PROMISE ♡약속 ♡

제 12 장 " Alive "

"Mianhe." He withdraws from me with no absolute excuse.

Mianhe?

For what?

Without even taking a second glance whether I would trail after him, he just leaves me at that spot and flees away.

What I faintly remember from the moment earlier is just his warm breathe against my face.

He just kept the distance of an inch between us.

I saw his pupils shaking.

And that's when he decided to leave me all alone right now, wandering to myself what he just said.

Sorry.

The rain still hasn't stopped.

I heave myself upward with one hand holding the bars for balance.

Moving my way out to the pouring rain, I allow the drizzle dropping on me relentlessly.

And walk my way back home.

With two evoking thoughts in my mind and heart...

"What does his sorry mean?"

"Kim Taehyung, where do you think you're going?"

*Three Days After*

"You know that your soulless face won't help us much to interest the tutor, right?"

"Yah!!! Seo Ji-Soo. Who's the soulless around here?" Jinja... This cold-hearted prince.

He ignores my question as usual.

"Let's practice. We've got only 15 minutes more to go."

15 minutes before I see him.

Since that day, that forgetten day, I always find a way not to see him.

"Come back here!!!"

Hyerin and I were on our way to meet Mr. Bang when Taehyung appeared to meet him as well.

I ran away before he even noticed Hyerin shouting to a blank space.

"Younghee, if I caught you..." Hyerin was warning me about my sudden runaway when....

"You know you should confront.." I just nodded what she had said before picking up my speed and running to the opposite wall through the window.

We were on the ground floor at that time.

I got through the hole just a second before Bangtan members bursted into the room.

"Why should I be running? I'm not a prisoner. And he's not a cop..." I'm muttering to myself when Ji-Soo turns on the music for the choreography.

"Put your thoughts aside, Kim Younghee. We need to pass this round."

Stretching my limbs and neck, I'm ready.

*At the training room*

Ji-Soo and I seem to be the first to arrive. The dance tutor is sitting at her desk, arranging the paperwork.

As we're about to let ourselves down at the corner of the room, the other trainees come rushing in like a water current.

There, I spot Hyerin and Jin, along with the other members.

And I see him, fortunately, not staring back to my hollow eyes.

Ji-Soo leans closer and whispers to my ear.

"Kim Younghee, go bring the smoke machine at the storage room."

"Why me?"

"Why not you? The tutor is gonna allow one member of each group to introduce the choreography we portray. And you are out into space so much, that you didn't even memorize the citing lines."