Meeting Room

Bellos Boutique

Cheongdam Ward of Gangnam District

5:00 p.m.

Hyunwoo somehow managed to bring the 3 of them up to the meeting room, so that the guests at Bellos won’t be disturbed and the boutique could run as the usual.

They have been sitting in silence for about 20 minutes, busy with their loud minds.

Park Bom bowed her head down, still trembling but managed to stop choking.

She can’t seem to lift her face up ever since. She still couldn’t look at that man. She was filled with guilt, and even more in guilt after what that man said 20 minutes ago. She didn't have the courage to look at those dissapointments and scars scattered all over his face.

Hyunwoo had been sitting calmly beside Bom.

He gazed carefully at that man accross the table. After hearing that man’s shocking confession, he started viewing things from that man’s perspective.

It was hard for him too.

I shouldn’t take sides. I should be in the middle and helped them to make up.

If only I did that, they would’ve been broken up for few days and quickly got back together.

Now, I’m just feeling guilty as hell.

Because I just realized after all these years blaming that man, it was partly my fault too.

But I know how to end this war. I know because I have the secret weapon.

They’re still madly in love with each other.

That man was staring emptily at the table, spacing out.

He felt easier since he let out his long buried thoughts. But soon after he regreted it because he realized, his words were too harsh for her. He didn't mean to say those words but they just spilled out. 

He closed his eyes, holding his anger of himself.

He was so in hurt he forgot that she could be in hurt too, and even more than him.

That man glanced quickly---for thousands times---at Bom in despair.

He couldn't stand this awkwardness anymore. He felt suffocated and tortured.

Especially when the woman h