The second I got to Nari’s house I was greeted by anger, screams and pitiful remarks. She made sure to yell at me once Hanbin had left which made it so much worse because I knew everything she was saying was true and I had no one to hide behind.

Hiyori stepped in between us once Nari began to take her anger too far. I decided not to say anything as she yelled at me… it was the least I could do for causing such a mess.

I followed Nari’s butler to the spare bedroom where my bags were already delivered. Hiyori had the room right beside me and we spent most of our time separated from everyone just because I wasn’t really in the mood to have a ‘girl’s night in’.

Several hours had already passed since Hanbin had left us to deal with whatever he had to fix. I hadn’t spoken to anyone, nor had I eaten anything. My mind just kept playing the words Nari angrily spit out at me in the morning and I couldn’t help but feel terrible.

“you’ve brought him nothing but trouble!”
“if you weren’t here, he wouldn’t have to clean up your mess!”
“while you’re here doing nothing, he’s taking the blame for everything you’ve caused”
“how can you even think being in his life is alright if all you’ve causing him is pain?!”
“he deserves someone so much better than you Minji…. At least someone who doesn’t ruin his reputation”

Nari also made sure to tell me I may have affected Hanbin’s work schedule because of the ‘scandal’ and that was possibly the worst case scenario for me. I felt like I was destroying his life and his career by my idiotic mistake and blaming myself for it all was the only option.

I stuffed my face into a pillow and allowed myself to cry in silence. Everything Nari had said to me was right, and I really did begin to feel like I wasn’t worth Hanbin’s time.

After a few minutes of a complete breakdown, I walked over to the bathroom to wash my face. My eyes kept darting to the blank screen on my phone, waiting for some sort of text or call from hanbin to let me know things would be fine.

I shut the faucet after splashing some cold water on my face and then grabbed a towel to dry myself up. Once I exited the bathroom to go back onto the bed, I noticed my phone blinking and I instantly ran towards it, hoping it was good news from hanbin.

But the text wasn’t from him…. It was from Mino…

[Meet me by the pond at 1am, come alone Minj. We need to talk]

I kept reading the text over and over again in complete confusion. After everything that had happened, Mino wanted to meet up now? I felt a mix of anger and relief only because I was glad he was safe. I looked at my watch and noticed it was 12:46am, I quickly grabbed my jacket and slipped out of the house, unnoticed.
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Once I made it to the pond I began to look around to find Mino. At first everything around me seemed empty and abandoned, the pond water wasn’t running, the wind was blowing the fallen leaves around and the pathways were completely empty, with no person in sight.

I began to walk around while looking at my phone for some sort of text from Mino letting me know where he was, but nothing came.

After a few minutes aimlessly walking, I decided it was best if I just went back. It was cold, dark and isolated and I was sort of afraid to be out here all alone tonight.

I turned around and took out my phone