[CHAPTER XXVI]

Their End

One day, Taekwoon received a letter that was written by Hakyeon.

                To Taekwoon,

                Please meet me at our secret base tomorrow at noon.

                I have something to tell you.

It has been a long time since the two have seen one another since their argument and as angry as Taekwoon was at Hakyeon, he wanted to see him. A chance for Hakyeon to explain his actions to Taekwoon.

Taekwoon walked to their secret place and saw that Hakyeon had already arrived. He was staring at his own doodles in the cave. It really felt like an eternity since the two have met up.

“I’m here. What do you want to talk about? Are you finally going to explain yourself?” Taekwoon asked.

“Mhmm. I’ll say it since that’s what you want.”

Hakyeon had that face on again, a face that Taekwoon could not read. The face that made Taekwoon question its existence.

“I’m tired, Taekwoon-ah. I want to stop.” Hakyeon said.

“Stop? Stop what?” Taekwoon felt uneasy.

“Us. I want us to stop. Let’s break up.”

The words he least wanted to hear was said. Did Hakyeon really just tell him that he wants to break up? With who? With Taekwoon?

“You’re lying.” Taekwoon tried to deny what he had just heard. It wasn’t real. It can’t be.

“I’m not. I’m really tired of this. All of it. It was fun at first but I realized… I only like us as friends after all. Nothing more. I thought the feelings of you was love but I was wrong. It wasn’t. I just wanted to be possessive since I’m the only one that knows you here before anyone else. After going out with you, I realized I just don’t like it anymore. I liked us better as friends. That’s why I brought you here. This is the place where we first met and where we became lifelong friends. Friends but nothing more.”

Taekwoon could not believe his ears. Friends? For whose sake was it that he went high and low to come to the human world? Who was it that made him stay despite knowing the fact that it would eventually kill him?

Taekwoon had sacrificed everything he had for Hakyeon and now the latter wanted to give up to become friends again?

“Friends? Don’t joke with me Hakyeon. You know there’s no way we can be friends like before.” Taekwoon pushed Hakyeon against the wall. His anger was slowly rising and his strengths were becoming more and more uncontrollable…

“Of course we can. We’ve been friends for the past ten years, going back shouldn’t be that hard right?”

“Even if you can, I can’t!” Taekwoon shouted as he punched the hard rocks of the cave. “Do you even know… how much I’ve been through for you? Why can’t you think about me? How can you be so … selfish?” Taekwoon asked him while his eyes began to tear, not from the pain in his fists but from his heart.

“Well sorry that I’m selfish but that’s just how I am. I thought you knew. If you can’t be friends with me again, then… let’s just stop it all. You don’t need to understand, I just… want us to break up. I’m tired of this. I’m tired of you, Jung Taekwoon.”

Taekwoon couldn’t take it anymore. He couldn’t bear to hear any more hurtful things coming from Hakyeon’s mouth. His heart felt as if it was being stabbed by each word Hakyeon had said to him. His anger was making him lose control.

“Fine. If that’s what you want. But don’t you dare regret it Cha Hakyeon.” Taekwoon stormed out as he tried to hold back his powers from destroying everything around him, even Hakyeon.

Hakyeon did not call him back as he walked away. This was the end. The end to their relationship and the end to the ten years of friendship he had.