~Made in Japan~

Chapter 35

Y/n POV:

Then my throat feels like it's closing up. My knees hit floor as my hand grabs around my throat.

This...isn't....it....

My throat starts to burn, and my eyes tear up. I do my best to try and hack up whatever was in that tea cup, but my mind tells me my fate is already sealed. I'm done for.

And I haven't even done what I wanted to do....

I was too young to die. My entire life was ahead of me, right ahead of me, and this is how I go?? This is how I die? As my tears cloud my vision I can't help but think about all the people who've also died in this very spot.

I wouldn't be the first.....or the last....

Yuto POV:

The entire time I've been with Y/n things have been crazy and messed up. There are so many things I want to tell her, but the timing has been off with everything. It's already been two days, and I still feel like we aren't exactly back 'on' again.

That's all I really want to be honest, to be with her that is. But I know I've messed up royally, and so if she wants to continue just focusing on her modeling, I have no choice but to respect her wishes.

That's all I've really done since we've met again. Follow whatever choice she makes, and try my best to be with her just in case she falls. Who am I to tell her what to do or how to feel? If she feels like this is a good choice for her, so be it.

Which is one of the reasons I don't understand Hui. He's always trying to stop Y/n from doing what she wants. Sure, most things that come out of her brain are irracional and crazy, but sometimes people need to learn that fire is hot by touching it. You can't just scream at them and tell them it hot and expect them to listen to your warning. Y/n is like that. Which is why I'm nodding my head and going with whatever she says, because at the end of the day it's her choice.

But at this moment I think we both should've took Hui's advice.

As Leader-nim and Y/n both pick up a cup of tea, the atmosphere grows ice cold. Y/n seems off, like she's unsure of what's going to happen next. I look at her tea cup, and back at Leader-nim's, keeping my head down so they can't see my eyes.

Surely she didnt' switch the cups.

She couldn't have. Y/n wasn't that stupid. Crazy maybe, but not stupid. As Y/n's tea cup slowly touches her lip, I notice that she's really not trying to drink whatever tea is in there. Then it hits me,

she did forget which cup didn't she....

I do a mental face palm and open my mouth to say something, but by the time I can open my mouth both of their tea cups on sitting on the desk. My eyes bulge as I look at the empty cups then to Leader-nim, who is cunningly smirking at Y/n, but Y/n doesn't let her guard down just yet, I can tell she's shaken and scared, but anyone who didn't know her wouldn't be able to tell.

Suddenly, Y/n drops to the floor, kneeling over and coughing over and over again. My heart stops, and I get this dead feeling creeping over my body, as if the grim reaper was standing right behind me and breathing his cold, dark, breath over my body.

"Y/N?!" I shout, finally getting up from my chair and crouching next to her side. I drape an arm over her shoulder and look at her. Y/n's face doesn't show any signs of distress due to the poison, but more of her own twisted, distraught facial expression. But, I know that some poison's take longer, so this could have been one which takes a longer time.

Even if it's a longer poison, the longest time for a poison to take full effect that I know of is 10 minutes, so we don't have long, not long at all.

I burst through the door and search for the guys, luckily they were all waiting outside of the door for us. Hui, who's the first one to notice me, turns to me and looks by my side, noticing Y/n isn't here with me.