What If

Description

You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars

The platonic goodbye of a bodyguard who had fallen in love with her client.
The understanding that sometimes, the universe has other things planned.
Lost feelings and missed goodbyes.

Foreword

Choi Sooyoung is a famous actress and today was the grand premiere of her latest movie. She has just arrived home, a rose and a letter are waiting for her in her bedroom.
She frowns as she looks at the letter, but a small smile creeps in, such a romantic gesture. She picks it up and opens it. 
She reads the following:

 

I'm Jessica Jung and I'm a bodyguard, I protect people for a living. Our firm as many clients but there is one in particular. Her name is Choi Sooyoung.
She's the one. She's something else.
I sometimes wonder Sooyoung.
What if I happened to fall in love with you?
Do you even realize how many times that thought has crossed my mind? I don't think you do...
Of course you don't, you can't read my mind. But it does, most of the time, I try to picture it you know. I sit at night looking at the blank of space and just imagine, a glass of wine in my hand and in the deepest depths of my mind I try to conjure you up.
A life that we could have together, imagine that, you and me  against the world, that's usually the feeling I try to convey to my dream, to my fantasy, something that I know will never happen. I 'm certain.
I hoped for difference, I hoped that, it would all work out somehow, that you could be in my arms at night, sharing that same glass of wine I use to travel to my fantasy with me. I want you to be more than a fantasy, I want us to be more than a dream.
Because you don't realize how important you really are to me. I think about you all the time, I see you all the time. Even when I don't see you, you're still there in the back of my mind. And I don't understand what happens, sometimes I don't understand the feeling but I'm sure it is somehow love.
Because that's the feeling I've connected it to. Because that's what I want to feel for you. Do you understand that? Of course you don't, because you'll never know, you'll never know of these feelings, and that somehow makes me sad, that somehow destroys my soul.
I had hoped, for so many things, but my hope is vain. I know that but somehow...somehow...
I don't know anymore, I guess I'm lost in my own feelings. Does that make me a coward? Cause I know I'm only stuck as I am cause I can't tell you about my feelings. And today is just another night where I see your back, walking away from me. Today is just another day where you'll pass through me.
Yes, you don't pass beside me anymore, it is in fact right through me, because you don't even notice me. I understand I'm not the kind of person that you'd pay attention to. In fact, my job is to not be noticed.
It is to be there, and to not be there. Even if I'm not with you, I'll protect you. Even if you don't see me, I'll still be that kind breeze that blows on you, healing you.
I picture how it would be, telling you all about these feelings that I harbor inside me, I picture it more than just sometimes, maybe I even do it too much for my own good, but I don't care. 
If it's you, I don't mind...I could lose eternity. I see you walking everyday...I walk beside you everyday, but my existence is just so...insignificant. My love, this love, many would say this isn't love, it is suffering. But I don't mind, for you I don't mind.
Your voice, your warmth...I keep it all in my heart and my memory, hoping one day I'll be in the receiving end of your voice, of your warmth. And your darkness, I've kept it secret, so no one knows it but you and me.
It's somehow what makes you funny, and more...human. Because you have to admit...sometimes the things you do, the way you look make you seem that you're from a different class than the rest of us. I'd like to think you're as human as any of us mortals.
So I look for aways to make you mortal, at least in my eyes, even if nobody sees it, I try my best to convince myself of it. I try...
Tonight my dream of you was different. I saw us, cuddling in a couch as we watched a movie, I saw me asking you to date me, I saw our first kiss. Today the dream went deeper, I felt realized at first but I know my mind was only playing tricks on me.
It is when I wake up that despair overcomes me. Disappointment in myself for letting myself be tricked again, by myself no less. So I know...
I love you Choi Sooyoung, I Jessica Jung love you but...I fake it, I make it seem like you're just one more celebrity I have to fake I protect but the fact and the truth is that you are different. You are the one I truly protect, for me you're not just a celebrity, you are "THE" Celebrity.
You are the one. I love you so much, but I know our love can't be, I know I'll never make it happen.
So everytime, everytnight, I grab that glass of wine when I get home, I sit on my couch and I wonder. I wonder how a life with you would be, how I could make you happy. I simply wonder.
Because imagining it is all I have. I know I'm just a fool that's clinging to a love that will never happen, but deep down...I hope.
I'm a fool. I know we come from different places in society...so I can only keep it as this platonic idiocy, I can only keep being the fool.
So yes...Choi sooyoung. I wonder.
What if I happened to fall in love with you?
What if?...

With love and care...

Jessica Jung

 

Sooyoung's tears threatened to fall. She never knew that Jessica nurtured such feelings for her. She cried, she couldn't stop crying, she got up and walked outside to her balcony. She looked at the city.
She looked up to the sky to try and stop her tears, if only she knew earlier...she could've told Jessica about her own feelings, how she wanted to get to know her better, how she also sometimes wondered about her.
She certainly didn't imagine an whole life but she wondered about Jessica, who she was, what were her dreams and how somehow she seemed...to be an anchor to her, even if they didn't spoke often they had an understanding.
They felt like they knew each other. But that's only what makes Sooyoung's heart tighten even harder as she looks at the letter again. She knows, her agent told her.
Jessica had quit earlier today...she could be a million miles away.
Sooyoung's tears fall again as she remembers this fact, there is nothing that she can do now. There is no way to get her back now and tell her...
Just one time, just one time, she hopes she could see her. Just once again...simply to tell her about the feelings, simply to keep her here...close to her where she couldn't go anywhere, where it would be her turn to protect her. She wouldn't show her back anymore.
Sooyoung looked at the letter and understood what it was...it was a last goodbye.
She folded it carefully and went inside, she put it inside a box in her office.
Sooyoung grabbed the rose that was left with letter, she took up it's perfume, it somehow made everything seem better.
It made everything okay...it's okay even if it hurts...maybe life will somehow see them together...somehow.
Nobody knows...but they still hope.
What if...

-"What if I also happen to fall in love with you?" Sooyoung let out.

But...she would never know her answer.

Comments

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Noir25 #1
waaah this is so sad... please make another one
like "what if" they meet again
too bad its a oneshot (i need moar)
great work!
chchcn #2
aarrgh abdwaeee, you should write another oneeeee and it should be a happy ending hehehehehe
Soolim
#3
Short one-shot but so so good!
You got me hooked on the first lignes.
Will search for more stuff from you, thank you~
soosicisreal
#4
This is seriously sad~ :'(
I hope this will end with happy ending..
lynnicsy #5
I prefer sooyoung be the bodyguard, to protect her princess :) and this swap really new for me but I still like it.