* ROMEO *

*

"No one knows what’s hidden behind my mask. 
Even you, I’m sure, holds fear. 
The light shines. But where is the exit?

Please let me hear your hopes. 
Everything Everything.
Even though, I want to live for you.
Ah, but I’m a devil 
I don’t want to damage your purity. 
But I can’t hold back anymore. 

The more I want, the more tragedy is born."

*

"Oh, hey...you're back?"

She smiled lazily and shifted her gaze slightly from the television set, but I was too disturbed to be excited as I should be to join their little ladies-night session.

"Hi, Hyuna unnie, great to see you." I acknowledged her with a quick bow before dashing up the flights, two steps at a time.

"Is she in a rush to go into toilet or what?" Those were the last remark I heard from Hyuna unnie and then Seungah unnie answered something but I had already slammed the door shut and the lights in Hyesung oppa's room. Something just didn't feel right. The more I thought of Joohyun, the more pain I felt and not to mention, those bells ringing in my ears every time I recalled Joohyun's cries. Why? Am I at fault for something? Why am I getting all these weird effects? Why does my skin tingle everytime I think of it?

There were so many questions. No, there were too many questions, with not a single answer. The only solution I could think of, is Romeo. There was nothing weird before he existed here. My life was as great as ever. Okay, not great, but with no mental, emotional and physical pain, unlike now. 

"Where is he? It's been half an hour already." By then I had already sat and waited everywhere, behind the door, at the table, by the window, on the bed, on the floor, and finally, I simply walk about around the room, sitting down quietly felt too long when you're waiting. Hyesung oppa's room is really too basic. Ever since he moved in after Appa's and Omma's death, he only brought in his clothes and some basic necessities like his beauty products and toiletries since this room has its own bathroom. There was hardly anything I could play around with to kill time. I let out a heavy sigh, blowing up my own fringe. I waited for so long, until I grew so hungry, and even until electricity went out.

"It's not even ten minutes, do you really miss me that much?"

"Huh?" I panicked a little because it was so dark since there's no moonlight that shone directly into the room today to help my view. "Wh...where are you?"

"Wow, you really can't see me? Not only you're dumb but also..."

"Just stay where you are, shut up and give me answers."

"Okay. What answers are you looking for?" He sounded too calm. As if he already knew what I would be asking about.

"What...what happen to Joohyun?" The mention of her name brought a flash of event back across my eyes, and as with the other times throughout the day, that prickly excruciation reappeared.

"Don't think of her. Don't bother, or else you'll continue to be in pain." How could he be this calm, when people's lives are at stake?

"Uhh...what..." I clutched my heart hard, trying to hold in the torment. "So, you do know. What are you trying to do?! Kill us?"

"Just granting your wish."

"I didn't and never wished for weird things to grow on Joohyun's face!" I cried, picturing how she had transformed into someone people would consider monster, and realizing that I was responsible for it, imagining Seungjae oppa's face when he looked at her in fear-that look I couldn't forget, feeling the pain that kept scratching at my heart.

"I told you, don't think of her anymore. Everything will be fine once you stop thinking. Besides, now you're definitely prettier than her. That guy is just average human, he wouldn't be able to stand such an ugly monster as his girlfriend."

"What...you're...you're sick!" I balled my fist tightly and knocked onto my chest over and over, hoping to ease the suffering from within with pain from the blow."

"Stop overthinking it already!"

"How could I not?! You're crazy! Turn her face back to normal! Now!" I lost what little speck of control left the moment he lost his calm and started yelling. Our voices kept increasing that it made me wonder if Seungah unnie and Hyuna unnie really couldn't hear us. Or maybe, he had cast a spell so that nobody will hear. Seeing what he did to Joohyun, it wouldn't be a surprise.

"Wishes couldn't be turned backwards. Just forget about her. There are many more of your wishes that will be granted. The way you're overreacting now, you can burst