Han-Bi's POV

"I need to go to the restroom for a while." I told Seokjin, he nodded a little. I went to the restroom... I did my business and got out after a good five minutes.

When I got out Seokjin was nowhere to be seen, I was confused trying to find him.

"Come with me." A creepy old guy said in front of me. He's taller than me by an inch; I don't like the look on his face- smiling like a creepy paedo.

Oh my God, I'm only 16. He gripped on my hand, hard, making me wince in pain.

"YAH, who the hell are you?!" my fear prevented me from saying any more.

He began walking fast, straight to somewhere I don't want to know. My throat is too dry and can't speak a word. Bystanders aren't not doing anything. I was panicking.

The first name I can shout out was Seokjin's but as I said, my throat is too dry. My heart is racing.

Does he know what's happening, at least?

SAVE ME YOU FREAK. I'M NOT GOING TO DIE YOUNG.

The creepy guy led me to the mall's isolated exit and led me out with him. This was the area behind the mall where no one but the staff goes. I'm getting more and more nervous.

Shit, I'm going to either be raped or killed. A group of men in black clothes with covered faces surrounds me. What's happening? I don't know what to do.

I took my phone. "Excuse me; I'm calling my parents to tell them my last words. You can kill me or whatever after this." I told them.

That's dumb, well yeah; at least I can distract them a little bit. Still, it's really, really, dumb.

They looked at each other and nodded. Wow, I didn't know they would allow me.

Man, tell me someone is going to save me while they wait. One door in the distance opened, and that's when I had hope.

It was Ye-Eun.

WAIT WHAT? How did she-Why is she-aish, better think of something.

She was clueless at first but I think she knew what to say. The guys looked in her direction.

"COME ON GUYS, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT FROM HER? I HAVE MORE THAN SHE DOES, SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" she raised her hands in the air.

She signalled me to run away. The door behind me was the first thing I saw when she did that and I ran away.

She's distracting them, what is her fate now? I can't just leave her there but she told me to.

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I was running far, far away and people were looking in my direction. While I was running bumped into someone, we both crashed to the floor.

I took a close look at the girl I bumped into. It's- Seol-Na! THIS IS THE BIT WHERE I DIE EARLY. She's goingto kill me. This is going to be scary, I'll be beaten up.

"Oh, shit, watch where the hell you're going." she said. She got a good look at my face and my throat was drier for a second.

"Look, Seol-Na ssi, I'm sorry. I just need to run, okay? I'm really sorry. You could do anything you want to me later on." I said.

She was so mad that she pushed me off her to the ground. I feel a pain shooting through my back.

She stood up and almost stepped on my hand but I quickly pulled away.

"YOU! We're not done yet!" I heard the old man from earlier shout. He's running towards me. He tried to snatch me but I pushed him and kicked him in the stomach.

I started running again, leaving the confused and mad Seol-Na. I'm running so fast I think my legs will fall off my body soon.

Why the hell is he chasing me?! I don't even know where Ye-Eun is and what happened to her!

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I'm tired from running; I just want someone to help me right now. No Seol-Na, no Ye-eun, ESPECIALLY no Jin. Where is he? Didn't he see me get snatched by a paedophile?

I quickly ran inside a department store and the old man followed me in there. I hid myself in the clothes, girls' section.

While hiding, I peeked and saw a young woman checking out the clothes. I called her attention and she came over to me, confused.

"H-Hi, there's someone chasing me and trying to kidnap me, can you please call the cops-"

"THERE YOU ARE!" I heard the old man call again. I jolted in surprise as he grabbed hold of me, I think he's kidnapping me.

I'm in extreme panic; the woman I just communicated with is frightened as well. It hurts how he grabs hold of my hand like that.

"LET GO OF ME!" I screamed, trying to push myself away from him. I can't because I'm a younger female and I'm suffering from great exhaustion.

Everybody sees it but doesn't do anything about it.

"Let go of her, you freak!" I heard Seol-Na say and literally savaged him, leaving him paralyzed.

"Run," she said. "You want to still be alive after this right?" she said, avoiding eye contact.

I'm lost for words and did a small bow. "Thank you."

My footsteps are heavy, but I still attempted to run because I'm not safe until this old guy is out of my sight.

Women are heroes, okay? Guys like Seokjindidn't do anything.

I bumped to someone. "Han-Bi," It's the devil's voice calling me by my name. He held onto both of my cheeks and made me look him in the eye.

"You're alive." he mentioned. OF COURSE, his douchebag-ness never goes away even after what happened.

I pushed his hands off my face. "Lucky. I almost wasn't." I told him, not in the mood for his antics. I'm upset, and HE didn't do anything. I literally, almost DIED.

He chuckled. "Are you okay?"

"Oh my God! Shut the hell up! Don't ask me stupid questions. I did a lot of running from the chase and you didn't do anything!" I scolded him, pushing his chest. He didn't move one inch.

My fallen pride sends tears in my eyes. I'm sure that he clearly saw what was happening to me before.

I bowed me head low but he lifted my chin up.

"Do you remember what you told me? You said you will never need my help. Well, you got someone else's, but how about if you face this situation alone?" he monotonously asked, which added fuel to the fire.

"You know what? Don't use reverse psychology on me, it will never work. I can protect myself anytime, any day. Those people who helped me are people who I didn't even need held from." I said, irritated.

I suddenly remembered something.

"Oh my God, Ye-eun! I don't know where she is right now!" I panicked.

"Cut it, we need to find her! S-She might be caught by the anonymous gang that almost killed me!" I said, grabbing him to run with me.

He started running faster than me and we reached the mall's isolated exit from earlier. She's nowhere to be seen where we left. I was our of breath.

"Where is she?! I can't find her!" I panicked.

"W-Wait I don't understand, what happened to her?" he's panicking as well.

"She help me from those guys who tried kidnapping me! She distracted them and made me run away, what do I do?!"

I can feel my eyes watery. I just have no idea where she is right now. Why did everything start like this anyway?

"Don't cry, it makes you look uglier. We're going to find her." he said, grabbed my hand, bringing me inside.

Seol-Na is going to kill me. I don't even know where the old man is. I don't even know WHO he is. Does he have something to do with our family?

Ah, Ye-eumis nowhere to be found, but she's my priority no matter what.

It took us long finding her until I can't take it.

I removed my hand from his gently. "I want to go home." I muttered. Seokjin looks like he will never give up.

He still continued walking but I followed slowly. "AH, KWON HAN-BI! Is that you?! It's been a while! I missed you!" I heard someone call me from behind. It's the voice I haven't and DON'T want to hear for a long time.

I looked, of course, checking if I was hallucinating or not.

Yoon Taejun.

He ran to me and hugged me really tight. I was so surprised and didn't hug back. Besides, even if I wasn't surprised I wouldn't even think of hugging him back.

I don't like him, okay? It wasn't love that brought us together for a short time; it was being teenagers and infatuation. I don't like it how he still thinks we're in a relationship until now.

He hurts me so much from before.
So freaking much:

"What are you doing here?" he asked with a big smile on his face. "I should be asking the same to you. None of your business, I'm just looking for a friend named Ye-eun, not that you're interested." monotonously said.

"Really, how are you? I've heard you transferred schools! Well... You haven't changed at all. You're still you, very beautiful." he said as he touched my face. I pushed his hand away.

"I don't want to see you and I especially don't want to talk to you. Why do you still exist?" I hissed. He put a sad face on. He held both of my hands.

(A/N: Editor-san, it seems like I'm calling someone out in this bit :P Let's kill this someone with fire shall we)

(E/N: Yes, yes we shall)

"Look, Han-Bi. I really need one more chance. I still like you, you know?" he said. I would rather have the old man and his people kidnap me and Seol/na beat me up all at once than give this jerk a chance.

"Just stay away." I demanded, clutching Jin's hand tighter.

"Who is he?" Tae-Jun asked, pointing at Seok-Jin, who's of course, not saying a word. "He's a nobody."

"No he isn't." he sounds mad now, bit by bit. I gulped.

"Why do you care?" I nonchalantly asked, landing my eyes on Seokjin. He's confused and completely clueless, just watching me talk to someone I least expected would talk to today.

I pulled Seokjin away from him and continued walking.

"What time is it?" I asked Seok-Jin.

"6:07 pm," he replied, acting like nothing happened. "So, you had a boyfriend?" he asked. I scoffed, I actually don't know.

"You don't want to know, don't you?" I chuckled. "I really want to, for some reason, I didn't know anyone would like you." my eyes widened.

"Oh come on." I rolled my eyes.

"You're poor and there's nothing special about you. You're a nerd as well, who would ever fall in love with that kind of person?" he teased.

He has a lot of guts to point out my flaws, huh? It's sad, okay? For someone else but me to point out such things.

"You know what? I don't care; I won't change myself for anybody. People should like me for who and what I am." I stated.

So ironic for me to say this, huh.

Jin's POV (A/N: MARRY ME ❤️)

"You know what? I don't care; I won't change myself for anybody. People should like me for who and what I am." Han-Bi said.

That got me.

Every girl in my school falls for the Jin I wished I actually was: very rich, athletic, rebellious and the bad boy type. Before coming to this private school, I changed everything about me.

"Why? Is it bad changing me just for my own happiness and content?" I asked, curious of what she's going to reply with.

"Y-Yeah, I think so... even if I admit I had done that." she laughed it off.

"I want to get some air for a while, I'm really tired."

I watched her as she got two soda cans from the vending machine near the mall's main exit. "Oh, do you want it?" she said, her voice slightly fading its original tone as she handed me one.

"Thanks." I simply said. She smiled and got another can. "Another one for me," she said.

"You know what's weird? I get drunk while drinking soda. Not actually drunk. But I basically act like a drunken person and my brain just make me say stupid things. Right now, I want to get 'drunk' for some reason." she laughed.

"Why do you want to get drunk?" I asked, baffled. "So I could mentally make Tae-Jun disappear." she said in a sad tone. I would feel rude if I interrupt her talking.

I just had to show off my good side today for her, you know.

The side no one knew about.

I didn't realize that we walked to the park or something. She sat on the grass and opened the soda can and drank the hell out of it. I just sat beside her.

"I'm diiiizzzzy." she said with her head slowly turning spinning around.

Her movements became sloppy and groggy. It's actually happening. Wow, she really gets drunk with soda. She opened the other one she has and drank all of it really fast.

Then she removed her eye glasses, making her look different.

(E/N: The eye glasses though...)

She looked at me. "Who are you?" she asked, sounding completely like a drunken person now. I never seen anyone get drunk from soda. Well, I'm just letting her do this by herself because she wanted it.

"AAAH~ It's Seokjin!" She said and hugged my arm, smiling like a kid. "You will listen to me right? RIGHT? I'll begin ranting about my life. *hic* OOPS, there comes the hiccups." she giggled.

She's really bubbly after those two soda cans.

"You know *hic* when I went to my old school. I met Tae-Jun. He's *hic* handsome, smart and really kind. We went out when *hic* he confessed to me and asked me the cute question. But you know? It was only puppy love and nothing serious *hic* But a couple of months after us being a cute couple..." she flashed me a goofy smile but tears are running down her face.

She cried a lot today.

"He began hurting me alot. He always yells at me *hic*, stays away from me and talks to so much girls *hic* I don't know about. He hits me sometimes and is the reason for my scars. Then once,"

"I saw him with a girl *hic*. They're ons date and they kissed. No confrontations because I was very weak. *hic* She's better than me in all aspects. I finally told him after a week that I hope he's happy with her *hic* and the end! It was nothing to him, but it *hic* meant a lot to me." she said in between sniffs and hiccups.

"You know? Seokjin, *hic* it would be a lot better if it was just a misunderstanding *hic* But he told me that he doesn't hated me. *hic* WELL, It's disgusting anyway. I was naïve to think that it was actually love. *hic* Funny, isn't it? I actually thought it was real and cried about it for days. *hic* It was only four months, but it took me twice as much time to get over it."

I'm literally lost for words. I know she's "drunk" but this just makes me feel somewhat sad for her. She was a stupid kid, but she doesn't deserve anything like that, seriously.

"I'm over it, okay? I'm over it and I'm happy *hic*, Jin, even if I had so much fake friends and heartbreaks." she called, surprising me because she never called me by that name before.

I looked at her. There were dry tears down her face. She held on my hand.

"If you and I were together, you wouldn't do such thing right? *hic* Right?" she asked me. I smiled and shook my head.

"You're crazy, Han-Bi. You're incredibly drunk. Why would you ask that? It's not like that would happen, I will rather die." I scoffed.

She pouted and stared at my face for a long time.

"It's my first time looking at your face up close. *hic* You look good," my heart is beating an abnormal pace now.

"You know? I once thought about asking you out, but *hic* I don't like taking out the trash. And besides I'm a girl." she said.

My eyes widened. "What?" She really hates me, huh? Well, that's an almost mutual feeling. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" she laughed out loud.

"I'm kidding." she laughed even harder. "You know, Seokjin, I'll tell you this: I like you, kind of, well, *hic* yeah, I didn't expect it." she said as she stopped and looked in my eyes.

I smirked and turned away. I won't react from what she said right? She won't say that if she's completely sober, she's just being drunk.

Drunken people always say the truth.

"You're drunk. I won't believe you." I said.

She gave me the death-glare. "There were chances okay? I didn't think that it will happen but my *hic* heart beats fast every time I see you, you know? You're a good human." she said and patted my head. My mouth gaped.

"Whoa, whoa, that was straightforward. Besides, I knew it." she laughed out loud once again. (So basically, she literally lolled.) Ah really?

"You freak, that doesn't mean I act like a drunken person *hic* I can't lie. I won't ever, ever, EVER like you. You might be a beautiful human but you're CONCEITED, ILL MANNERED, OBNOXIOUS, ARROGANT AND JUST NOT COOL. *hic*"

"But, why am I preventing myself from killing you? Huh? HUH? Tell me!" she shouted and grabbed me by my shirt's collar, pulling me closer to her.

She slowly loosened her hand from my collar and her eyebrows lost its fierce shape. She quickly turned her whole body away from me, her back facing towards me.

Her voice softened, "I know why. You're, ugh, kind sometimes and you save me from trouble. *hic* AH THIS IS CONFUSING!" she loudly said. I chuckled.

"You know, Han-Bi ah, I don't hate you. I just strongly dislike you now. See the big difference?" I said. She looked at me.

"Ah, jinjja? I don't hate you too, Seok-Jin, I strongly hate you. See the bigger difference? Ah. Once I turn back to normal, I'll probably forget everything I said that was incredibly stupid." she said.

There was suddenly a sound, and I think that's coming from Han-Bi's phone. It's a text message from an unknown number.

"Open it." Han-Bi commanded. I opened it.

Hello Han-Bi ah. This is Ye-eun. I really want you to not worry about me since I'm safe now. It's a long story. A guy named Taejun found me and saved me. He gave me your number since you were friends. He also told me that you were finding me and I appreciate it. Thank you, good night. :)

"What does it say?" she asked. "Nah, you should know about it when you're back to your normal self. Let's go home now." I gave her a smile.

She just gave me a look, "Alright."

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A/N: That's it! I'll be updating early because I love you guys OwO and yeah, I have so much free time.

E/N: I just want to sleep...

A/N: You potatoe I asked you to edit and you had six hours! T.T

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