Recap

I nodded while still sniffing, “I love it, can you help me wear it?” I asked, choking a little at my own words.

“Sure.” He smiled and wore it for me.

And this marked the end of our Hongdae date as we proceeded to the last place of the day that he mentioned earlier.

Chapter 46 - Promise?

(Krystal POV)

“Why here?” I patted the big tree trunk.

“Because we have many memories here…” He said.

He brought me to the tree again, the tree where umma is.

“Yeah…Indeed…so much happened here…” I smiled.

“We fought here, we patched up here, we cried here, we smiled here and everything we did here, omonim is always watching. This is a special place not only to you but me as well.” He said while we settled down on beside the tree.

“You wait here, I go get us some water, I bet you are thirsty.” He said before walking off.

His words brought back so many memories as I recalled those times while waiting for him to be back.

“I knew you will be here…” A voice said behind me.

“Go away, you are the last person I want to see right now.” I spat at him while hugging my legs as I leaned against the tree.

“It has been a month Jung ah, you need to put down, your umma wouldn’t want to see you like this…” He said.

“I am putting down, shut up when you don’t even know anything…” I retaliated, still refusing to look up at him even though he was already standing in front of me right now.

“You are not, you are ignoring everyone, how is that letting go? You are just shutting everyone out of your life, that is not letting go…” He scolded.

“Who are you to say all this when it is your appa who did this to me? Who are you to scold me like that? I live the way I want! I don’t have to listen to you!” I shouted back.

Suddenly, he grabbed me by the arm and pulled me up in a standing position.

“What is your problem?!” I shouted into his face.

I didn’t know why I was this angry at him.

Clearly I know that this wasn’t his fault, umma’s death was never his fault but I just can’t bear to look at his face right now.

“What is my problem? I will tell you the problem! It is you! Seeing how you are not eating and sleeping and come here almost every day worries me! Can you stop acting like that? Can you be the Jung Soojung who scolds me every day, who nags at me every day? I rather you show your hatred by scolding me or hitting me than to see you listless like this, doing nothing but stare into space the whole day!” He looked at me in the eyes and said.

I could almost see tears in his eyes.

I hate to say this but why must it be him?

Why is he the one who is by my side right now?

He came here almost every day, telling me to go home, telling me to cheer up.

Why must he be so nice to me, why does he make it so difficult to hate him?

“Wae? Did you promise umma that you will take care of me? If not why are you acting like you care…Just leave me alone…” I said softly, I don’t even have the energy to shout at him anymore.

“I don’t have to make promises to take care of you, it is you who makes me want to take care of you. I hate to see you cry, I want to see you smile.” He was still looking at me with those eyes.

“What am I to you? We are not even related, you don’t have to…”

“My everything…” He cut me off.

I froze at that moment he spoke that word.

Other than umma, he is the second person who has ever told me that I am their everything.

I was touched, I melted a little at his words.

Finally tears rolled down, finally I gave in and cried.

I didn’t want to cry in front of him, I didn’t want to show him my weak side but still I did in the end.

“It is okay to cry, you should have cried it out long ago, it’s okay, I am here, I will always be here…” He pulled me into his arms as I sniffed loudly into his chest.

A tear rolled down unknowingly as I recalled those times.

What a memory tree!

We fought so many times under this tree and mostly it was because of umma or his appa.

We patched up so many times after all those useless fights and mostly because of his words which are able to comfort me.

We have been through many happy moments under this tree as I remembered once where we had picnic during one of the weekends.

We have also cried together under this tree because he said that when he sees me crying, he felt like crying too.

I didn’t believe it at first until when I cried one day and while comforting me, I felt his tears dripping onto my hand and that was when I realized it was really true.

“Umma, it must be you who is watching over us. It must be you who brought us together again even after 4 years. It must be you who is protecting our love. You must be smiling now when I am saying this, right?” I smiled as I looked up at the clear sky.

Suddenly, there was a loud click and when I turned around, the tree lighted up with pretty lights.

It looks like a christmas tree right now with the pretty and colourful lights hanging up there.

“Krystal!” Someone called from behind and when I turned around, I saw Myungsoo and Yoonah.

“Hey oh my god, what are you guys doing here?” I smiled.

“We are here to do something so please cooperate.” Myungsoo smirked and with that, Yoonah took out a white cloth and covered my eyes.

“Ya! What are you guys doing!” I tried to take it off but Yoonah said, “We are just doing things for Taemin oppa, please don’t make things difficult for us, if not he is going to nag at us later.”

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