Roses

Roses: Preview: ONE: Phase: ONE

Mika Ji POV

"Are you sure you want to go through with the termination of your pregnancy?"

The doctor asks and I nodded without thinking twice, knowing the answer to that question the moment I took the test and rushed here.

This shouldn't even be called a pregnancy.

A pregnancy was when two people who loved and valued each other conceived a beautiful genetic variation showing their immense love.

This was not a pregnancy.

This was an invasion.

That wasn't a baby, it was a parasite and I want it out.

"Sure honey, it's a standard procedure. Let me just get set up okay? Just lay back for me," She doesn't ask the question twice and for that, I'm thankful as I lay back on the crinkled tissue paper. Letting my mind wander as I stare into the bright lights above me.

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"I-I-I thought that went really well,"

I mentioned on the drive back to our apartment as I nervously clenched my hands together. My fiance Cain and I were just heading back after a night out with my family since Nakoa was hope visiting from the military. Things were fine until Koa pulled me aside to ask me if I was okay.

Of course, I lied and told him yes.

Because I don't have a death wish.

Cain laughed out loud, causing him to swerve a bit and I yelped with fear. Clutching my seatbelt only to have my head slammed against the window by his palm with a loud smack.

"Shut up you fucking bitch!" He screamed at me and I instantly went silent. Knowing better than to poke the bear. He quieted down as I held my head with a screaming headache.

"Yes sir," I replied, rubbing the area where it hurt the worse but nothing was going to help this wound. It would just bruise up like everything else and then he'll blame me again.

"I love you Mika Ji but you're just so stupid sometimes," he mutters and I nodded.

"Yes, Cain, you're right. I'm so stupid I don't even know why I'm alive," I mentioned and his hand slapped against my thigh so hard that I wanted to scream but bit my lip until it bled instead.

I was starting to think that the lines of bruises he left behind would never heal.

My small frame jetted forward when he stomped on the brakes in our lot of the parking garage and I felt like I was going to throw up with how badly my head hurts.

"I love you, which is why I'm sorry I have to do this," Cain says as he gets out of the car but I knew what that meant, my eyes go wide and I hold my head.

"No, no, no," I muttered under my breath before my side of the car whipped open and he yanked me out by my forearm with a loud pop. We had just gotten started and I was already crying.

"Ah, no, please. I'll behave! I promise!" I cried but he wasn't listening.

"How are you going to learn my love?" He said and he threw me over his shoulder and I gasped from the pain in my shoulder. He's just doing this because he loves me, this is what love is right?

I feel my body go limp as my brain separates from my body as it often does to avoid more trauma. Usually, I would see things like premonitions and so on.

But tonight I saw nothing but pitch black.

Which means if he has his way with me tonight, I was going to be dead by the morning.

He kicks the apartment door closed with his foot and throws me on the floor with as much force as possible. The cold hardwood was numb to me and I began seeing two of Cain as I laid on the floor, spreading my legs because I knew soon enough my pants would be gone and he would be on top of me, then it would be over.

But he never comes back from the door.

The screaming hurts my head and I squeezed my eyes shut, my cheeks wet from the tears as I felt lifted from the ground. But these arms were strong and stable, unlike Cain's.

I opened my eyes slightly to see who it was before letting out a long sigh of relief.

"Rumi! We have to go!" Nakoa called after my brother as he cradled me in his arms and I turned my head to find Rumi on top of Cain. The sirens could be heard in the distance and I lolled off to sleep.

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"All done Mr. Jackson. Now I've already gone over the outpatient procedures but here's a list of everything we touched on okay? Come back immediately if you have any of these symptoms," The doctor explains before moving onto her next patient.

Before I put my shirt down, I felt my stomach and it was quiet.

I could finally breathe a sigh of pure relief knowing it wasn't there anymore and I was free.

I pulled my shirt down and pulled on the cozy dull gray hooded sweatshirt that I almost always wore inside the apartment. Which means it was an everyday sweatshirt because I haven't left my brothers' apartment once these past two months, I locked myself away. Scared of the outside world and it's evil which haunts me.

I walked outside the clinic with my paperwork neatly folded and at my side, the sun was still up with no signs of stopping and the people were plentiful today. I think maybe after a quick pick me up, I'll head to the beach and do some light reading as I tried to make the best out of this crappy day.

The closest coffee shop was a Starbucks down the street and I've never been much of a restaurant chain coffee lover, but I had no other options as I went inside. Finding the walls covered with the siren and the familiar green aprons showing me the way.

"Hey there, I'll be with you in just a second." A deep voice rings out and I stopped in my tracks. The voice came from a man who was busy brewing coffee with his back to me until he turned around and suddenly I'm faced with brightest blue eyes I've ever seen. His gaze alone has me shaking as his brilliant smile gives me a warm feeling that I was trying to ignore. His name tag reading Bryson before he came back to the register and took my order.

"What can I get for you?" He asked and I bit my lip, debating my options.

"What do you think I should get? Sorry, I don't come here often," I confess, feeling my cheeks heat up with embarrassment and he chuckles a bit.

"Don't worry about it. I'll make something for you," He says in this soothing voice that makes me forget about everything that happened today.

"I...you don't have to," I shyly shrug it off but he shakes his head, grabbing a small cup and walking over to the bar.

"Don't worry about it, It'll be on me. Do you like caffeine?" He asks and I shake my head. I hated the way caffeine made me feel and I couldn't handle it with my Mahu power.

"Hmm, I guessed as much," He says as he steams the milk and pumps some syrup into the cup.

"You seem like you like sweet things right?" He asks and I nod, clenching my hands together.

"How did you know?"I asked and he smiled, pouring the milk straight into the cup and making a tiny heart out of caramel drizzle on the foam before putting a lid on it and picking it up.

"I can just tell, what's your name?" He asked as he clicked a sharpie and started writing something on the cup.

"Mika Ji," I tell him and he continues writing with a smile.

"Wisdom? How beautiful," He says as he hands me my cup, my hand gently rubbing across his as I take it and give it a sip.

"Mmm, this is delicious! What is this?" I ask and he wipes his hands on his apron.

"That's my little secret, but if you come back tomorrow, I might share it with you," He says and goes back to the register where someone was waiting.

I looked at the cup and found he had written my name in Korean along with the words, you have a beautiful smile, also written in hangul. I looked back to the handsome deep purple-haired boy and took another sip of this amazing hazelnut hot chocolate.

Maybe all men weren't so bad after all.