Sehun clung to his swollen cheek speechless. He expected her to be angry at him but he didn’t expect for her to hit him as hard as she did. Sehun remained on the ground with his head down while Taura stood before him steaming with anger. What source of her anger wasn’t apparent to the girl, all she knew was that looking at him made her angry. He had neglected to see and or talk to her in the past few months all because of what? Taura’s fists balled up beside her, clenching and unclenching, before she ran her fingers through her hair with a grunt of annoyance.

            “How could you? How could you just—you pushed me away like some stranger…Sehun, how could you do that to me?” Taura could feel her anger towards Sehun turn into frustration and just plan betrayal. She saw him as a friend, even a brother, Taura saw him as the one person she could trust and someone who could understand her and the situation she was in. Staring at him now, everything she’d been keeping in from Kai, Talya, and all the others flooded out in one long spiel of pent–up emotions.

            “How could you just cut me off like that, Sehun? I needed to tell you about this stupid engagement because I thought maybe you’d understand. But then you stop talking to me? Do you think I want to do all of this? Sehun, I don’t want to have to marry Kai but it’s what was good for my people and his. I had to go six months with no one to really talk to! I had no one there to listen to me and tell me everything’s going to be okay. Did you even think about how I’d feel? Are we not friends? Sehun, I needed you! And you abandoned me! Why would you—Did I do something wrong? Do you hate me or something—“

            “What do you think I’ve been doing for the past few months? I’ve had to deal with my own people, not knowing a thing about them really, and having insults thrown at my face and getting beat up. I have to take care of my own people too, Taura. It’s not just you making all the sacrifices. Do you even hear how selfish you sound right now? It’s all about how you feel, that you’re the only one doing things for your people…” He lifted his head to get a better look of the girl, slowly getting up on his feet. “What have you been doing for your people? Leaving them to Haemon? You haven’t even visited your people since the engagement. You should hear wha