Chapter 53

POV: Hyun-Suk

It never crossed my mind that I could care so much about someone, as I do about Jaejun today. To see him tremble and whimper again, curled up and crying, makes my heart ache and shatter into countless pieces.

But I still can't quite grasp what's happening. I don't know if he's having another episode due to what that woman possibly said to him over the phone, or if everything he's doing now is about feeling, because he screams as if trying to alleviate an excruciating pain, and it even hurts me.

My eyes start to well up as I see him pinch himself, and I try in every way to stop him, imposing force on his hands, controlling them.

"Please, don't do this," I beg in my desperation, looking at him still within my arms.

I ask him yet again amongst the thousands of times, but he just curls up even more and covers his face between his knees, trembling like a completely defenseless being.

"Please, t