Ta Ein - *Part 7*
<The Next Day>
[the message that JiWon left on Quinn's answering machine]
"Quinn, can we talk?? I'll be waiting at the ol' park until you
come. Come okie? Cya then."
Quinn stared at her answering machine as the message rewinded.
'What was left that needed to be said now? I don't understand.'
thought Quinn.
Quinn sobbed, she was torn into two. She stilled seemed to have feelings
for JiWon, yet she couldn't leave Jonathan...oh sweet, innocent Jonathan...what
was she going to do to him?
'I can't hurt him...Jonathan is too sweet. What am I going to do?
Marry Jonathan and forget Matthew? I can't just leave Matthew behind like
he's piece of shit that needed to be thrown away. But then I can't just
tell Jonathan that our engagements are off and hook up with Matthew again.'
Looking at her reflection in the mirror, she became fatigued and threw herself
on the bed. She wanted to erase all her memories and disappear.
Then, something caught her eye. On her computer desk that was collecting
bits of dust particles, a picture was sitting its frame. It was a picture
of a couple that seemed happy and would never be broken apart. The
picture was a few years old in a nice black fame. It was a picture of her
and JiWon together. JiWon had his arms around her and the couple was
smiling with a perfect pose.
'How did that picture stay there for so long and me not notice it?' she
asked herself in her mind. She got up and looked at herself in the
mirror once again. She thought she looked like a mess, but didn't
care. Quinn quickly got a khaki colored trench coat and left for the
park.
~*~*~*~*
JiWon sat on one of the park benches and looked at the dead trees. 'I
hate winter.' he thought. A cold breeze brushed JiWon's stiff face and
the dry leaves brushed up against his black trouser and khaki-colored trench
coat. The park reminded JiWon of the summers where all he and Quinn would
do was spend everyday at the park doing everything--having mini picnics, lying
next to each other, walking together, rollerblading, ride bikes....
He then saw a small figure in the same dress-style he was wearing...it was
Quinn. The two had bought the same soft, khaki-colored trench coats one
winter for Christmas. When Quinn finally noticed that the guy sitting at
the bench was JiWon she quickly ran up to him.
"Matthew, I wanted to apologize for yesterday." said
Quinn. JiWon started to say something, but Quinn put her fingers over
JiWon's smooth lips and sighed.
"Let's take a walk, i need some air." said Quinn. The two
walked for a while, neither of them saying a single word. JiWon, who was
walking behind Quinn had his head down. A gust of cold wind passed by and
made the two shiver. Quinn turned around. Tears that glistened were
rolling down her pale, but lovely face. JiWon wanted to go up to her and
embrace her in his arms forever, but something stopped him. Suddenly,
little rain drops sprinkled out onto Earth, but instead of trying to get out of
the sprinkles, the two remained where they were standing.
"Matthew, I thought I forgot about you when you left me so....abruptly..my
parents thought that you weren't the honest and kind person that I spoke of
everyday and when you left me without any reason or explanation, it proved to
them the kind of person they thought you were. I wanted to prove them
wrong. I thought long and hard, but couldn't understand what you were
going through. Deep inside my heart I knew that you would come back to
me.....but after a month went by and I heard no news from you, I lost all
hope. Matthew...do you know how empty I felt?"
Quinn paused, looking at JiWon who couldn't seem to lift his head and look
her straight in the eye.
"I finally gave into my parents who wanted me to meet someone new. I
agreed and everything seemed to be going well. The person, Jonathan and I
agreed to get married. I thought I had forgotten you forever. I
assumed that we were just good friends, so you were the first that came into my
mind to tell the good news. I thought you would understand be happy for
me, but instead you pleaded me not to get married and asked me to come back to
you. Matthew, I wanted to come back to you, but I couldn't leave a sweet
and innocent guy because my ex-boyfriend wanted me back. I learned to love
Jonathan and you seemed to have taken that love away from him. Day after
day, there wasn't a time that I didn't think of you after i told you the news.
I didn't understand why you wanted me back all of the sudden. At first I
thought it was out of pure jealousy, but know you for so long, I knew your
would never get jealous of the whole thing." said Quinn.
"I thought you would come back to me. I thought I was going to go
back to you, but everything went wrong. I started to go out with Krissy
and she immediately thought that I was going to ask her to marry me...it was
just wrong." replied JiWon. The rain started to fade away.
"Yes...very wrong. I thought of just leaving you and go ahead and
marry Jonathan because I couldn't find a way to tell him what was going wrong,
but everytime I saw you...i couldn't leave you." JiWon looked into
Quinn's eyes, searching for what Quinn was really meaning to say.
"I love you Matthew Eun!!~" sobbed Quinn.
"I can't leave you. You can't leave me...oh Matthew, why did you
make us fall apart?" Little droplets of his tears fell off of
JiWon's chin. The least expected had just happened. Although
Quinn's response was what JiWon wanted, it just didn't seem right.
"I'm yours now." said Quinn, who walked up to JiWon. She
touched his burning cheeks with her soft, but cold hands. They looked
into each other's eyes and suddenly embraced each other.
"Quinn, I'm sorrie...I'm sooo sorrie." sobbed JiWon, embracing her
firmly with his muscular arms.
"It's okie..." whispered Quinn as she buried her head in his
broad shoulders.
“It’s okie….” The rain began to start back and suddenly began to pour.
But the two still stayed in the rain in each other's arms.