Chapter 71
I got onto a taxi. I told him where I wanted to go and he quickly sped off.
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I have to see him…
The last week that I had with him…was wasted practicing for this competition…
I’m sorry Heewon…
I have to see him, I have to see Eungyu singing, I won’t be late, after I see Eungyu sing I’ll leave…
It’s today…
The today I hoped would never come…
The today I have to leave the Eungyu I love…
I looked at the window, and I could see my tears trailing down my cheeks…
…I barely put any of this makeup on…I have to look pretty for him…
“We’re here miss.”
“…thank you.”
I stepped out the taxi and I could hear loud screams coming for the crowd inside. With a beating heart, I started walking closer to the auditorium. I’d thought it would have been an open competition outside. As I stepped inside, I saw the stage, and I could a couple of guys singing. All the seats were filled with people in their teens and twenties, I desperately looked around for seats but I couldn’t find any. I helplessly leaned against the wall.
“I came to see the band ‘Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do’!! Their lead vocal is hella hot!!”
“Oh my gosh! I heard about him, I best ¾ of the people here came to see him!”
“Ahk! The lights are turning off, I think they’re coming out!”
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do?
What a funny name for a band. They came to this competition to see that lead singers? Boy obsessed freaks… <_<…
The loud beating of drums echoed throughout the auditoriums and I could hear the lead singer of the band start to sing.
All the lights were turned off and I squint my eyes to see the singer.
The first band was a group of four guys…
I think I’ll go to sleep until Eungyu’s band comes out. -_-
I tried finding a comfortable position in my seat, but opened my eyes at a unique sounding song. A number of loud screams were heard inside the auditorium.
Ow my ears… TT_TT
“Presentin!!! The band that won last years competition! This year we’ve waited anxiously for them to perform…blah…blah…”
God! When is Eungyu and the others coming out?!
It’s already 8:30...
…I glanced at my phone…
…Heewon’s going to kill me…
“Do-Re!!! Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Da!!!”
Huh?
As soon as the announcer stopped talking, my eyes opened wide as…
I saw Seohyun unnie…
…Darky…
…Nari…
…and Eungyu…
Shin Eungyu’s band’s name is Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do?!
I didn’t I know before?!
With a guitar around his skinny body, Eungyu stood in front of the mike, and with a short bow he adjusted the mike in front of him.
Darky was frowning…
And Seohyun unnie was grinning brightly ^0^!
I quickly put the zebra print hat on my head ignoring the stares that the girls sitting next to me were giving. I could see Eungyu looking around as he sang, he’s looking for me…I can tell…
Eungyu!!!
“AHK!! OPPA!!! Oh my gosh!!! OPPA!”
“…holy sh!t, can anyone get any louder…”
"… <_<...."
With the sound of Seohyun unnie drums their performance started. At the same time, the announcer’s loud voice filled the auditorium.
“Alright! The song was composed and written by Shin Eungyu!! Here’s their song ‘One Week’!”
One Week…?
…it somehow relates to me…
Unlike a few seconds ago, the auditorium became silent. Dead silent. The girls all stared at the stage with their eyes wide and their hands tightly clasped.
…and finally…Eungyu’s soft voice poured out through the auditorium.
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The time that girl can chose~~
The time that I trust her, but can’t help but think these thoughts~~
It’s not been that long, but I find myself looking at my watch over and over again~~
A week is all it takes for her to leave and watch me from his side~~
You can give me nothing but your tears, but I know~~
With every passing moon, my trust in her grows~~
Because she’s the only one I can trust without any regret~~
I’ll trust her~~ I know she’ll come to me so I’ll trust her~~
I just hope she has enough trust in me to know that I’ll hug her tightly~~
Let’s just be forever even if the moon melts away, even if the sun crumbles~~
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Eungyu stepped back from the mike and the sounds of the instruments fill the auditorium instead of Eungyu’s voice…
He smiles brightly as he spots me in the crowd…
I can’t think of any other word to describe him with except ‘best.’
…he knew…
He knew about the week I had…did Heewon tell him…
Eungyu’s known all along…know everything he’s said is finally making sense…
“We’re going to see each other then! Why do you keep talking as if you’re never going to see me ever again!”
“I trust you, but what’s wrong with you these days? Stop it, Yoon Jungwon. I wasn’t to earn money by winning this competition. I want to do my best on that stage…stop keeping me from winning…”
“What’s wrong with you. Yoon Jungwon, I told you I’d be with you after the competition! There’s only 5 more days!”
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He’s known and he still trusts me…
He’s know all along and he’s smiled at me, and he’s given me his trust…
…why…
…why did you trust me, I’ve already become further away from you…why do you keep trusting me…
“AHK! Oppa!! OPPA!!! OPP~~~~A!!!”
With a few screams here and there Eungyu’s sad song ended…
Seohyun unnie put down her drumsticks slowly…
With the mike still in his hands, Eungyu opened his mouth…
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“…Yoon Jungwon, I knew you’d come…let’s be forever ^_^…”
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He put the mike on the stand and disappeared behind the curtains…
The reaction was instant.
“What the hell! Who the hell is Yoon Jungwon! Is it a guy?!”
“It’s a girl dumbsh!t! He said ‘let’s be forever’! Who the hell is it?!”
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…the tears were falling endlessly for my eyes…
The tears started soak up my clothes, I have to go to Heewon…I have too…but I can’t bring myself to…
An hour passed and the rank was starting to be called out…
My head felt numb, and I can’t hear anything…
Eungyu, Seohyun unnie, Nari and Darky all went up to the stage to receive their prize as they were called for first…
Eungyu accepted the large bouquet of flowers and the large trophy, and grinned brightly at me.
…Eungyu…congratulations…
I’m really happy for you…
I’m so relieved that our week didn’t go to waste…
…I love you…
Eungyu, I really love you.
…in your heart and in mine…we’ll be forever…
+In front of the auditorium+
I was reaching for a taxi, wiping my tears and calling for a taxi when…
“Oy! Eungyu’s wife! Whereya goin?!”
It’s Seohyun unnie. In both hands she had a bouquet of flowers and she was getting closer.
“…oh unnie, congratulations, I’m really happy for you.”
“…then why are you crying…”
“I’m not crying…I’m just so happy.”
I quickly wiped my tears.
“Alright!! Yahoo!! Dragon! Dragon!”
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Seohyun unnie quietly left us alone but not before saying.
“If you break up I’ll kill you.”
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Eungyu started at his trophy happily.
“Where were you! I looked all over for you! Finally found you! ^0^! Let’s go get a drink, let’s go, let’s go! We’ll go with Doyi and my nuna! Your brother, Seohyun nuna and Nari! Let’s all get a drink! We got a hella lot of money, I’ll get you anything you want!! ^0^!”
“…Eungyu…”
“It’s dangerous here. Let’s go someplace safer! ^0^.”
Eungyu took my wrist and started waving frantically for a taxi, behind us we could hear girls screaming for Eungyu.
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“…Eungyu…I hope you do well…”
“Huh? O_O .”
“…sorry for not being forever…I’m sorry…”
“What are you saying! TAXI!!!”
“I have to go to Heewon, you were wrong…I didn’t come to see you…you shouldn’t trusted me…”
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Chapter 72
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Silently, Eungyu started at me with a sad face, and from his eyes…
One tear fell, like a lie, it fell out of his eye and rolled down his cheek slowly…
“…don’t cry…don’t cry, Eungyu, I one I love is you…I love you… But the person I have to take care of is Heewon…if I come to you…I’m just afraid Heewon will die…Eungyu, I’m not throwing you away, it’s not that. You have to believe me…I couldn’t do that even if I wanted too…”
The girls started getting closer to us, and I slowly took a step back from Eungyu…
Eungyu just looked at me, and opened his mouth to say in a strained voice…
“…but…I trust you…you can’t go…if you go, I don’t know what’ll happen to me…I might go crazy…”
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“…what do I do…what am I supposed to do…you have a family, you have friends…but Heewon doesn’t have any of that, I can’t do anything…I’m caught in the middle…”
“If I don’t let you go, if I won’t let you go, what are you doing to do…”
I couldn’t bare to look at him, I couldn’t look up at Eungyu who had given me all of this trust, so I lowered my head.
The girls finally reached us and encircled Eungyu…
“AH! Oppa, just one picture! Can you take one picture with me?!”
“Oppa! Who’s Yoon Jungwon? She’s not your girlfriend is she? Right!?”
“Oppa! Can you pat my head for me, just once?!”
I was pushed away from Eungyu, and I just looked at Eungyu caught in the mass of girls. I caught a taxi and climbed inside the car.
“Yoon Jungwon!!! Yoon Jungwon! Please, please, just move, I can’t lose her, just please get out of the way!”
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Eungyu’s last words stuck in my head and I felt my throat and my eyes start to burn, and all the way the taxi was nearing closer to the café I was crying. When the taxi stopped, I wiped all my tears away and took a deep breath.
I could see that the café was dark inside, did Heewon leave? …I slowly took a step after a step…
…and all of a sudden the café lit up as I opened the door. In the center of the café was a small round table with a small cake, champagne (TN: sorry, that part pissed me off… <_<… it’s like they’re getting married or something. Champagne?! Ahem! Sorry…about this… -_-…) and a small little box.
…and there was Heewon who quickly crushed the cigarette in his hand and smiled brightly as he saw me.
“You’re a little late…”
“…huh? Yeah…”
“…you cried…”
“Yeah…I still am… ^_^…”
He picked up the small present and walked towards me. With his strong arms, he pulled me into a tight hug and started to stroke my hair…
“…I know it’s going to be hard…I’m sorry I did this to you…but I couldn’t let you go…and I’m even more sorry about that…”
I continued to cry, forcing myself not to make any sounds…
“…I won’t do this to you anymore…let’s try to be happy…We’ll be happy…”
…let’s be forever…
Eungyu’s bright and happy voice encircled my head and the inside of me musky…as it continued to repeat itself over and over…
Heewon slowly wiped away the tears that were flowing out gently…
“Oh, right. ^_^.”
He said pulling and grinning brightly. He handed the small present in his hand over to me.
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“…open it…”
I hesitantly parted the tissue paper and looked inside…and the thing that I saw was a white necklace…
“Put it on, I had a hell of a time looking for something as pretty as that.”
I fingered the necklace that Eungyu gave me and Heewon noticed me hesitating and looked intently at the necklace around my neck.
“What’s that… My Piggy <3 ? …take that off…”
I shook my head slowly…
“…take that off…hurry…”
“…no…I don’t want to…”
“…I said to take it off…”
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“Heewon, what do I do…I miss Eungyu…I miss him already…what am I supposed to do now…I don’t think I can forget him…I really don’t think I can…”
The café grew chilly and quietly, and Heewon reached up with his hand and yanked the necklace off…
With a yell of protest, I grabbed for his right hand….
Without a pause in his actions, Heewon threw the necklace out the window…
“…I’m going to erase that Shin Eungyu in your head one at a time…”
I ignored him and ran out the café where Heewon’ had thrown my necklace…
“Yoon Jungwon!”
The dirt outside was hard and cold, and I saw a small rubbed doll…there it is…
I ran towards the necklace, and froze when I saw Eungyu standing in front of it…
He looked down at the broken clasp and the looked up at me…the turned his cold eyes past me…
I hesitantly turned around…and with the white necklace in his hand there was Heewon…
…Eungyu slowly took a step forward…
Chapter 73
“Kang Heewon…”
…silently, Heewon grabbed my wrist tightly…
“Kang Heewon, let go.”
Eungyu said, his voice turning unbelievably cold…
“…let’s not fight Shin Eungyu, isn’t this what we didn’t want? Fighting, growing apart because of a girl…? Just go…”
“I said to let go of her wrist…”
“…I’m the one holding it, and I’m going to be the one holding onto it in the future. I don’t like avoiding you, but I don’t like seeing you right now even more.”
Eungyu walked up closer to Heewon and pulled away my arm from his grasp.
“She’s mine. Kang Heewon, don’t hold back Jungwon because of your own selfishness…”
“…selfishness…? Are you done talking…?”
“I’m not even sure if I’d send her to you even if she said she loved you with all her heart. You think what you have is love…? Even if you guys get together, you think you guys will be all lovey dovey and happy?”
“You think I don’t know that? How do you think it makes me feel to keep her by me when I knew she’s not happy…”
For a long time, Heewon and Eungyu stood silent. I might even be begging God to let Eungyu grab my wrist and pull me away…
Eungyu picked up the necklace on the ground.
“I’ll treat it and make him all better. ^_^, I need to ask Doyi to sew it for me…”
Right then…
Heewon kneeled in front of Eungyu with a pause…
…he kneeled towards Eungyu…
“I’m begging you, if I don’t have her, I don’t think I could continue living. You know how hard it is for me right now? I want to die whenever I close my eyes… If I don’t have her, I can’t go one… I threw you away for her, don’t take her away… I’m…begging you…”
…and I started getting mad…angry…
“…Kang Heewon, what the hell are you doing. Get the hell up. Why are you kneeling, why are you kneeling, why are you begging because of me?! Shin Eungyu, Kang Heewon, I’m not worth all this fighting. There’s nothing good about me worth fighting for! Eungyu, I threw away your trust and Heewon, even if I’m with you, I’m going to think about Eungyu. I’m selfish, and I have a dirty temper…just…just get up… Heewon, get off your knees!”
I grabbed Heewon’s shoulders and started shaking him frantically…
Eungyu dropped the necklace in his hand…
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“Then…what about me…I miss her even when she’s with me…Who am I supposed to laugh for, who am I supposed to sing for…why do you keep talking like that…if you talk like that…if you say things like that…I have to back down…”
Dammit. Fawk…what the hell is going on…
Why can’t I love someone the way I want to…why can’t I even hold onto my friend the way I want to…
What’s wrong with me…
If someone is listening…answer me…
…just tell me when this is all going to end…please…just tell me…
“…I’m going to look for a way us three can get back to the way we were…I’m going to find a way for al of us to be happy…just don’t get too close to each other…”
Eungyu looked over at me and grinned weakly, he lifted Heewon to his feet and picked up the necklace on the ground…slowly turned around and started getting further away…
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…please let this end happily…
Please let it be a happy ending…
…like Eungyu said…let us three all be happy again…
Heewon sat down on the ground, and looking at the white necklace in his hands started laughing quietly.
And I sat down, more like collapsed, next to him and started laughing like crazy thinking of Eungyu…
…it’s all so funny…so funny…
Twists here and turns there…
Pain and even more pain, it’s gone past pain…and now it’s even funny…
It’s just so funny…
+That Morning+
…on the attic top next door, I could hear Darky’s loud voice.
“Come out you fawking b!tch! You did this, didn’t you!!! Who the hell are you to make my friend cry?! Huh? Answer that, you b!tch!!! Get the hell out of there, I’m going to beat your ass!!!”
I quickly woke up and started to run towards the attic top with Jaegwang and even my mom following after me…
“Huh? Answer me! Why did you make Eungyu cry!!! He didn’t even know how to cry, he didn’t until he met you!!! Why are you making him cry so hard it hurts him to breathe, who the hell are you b!tch to do this to my friend!!! Huh?!”
…he didn’t know how to cry…
…why are you making him cry so hard it hurts him to breathe…
…Shin Eungyu, you were smiling like it was nothing earlier…
“Hey! You deep fried dark b!tch, when the hell are you going back down to Chungjoo!?”
Jaegwang shout out, and mom silently glared at me…
“Why the hell would I go back down?! I’m going to kill your fawking sister first, then I’ll go back down, you stupid trashy bastard!”
“…trashy bastard…? Are you done talking?! Do you even know what ‘trashy’ is?! It if fawking wasn’t for Sohyun, you’d be dead.”
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“Who’s Sohyun?”
“Your daughter in law.”
“Are you romancing the young lady next door?”
“Yup! Want me to bring her over? ^0^ .”
“I think you need a beating, do you know how old she is? I’ll hit you your ages combined.”
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I was embarrassed to have anyone catch me crying so I walked back to my room.
Because I was seeing Eungyu cry so hard it hurt him to breathe over and over in my head, I didn’t get a second of sleep the rest of that morning…
…and for the first time in my life…I cried so much it hurt me to breathe…
The next morning, I left my the house early in the morning…
…I’ve become a monster that no one wants to see…
Chapter 74
4 days passed, and I’ve seen Heewon at least 5 times, but I haven’t seen Eungyu once. I haven’t heard a little breeze of his voice at all…
His jacket still hung on the clothes hanger on my door…
I still had his zebra print hat…
The pictures we took…
The dragon doll…
I’ve been so accustomed to having a mask on, it’s stuck on me…
Using this as an excuse…
I haven’t taken a shower in the past couple of days…
I’ve worn the same blouse for my uniform…
…and my two cheeks have become a little fuller, due to the fact that every time I thought of Eungyu I stuffed my face…
I might have been accustomed to hiding myself, but at times I think I could have gotten accustomed a little neater and cleaner…
If I met Jaegwang in outside, he’d act as if he didn’t know me and passed me casually…
+6 at Night+
“Move.”
I said pushing past Jaegwang who was blocking the stairs. With that damn she-cat Pupu in his arms, he quickly moved out of the way, afraid he’d touch any part of me.
“How nasty! She smells like crap! Pupu, don’t ever go to that crazy b!tch, you’ll die. Okay?”
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“Wash your hair will you! My friends say it’s scary seeing you!”
“…so that’s why you act as if you don’t know me when we see each other…? Bastard…”
“Start meeting Eungyu hyung again.”
You don’t even know anything, that’s why you’re saying those words to easily…
“…don’t say that name. When you say his name, I see his face. When I see his face, I want to see him. When I miss him and can’t see him, I’ll go crazy. If you want to see me sane, don’t say that name.”
“…that sounded really hot!!! I’m going to say that to Sohyun if it ever comes to it!!”
I collapsed onto my bed, and as I closed my eyes, I heard my phone start to ring…
…it’s probably Heewon…
“Hello.”
“I’m in the park near your house. I’m going to wait until you come out.”
+beep…beep…+
I left the house and started walking towards the park.
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Step after step…I’ve become a zombie…
Standing at the entrance of the park, I looked around for Nari.
“…I’m over here…”
She said with Seohyun unnie on a wooden bench behind a couple of trees…
TT_TT…it’s Seohyun unnie…
The tip of my nose gave a little tingle…and I quickly sat down next to her.
With a calm face on, Seohyun unnie pat my head.
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“Unnie, you broke up with Eungyu oppa didn’t you.”
Nari asked in a voice a tone higher than her usual voice.
“…don’t say his name…just refer to him as ‘him.’”
“I heard from Doyi unnie that you left Eungyu oppa for Heewon oppa!”
“…Shin Nari, stop it.” Seohyun unnie said in a low voice.
I didn’t throw him away, I didn’t…
Why are you talking like that…how could I throw Shin Eungyu away…
“Why do you think oppa entered in that competiton?! He wanted to win and take you to the beach with the money we won, do you know how happy he was when he told us he rented one of the best condos over there? How could you tell him you wanted to break up with him on a happy day like that. If you were going to do that, why did you start again with him?!”
Out of Nari’s large eyes, tears started to flow out.
“…I’m sorry, Nari, I’m sorry…”
“Sorry? Sorry about what? If you’re sorry towards me go and get back with Eungyu oppa. Go get him back, I don’t like seeing oppa crying, I don’t want to see him crying!!!! Why do you keep making things more complicated! …I really…I really hate you right now…you’re so selfish…I hate you…”
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“Shin Nari, in your eyes you only see Eungyu crying don’t you. Don’t you see Jungwon crying…?”
Seohyun unnie said putting down the hand that was on my hand and talking to Nari in a voice I’d never heard her use before.
“Do you have to keep talking about the Eungyu’s tears and see Jungwon’s. Who’s selfish, if this hurts you, how hard do you think it’s hurting Jungwon. Did you call her out to say all this sh!t to her? Is that it?”
Nari silently wiped her tears, and with her head lowered, she stood up from her seat and ran out of the park.
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Seohyun unnie remained behind and squeezed my cheek and hugged me reassuringly. I don’t know how much time passed, but unnie and I promised to see each other again and I watched silently as she got further and further away.
I headed towards the closest grocery near my house and walked inside. Since it was Saturday, it was littered with different ahjummas.
I grabbed a few bottles of sodi, paid for it and was heading home when something made my head shoot up.
That accent…
That voice…!
“Holy sh!t, mon!!! Can’t cha give it ta me half price, mon!!!”
“It’s 15 dollars, how can I give it to you half off, mister!! There’s no profit for me!!! Go! Go, leave!”
“You’re going ta regret saying dat, mon!”
“…I-I have a brother the same size as you!!! Don’t do this!!!”
“Are you trying my fawking patience, mon!!!”
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“Jungbin!”
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His face turned towards me, his face has at least doubles in size…wow.
He’s the only person I know who’d wear a suit to the grocery story, Jungbin!!! TT_TT !!!
“…sh!t…how embarrassing dat cha saw me like dat, mon. <_<…”
+An Alley+
Jungbin and I both had a plastic bag containing to different things in one hand. For a while, Jungbin just scratched his head saying it was embarrassing that I’d seen him arguing about the price of meat.
“Gurlie, cha don’t look to good, mon.”
“…it’s so nice to see you. I can’t belive I’m happy to see your face, you look healthy, that’s good.”
“Da way cha talk’s changed also, mon! Go back to da way cha were, mon!”
“…^_^…”
“What da hell is wrong wit cha!!”
“…there’s nothing wrong with me…I just can’t act like I do…I can’t force myself…”
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It’s weird…
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Jungbin, and I’m not usualy one to open up so easily. Not to Yoona, not to Jiyoung, but why am I opening up to Jungbin…?
…and eventually I told him everything…
I thought it’d be embarrassing to show my tears to this guy, so I bit my lip firmly and trying to hide my shaking voice, I told him little by little..
…little by little…until I’d told him everything…
For a second, he glared down at me and he put out the cigarette that he was smoking with his two fingers. O_O
“Isn’t…that hot?”
“Stupid gurlie!!! You empty headed gurlie! I thot you were smart, mon! You’re stupider dan me, mon!”
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“After behind hurt like day! Do you really dink dat Kang Heewon really likes cha!!! My tops about to pop, mon.”
Jungbin said starting to get angry and turn red. I forgot that his personality isn’t something to be praised… -_-
“Isn’t it obvious, mon!! I even know what’s going on, mon! He’s getting you back, mon!”
I’d even forgotten his hell aloud voice… <_<
“It’s not that, that’s why I think I’m going to go crazy. If it was that, it’d be better off…but I think Heewon’s being sincere…”
“How da hell would cha know!!! What if he’s playing, mon!”
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“Follow me, mon.”
Jungbin grabbed my arm and started pulling him with me. He threw me into his car…
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…and Jungbin started the engine on his car…
“What? What are you doing. Stop it, don’t test him.”
“Shut up, mon. Where’s the dirtiest place around here, mon.”
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Chapter 75
What the hell is he thinking…?
An open field near Eungyu’s school is an area where there are a lot of gang fights.
It was a field filled with unfinished construction, that was put off and eventually never worked on again.
I looked out the window and at the site. Jungbin had taken out his phone and was getting ready to dial a number.
“It’s me! Me…I said it’s me!!! Bin!! Bin, mon!!!”
I will never get used to him calling himself his name.
…Bin…
It’s not Chulbin…or Hyungbin…
It’s Jung Bin….
“Who are ya wit right now, mon!! Is Dongsuk dere too, mon? Bring 3 guys here, it’s kinda big so hurry cha asses ova here!”
His friends…?
Jungbin hung up his phone and threw it aside.
“What’s Kang Heewon’s number, tell me, mon.”
“What are you doing?”
“…Oh right, I have his number, never mind, mon.”
“…what are you doing…?”
He ignored me and Jungbin picked up his phone, and with one hand I quickly grabbed his wrist, and with a little flick, he threw my hand aside. He quickly started dialing some buttons.
“Stop! Stop it, don’t do it! Heewon’s not feeling good! What are you doing, Jungbin!! What’s wrong with you!”
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“…you Kang Heewon, mon.”
“JUNGBIN!”
With one hand, he tightly held my two hands, and with the other, he held up his phone.
“Your girlfriend Yoon Jungwon is with me right now, what’d we do? We kidnapped her, if I were you, I’d speed over here as fast as I could. Your girlfriend might be on da news tomorrow morning, so da faster da better.”
“Kang Heewon!!! Can you hear me! His bastard’s putting on a show right now!!! Don’t come I’m fine! Hang up! What’s wrong with you?!”
“…my friends wanted to get back at you for that one time…if you come we’ll send Jungwon back safely. 10 minutes.”
He closed his phone and Jungbin put it back into his pocket.
“What’s wrong with you, why’d you do that.”
“…it’s not dat, mon. I want to show you, mon. I’m not going to do anything to dat Kang Heewon, so don’t worry, mon. You just watch with your own eyes to see if he comes or not. I want to see with mine too, mon.”
Finished with what he had to say, Jungbin took out a cigarette. It made me mad, what he just did, but, I didn’t protest against what he’d said.
“…I never asked you to show me that….turn the car on.”
“…if what he feels towards ya is sincere, he’ll be here in 10 minutes. If he doesn’t, he’ll send the police, he wouldn’t waste his breath on a girl he doesn’t care about. Isn’t dat right?”
With a deep sigh, I burried my face in my knees.
“…okay. You just watch, when Heewon comes you’re the one who’d going to be made a fool, so just watch.”
Ten minutes later…
The car was surrounded by Jungbin’s friends…
..
Jungbin and I’d gotten out of the car and was sitting on the ground with Jungbin’s friends. With his loud voice, Jungbin was giving all of them instructions.
“Listen, mon! If da bastard comes, we’re going to act as if we kidnapped Jungwon!”
“…what the hell, you called us for that?”
“Ya, mon! Is that a problem?!”
“No, I never said that.”
“Oh…I forgot to tell you, you bastard, mons. He’s da one you all said would kill for having ya mons arrested. I’m warning yas right now, touch one hair and die, mons. Just let her go and talk to him, and let him go.”
Jungbin’s friends all got up and the shortest one in the grounp started breathing as if he was hyperventilating.
“Hey! That bastard, hw can I see him in front of me and not beat him?!”
“I warned ya, mon!”
“But-but!! I might not be able to control myself!”
“Ya doubting what I’m saying, mon?!?!?!?!”
What am I doing here? -_-
It’s already late, it’s over 12, what am I doing here, sitting with a group of guys the size of elephants…
Heewon, just hurry, I really want to leave… TT_TT…
Jungbin’s friends were still b!tching that they were going to beat Heewon, but Jungbin eventually calmed them down.
…but I felt that Jungbin was loyal to his friends and it made me feel good…
Even though he didn’t act like he was.. <_<
“Look! Look! Dat bastard’s not coming, mon! It’s been one hour!!”
“…he’s mixed up the location…That’s why, he’s going to come.”
“Come my big fat ass!!! Get it in cha head, he’s not sincere, mon!”
“…I know Heewon, I know Heewon…Jungbin stop it…”
“…phew…fine, den wait for him…”
Jungbin’s friends were all muttereing angrily with a large bump on the top of their heads. Courtesy of yours truly.
One hour…
…Heewon’s just mixed up, he doesn’t know where we are…
..
Inside, I was saying this to myself over and over.
Jungbin impatiently ripped out his phone and dialed Heewon again.
“Hey, where da hell are ya, want your girlfriend ta die?! What? What, what da hell diya say?!”
....
....
Jungbin slammed shut his phone and threw it on the ground.
“What’s wrong?” ß Jungbin’s friend.
“…get in, Yoon Jungwon, I’ll take ya home.”
...
…something was wrong, Jungbin’s voice was low…
...
“Hey, what about us?”
“Get lost!”
“…we rode a taxi over here.”
“Fawk, den wait here, I’ll be back, mons!”
I got into the passenger’s seat and Jungbin slowly started the car.
“Why…? What’d he say, what’d Heewon say?”
"........"
Jungbin was silent.
......
.......
He was silent for about 5 minutes and he finally reached the corner to the entrance of our neighborhood.
“Hurry and get out, my friends are waiting, mon. I have to go.”
“…okay…and pick up your phone when I call…”
“…I’ll tell ya…”
"......"
“Dat bastard said it doesn’t matter. He told us to do whatever we wanted, and he hung up, mon.”
“Liar…”
“I wouldn’t lie about dat, mon. Well, at least you’re sure now. Go to Shin Eungyu before it’s too late, dis isn’t a warning, I’m asking as a friend, mon.”
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……..liar….
...
Jungbin’s car disappeared…
Liar….
It doesn’t make sense…
I shakily started home.
…smiling like a dummy to myself, with my messed up hair and a sense of betrayal in my heart I walked home.
The reason I’m smiling, is that I know that I can go to Eungyu without feeling bad about hurting Heewon…
…the sense of betrayal?
...
......
Because I’d believed him, because I thought that he was sincere…. Because his most recent betrayal hurt…
And…
What I hear right now, isn’t imaginary…
It’s his voice…
“Yoon Jungwon.”
...
....
He walked towards me from the front of my house’s front gate.
“….what…”
+SLAP!!!!+
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….it’d happened in less than a second, his hand had struck my cheek and I equally raised my hand and slapped him as hard as I could…
Chapter 76
“Kang Heewon, why are you hitting me…because you’re pissed that you’re little scam blew over? Is that why you’re hitting me?”
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“…did you want to test me that much…? To see if I was sincere or not. To see if I was just playing with you? Did you want to test me that much…? Do you know how worried I was, I thought I was going to go crazy. You wanted to test me that much…?”
....
...
Then…
“…I went and I heard everything. I heard everything those bastards said and I just stayed there. I didn’t know what I’d do if I stayed there anything longer and I came back…I’ve been waiting for you since…”
Right then.
The front gate to Eungyu’s house opened.
.....
It’s Eungyu…It’s Eungyu…Eungyu…it’s Eungyu….
He looked pale…thin…
But he looked so scary, so mad…
As soon as I saw him, tears started to flow out of my eyes. No wait, flow wasn’t the word. More like explode…
The tears were endless…
I took a step back and covered my mouth with my two hands.
Eungyu grabbed Heewon’s collar.
..
....
“I f you wanted Jungwon so much…if you needed her so much…why are you hitting her? If you were going to do this to her, why’d you beg…”
“…you don’t look too we-”
+PUNCH!!!+
Before Heewon could finish talking, Eungyu’s fist flew towards Heewon’s face. Heewon pulled back shakily and wiped the blood away from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.
“…Yoon Jungwon, are you retarded? …why are you getting hit? Who told you to go around getting hit, huh?”
Eungyu asked in a quiet voice, and then went to grab Heewon’s collar again.
“Eungyu! Stop, it’s not what you think! It was my fault this time, I didn’t trust him. So I worried him, and it was me who was mad when he should have been…don’t hit him…stop it…”
He weakly let down Heewon and turned around to walk through his front gate…
Just turn around once…just once…
Just once so that I can remember your face…just once…please…
He…turned…
And…
“…right now, you shouldn’t taking Heewon’s side. I’ve become the bad one now…I missed you….it feels good to see you again…”
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“…me too…I missed you a lot. Eungyu…I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”
With a slam, the front gate closed and Eungyu was gone.
We’re this close…we were this close, but I can’t see him…he’s somewhere where I can’t reach him…
If love is supposed to be like this, I wouldn’t want to love even if I died a hundred times and over. Never.
“…go in…sorry I hit you. Eungyu…”
"....."
“No…never mind, I’ll see you tomorrow. I thought my heart was going to burst when I got the call from that bastard. I think it’s the first time in my life I’ve run so fast. If it’s had trusting me as much as you trusted Eungyu…just give me half of it…”
“…I’m sorry…”
“I’ll see you.”
Misunderstandings…
Trust…
Star crossed love…
Tears…
…longing for a person…
…Heewon’s sincerity…
That morning…
I had to hear a load of sh!t from my mom and every time he heard Heewon outside, Jaegwang would start muttering this and that and storm up to his room.
I closed my eyes and laid down on my bed. I’d rather sleep…yeah, let’s do that…
Shin Eungyu…don’t come out in my dreams…
Don’t…
I don’t want to cry when I’m sleeping…it’s embarrassing…so don’t come out…
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30 minutes passed…
But the tears were endless…
If I don’t see you right now I might die…
I got up from my bed…I was already half crazy…
I ran down the stairs…
...
…I was half crazy…
…yeah, that’s how I should described myself right now…
Eungyu’s face…Eungyu’s voice…Eungyu’s hands…Eungyu’s grasp…
…I was half crazy in Eungyu…
If I was entirely crazy I wouldn’t able to think about Eungyu…so I was only half…
With my two hands in a tight fist I started banging on their front door.
Before mom could chase after me…
“…who is it?”
…a girl’s voice…
“Eungyu…Eungyu…Eungyu…”
“…you…”
....
…..it’s Darky.
A moment later, the gate opened and I could see Darky’s angry face.
“…crazy b!tch.”
“Move.”
“Eungyu’s been sick that past few days.”
“I said move.”
“He’s been waiting for you ever since 10 saying that you haven’t come home. Coughing the whole time.”
“….move…please…”
“Why the hell did you get hit in front of their gate of all places!!!! Why’d you do and get hit and make Eungyu crazy huh?! He’s half dead because of you! AHK!”
I pulled Darky out of the way with all my strength and started running towards their front door. With tired eyes, Sohyun unnie walked out tiredly.
“Oh, it’s Jungwon… Hi Jung won ^0^!”
I bowed at her and ran towards Eungyu’s room on the 2nd floor.
“Eungyu!”
Eungyu’s door room was open and it was dark inside…
…I could see the form of a dark silhouette laying sprawled on the bed…
Before I could think about what I was going I ran to his bed and hugged him tightly…
So tight that it must’ve been hard for him to breathe.
“…I’m sorry…I’m sorry…I’m so sorry…Eungyu, you know I love you right…? I can’t tell you how much. I missed you, Eungyu….I really missed you. What do I do, what am I supposed to live for…”
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And Eungyu slowly put his arms around me too…
....
The door to the room opened…
“You- you, you-”
Darky’s voice…and the door closed once again…
Like that, without one word, he hugged each other hard enough as if to tell each other how much we loved each other.
Please…let time freeze…let it stop.
Time passed and dawn slowly poked her head out above the clouds…
I slowly started to pull back from Eungyu, but he held on tighter to me and wouldn’t let go.
“…I have to go…Eungyu’s it’s morning…”
“…5 minutes…just 5 more minutes…”
His whole body was warm…
His body was hot from his fever.
Eungyu buried his face into my arms and I couldn’t pull my arms away from Eungyu’s waist.
And like that…a while passed once again…
“…5 minutes have passed…”
“No they haven’t…”
“Retard, it’s been at least 50 minutes…”
“…no it hasn’t.”
“…it’s morning. I have to go, we have to say bye again.”
“…my watch is broken, it hasn’t been 5 minutes yet. It’s far from it.”
I wish time was broken…
No, I wish, today would be broken…
I wish it could stop like this forever…
..forever…you and me…forever…
Chapter 77
+Around 9+
The door to the room opened once again and this time it was Sohyun unnie and Darky.
“Oh my gosh! They’re hugging so tight ^0^ !”
“Hey! When the hell are you going to come apart?! I thought you broke up!”
..
..<_<..
…Eungyu’s two arms slowly loosened, and I pulled away and rested my feet on to the floor and got up.
Eungyu limply fell onto his pillow, and Darky frantically ran next to him.
“Oh my gosh! Eungyu!! Eungyu!! What do we do!! Call 119, hurry call, what if he dies!!!”
“…Eungyu…Eungyu!!”
Sohyun looked around, panicking for a phone…
…what’s happening…?
Only after I’d taken his warm hand I was able to realize he passed out because of his fever.
“Hey! Move your fawking hand! If you knew he’d passed out, you should have called us!!!”
“…Eungyu…what’s wrong…Shin Eungyu…Shin Eungyu…”
“I dole you to move your damn hand!”
“Shut up! Do you want to die?!”
“…did you just say that to me…?!”
I wanted to beat her, but this wasn’t the time to. After calling 119, Sohyun unnie ran in with a bucketful of cold water.
“…u-unnie, what are you going to do with that?”
“TT0TT!! Eungyu! Don’t die!!! You can’t die!!”
With her loud wailing, she acted to dump the bucket on Eungyu. Realizing that Jaegwang’s one-and-only had a really weird side to her, I blocked Eungyu from the cold water.
The freezing cold water flowed down my hair and my clothes. Luckily, the only place Eungyu got wet was his hair. Thanks to him, I’ve had my shower for the day.
“Are you okay? TT_TT…”
“No…<_<…”
...
Darky impatiently tapped her feet on the floor.
“Damn, why the hell aren’t they here yet? Hey! You better not come to see Eungyu anymore!’
“…I can’t anyways…”
With that, I took Eungyu’s had and with my other hand I wiped Eungyu’s sweaty forehead.
The necklace around Eungyus neck…the necklace…
And then I heard the sound of the sirens, and then following that the doorbell. The people came and carried Eungyu out on a stretcher…but he wouldn’t let my hand go…even though he was out…he wouldn’t let my hand go…
So, I had to follow them out to the ambulance and to let Darky and Sohyun unnie get on, I forcefully pulled my hand away from his grasp.
The ambulance disappeared along with the sirens. His touch still my hands tingle. I’m sure we were hugging for at least an hour…
“Nuna! What happened to Eungyu hyung?! Did he pass out?! Did he faint?! Are you back with him?!”
Jaegwang yelled behind me pulling my hair behind me. He quickly pulled his hand away and rubbed his hands on his shirt as if saying my hair was dirty.
“…if you’re going to call me nuna, call me nuna. If you’re going to call me you, just call me you.”
“Hey! I asked if he passed out! Hey! Why the hell are you so wet?!”
“…your One-and-Only threw some water on me. Mom’s mad isn’t she?”
“Mom doesn’t know you left, Sohyun threw water on you? Why? What happened to Eungyu hyung?!”
“…let’s go in, it’s cold.”
“Aish! You queen of pigs!! Tell me! Tell me! What if Eungyu hyung dies!!!”
“…he’s dead. He and I are dead, happy?”
One the way to the 2nd floor, I carefully avoided my mom and changed my clothes. Because Eungyu’s closed eyes kept appearing in front of me, I bit my lip and my nails nervously.
The phone rang and thinking that it was Darky, I answered quickly.
“How’s Eungyu!”
“…it’s me…”
The voice said after a few seconds of silence…
“…oh, I’m sorry…”
“Come out, I’m at the bus stop closest to your house.”
“It’s okay if I don’t wash right?”
“ ^_^…not like you ever do or did. It’s cold so just dress warmly.”
“Okay.”
Let’s just smile in front of Heewon, if I feel like crying, I’ll just keep it inside. I’ll just cry when I’m by myself. Heewon’s going to much more than I am, let’s just smile in front of him. I half to.
Heewon greeted me with a tired face, it looked like he hadn’t gotten an ounce of sleep last night. His eyes opened wide when he saw my wet hair.
“Why are you all wet?”
“Oh, I washed it and it’s not dry yet.”
“…then why does it still smell like crap?”
“…I washed it with cat shampoo.”
“You retard, I told you it’s cold out.”
He took off the shirt he was wearing (he was wearing a wife beater underneath) and started rubbing my hair dry. His thin and lightly muscled body was shivering slightly.
“I like my hair wet, it makes me feel sexy. Hurry and put that one, you’re shaking.”
“Hey, lower your head. You’re too tall.”
"..<_<.."
“You want me to buy you some nice smelling cat shampoo?”
“No, I’m fine. I have a lot of regular shampoo at home.”
For the next ten minutes, Heewon’s continued to dry my hair, even right now, I can only think of Eungyu’s closed eyes.
…I feel dizzy…
Eungyu helped me stand straight…Eungyu? I said Eungyu, I meant Heewon…
“…there, it’s almost all dry, what do I do with this…”
Heewon said frowning at his dampened shirt.
“Dummy, hold on, I’ll bring one of Jaegwang’s out.”
“No, it’s fine. It’ll dry on the way.”
“Where are we going?”
“…the hospital….hey! Here’s the bus!”
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Heewon shoved me into the bus that had stopped in front of me. I sat down in the very back seats and Heewon plopped down next to me. He squeezed all out the water in his shirt, and a few drops fell to the ground.
“Hey! Don’t do that to my bus!”
The driver yelled loudly.
“Yes sir!!! But Heewon…the hospital? Are you sick?”
He’s not going to the hospital where Eungyu is he? If he was, then this would really be nothing but a sosul >_<
“…no the one where my dad is.”
“…what?”
“…we’re going to visit my dad.”
“Oh…oh…I…see…”
“It’ll be kind of scary, you think you’ll be okay?”
“…yeah, of course.”
Heewon looked out the window. What the hell were you thinking? TT_TT…
What do you want me to do? How am I supposed to look at your dad…
Why…? TT_TT…
Chapter 78
As we got closer to our destination, the bright blue sky outside, started to get more cloudy and dark.
“…are you hungry?”
Heewon asked, his lips slightly blue.
“No, I’m fine, but what about you? Your lips are blue. Hey, put his one.”
I took my jacket off and hung it on his shoulders. Silently, he smacked away my hands and threw my jacket back at me.
“Did you meet Eungyu yesterday?”
...
...
“…yeah.”
“…I’m kinda not…”
"....."
“…I don’t really want you to see Eungyu right now. When you forget and start thinking of him as a friend, then…could you meet him then…? I’m kinda scared to let you see him right now. ^_^…”
“…^_^…”
I grinned at him and lowered my head. Slowly I lifted my head after taking a deep breath and spotted a white building nearing closer and closer.
A mental hospital…
My lips and hands slowly started shaking. Heewon stared at me and as if he were fine, he pat my head and took my hand.
As we got closer, my body involuntarily got stiffer and stiffer, and in the end, my feet wouldn’t lift off the ground.
“…Heewon, I can’t. Truthfully, I’m too scared…”
“…I wanted to show you to him. Because I forgave you, I want Dad to forgive you too…”
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He squeezed my hand and lift Heewon said. I lifted my foot to get forgiven, I took step after step.
Heewon walked up to the nurse and started asking a few questions. This hospital was a lot different from the other ones, it was empty…quiet…chilly…
My stomach started hurt soon after, we followed after the nurse, and I could see Heewon swallowing anxiously…
We were on the 2nd floor…
The nurse stopped in front of the third room on the right and with the key in her hand, she unlocked the door. The nurse stepped into the room first, and with short breaths, Heewon followed soon after.
…I paused and took a deep breath.
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“Dad…”
“Dad…? Dad…? Give me my bed…give me back my car too…”
…sitting on the cold ground of the room was the ahjushi, looking up at Heewon. Slowly, Heewon sat down on the floor next to his dad.
The nurse slowly stepped back and stood against the door frame.
“…it’s Heewon. Dad, it’s your son. Don’t you know, me? Of course you do, you remember me right…?”
“Wow, your clothes are pretty. I like these kinds of clothes too…”
“…you bought it for me.”
The ahjushi, grabbed Heewon’s two hands. His hair was messy, his eyes bloodshot, his legs shook on their own. I glanced over at Heewon who was straining to keep the smile on his face.
“Do you have a car at your house? Do you have a bed at your house? Why are you here? Did you kill someone too?”
...
.....
…oh my gosh…
…
“…Dad, you have to get better, that way you’ll get home. When we get home, there’ll be a bed and a car. So get well soon…”
“You look like me. You look like me, we’re like twins ^0^.”
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“…of course, I’m your son. That’s why we look alike, I’m your son. You’re my dad and I’m your son.”
“…me son, my son…where’s my son.”
“He’s right here.”
“My son…where is he…Heewon, where’s Heewon…”
“…right here…”
Heewon said lowering his head, a few tears fell to the ground.
“Heewon, where is he…? Huh? Where’s Heewon, did you take him away? Did you take Heewon away?”
“…I’m Heewon, dad, why’d you change, huh? How much longer will it take you to come back…”
“My car! My bed! My clothes!!! Where am I!!! Heewon! Heewon!”
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....
His dad shot up and started shrieking for Heewon.
Heewon buried his face in his knees.
.....
“I’m here…I’m here, Heewon’s right here…”
The nurse’s eyes were filled with tears. Unbeknownst to myself, I’d stepped in front the ahjushi and blocked his way.
“Ahjushi, look at Heewon, it’s my fault. Please, look at Heewon. It’s your son, please get well and hug him soon. Please.”
“…AH! AHH!!….AHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
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He covered each side of his head with his hands and started screaming.
…as soon as he saw my face, he stared at me with a hateful look and started screaming.
The nurse pulled me out the room and Heewon slowly walked out hand covering his face.
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...
The nurse locked the door behind her and through the door and wall, we could still hear his dad screaming for Heewon.
Heewon quickly wiped away his tears and as if nothing was wrong, he smiled and put his arm around me.
“…I guess…he’s not ready yet…let’s come again next time. My dad’s voice is really loud isn’t it ^_^.”
"......."
“Man! After all that crying, I’m kinda hungry, what should we eat! Oh right! You know that please always used to go? Today’s lunch is spaghetti!”
We both left the building strong, with our arms on each other’s shoulders. He patted my shoulder comfortingly…it should be me who should be doing that…
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Outside the building, we could still hear his dad screaming Heewon’s name.
“Heewon! Heewon! Heewon, bring him to me! My son!!!”
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Heewon started walking faster…
…then faster and faster…
Until he started running to the bus stop, I saw him get smaller and smaller…
...
I started running after him.
…and I think I know the reason he hated me…
I think I know now…
....
…and I think I know now why he desperately wanted me by him…
Chapter 79
“…it’s raining a lot, I just want to go home today.”
I said getting off the bus and looking up at the sky, then back at the ground. My clothes were getting each second from the rain. Ever since we got on the bus, Heewon’s been in a different world.
He’s looking far off, but at the same time, no place at all.
“…don’t pity me because of my dad.”
“…of course.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Why do I have to hear that from you?”
“…when you were with Eungyu…you laughed often, but you’re not smiling that much now.”
I brightly grinned at him.
With a loud and deep sigh, Heewon looked down at the ground. If he does that, I’m the one who gets embarrassed.
“…my bus is here, get in. Let’s smile tomorrow.”
“…^_^…okay.”
He smiled at me and got on the bus, with a heavy heart I turned to walk inside the house. A person with a husky voice made me stop.
“Stop.”
When I turned around, there was Darky who had gotten off the bus Heewon got on. She had both hands on her hips and stared down at me as if she wanted to rip me apart. Drops of rain dripped down her blonde hair (dyed of course) and she edged closer to me.
“You’re a retard aren’t you?”
“…what now…”
“…Eungyu gets carried to the hospital because of you and you go meeting some bastard?!”
Her dark face got red.
“Why do you care what I do? When are you going to Chungjoo? Can’t you just disappear?”
For a while Darky just stared and raised her hand to squeeze my shoulder in a threatening way, and I slapped it away.
“Go to Eungyu you b!tch. I’ll try my all to pretend I like you, hell, I’ll even be nice to you…so just go to Eungyu…”
“I don’t need you to pretend you like me, because I’m not going to him.”
Darky let out a harsh laugh.
“So you’re saying you’re done playing with him and you’ll move to some other guy?”
“Maybe.”
“…fawk…”
She raised her fist to hit me, but I grabbed it in midair. Darky frowned.
“Hey, let go!”
...
“Where’s…Eungyu…”
“At home you dipsh!t! Let go!”
Darky pulled her hand away forcefully.
“…you think you’re all that don’t you.”
"...."
“…tell me here, is it Eungyu or that bastard. Are you going to go back to Eungyu or are you not!’
“…I can’t.”
“…yeah?”
I was about to quickly run inside to my house when…
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....
I could hear Darky’s dark voice mixed with the rain…
“Then…I guess there’s no reason to keep her alive…b!tch, she’s dug her own grave…”
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I walked inside and went up to my room on the 2nd floor, for a while I looked out my window and into Eungyu’s room.
An hour passed, then two…
For a long time, I just stared…
Then, Eungyu’s window slowly started to open, and I ran out my room and ran into mom.
“Mom, where are you going?”
“Aigoo! I can’t live because of that immature child!!! What does he learn in writing class!! I can’t believe I raised him like this!”
“…why…is it Jaegwang? What happened THIS time!!”
With a sigh that could have crumbled the world, mom handed (more like threw) a letter at me and left the house quickly.
“You go call Jaegwang’s friends and come out to find him!”
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I heard mom’s footsteps get further away, and I opened the crumpled piece of paper.
+Sh!t, so you did what you wanted…is that it…?
If I sold nuna off on my own without telling you, would you like that?
Pupu’s like my litle sisster…
If you didn’t want to this to happen you should have laid me a younger sisster!
Who are you to sell my cat.
I don’t have a reason to live at home anymor.
I might come back after I find Pupu, tho.+
<_<....
I stared at his ugly handwriting for a while longer and incorrect spelling. The reason mom probably got mad about wasn’t the fact that he left home. It was probably the way he wrote.
Because he’d left home a lot when he was younger, I didn’t care about him and went to my room.
+12 at night+
That night at our house, the whole house was chaos because of Jaegwang. Actually the only one worried about him was mom. Dad and I didn’t really care.
Mom was calling all of Jaegwang’s friends to go look for him and dad was swinging around his kendo stick, and Sohyun unnie was on the couch crying her eyes out.
“Stop shaking that damn stick! Can’t you go look for your own son!!”
“He’ll come home when he’s hungry, it’s not like this is the 10th time he left home.”
“Dad’s right, mom. He’s never been gone more than 2 days.”
“Aren’t you even worried about your own damn brother you stupid girl!”
“Don’t call me stupid, don’t cuss in front of unnie.”
“Stupid isn’t a cuss word!”
“Then what’s ‘damn brother’!!!”
“Are you talking back now that your head’s grown huge?! Oh my gosh!! Yoon Jongyul, sit your ass down!” (TN: Yoon Jongyul = Jaegwang and Jungwon’s dad.)
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For a second, silence flowed inside the house. With a murderous look on his face, dad stopped shaking his stick and stood frozen in his spot. It was the first time mom had called dad, who was 5 years older, y his name.
-_-
“…uh…I’m going to go…uh…look for Jaegwang…”
I said putting on two different shoes and running out the front gate. Sitting on the sofa, Sohyun unnie just watched my parents fight with her eyes this big: O_O .
I vow to respect her from now on.
Out the windows, I could hear dad’s loud bellow.
Because of that stupid little bastard it’s war at home. I was about to spit on the ground as I was passing Eungyu’s house when I saw a large white van stop in front of Eungyu’s house.
Man, where am I supposed to look for him?
He wouldn’t go hold up a sign in public would he? …yeah, he probably would…
“Excuse me.”
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…what then…?
An ahjushi said jumping out of the van wearing a leopard print t-shirt. He looked a little over 30.
“Do you know where a girl named Yoon Jungwon lives around here?”
“…what?”
“…she’s tall, pretty-ish, her hair comes to about here, she looks b!tchy…”
<_< b!tchy…?
I liked all the way to ‘pretty-ish.’
Something’s not right…
“Oh, she moved.”
“What?! Changsup, get out of there!”
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…..another guy jumped out the car. He looked somewhere over 25. The two men glared at our front gate.
What the hell?
What the hell are these two gay looking guys doing looking for me?
“Can I get the address to where she moved?”
Leopard print asked.
“…huh? I don’t know…but what about Jungwon…?”
“It’s none of your concern, miss.”
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Leopard print put a pair of sunglasses on.
“Hyung, then should we wait outside her school? We’ll just kidnap her after school.”
“You fawking retard, we have to do it at night for people not to see!”
“It was only supposed to take 30 minutes, how long are we supposed to wait?”
“Fudge, she moved. I didn’t hear anything like that. Is the address right?”
The two men looked at me suspiciously.
O_O
I fingered the phone in my hand and when I was 10 meters away, I took out my phone and started running as I punched in 112.
“Hey! That’s Yoon Jungwon!”
I flinched and dropped my phone on the ground, when I looked behind me, I saw Sohyun unnie step out of my house.
And…
Before she had time to scream, the two grabbed Sohyun unnie and got in the car. What the hell are those two crazy bastards doing!!!
I chased after the van like crazy.
…and as if the van were smiling at me, he drove off.
“Hey~~~!! (@^$(!*^%&#^%(^~!!!!”
I ran to where my phone was and picked it up, and threw it with all my might at the van. The back meter fell off the car and my phone fell, unharmed, to the ground. The van continued to go though.
I’ll just memorize the license…damn, I can’t see it. At times like these, I hate having bad eyesight.
I quickly called the police.
I ran to my house, and I can see mom running upstairs with dad running after her.
112.
“Is that the police station?! Some crazy bastards from Chungjoo kidnapped Sohyun unnie! The car’s white and the back meter’s fallen off!!! But that unnie isn’t Yoon Jungwon!’
“Are you kidding me, miss <_<…?”
“Hurry and catch them!”
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The kidnapping that happened at night.
The kidnapping of Pupu that happened to night.
…unnie, be strong…TT_TT
Chapter 80
“…tell me the whole story. Slowly. When did it occur?”
“…thirty minutes ago.”
My whole body was shaking. From the front of the station was my mom with tears in her eyes and dad smoking.
…Eungyu’s parents all had grim expressions on their face, and there was Eungyu’s dad. Who didn’t exactly know what was going on.
…Darky wasn’t there…
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And…
There was Eungyu punching the wall with all his might for the past ten minutes.
“Appearance?”
“…one looked to be 170 cm, and was wearing a white night knit sweater and black pants. He seemed a little over 25. The other looked a little under 35 and he was wearing a leopard print shirt. He had on sunglasses and there was a large black dot on top of the arch on his eyebrow.
“…you didn’t memorize the plate number?”
“No.”
Whenever I’m in a police station, I feel uneasy.
…I’ve come here because of Heewon’s dad…
…because I got caught driving that motorcycle with Eungyu…
And because of stupid troublemaker Yoon Jaegwang I used to come at least once a week.
But this was the most serious thing that I’d come to the station for.
Kidnapping…
I can’t believe it…
Did Darky send them after me, did they? Should I tell them? Or should I not? It I tell, Darky will get in trouble won’t she…
+2 in the morning+
My mom and dad, and then Eungyu’s mom and dad were all answering a few questions the police were asking, still at the station.
I’d walked home and was in my room looking out the window at Eungyu who was chain smoking…one cigarette after another…
I slowly opened the front gate and Eungyu looked at me for a second and then turned his head away.
...
…I carefully stood next to them.
“…I…I told them I was Jungwon’s friend…if I hadn’t…Sohyun unnie wouldn’t have been kidnapped…”
“…if you’d gotten kidnapped…if you had-”
“I’d have been able to get out quickly. You know how strong I am, Sohyun unnie isn’t. Who were those bastards…I can’t help but wonder.”
“…it’s okay. My nuna’s stronger than you, she’ll get home safely. I know she will, when she comes back and those bastards get caught, I’m going to beat them until they die. It’ll be great to be able to let some of this anger out.”
“Sohyun unnie isn’t strong, you know how weak she is. She cries at the littlest of things…”
“Yeah, but she doesn’t go around getting his by guys.”
…there was a silence…
Eungyu threw his cigarette on the ground and lowered his head, sighing deeply. I noticed that there was still a little blonde left in his hair.
“…why didn’t you come earlier…”
“…oh, are you okay? I was so scared when you passed out.”
“I waited in front of the hospital.”
“Dummy. Don’t be sick, you know how healthy I am? Stop getting sick…”
"........."
“I’m so worried about unnie, if I keep standing here like this I think I’m going to burst. I‘m going to go”
With this bright brown eyes, Eungyu stared at me.
“I’m going to wait at the front of our neighborhood, she got kidnapped because of me, I can’t just stand here like this.”
I turned around and stared walking down our alley.
“Let’s go.” Eungyu said walking next to me.
“Forget it, I’m going by myself.”
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“…I’m thinking of a way to let you go. A way that won’t hurt me too much, I’m thinking of the best way so just listen to what I say.”
Eungyu said smiling and continuing to walk.
My head got foggy…
..
…liar…liar…
“But you said that you were going to look for a way for all three of us to be happy about. I’m waiting for that day, you said that you’d find a way for all three of us to be happy again!!!”
“…I thought I’d be okay if I found Heewon’s mom for him…but that’s not it…Heewon keeps looking for you and only you.”
“…then what about you…”
“I’ve never gone through anything hard, but Heewon has. I haven’t, what if something happens and I can’t handle it because I only grew up smiling. I have to learn to cry too…that way I won’t grow up to be an idiot.”
Eungyu started walking a little faster…
Tomorrow…the day after tomorrow…I’ll have to be with Heewon looking at Eungyu from afar. I’ve been waiting for that day…
I know I’m being selfish…but…that’s what I’ve been wishing for…
…right then…
With the loud squealing of car tires, a white van appeared and stopped.
…Chungjoo!! It’s that car!!!!
I started running towards that car and started pounding the van with my two fists. The door opened and Sohyun unnie got off with a weary face.
“UNNIE!!!!”
Sohyun unnie got out wobbling and collapsed on the ground wailing like a little kid, and I tightly hugged unnie.
“Get out.”
Eungyu said coldly at the car. The driver was about to start the car when leopard print stuck his head out the window and glared at me.
“You’re Yoon Jungwon aren’t you.”
“Son of a b!tch…”
The car door opened and the skinny guy and leopard print started heading towards Sohyun unnie and myself.
Eungyu slowly stepped in front of me.
“Take nuna and go inside, and go call the police.”
“…huh…? Yeah…”
I held up Sohyun unnie, and started walking towards their front door. From the back of the white van two other guys jumped out with some dirty expressions on their faces. The two stopped me and Sohyun unnie.
“Where are you going. You know how much troble we went through because of you? Aw fawk, kidnapping the wrong b!tch and all. Well, we’ll get caught sooner or later, so might as well get caught after finishing what I was asked to do.”
“All we have to do is beat the sh!t out of Yoon Jungwon, right? Hey, get on.” On of the guys said sticking out his lower jaw.
I calmly smiled at them.
“Stupid bastards, go get a real life.”
One of the guys neared me and raised his black gloved hand and put it on my shoulder. I slapped it away and the guy quickly grabbed my throat.
“…looks like I’ll be on the news tomorrow. Student at Ahnhyun high school with the last initial ‘S’ beat the sh!t out of some kidnappers.”
The guy’s face grew grim as he heard Eungyu’s voice behind him. In less than a second, the guy was on eht ground, Eungyu bent down and started to beat the guy senselessly.
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With my fist around the knife he’d given be, I stood closely behind Eungyu.