6 | confrontation

"Lights out in 5 minutes."

Seun-jin was still sitting down with Jun-hee on his shoulder, he didn't want to move much to make her uncomfortable so he only moved a slight amount so that she could still feel comfortable somehow.

"What's lights out?"

"I wouldn't know any better, the lights shut off at 3am I guess? 3am videos were such a classic. You could say I practically watched every single one on YouTube ever made. They were so interesting."

"Is YouTube videos and movies all you think about in that head of yours now?" Seun-jin smiled awkwardly rubbing the back of his head, "I guess so, I spent a lot of time on YouTube and illegal websites, so pretty much yeah ."

Player 456 spoke up, "Make sure to be on guard, some people may try to kill each other. So just be careful when the lights go out, okay? And you,"456 pointed at Seun-jin. "Who, me?"

"Protect your girlfriend there." Seun-jin choked on his spit, "That's not my girlfriend, well no we used to date but, I don't know anymore so we're just friends, right Jun-hee? She says yes."

"Uh, yeah! Someone I can trust here at least, since I knew him for a long time, yeah that's it, just friends nothing more." She smiled, Seun-jin also did too. "Exactly." They made a complete heart hand, which made 456 even more suspicious of them both and their relationship previously before coming here.

"Alright but still, watch over her, okay?"

"Of course sir, hey you sound just like a dad telling your daughter's boyfriend to take good care of her, that happened to me, you remind me exactly of him, wasn't really that long ago."

"You had a ex?" She lifted her head up from his shoulder, she pretended not to know, but she did, when she stalked his socials, all she knew and saw was Aera on his page she grew envious of her even if Jun-hee had been the one to break up with him anyway.

"Yeah, but she broke up with me, well I broke up with her. She was talking to someone else behind my back, we dated for 1.5 years, but it doesn't bother me, so yeah she cheated and we're no longer together, so thank goodness. But we both had a right to be mad."

"She got jealous over small shit sometimes, but she was pretty. If she did turn out to be here, she would've came here yelling in my face for whatever reasons she had, I wasn't even a bad person, I felt bad if I rejected her, so I said yes."

"I forgot her birthday though."

"That's good, which reminds me, how old are you now? It's been a while." Jun-hee changed the topic not wanting to hear about his ex, even her name struck a nerve, Aera was just Jun-hee's temporary replacement, but even Seun-jin knew that Aera couldn't compare to her, not even if she tried to be on her level or higher, she was still very much lower than her.

"20, I'm not able to drink yet, don't really plan on it anyway but yeah, pretty much a summary of what happened throughout 3 or 4 years. I don't find it very entertaining. Unfortunately, my years get boring and boring as they go on."

"Well..." She smiled leaning her head back on his shoulder, as a kid no one ever really listened to his rants, which made him seem like a nerd. No one listened to them now but he still loved presentations to show off his interests. But Jun-hee did, Aera in fact didn't, she started overlapping it with hers instead.

-

The lights were off, 456 was already keeping watch at the front, but Seun-jin was still wide awake. He couldn't go to sleep since someone could attack Jun-hee at any moment and she was pregnant, and he had a lot of energy at night, not in the morning for some reason, so that was nice for him in a place like this, kind of.

She was asleep right next to him, but he could feel her moving, she was about to get up from her sleep. He looked as she shot up from the bed quickly he got startled of course when they were together she had nightmares and this happened a lot, but now after a couple of years he wasn't used to it anymore. "Is everything okay? Are you having a nightmare? " He asked her, his voice only filled with concern and worry.

"I can't sleep." She looked up at him, "Do you want to talk about random things? I don't know if it helps but just tell me what I can do, is it your belly? Is it bothering you right now?"

Jun-hee laughed at how concerned was he was only on her belly after she had told him about her pregnancy,  "No, it's not any of that, I just don't really feel safe enough to sleep here, but I wanna talk to you about, say anything. I just want to sleep, just like you used to."

"You wanna hold my hand?" Seun-jin asked knowing it would embarrass her, but not him. It always had, but she said yes anyway. "Before you say it's embarrassing the lights are off and it's dark, no one would see us holding hands, stop behind so nervous and you know, you'd do it anyway." She gave in and held his hand tight.

"Jeez, I didn't know you needed it that bad."

"Okay um, when I was 2 years old I remember that my mom had snacks and when she was sleeping at 1am I ate it and she thought it was an intruder but it was just little young me, and all of it was smeared on my face, she took a picture."

"That's funny, I'd like to see it some time." She smiled, "Tell me another one."

"I really loved this show like a lot, I forgot the name of it now, but I think it got canceled. I was in a deep sleep and a very deep one, but then I heard the show intro come on and I screamed it and sang the whole intro word for word."

This time he didn't get a response, she was already asleep after one story. But he didn't mind, at least someone liked his rants and could talk to someone about it.

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"If you're so into this creepy pasta stuff then can you tell us if aliens are real? Fucking nerd. Let's interview you today."

"Aliens are apart of creepy pasta though, but you wouldn't know if you're the one calling me a nerd for my interests that are clearly fictional, dumbass you take it seriously for no reason.

"What did you say asshole?"

"Exactly what I said, I don't think I stuttered, you heard me loud and clear, you're a fucking dumbass." Seun-jin repeated, "That's why you don't have a girlfriend, you're too much of a nerd and an asshole."

"I'm not into anyone at the moment that's why, but you got rejected in front of the whole school too, I didn't. Still thinking about it? Don't worry it stays there forever and you're the bully here, not me. So you're the asshole you're the one coming to me for your work because I'm #1."

The boy scoffed, "What did you fucking say to me?" The bully repeated while holding Seun-jin's arm tight, laughing. "I didn't say you could ever talk back I don't know where you got the confidence from, but let go of it."

"Then let go of my arm, and stop asking me that, are you deaf now? Can't hear? I said exactly what I said, you got rejected in front of the whole school, I didn't we're many worlds apart. Wait? You're still stuck on that? What a complete loser, you're only doing this to me because you want to seem to cool to girls so they won't reject you, pathetic."

"I do hope to see you again when we're older, see which one ends up without a girlfriend still. But I can tell who it'll be already, like foreshadowing know what that means? no?."

He twisted Seun-jins arm making him wince in pain, he laughed then walked away, "Stupid nerd with a smart mouth, you're nobody." he didn't say anything. It hurt but he didn't want anyone to see that, all because I didn't wanna help him with his homework. "Assholes."

"My point still stands."

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Seun-jin slowly let go of Jun-hee's hand to not wake her up, if he did she'd have billions of questions, he got up from the bed and walked towards 456 lightly tapping him, he could tell that he was falling asleep.

"I'm going to the bathroom real quick, I'll be back." He said with a low voice, not trying to wake up anyone else, "Alright, be careful going there." He nodded before walking off.

He zipped down his tracksuit and pulled up his sleeve on his left arm, where his arm was twisted, it still hurt after all this time, maybe because he never said anything about it or told anyone, maybe because he didn't have anyone.

But he noticed blood dripping down from his arm too out of nowhere. "Ah shit, how did that even happen?" Which was probably from the hurtful memories, a reminder that he won't forget. Before he could even move, he got stopped by a hand and turned around, it was Myung-gi, what a day to be alive.

"What do you want?" Seun-jin raised his brow in confusion, "What the fuck? You're the one that stopped me and you have the audacity to ask me? What do you want the famous MG Coin? Or maybe more like scammer as a fitting name? Wait no no, what about fraud?"

"Don't act dumb, or change the topic, what do you want with my girlfriend?" He gripped his arm harder, Seun-jin didn't want another incident on his arm so he shoved it off, but his grip was tight so it barely moved.

"Do you mean ex-girlfriend? She told me that you scammed her, you're the one who knocked her up and you can't even help her raise the baby, what about the profit you got from taking other people's money? Can't use that? You did get good money from others no? Fuck off then."

"Why did she tell you all that? She broke up with me for you, you were her fan."

"And you were using her to build your way up. I was an actor and even now people still recognize me for the right reasons while you have the wrongs for being a scammer. And yet you can't help raise your child like a father and suggest an abortion? You don't even deserve to be called one."

"And you do?"

"You're acting like I'm the father of her child, you are. So go talk to her about it not me dumbass, that's why your shit got beat earlier, and your relationship ended because of no communication and arguments not because of me. Communicating which is something you're clearly not good at, but arguing you are."

"So fuck off."

Seun-jin used loads of toilet paper and wrapped it around the bleeding part from his arm, before exiting he turned around to Myung-gi, "We're just friends, that's all, we broke up years ago, don't go being jealous of people who can treat your ex girlfriend much better than you can, for example, someone who doesn't need to use others to gain for their own benefit, but you don't fit that description at all do you, Myung-gi?"

He walked out with a tear running down his cheek, instead of sitting back next to Jun-hee he went to the bunk that was quite far away from her and laid on his right arm, he'd never met someone so selfish, and it was annoying.

Sure physical pain did hurt, but mental pain really did hit the hardest out of all.