He will hurt you, rings a voice in her head.
It’s an adrenaline rush that makes her act out of her norm. She pushes her foot into the pedal and gone are the tall men clawing at her blood-soaked colleague. The way he moves makes her realise just how little of it must have belonged to him.
It happens in a split of a second. Time slows down, yet moves quicker than usual and leaves Mirae drowned in a paradox she has found herself in on multiple accounts. Bongsoo’s height is unusually threatening.
And for a moment again, he looks foreign in the white coat draping his body.
Somewhen along the lines, they have switched. Bongsoo is the one who is driving. He has convinced her of the urgency of their situation. Or at least, she has made him believe he did.
Past her window flashes a scenery that triggers a memory inside her and keeps Mirae at the edge of her seat. Her hands claw onto her keys until the sharp ends leave their temporary marks on her skin, but she does not mind.
There is a cloak of silence around the two.
She has no words for the man who has pretended to be part of her world but has done nothing but bringing her into his instead.
He will hurt you, rings the voice again. It replays like a broken record player. Her consciousness has failed her before, and she would not let it slip one more time. She has to find the signs, deescalate, get into his mind before he gets into hers. That is her only way of surviving this man who has been nothing but lies and big smiles to her.
But the white coat suits his body and leaves an aftertaste of disappointment. What has she expected?
The place they arrive to is far away from anything she has ever called a home. A scream hitches in her throat, but Mirae wants to stay composed. From all she knows --- or doesn’t know --- he can be a dangerous man. And she realises, she hasn’t given him a single glance throughout their journey.
She traces maps into the dusty surface of a black counter before she blows the dust off her finger. But her eyes are always occupied with something else.
“From the very first time I have seen you”, there is a short break in her voice which she conceals by casually leaning her back against a white wall. She sports confidence like nothing else, even if it is just pretence. After all, pretending is all she does in her everyday affairs.
“I knew you are a quack.”