SCINTILLA. - lee heeseung

chapter 2.

Quickly covering her slits with her right hand she turns around and sees a guy with a plain grey shirt and black jeans approaching the sink.

He's now standing on her right only a couple inches away from her.

She notices his black hair with a mullet and the long strands of hair covering his eyes. He is holding a bottle of alcohol in his right hand.

Mina tries to see his face to check if she might know him from school because him seeing her like this could create rumors.

He looks down to the girl in front of him since she is clearly staring at him for a good 10 seconds.

Just staring back he doesn't pull a reaction or anything and simply keeps a blank face.

Mina's hand still covering her wrist while blood is dripping into the sink catches his attention making him look down to see it.

The stranger sees Mina trying to cover it up and grabs her right wrist pulling it away from the open scars.

„What are you doing?", Mina asks, looking up at him.

„You need to disinfect that.", he advises her, turning off the sink.

He lets go of Mina's right hand and reaches for her left one.

She simply doesn't pull away because it seems like he knows what he's talking about and she certainly doesn't know much about treating wounds.

All she wanted to do is escape the pain.
She didn't care too much about doing research about wounds in the moment.

Fortunately her cuts aren't leaking anymore.

The guy raises his right hand to look at the bottle he's holding before carefully letting the liquid run over her cuts.

„Ow!", Mina exclaims, trying to pull her hand to herself but his grip still on her upper forearm tightens, causing Mina to stop.

He simply says „Don't move!" and stops pouring the alcohol on her wounded wrist.

I'm the one in pain here, not you. How am I not supposed to move?

She sees the guy looking at her wrist one more time before he notices the bandage she had put on the shelf.

„Stretch out your hand." He says before cautiously wrapping the bandage around her tender wrist, making sure it's not too tight.

When he is finished treating the wounds Mina tries to see his eyes but his hair hiding them makes it hard.

„I need to use the restroom.", he suddenly mumbles making her jump because she had been focusing on trying to see his face.

„Uh- yeah sorry, I'll go now. Thank you.", Mina smiles at him before rushing out of the restroom.
She feels like leaving the party because she's already in enough pain from her open cuts.

Squeezing herself through the crowd she tries to get to the stairs.
Finally after spending a minute trying to get through everyone she goes downstairs and notices that everything is back to laughs and dances and everyone is enjoying the party like before.

Mina struggles to find her best friend through large number of people when she gets reminded of her faux fur coat still laying on the bathroom floor upstairs.

Great. All for nothing.

She turns back and takes the stairs again.
Finally reaching the top floor she takes a deep breath before forcefully squeezing herseld through the large group of people again.