MY SAVIOUR || KIM TAEHYUNG ??

Chapter 2

Letting out a sigh of relief, I hurriedly made my way to the library finding the next available seat away from everyone.

I quickly glanced around me to see if Mr Kang was anywhere in sight. He wasn't. Maybe I could escape detention. I briskly made my way to the school entrance before someone caught me.

"Miss Choi?" I froze in my steps. Dammit.

"Detention. Now" he glared at me. My face fell as I followed Mr. Kang to the detention room. I sat down on the last row near the windows. As soon as I sat down, my eyes caught the sight of Jay. He stood near his car pacing back and forward, continuously looking at his watch before he scowled getting in his car and driving off. This wasn't good. They probably think I've run away. This really isn't good. I snapped out of my thoughts when the door flung open, hitting the desk behind it.

"That is no way to enter the classroom, Mr Taehyung" Mr Kang yelled. Taehyung rolled his eyes shrugging his shoulder walking down the classroom, making his way towards...me?

He didn't notice me yet. He looked around the classroom before his eyes fell on me. He froze for a split second before he blinked.

"You're in my seat" he grumbled. He has a seat? In detention? I didn't say anything, I just grabbed my bag and got up to move out of his way, sitting two seats away. We sat in silence.

"I need to give these files to the principal, I expect both of you where you are, when I get back" Mr Kang said leaving the room. I looked at the clock that read 3:30pm, my fear began creeping in again. He's going to be angry. He's going to call me names and tell me that I turned out to be this and I turned out to be that but he'll conveniently forget to mention all of the real life shit he did to me, and just how long I took and even made excuses for it. He knows he's a coward because this is what cowards do and that's why he takes that frustration out on me.

"You alright there?" a voice questioned. I looked at Taehyung blinking twice before answering.

"I'm fine" it almost sounded true. I had become so used to hiding my pain, that now it had become a second nature to lie.

"No, you're not. You're hyperventilating." Taehyung looked at me with his eyes narrowed, as I tried to get my breathing under controlling.

"You're having a panic attack, aren't you?"

it sounded more like a statement than a question coming out of his mouth. I rested my head on the table when I heard his chair screech. Let me tell you how it feels. To worry all the time. To feel as if you're trapped. It stops you in your tracks. And then the panic sets in. Your heart beats fast. You get cold chills. You begin to sweat. Your feet and hands go numb. You can taste metal. You ears begin to ring. Everything's too loud. You feel like everyone's watching, witnessing your weakness. Everyday it's the same. You wish you didn't care, that it didn't feel like this. But it does, and continues to for a long time. You try to reach out, but you're slowly sinking, into a pit of darkness. Scrambling for a hand to pull you out from its depths. But no one listens. That is anxiety.

"Look at me." I continued to breathe hard into my arms. I feel a pair of hands squeezing their way into my arms, lifting my head up. I flinched hard as he touched me and his eyes squinted assessing my reaction, before he let it go.

"Listen to me okay? Look around you, find 3 things you can see" my eyes were shut and I could only hear Taehyung's voice.

"Listen to me. Do what I'm telling you to do." I steadily opened my eyes looking at Taehyung first before looking around the classroom.

"The desk...the tables...the chairs" I listened off slowly.

"2 things you can touch" Taehyung said.

"The ground...the door." my breathing slowed down.

"1 thing you can hear."

"Your voice." my breathing was steady by this point.

"What was that?" I whispered. No one had ever helped me calm down before. I didn't think it was possible.

"It's called grounding" Taehyung said standing up from where he was kneeling on the floor in front of me. "It can help you when you feel like you're lost control of your surroundings". Without looking back, he walked back to his seat just before Mr Kang walked back in.

"You guys can leave" he announced as soon as he walked in. I instantly look at the clock. 4:00 pm. I grabbed my belongings running out the room after Taehyung.

"Taehyung?" I called out just as he was about to turn the corner. He stopped looking back at me over his shoulder.

"Thank you" he didn't reply but walked away instead. Now it's time for me to go home and face the music.

To be continued..........