Best Friends

A Love She Deserves (Tabisan/Daragon)
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Young Bae is busy grilling the meat while Dara was the one preparing the lettuce wrapped meat for her and Young Bae. He told her a lot of stuff about France. He even explores the southern part of the country and countries nearby. Dara shares her work experience and her recent trip to Jinju. As Young Bae continues to drink and grill, Dara can help but stare at him. Young Bae noticed that she's quiet so he looked at her.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Do I have dirt on my face?" he asked. Dara shook her head and smiled. "I'm just happy that you're back." Young Bae smiles as he continues to grill the meat while cutting some of it.

"So, have you dated anyone while I'm gone?" he asked suddenly. Dara was caught off-guard. She grabs her drink and took a huge gulp of it.

"None. I'm busy with work," she answered.

Young Bae just nodded. "You should be. You're 28 years old. You should get married soon and start a family while you're still young."

"I'm in a relationship with my work now. He's loyal and trustworthy," she said in a deadpan tone as she gives him new wrapped meat which he eats immediately. "How about you? You're in your 30 now. Shouldn't you get married too and have a family?" she teases him.

"I will soon." Young Bae said nonDonglantly. Dara was surprised. She looked at him, and him at her. "W-what?"

Young Bae grins at her. "Dara-ah, I'm getting married soon. I asked Hyo Rin last month to marry me and she said yes. I went home to tell my brother and mom but I want to tell you first."

She feels suffocated. Is this happening? "Why?" she asked.

He chuckles. "Why what?"

"Why did you tell me first?" she asked in a panicked tone.

Young Bae put down the scissors and grilling tong and looks at her. "Because you're my best friend. You're important to me. And I know you will support me in my decision like you supported me when I decided to go to France. And besides, if you didn't reject me before, I will never go to France and meet Hyo Rin."

Dara wants to cry at that moment but she calms herself down. She smiled back at Young Bae.

"Congratulations. I'm happy for you."

He smiles happily at her and continues grilling meat. "Thank you. And just so you know, Hyo Rin will come here this week so we can plan the wedding."

Dara laughed awkwardly. "That's nice." She then took another gulp of her beer until it was empty. She yells. "Auntie, another beer here please."

"Yah... You might get drunk." Young Bae told her. She brushes him off "We should celebrate. My best friend is back and he's getting married!" Then, she wrapped another meat and gave it to him.

A few hours later, Young Bae carrying Dara to her rooftop home. She was drunk and talking nonsense. When they enter her home, he immediately brings her to her room and lay her down to her bed. He removed her shoes and jacket.

"Dara-yah, sober up. You need to remove your contact lense, okay? You can't sleep without that on." Young Bae told her. She nodded and lazily tries to remove her contact lenses. Young Bae went out and looks for a small towel and basin so he could clean her up. He also made some tea for her. When he returned, Dara is laying down with her eyes closed.

"Dara, did you remove it?"

"Yesshhh." she muttered.

"Come, drink this tea so you sober up."

She rises and opens her eyes. When she saw Young Bae, she smiled widely. "Young Bae-yah. You're back. You came home. You're with me." Then she giggled. Then she frowns "But you have a girlfriend. And you're getting married!" She huffed sadly and pouts her lips.

"Yes, yes. Drink this first." He places the edge of the cup on Dara's lips, she slowly drinks it until it's down, then she lies down. Young Bae grabs the small towel and wets it from the basin with warm water. He cleans up Dara's face.

"Young Bae-yah, are you happy? Are you happy with her? Does she make you happy? Does she loves you?" she muttered.

"Yes, Dara. Just rest. You're drunk."

"Young Bae-yah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for hurting you. I didn't mean it. I just want to keep you and your family forever. I don't want to lose all of you. You're my family. My only family now."

Young Bae smiled. He knows how Dara loves his family. And he's glad she still does.

"Young Bae-yah! I didn't date anyone because I was waiting for you. I was hoping that when you come back, I can be brave enough to tell you how I feel. That I am in love with you since we're kids."

Young Bae stopped what he is doing.

"I was waiting for you. Even you have a girlfriend. I thought that she's just a pace. That you will come back home, to me. To be with me. But I just pushed you away and now you're marrying her."

"Dara-yah."

Dara rises back up again and looks at him with her in dazed eyes. "Dong Young Bae, be happy, okay? You deserve it. I will support you all the way. I will stay in love with you until the day you marry her, okay?" She raised her hand and shows him an okay sign. She then hiccups. "After that, I will forget you. I will try to be happy without you, without us being together. I'll be happy too. Soon!" She falls back again and she falls asleep. Young Bae stares at her for a while. She's in love with him all this time and she was waiting for him. He feels guilty.

He didn't realize it. It took him years to move forward from her rejection. It was then he meets Hyo Rin. She somehow reminds of Dara, except the fact she's interested at him the moment that she meets him. It took him six months to finally ask her to be his girlfriend which made her laugh because all this time, she thought they are dating. He was embarrassed at that time but Hyo Rin finds it cute.

Young Bae looks at the bedside table. There were three pictures there. The one with Dara and her parents, the other was her with the Dong Family and the one in the middle is a picture of him after his graduation. Young Bae sighs.

"You stupid girl."

He tucked Dara and leaves her to sleep.

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The next morning, Dara woke up with a painful headache. She went to her kitchen to grab some painkillers and water. She keeps thinking of last night. The last thing she remembers is drinking and eating meat with Young Bae after he told her that he's getting married. She then sighs and went to her room to prepare for work.

After she took a shower and dress up for work, she went down to Mi Kyung's home to have breakfast with her. When she enters the house, she immediately sees Young Bae sitting as Mi Kyung serves him breakfast. "Oh, Dara. Come, let's have breakfast." Mi Kyung invites her.

"Hangover?" Young Bae asked while grinning at her.

She sat down across Young Bae. "My head hurt but I can manage. Thank y

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snuggygirl #1
Chapter 53: Soo beautiful 💜
daramaegon #2
Chapter 53: Love it so much💞
T23tink1 #3
Chapter 53: Ahhh love this story hope for more..thank you
tonnettie
#4
Chapter 53: I feel so scared when someone would go to an overseas trip, it was almost like a bad omen to Dara. But everything got their own happy ending, it’s just that Dara took a little time to reach it.
freckles #5
Chapter 53: thank you for the beautiful story . . . 'til the next one . . . :-D
kathyrica17 #6
Chapter 51: The time has come for them to meet. Its about time.
kathyrica17 #7
Chapter 50: Im so hapoy that they still both want to get back together. I bet during those 3 months, they'll meet somewhere in Europe? Haha. Wishful thinking.
Grace62 #8
Chapter 50: A salute for jiyong here hope somedayy he’ll find someone for him too !can you spare us a sequel for Dara and Seunghyun’s reunion authornim please
kathyrica17 #9
Chapter 49: This is what I'm afraid of, a huge stumble in their relationship, but Dara is right, they need this space for their relationship to not be a toxic one and will get more worse than the future. I dunno if they will be together in the end but I hope they will. I want a happy ending for them to stay together.
My heart just momentarily stopped when I read "The End". Is the next chapter the last? Huhu. I will truly missed this story.
Grace62 #10
Chapter 49: Epilogue please authornim and a happy ending this time please ...