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“if anything should happen to me, i want you to know i’ve loved you.”
Conflicting emotions made her physical reaction to those words incredibly uncomfortable. Her cheeks flared with the heat of fresh, sudden rushing blood. The implication of something awful happening to him had the hairs on the back of her neck and on her arms standing on end, chills running over her like a thousand ants marching across her skin. Her stomach lurched. There was a warm feeling, but it was almost immediately extinguished by an acute awareness of the cold, as if it was going right through her.
Her eyes welled with tears after that. They’d already found Baekhyun dead, and Sohee’s busted cell phone with no sign yet of Sohee herself. Not to mention the shallow grave, and all the absolutely terrifying sounds that had been echoing off the walls of the mines. There was no doubt in either of their minds that they were not alone on the mountain, and whoever (or whatever--Sunmi was not at all convinced those sounds were human) was here with them was dangerous.
They had found the elevator, currently unpowered, and he had quickly spotted the power switch on a higher platform to the right. Though it was within sight of the elevator, and just a climb up and down a ladder to get there and back, he wanted her to stay next to the elevator for a quick escape if anyone--or anything--should come out of the woodwork when the power flipped on. He was adamant that he wanted her to get out, even if it meant leaving him behind. They had been going back and forth for minutes now. Her hand was still intertwined with his, and she squeezed it tightly as she bent her arm at the elbow, pulling him hard and quick enough to make him come forward.
Sunmi tugged him down and lifted onto her tiptoes to meet him halfway. Her stomach turned again when her lips brushed his. The kiss was chaste and short, but it didn’t stop her from feeling guilty for betraying Yoobin, while simultaneously being worried about regretting not kissing him for real. The potential to convince him not to go by himself drowned all that out, and her hand left his to grasp a fistful of his hair at the back of his head. She kissed him deeply, her other arm slinging over his shoulder to pull him close. Her eyes closed and for a glorious moment, the whirlwind in her mind calmed. She could still smell whatever it was he washed with and it made her greedy. She ended one kiss and immediately went for another.
Despite her usually being the level-headed one, it was Jongin that broke the impromptu making out, pulling out of the kiss abruptly. Her eyes shot open immediately, panicked that something had happened. But nothing had. He was looking at her with an expression like he’d realized if he didn’t stop now, he would change his mind. “Don’t let anything happen to you,” she pleaded in a whisper, afraid anything louder would beckon trouble to them. “Come back to the elevator safely so you can explain to me why the hell you used past perfect instead of present tense. Because I love you in the present sense.”












