하루만 ~ Just One Day (Taejoon)

Just One Day

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I can't stop myself any longer.

I continue to run.

The images keep flashing through my mind.

But there is nothing I can do right now.

All I can think about right now is run...

                                                                                      run....
                                                                                                         run...

Don't stop.

I didn't intend do it.

There is nothing wrong.

Everything is wrong

Everything will be alright.

Nothing is alright.

The adrenaline gradually wears off, and I begin to feel numbness in my legs. When I reach the abandoned train tracks, I slow down. In any case, no one uses this train route. This secluded area lies between a forest and has an empty swimming pool as well as a small room with a bed on it.

This place seems to be very familiar.

Ah, right.

They say that when you are afraid or in pain, you unknowingly go to a place that makes you feel safe, that makes you believe everything is okay when it isn't. A sense of reassurance that only a place called home can offer.

And here I am...a place so-called "home".

I pant and collapse onto the room's bed. Everything makes it more real now. The emotions, the rage, the guilt, the anguish, the agony, the terror.

Noona promised me that everything will be fine.

Everything is going to be alright.

No, it will not be okay.

"You can't stay here any longer, the next door ahjumma has called the cops again," Taehyung's sister, Tae-seol, urged her younger brother, who was standing still. His eyes were blown wide as he gazed at his father's lifeless body on the floor. The broken bottle falls from his hand and shatters as it hits the ground. Tae-seol takes Taehyung's backpack, which contains spray paint and other drawing supplies. She stuffs her money, clothes, and two water bottles into the bag. She pushes Taehyung out the door after handing him the bag. "Go, don't come back," Tae-seol is adamant.

Taehyung snaps out of his trance and looks at his elder sister, who has a blooming bruise on her cheekbone, a small cut on her lip, and a black eye that is healing, with tears streaming down on her cheeks. He shakly reaches his hand out and cups his sister's cheek, she winces in pain."I'm sorry," Taehyung says quietly as he begins to shed tears. Tae-seol  pulls here younger brother into an embrace, "Yah pabo, take care, my little brother. And just know that I'll be alright, and that I'll handle it here, so take care of yourself. " She lets go of Taehyung and he nods, he turns to leave.

"Maybe you should call Namjoon," Tae-soon advises. Taehyung stiffens as he hears Namjoon's name, uncertain how he will react if he sees Taehyung again. Taehyung is really not sure how he'd react if he ever saw Namjoon again.

Then sirens ring, and Tae-seol urges, "Go now, don't look back, run."

And Taehyung flees.