My Only One (Prequel to Hello Again)

chapter 7 - family

A few months have passed.

Couple of things happened.

Just a few here and there with a few incidents but nothing too major. Ever since my supermarket stint, things calmed down. As Yoo had said, everything was wiped out and no evidence remained. No one had seemed to recall any certain memories of it ever happening and even the employees and people involved as they were silenced from every speaking out from what had happened. And if they did, let's just say, they 'disappeared'

Me and Somi had gotten closer ever since and Yerim had come down time to time to check up on me, I had took my medication regularly and was permitted to eventually buy it for myself time to time to get myself out more with permission with my psychiatrist and Yoo himself, with the occasion of Somi joining me just in case I had acted out all of a sudden.

Though the incidents had lessened, there were still a few of me with cases of assault against some people who just wanted to pick on me, and knowing the guy I am. I fought back and eventually spent a night in jail with Jihu and Mireu calling up Yoo for bail as the guys in the police station didn't pay any mind if anyone bothered me there. They said it was a learning lesson for me to stop doing it, but knowing them. They wouldn't dare throw me back in there.

I did learn. Just a tad bit. Though if someone pisses me off, I am throwing a bare right hook to their fucking jaw.

I still don't know what Somi and I are. We kiss, we hold hands, she spends the night at my place and I comfort her whenever she's sad. But we never established what we are. She's been there for me the whole time, and comes in whenever she wants, I'm not complaining but she's great. She's amazing. I wouldn't ask for any more or less or for anyone else. Her and Yerim have been the rocks in my life that kept me down even after what I've done to them. They stayed because I'm the one that's hurting and I know I can change but at the same time I feel like I can't.

I'm stuck in the past and I can't let go, but these visions, these flashbacks. I will never get rid of them.

Some nights, I'm numb as I hold Somi in my arms and I stay awake thinking about everything, then I just go out on my bike cruising around Incheon to Seoul and then come back home at 6 in the morning when she finds me awake.

She'd always ask me

"You okay?"

And I'd say

"I am."

And then I crawl back in bed with her after changing out of my clothes as I held her again.

Some days I'd drop her off to work, she'd come to my place crying about how it was so stressful for her to debut again ever since I.O.I and that she left the final lineup for a new group they were planning to announce.

It was called ITZY or something, that's all she could tell me. And well, she left the final lineup as she didn't feel right for her.

She wants to be a soloist but right now, she's contemplating on her future as she stayed with me.

But today. It was Christmas eve and I'm meeting her family for the first time since she didn't want me to be alone for Christmas as Yerim went back home to her family so, I figured why not.

And here I was in my apartment as Somi walked around frantically wearing a stunning black dress as she panicked as we were late

Somi - shit! We should've not overslept!

Y/N - It's not my fault! We should've not napped after having that meal!

She faces me as she fixes up my shirt collar