How to Fix a Psychopath

Chapter 19

 

 

How to Fix a Psychopath Episode 19

 

 

I grabbed the carrier and ran away from the fight where two bodies were entangled and pulling each other’s hair. I heard someone calling my name from behind, but I ignored it. The sound of the carrier being dragged quickly, creaking, creaking, seemed to make me even angrier.

 

I took my phone out of my pocket. A notification popped up on the black screen saying I had a new message.

 

It was a text message that came with the caller ID blocked. However, I didn’t check it. I quickly pressed the back button and went into the phone book.

 

I pressed the call button on the first saved number.

 

Doo doo doo… … . Doo doo doo doo… … .

 

“Take it quickly, quickly.”

 

It was annoying. You must have been watching this whole time. You didn’t show up so that they could give me a slap on the

 

face. At least it shouldn’t have hurt you, right?

 

Once the fire was ignited, it burned like madness, fueled by the emotions that had been building up.

 

The connection sound continued for a while and then stopped.

 

-… … .

 

 

“Lee Eun-woo.”

 

 

My voice, soaked in anger, came out in a high pitch. Lee Eun-woo. It was the word Lee Eun-woo hated the most. It was because Lee Hyun-woo always called out the name of a death row inmate before hitting Lee Eun-woo.

 

But it didn’t matter.

 

-… … .

 

Still, the other person was quiet. A person should be able to hear at least breathing, but I couldn’t hear anything. All I could hear was my breathing and my voice, grumbling in unbearable anger.

 

“You? You are that person, right? The shadow that day, the

 

delivery box, and the fact that you came to the front gate of our school saying you were my boyfriend!”

 

-… … .

 

“Are you a stalker? What are you thinking? Are you following me around and committing crimes because you have nothing better to do? Answer me!”

 

I screamed in anger in a narrow alley. I felt nausea and tears rushing in at the same time from the overwhelming emotions. My stomach was rumbling as if it was going to turn me inside out, and my eyes were still painted red with anger.

 

But the other person still didn’t answer, and I felt dizzy as if the world was turning upside down. Eunwoo Lee had no intention of answering.

 

Yeah, that’s how it comes out.

 

“Where are you now?”

 

-… … .

 

“… … Where are you!?”

 

The scream that had been uttered only once came back to my ears.

 

-… … behind you.

 

Eunwoo Lee’s voice could be heard clearly on the phone, even from behind me.

 

Behind you. Behind you. Behind me. Behind Kim So-young.

 

I relaxed my shoulders, which had been tense, and lowered my hand, which had been raised to hold the phone to my ear. I closed the folder with a loud snap of my index finger, and only then slowly turned around.

 

Eunwoo Lee also put down his hand to his ear only after I had completely turned around. She glanced at his cell phone and saw that it was the exact same model as the one that was lying around in the corner of her studio house.

 

Lee Eun-woo was still the same. Lee Eun-woo’s smiling face was still amazingly beautiful. It was to the point where I thought it wouldn’t be Lee Eun-woo but a greee god if someone had sculpted him for his beauty.

 

He was much taller than in middle school, and his handsome features became more distinct as he lost weight. In this situation,

 

I couldn’t help but roll my eyes away from Lee Eun-woo’s face, which was catching my eye. Then, I saw a boy wearing the same uniform as the one who introduced me to Yeojin Boys High School at the cafe.

 

I burst out laughing and glared at Lee Eun-woo, wondering when he had transferred.

 

“Are you kidding me?”

 

I asked with a sharp edge. Eunwoo Lee didn’t seem to have any intention of answering my question, and just stared at me with his lips tightly shut. I could clearly feel his gaze caressing my face, as if he was trying to see a face he hadn’t seen for a long time.

 

“I am asking you again… Are you kidding me?”

 

“… …Your cheeks are swollen.”

 

I heard Eunwoo’s strange answer to my words. He looked at my face carefully and seemed to have realized that she had been hit by that friend. Huh, a sigh of frustration kept piercing through my lungs as the conversation was not going well.

 

“That’s not what I asked.”

 

“Let’s go home and get you treated.”

 

Eunwoo Lee took a step closer to me.

 

Eunwoo Lee ignored me and said what he wanted to say, to the point where I was confused as to whether I was talking to Eunwoo Lee or to a deaf stranger. I stepped back at his behavior of completely trampling on my attempts at conversation.

 

“Where is your home? Don’t come here anymore! Don’t come here and just answer the questions I asked you.”

 

Seeing myself moving further away as Eunwoo Lee came closer, he stopped trying to take another step forward. When I took a half step back as much as Eunwoo Lee had stretched out his leg, the carrier I was standing on fell over with a loud noise.

 

Eunwoo Lee suddenly chuckled as I flinched at the sound of something falling.

 

“Soyoung… …does it look like I’m joking?”

 

I felt my hair stand on end when I saw Lee Eun-woo laughing as if a screw was loose.

 

Eunwoo Lee, who was looking at me listlessly, was clearly different from when he was in middle school. The pure gaze that

 

had remained was no longer there.

 

Eunwoo Lee was looking at me with a low, sinister gaze, like a predator that was eyeing at his feast right in front of him.

 

“Then why are you here now?”

 

“ha…….”

 

Lee Eun-woo let out an exaggerated sigh, smiling as if he was disappointed. Lee Eun-woo slowly raised his head, which had been bowed down, as he sighed. His smile had completely disappeared. Lee Eun-woo, who was giving off a dangerous vibe, averted his gaze and looked elsewhere as he spoke.

 

“I’ve always been by your side, Soyoung.”

 

“I’m not asking you about the horrible way you stalked me!”

 

“……then?”

 

Lee Eun-woo asked, while tilting his head. The long eyelashes that were growing longer cast small shadows on the corners of his eyes as he looked down at me. His gentle eyes didn’t smile, so she felt even colder and her body naturally flinched, but she never showed it.

 

 

“Why, why on earth, are you here, that’s what I asked.”

 

Eunwoo Lee rolled his eyes as if trying to interpret what I was saying. Then he smiled as if it was for an unimportant reason.

 

I asked seriously, but Eunwoo Lee seemed to be saying, ‘Why are you asking something so seriously? It’s not that important.’

 

“You hate me. That’s why I just chose to see you from the closest place… … . You hate that too? Then how can I be by Soyoung’s side? … … Huh?”

 

Eunwoo Lee, who walked towards me with his eyes drooping even further, pretending to be pitiful, delicate, and weak, asked pitifully.

 

He carefully grabbed my hand, forcing his large body to curl up. His large, warm hand seemed to just wrap around me, then dug into my palm and interlocked his fingers.

 

The fingers that were tying me felt like a trap that would close its mouth when it got caught.

 

Puhehe, Eunwoo Lee suddenly smiled as if he was in a good mood.

 

“I guess I’m really weird, Soyoung. I was always the only one who depended on you, looked for and searched for you, but seeing you get mad and look for me like crazy made my heart flutter so much.”

 

With a happy face, Lee Eun-woo grabbed my hand and brought it to his chest, pressing it hard.

 

“I really can’t live without you, Soyoung.”

 

It seemed as if Lee Eun-woo’s words were not a lie, as his heart beat faster than a certain beat, thump, thump, thump, was transmitted to my palm.

 

I remember my heart racing with anxiety, fear, and dread whenever I met Lee Eun-woo. Perhaps the first time I was shaken by such positive emotions was when we first met. That was when I was confident that I could completely change Lee Eun-woo.

 

However, on the contrary, when I saw Eunwoo Lee smiling affectionately, I felt a chill as if someone had hit me on the back of the head. When I saw Eunwoo Lee, who always acted as if he lived for me, I felt that he really liked me.

 

But it always felt like I was seeing love for others indirectly.

 

Maybe I felt that Eunwoo Lee’s actions were not to love me every

 

moment, but to attack others like a psychopath who enjoys killing. Because Eunwoo Lee was crazy, and I felt fear every time.

 

But the pounding sound I felt in Lee Eun-woo’s chest right now was real. As if he was saying to me with his own mouth that he loved me, a sense of bewilderment and inexplicable embarrassment welled up in me.

 

The unpleasant feeling I had when a snake crawled up my hand and grabbed my wrist as if it was climbing a tree darkly had disappeared to some extent, as if it were a lie.

 

A finger larger than mine extended its thumb and slowly rubbed the back of my hand. As the thumb rubbed softly, I remembered the dream I had the day before. The dream where Lee Eun-woo pressed his lower body against my butt and rubbed it while panting heavily.

 

I automatically put strength into my hand to pull it away. However, I only flinched, and Eunwoo Lee didn’t seem to have any intention of letting go of my hand and didn’t let go easily.

 

The fingers that held my hand tightly looked like thorns that were raised to not let go of their prey.

 

For a moment, I had the illusion that my hand, which was affectionately held in his hand, was caught in a trap and was

 

bleeding profusely. There was no way that it wouldn’t happen.

 

“Let go.”

 

“… …Soyoung.”

 

I twisted my wrist to free the hand that was being held by Lee Eun-woo. Even if it wasn’t now, this strong hand would have ensnared me like a trap that I couldn’t free myself from. If there was something he could grab, it would be my wrist, my ankle, or my eye balls.

 

I writhed in urgency as if it was going to happen right now. However, Eunwoo Lee must have sensed that I was trying to escape from him, because he held onto my hand even tighter, to the point where it hurt. It was a standoff. Eunwoo Lee’s nails dug into the back of my hand.

 

It felt like ignorant beasts were struggling to pull out a trap that was burrowing into their flesh. That was just like me. If I kept going like this, I felt like I wouldn’t even have the back of my hand left. I stopped struggling and let out a sigh.

 

“Let go. I told you.”

 

“No.”

 

Lee Eun-woo responded to my cold words with a firm rejection just as I did. Where did his gentlemanly attitude of pretending to listen to everything I said go? Instead, he grabbed my hand and pulled me towards him as if he was trying to show off. Oh, before I could even say anything, I bumped my face into Lee Eun-woo’s chest.

 

It seemed like the grass would just sway in the wind.

 

I was so annoyed. Lee Eun-woo, back then, pretended to respect me while doing whatever I wanted. In middle school, I used to tremble at the sight of him, but I held it in for fear of hurting myself and the other kids, and then ran away.

 

But I no longer had the energy to run away, and I no longer cared about who Eunwoo Lee was hurting out of ill feelings. I no longer had the fearless thought of trying to fix Eunwoo Lee.

 

I have nothing to lose now. There is a saying in the world that goes like this. The person who has nothing to lose is the scariest. That is who I am now.

 

“Let’s stay like this for a bit, Soyoung, okay? It’s been a while since we last met.”

 

While I was still in his arms, he must have thought that I had given him permission, so he let go of my hand and hugged me tightly. I just rolled my eyes and stared at the hand that was falling limply. As expected, the back of my right hand, where his fingernails had been, must have been red.

 

It looked exactly like she had been bitten by a rabid dog.

 

“… … Let go before I bite my tongue and die.”