Chapter 5

Shanun felt as if her heart had stopped beating. Seeing the action of her housemate, which she had never seen before, made him completely incredulous.

“Alice, you—” said Shanun with a trembling mouth.

I kept running while crying in fear, then went into the bathroom and locked it while Mate continued to pursue him. Mate, who was initially hesitant to enter the ladies’ room, finally ventured to enter and banged on the door of the restroom where I was inside.

I sat in a closet with my whole body shaking.

“Who are you really? Come out!”

I fell silent and silenced my mouth with both palms. Tears flooded my cheeks.

“Hey, come out!” Mate kept shouting. He didn’t care that some women looked at him with a strange look.

“Hi, sir? Why did you go into the ladies’ room? Please get out and go to the men’s room!” One of the women approached.

“I just want to...” Mate was perplexed when several other women came following with angry expressions. With a