Life has never been easy for Suzu Ramos and moving to Korea had been the best thing to happen to her. That is, until a homicidal maniac in a mask started terrorizing the city and those around her. What happens when she realizes those close to her ar...
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03 | ghost boy
Suzu couldn't understand it. Mino said he would call on Friday and he hasn't. It would have at least been nice to hear from her sweet boyfriend after having to see Taehyung. He always brought back old feelings that she hated having. It was just so hard not to think about Taehyung and it's distracted her all weekend from thinking about what the hell her boyfriend was doing.
And okay, maybe Suzu should've decided to visit his apartment sooner but how could she when she was spending her time going through old message threads from her and Taehyung. When she got to Mino's apartment on Sunday evening Jia went with her. If he wasn't answering the phone she had to talk to him in person. There was no way she was going to let him text her without seeing him since Wednesday. That's so unlike him.
"You've got a key right?" Jia asked, it was like the two were on a secret mission and part of Suzu was worried that she'd find another girl in there. She's never been the type to worry like this and she definitely never did with Taehyung but this was strange for Mino. Suzu took out the key Mino had given her.
They let themselves in fully ready to confront anyone that had been on the other side but it was empty. No, literally, empty.
Not empty as in 'not a single person here' but empty as in 'all that's left is the furniture the building provided but no sign of Mino's things anywhere else'.
"What the fuck," Suzu said at the same time as Jia as they looked around. She took a sharp turn in the direction of his bedroom and it had been completely cleared out. In a mix of confusion and irritation she took her phone out going straight to her contacts and clicking on Mino's. She listened to the phone ring before being sent straight to voicemail. With furrowed brows she watched the three bubbles pop up.
mino <3: i think we should break up
Jia leaned over to look at her phone and the two girls stood there confused. Suzu took a deep breath, "Let's go?"
"Did he seriously just try and dump you over text?" Jia asked following Suzu out of the empty apartment. Did he just ghost her? Like full on move out of his apartment, ghost her? She was annoyed, extremely annoyed and Jia felt it.
"Where we going?" She asked following Suzu into the car, heels clanking on the cement sidewalk as the two got into her car. Suzu started the engine, "Home."
"That's it?"
"That's it. What am I supposed to do? He's clearly ignoring me and now he said he wants to break up. I'm not gonna beg him to explain," Suzu told her in clear annoyance.
There was just too much going on. Clearly Mino did something bad Wednesday night and that's why he's decided to ghost her. She can't believe she's been ghosted, when has she ever been ghosted? And by a guy she wasn't even into in the beginning. By the guy she took a chance for and lowered her standards for.
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It's obvious the men she went with were good looking, just look at Taehyung. Mino is like a 6 compared to Taehyung who is a strong 11. She was doing charity work being with him and he had the nerve to ghost her? After telling her all the time that he liked her a lot?
"The audacity," Suzu said once they were in her apartment unaware of the way the spare key in her catch-all dish missing. She dropped her keys into the bowl, "To dump me over text? The fucking audacity."
"Say it louder," Jia chimed in already rummaging through Suzu's fridge, "He was ugly anyways."
"I know! Well okay, he was cute I guess but not like-"
"Taehyung? Yeah no, never," Jia said taking out leftover pizza and grabbing herself a plate to put it in the microwave. Suzu glared at her at the mention of her ex boyfriend... and Yunha's current boyfriend. "Can we talk about how we feel about that?" She asked as if reading Suzu's mind, "Are you gonna tell Yunha? Do you think she already knows?"
She sat on the couch facing Suzu as she handed her a slide. Suzu chew carefully, "I don't think she knows. If she knew wouldn't she have like said something? Would she have still dated him? It's not like we dated a long time ago. It was just earlier this year that we broke up."
It's true, Suzu and Taehyung were still dating earlier this year and it was only a couple months before they started hanging out with Yunha. There's no way she knew anything when Suzu never mentioned Taehyung. She doesn't believe that he didn't know Yunha was her friend.
Taehyung came into Suzu's life just weeks after she moved to Korea with Jia. She used to work at a bakery that Taehyung frequented at and he soon became a regular. After seeing him at least twice a week they got to know each other better. Taehyung always approached her with a warm smile, he'd flirt a little and then he'd leave. Then one random Friday that she was working he came in. He asked what she was doing after work and invited her out to dinner.
He was perfect, literally. From his deep and calming voice to his personality. He was extremely gentle with Suzu but had no problem putting her in her place. Maybe it's because he was a little older but he was always so caring toward her. He would spoil her and wake her up in the mornings with kisses. He'd drop her off on campus every day and take her to work too. She taught him Spanish words and he'd repeat them over and over again until it sounded accurate. He'd send her bouquets of Cosmos because they were her birth flower. They'd bathe together practically every night they were at each other's houses.
It had been such a healthy relationship until one day they went out with his friends and some guy came up to her at the bar. Half drunk already when she felt someone wrap an arm around her waist from behind she had assumed it was Taehyung. Next thing she knows, Taehyung is yanking the guy off her pushing him back nearly starting a fight.
After that Suzu apologized over and over again, never changing her story honestly telling him how she thought it was Taehyung. And that was true but he didn't believe her.
In the end he just got too controlling. He tried dictating the way she dressed, always had to have her location, argued with her when a waiter would give her a smile. Maybe part of it was her fault but the other part knew he was too insecure.
Even when he begged on his knees for Suzu not to break up with him, begging not to leave him, telling her how much he needed her. She still dumped him and changed her number. It was honestly heart breaking but it was exhausting. All the times Taehyung told her he'd do something bad to himself. Always telling her she was the only reason he was happy. It was all just too much. The guilt tripping. The manipulation. The jealousy.
"I don't know what to do," Suzu confessed, "Part of me wants to tell Yunha, but the other part of me doesn't. What if she thinks I'm lying?"
"Like you know that friend that always thinks her friend's partners are into her? What if she thinks I'm that friend and I'm just making it all up?" Suzu shook her head, "I can't tell her she shouldn't date her boyfriend. Clearly she has no clue we dated and what kind of friend would I be if I said something? Who knows if she's even believe me."
"But it's not just you. Jimin and I know how Taehyung was, he was crazy over you. Borderline obsessive, you know?" Jia said, "But also, that was with you. Maybe he's not like that anymore? You two date for a year and a half. They've only been dating for like a month."
"So then I tell her right now that it's not serious? Or no?" Suzu said. She was more focused on telling one of her close friends that she's dating her ex than caring why her boyfriend ghosted her suddenly.
Before Jia could answer, Suzu's phone lit up with a call. Looking down at it and reading the 'unknown' she let it ring until it ended.
It rang again, and like last time, she let it ring.
It was during the third attempt that she answered the phone clearly annoyed, "What do you want?"
