x Welcome Back [] SinB I asked 'Yerin' to come with me at our house. She's my doctor anyways and I'm sure my father would be glad to see her. "Are you sure I'm welcome?" She asked me for the nth time and I assured her that it really is. I called father earlier and told him I have a close friend that is coming with me. We arrived at our gate and a car is parked inside. "Did my brother arrive?" I asked unconciously and Yerin looked at me. "See?! Even you're brother is coming! I shouldn't have came. Maybe it's not a good timing to ruin the family moment." She said but I held her hand and started walking with her inside as the guard opened the gate for us. Yerin and I looked at the car door that's opened in front of us. A man came out of the car, a young man indeed. "Ms. Hwang, you're father sent me here so that you wouldn't have to walk a long path." He said. "Who are you?" Was the first thing that Yerin said and at the same time, asked. "I'm Mr. Hwang's personal secretary. I'm Jeon Jungkook." Then he bowed ninety degrees. "So Dad sent you? He didn't really have to do that." I said while he opened the door for us. Now it'd be bad if we don't get in. So here we are. Sitting silently at the back side passenger seat and took a moment before we arrived at the house. Dad welcomed us though as was delighted to see Yerin with me. "Doctor Jung! It's nice to see you here. Eunbi said a close friend will come but I didn't expect it to be you." He smiled so sincerely then extended out his hand in attempts of shaking hands with my companion. "Eunbi invited me to come over and it's nice being here." Then she shook hands along with him. "Come, your brother is inside Eunbi-ya. You too Doctor Jung." He then welcome us inside and mother smiled as soon as she saw Doctor Jung. "Omo. If this isn't Doctor Jung! Welcome, welcome!" My mother then leaded Yerin to the living room. They started chatting about things I didn't really care about while I started watching television. "She's helping herself recover, I can see her efforts." Yerin said which made my mother release a sound of happiness. "I'm glad to hear that." She said but was soon interrupted by a voice of a man. Why's there a lot of man? "Mother. I haven't seen you welcome anyone with that much hospitality." I didn't know what has gotten into me but I started feeling nervous and the first person I looked for was Yerin who's looking with her ever so warm eyes. "Where's my sister?" Yerin is smiling at me and it's enough to calm my heart that's beating with fear. I stood up slowly from where I am sitting and looked at the unfamilliar man. "Oh... there you are." He smiled. I was lost. I didn't know who this man is or why he's even smiling at me. But for some reason he seems so familliar and not. "Eunbi? What's wrong, honey?" I then snapped back into reality after I saw my Mom moving towards me. "Go away!!" Like a natural reaction, I did that. "Eunbi what's wrong?" She asked me with worry and that's when I started sobbing. "Don't kill her... please?" I kneeled down and started begging. Rubbing both my palms together that it even gained heat from the friction caused by rubbing them together. "You let them kill me!" The same voice I've heard in my dream said. I looked down as I kept rubbing my palms. "I didn't!! I-I really didn't let them!" I cried. "Stop lying!" A whisper... "I wouldn't have died if you didn't. Look where I am now?! I'm dead!" The tears that's down my eyes and flowed fast down my cheeks. I'm crying and I don't really know why. "Eunbi-ya! What's happening to you?!" The voice of my brother blared, worry is obvious with every word he uttered. "Lie!" Another whisper... "I tried... to s-save you!!" I found certainty in my words. But my sobs are slowly eating my voice and it's starting to take away my breathe. "Liar...." I'm not lying... "Who did you save?! Doctor Jung, what's happening to her?!" "No SinB-ya... you saved yourself." She said with so much pain. Then suddenly... she's infront of me holding a knife. Her sinister smile being seen through the hair that covered her face. Then she started running for me, aimed her knife at me... "NOOOOOO!!!!!!" I screamed but instead of a sharp knife cutting through my skin, a pair of arms pulled me and wrapped me in a warm embrace. "D-don't kill me! P...please?! Please... please. Please... I'm begging you, please. Don't kill me." I cried then I heard my father's voice coming from afar with fear for his daughter. Everything went dark and I felt my body fell onto someone. And slowly... very slowly... I out. ••• I woke up because of someone's breathing. I opened my eyes slowly and there I saw Yerin sleeping comfortably just right in front of me. I smiled as her soft breathings reaches me. She has a pretty lips. Her nose is pointy too and there's no sign of wrinkles on her face. Her long eyelashes complimenting her eyes when they're open... ah.. those black orbs that always made me calm. Right. This is the owner of those black orbs. I smiled while still staring at her and that's when I realized that I am hugging her so closely with her hugging me back. I suddenly made a movement by moving around which resulted for her to stir and unconciously rub her closed eyes. "You're up?" She asked with her still husky voice. She then opened her eyes and looked at me. Realizing how close our faces were, she tried to jerk away and she could've fell if not for my arms still hugging her tight. Her extremely white face soon turned red and she let out a squeel. "What the-?" To prevent her from shouting, I covered with my hand. "Don't shout, they might hear!" Okay. What did I just say?! I JUST SOUNDED LIKE A ! I mentally facepalmed and scolded myself for speaking such rash words. "A-anyway, they might hear so don't shout." She then nodded so I released from my hand that's covering her. "B-but. Are you okay now?" She asked but now in a sitting position with her looking down. It must still be red. "I'm okay now... what happened? How did I get here?" I asked while I am now hugging a pillow. "You broke down. It must be your anxieties that exhausted you. You suddenly out and I lifted you from the living room all the way here." She said. "You lifted me? All by yourself?!" She's surprising. First she was extremely smart. Second she's the one who makes me calm and gives me comfort. In short, she's my solace. Then she's this strong?! She shrugged as if it's a small thing. Look, she's a girl! I don't know who's heavier but she's a girl! How can she just carry me without asking for help?! Not that I'm heavy that is. "Yes. All by myself." She said in a much calmer tone. Yeah maybe she's calmed down now. "How can you be that strong?" I asked and used her lap as my pillow while I layed down. "It's just like that. Eunbi-ya." She said. "What happened earlier?" Just by the question, I started being nervous and I'd bet my bed she noticed that cos she held my hand tight, assuring me it's okay to tell her. She didn't even tell what she means exactly but I know it's 'that'. "I don't know when it began but I'm sure it was around the time my brother came. I started hearing her voice. And then there were voices whispering behind me... that I was lying. That