Heart to heart
I swore not to fall againI followed Ji-Eun to the elevator. She didn’t say anything, instead staring at the elevator doors until they opened. We stepped in and I noticed that she pressed the rooftop floor.
“Hey where are we going…?” I asked. She didn’t reply.
When we reached the top, I waited patiently for whatever she wanted to know from me.
Ji-Eun then turned to me and somehow her expression looked pained. I didn’t know what was going on.
Then she spoke. “I called you, you know. Several times,” she said softly.
I remembered with a jolt the unknown number from whom I had 4 missed calls. She seriously called me?
“Baekhyun-shi, why does my sister know you?”
I looked at her beautiful face, which was strangely wearing an expression of concern. I was confused. Why was she so bothered?
I was still not ready to talk about Taeyeon but I guessed that I couldn’t escape it now. So I started, with all the terrible memories that came rushing into my brain.. “Ji-Eun- shi, I actually used to …..’
“Hold up…..” she interrupted , “don’t tell me that…. that the woman who ruined your life was…. was my sister?” she looked apalled as realisation dawned on her face.
I paused. I couldn’t remember telling her anything of my personal life.
“How….how did you know that?” I asked slowly.
Jieun looked completely unabashed.
“Chanyeol told me one night…. How one of your ex-girlfriends broke your heart and turned you into an emotionless and anti social guy,”
I gritted my teeth. That guy! I wasn’t antisocial! And I most certainly wasn’t emotionless.But maybe a little colder than what I used to be.
I calmed down as something in what she said hit me.
“Not ex-girlfriend, Ji-Eun- shi. She was my fiancee.”
I suddenly realised that Ji-Eun looked like she was close to tears.
Oh god. Did I really invoke such a pity party in people that women around me always randomly ended up in tears? Was my life really that pathetic?
I felt something touch my hand. I looked down and saw Ji-Euns soft little hand in mine. My insided took a turn.her hand felt good, like it fit, perfectly.
“Baekhyun shi, do you mind telling me what happened?”
When I was done with my story, neither of us spoke for a while. We both just sat there, leaning our backs against the water tank, and just looking up at the sky. I told her everything. About how we had met, how we fell in love, how we built dreams for the future, how we had the time of our lives together, how I proposed to her. How she tricked me into believing that she loved me, played with me and how she cast me aside like I was a lifeless doll.
At the end of it, Ji-Eun was in tears. I couldn’t get why she was so affected by all this. But then again, one of the reasons why I fell for her
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