The tenth cycle of love

 

The dim light...

the heavy atmosphere....

Both were laughing.... Their eyes are intent, yet so calm.... They take another shot of alcohol, and another, and another... No one would have possibly known that they are exes; people would think that they were a good friend... or possibly lovers.... “So how does you feel?” Kai asked Krystal “What?” “On the last days before our break up, the last days before you left abroad... how does you feel?” as he looked at her The question Krystal had avoiding all this time finally coming. Moreover, the wall she built all these years slowly melted, she had always despised Kim Jongin, and she would never imagine this kind of day. She would always avoid Kim Jongin. Nevertheless, what changed her mind? What makes her say yes to his request? ‘How could he ask that?’ she thought but she answered anyway, “It’s hurts..... So deep...” as she took another shot with her teary eyes. “Then when do you realize? The change in me?” He ask again “I realized it little by little; day by day you become so cold and distant. The cold you reminded me of the snow, no matter how soft your words are it gives me chills down to my spine. No matter how pretty your eyes are, it’s distant and cold, it stab right to where my heart is...” she looked at his eyes as she continued, “That’s when I knew that was it. No more you, no more sweet Jongin. No more my Jongin.” “What about now Krys? Do you still hate me?” “Truthfully, I’ve always thought that there will never be a day like this, we are drinking, talking, and even laughing… but here we are….” She said calmly. “How about you Kim Jongin? When did you stop loving me? How did you feel on the last days?” This time she asked. “I wouldn’t say that I stopped loving you, Krys… it was because I was deceived by familiarity… I am so used to the beats in my hearts that I started to see it as something boring…. Then, you stopped calling me, you stopped sitting beside me… you stopped coming to school, Luna said you were goi