Always You
The Forgotten Vow
Hwanwoong awkwardly took a step into his own house as if it's a stranger house. He hasn't been talking to Hyunjoo for days now and he didn't even know whether the girl is home or not. She didn't show herself to him neither Hwanwoong tried to make things better between them.
As soon as he took off his shoes, a sound of someone entering the passcode could be heard from the outside.
Hwanwoong abruptly set his shoes on the rack and swiftly generated his way to his room. As luck wouldn't be by his side, he accidentally tripped over the charger wire on the floor as he forgot to put it on the table before he went out this morning.
The door opened and revealed the petite girl with a beret on her head.
She frowned as she perceived Hwanwoong laid on the floor with his chest against it, "Hwanwoong, what are you doing there?" She cautiously asked as she didn't want to look so friendly to him.
Call her childish, but still, she thinks that Hwanwoong didn't have any sort of feelings towards her. If he did... he wouldn't ignore the girl for days.
"U--Uh," The latter pushed his palm on the floor, forcing himself to get up from the fall. He stood, devoting his attention towards the girl as he reached the nape of his neck, "I--I fell," He simply answered.
Hyunjoo bobbed her head before shrugged her shoulders and walked past the boy, to go inside her room. She didn't feel like talking to him at the moment.
Suddenly someone clutched her wrist, halting her from moving, "I--I'm sorry," The boy said stutteringly as he nibbled with his lower lips. He gulped, clearing his throat with eyes looking on the white tile, "I know I shouldn't act like that to you. I just---."
"Just what?" Hyunjoo maintained her candid face looking at the boy in front on her. She was waiting for the following words from him, but he declared nothing for the next few seconds.
The girl heaved out a silent sigh before she narrowed her eyes, "Don't say anything yet if you still haven't completely sort out your feelings," She claimed.
She snapped her hand from his grip before rotating her body, heading towards her room. One step by one stop, she wished Hwanwoong would stop her for the second time and held onto her again.
But till the moment she had her hand placed on the door know, there's no sign for the boy to prop her. Hyunjoo gave up and opened the door but before she could ever take a step in, the statement came out from Hwanwoong swayed her immediately.
"I love you," Hwanwoong confessed. He had his fist clenched as he uttered the holy words.
Hyunjoo gradually shifted her body, looking at the boy with a quizzical expression, "What did you just say?" Most likely, she couldn't believe her ears.
There must be some nerves have been ruined after she cried for the whole night yesterday. Wait, what's the connection between the two? Neither science could explain it to her.
Hwanwoong walked towards the girl as he hauled her into a hug, "Just stay by my side, now and forever," He murmured the words into her ears as she rose there, still like a mannequin with no reaction to any of the moments happening presently.
Dongyeol stared onto his phone screen, looking at the message Hyunjoo sent her an hour ago. She clearly typed in the message that she would be over here to see him as she had something to inform him. Presumably, she didn't get the chance to do so when Yein suddenly appeared between them.
To be honest, Dongyeol was hella curious on why Yein was here but he knows... he wasn't at the place to demand anything because if he ever interferes in the problems, he would end up being blamed for everything.
For two years, he has been hiding the truth from his own twins. He could've made things right between them but he didn't...
Dongyeol never tries to make it better for the past two years. And now he was just terrified that everything going to fall apart again like it did in the past.
His eyes wandered around the cafe to find for a familiar figure and yes, he did sight it; except the fact, she wasn't the one he has been waiting for. His eyes widened as he gulped her throat.
As soon as his eyes met hers, Yein's lips slightly curved upwards, making her way towards the boy, "Hi," She secured the unoccupied seat in front of him, "I'm sorry if I'm not the one who you want to see," Yein simply made a statement and Dongyeol still in the previous state, he looked at the girl with a clueless expression.
Dongyeol had grabbed her phone and unlocked it, quickly typed something on the screen before Yein halted her. "I'm the one who asked Hyunjoo for help. No need to contact her," She claimed, forcing the boy to put back his phone on the table.
He gnawed with his lips, "So, why do you want to see me?" Dongyeol awkwardly asked, afraid if Yein is going to hit his weak spot; urging something on Suji matters.
"To say that I hate you?" She tilted her head as she placed her arms to support it. Dongyeol's expression wasn't grand as he perceived it, "Of course not. Just, I miss you," Yein muttered in a low voice.
The latter looked at Yein with a pair of gentle eyes, "I swear to God, Lee Dongyeol. Can you stop issuing me that kind of stare? You---You're giving me a hope again for you to actually still like me and I'm pretty sure I don't need to hold onto someone who left me for two years without any news," Yein finally spilled out her true feelings after yearning for the boy for too long.
Most likely, he went speechless because of the bold statement coming out from Yein. He never marked her to be like that. Conceivably she changed a lot through the two years he left her behind.
"I--I still like you though, Jung Yein," Dongyeol casually confessed it as he took a sip of the iced americano he ordered while waiting for the one he assumed as Hyunjoo.
Yein frowned her eyebrows, "W--What?"
"I still like you till now. I think I never stop liking you, not even for once."
The girl awkwardly gulped, "So, you want to say---"
Dongyeol cut her words instantly, "Yes, it's just like what you imagined. Will you be my girlfriend?"
Yein stunned, lost for words when she noted something she had been wanting to hear for the past few years.
Were things supposed to be this easy for any of them?
"J--Jungwoo," The boy who focused on the view ahead of him, startled when he noted a familiar voice calling for his name.
The voice he has been missing the most for the past two years. The voice he could listen to throughout his whole life. The only voice he needs in order to continue his life in the cruel world.
It's her voice. It's Lee Suji's voice.
Jungwoo slowly returned his head around as he was afraid that it might be another hallucination for him as he constantly got it whenever he's in Korea. Bet, he just missed the girl a little bit too much than he usually did.
As he regarded the girl, he stared into her eyes to make sure he wasn't imagining things. When the girl took a sit beside him, only then he realized, it wasn't a dream. It's real. Suji
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