I have no idea how many corners this car already turned and to make it even worse, I lost track of time. HOW CAN THE CLOCK NOT BE SET IN YOUR CAR THAT YOU HAVE BEEN USING FOR A WHILE NOW!! Anyway while I'm to busy losing my mind, Seungmin is already sweating in the front seat. He suddenly turns into a narrow street and stops the car, making both me and Squirrely bump into the seat in front us us.
"You need to go on foot. I will try to drag them away as much as possible." He says to us, and right after, I grab Squirrely's wrist and pull him out of the car shutting the door behind me as fast as possible. The sirens start approaching us again and Seungmin doesn't wait even for a second, as the car drives off faster than ever before. I quickly pull Squirrely behind the trash container squeezing us behind it as much as possible. Damn, it stinks here.
A few seconds after, the police passes by and I slowly get out of our hiding spot with Squirrely following behind. I look around realizing I have no idea where we are. Damn... he just left me to figure out how to get to the damn place by myself..... ME WHO CAN'T EVEN FIND HER OWN APARTMENT!!
"Fuck." I murmur.
"Are we in trouble??" Squirrely asks behind me.
"Pretty much.... let's go, we can still make it." I'm not sure who I'm trying to convince to be positive right now. Myself, or him, but I still take his hand and slowly walk out on the street. Realizing how many people are out here, I fix my cap and turn around to do the same with Squirrely's.
"Do you know where we are??" He asks one more question making me look him in the eyes.
"No, but I will find out." I say back. I can't lie to him, he's not an idiot not to see the panic that is taking all over me. I turn around and head for the closest bus stop. There has to be a bus stop city map there right?? I push through the people keeping Squirrelly as close as possible, as we reach one of the bus stops. There are a few people here, but all of them keep their eyes glued to their phones as we stop in front of the city map.
How does a city map even help me, if I don't even know where this square is. If it's the largest as Seungmin said, then it must also be the main square in Seoul or in other words the Seoul plaza. I look through the map and it's right there, why does it seem so far away thought??" I let out a deep sight, as I realize I'm not sure I can remember the directions from here to all the way there. Am I even capable of anything today??
"Is this where we need to go??" Squirrely taps his finger on the location we need to be at.
"Yes. Why??" I ask as my eyes raise up at him.
"I know this place. I think I know how to get there." Now this takes me by surprise.
"Really?? How though??"
"I lived around here in the past, so I knew my way around." I just nod at him. He takes a few seconds to look through the map in case he doesn't remember clearly, I mean, after all it has been a while. In the meantime I look around and notice a grandma sitting on the bench not even a meter away from us.
"Excuse me, could you tell me what's the time please??" I ask politely and earn a small smile from her.
"Of course, just a moment please." She slowly pulls out her phone, and as the screen turns on she squeezes her eyes trying to get a clear look at the clock.
"It's 11:39 young lady." She looks at me one last time before I thank her and give her a small bow. "Bu-but. Have I seen you somewhere before??" She asks making me bite my lower lip in frustration.
"Probably yes. I'm pretty famous these days." With an awkward laugh, I bow at her two more times and turn to Squirrely who has just finished memorizing the path.
"Let's go." He says as he takes my hand and drags me after himself. His palm is sweaty but his grip tight. How calm he tries to appire does take me by surprise though. We keep going forward avoiding every possible contact with another person because Squirrely has already showed how much he dislikes it.
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Once again I have no idea how many corners we already turned, at the moment my coordination is worse than my cooking so.... yeh. How hard is it to find the main square in Seoul though. Come on, it's Seoul plaza people!! All of a sudden he surprises me by pulling us both to the side of the pavement, with my body and his slamming on the wall.
"Dude that hurts." I yawn
"Sorry. I just need a second to revise this in my head." He closes his eyes and a frown forms on his face. Damn, even in a situation like this he looks attractive. I forcefully tear my eyes away from him and eye our surroundings. It's weird, nobody has noticed us yet. The moment my mind forms those thoughts I notice two policemen's walking up the pavement we are standing on. I stare at their direction for a few seconds to see if they are just randomly here or have a purpose. My eyes lock with one of them, causing him to sharpen his sight on me and right after his eyes widen. He quickly whispers something to his partner before both of them take off as fast as their legs can take them.
Fuck, did I just bring two unneeded burdens on our shoulders. Well the fuck done Jieun. I turn to Squirrely and quickly grab his hand.
"We need to go."
"Wh- but I don't know where we have to-" Without letting him finish I pull him with me and start running. To be honest I have never run this much in my entire life, and now I'm definitely gonna need that sauna when we finish this. Maybe a massage too.
"How far do you think we are!!" I shout at him.
"4 or 5 streets away!!"
"Can you run that much!!"
"Do I have a choice?!" Isn't this to be to much for him. He is just starting to get back to normal so this might be way to much exercise for one day, even I'm running out of breath already. He tightens his grip on my hand and starts running in the same line as me. I look over my shoulder to notice the two police mans getting closer. They must be physically fit pretty well, since it doesn't look that hard when you watch them run.
"Turn here." I say and point toward one of the side streets. We get in and the crowds of people disappear out of our sight. We fasten our pace in order to create a wider gap between us and the police, and without even knowing where we are going we just turn every random turn. After a minute of running I pull Squirrely into our last turn and quickly push him behind one of the large trash bins before squeezing behind it myself.
The smell immediately wrapped around my nose making me sick. Why do I always chose this kind of a hiding place??
A few seconds after, I hear footsteps coming closer, so I just turn away from the street and look at Squirrely whose face is 5 centimeters away from mine. We just stare at each other before the policeman's say a few words to each other and split up to search for us.
"Are you ok??" I whisper to him.
"I can't breathe anymore." He chuckles before giving me a smile. Just now I can hear his heavy breath, I knew this is too much for him.
"Let's stay here for a few minutes, so you can catch your breath." He just nods at me not even able to speak from how exhausted he is.
After a few good minutes of rest, I crawl out of our hiding spot and look around before signaling him to follow me. We get out of the narrow streets back to the main one and immediately start walking. I think my mind calmed down a little bit, since I just realized we can simply use the street signs.
I keep my grip on his hand tight and start moving through the crowded streets. I can feel his palm getting sweatier more and more as seconds pass by, and just now I notice how many people actually are here. I need to distract him before he gets a panic attack or else we are going to have a big problem.
"Hei Jisung... about what I asked in the amusement park." I look up at him to see if I attracted his attention.
"What- what do you mean??" He asks with his jaw slightly trembling.
"You know, I asked if you want to live with me and Minho once this is over." I see him nod slightly. "Me and him agreed that once you're back on your feet, you will go your way while we return back to our normal lives... I thought about it and.. if you want to stay with us I wouldn't really have a problem with that, I'm sure Minho wouldn't neither."
"...why do you want me to stay with you though."
"What you don't want to??" I tear my gaze away from him and notice police on the end of the street. The word about us being in town must have spread. Without letting him notice I pull him to the side where a pack off people is waiting to cross the street.
"NO. I want to!! And besides I don't think I can take care of myself right now, not to mention you, Minho hyung and Seungmin are the only people I feel comfortable around. And don't forget that even Minho hyung can't calm me down because I'm so used to have you beside me every single time. Without you I feel nervous and can't stop thinking about every single thing that might go wrong, so I really want to stay with you guys, but I still want to know why you want me around." While he spits out an entire paragraph of words that I carefully listen to, the light on the traffic turns green and I pull him with me.
"Do I really have to explain that??" I look behind us to see where the cops are before his expression catches my eyes. From the look on his face I get my answer, making me let out a deep sight. Damn it, I'm not used to revealing my feelings.
"Ok, fine. It's just that.. I can't really... I don't want to go back to my old boring life. At first I got you out of the hospital because you reminded me of my sister, and I couldn't allow myself to ignore you. I didn't want to regret anything again. I wanted to give you the life you deserve because what they did to you was wrong, but then... then you started laughing, and you started asking so many questions, and all the goofing around we did together. I watched you get excited over things that I never thought are interesting, so seeing that made me feel like I can experience things all over again, but this time I can do it while laughing and having fun, so automatically I feel so happy around you." I pull him into a small park as I notice one more police man in front of us.
"Seeing you cry and having panic attacks brings my mood down so fast, and I can even feel my heart break everytime I pull you into a hug to calm you down, but the truth is, I will never get tired of it. I want to be there when you need someone, and even if you take years to recover I will never give up on you, because I know you can do it." We reach the end of the park and cross one more street.
"I even talked about my sister with you, which hasn't happened in years and that is a big deal to me, because I haven't never opened up with anyone other than Minho. Even with him, I needed an hour of overthinking and that shit is mentally hard to deal with you know." I suddenly stop and look him in the eyes.
"You make me step out of my comfort zone, and I don't even know how to go back to living a normal life without you. I just want you to stay." I finally take a breath and notice his surprised expression. Look at me writing an entire essay after complaining about his one paragraph.
"Does this mean I finally get to experience my first kiss??" His sudden random question catches me off guard. I smack my hand on my forehead and let out a face cry.
"What's up with you and that kiss??" I hear him laugh at my reaction making me look back up at him. "I just literally confessed here and the first thing you say right after is.. agghh!!." He just gives me an innocent smile before speaking up.
"If I'm going to date you, doesn't that mean I get to kiss you too though??" Surprised from what he just said I freeze in the spot. Does this mean I'm not the only idiot who feels this way?? My ears heat up badly and this hasn't happened in a while now that's for sure. I quickly get myself together and start walking again. I guess he at least forgot about his surroundings for a short while.
"I will take that as a yes." He chuckles beside me, but I ignore him completely as my eyes catch the big plaza in front of me. With every step we take more and more of it gets reviled, the big stage on one end and the rest filled with people. After a few seconds I feel Squirrely gasp behind me. Well now this is gonna be interesting.
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