Chapter 19
Polluted“I think we need to take those patrollers words seriously. We don’t know what they have planned to pin you down.”
Jaebum laughed but nodded, “But what can I do? There is nowhere to run to. They have eyes everywhere. I saw the result of it in the past two days. They know every strength and weakness. Thank to Jinyoung switching off the Security Camera that day, or else I would have been screwed.”
“So essentially you are just going to sit here and wait for something to happen?” Mark asks
Jaebum shrugged what else could be done?
“Run away.” London speaks up. ‘Out of these walls.”
“Don’t be ridiculous no one would survive.”
“Actually maybe it’s not… people have done in before.” Jinyoung says.
‘How can that be? The government would get them.”
“I know someone who made it.” Jinyoung says. “He was an elite who went against the empire. He needed to escape and so he did.”
“Surely that’s an urban legend, how can you be so sure?”
“He was my mentor and I helped him get away.”
Later that evening, London and Jaebum sat side by side, everyone else had left. Jaebum sat crunching on and apple while London just held onto her. He winced as the cut on his lip stung.
“I am going with you.” London says.
There was no reply except a loud think as his apple hit the floor.
“I can’t ask you to give up everything for me.” He says when he finally finds his voice.
“I am telling you that you can, I am telling you that you should.”
“Come with me.” He says his gaze piercing her being.
London smiled slowly. “I will, or else I will miss you too much.”
Jaebum grinned back shaking his head. What he wanted was so simple, yet it just never came easy.
Jinyoung told Jaebum to lie low as he organized everything.
He said
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