"So have you decided?," He lifted up his face "Should I call you Oppa or hyung?" He chuckled.
As if hair could burn, Garam jerked his hand back from his hair.
His face soaked in dripping sweat, red due to excessive adrenaline rush, clenched, banishing his former worried demeanor.
He gave him a cold,hard stare before looking behind him, and walked past him.
and knelt down to pick up the volleyball and turned around without saying a single word.
"Old habits die hard,huh? Gyu mocked him, raking his fingers through his hair while standing up.
However he didn't get any response.
His lips twitched.
"How long are we going to be like this?" He shouted staring at his back trudging figure.
Meanwhile,
-was it him? That guy? Really he smacked that ball hard on that intruder?
-Nah.. I knew he didn't have that bone in him, wasn't he bad with balls, or am I wrong?
-just run fast, or we are all going to watch from back, just who was the intruder?
Students present on the 2nd floor hallway who watched the scenario of an intruder being tossed, from the large glass window ran towards field direction.
Earlier the sports ground field had only around 10-15 students, practicing for their upcoming tournament.
However,
The news of an anonymous man with a knife, breaking into the school boundary, and a middle year boy has knocked him, broke out as a fire.
Students and teachers present inside the 1st floor hallway near the ground field also rushed to the incident site too.
Gyu didn't move an inch, and kept looking in his direction.
He completely forgot about the person on his back.
However the field was large and the incident happened at the last corner
And before the crowd could mobbed the ground, four boys ran towards Garam's departing figure shouting his name.
"Garam, Garam!"
Garam who was not in himself, just walking, a lot of things running in his head,
Stumbled a little awakening from his daze and his eyes fell on the side, a large passing mirror.
"Why do you run here like that?" A tall guy asked catching his breath.
"It's hard catching you running, garam"
Meanwhile Garam didn't budge, his eyes were glued to the mirror and the next second he joltly spun the volleyball in the air and jumped.
"Look at his tottering figure, told you, he didn't do that. it must be the one of the other guys in the field" those girls stepping down the stairs to the field, commented.
However the next second they all were shocked including Garam's friends
The ball was in the air and Garam had jumped, turning his back in the air and smacked harder towards Gyu's direction.
And Thud!
As if the world has gone deaf, everything remains still. Just like silence before the storm, a frenzy broke.
"Oh my god!" The only sound erupted in the field. The place gets mobbed within a few seconds.
Everyone circled around Gyu, while gyu was still in the daze, lying on the ground.
His ears were red.
There was another person laid unconscious a little behind to his left side on the ground, blood was dripping from his nostrils, and his fingers gripped tightly on the sharp knife.
- " hey kid, are you fine? check his neck Ms.May"
- "he didn't get grazed, sir."
- "That student hit him in the right spot or our school would have gotten into a big controversial situation."
- "It will still be controversial."
- "can you stand up."
- "Is that man dead?, i watched him coming closer to that guy again with that knife. his nose is bleeding, just how hard he smacked."
- "he isn't dead."
- "cops have arrived sir."
The cops hand cuffed the unconsious man and confiscated the sharp knife and walked towards Gyu.
"You aren't a student here, are you?" One of the cops asked him.
Gyu shook his head.
He still can feel the ball grazing his ear.
"How do you enter inside then?"
"He was tailing me, I came here while running away from him."
"Come with us to the police station, we need to do some written work."
It was already 1 p.m.
Gyu was done with the police station.
He was so thirsty that he didn't notice Garam standing just beside the road store.
He gulped it down quenching his thirst.
"You were always right in front of my eyes, just how foolish I was to not see it" Garam muttered to himself looking at Gyu.
Though Gyu couldn't hear it but it sure gets his attention.
"Woah! You came here, when you walked away i thought you wouldn't talk to me." He said.
Meanwhile Garam remains still.
"Who told you my location? Was it hana?" He asked, folding his hands on his chest.
"No, she didn't."
"Means she did."
"I'm thankful for what you did today" Gyu said coming closer to him.
"I warned you last time, to not cross paths with each other" Garam sternly said.
"I'm your brother, Garam."
"I only had a sister, whose name you dirtied" His voice screeches at the last part, while warm liquids are at bay in his eyes. Which he didn't let them flow.
Gyu pursed his lips.
"I just want some peace can't i," Garam said messaging his nose bridge.
"I can't help it, but run to you. I have no one to call mine" he mutters the later part slowly.
"G-gyu.." he stuttered, "my sister died and you were her replacement." Garam said coldly.
Gyu pursed his lips, Garam knew exactly which button to push to hurt him, he knew he was a replacement but he didn't ask for it.
"2 years ago.... you had told me if I was born a boy i would have been your brother"
"Are you a kid, just come out of that nonsense, you played a girl back then, you didn't exist to me" Garam angrily spatted.
Gyu's lip wobbled hearing he didn't exist for him. He bit his lip containing himself.
"And You are still shameless to speak on my face after all you did to me" Garam's nostrils were flaring.
He continued. glaring sharply in his eyes, while coming closer to his face.
"Don't show me this face again, go back"
"I can't" gyu mouthed. looking in Garam eyes. His voice dejected as he couldn't find any warmth in Garam's eyes for him.
"Why?" Garam gritted out through his clenched teeth. "Everything that was precious to me, you took away from me,one by one. Her memories, our childhood, the love of my parents.....
You haven't even left behind her name!
What more do you even want from me?"
Gyu pursed his lips.
"Just acceptance of me" he planely said.
He doesn't want to look vulnerable in front of him.
He knew it was going to be hard since the day he agreed to play deception.
"Huh?" Garam frowned 'Here i thought you might say repentance.' He mutters to himself being disappointed a little.
But his anger didn't subside, instead it reckoned him more
"I'm saying this"
"loud and clear,"
"I have nothing for you, not even an ounce of sympathy, acceptance or compassion"
"Digest this fact, you don't exist for me, there's no place for you, the only Gyu i know was my sister, not YOU A LIAR"
"You even snatch away her name, just what you have to call yours?"
"Don't be a leach, find your own place, and let's not see each other again" Garam ended off and walked past him.
"My place?" A small sad smile crept on his lips.
***
Gyu was on his phone, talking to someone.
"Did you meet him?" The person asked.
"It was your doing...huh..." gyu raked his hands through his hair. "You knew that i would definitely run into him one day" he scoffs.
The person chuckled, "it sounds like it didn't go well."
"He asked me if hana was the one to tell his location?"
In all reality, he didn't have the courage to face him, but today watching garam suddenly came running towards him and protecting him from that robber though he didn't show his care through words. he felt, maybe not now but one day he will accept him and they will again get together and this time as brothers, and he wouldn't have to play pretending anymore.
But before anything, he needed to do a lot of things. And one of the reasons is why he came to this town.
"-Send me the location, it's still hard to go around here."
He received a message, he clicked on it. It has a photo with it.
"So I have to find her here?"
Meanwhile, A man in a jumper suit released the men from the police station.
He slapped him hard, "how did you get caught."
"Sir, it's all because of a student I got knocked on and ended up here."
"What? just what in the hell you get tangled with a student."
"It's all because of her."
"Her?"
"Yess sir, i personally tailed a person, that has a similar face"
"You found her?"
"I even clicked some pics."
"I checked it more than one time, they both look the same."
"We need to tell it to the boss.''
"Finally after all those months combing through all the villages we finally get our hands on her."
Meanwhile Gyu only stares intently at his phone screen.
The person on the phone speaks
"Gyu, search for her, she has all your answers" the person said.
"So you are the answer to her death?" Gyu muttered.