𝗦𝗨𝗡 & 𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗡 | ᴬᶰ ˢᵒᵒᴴᵒ 『English Version』

Chapter 17

One year later.

"Enough!"

"Please, stop!"

"Yah!"

"How dare you say my name?!"

"...Please, understand me..."

"The blow to his head was very serious..."

"He has fallen into a coma..."

The feeling of suffocation was what woke Hyeori, like every night, the same images repeating over and over in her head.

Suho being hit, Bumseok hitting Suho, Bumseok begging for understanding, the doctor telling her about Suho's condition...

It was nothing new.

A year and a half had passed since Suho had fallen into a coma. A year since she had moved to Yongdeungpo on her own, with limited money, far from everything she used to know, far from Suho.

A year and a half since her life had become a living hell.

Hyeori didn't sleep, and if she did, it was only for a pathetic two hours or less, maybe half an hour, before those images and voices slammed into her head, waking her up and disturbing her sleep for the rest of the night.

Hyeori had lost everything, not just sleep.

After having left Wooyoung with a serious injury, which although he didn't report her or press charges, everyone found out that she was the one responsible for such an action. The rumors somehow reached the scholarship committee Hyeori had been applying to, causing her to lose that scholarship to the University of Toronto.

Causing her father's wrath.

Hyeori was basically disowned. Her father wanted nothing to do with her, and she didn't want to see him either, not after he had said so many bad things about Suho. She hadn't left home voluntarily, of course not, her own father had thrown her suitcases at her feet so she would leave that place.

And she did.

She had nowhere to go, but she didn't stop to think about it, she simply left and left behind the old Kang Hyeori within those walls called home. Fortunately, Suho's grandmother offered her food, a roof over her head, even a small job to help distract her from all the misfortunes that were happening in her life.

The old woman had taken care of her for more than four months until her mother managed to find her and tell her that she would help her secretly from her father. And although she didn't accept at first, she knew that, somehow, she had to survive, plus, she had to finish school.

That's how the girl now lived in an apartment, only five minutes away from Sion's apartment, which she no longer visited frequently because he now lived with his mother, a woman who, well, didn't like her very much.

According to her, since her son had gotten involved with her and Suho, his life had become a swarm of problems.

The girl didn't blame her, but it seemed absurd to her to blame a person who was suffering the same as her son, for the same reasons, for the same events.

However, she preferred to avoid any future problems for him, so when she wanted to kill boredom, or those thoughts attacked her again, she would walk to the parking lot of the building where Sion lived, send him a message, and then they would both go to some store or park just to take a walk and think.

It had been a routine for a year now.

It sounded easy, sounded quite simple and without much behind it, but for Hyeori that year had been like hell itself.