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Chapter 28: Their Separation

A few seconds later, she's back to the normal façade, her frown transformed back to that once so bright smile of hers. The lady sighed out because of the awkwardness wedged between us. I stared at her in disbelief, I didn't want to get anywhere closer to her. Thus meaning I had to position my body more backward, closer to the pillows.

Y/n was sitting in the center of the bed so it was inevitably challenging to get away from her. The way she awkwardly shifted in her position was an expected behaviour especially since she was the aggressor of the situation. she was the pull to my push. every single time I attempted to escape this hellhole she was there to drag me back here.

I knew I was going to be here for the rest of my life, I was going to be the missing kid to a famous CEO for the next three months then the PIs my father and family spent money on will be wasted away. My missing will put a heavier load on my father expeditiously, his work is going to consume him more than anything, and drinking will be a daily routine in his life. My mother... probably would sit there staring at my old pictures, pondering over the evidence they received from the three to four PIs they hired. Sooner or later would fire all three to four.

My existence was the glue to my family, even though I had two other siblings. I was the main focus to my parents because I was the one of three that wanted to take over the business. My sister became an actress, a well-known actress in fact. My brother wanted to be a baseball player and still does.

I had a future I could see myself striving in and now I'm face to face with this psychotic woman who claimed to love me and never harm me. I just... didn't see my future, anymore. Everything was black and dull, I didn't see the usual day-to-day staying late at night in the building, having dinner at some five-star restaurant with a special someone. A woman. A guy. It didn't matter because I noticed myself laughing and smiling toward the--

"Hey, Min." Someone calls out to me. I shift my attention to them, causing me to produce an audible hum. "You good, man?" The person inquires about my well-being, I don't say much except for a yeah and a coerced smile I displayed on my appearance.

My eyes now search around my surroundings to perceive a long hallway, enormous thin windows on the left side of the hall, the right is spaced-out pillars with medium-sized, wooden railings in between the white posts. Some people are talking near the windows and some lean on the pillar as they look at their phones.

The group of friends I'm with is sitting and standing against the huge windows. They're talking about some ridiculous stuff and I can feel myself going back to that grey room. "Hey, guys, I'm going to go to the bathroom?" I inform them.

"Okay, we'll go with you."

"No, it's fine."

"We don't have to go in. We can just stay outside to wait for you."

"Literally, it's cool."

"I mean the bathroom is pretty far so at least one of us ca--"

"NO!!" I pause to recollect myself. "I mean, I'm going to be fine. I just--need a second."

"Geez man, we get it." The person comments on my aggressive response with their hands thrown up on either side.

Once I got to the bathroom, I immediately rush to the sink. My hands gripping both sides as I wait patiently for the facet to get lukewarm for me. I shut my eyes tightly attempting to get accustomed to my surroundings, again. The environment around me feels so unfamiliar all of a sudden, the bathroom, the hallways, my dorm room, the university. This entire world is so foreign to me now.

Opening my eyes once more to simply find my hands cupped with water and splash it upon my fatigued features. My nose begins to run a bit for unknown reasons and my eyes starts to hurt a bit. The water I kept constantly splashing on me had additional substance slipping from my eyes. Eventually, I defer my continuous splashing.

I lift my head upwards to the circular mirror above the sink. Abruptly, I'm encountered by the same girl that's been haunting my dreams and existence. I flinch at her sudden appearance. How the hell did she find me?

She's behind my left shoulder, and in shock, I don't say anything to her. "I will forever be by your side. Always and forever. I will love you and accept you for who you are, Ko Minjun." She confesses. Y/n had mentioned that statement before when I was in that grey room with her.

At that moment, the girl touches my shoulder, causing me to gasp at her physical figure. Promptly, I pivot my body around to discover someone else other than Y/n. It's just a random woman.

"Did you hear me?" She comments. I hum at her.

"I said you're in the girl's bathroom." The woman recorrects my bewilderment. Habitually, I bow to her saying: "I'm sorry, I must have not realized I walked into the wrong bathroom."

Striding out of the restroom while taking the end of my shirt to wipe off the extra liquid on me. Once done I lift my head upwards to find a girl walking down the hallways, she's listening to music with a piece of paper and tiny miscellaneous things in her grasp.

In my eyes, she's walking in slow motion like in those corny romantic movies. My eyes start to burn abruptly and I leisurely rub them just to feel my chest colliding with something, or someone. Then a soft audible voice adding the word 'sorry' to the air makes me open my eyes, again.

She's on the floor leisurely picking up her stuff. "Oh gosh! I am so so sorry. I should've watched where I was going, honestly." The lady continues to add to the awkward silence that fell upon us. Glimpsing down at her, I spot the same piece of paper from earlier. My eyes gravitate to the written paper as I crouch down to see what it was. It's a school schedule. My attention goes to the person's name on the top corner: Y/n L/n...

"No, no, it's my fault..." I finally say something, so she could gaze upon the person she had screwed over for the rest of their life. On cue, she looks up at me...

Fear, guilt, remorse, regret, and melancholy suddenly overwhelm her eyes and body as she falls completely onto her ass. She had stopped talking once she realizes it was me. For a good moment, she was petrified for her life as if she had bumped into a tyrant king.

Then she scurries back on her knees and practically yanks at all of her things up. Y/n gets to her feet, bowing lowly towards me murmuring a sorry once more, and marches the opposite way...

Without her class schedule.