Your heavy eyelids slowly opened, only to fall shut very soon, your senses having kept you from the bright environment that appeared to be too much for you momentarily. You growled a bit as you moved your hand slightly, realizing that you still had no strength in your body. Your head felt like someone had placed a heavy object right on your forehead and a feeling of vomiting hit you as you tried to open your eyes again but your vision spun around in a haze.

"Come on Y/N, you need to wake up. There are so many things we have to do." A faint voice reached your ears like a ringing and the tone of it was distorted making you unable to recognise it until you adjust your eyesight and take a clear look at your surroundings.

There was a chandelier hanging at the ceiling slightly at your right and as you looked at your side, you found a hand reached out to you, holding a bottle of perfume near your nose, most likely in an attempt to wake you up. You tilted your head slowly a bit more, only to witness that the owner of that hand was none other than Luke, who gave you a smile as soon as he saw your eyes on him.

He enjoyed the pause on your face too, and the slight confusion that took over you after only for finally horror to glimpse in your eyes, and gift him satisfaction. It didn't take long for you to jolt up in a seating position and retrieve yourself as quickly as you could manage at the farthest corner of the couch he had laid you on, holding yourself tight in a protective manner, while your eyes had gotten stuck on him, in a rather aggressive manner.

"What- What are you doing?" You managed to ask him before you left your eyes desperately looking around in an attempt to find something that could possibly protect you if he was to try anything.

"No need to look that stressed Y/N. It's not like you are with a stranger now, are you." Luke smiled as he spoke, leaving the perfume he was holding at the small glassy table that was at the side.

"Is this a hotel room?... Where is this?" You asked as your eyes had fallen on some neatly placed handkerchiefs at a small table nearby that had the stump of a hotel name, which you didn't recognise.

"Feel free to scream if you want. Even if they hear you -which I highly doubt- they will certainly misunderstand those screams of yours as something else." He replied, and you looked at him, realizing that he was way too confident about this, which meant that this nice-looking vast suit room, was most likely soundproof.

Okay, don't panic, keep calm. You need to distract him and get yourself out of here. You have to escape, escape. 

The last word loomed in your thoughts like an echo as you stared at him and he dared to take a step closer, making you instantly stand up and place yourself behind that couch, while still having your grip on it to use the furniture to balance yourself, for your strength was still very faint.

"Why do you look like you want to run away from me? Why are you so scared Y/N? It's not like you did anything that you shouldn't have done, now did you?" Luke tilted his head to the side as he appeared friendly in his tone of voice, but that only made you grow more alert, for to you it was obvious that you had infuriated him, by speaking about him to Jungkook.

"Why-Why does it matter? It's not like I have any proof and it's been so many years, you can't even be convicted for it, so why is me speaking about it, still a problem? It doesn't harm you in any important way." You tried to reason by speaking the truth for there was nothing you could do against him now, no matter how many people you were to ramble on about his despicable actions of the past.

"Indeed you can't do me any damage. There's no reason for anyone to believe you no matter what you say...yet that boss of yours sure seemed to have believed you. How nice of him. He sure looks after you rather passionately- Are you aware that despite paying your debt, he gave me extra money to keep me away from your life forever?" He stated and you left your eyes momentarily growing wider, by the way, he seemed to leave his words to carry an implication.

"So what if he did?"

"Do you know many employers that would spend so much for a simple employ?" He questioned and you instantly tried to defend Jungkook's actions.

"I am his wife's best friend and his brother's ex-girlfriend. We are friends. He didn't do that for the reasons you are implying."

"Oh, I don't really care if he is or not, what I care about though is the fact that that so-called friend, became someone that helped you manage to win that fear over. You have no idea how well I had worked to establish that. How nice it was seeing you tremble at my sight. Just who does he think he is, to undo my grip on your mentality? It really infuriated me."Luke admitted just as he started taking steps closer to you and you stepped away with each step he took, making you two change positions, him being at the other side of the couch and you being more towards the one side that was closer towards the exit.

"Angelina may be dead and gone, but I can't let you forget. No, you can't move on Y/N. Don't you think that it's cruel, to leave me suffering alone when you are guilty over her death too? "The words he sput out instantly entered your mind like poison.

"No, no, I didn't do anything!"

"Exactly! You chose to keep yourself safe. You were scared of me, so you chose to save your own self by keeping quiet and letting her suffer alone. Admit it, we pushed her to suicide together and I can't let you be happy now. You and I have to suffer forever. I can't allow you to overcome this by lying to yourself that it was just a mistake. Because no matter what you say and I say, she can't come back to life."

"Shut Up! It was you who harmed her! It was you who abused her! It was you who she loved and you didn't appreciate that! So what if you suffer forever after, you brought that upon yourself? So what if you feel guilty? You should feel way worse than that! Yes, I may have made a mistake, and yes I may have done wrong too however it was you, who let her down! It was you who killed her heart even prior her body was to leave its last breath! The only murdered among us, is You!" You surprised your own self by the way you found the courage to storm off at him and as his face finally fell serious you made a run for the door, only for your breath to be cut once he got hold of your hair and you closed your eyes, as he forced your head to collide with the door.

You whimpered in pain momentarily just as you felt a fresh feeling touching your lips, making you reach your hand there, only to see that the collision had brought you a nosebleed. You felt his grip pulling your head back, enough for his face to appear at the side of your face, making you look at his from the corner of your eyes, just as he used his strength again and violently swirled you around and pushed you again further into the room and away from that door.

He let you go once near the couch again and you rushed to take as many steps away as possible from him, nearing yourself close to the glassy balcony door, while you were staring at him with a mixture of fear and anger.

"Ah, you have changed Y/N...that gaze on you, isn't like before...it's all because of him, isn't it? Do you really think that he will save you?" He scoffed at the end of his words, finding that stupid hope you had put on Jungkook quite unreasonable.

"I don't need him to save me. Nor I am expecting him to do anything for me. I am not a coward anymore. I am not like you who runs to hide behind their finger and tries to share their burdens with others cause they can't bare them themselves. I have taken my suffering all to myself, I have blamed myself and I have carried the sin of my silence. Yes, I may not deserve happiness, but I can't allow it to be you the one to dictate that. That would be a disease to her memory." Your intonation slightly trembled as you spoke, for your whole body had started trembling lightly over as fear was travelling through your veins and the events of the past were swirling in your mind.

A certain sentence becoming centred in your head more than anything else. Luke, screaming at you while he had then pinned you on the floor, threatening you that if you ever were to speak to a soul, he would do way worse to you.

Those words he had uttered back then, had been strong enough to appear in your nightmares, strong enough to hunt you for years and strong enough to impact you even now, making you hate the thought only, of him touching you in any way.

I can't overpower him...but if I can't stop him...then...

You thought just as from the corner of your eyes you became fully aware of the balcony door and the first desperate thought that crossed your mind was escape. If you couldn't physically escape, you could let the life escape out of you. All it could take was a jump and it would be over. All it could take was a jump and you would make sure you would never have to live anything horrifying.

"You are right...Sure  I am a coward. I am not like you. I am a bad person. If I repent or not matters less. I can't bring the one I loved back. But you...You have the one you love in this world. Isn't it unfair that you get to feel love again, while I can't? You certainly are as egoistic as me, and we are sinners together, on different levels, yes, but you know that you are. So explain to me, why, why do you deserve someone to love you and I don't." Luke's face seemed to display a mixture of emotions as he vented out, his intonation rising and falling just as his hand gestures grew grander, making you look at him in utter confusion and fright.

"You have feelings for your boss and he even though married, has feelings for you too. It was so evident to me when he sat across me at that table. The way he looked at me like he wanted to kill me just for messing with you.-" He paused as a chuckle escaped his lips, finding it funny.

"You are his wife's best friend...his brother's girlfriend, his friend, you say...bullshit. You are clearly way more than that and I am sure you don't feel ashamed of it. Shouldn't you be feeling at least bad for stealing someone's man? Shouldn't you at least be smart enough by now to know that people like us, can't have love?" He approached you as he spoke and you stepped back until you felt your back hitting against the glassy door of the balcony. His feet halted at a very short distance from you and your trembling just got more intense as you froze there, unable to move nor look away.

He lifted his hand and slowly brought it towards your face, only for you to halt your breath instantly as a feeling of disgust took over your senses and made your face instantly grow paler. He noticed the change but he didn't halt his movement, he slow it down however as he passed his thumb under your nostrils and swiped off some of your blood, gifting you the feeling that you wanted to cut off that part of your skin instantly.

"There's no need to try to be better Y/N, there's no need for you to lie to yourself like that. Don't let people fool you. You are a horrible person, and no matter how much you try to make up for it and no matter how much you try to cover it, that fact won't change. You don't really care about others, you only care about yourself." He whispered and tears started dwelling in your eyes and rolling down your cheeks as you kept eye contact with him, hating yourself a bit more by every word he uttered.

"You don't love anyone, you just love getting love. And once someone takes away that love from you, you get vengeful, prideful, and egoistic. Those are your true colours and I know better than anyone else. Because we are very alike. Whether you like it or not, you and I are as rotten as one can get."

"No" You whimpered weakly as your facial expression portrayed the pain he had placed you in for everything that had been said along with the images that flashed in your mind, were proving him right.

When you found out that Jimin and Seon were lying to you. When you found out what they were doing behind your back, your ego was hurt, your pride was wounded and there was no love that you had for them that would keep you from wanting that revenge. You really wanted to see them suffer at some point. And Jungkook, you only had started loving him when he seemed to be loving you. He was right, he was right, was all that was going in your head.

"Yes, and you know what-" Luke slowly brought his hand on your neck and instantly tightened his grip on you, not carrying much about your tears or the hellish emotional and mental state he had gaslighted you into.

You whimpered under his tight hold briefly as your hands reflexively went over his in an attempt to try to free yourself but as he brought his face closer, you just held your breath and closed your eyes tight.

"You will become an even worse person if you forget who you truly are. You hate liars, don't you? So why lie to everyone? All your friends think you care for them, why have you lied to them like that? You hate liars, so try to not be one from now on, okay? Don't make your dead friend feel ashamed of you from where she is at." He uttered in a slow voice and you just pursed your lips in an attempt to not sob at that moment, but suddenly a noise was heard, which made Luke turn around to look and made you open your eyes.

Only to witness Jungkook barging into the room furiously, a gaze on his face that could kill and veins visible by the side of his neck while his hands had gathered on fists. Some staff stood behind him and some security people of the hotel, that did nothing as he angrily rushed nearer and punched Luke, sending him to the ground.

---To be continued...