IDK how long it took before I finally finished the last chapter. I genuinely think that it took me months to finish and then yesterday, I just finished it. I don't know where the inspiration came from but somehow I just finished it and I kinda like how it turned out.

I just hope that this chapter won't take as long to finish.

This is the last chapter! Maybe I will write another chapter as epilogue but right now I don't have anything written yet.

Enjoy!

(Still Yi Jeong POV)


Two days later, I was sitting behind my potter's wheel while Ga Eul was in bed in the bedroom in the back. We'd come home immediately after we found her and the two of us immediately settled down in the studio. We'd locked ourselves in the studio and hadn't come out yet, even for food and other groceries, we called Woo Bin and Ji Hoo.

Ga Eul was doing okay, considering the circumstances, which I was quite relieved about because despite my big words of beeing there for her if she broke down, I had no clue how to deal with that. I'd support her, sure but I was scared that in doing so, I would fuck up even more with her.

While she'd slept in the bed, I mostly slept on the bench here or on the floor in her room, I was scared that by joining her in bed I would freak her out badly and push her boundaries. Since I'd dropped her in the bed, she had not come out of the room except to go to the bathroom. Whenever I felt it was time to eat, I brought the food to the room and sat with her while we ate and watched TV.

We talked a little but we hadn't gotten to what happened yet, I was waiting for her to bring it up so that I didn't rush her into anything.

Which is why I was surprised that by the third day, she sauntered in in her pj's which consisted of little shorts and a top that left little to the imagination. She wore a tired smile on her face and had her phone in her hand. I send her a smile back, "Hey."

"Hi." She said, sitting right next to me with nearly no space between us. Then again, it wasn't as if she could actually take a seat a little from me, it was a small seat after all. She could have sat on another bench but still, I'd take anything with her right now, "I just called with Nigari."

"Yeah?" Still didn't like the asshole, "What did he say?"

"He's coming here next week." She explained, "He'll be here by Thursday and is planning on leaving late Saturday night."

"Oh, there's no room for him to stay here though." I deadpanned, "Shit, that was supposed to come out differently, it's just that I only have one room and with all due respect, I'm not going to chase you out of the bed so he can stay here."

"No, don't worry, I know what you meant. He's not staying here anyway, he'll be staying at Woo Bin's." She told me, "He tried to get me to stay there too but I don't want to go outside yet."

"Hmmm, you're not going anywhere you don't want to go." I assured her, "I do have something to do in the evening and you can come with me if you want but if you rather stay here, Woo Bin and Ji Hoo offered to spend some time with you. It's up to you, Ga Eul."

"What are you doing?"

"Well, I'm going to look at an apartment, downtown." I told her honestly.

It was a penthouse in one of the new skyscrapers that the Song family had funded that Li Bin had offered me to view first. With Ga Eul now staying with me and me not letting her leave again, it was time to look for something a little more spacious and sharing a home with my parents was not an option. Frankly, I'd been looking into mansions myself but I knew Ga Eul would never really feel comfortable in a big house like that so I settled for the apartment.

"You're moving?" She asked.

I hummed, "Well, yeah. This place was never really home but rather just a place with a bed to crash in and now with you here, we both need more space so I think it is only fair that we go somewhere else." She opened her mouth to say something, probably something along the lines of her being okay on her own but I cut her off before she could actually say it, "No, don't even think it, Ga Eul. You're not going anywhere. I've failed you a lot before but that ended in Japan. I'm going to take proper care of you."

"Why don't you sleep in the bed?" She asked. "It's big enough for the both of us."

"Ga Eul-"

"You don't have to if you don't want to but I'm okay." She said, "I'm not going to lie, I feel a little bit dirty but I'm okay because nothing happened. I always knew you would come for me so I feel safe with you. So, if you want to sleep in the bed tonight, you can. If I ever feel uncomfortable, I will let you know but we're sitting here pressed together right now and I am fine."

"There is a difference to sleeping together and sitting pressed together." I tried to explain.

She sighed, "Look, if you don't want to, that's fine. I am saying, I'd be fine with sleeping together in one bed as long as nothing happens. I don't know what you expect from us, what you want to do or wha-"

"I want you, Ga Eul in whatever way you want to take me." I tell her, "If you want us to just be friends for now, that is fine. I'll wait. If you want to date, that would make me very happy but right now, but you decide what we do when we do it."

"Okay, if we do this, I want you to not look at me differently than you used to." She tells me, "I hate that, it's why I don't talk about what happened, because people always look at me differently when I do and I don't want that. I'm still me, Yi Jeong, I'm still the girl you met all that time ago. That didn't change, I didn't change. So don't treat me differently."

"How can I not?" I answer her honestly, "I am still very much in love with you, Ga Eul, just like I was before I knew about this but I cannot just treat you the way I would have treated you before because you deserve more than that and that also has to do with me. I think that you will also need to call me out on my shit every once in a while because I still believe you deserve a lot better than me."

"So why be with me at all if you feel like that?" She asked, "Why not ju-"

"Don't even think about it." I growl out, pulling her into my lap before really thinking about it. Once she was in my lap though, I was kind of scared of her reaction so I immediately pulled back my arm so she could move away if she wanted but instead wrapped her arms around my neck, "You're mine, Ga Eul. Just as I am yours."

"Mine?"

"Yours." I confirmed. "All yours."

"I'll come with you." She said, "As long as you're by my side the entire time."

"They'll have to kill me before I ever leave your side again."