Yuna's POV
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"Eomma! Appa!" I cried, banging my hands on the door, hoping they will hear me and find me here on the storage room at the underground of my Uncle's mansion. "Eomma! Appa!" I kept repeating on calling them and banging my hands on the door, ignoring how red it looks. I couldn't feel anything but fear, my hands felt so numb, my feet too. I felt like corpse thrown into a dead cold ocean.
The room was so cold that I couldn't feel the warm blood inside my body anymore. My breath's starting to get short, the darkness slowly and painfully suffocating me. Why did I agree with my uncle to come here in the underground? Why is he doing this to me? I didn't do anything wrong, why? Just why?
"Help..." I breathed out, my voice won't even come out, I started to feel dizzy and weak. My body is slowly giving up on me. No, I can't, I shouldn't give up. I should keep screaming here until they find me. "Please help me..." I cried, feeling my body helplessly landed to the cold floor. I couldn't stop from crying thinking that my life will end today.
"Help me..please...pleas--"
"Yuna, hey Yuna, wake up..." A deep and comforting voice woke me up, I sit up gasping for an air, feeling out of breath. My eyes immediately travels to the owner of the voice and got surprised. Why is he here? Am I dreaming? No this can't be real I thought confusedly staring at him in front of me, looking so worried while I'm still catching for an air. I need my inhaler right now. "Yuna, it's okay. You're okay, it's just nightmare." He says, caressing my face with his warm hands and my eyes widens at it. No way, he's real. This is real, it's not a dream.
"Sunghoon..." I breathed out and he shake his head locking his eyes with mine.
"Shhs, don't speak for now, just look at me, okay?" He says in a very soft tone, and I nodded even though I don't know what for. "Don't cry, I'm here. You're safe. Look at me and follow how I breath." He placed my right hand on his heart, letting me feel its beat then pointed on his self. "inhale...then exhale." I did what he instructed me, repeating the process, he keep caressing my cheeks, saying some comforting words at the same time to calm me down and wiping away the tears that I failed to noticed. I didn't even realized that I was crying. His eyes, their sparks are comforting. We keep the eye-to-eye contact until I slowly calm down, breath's getting back to normal again. "Oh my god..." He exhaled heavily and hugged me.
The usual me would pull away if a guy hugs me but this time, with him...I didn't pull away but instead hugging him back and buried my head on his chest. His steady heartbeat even calms me more. I let myself sink into his warmth. It felt so good to me. I don't care how much would I feel embarrass after this, all I think right now is the comfort he's giving me. It's what I need, this is what I need.
Waking up alone in the middle of the night everytime I had a nightmare always make me feel so lonely. My parents are alive but they are not here with me. But tonight, I woke up with the person I didn't expect. Sunghoon. He's here by my side.
Tears escaped again from my eyes as I remember my dream again. Part of my bad memories that I badly wanted to forget. No matter what I do it always hunt me in my dream and reminds me how I got my phobia and I hate it.
"I'm scared..." My words were muffled on his chest, his shirt's probably soaked by my tears right now. It may sound awkward but I don't want to pull away and just be here in his arms.
He tightened his hug on me and gently rubbing my back. "I'm here, I'm not going to leave you." He softly whispered in my ear. "Let's go back to sleep. Okay?" He added laying me back still in his arms and I blushed at how we act to each other and sleep. His arms wrapped around me while my head is on his chest. Like a married couple. I blushed more at the thought and mentally slapped myself for it.
Why is he here by the way. I try to recall my last memory then it hits me.
At the party.
Right, I went to Julius's house party with Aira and Sunghoon was there. All the scenes at the party instantly flashed in my mind. I glance down at myself, I'm still in my dress--wait my lenses! I forgot to remove them. It's a miracle my eyes are still fine even though I slept that long.
I looked up to Sunghoon who's already closing his eyes. Is he asleep already? I thought carefully pulling away, sitting up and removed my lenses. Blinking few times to feel if something's wrong or not. Lucky me, nothing's wrong.
I should remove my make up too. Swinging my legs to the edge of the bed, I stood up heading to the bathroom not even minding to close the door.
Turning on the faucet, I started washing my face, making a foam with a soap, rubbing it to my face making sure to make it clean. After rinsing, I grabbed a dry towel near dabbing it to my face. I was startled when I looked at the mirror and saw Sunghoon standing at the doorstep behind me.
"I thought you're asleep." I muttered as I looked at him through the mirror with my poor eyesight, slowly taking a step closer to me. Why is he getting closer? The next think I felt was his warm behind me. I froze on my spot, breath's hitching at the very small distance.
"Can we talk?" He asked looking back at me through the mirror, intensely.
I cleared my throat, diverting my eyes away from him, ignoring the way he stare at me. "About what?" I asked, making myself busy with drying my face.
Gosh, why does it feel so hot here?
"About us." He said and I stopped as soon as I heard the word 'us'. What does he mean 'us'? Is this about the last time when I saw him with that girl?
Looking back at him, he seem so serious about it. I guess this is the time for us to find out the answers to our questions.
Our status. What are we?
We hate each other, not missing a day without an argument but everytime I need help he's the one who's always there.
"Okay. Just let me change first."
"I'll wait outside."
And with that, he backed away getting out of the bathroom.