05 ∞  where hearts may heal or break

/Are you okay, Yoona-shii?/

/Yes, I am, Yuri. And you?/

/You ran out suddenly, I was worried./

/ I just needed to get some air. I’m sorry we didn’t get to talk much after./

/… Yoona, the man you loved- the one we talked about- he is my fiancé, isn’t he?/

A sigh.

/Yes./

CHANGMIN - - -

“So…”

“So.”

Sooyoung was staring at me from across the table. The day had clear blue skies, and a reasonable breeze… and she was just sitting there, across from me while I read a book, inside a café for lunch with Kibum and the rest of our group from University.

That was peculiar behavior for Sooyoung – she was never just sitting around.

“So…” she started again, and I felt my temper rising.

“Sooyoung.”

“Sorry. Yuri’s your fiancé huh?”

I looked up from my book in surprise. She shrugged at my reaction, and looked at me for a reply. I sighed loudly in response.

“Yeah, and what of it?”

It was her turn to sigh loudly. “Nothing, she was pretty cool when we hung out with her the other day. I was just wondering… you know.”

I waited for her to continue. She didn’t, she was just smiling cheekily.

“Wondering about what?”

She grinned. “Nothing.”

I shifted nervously in my seat. I don’t know why I was nervous, but knowing Sooyoung and that smile on her face always unsettled me. I cleared my throat. “Where are Yeonhee and- Yoona?”

“Kibum’s gone to pick Yeonhee up after her class at graduate school, and Yoona has a date.”

I cough to hide the choking on my cup of coffee. I frowned. “A date this early in the day? Shouldn’t she be at the office or something?”

She shrugged. “And why not? She’ll be meeting us later tonight so I told her to go and meet with the guy I set her up with now before she could come up of reasons to not meet him ever.”

Sooyoung eyed me suspiciously.

“Why are you so uptight about this, eh? I thought you weren’t the type to care for people falling in love and all that ‘crap’?” she said, making quotation marks with her fingers.

I sneer at her, closing my book and setting it aside. “I don’t care, Sooyoung. I was just asking why she was out this early for a date. A question usually means getting an answer, and that was all it was.”

Sooyoung rolled her eyes at me and leaned closer to the table. She clicked her lips and gave me a dirty look. I held her gaze steadily and waited for her to speak. She obviously had something on her mind, and knowing her – she was going to say it whether or not I wanted to hear it.

“You’re still as deluded as you were in University, Changmin. I can see right through your little tough guy act and quite frankly, I’m getting sick of it. It was cute in University, Shim – but that’s over. This is the real world now and people still pride honesty.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

She shook her head at me. “Yes you do. It’s the reason why Yoona came home hiding her tears last night and why you’re so anxious to see her today.”

I sighed. Of course I knew. I knew the moment I went to her house late that night after we saw each other again. I knew the moment she welcomed me back home. (But I could be wrong too.)

“Nothing happened last night. She found out about my engagement with Yuri, and she told me I didn’t have to explain so I didn’t.”

“You could’ve done something!”

Yes, I could have. Yuri seemed to think so too, but I didn’t fol