him, i don't love him
why can't i ever be happy?"

jeongguk caresses her hand tenderly
pecking it before patting her head
"shh, it's going to be okay
i promise
now go to sleep"

he knows
he's always known

after she'd gone away and he'd return to the
same old theatre he's been hiding in for days
he discovered the notebook
and a bucketlist that made him realise
what else was he missing out on?

there wasn't time to waste
he'd rushed out
took the first bus he saw
and headed straight to the town

but after hours of searching
his heart fell into a deep abyss
as she was no where to be seen

and just as all hope for him to find her was lost
he'd passed by an electronics store
seeing the news playing on the screen of the tv
through the display window

LEE HARU
DAUGHTER OF FAMOUS CEO LEE
OF SURI ENTERPRISE
AND SOON-TO-BE FIANCE OF
PARK ENTERPRISE
MISSING

her face shone brightly at him
and he could only blink to make sure
that he wasn't hallucinating

that was the moment jeongguk knew;
she needed someone
and she wouldn't be able to make it alone

he could guess now important
this runaway was to her
heck
it was just as important as it was to him

and as he stands outside the door of the rover
seeing the way her lips moved
as she mumbled incoherent words
in her drunken state
he can't help but to caress her cheek gently

he would give her the world if he could

he feels a burning pain inside his chest
hot liquid filling up the back of his throat
and threatening to burst out

and so jeongguk rushes towards the drains
throwing up drops and drops of red
that can't be visible yet in the darkness of the night

his throat stings
his head is spinning
his thoughts are hazy
his heart heavy
his lungs struggling to breathe normally again

when he finally feels his airways giving way again
he lifts himself up
and takes a clean shirt from his backpack
throwing it on immediately
and tossing the blood stained one
inside a paper bag which he stuffs
into his backpack

he doesn't have much time
and it breaks his heart

"hang on, buddy"
he whispers as he settles himself beside you
"you're almost there"

seeing the floating lanterns in busan
with a pretty girl
who made his heart beat like crazy
everytime she smiled

he wouldn't miss it for the world

"you're almost there"

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