CHAPTER 74: AMONG THEM

143 14 16
                                    

"Remember the day we escape?"


"Best day of my life." Sehun gasped at the bitter sweet memory. "I've never ran so fast my entire life."


Umaga na't naglalakad ang dalawa sa kagubatan. Dito sila nagpalipas ng gabi pagkatapos makatakas sa may tunnel mula sa syudad. Nahanap nila ang pabalik sa may highway kung saan nila huling nakita ang mga kasama. Yet they only found the two of them, with a walkie talkie cracked in two lying on the ground. They decided to follow the tracks back to the road, away from the city that tore them all in separate ways.


"It's been like two years, right?" they continued talking about the past.


"Can't believe that all happened."


"Thanks to her."


"What if we didn't meet Noona? Where could we be by now?"


"Probably still locked up." Jongdae shrugged. "Or might as well just good as dead."


They both sighed as the memories haunted them. Especially it was a rare thing for them to talk about it - the trauma each of them had experienced during the months their sasaengs locked them up.


"Now that I recalled that day, I understand why Junmyeon hyung thinks like that." Jongdae realized with a firm nod.


It made the maknae hissed. "That we should talk it out with them? Tss. As if they will ever listen."


"It's just - they aren't all sasaengs." he continued. "Some of them aren't really sasaengs, nor even our fan. They only tagged along for pure survival. Well, at least one."


Sehun raised a brow. "Who?"


"The one who got our cuffs off that night."

×××

tw: sexual assault, abuse, language, mention of rape


"Maraming salamat po. Utang na loob ko buhay ko sa inyo."


A girl in her early twenties sobbed in delight as she stepped in the place. It was no ordinary place but a mansion which was secured from the dead. Abot tenga ang ngiti niya, iniisip kung saang kwarto siya tutuloy o kung anong pagkain meron sa loob.


"Anong salamat? May kapalit lahat ng to. Hindi libre pagtuloy mo dito, aber. Kung ayaw mong bumalik sa labas, lahat susundin mo dito. Kuha mo?"


"Opo..." ang tanging nasagot niya't nag iba ang pakiramdam tulad ng pag iba ng trato sa kanya ng babaeng sinama siya dito - nahanap siya nitong nagtatago sa grocery kanina.


"Ano ulit pangalan mo?" tanong sa kanya ng babae.


Survival with EXOTahanan ng mga kuwento. Tumuklas ngayon